Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1905-03-30
Feminine
Snapshots
Are WOmen's Clubs on
the Down Grade /?


ans club is bursting the swaddling
bands OF infantile uselessness and COM
ing into vigor of life as world factor.
/. have been recently looking over the
doings Of club women in America and
London for the past year, and really ]
never have seems so much hope for true
progress among them as there IL now.
Child labor, city identifying and san
itation, equal suffrage for theirasex and
the preservation Of American forests
and Wild flowers are some OF the causes
fiji which our women's clubs the past
year have been doing admirable work
In Philadelphia women have erected
club home large enough to house five
feminine associations. Among these
one Ii the very practical depository
and exchange for women'g work. An.
other Is kindergarten association that
maintains a training school for Its
teachers; yet another is the Civic club,
which Is really educating itself In mu-
nicipal matters. Now, isn't that precti-
cal usefulnessf
With amazing rapidity women are
learning the grand, rugged lesson of
self dependence
Recently some charitable women In
New York heard Of family that was
In want. They investigated and found
In the 80 called home or the family q
sickly woman who was the mother Of
nine children. The youngest Of these
was girl baby six weeks old. During
the six weeks Of her life that baby had
lived In soap box filed with straw,
only piece Of muslin keeping her ten
der skin from its sharp blades. How Is
that for nineteen centuries Of civiliza-
ton?
Let us love all mankind and keep our
advice to ourselves till It is asked for.
Eleanor Kirk remarks In her Idea, IF
you want to do good, love every living
creature, walk straight to the kingdom
Of heaven and mind your own bust
ness" But some women are so engag-
ed In looking after other peoples bust
ness that they never have time to at
tend to their own business
a. woman makes very poor ix0ita-
ton man, especially when girl college
students 20 In for hazing their sister
students.
It really Is beginning to dawn on q
benighted world at last that the pOpu-
lation of country may be increased
quite as well by diminished death
rate as by an increased birth rate.
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The old maid and mother-in-law
jokes have been worked overtime now
many years. They have become at
length SO feeble that 1t Ii time to give
them good long rest
women can't cook, " cries DIR. Robert
ELLIS Thompson Good! Women are
quite ready To quit cooking and lee the
men have Il try ait II any day. Dr.
Robert Ellis Thompson himself might,
for instance, for the sake OF setting
good example to sis sex, enter the
kitchen and begin frying, broiling.
stewing and baking.
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Did you ever observe a young WON
an In street ear chewing gum? Isn't
she sight?
Hon. Frank w. Higgins, the new gov
ernor OF New York, is In favor OF wom-
an suffrage as an act Of justice to the
feminine sex.
II Just makes me tired, that affecta-
ton OF domesticity many so called pro
fessi0nal women put on. III they love
cooking ana housekeeping 40 much bet
ten than money getting life outside
the home. why don't they DO cooking
and housekeepingf The field DC house
hold labor IL very wide one, the work
we'll paid. Lately one OF these women
afflicted with the affectatlon Of domes-
ticity boasted to another lady thus: II
am the best cook In Penvilles There
Upon the woman addressed looked the
speaker over from head to foot and
said to herself, 'sAnd I'd hate to eat
your cooking OF course every true
woman performs perfectly such do
nestle duties as come her way, but
to boast OF II III like boasttng az keep
Ing ones skin clean.
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The correct name for the trailing
street skirt NJ tanglefoot
The saddest part or being III Inmate
or snltan's hnrem must ID that not
bne among the whole assortment of
wives can 90 To Paris and choose her
own gowns. Lately the finance mIn-
lister Ok the sultan Of Morocco journey
Ell to Paris to execute khe important
state commission Of buying clothes Tor
his masters wives In ! great Paris
shop the Moroccan finance minister rat
hour SITTER hour. and the handsome.
young saleswomen paraded befors him.
showing OF robes and other garments
Az length the minister bought seventy
bath robes and nifty six dressing gowns
Think az not being able 30 buy sven
ones own kimpu0S!