The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-12
Modern Woman
Items From Newspapers That
Tend to Refute the Musty Old
Tradition That Woman Is Weak,
Cowardly. Helpless and Hystencal

girl run directly Ill front or q trolley
car. The child tripped and fell and the
car was upon her. Miss Mayberrv
sprang forward and snatched her IN
just as the fender hit her head. Two
or three days afterward Miss Mayberrv
was riding horseback when a runawav
horse attached to carriage with wo-
man in it came tearing by Everybody
cleared the track but Miss Edna Ethel
who rode alongside the horse, caught
the loose reins and stopped the run
away instantly. Again, few DAYS
after that, she was riding horseback
when mad dog, barking and snappinp
at every living thing, confronted her,
AS before, everybody cleared the track
but Miss Mayberry. She just drew the
revolver she carries when riding alone
and shot the animal dead. A boy en-
tering barn in Colorado was attacked
by huge wildcat. His sister, Mrs. NJ.
]. Warden, who understands gun play.
with q revolver fired two bullets into
the cat, which was laid out dead. Mrs.
Warden undoubtedly saved her broth
er's life. George Fitch, Missouri
farmer, was attacked by furious bull.
The animal had him down and was
gOring him to death when Mrs. Fitch.
sixty years old, snatched up an ak, ran
to the scene and so pounded and ham
mered the bull about the head that he
was glad to retire. Then Mrs. Fitch
dragged her badly wounded husband
into a corncrib and barred the door.
Another-The pole Of a Brooklyn troll
ley car got caught in something over
head and the roof of the car was just
ripped up the back. Electric sparks and
flames burst forth in all directions.
Men passengers tumbled over one an
other to get out The sole woman in
the car just sat still till the current was
shut off.
mo man in this country can talk
about women without making himself
ridiculous" said recently Professor
Emil Reich, who is so fond of shoot
Ing off the opinions he keeps on tap
on all subjects. He said it in England,
but the observation included America
as we'll, since DR.. Reich had just left
our shores. 1t showed the wOrdy pro-
fessor has glimpsed, even though per-
haps family, the truth that English
and American women will net bear in
dOnkey-like silence the slurs men OF
foreign bringing up and foreign
thought habit fling at them.
Ge
1t is beyond dispute that the Liberal
party at present in control of the Brit
ish governmental policy won its vic
tory at the polls largely through the
electiOneering of women, laborers
wives as we'll as some of the richest
and highest titled danes of the realm.
Women who are now StOrming parlla-
ment and the cabinet to secure suffrage
for their sex are naturally asking
whether the Liberal leaders will calm
ly ignore this fact and coolly turn
women down.
Speaking of placing the heads o.
American women upon new postage
stamps, why not bestow this honor on
Dolly Madison?
A woman's club in an Illinois town
has been earning 500 a month selling
cheap. hygienic and palatable lunches
to school children. Is not that better
than standing up with white kid gloves
on and reading long. dull papers 1ui
of shallow platitudes filched out OF ell
cyclOpedias?
Do not forget that women had Nv
small share in getting the pure Ioo'
bill passed by congress.
The state dental board Of New Jei'
sew not long ago examined forty app'r
cants for license to practice dentisuy ),
The applicants had to show their ski
by bringing in patients and extrae'ins
aching teeth in the presence oi ~
board and curious spectators. Inv
toothache sufferers were charity pa
tients, and number Of them were wv
men. Take note: The women MAUI
far less fuss and bowling than the men
when their teeth were extracted. VI
course!
A distinguished jurist" is quoted DE-
saving that a woman cannot be a Id"
yer because she cannot sift out anu
stick to the facts in a case. lie NUS
have been misquoted. He must nav
meant to say it was because she GU
not distort facts in case anu hiaA'
black seem white.
A notable tendency among "o-n
to learn to shoot and become sooe
markswomen is apparent both in hns
land and America. Charlton, suOui
of London, has rifle club compos..
wholly of women. They meet 1of re
ular practice and have a target rus
of 200 yards. White women IN Na s-r
South Africa, have found 1t necess"
to become good shots on account
danger from the Zulus. They. too nar W.,
rife climbs and maintain daily ofiD