Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-05-15
Feminine
Snapshots
Comments on People and
Things From the
WOrnan's Side

WOTnan's Side
There" said the manager, there's a
text for you. A girl in q factory sees
a blazing newspaper. OF course she
screeches, Fire. and goes into hyster
les. Then the 800 other girls in the
factory get crazy with terror and tum-
bic over one another in a frenZied heap,
all squealing and bowling. OF course
scores of them get badly hurt If that
Isn't like a woman. Now, l tell my
wife never to lose her head whatever
happens, but just to keep cool and
think instantly what is TO be done"
took the paper. Plainly the mana ger
had reads only the headlines. These
always announce that women go into
Mysteries at a fire The exact truth
as stated in the item was this: A
newspaper caught fire from an cleo
trio wire in the factory. one of the
wOrkmen-a man, mark yOu-saw the
blazing paper and yelled, FIRE. Fire!
Fire" as though the very lord of fire
We're after him. The man became
hySterical." The girls were frighten-
ed. but the men workers We're brighten
ed still worse. They We're crazy as
looms. They fought like wild beasts,
their superior strength enabling them
10 bruisc, trample and crush back the
poor girls, who. like themselves. sought
the exit. The strong bruteS knocked
the girls seuseless with their fists. and
ore even struck them with an AK. For
the credit of our country, it may be
mentioned that the men were foreign
erS. Numbers of the girls had TO be
taken to hospitals. Meantime-now
note particularly-On woman. wo-
man. mind you. not Il man, walked up
10 the burning newspaper with a wool
en- cloth in her hand, threw the wooden
cloth over the flames and eXtinguiShed
them in half n minute. And that IS
the true story of the ''panicky women"
The first movement for the higher
education Of the feminine sex in this
country was made by two women
teachers, Mary Lyon of Holyoke,
Mass, and Mrs. Emma Willard of
Troy. y. Y. We should never forget
this. neither that the noble hymn.
Rocked In the Cradle of the Deep"
was written by Mrs. Willard.
The most successful singing voice
trainers of the present are undOubted-
~ women. New York city has n thirty
ing school of opera conducted by wo-
man. Mrs. Ogden Crane. She not only
develops the voices but also the stage
action of her pupils. Lately her school
gave a notable performance of The
Chimes of Normandy" Some sixty
young people We're in the cast, every
one of whom Mrs. Ogden Crane herself
trained.
In New York city are six widows
who pay taxes on an aggregate of So
100000. If the property Of One-third
of the average voters in New York city
were summed up it would not amount
all told to $4,000. 900. Besides cOntribut-
ing through taxation so largely to the
city's support the widows are all high
" intelligent. belonging to the best
class of citizens. Yet not one of them
has vote What do you think of the
justice OF this?
In case of the crown prince OF Ger
many and his bride, Duchess Cecilia,
it will at least not be the young hus-
bands mother-in-law who tries To run
things, though it may be some one
else.
Probably the best paid. best salts
fed factory girls i'm the world are
those in the collar and cuff shops Of
Troy. These young women earn from
SO TO SD week heads of depart
ments even receiving 81 day. No
men in the establishment are paid so
much. As n consequence It is found
that few of the collar and cuff girls
care to marry.
The trouble is" said Rider Haggard
during his recent trip to America, we
all need more humor in our work and
our lives" Amen.
Sergeant Frank Mayne. a Pennsylya-
MIA soldier of the civil war who was
killed I'm battle, was woman. Frances
Dav. Another northern woman soldier
in the same war was Frank Thompson
Of the Second Michigan. on the Con
federate side Mrs. l.. NJ. Blaylock wore
the gray and went through the war be-
side her husband In the Twenty sixth
North Carolina regiment.
Note.-At Mansfield, o., the CO opera
tive kitchen started three years ago
has proved successful in every way,
even commercially. Perhaps that is