Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-02-02
HE NEW WOMAN
Her Words and Deeds

lege men and judges rail ven
omously and Vociferously at woman
for constantly straining in the leash 10
get out of her spear" as Artelnus
Ward used to call It, 60 back
home" they cry, marry, raise chiI'
dren. large families, The more chill
dren you give to this wicked and per
verse world no matter what their quar-
fly or bringing up, the nearer to exact
ness you wiz be in fulfilling womans
only sphere And marry, marry mar
nv! Whatever else you don't do, marry
and stay at home with your little ones.
This is their preaching. Now for thelr
DroctIce; lust 50 sure aS woman en-
gagged I'm any professional employment
loves a man aud weds him. and loving
also her profession, desires to continue
II. then these same would be tlnal au-
thorltirs on til. woman question raise
the most awful howl you ever heard.
"Gct out" they say; get out or schooi
teaching. get out of government CLERK
ships and postofIices We won't have
A married woman In our employ. Get
out, | say Starve If you must, but get
matrimony on all sides these gentle
men who think they understand Wo'
mans business better than she does
herself at once deprive her OF nVen-
hood a late instance OF this Is the
cruel taking away from married wo-
man of the Nordica musical prize after
she had actually won it. 1t was re
fused to her because she had had the
temerity TO marry The prize carried
with II five years course in musical
instruction. and the lady from whom
It was taken was the wife OF minis
ter. Let officials and authorities take
aotlce. They themselves are steadily
discriminating against marriage ana
discouraglng all intellectual and aspir-
ing women from entering into IT.
Helen Wilmans says, "Of all the so
called virtues humility is the most ac-
cursed"
There are times when even ! feel dis
Outraged over women. These times
come after read of some sloppy, false,
break on the part of members of my
sex There Is little George Howard
Meredith, the child orchestra conduct
or FIVE years old. After some of his
performances in New York he Is
mobbed by idiotlc women who attempt
to smother him In kisses till policemen
have to keep the ELUSIVE females Off.
Heaven send them at least little
senset
Or. Emily Dunning. the New York
woman ambulance surgeon, Is winning
noble reputation by the able, thor
eugh, dignified way In which she dis
charges her duties. She was recently
called as witness In a case where the
decision hinged on the sanity or insan-
ity of a man who had murdered his
wife. The man had tried also to kill
himself, but failed. and DR.. Cunning
was the ambulance surgeon who took
. him wounded TO the hospital. She said
In her Judgment the man was lrration-
al, and she gave her reasons In the
elearest. most scientific way, way
that commanded admiration.
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Miss Florence Offutt, teacher of phys
zeal culture In the State college at Lex
ihgton, Ky, announces that, though
she Is going to be married TO an admi-
rable young man, she is not going to
give up her professorship. She says
that any woman can attend to home
and profession. too, II she cares
enough for her profession to do So
Miss Offutt prefers her profession to
the ''senselcss round of gayety" of a
young married woman in society.
An infaIlihie test of a man Is bis
views ON the woman question, Ii he IL
willing to accord to woman all the
rights he claims for himself in the in
dustrial, social and political realms
then he IL man of large brain anC
heart; II not. then he is man OF small
brain and narrow, pettily jealous pa
ture. Steer away from the man who Il
opposed to woman's rights.
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The most awfully overworked wore
IN the English language Is that wore
"tot" as applied to children, especial!
around the winter and summer holi
days. I'm SO tired of 1t that ! woul'
II had never been invented.
Re
A solemn college president declare
through his aose-I am sure he talket
through his nose. II not through hi
hat-that woman may never hope t
compete with man In athletics. We'll
what woman wants to compete witt
man In athletics? What woman care
a rap about 1t one way or the other
All women desire Is how speedily to de
velop their health and physical power
to the highest and most nearly perfec
condition without reference to colleg
presidents or men.
A girl lately wore to u business of