Evening journal., 1905-06-20
Feminine
Snapshots
How Shall the Unfortunate
Feminine Sex Please
Everybody?

Everybody?
Woman, marry That's your bust
ness, commands the old fogy who is
always with us. Suppose she does
marry and finds she must afterward
earn her own living or starve? Mar
ried woman, get back home and stay
therel You've no right to take the
bread out of the mouths of single wom-
en-. Starve if you will and let your
children starye, but doIst come In COM
petition with the single woman, once
more thunders the old fogy. For TWEEN
ty years the New York board Of edu-
cation has been thrashing over the
aged straw of the question whether
married women may be permitted"
to teach in the public schools, and
when the knell Of the twentieth cen
tury strikes it will probably be at
it still. In connection with this may
be mentioned some recent statistics of
married men who desert their families.
Last year 574 such abandoned fami-
lies applied for aid to the Public Chari-
ties organization in New York. There
were 1,565 children in the families thus
abandoned by their alleged breadwin-
ners. The cause of the mans deser-
ton of the helpless ones for whose ex-
istence on this plane he is responsible
is In the majority Of the cases. so far
as they can be hunted down, intemper-
ance on his part, frequently combined
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that his wife was a religious fanatic
and very deaf and suspicious besides.
In this case ones sympathies are with
the deserter, but he appears to be the
sole victim. The others are simply no
account men. Yet all the world is des-
perately shOoing woman into matri-
mony. Then after she is in and finds
herself tied to a man who either can
not or will not maintain her in the
style she has a right to expect, if she
tries to earn her own bread all the
world is up again and tries to shoe
her out Of life Nice planet this is for
a woman TO live on, isn't it?
The best way TO succeed and the
easiest in the long run for women who
know they can do something is to start
enterprises Of their own. The posts In
established Industries are already large
" filled by men who are not going tc
give their places up, and, indeed, there
is no reason why they should. But lei
the woman who is strong determined
and shrewd-the more gentle and WON
anly she is the better, alsO-think things
over carefully, decide what she can do
then begin it on her own account and
stick to it till success comes. A notable
example of the wisdom of this policy
is Miss Matte Sheridan, founder and
editor of a lively little art and society
magazine in New York. Miss Sheridan
was a Louisville girl who knew how tC
write. She went bravely to the great
city. where success is so hard to gain
starting first as a newspaper contribu
tor she won speedily foothold that
would have satisfied many. but not
Matte Sheridan. After several years
she founded a periodical Of her own
which has made her independent so
cially and financially.
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When you hear a woman say she has
all the rights she wants you may con
clude she has for sure all the rights
she is capable Of exercising.
wonder why 1t is that benevolent
working people do not start a mission
among the benighted rich TO teach then
how to do something useful.
What would the newspapers OF New
York do without these two headlines
'Women In Panic In Trolley Crash,
women In Panic In Ferry Crashf'
Most people would be very mucl
surprised to learn what their greatest
faults are in the estimation of their ac
quaintances, and they would indig
nantly deny that they possessed sucl
faults.
A curious thought has come into my
mind. Lately I saw a picture of Hi
ram Cronk, the old soldier Of 1912, who
died d, little while ago at the age OF
105. Grouped around him were alsC
half tone pictures of his children, aged
eighty and thereabout. The portrait
of the venerable Hiram himself looked
not a day older than that of his eighty
year-old son. Now, if an individual
105 years old looks no older thar
eighty, why should the person Of eighty
look any older than fifty-fve? See
Why should not the scale slide back
ward in the same proportion?
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The greater the victory the greater
must be the struggle to gain it,
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A bachelor man, explaining why 81
many Of his sex do not marry, says
1--WE all go on the theory that no man
however good. is good, enough for