Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-08-17
Feminine
Snapshots
What Are the Women
T eachers Of This
Country Doing

the 10000 some $4,000 are women and
the rest are men, OF general officers
elected for the coming year there were
fifteen, fourteen men and one woman,
and she was only little Insignificant
vice president! And those $4,000 wom-
en- teachers just sat there in their good
clothes and allowed the 5000 men to
run the whole show, and you may well
believe the men were not backward
about coming forward or bashful about
running it, Come to think, it is very
doubtful if even one-eighth of those
teachers are men, but for all the power
and influence the women have in the
organization it might be masculine
straight through. No wonder that
man from a little territorial boom
town, swelling with his male eonceit,
said he thought there were too many
women teachers in the public schools
of this country! Actually not one of all
those women had spirit or respect for
womanhood enough to resent and re
buke this impertinence. In the printed
reports of the convention the name of
only one woman appears as taking part
in the proceedings, and that was fear
less and splendid Margaret Haley of
Chicago, she who with only one COM
rade, and that woman, made and
won the fight for true property list
ing and taxation in her city BY that
victory several hundred thousand dol
lars was added to the Chicago school
fund Margaret Haley in the conven-
ton protested against converting the
great public school system of the Unit
ed States into a veritable trust run by
"a small, self perpetuating, independ
ent and self governing organization"
within the national one and yet not
subject to it. Miss Haley believes that
great commercial interests are at the
bottom of the movement But in the
midst of her brave speech President
Maxwell, the man who Is opposed to
married women teachers, called her
down, and she was suppressed
The only way to keep family skele-
tons from getting out of the closet is
never to have any in there.
An amusing story is told of two
prominent gentlemen who signed a pc
tition against woman suffrage and ac-
tually each affixed his wife's name to
the petition. too, thus forging her sig
nature The men thought this was q
good Joke, but the ladies heard of it.
They considered that their husbands
were not capable Of representing them
in matters pertaining to the ballot. A
woman suffrage meeting was held in
the town not long afterward, when
both wives took the opportunity to ex-
press distinctly their belief that the
feminine sex should have vote. One
of them took the speakers platform
and made an eloquent speech in favor
of woman suffrage No longer are
husband and wife one, and that one
the husband alone.
Ignorance is the mother of three
children-two daughters Prejudice and
Superstition, and one son-Old Fogy
OF the three Old Fogy does the most
credit to his mother.
No woman can ever be happy till she
is strong enough to do just what she
herself thinks best without caring a
rap what other people think, about it.
Lately a woman went to the tax de-
partment in New York city and in
formed the authorities there that her
property had been undervalued by sew
eral thousand dollars and she wished
the error rectified and her assessment
increased accordingly No wonder the
clerks nearly fell over" Does not
this prove clearly the inferiority of the
feminine sex?
Note this dictum of Herbert Spencer,
then apply it to matrimony: Command
is a blight to the affections. Whatso-
ever OF beauty, whatsoever of poetry
there is in the union Of the sexes with
ers up and dies in the cold atmosphere
Of authority.
What is even your affection worth II
you do not express it,
y "
ssAmoozin' I as Artemus Wards kan
CARGO is the little Russian cars idea
OF universal suffrage Of men and wo-
men the latter voting By proxy Did
the ear and his emissaries ever send
women to work IN the Siberian mines
or to be logged BY Cossack knouts BY
proxy
1t is q wonder women do not learn
to be diamond settlers and polishers.
There are very few Of these IN our
country, and at present they are All
men The lowest pay they receive T.
SIS week.