The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-01-08
Feminine
Snapshots
A Worthy Memorial to
Jennie June

1t is a tickle and forgetful world.
Humanity has SO many troubles of its
own that it cannot long hold in mind
even individuals who have helped it..
That the remembrance of Jennie June"
Croly may not pass so speedily from
the thought of the living the Women's
Press club of New York city has pre-
pared beautiful and fitting memorial
to her. 1t is a handsome and artistic
book dedicated to the General Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs Of America.
Mrs. Croly was the originator of the
federated woman's club idea. She was,
indeed. practically the originator Of the
woman's club ITSELF Sorosis. Of which
she was the chief founder, having been
the first incorporated woman's club.
Mrs. Croly was also the founder and
until her death the only president of
the New York Women's Press club.
After her death a committee Of that
club, headed by Mrs. Caroline NJ.
Morse. made collection of sketches Of
their lost leader prepares! by various
writer's. also of many of her own pa
pers and letters to friends These con-
stitute the contents of the beautiful
book recently published. which is call
ed Jane Cunningham Croly, Jennie
June" Mrs. Morse. Jennie Junes in
innate friend of years, has edited the
book with sympathetic discrimination
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Miss Gabrielle Clark of Salem. Ore,
is a successful and very capable young
lawyer.
Smile! Oh, yes. smile at everybody
and everything, and if you can't smile,
grin.
Already no doubt the majority of
wolnankind are preparing to break
their New Years resolutions gracefully.
But the following let us hold fast to
for tie whole year through thick and
thin: Il will put forth good will and
helpfulness to everybody, and l will
mind my own business strictly"
Wherever woman is really popular
you will note that she has hearty, af-
fectionate. natural manner which puts
to fight and to shame all the kangaroo
hand shakings, the artificial society
smiles and all the conventional small
talk in the universe. The woman whose
life is spent in an effort to do the con-
ventionally proper thing shrinks into
pitiful smallness beside the woman
who is sincere and naturally warm
hearted and sympathetic. This makes
q woman magnetic-to be sincere, warm
hearted and sympathetic g.
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Blessed be the woman who does not
know what everybody else ought to do.
American girls going to France to
study ought to get passports before
leaving their native land or they may
be mistaken for spies, as Miss Eugene
Ulrich Of New York was. Miss Ulrich
was an American teacher and lecturer
who spent some time in Limoges.
France. Soon after going into the
town she was summoned to appear be-
fore the authorities and present her
credentials. She had none, not think.
ing them necessary. But the French
authorities held her under surveillance
as Russian spy. and she was MOI al
lowed to go free till the state tiepart-
ment at Washington iuterferea ia he,
behalf.
Mrs. John d. Sherman has been il
vited to become instructor in par,ia~
nentary law ut Il Chicago law st.lsooi.
Mrs. Sherman was o...iei;;I pa....alr.er-
tartan at the last lsseetia:, CT tie f.a..
eral Federation OF Wo:.psi's Club, n II
Louis. Many of the most accomplish. ed
parliamentarians of the fine are wa,
men. They are verse;, in ali that Per,
tafns to the holding Of any meeting
from political convention to the OK
ecutive committee meeting of !, wo-
mans club. Yet even 80 late MS 1852
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton could |
ind no woman who she thought knew |
enough to preside at the first wonlaa's |
rights convention. Once more .'tile sun /
DO move" I
y -
In a recent English magazine wife |
writes to the editor asking him what I
the can do with husband who drinks
up all Of Ter earnings, leaving her I
1othing with which to support her
children. The editor can only tell her
hat nothing at all can be done. The
aw gives the husband there the right
o his Wife's earnings, to do with them
,xactlysa s he pleases. How would you
ike to live under such laws as those?
American women do not half appre-
late their own country.
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No matter who or what you are,
earn to do something useful whereby
'ou can earn a living. Every year
more and more women brought up in