The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-06-11
Feminine
Snapshots
How Shall the Unfortunate
Feminine Sex Please
Everybody?

marry and finds she must ufterWard
ried woman. get back home and stay
there. You've no right to take the
bread out Of the mouths Of SINCE Wonl-
Ell. Starve if you will and let your
children Starve but don't come in COM
petition with the single woman, once
more lllunders the old fogy. For TWEEN
ty years the New York board OF eiu-
cation has been thrashng over the
aged straw of the question whether
married women may be "permltted
to teach in the public schools, and
when the knell of the twentieth cen
fury strikes it will probably be at
it still IL 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 Cha-i-
ties organization i'll New York. There
were 1865 children in the families thus
abandoned by their alleged breAdWln-
ners. Tie cause of the macs deSer-
ton of the helpless ones for whose eX-
istence on this plane lie is responsible
is in the majority of the cases so far
as they can be hunted down, intemper-
ance on his part, frequently combined
with laZiness. One deserter claimed
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 shooting woman into matrl-
mony Then after she is in and finds
herself tied to 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 IL
esta blished industries are already large
ly filled by men who are not going to
give their places UP, and, indeed, there
is no reason why they should. But let
the woman who is strong. determined
and shrewd-the more gentle and Won
anly she is the better, alSo-thlnk things
over carefully, decide what she can do.
then begin it on her own account and
c+;.E +o IL IN SrccaSc cOmoS nOtah lp
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 Louisville girl who knew how to
write. She wc.t bravely to the great
starting first as a newspaper cOntliDu-
to-. She won speedily fouthold that
would have satisfied many, but not
Matte Sheridan. Ate several years
she fol.u 'c- /: periodical of her own.
which il!~; mace her independent So
cially and financially.
When YOU hear woman say she has
al tllt gus HlC " ttlit' y oo IIdS AoAi
cluGe she has for sure al the rights
she is capable OF exercising.
wonder why it IS that benevolent
working people Go not start mi-s.ol
among the benigEtcti rich to teach them
how to do something useful
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What would the newspapers Of New
York do without these two headlines:
Women In Panic In Trolley Crash, >
Women In Panic In Ferry Crash?''
Most people would be very much
surprised to learn what theii greatest
faults are in the estimation Of their ac-
quaintances, and they would indig-
nantly deny that they possessed such
faults
a curious thought has come into my
mind. Lately l saw picture of Hi
ram Cronk, the old soldier of 1912, who
died little while ago at the age of
105. Grouped around him were also
half tone pictures of his children, aged
eighty and thereabout. The portrait
Of the venerable Hiram himself looked
not day older than that of his eighty
year-old son. Now, if an individual
105 years old looks no older than
eighty, why should the person of eighty
look any older than fifty-fye? See
Why should not the scale slide back
ward in the same proportion?
The greater the victory the greater
must be the struggle to gain it.
A bachelor man, explaining why so
many of his sex do not marry, says:
1--WE all go on the theory that no man.
however good, is good enough for a
woman. That is why we don't get mar
ried. Are bachelors happy? Well, they
think they are And are bachelor
girls happy? Well, they, too, think
they are.
A bill was introduced in the last
New Jersey legisla ture to stop hanging
women for murder in that state This
is plain justice. If capital punishment
is ever juStifable it should never be in