Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-04-16
I HE new WOMAA|
She Works and Thinks
LATELY saw a picture with a
curious story attached to it. 1t
was a photograph in the office Of

WAS photograph Ill Tue ONCE OF
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait repre-
senting piece Of sculpture made by a
| young lady in Holland. 1t showed a
stalwart Dutchwoman wheeling bar
row Of bricks. The story of the picture
| Is this: number of years ago the Hol-
land government thought it would en-
act legislation for the protection Of
women working in factories. The law
! decreed that no woman should do fac
tory work at night under severe pen
atty. The factory women had been ac-
customed to work overtime and get
extra pay. The law therefore cut off "A
part of their income. At the same time
there was no law against men work
ing overtime in factory. Neither did
the lay forbid men laborers toiling
overtime in the brickmaking and GER
tain other trades. The Dutchwomen
saw themselves deprived of a consid-
cradle part of their earnings. They
went to the men laborers and proposed
an exchange of evening tasks. They
said, for instance. to the Drickmakers:
You so into the factories and work
during evening hours. We, on our
part, will come into the brickyards
and perform your part of the evening
and night labor" The exchange was
actually made. The broad, strongly
built Holland women were quite equal
to molding and carrying bricks during
two or three hours Of the evening or
even all night when necessary. The
men, on their part. were quite willing
to swap the hard labor of the day for
a lighter task in the evening. So ev-
erybody was satisfied. The evening
money was still earned, and at the
same time nobody violated the law for
bidding the night work Of women in
factories.
During the past year the national
grange and national unions of miners,
typesetters and general labor have pass
ed resolutions or inserted in the plat
forms Of principles planks indorsing
woman suffrage. Thus woman is find
ing her best friends among the men
who work.
Anybody can be in the fashion, but 1t
takes strong mind to be out of it.
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A little while before her death Rosa
Bonheur declared she had ahead of her
pictures enough to keep her painting
for two or three ifetimes. Lately Tol-
stoi, the great Russian, said, IT have
material enough for 300 years Of con-
tinued literary work." This Is what It
means to have mental resources and
spiritual inspiration within oneself.
One who has this Is never lonely, never
ennuied, but always cheerful and glad.
always planning and achieving happy
work. 1t Is only shallow. empty mind
ed people who do not know what to do
with themselves.
Note the reason given by the father
Of Je6ries, the prize fighter. why his
son always wins: There are men as
scientific as Jim. but they lose their
tempers. and then they're of. Jim has
learned that a man must never get mad
il he wants to win fight" Just SO!
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One thing Is dead certain-Providence
won't help us unless we hustle for our
selves.
Whatever worthy thing you desire
hustle for 1t persistently and with de-
termination and you will get it. Don't
think Of the time it takes at all, but
just go on.
You suffer and have poor health. You
wish to be we'll? Set before yourself
calmly and with determination the
ideal Of perfect health and work up to
It. Whatever comes. though you break
/ down thousand times, hold alway 5
in your mind that ideal of perfect
health. The eternally recuperative
power OF the life principle within you
is infinite. Many time has chronic
ailment at last been worn out by help
of the constantly held thought OF
health.
Susan 3. Anthony, eighty-four years
old Feb. 10, hopes to go on and work,
necessarily active for her sex, so<lons
as she lives. without any breakdown
or illness till her time to go comes
Then she wants Just to drop out, sud
denly and with no fuss. Who would
not like to do the same? Let us all
hope Miss Anthony will obtain her
wish. Meantime, the coming summer
abe expects to go to Europe to attend
the meeting of the women's interna.
tional council at Berlin. -s-.-.-..
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In small Pennsylvania town nc
man would accept the Office Of tax col
lector because 1t did not pay. People
would not pay their taxes. ThereupOn
the court appointed woman, Mrs
Mary A. Conway, tax collector. with.
out her solicitation. She accepted the
appointment and announced at once
that she meant to collect those taxes
and get her own commission out OF
| them thuS MANAGING hpr office az TIM