The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-05-17

"A ing the possibility of attaining
81 your ideals IL you work toward
them faithfully and long enough.
holding fast to them meanwhile as
to life itself. More than generation
ago Il German girl went to Cincinnati.
She was very young. very quiet and
retiring and she had no money at all.
| But she had good musical education
| and an enthusiasm for music that lift
! ed her to the plane of the gods. Gin
cinnati was rather provincial then.
having neither it's great music hall nor
its beautiful art museum. There was
no great desire for music culture. The
young German girl. Clara Baur, began
giving singing LESSONS to any pupils
she could get. and they were not many
at first. But the girl teacher had even
then an ideal. 1t was of a noble school
Of music. in which the art harmonic
should be taught in all its branches.
horn, string and human voice. She
was SO sweet tempered, so earnest and
enthusiastic, as we'll as such au excel
lent instructor, that she gained friends
and patrons rapidly. In little while
she opened a small conservatory of mu-
sic. She stuck to business faithfully.
| never letting her enthusiasm flag,
which was the main thing after all.
! What is also important, she never let
down for a moment in her high ideals
of music Pupils increased. Miss Baur
worked hard still. both for love and
money. She was only little woman
and she was alone, but full of grit and
genius. She saved her earnings, not
with the idea Of retiring from work.
but of building a home for music. At
! last she has succeeded in her plan. A
conservatory of music costing 100000,
with beautiful concert hall, has lately
been erected by the indefatigable little
lady and it is all her own.
Did you ever take q walk bareheaded
in the warm rain? The raindrops con-
tain atoms Of the liquid gold of life
which the sun rays send to the sweet
old earth to make her blossom and
| bring forth. The raindrops in the face
soften and feed the skin; they soak into
the roots of the hair and invigorate it:
they cool the fretted, fevered scalp and
brain. The rain bath Is uncommonly
| promotive of health and good looks.
Wear some old cotton garments thin
enough for the soft rain to penetrate.
stay In the falling shower till you are
soaked through, then go home, remove
the saturated garments and rub your
self briskly till you are dry. You will
feel like a new woman. In the tropics
the natives do not remove their cloth
| ing after being caught in one of the
rains that tumble out of the sky by the
bucketful. They simply go about their
! business In the sunshine till they dry
off and are all the better for their rain
bath. &...-
The old fashioned scold is disappear
ing from the earth, eternal rest to her!
You seldom hear the incessant .'scold,
scold. jaw, jaw" that used to be the
| special prerogative of the old woman.
In the days when woman was OPP
pressed grievously by man the only
him was by flashing him with her
| tongue, and we have the evidence of
| history in the ducking stool that she
availed herself of the privilege. Old
women used to rate all creation by the
| hour. But it has been many year
since have heard real, old fashioned
scold. AS woman gets her rights she
ceases to scold.
Never tell your ailments to anybody
| but your doctor and never tell your
| troubles at all. The desire to do SO
arises from a morbid craving for sym
pathy. craving you ought to squelcn.
When you draw on others sympathies,
you are a vampire feeding on them.
They have troubles of their own, and
you have sno right to exhaust their
nerve force.
Recently In New York city a man
was taken with laughing fit. He
just began and laughed and laughed
and laughed for week without any
known cause. His unnatural mirth In
fected others. so that the moment they
saw him they, too, began to gggle and
smoker without any eause except just
the catchiness of the thing. At last he
was taken to hospital, where after
| several days the laughing attack left
him. Then he was discharged cured.
But the curious point in this case is.
that never once did anybody, physiciau
or layman, say the man had mysteries.
II he had been a woman, now!
~ y o III.
| The editor Of the much talked Of wo-
mems daily newspaper in Chicago is
reported as having said that the new
Journal is not going to be champion
Of woman suffrage. Then what's the
good of it? What is the need of it? It
is foredoomed to failure.
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