The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-04-30
Feminine
Snapshots
Lawyers Have Their
Opinion of Women
Clients

not l!atteriny. On the other L.,:ll. the
woman who has been tllsnEl=l. the mill
of having business tr;;ll-;lr.i,,:l, with
members Of the legal p:,!eS>!o:l has al
SO her opinion of the l!ln liNrr:, and
| it is even less tlattcrilS to hiIii than his
| judgment is to her Experiences Of sll-
| ing to recover money due one AMI hay
| ing the attorney claim half. tWo-,Eiirls,
in some cases even the Whole OF the
amount recovered, and being brought
into actual debt to the lawyer besides.
| is rather calculated to sour either man
or woman against the legal profession
and to induce the resolve ia future to
avoid lawsuits 1T WHITE + cost 1t
is only fair, however, to Lar the man
lawyers side OF the case too. To do
him justice. he admits that an expert
enced business woman makes as rea-
sonable and sensible a client as Il man,
but when it comes to the emotional,
gushy, ignorant, clinging vine sort Of
female-eXcuSc him. He never knows
what she is going to do next. Emo
tiOnal affairs are apt to prompt this
sort of woman to lawsuits. She will
visit the attorney and weep and inn
plore him to help her in some matri-
monial Or love sIual.iic. She manu- .
features tears SO effectively that to get
rid Of her the lawyer frequently takes
her case and brings about the result
she desires. Then the fair client is apt
to find herself not bit happier or bet
ter satisfied than she was before, and,
with the inconseQuentialnesS of the OLD
style woman or an idiot, she Immediate
ly bout faces and blames the lawyer
bitterly for bringing all this misery in
to her life! So says the man lawyer.
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''The cars mother is forced to do all
the cooking for the imperial family for
fear poison may be introduced into
their food" Let us hope the cars
mother herself will not poison the i'm
perial family with her poor cooking
May the old style of emotional, cow
ardly, irresponsible woman speedily
disappear! It matters not how she
vanishes, whether she is evolved out.
drops out or evaporates Just let her
60, the sooner the better, and farewell
forever to her!
thousands of letters have been re-
ceived by the land commissioner Of
Boneset, S. D., from men who wish to
marry the young women that drew
farming homesteads in the recent
opening of government lands on the
Rosebud reservation Just so! What
miserable, mercenary creature wo-
man is to marry for home! Isn't she?
''No; bonnet strings are not C-or-l. ex-
cept by old women says the fashion
editor. 1 have looked for weeks to see
a pair of bonnet strings. and ne'er a
string have l found, except on Saliva
ton Army feminine folk Evidently
there are no old women any more.
And now Queensland, Of the Aus
tralian federation, has granted full suf-
ITdSc 10 women.
If Marie Feodorovna, dowager en-
press of all the Russias, had not sat
upon the lid of reform for her own
sex and set herself in all ways to keep
them down and in ignorance and sub
lection, she would not now be in dan
ger every moment Of having that lid
blown off by dynamite and herself and
her family sent to kingdom come with
all their sins upon their heads. The
gifted, intelligent women of Russia
would have gone over to her side in
stead Of to the revolutionist terrorists.
At least one or two loyal women would
have relieved her Of the necessity Of
going into the kitchen and perspiring
over the imperial cooking, which not
human being could be trusted to do.
49,
There are others than women who
loathe tobacco. Il do not belong to
club of any kind" says John Bur-
roughs, Americas naturalist Il would
like to join few good clubs of men
IL it wasn't for their internal tobacco"
Honesty, decency, courage and CON-
mon sense-these four go to the max
ing Of character, according to Presi-
dent Roosevelt. But often one finds
that common sense is the scarcest Of
the four.
AS usual. somebody is sneering at
Mrs. Hetty Green, the rchest woman
In America. Now she is derided be-
cause she lives at the rate Of 5000 a
year. dwelling in fat for which she
pays only SIS month rent. Well,
why shouldn't she? Has this republic,
supposed to be free country, come to
that pass where a woman must live
IS other people demand she shall rath-
er than in the way she desires for her.
self? Mrs. Green's tastes are alto
gether for the simple life we hear 50
auded. She turns from the monkey
sh circus in which public opinion
would have her perform and lives her
OWN life, as she has perfect right to
10, without interference from any,