The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-02-19
Feminine
Snapshots
Co-oDerative HOusekeep-
ing, Like Marriage.
Sometimes a
Failure

Lately there ai'2carcd IN Il newspaper
all amusing account of how some girls
tried to realize the harmony Of commu-
nifty houSckr"T ping. They began Deautl-
fully new furniture, pretty china and
st,iiy little ''cozy corners till you
couldn't rest. 1t was so sweet. so
homelike SO restful and all that, they
said. Presently one girl determined to
make all the others keep their rooms
even to their closets and bureau draw
ers. in the exact apple pie order In
which her own were maintained. OF
course there was grand kick, ana
feminine irritation followed. Next the
girl who managed the cooperative
excepting purse invited one week
several Of her friends to dinner, thus
cntailng added expense. OF course her
sense OF justice should have prompted
her to pay the added expense herself.
But she apparently had no sense of
Justice, 80 she told the cooperative
family they must economic the next
week and that girl was mean enough
to cut down the meals and skimp all
the rest to pay for her hospitality.
Next there was girl whose special
brand Of theology was not approved by
some Of her mates. and they undertook
to reconstruct her. If there is one thing
the powerful feminine mind Is strong
on it is theology. and the girl refused
to adopt a more fashionable creed than
eI,n hnJI olr fri,-
ton. At length some Of the women I'M
dertook to tell one of their number
how she should dress herself, and that
was the last drop in the bucket. "Har-
mony fat" broke up in disorder Will
women ever learn to mind their own
business and not NEEDLE with one an
other?
If you are obliged to speak disagree
able truths, practice gentle ways of
uttering them. that you may give as
little hurt as possible.
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There's an old lady here who looks
like a perfect picture. She's one of our
saleswomen," said girl in the suit
department of great store. ''She
must be seventy years old. She has
been here years and years. but she
never misses day or an hour from
her work. Some Of the girls give up
and stay away from business If the
least little thing gets the matter with
them. Mrs Blank goes right along.
She's got more grit and more endurance
than dozen young girls" Later |
saw Mrs. Blank. Really, seventy years
old though she was. she had the hand
soonest face on that floor, although 1t
was the suit department. where the
good looking saleswomen are generally
placed. She had fine features. softly
waving gray hair and smooth, pref
ty complexion. She had also a sweet.
gracious manner that was nightly
taking. Here, then. was Il woman who
had passed through all life's storms
and sorrows and come out at seventy
faced, her powers Of body and mind
perfectly held and she earning her liv
ing as a cloak and suit saleswoman
This item is for girls.
80
Note this remarkable clipping from a
newspaper, During ii fire in hotel
woman dressed herself In less than
fifteen minutes" The unfeeling editor
adds. This record is likely to stand
for at least century"
Among the cabled dispatches at the
beginning of the st. Petersburg out
break was the following highly signifi-
cant one: ut appears that the women
are becoming highly important ele-
ment in the situation. The feminine
half of the common people has become
rabid for revolution, and government
officials say this is the gravest devel-
opment thus far"
Somebody asks whether public OFF,
Gals and employees are paid to be civil.
Ii they are then certainly no more
than half of them earn their money. 1t
always pays to be civil, whether we are
paid for it or not.
xH
Miss Martha s. Bensley, graduate
of Vassar and teacher, adopted the
role of nursery governess and went