The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-04-02
Feminine
Snapshots
Thoughts and Happenings
OF Interest to
Women

There We're al kinds of a doleful
time in New York during the 81" and
subway strike, yet there We're humor
Gus features too. While it was at its
deepest and darkest one green motor
man let a subway train land at sta
ton with an awful ker-bump. 1t broke
windows, knocked passengers over and
caused a mild panic. Men seemed
! greatly concerned lest women should
| faint or go into Mysteries. But while
men were struggling in a mass of
! bodies so thick nobody knew whose
legs and arms We're whose one large
masculine person, terrified out OF his
seven senses, squeezed himself in be-
side seat and Immediately "fOpped'
upon his knees and began to pray des-
pcrately in al exaggerated British
cockney accent. Not a woman had
tainted, not a woman was overcome
with Mysteries, but when this large
man began his performance some wOm-
en- and mel as we'll who had been en-
tirely cool and calm before began to
be excited. What if death were i'm
pending: In the nick of time two or
three ablebodied men grabbed the pray
ing one by the collar and yanked him
upon his feet. Whether the individuals
who thus rudely cut short the scene
considered the occasion was not des-
perate enough for such resort. or
whether they concluded a hysterical
accent would scare away more than it
would attract the invisible helpers
Of the theosophists is not clear, but, at
any rate, the vigorous action relieved
the situation, and men and women
alike laughed
Those women who wear mourning
perpetually for lost friends and live
only in their remembrance are among
the dead and not at all among the liv-
ing. Such actually dwell in cemeteries.
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| Miss Sarah Jackson of Dearborn
county, Ind, appears to have preju-
dices against the masculine sex. She
has lately made her will and left direc-
| tons for her funeral when that event
shall be due. She orders that her
grave shall be dug by women, that her
pallbearers and the driver of the hearse
shall be women and that even the
hands which lower her coffin into the
grave and fill in the earth above it shah
| he feminine ones.
A New York police magistrate has
severely rebuked policeman who ar
rested some boys for lounging upon
street corners. 'Lounging on corners
by boys is no crime" said Magistrate
| Durack Yes, but what comment OH
our so called civilization it is when
| boys who are to be voters and workers
of this country have nothing better to
do than to hang in idleness around
street corners.
| Nine Pernet McCarty of St. Louis
| has evolved q new and natural method
of producing a sweet and sustained
singing voice. Now, if somebody would
only evolve method natural or I'M
natural, for producing a sweet and sus-
| tanned American speaking voice! The
American singing voice is immensely
superior to our eXecrable speaking
voice.
| 1t certainly shows lamentable lack Of
breeding to gossip over the private af-
| fairs of mutual acquaintance in pres
ence of strangers, especially where
scandals, family quarrels or divorces
are involved. Who knows whether
among the listening strangers may not
be cousin, aunt or dear friend Of the
gossiped over absent ones?
A man recently complained in court
that his wife had taken up with GER
tain reform movement and that when
he had forbidden her to attend the
meetings of her cult she had refused to
obey him, and, Your honor, l am no
longer able to control her" Dear, dear.
how sad!
The Soured, diSappOlnteu olu mald
has gone out of fashion. The old maid
Of these days is jolly and comfortable.
The soured, disappointed looking wom-
an nowadays is she who has been
welded and has proved marriage
failure.
When a girl wants very much to en-
ter on any worthy career. no matter
what, don't hinder her or discourage
her, but help her all you can.
The grea ter the victory the greater
must be the struggle to gain it.
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Hundreds of young women are tax
ing up claims in the government lands
and preparing to farm these them
selves. It is limited that the fine girls
have in their minds the sly expectation
Of getting husbands as we'll as farms
! in their migration to the womanless
| lands of the west. Well, why not?
Kansas is a noble state because of