The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-03-08
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Il been making Il ri Jealous to do
81 over the alpUjh eat II WO-
men inSpe< tors 81 Sttera ge
female passengers Oh beard ;ucoLi.Eg
steamers. These p"rS.j jcH"jD',S juur-
nai| start ont WitA tho. .1.'t~l'tI Ere; joSi-
ion that TO NDIIl.Ii. '"!i. vli...D I. sap 5
ladder; tia'h l,-py rHusy t. be l''Hr-
viewed those prrSUils N'.io u.t supposed
to a2rc" to the proposition, Dl.'' lady,
maybe q member Of the -Four Hundred,
perhaps says it's terrible to think Of Il
W0mun trying to climb Steamers
Side; another individual, prri.;tij>; a r3-
tired Old fc"y doctor WLo never crossed
the Atlantic in his life, says it's pre-
poSterOuS to think Il woman could posi-
bly, do so unladylike thing. To cap it
all, one Of the journals represents the
women inspectors in state of distress
over devisiEg a costume that will en-
able them to perform this perllous feat
Of climbing an iron or rope ladder.
Now look here. l give you herewith a
few cold, hard facts on this question,
and let them settle it. To begin, l my
self in ordinary woman's clumsy and
inconvenient clothing have boarded a
steamer by climbing ladder dozens
of times in almost every quarter of
the globe and did not think | was do
anybody else. In the tropics and in
the orient women passengers board
ships in that manner every day, be-
cause it is the only way. There are
almost no docks built out in the har-
bors enabling a passenger to walk
aboard. The steamers at Hongkong,
at Manila, at nearly every one of the
Chinese and Japanese ports, at Co.
lombo and Penang-and the list might
be extended NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. a mile
or two offshore and are reached by
lighters and tenders. At Colombo to-
day is a young woman medical inspect
or with her own rowboat and crew
who boards every incoming steamer
and examines the women passengers.
Along our own Maine coast women
passengers go out to sea to catch
steamers, and once in Boring sea
can climb a rope ladder as spry as any
body of this ship unless it is Mrs.
Blank" So there.
After all, women are queer. An
abandoned wife is suing another wom-
an who she says ''alienated'' her hus-
bands affections The wife whines
and snivels and says: "It's all the fault
of that woman, the wretch! Before
she got hold of him my husband loved
me-" Here are two points for the
earnest consideration of deserted
wives Firss, husband whose affec-
tons can be .salienated'i by anybody
or anything is not worth keeping; sec
ond, if, nevertheless, a husband does
thus become alienated and his wife
must get even, the husband himself is
the one to ego for, not the woman. He
undoubtedly wanted to be led astray.
But the best way of all to get revenge
on delinquent husband is to let him
go. Nine times out of ten he will be
awfuIly sorry he went.
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Women are proving themselves ex-
cellent advertisement writer's. A girl
only sixteen years old who hit on
new and humorous idea for good adj
yertisement is getting $500 year
out Of it. Advertisement writing has
become regular occupation that is
now often more lucrative than regular
new spaper work, especially if one can
promising field.
Whatever a woman decides to do, if
she takes hold of it with pluck and de-
terrnined perseverance she will win.
Miss Kate e. Griswold. who has be-
come well to do through her own dis
ability and industry in
field previously occupied by men, had
many obstacles to overcome before she
succeeded. She says, however. to 9TH
er women, There is always plenty of
encoura cement to go on" So there is.
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President Roosevelt, who is SO bitter
against childless homes, ought to have
been for few years laborer with a
wife and six children to support on a
dollar a day Then he would have
been qualified to speak.
I have seen in newspaper letter
from high school girl complaining of
the strictness of the rules she had to
,bey and whining over the severity of
The examinations That girl will never
amount to anything. The girl that is
really worth something rises to every
emergency and meets it with a soul
equal to it. Difficult achievements
strengthen us Intellectually.
The president of a great university
says that marriage is declining among
educated women because their ideals
,f husbands become too high for men
10 meet and men feel themselves intel