Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-03-30
Feminine
Snapshots
Prominent Points In the
Ever Widening Sphere
of Woman


comes from a long course of novel
reading and a lack of useful and steady I
employment q girl married hastily a
man whom she did not know well. Her
family advised against the match, but,
as usual, this rather hurried it on. The /
young woman, after few months of /
matrimony, found that novels are not |
what they seem Her husband was ex-
actly the opposite of the fiction heroes I
she had adored- The husband who I
had seemed hero became to her
brute and monster. He really treated
her very badly, but kept tab" on her
so she could not get away from him.
The law declared she was his property, I
body and bones. AT length, in despera-
family while the husband was absent
from home. Her family made her well I
come. especially two stalwart brothers /
A continent now separated her from /
the ex-hero. but no sooner had he re-
turned to his dismantled home than
he loped off hotfoot after the wife /
who had found his society so unde- /
sirable. He drove in a carriage to the |
door of the lady's brothers home and /
demanded = demanded, mind you -
that his wife should be turned over
to him like piece of luggage. For
answer the big brothers handcuffed the
assumed owner of that woman and
took him to the police station Now,
here is the question: here are two
questions: Has man the right to
break into his wife's presence when
ever and wherever he pleases, whether
she wants him or not? Does a wife, |
simply because she is wife, lose that
sacred right of privacy which belongs
alike to all human beings?
When the race is truly civilized, dis !
ease and decrepitude will be wiped |
out. The glad years will come and
go and leave no trace upon men and
women except that they will become
always wiser. stronger, more loving
One effect of the continually advanc-
ing price of meat, poultry and even of |
eggs since the formation of the hen
trust will be to drive housekeepers
back upon fruit, nuts and vegetables. /
They will learn how many delicious
and nutritious food preparations can
be made without either eggs or meat. I
Take the single article of the banana. I
One can buy in the large cities excel
lent bananas for cent apiece They I
can be sliced with pineapple pulp and |
eaten raw for dessert. and they can be
baked or fried. There is also now
banana -four made, which is useful and
most palatable in various dishes. Amer
leans are a nation of excessive meat |
eaters If the high price of animal
flesh shall turn them from necessity to
less heating diet and one more agree
able to the imagination. then it will be
a blessing not at all disguised.
One Of the most successful railroad |
contractors and constructors in the /
country is Mrs Theodore Beacham, at I
present working on road in Virginia. +
The railway company not long ago sent
Mrs. Beacham check for $4,000 for
services performed to date. Once more,
why not:
Do you know how to sign and indorse I
a check? SO many women don't
An enlarging field for women who
can write dramatically and enter
tainingly is found among the advertis-
ing and trade papers. Mrs. Ada Crisp
of New York is the editor of an inter-
esting and attractive magazine giving
news of the grocery and delicatessen
trade Miss Carmelita Beckwith has
been for some years in sole charge of
the advertising department Of a lead T
ing gas and electric company in New
York. She issues handsome monthly
bulletin for the company. In the same
city Miss Florence Levy successfully
established and conducts periodical
devoted to art matters. Many others
might be named
Inc king OF siam mas SIX grown
daughters, and they dress in hand
some uniform Of white blouse, black
knickerbockers, black stockings and
buckled shoes. They are graceful and
beautifully formed and look very at
tractive. with their dark hair and spar
king eyes. Their mother. the queen,
in the same way as the girls
do. Their attire is the national garb
of the Siamese women.
Miss Tremere. eighteen years old, is
a girl who, with her mother, conducts
a grocery in certain big city. Not
long ago she was robbed of several
hundred dollars in property and mon
ey.. The police were notified. They
were supposed to have put their most
foxy sleuths on the thiefs track.