The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-02-05
| Feminine
J Snapshots
Are Wonen's Clubs or
the Down Grade

~ taken up with tea and waters and
j nice clothes to the exclusion of things
useful and vital to human progress.
This has been true. certainly, almost
up to the last year. but now the wom-
ans club is bursting the swaddling
bands of infantile uselessness and COM
ing into vigor of life as world factor.
l have beer recently looking over the
doings Of club women In America and
London for the past year, and really |
never have seen 80 much hope for true
progress among them as there is now
Child labor, city identifying and san
itation, equal suffrage for their sex and
the preservation Of American forests
and wild flowers are some of the causes
in which our women's clubs the past
year have been doing admirable work.
In Philadelphia women have erected q
club home large enough to house five
feminine associations. Among these
one is the very practical depository
and exchange for women's work. An
other is a kindergarten association that
maintains a training school for its
teachers; yet another is the Civic club.
which is really educating itself in mu-
nieipal matters. Now, isn't that practi-
cal usefulness?
With amazing rapidity women are
learning the grand, rugged lesson of
self dependence.
Rapnnf1v sho rst a1 t.
New York heard of family that was
in want. They Investigated and found
In the so called home of the family q
sickly woman who was the mother of
nine children. The youngest of these
was girl baby six weeks old. During
the six weeks Of her life that baby had
lived in a soap box filed with straw,
only piece Of muslin keeping her ten
der skin from its sharp blades. How is
that for nineteen centuries Of civiliza-
ton?
Let as love all mankind and keep our
advice to ourselves till 1t ia asked for.
Eleanor Kirk remarks in her Idea, IF
you want to do good. love every living
creature, walk straight to the kingdom
of heaven and mind your own bust
ness" But some women are SO engag-
ed In looking after other peoples busi-
ness that they never have time to at
tend to their own business.
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A woman makes very poor imfta-
ton man, especially when girl college
students go in for hazing their sister
students
It really Is beginning to dawn OH u
benighted world at last that the popu-
lation Of a country may be increased
quite as well by diminished death
rate as by an increased birth rate.
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The old maid and mother-in-law
Jokes have been worked overtime now
many years. They have become at |
length SO feeble that 1t Is time to give |
them good long rest.
women can't cook, cries DIR. Robert /
Eflis Thompson. Good! Women are
,nite ready to quit cooking and let the
nen have try at 1t any day. Dr.
Robert Ellis Thompson himself might.
or instance, for the sake Of setting a
rood example to his sex. enter the
Kitchen and begin frying. broiling,
Itewing and baking.
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Did you ever observe young wonl-
IN In street car chewing gum7 Isn't
he q sight?
Hon Frank w. Higgins, the new gov
,rnor OF New York, 10 in favor of wom-
IN suffrage as an act OF Justice to the
eminine sex.
It Just makes me tired, that affecta-
lon OF domesticity many 30 called pro
essional women put on. II they love
ooking and housekeeping 30 much bet
or than money getting life outside
he home, why don't they do cooking
nd housekeeping? The field OF house
odd labor Ii very wide one, the work
t&1t Rd4A. 110tSiJ VAiC vi kAAcSE WOluCA
dlicted with the affectation OF domes-
lefty boosted to another lady thus: 81
IN the best cook in Penville." There
non the woman addressed looked the
peaker over from head to foot and
aid to herself. And I'd hate to eat
our cooking. OF course every true
roman performs perfectly such do
sestic duties MS come her way, but
) boast Of It Is like boasting OF keep
ag ones skin clean.
The correct name for the trailing
treet skirt Is tanglefoot.
The saddest part Of being an inmate
{ sultan's harem must be that not
ne among the whole assortment Of
rixes can SO 10 Paris and choose her
wn gowns Lately The finance min
ster of the sultan Of Morocco journey
d 10 Paris to execute the important
tate commission DC buying clothes for
lis masters wives. In great Paris
hop the Moroccan finance minister sat
our after hour. and the handsome
Dung saleswomen paraded before him.