The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-03-22

! glar in their fiat The Old WNH.an's way
would have, been to SrreerA ana Keel
over in a faint. These two American
new women attacked the intruder Oo!t-
ly 10 ran into the street, they after
him. They chased him into the arms CT
a policeman before they let up on AIM.
and the policeman led him, painting. to
the station house Then there is that
young Pawtucket high school teacher,
Miss Rogers. She is slender, delicate
looking slip Of girl. The big boys OF
the high school had driven away sever
al teachers before her because of unru
| illness and disOrderly behavior. They
thought to make short work OF the new
teacher. Led by the captain of the
| football team, six feet tall, the fellows
refused to come to recitation. One
slight secret. however, these ungallant
Doors did not know. Though little, the
new teacher is mighty She is q train
ed athlete and learned the womanly
art of self defense at Wellesley col
lege. When the captain Of the foot
| ball team showed INSTRUMENTATION. it
| seemed that a fash of lightning struck
him in the nose. Blood flowed, and the
captain of the football team went down
upon the floor. Next came the next
biggest high school bully who thought
to defy a woman teacher. In the time
of another flash of lightning he lay be-
side the vanquished captain of the foot
ball team. Then followed another and
another defeat for the big boys who
had scared off SO many teachers. Now
order reigns in Warsaw, and no Won
der Miss Rogers has laid down th"
dictum that impertinent remarks and
disobedience will not be tolerated in
that school, and not a soul disputes her
1t was courage and pluck that enabled
these women to score victory. They
could because they thought they could.
sss
I have observed in the past ten years
a notable change in the appearance of
the girl clerks, stenographers and other
business young women who go to shops
and offices in New York city. The 9th
er morning I happened to be in among
for train upon the platform of an
elevated station. Almost without ex,
ception these fine American girls were
tall, fat backed and healthy looking.
as though they cared for their bodies
in the right way-by baths, wholesome
food and plenty of air and exercise.
What is more, their dress was beauti-
fully appropriate to their duties. There
was not one of those dirty, trailing
skirts among them that | could see. In
gowns, of black, dark gray or blue
wooden fabric, with skirts of conven-
lent walking length, plain hats that
could defy weather on occasion, they
looked the model business woman type
all over. Their faces were bright, in
telligent and many of them handsome.
but there was none of that coquettish
rolling Of eyes and fiipfapping of body
that girls who used to go to business
half to catch husband adopted. Now
the brave American girl knows her
place in the business world and has
settled into it. Coquettish and fond of
mans admiration she may be, for that
is natural, but this part of her mani
festation she saves for her life outside
of Office.
Eleanor Kirk says: Don't nag. Don't
even nag in your mind. Don't look
naggy. 1t is worse than it is to say
naggy. 1t is worse to look naggy than
it is to say naggy things, because the
maggie is apt to imagine more nag than
there really isl
Miss Edith Griswold, the New York
lawyer, has been called as patent ex-
pert to give testimony in an important
tons put to her in a way that is cred
it to herself and to womankind y
patent expert is one who has special
knowledge of patent law, also wide eX-
perience in examining patent models.
What is more. q patent expert receives
for giving testimony $50 a day and
upward.
A spinster slept alone in one wing of
large house and felt timid about it.
A married woman jeered at her for be-
ing afraid. No wonder you are not
scared" retorted the lone woman.
you've got a man and pistol in your
end of the house." Now. the man was
a little bit of a chap. and he was not
always to be depended on, for some
times he was drunk. Besides that, the
pistol was not loaded, though the man
was at times. Nevertheless here were
a man and pistol, and the spinster
thought a woman with these near her
had no business to be frightened,
Women. whatever you do. don't guar
rel in your clubs and organiza tons and
don't get jealous of one another's ad-
vancement and claw one another That
is the old wemans way, and it is the
deadliest enemy to the real advance
ment of woman. Let men do the quar-
reling