The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1903-11-14


to do when | meet one in the
road, for never can tell what she is
going to do. This morning, with a
friend, was out in my machine upon
country road A COW loomed up ahead
of us. She was in the middle of the
road, and she showed no disposition to
get off the track. slowed up and at
tempted to pass on one side of her.
Just as we reached her she made up
her stupid COW mind to move. She
whirled TO the side where we were and
ran bump into the auto. Now. the
owner of that COW would swear we
ran into her when the clear fact Is she
ran into us, and it was only good luck
that she did not overturn the machine
A girl got badly injured the other day
by an automobile through running into
1t the same way. She ran into ii. not
1t into her, mind again. A rapidly ap
preaching auto footed its whistle as
the girl crossed the road She hurried
TO the roadside and reached it in safe.
ty, but instead of standing still when
she got there she darted right into the
middle OF the road again, and OF course
she got knocked down. A hen acts
the same way. ! don't know what
possesses the creatures. If they would
only do one thing or the other, no mat
ter which, a man would know how to
dodge them" WE'LL few mornings
ago myself was out on my bicycle. A
fat woman was crossing the street di-
agonally, wabbling along from side to
side. She saw me distinctly. Besides
that rang the bicycle gong. The
street was at least fifty feet wide. But
that woman just came straight toward
me like blooming old idiot. l lodged
this way, then that with the bicycle.
but she seemed dead bent on meeting
it head on. 1t was with considerable
difficulty that at length escaped her.
Did you ever see woman advance in
front of a coming carriage, then when
she had nearly crossed the street start
and run back?
1t is the long, steady pull that counts.
Many women can do things brilliantly
and quickly and continue a short time.
But when it comes to working on year
after year, half century, If need be,
toward the same object, as all have to
do who succeed, women are apt to fall
by the wayside. Only those who dis
ciplipe themselves to sustained, endur-
ing effort succeed.
Two women in Paris have a legal
| permit to wear mems clothing. One
is the lady who reported the French leg
| islative proceedings for the now de
funct La Fronde, the woman's newspa
per. She wears her hair short and
roams at pleasure all over Paris in hel
convenient male disguise. The othel
Nine. Dieulafoy, the gifted, fearless
wife of the famous French explorer
With him she journeyed on expedi
tons in savage countries and fount
masculine attire so convenient and saf'
that when she returned to civilization
it was real hardship to go back int
skirts. Consequently the municipal
authorizes OF EalIS peIlulLleu ueT
continue in trousers. She wears mas
culine attire always, even at evening
receptions, where she appears in thu
SWEETEST of swallowtail suits.
Mrs. Ada Landon Hand has gained
an enviable reputation as an orchestri
leader for both male and female musi
clans. During the past summer she
at the head of an orchestra of fin
young women, made music at one o
the leading Long Branch hotels. N
sooner had this orchestra, the Landol
ladies' quartet, completed the summe
engagement than 1t was employed I
play afternoons in a great department
store, according to the pleasing ne'
American fashion Of furnishing musi
TO the customers Of the large places o
merchandise. Mrs. Hand herself
the pianiste and leader of the orche'
ira. She deserves all success for he
pluck and perseverance as well as he
+, ability.
poonla x.yho talk constantly of then