The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-30
Feminine
Snapshots
A Steno9rapher Who Pre-
ferred Increased Pay
to MatriInOny.

The other day In restaurant several
pretty typewriters were chattering att
sr the manner Of their kind. One with
xnappy eyes was engaged in the amia-
Ibae task of telling the others the mean
lthings she had heard said about them,
BEGINNING each revelation with, "And
lshis L. what she says about you" One
wonders how women can do such
things as that One Of the young la
dies had resigned her place because she
had received an offer Of better pay else
where. The snappy eyed one told her
lhow mean somebody said she was to
| leave a place where she had been treat
ed so well. Then the girl who was go
ing to get higher wages explained. she
said: Last spring l foolishly told Mr..
Blank l hoped to be married IN jan
luary. Then he went on and made all
| his arrangements to give me up the
last Of December. He engaged some
body else In my place. But now I've
changed my mind, and I'm not going
Ito be married. I've got the offer OF
this new place, with raise Of S.
week, and wouldn't be fool to give
iaIl that money up and be married? l
won't do it-not much" Then all the
}other girls, even the snappy eyed one,
nodded their heads approvingly and
said, you're right"
| In the Manhattan borough Of Greater
New York there have been in the past
three months 10000 cases Of men who
have deserted their wives and families.
/ Whisky Is said in the court statistics
to be the main cause, but whatever the
cause it is plainly time all women
learned to be financially self depend
emit
All shams whatsoever are to be
stunned, even pillow shams.
In Wilmington, Del, any woman
owning property may now vote for
school officers. Women taxpayers
there have generally availed them
selves Of the right
An appointment so important it
proves that Intellectually woman be-
gins to be taken seriously has been
made In the London public schools.
Miss Philippa Garrett Fawcett, daugh-
ter of Mrs. Henry Fawcett, the sociol-
ogist, has been made principal assist
ant to the education department. Miss
Fawcett gets $1,000 year to begin,
the salary increasing In time to $780,
In mathematics at Cambridge univer-
slty In 1890 Miss Fawcett passed the
highest examination Of all the students,
her average being considerably above
that Of the best man student.
A lecture by Miss Martha Craig, the
Labrador explorer, takes the novel and
cheerful ground that death Is a mis-
take" Miss Craig insists that all dis
ease Is wrong and unnatural; that man
should get such control Of his body as
to keep 1t in perfect health, just dis
missing 1t of his own accord when he
Is ready to quit Miss Craig cites the
New Testament to show that thus the
Christ departed, and she thinks that in
the future evolution Of the race all
mankind may be able to follow this ex-
ample. At any rate, the idea is very
pleasant one, Of itself calculated to
lengthen life and encourage one to
throttle bodily ills.
Much has been said and written
about children disappointing their par
ents. But how about the parents who
disappoint their children?
The Russian peasant and working
women Of the district Of Yalta. in the
Cr1mea, have held a meeting to de-
mand the equal share Of woman In
representative government If 1t should
Be given to the empire They formed
m association, and one speaker used
the following remarkable words: 'Our
organization must comprise all Rus
sian women. good and bad. for man is
responsible for the conditions we are
living under. We are all suffering
from the overbearing attitude, the i'll
VIII of man Hence all must stand to-
esther to throw of the yoke Of man or
10 lead his influence into the proper
channels"
80
The true gauge Of q wumau's intel
3ectual Development Is her lack Of pet
" curiosity concerning other peoples
personal affairs. The woman with any
mentality has 50 much Of the fine,
large interests Of human life to busy
herself with that when she Is told that
Mary Ann Smith dyes her hair she