Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-28
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN

Pale with indignation. Mrs. Lapsling rose
! to address the chair.
| MRS. President" she said ''the member
of this club who has just taken her seat
does not dare to come out openly and ac-
cuse me OF using my official position to en-
rich myself with the prerequisites of the
Office. She does it diminuendo I shall not
retort by discriminating her. Mrs. Presi-
| dent. l shall merely delay the charge and
| thus throw the onerous probandi upon hertz
Tremendous sensationD - Chicago Tri-
| bune.
| The Chauyinistic Russian lady who went
| to the war disguised man in order to
| be taken prisoner by the Japanese and so
| be able to nurse her countrymen may have
| thought she was performing a feat entirely
| original and fresh. If so she was only part
| ly right.
She but serves to remind us irresistibly
| OF the way in which women insisted in fol-
lowing thei- husbands and lovers and
brothers In the Crusades. Such was the
zeal Of the women at that time that they
| burned the sign of the cross upon them
selves and their babies. coloring it with red
| dye-an early form of tattoo-while 9TH
| ers evading the decree which forbade any
| woman excepting washerwomen, and those
not under fifty years of age, to follow the
| army as women. dressed themselves as
men. and. carrying spur and sword, went
| through the campaign soldiers. One
| whole troop of women was headed by a
| lady who wore gilt spurs and was called
| twelfth century. And yet in 1905 there still
| is occasional reference to the new womanI
| Boston Transcript.
Time was when self-respecting young
| American would have been ashamed to
| marry a rich girl unless he were rich him.
self. but that time is no more. 1t looks.
| on the contrary. as if we approaching
| the era when the American girl. like the
| European, will have to be provided with
| a dover in order to secure husband.
| The occasion of these remarks is the
| downpour of matrimonial missives upon
| 121 young women in the northwest. These
! young persons were lucky enough to draw
| farming homesteads when the government
| recently opened to settlement land on the
! Rosebud Indian reservation In South Da-
/ kota. They not rich, but they have
| some valuable land, and multitude of
men show desire to share their gains
| with them.
| 1t Is stated that the letters proposing
| marriage come from all the states of the
| Union except Arizona, New Mexico and
| Nevada, and that the writer's thereof rep
resent many trades and callings and in
clude one Yale and two University of Vir-
ginia graduates.-Macon Telegraph.
"The queerest marriage I ever seen.
| miss" the sailor said, was in the Anda-
man Islands. The islanders in them ISL
ands." he said. lis dwarfs. Four feet on
1
young Islander wants girl for his wife
| he asks her parents for her. They never
refuse. They take the girl and hide her In
| the forest. There the lad must find her
| before morning. If he finds her she's his
| If he don't she amt. OF course, I don't
need to tell you that if the girl wants the
young Teller she sees to it that he finds her,
| all right. And vice versa.
Here is how the marriage ceremony is
performed. The lad climbs up slim young
tree and the girl climbs up another close
the top their weight bends the slim trees
| over toward each other prettily. The trees
! bow and bend and courtesy, and fin ally the
lads head touches the girls and from
| below a shout goes up the head touch
| ing has done the business. The ceremony
is finished. The young folks troubles have
begun."-Chicago Chronicle.
Most women agree with men in regard
| to their rights" Mrs. Craigie voiced their
| view respecting them in clever and SEN
! sibe speech last week. They prefer the
| position that they now hold socially which
| is of superiority to men. AS Burke
| said in his famous passage on Marie An
| toinette: The days of chivalry are gone"
| What remains of them will disappear after
| women have found themselves forced into
the rough-and-tumble of politics.
| Marie Antonette herself was an instance
of the unfitness of women to rule. She
| was perpetuaIIy medding with her hus-
| band: she squandered money like water.
| and she encouraged extravaganza in 9TH
ers. She rendered all development Of sane
liberty impossible by intriguing with cour-
| tiers against constitutional government,
| and many of these were her lovers. 1t was
| largely due to her that her husband was
| executed, and that all the excuses of the
| revolution took place.
| What her own family thought of her may
| be estimated by tale told in some me-
| moirs recently published by French diplo-
| matist of the time. He had been French
| ambassador at COnstantinople and took
Vienna on his way home. There he was IN
| vited to court function. where. as was
| usual in those times. a solemn official game
of cards was played by the emperor, who
! was her brother. While the game was in
| progress dispatch arrived announcing her
| execution. and was handed to the emperor.
| He said, "Je my attendais. and went on
calmly with the game.-London Truth.
The qualities of bodily excellence In wo-
man are distinctive, and to these her train
ing should tend. The games and exercises
| which develop quickness and accuracy OF
perception and response. firmness and gen
! tleness of hand. steadiness of poise and
| grace of movement that grace which com IS
| from the application of just enough power
and no more than is needed to do a GER
tain thing well-these, rather than the
| rougher and heavier sports which pile up
muscle, are the fit pastimes for girl.
Even If she should miss little of the train
ing in boldness and tenacity which her
| brother is supposed to get In the athletic
field, this would be better than to have her
lose the finer touch. the lighter step, the
easier motion and the sweet restraint OF
body that belong to one whose senses are
| delicate and whose personal preferences
are at once nice and sure. In the work
that she has to do precision and refinement
| are likely to count for more than mere
| force Man builds the house; woman keeps
| and orders it.-Henry Van Dyke in Har-
| pers Bazaar.
Lady HaIdon, after having abandoned the
| stage to wed title. Is about to return to IT..
| Lady Haldon's peer is an impecun1ous
| one. He was Mr. Lawrence William Park.
the heir to the barony Of Haldon, when she
| married him in 1898. He succeeded to the
| title and an estate Of some 10000 acres q
| little over a year ago, but the added dig
| nifty brought with 1t no proportionate IN
crease in his income Hence Lady Haldon's
determination to pitch In and make money
| at her old profession. while he discharges
the function of hereditary and unpaid
legislator.-London Exchange.
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