Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-02-20

LEWISTON EVENING TELLER,
and rosy, showed in and was about e
take it, under my very nose. A woman
sat next. with little space each
aide of her on the long. benchlike row
Of seats. Instantly, before the man
could deposit his large corporosity be
side her. she showed over and filed the
space so he could not occupy it with
out sitting upon her lap, and he hardly
ventured to do that. This left a place
for me on the other side of the lady.
and | was not long in filling that place.
A broad smile fitted across the faces
of the other passengers as the six foot
man passed on and stood in the aisle
OF the ear. 1t certainly served him
right. as he attempted to possess him
self of the seat although | had entered
the car ahead Of him. | fear that is
a specimen OF the average New York
city mans treatment of women in pub.
lie cOnveyanceS. But it pleased mo
more than | can tell you to see how
woman thus stood up for her sister
woman. even though she had never
seen this sister before. probably never
would see her again. | observe the
like thing almost every day in the
street cars. women Crowding up, even
mountaineering themselves, so that an
other woman may not have to hang TO
a strap with her parcels under her arm.
/ notice, too. that when woman with
a child in her arms enters car it is
in nearly every case woman who
rises to offer her seat before any man
does so. There is ever growing the
great secret sisterhoOd of woman. bound
by no written laws. known only be
tween woman heart and woman heart
the sisterhood whose motto is helpful
ness to all the feminine half of the race
go
Recently in the rush hours on the
platform of an elevated railway sta
ton crowd of New York city men
knocked a woman down and trampled
upon her.
have had the pleasure of seeing
new church window just finished by
Miss Mary Tillinghast, whom women
are proud of as Americas leading
stained glass artist. The figures in
this window are exquisite illustrations
of form and color. There are three,
representing respectively the recording
angel, charity and the angel of the res
direction. Consciously or unconscious
ly Miss Tillinghast embodies in her an.
gels the Swedenborgian teaching that
the higher orders of spirits are neither
male nor female, but beings blending
the characteristics of both sexes.
The profound dicta of writing and
preaching men moralists on the sub
ject of women and matrimony remind
one of the famous alleged saying of
Socrates, whether you marry or don't
marry, you will regret it."
ss
Miss Carmelita Beckwith manages
the department of publicity of one
of the largest electric lighting and heat
ing companies in America. Her head
quarters are in New York. She also
edits the company's. monthly bulletin
and is making it a very handsome and
interesting magazine.
eS
A noble and touching example of
womanly resourcefulness has been af
forded by some of the French nuns
thrown out of employment through the
disbanding of the schools they taught
There were hundreds of these sisters,
and their means of earning a living
was gone. They asked for no charity
or even sympathy. These heroic wom-
en- simply announced that they would
do domestic work in French families
provided they were allowed to wear
still the habit of their order and were
addressed as sister instead of by
their first names.
There is a disadvantage in being a
queen. Everybody knows her age. and
her birthday has to be celebrated every
year.
ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER.