Rock Island Argus., 1905-10-28
Feminine
Snapshots
Business Women Setting
Fashion For Society
Women.

The prompt Industrious business wO-
man who minds only her own business
Is rapidly becoming the star performer
OF her sex. Even the lodging house
landiady has at last given in to the wo-
man boarder so far as the girl who
goes TO daily employment is concerned.
A successful boarding house keeper OF
many years standing said lately that
the ideal boarder Is the business wom-
an This experienced landlady de-
clared a woman who earns S12 or SIS
a week always pays her board and
dresses nicely"-in their order the two
most important points in the eye OF n
landlady. II young man earns the
same amount OF money, the landlady
declared. he spends il on amusements
and often goes in debt for his board.
Furthermore, the young man who earns
Sl2 or $15 a week Is apt to leave cigar
stumps over the snowy bedsSeads and
the polished dressers The room Of the
business woman boarder. on the con-
trary. Ia neat and attractive at all
times. That reminds me of remark
lately made 10y one of my friends who
has kept boarders for years. Telling
me OF two women teachers who had
just become members OF her family,
she said. You ought to see their room
how beautifully they have fixed ii
up In one important particular the
girl in business has actually set fash
ion for the wealthy society girl. and
the working young woman's example
is being followed by scores OF her rich
single sisters in the most exclusive so
tnl <.fr ts, thx.n 10 %
unmarried woman setting up a home
Of her own. Working girls. singly or
by twos. sometimes In groups OF sever
al. found II pleasanter as well as less
expensive TO rent a fat and set up an
Independent home. In some cases
whole houses have been taken and co
operative housekeeping established.
The working girls proved IL quite safe
and proper 10 live thus. Seeing this.
millionaire girls. hedged in by conven-
tionalities and signing for freedom.
bravely took II. Really. ii Is not now
at all out OF place for a millionaire's
daughter to maintain her separate es-
tablishment.
Mrs. ". +. Fleming and her women
aids at the Harvard observatory have
discovered more than a hundred new
stars.
Wendell Phillips used to say that the
woman who could accumulate for
tune OF a million dollars would do more
TO bring about the emancipation of her
sex than a million speeches could do.
IL the great orator were alive today
he would know there are dozens of
women who have amassed a million
dollars entirely through their own eff
forts. He would see something even
he In his most enthusiastic and pro-
pheuc moments could never have an
ticipated-the woman railroad presi-
dent. Mrs. Mary s. Holiday OF Green
Vile. Mo. president of a railroad lead
ing out of st. Louis. lately sold stock
in her road to the value of a million
dollars. She had been largely instru-
mental in building up the prosperity
OF the road.
Another evidence that the unmarried
business woman is lit" A life insur-
ance company that has hitherto stiffiy
refused policies to the feminine sex
under all circumstances has recently
let down the bars 10 the extent of per
mitting its agents to accept applica-
tions from wage earning women who
have people dependent on them" Just
so.
Nine. Linda Wade dressmaker and
dress filter. declares that men have
become so bulging and bad figured they
will have TO go into corsets, and she
is the one TO put them there. Serves
them right.
The visit 10 oriental lands of that
high spirited and Independent Amer
lean girl. Alice Roosevelt, will certain
~ hasten the liberation OF her sex in
the east Few oriental women have