The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-06-25
Feminine
Snapshots
Kitchens For Bachelors
and Separate Establish
ments For Bache-
lOr Maids

eulS OIL DOlll sexes rise up III IuelT
graves and howl. Our generation is
the first to see young ladies Of wealth
set up homes ali their own. without
even chaperon. They maintain in all
respects Independent establishments
and lead independent lives. In New
York Miss May Van Allen has her
own town house in the city SO has
Miss Margaret Chanler, whose beauti-
full home is equipped with stables.
horses and carriages and all that a
sary to comfort and responsibility.
Others of the fashionable set in the
same city might also be named. Among
women VIII, earn their own living
thousands Of girls have pretty little
establishments where they keep house
happily, there being no men in the
case at al. Women are becoming in
dependent OF men. On the other hand.
as if to revenge themselves Oh the girls
for discovering them to be no longer
necessity. hundreds of likely Young
bachelor men have gone to housekeep-
ing in city fats in the most coy and
comfortable way. They rent an apart
ment furnish it handsomely and have
somebody come in daily and put it in
order. They sometimes take their
meals at restaurants, but in many in
stances they hire a fat with kitchen
attached, then get cook and regular
ly keep house. just as they would II
they were married and had wives to
superintend their establishments. One
recommendation for this way of lly-
ing is that both for bachelor maid
and man it is cheaper than boarding
house living and far more agreeable.
A drawback to this system of home
making, however, is that there is not
always harmony among the partners.
Still there Is quite as much as there
is between the ordinary husband and
wife, with the added advantage that
the erring bachelor partners are free
to go apart if they wish.
Don't ever have any company man
ners. Use your very best every day at
home among your own family. You
need not fear they will wear out.
Good manners are one of the few
things that do not wear out by con-
slant usage.
A case unique in this worlds history
came to light recently in Bohemia.
Seventy-fve years ago Franz Rossner
had a sweetheart, whom he loved de-
votedly and who loved him as devoted
ly. They were betrothed, but some
thing happened to postpone their mar
rage. Then something else happened
to defer it once more. Over and over
up, and year after year the pair wait
ed. Half a century the engagement
lasted, then twenty-five years more.
At last Rossner was 100 years old and
on his deathbed. His betrothed was
ninety three. Then the wedding took
died. Immortal Franz Rossner, who
could be faithful to a marriage engage
ment seventyfve years!
Not very long ago the prime minis
ter Of Great Britain was Kissed and
jeered on the floor Of the house of
commons, and the session broke up in
wild uproar, amid calls for the po-
lice. Women are too excitable to be
trusted with political power!
reaches far up into the thousands bases
her success on the hint conveyed in
the following: 'Molasses goes great
deal farther than vinegar"
Long ago the ladyships who are to
manage the household of the German
Crown Princess Cecilia and the crown
princess herself were selected. When
she sets up housekeeping, poor Ce-
ella will be under the constant sur
veillance Of a lot of feminine might
nesses who will not let her so much as
crook her finger unless 1t is the ira
ditional thing to do at that moment.
1t is said that this constant and ter
rible watching and repression was
what made Princess Louise of Sake
Coburg run away from her husband
and his court Who can blame her?
49,
Mrs. o. H. F. Belmont has under
taken, in association with several other
women Of wealth, worthy enterprise.
The ladies have formed an association
for the construction in Brooklyn of a
vast model tenement house, twenty.
two stories and covering a city block.
This great building will be managed
by women, and no families will be ad-
mitted without children. The rooms
will be large and sunny. The millen-
MUM is coming surely.
In various localities women are NOV
ing earnestly and unitedly to do away
with the death penalty, if not alto
gether at least for their own sex. The
New Jersey Federation of Women's
Clubs lately discussed the subject elo-
quently. Mrs. E. B. Carter made this
notable remark: 1--WE like to make
God rcsnonsihIo for all o,1r rars ova