The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-02-08

| ira furnish music for balls. concerts
and all kinds of entertainments in New
York city and its vicinity. IL her girl
| hood the lady was an accomplished
pianist. Her strong point was and is
her versatility. She can render Il pi-
ano solo or Il coon song" accompany
prima donna in opera or play dance
music with equal facility. Some years
ago Mrs. Hand was left widow with
four little boys to support. Music was
her first love. and to it she turned for a
living. When she was only four years
old, she had begun piano playing and
did not leave it off when she was mar
| ried. When widowed, therefore, she
faced the future with her four boys
around her and only her dauntless will
and her knowledge of music between
all of them and homelessness or de-
| pendence on charity. At first she
| taught piano music and played for
evening entertainments wherever she
could get engagements. She was also
pianist for an orchestra. Then she de-
termined to have an orchestra of her
own. She was known and highly re-
spected by members Of the musical
union. The system she devised is an
elastic one. She obtains an engage
ment for an orchestra of a given num-
Der of players, from five to twenty-five,
as is ,lted. Then from other Orches,
| tras and from the musical union she
engages here and there the desired
quota, and thus the count j. made up.
| She herself does not usually conduct
| the orchestra III person because she is
| the pianist of the company. She has
had a hard struggle. the hardest part
! of it against that prejudice which ever
! tries to stamp out women i'll new
field but she is overcoming that. It is
/ pleasant to record that here is one wo-
man with practically perfect health.
| and that is an unreasonable help to
her.
Says tie editor Of the New York
| Evening Journal, The man who is
surly to his typewriter and Indifferent
to her feelings will be surly to his
wife and Indifferent to her feelings"
For generations MI aud women
artists have painted from the nude in
the same classes i'll Paris, and nothing
evil has been thought Of it. Lately d
private studio was opened in Berlin in
which the same practice was inaugu-
rated. The German police interfered
and demanded either the closing Of the
/ ~ Of hp re
dents along the sex line. The edict was
obeyed for awhile. Then matters slid
back as they had been. and the stu-
dents PARTED in the same class. The
fpreceptor was of the highest rank: the
students were men and women with
out exception enthusiasts in their task.
i This time, although the authorities
must have been aware of the infrac-
/ ton Of their order. the studio was not
| interfered with.
! am sick of people who always know
what other people ought to do.
! The greatest misfortune ia life 1s TO
/ be born lackadaisical. so that one can
! never become enthusiastically interest
ed in anything.
Most of us are the result of our own
and our parents mistakes.
i The real lady never says behind your
j back what she would not say to your
1 face.
There is a Greek legend 20 the effect
i that once a man asked Jupiter to change
4 him to d woman awhile SO he could see
/ how it would go Jupiter allowed mis-
request and changed him accordingly.
i After he hat been a woman for time
/ Jupiter asked him how he liked it. He
replied that lie would like to be wom-
i an always Thus there is only one
1 man on record who preferred to be a
j woman. and he, alas is nothing but a
/ myth.
Not long ago the Women's Single
Tax league of New York gave ban
i oeet to Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. 1t
was a notahis gathering of brainy wo-
men and men. One OF the speakers
was that br.ve and brilliant southern
] girl, Kate Gordon. In her speech at
i the banquet she said. The new Wom-
an to me Is progress personihed. just
so. The time has come when to be
called new woman is an honor.
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The most ridiculous affair that has
come under my ken recently is the mar
rage of a widow whose grown son
gave her away" at the wedding. She
was rich, had reared that son and sup
ported him all his life, yet he had to
give her away when she married
again.
Z Z
Charlotte Perkins Gilman says that
only in the human species is the fe-
male Inferior to the male, and this is
| oxx-r, fault for not arIlfiyafi ting