Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-03-31
r He NEW WOMAN
She Stands Up For Her
Own Sex
ME twentieth century is consid
erably more rse woman's cen
fury than the nineteenth was.

NTIE twentieth century is eonsid
erably more tie womans CEN
fury than the nineteenth was.
A sure proof Of it is the ever in.
creasing spirit OF affection and helpful
ness from woman TO woman ! notice
it in things small and great. Lately
entered an express train on the New
York elevated road at the going home
hour. There was one vacant scar. As
| went toward Il a SIX FOOT man. strong
and rosy, showed IN and was about 10
take it. under my very nose. 4 woman
sat next with little space each
side 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 filing 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 car 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 conyeyanees. But it pleased me
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,
I notice, too, that when a woman with
a child in her arms enters a car 1t is
in nearly every case woman who
rises TO offer her a 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.
y y
Recently in the rush hours on the
platform of an elevated railway sta
ton crowd of New York city men
knocked woman down and irampled
upon her.
| have had the pleasure of seeing a
new church window just finished by
Miss Mar T'illinghast. 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 fbe recording
angel, charity and the angel of the res
direction. Consciously or unconscious
" Miss TiIlinghast 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 viii regret it,
Miss Carmelita Beck#ith 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 very handsome and
interesting magazine.
~
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 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.
IS
Don't shoot of your mouth prema-
turely 1t is more dangerous than the
premature discharge of cannon
81.
An association Of ladies in London
are establishing new order in the
world of domestic service They have
q central home or lodging house for
women thoroughly trained in house
work Thence the women so out by
the day, working a stated number of
hours for a stated price, at the end Of
the time going home to their own lodg-
ing house. The plan is admirable and