The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-05-14
Feminine
Snapshots
Comments on People and
Things From the
WOInan's Side

"Tlrrt,' said til" !:lal!aSt-:'. 'I..:"lr'S (:
text for yen. \ girl in !; fat ':'N secs
h.u::::l@ newspaper. OF c,,;;l:'' >il:
s. ,y, y,.,>. Fire: and Gees il.t !:.!:>,tr-
! ic,. THEN the 80; other e.! j. IL IL,
flct,,ly get crazy WIKI terror -: t:!:n
bic uv.'r u:!r ;no;hcr ii I: irel!z't": Leap.
III! >.;.!r,.liny and hoWi:nS or rr;.r>,'
scores # thea set badly hart. if tlt;
isn't like Il woman. Now, | tell Ey
wife never to lose her head whatever
ha:',enS, but just to keep cool and
think Instantly what is to be DONE l
took the paper. Plainly the manager
always announce that women go into
Mysteries ut fire. The exact truth
as stated in the item was this: \
newspaper caught fire from an cleo
trio wire in the factory. One of the
workmen-a man, mark you-saw the
| blazing paper and yelled, Fire! Fire.
Fire." as though the very lord of fire
were after him. The man became
hysterical' The girls were frighten-
| ed, but the men workers were frighten-
ed still worse. They were crazy as
| looms They fought like wild beasts,
their superior strength enabling them
to bruise, trample and crush back the
poor girls, who, like themselves, sought
the exit The strong brutes knocked
the girls senseless with their fists. and
one even struck them with an Ak. For
| the credit of our country. it may be
| mentioned that the men were foreign
erS. Numbers of the girls had to be
taken to hospitals. Meantime-now
note particularly-one woman, wo-
man. mind you, not a man, walked up
to the burning newspaper with wool
| en- cloth in her hand, threw the wooden
cloth over the flames and extinguished
them in half a minute And that is
the true story of the 'panicky women"
go
The first movement for the higher
education of the feminine sex in this
| country was made by two women
! teachers, Mary Lyon of Holyoke
Mass, and Mrs. Emma Willard Of
Troy, N. Y. We should never forget
this, neither that the noble hymn,
| Rocked In the Cradle of the Deep"
was written by Mrs. Willard.
The most successful singing voice
trainers of the present are undoubted-
~ women. New York city has thriv-
ing school of opera conducted by wo-
man, Mrs. Ogden Crane. She not only
develops the voices but also the stage
action Of her pupils. Lately her school
gave a notable performance of The
| Chimes of Normandy" Some sixty
young people we're in the cast, every
one of whom Mrs. Ogden Crane herself
| trained.
In New York city are six widows
who pay taxes on all aggregate of 49,
100000. If the property of one-third
Of the average voters in New York city
were summed up it would not amount
all told to $4,000 Besides contribut-
ing through taxation SO largely to the
city's support, the widows are all high
~ intelligent, belonging to the best
class Of citizens. Yet not one Of them
has a vote What do you think Of the
| Justice of this?
In case of the crown prince of Ger
many and his bride, Duchess Cecilia
it will at least not be the young hus-
L 80, In IN t,31 To r,,v1
things, though it may be some one
else
Probably the best paid, best salts
fed factory girls in the world are
those in the collar and cuff shops Of
Troy. These young women earn from
SIS to $25 a week, heads Of depart
ments even receiving S. day. No
men in the establishment are paid so
much. AS a consequence it is found
that few of the collar and cuff girls
care to marry.
THE trouble u.s. said Rider Haggard
during his recent trip to America. I'VE
all need more humor in our work and
our lives" Amen!
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Sergeant Frank Mayne, Pennsylva-
MIA soldier Of the civil war who was
killed In battle, was woman, Frances
Day. Another northern woman soldier
in the same war was Frank Thompson
Of the Second Michigan. On the Con-