Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-30
If there be any whose power is in
beauty, in purity, n goodness, it is u
Ward Beecher

If there be any whose power is in
beauty, in purity, n goodness, it is a
woman.-Henry Ward Beecher.
In an article headed rs this the club
wonlan's IDEAL" a Cedar Rapids paper
calls the Les Moines Mail and
Times description of the recent club
women's biennial, sentimentality, turn
ed upside down. The former finds
fault with the Mail and Times pro-
sale standards, ANA says there is dam
ger of women becoming too practical
when they begin 20 deity short skirts,
low heels and bodies thicn in the mid
die, adding SarcaStically that the next
step is short hair
1t would seem that the worthy pres
ident at the biennial has more claim
to being a wonderful woman" than
the fact that at eight sessions she APP
peared in only three different gowns.
All will agree that it was a sensiby
dressed biennial, but it was a we'll
dressed gathering. and probably not
woman there. but was fully alive to
the becomfngness or some article of
dress which she Wore. And so should
they be in a certain way. One part of
woman's mission, and most delightful
one. is to brighten the worlds gloom
by her beauty and goodness. That she
is also devoting herself to intellectual
pursuits need not rob her of this charm.
Timothy Titcomb. in his Lessons in
Life" says rightly: If God made
woman beautiful, lie made her so to lte
looked at, to give pleasure to the eyes
that rest upon her-and she has no
business to dress herself as If she
We're a hitching post. or to transform
that which should give delight to those
among whom she moves, into ludic-
rous caricature of a woman's FORM"
A man--no. less a parsonage than
Howard Burrell, of the Washington
Press-declares women can and do |
keep a secret. To be sure, he was |
talking about the p. E. o. sfsterhood, |
but we know that others can also. We |
fear for namber of the men however,
at least some residents of Washing
ton that the p. E. O. women have
ample ground for accusing them of
losing one of their supposed superior
qualities. Every one of the women, we
ire told by Burrell himself, kept the
secret but the men certainly showed
l great deal of curiosity as to the
meaning of the orders initials. We
hought only women were curious.
A Sioux Falls, S. D., couple freed
rom their matrimonial bonds by the
courts decree, is the ending of a ro-
nance (?) started thru the newspa-
,f n r,,if "a |
allied to fill the bill and after several
weeks of family jars, and needless no.
oriety, a divorce was sought and
,ranted. The foundations of that
ZONE were easily shaken because false
Y constructed. 1t is pity to put the
,rand of a commercial transaction up
u the holiness of love and a true
lome Those who speculate thus reck-
essly must expect to meet a specula-
or's reverses.
~One would almost think the revolu-
ionary days of France had come
gain to appear this time in Ameri-
"a, when we read of women and child
en- taking an active part in the street
lots in Chicago. While the ferocious
mes come from among the more ig-
GRANT classes, 1T is true, to all who ,
AXE pride in tile fair flower of Amer !
AN womanhood, that feature of the ,
reat strike should be one to be most :
realty deplored. ,
Professor Albert Schinz, Of Bryn
lawr College, in recent paper on
An Opening For Girl College Gradu- i
ties Who Need None" struck new {
ote on popular subject, and Incl ]
in his conclusions. might be
aiken to argue for the truth Of John
on's statement that Mature has given
,omen so much power that the law
as very wisely given them little" :
Schinz contends that the :
lore rights women have obtained in :
ne past sixty years. the smaller has !
rown their influence in the world. +
he question thus arises, Els woman's i
growing less?" No, no, no, q
e seem to hear in answer. And we =
elieve that it is not. Just as one ex- 4
mple out of many, multitude of re- 9
,rms of various kinds have had for q
and the controlling inf1u- a
ace in their PRONUNCIATION, worthy h
omen. More rights unwisely exer- 8
sed will lessen influence, but the les n
IN that women are trying to learn G
to use these rights and whatever r
hers may come into their Inherit u
ace, rightly and judiciously, for the n
est good of all concerned. OPPOSE
on is great indeed is growing in some
rections, but much of the lesson has
zen mastered and the near future %
III COO i+c rarfaot a corntiOn
Disposing of an entire millinery t
ock in one day seems incredible.
1T such is said to have been done 4
Z the beautiful young Countess
abbricotti, who is conducting the
ost chic bonnet shop in London.
,untess Fabbricotti is said to trade
rder her own name and many of the -
st known women in society, fnclud- :
g prominently Princess hatfield,
Y they will stand by their friend in !.
r unusual enterprise. Rumor has it =
at Queen Alexandra may be induced |
extend her patronage to the new es-
blishment. If a countess can APP :
ar before her aristocratic friends as :
shop keeper and carry the day vic :
riously, surely one in the lesser ranks ]:
ed not be subjected to Sights be-
use of a courageous effort to help
rself when fortune fails. t.
Al Nebraska woman, DR.. Freeda M. b
lnkton, of Omaha, in criticising the
eories of Roosevelt and Cleveland, II
not tho much talked of race sl1i- n