Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1905-02-25
Feminine
Snapshots
What Women Are Saying
and Doing


Queer creatures are women at least
S,t.r women, Not long ago one OF the
/ richest women in the world. of course
an American one too. who has made
her immense fortune herself by Ler
own >hrcwdnesS and strict attention to
/ business tor over thirty years shot Off
a SGT If opinions on the subject of the
| feminine sex engaging i'll commercial
| Enterprises. "A wonInn's place is at
| hom" With her family. She has no
| business to 20 into business. Every wo-
! man without exception ought to learn
| to cook" said this astonishing feminine
| person. whose practice for quarter of
a century had been the direct opposite
, Of such preaching. 1t looks it really
does as if this woman, who has uccu-
| muAtrd her own millions. were jealous
of Il possible woman rival In the bust
ness world. so is trying to keep the
| rest of her sex out OF the field in
which she has beaten all but few
| even Of her men competitors. Then
| there is another woman, stunning
| figure on the professional stage. Mad
| am has nlso accumulated n noble for
| tune. lives in splendor and rides in her
| own automobile. Besides that she has
| also enjoyed the inestimnble privilege
| of support Ing IL husband In luxury for
| twenty wears She, too. bejeweled and
/ surrounded with everything that mon
| cy can buy-woD. mind you, every dol
| lar, by her own exertlon lifts up her
| voice in dismal howl against women
| who enter the money earning ranks.
! She herself has earned more money
! than one man out of Il million Is able
| to do. yet she wrings her hands and
| fairly sohs over the shame, the misery
| and the pity of woman's going out to
| work for money. They are incompe-
| tent creatures. to begin, going out to
! work for money. says she and II they
| only wouldn't do 1t men would sup
! port them all. If this successful wo-
| man knew or cared anything at all
| about real Industrial conditions she
| would know 1t was only because men
| could not support them any longer that
/ women entered the money earning
| field. 1t looks MS if the stage lady also
/ were ilI ing W hetl' loSSibit SiSlti II
! walls out OF her field.
| @H
Every woman ought to have gym
rsasSium suit to Wear at home when
performing work requiring special
| strength and activity 1t would do
away with half the wenrlness resulting
from doing heavy work in womans
ordinary dress. The sense Of lightness
and ease felt in wearing such cos
tune no woman knows until she has
tried it.
4 II YOU have some worthy object OF
4 attainment in view never yield to dis
courugement concerning the outcome
no matter how long you have to work
and wait for results Every good thing
J comes by and by
/ Il would not for any consideration
1turt anyboGy'S feelings says Mrs.
! Funny IIallock Carpenter, president of
1ilr New York state Federation of Wo-
men1S Clubs.
1un't do things you are ashamed of;
| then YOU can never be caught ut if.
Perfect health of the body consists In
being unconscious of it.
Here is Il pertinent remark from the
Chicago Legal News: 1T seems strange
that women can be lawyers, doctors
and ministers and yet, according to the
laws of many states, do not know
enough to vote.
At last that noble Roman of wom-
an, Moll Pitcher who shouldered her
slain husbands muskct and fought at
the battle of Monmouth, is to have a
Ia,nument. The heroine of the Revo-
Nrion is buried at Carlisle, Pa, and,
ssile her grave is we'll known, it has
| GVhertO been unmarked in any way.
\ 'owr. however fitting monument to
IL g. brave old girl-a large cannon Is
to lie set up by the citizens of Carlisle
at tBIe head OF her grave. The United
st; rrs.s WIZ department donates the
can ai0n.
+ very woman who can work ought
to { 10 So The obligation is on her as Il
huI uan being to do something useful.
4 CiTl lately wrote a long letter 10
an editor complaining that she was
not happy Who is?
Living. loving. learning that is how
b 20 through life, helping as we GO
9th erS all along the way.
Is 1t not about time for women to
blow up for good and all that old hypo
| cridisal IlreteNSe Of so many that they
! doaNt have to work for living, but
/ just do it so as tn have something
where,Vith to pat in tle timef Where
this is really the case people &Jn't say
ansth ing about it. Whctt bear n wo
man say she only works for entertain
ment | always think Of the lady who
once toai me she kept boarders "foI
COMPANY" At the same time 1t was
notable that she charged the highest
market price for tie meaGerest food
| and accommodations. The thing fol-
women 10 De ashamed of is that they
q, go. Il n,,,. ,,.,rl- I-Enful at inI