Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-11-17
Feminine
Snapshots
Some Women Do Not BE
come Hysterical."

ground and trampled upon. getting
broken arm, crushed fingers and terri
BILE internal hurts. The crowd that in
stantly gathered stood staring till
handsome woman. richly dressed,
opened a small hand bag. took from it
bandaging and a hypOderinic needle.
went to the policeman and kneeled i'll
the street while she administered an
opiate and bound up the unfortunate
mans wounds as neatly as pAofeS-
sional could have done. When the M
bulance. with its surgeon, arrived the
preliminary work had been already
done by one of the women who do not
become hysterical." The other clip
! ping told how little street boys leg
had been crushed by a trolley car
which he had hitched himself to while
roller skating. The injury was so bad
the limb had TO be amputated ut once.
The operation was performed on the
floor of the car. while woman pas
senger, also richly dressed and evil
IDENTITY refined and cultured. held his
head in her lap and supported him dur
ing the operation. After ii was over
and the child placed in the hospital am
bulance she hurried away, refusing to
give her name. Jot down another wo-
man who did not become hysterical.'
Next? Well. sure as you live, the next
thing l noticed in another paper was
an item stating how the famous opera
singer Nine. Ackte. walking by the sea.
saw child struggling in the waves.
Instantly Nine. Ackte leaped into the
water and made for the child. She was
Il, oIAt lNVJf
managed to bring the little one in safe
ty to the shore before she sank down
utterly exhausted.
Steer clear of the people who pride
themselves on their ''tirmness." 1t is
nearly always their name for petty OBJ
stinacy. and they are among the most
disagreeable persons ever in this world
They fancy being 'Sot in their ways"
over contemplate little matters is evil
dence OF strength of mind. Quite the
contrary. 1t is evidence of weakness
of the petty mind that can neither
yield in small things nor be firm IN
great ones. The petty Obstinacies usu-
ally have a way, too, of meddling with
other peoples small affairs, which
makes them most uncomfortable to
have around. The truly large. gcncr-
Gus. strong soul lets the childish, petty
obstnates have their own way i'll
small matters for the sake of harmony,
but comes down on them like thou
saud of brick" if they NEEDLE with its
own nobler purposes.
The truest philosopher l know is
man who works with his hands for his
living. i'll humble capacity, too, but
he watches the interests of his en-
plOyer even more closely than the chi
ployer does. / have never known this
philosopher worker to be ill OF out of
spirits. The other day | said to him:
Sam, this is miserable weather.
Doesn't bad weather ever make you
uncomfortable and low spirited?" "Oh.
well, maybe. a little" answered the
philosopher worker, but l hustle and
forget all about it," Just so,
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Speaking of woman's curiosity, not
long ago, coming downtown in Il New
York city IL train, | observed
young woman opposite me coming
ONtI anu SOluc
she had in her hands. They were evi-
IDENTITY connected with her daily work,
whatever that was. There were memo
randa and a notebook dealing with
something important, judging from the
girls face and absorbed manner. Close
beside her sat a man, a passenger. who
CHANGED to find an empty seat there.
And that man fixed his eyes on the
girls memoranda, reading every word
as she turned the pages and following
them with intense interest. by the
time the girl reached her station the
person belonging TO the sex that has
no curiosity knew as much about her /
business as she did herself.
Ever since this country was settled
down 10 the present generation it has
been the mother and the girls who !
stayed at home and worked TO send
the boys to college. Those devoted |
women frequently earned money |
through sewing, factory work and by /
selling butter and eggs, and that mon |
ey they Iayished on the boys. Now 1t [,
is the girls turn TO get college ed /
ucation and the boys turn to go to {
work. Will the boys be equally gen I
erous and self sacrificing?
The joke Of the season is a fashion
able dressmaker telling humanity what
the proper proportions of the female
figure should be.
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Most persons do the best they can
according to their lights, but there are
some very poor varieties Of lights.
Mr.. z. Mammalian, learned Hin
doc now In this country, says: 1.-The
American people talk incessantly-raf-