Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-06
FROM A WOMAN'S POINT OF VIEW

Enthusiasm we'll directed, is one OF
| the best of lfe's gifts. | know d young
woman who loves to do everything
she undertakes, and the amount OF
things she accomplishes is really sur
prising. Whether cooking or sewing,
making millinery experiments. study
ing music or whatever else, she puts
her whole energy so entirely into her
| work that it becomes a real pleasure
and her enthusiasm inspires her
| friends with lively desire to do like
wise Never let single day go by
| without something definite DONE" is
a motto which If followed will give i'm
mense satisfaction.
| Miss Rose Shields, of Appleton. Wis,
a prominent society girl and known
| turnout that state as an elocutionist,
recently gave an exhibition of unus-
ual bravery, and incidentally won a
$500 bet from Kansas doctor. The
latter rashly dared her to walk TWEEN
ty- five miles across the Usage reserva-
ton from Bartelsville to Almeda.
alone. Miss Shields, who has been an
ardent exponent of women's athletics,
eager to test her endurance. and scorn-
ing fear, to say nothing of the spirit
aroused by the dare" accomplished
the feat in safety. Such courage, put
forth in UNFOLDING some good cause
for the welfare of humanity, would
mean easier victory for it's opponents.
Experience proves that often the
best way to persuade woman to do
a thing is to tell her that she cannot or
shall not. Ten chances to one, her
spirit of daring or quickness of wit
will win the day for her.
Women cannot be charged with in
difference to athletics, especially at the
height of the base ball season. Neither
are they free from the infection of the
betting fever, and one girl at least will
forfeit her enjoyment of single bliss
as the result of wager, prompted, APP
parently. by her loyalty to her home
team, with undoubtedly liking for
the lucky man, rs most important
additional incentive. Thus Joseph
S. Williams, popular young man of
Okolona, Miss, won his bride, Miss
Beatrice Jamison, of Houston, a near
by town, in an unusual way. The
stakes in the wager were the girls
promise of her hand, if the Okolona
base ball team defeated her home
town team. And the team on which
she staked her future failed her, or
proved blessing which?
Women as railway station agents
ec,,;,
special article published in the Obi
cago Sunday Tribune tells us that the
destinies of five depots in Indiana on
the Lake Erie & Western road are
presided over by as many young wom-
en-. Further than this. they perform
not only practically all of the work
that is demanded of an agent of the
other sex, but set a splendid example
to the latter in keeping the stations
clean, tasty. and attractive. Neither
does the nature of their work cause
them to lose the sense of the eternal
feminine, for it is authoritatively stat
ed that each one takes time to primp
and keep up her neat appearance,
while her surroundings are also made
to harmonic. Wonder If the success
that has attended their efforts will
cause another wave of fear that women
will crowd them too closely in the
business world, to sweep over the ranks
of the other sex. But what a pleasing
contrast there is between the usually
dreary waiting room, that in the small
err towns is often almost filthy, and a
pleasant, home-like atmosphere pro-
vided for the comfort of an apprecia-
tive travelling public.
easily answered if we simply stop and
look at the loads of pretty dress ma
terials and fancies with which the
stores are filled. Each succeeding
season bringsl with it such unlivaled
lavishness of new ideas for women's
clothing that it becomes a sorely per-
picking problem to know what ito
choose.
Shrunk muslin, which greatly re-
sembles linen and is vastly more sat
isfactory, according to the statement
of those who have worn it, is daily
growing more popular for shirt waist
suits.
Sailor suits, so much in vogue for
children's and young girls dresses. are
proving equally popular among the
grown ups this season, the majority of
them being trimmed with the stars and
anchor of contrasting color. Nothing
locker cooler or daintier on a hot sum-
mer day, than pretty, white suit,
worn with canvas shoes to match and
one of those charmingly simple white
linen or embroidery shirtwaist hats.
The reviewers and forecasters of the