The Lake County times., 1906-10-11
Modern Woman
Two Women Whose Heads Can
not Be Turned by Money-Mrs.
KiIhen VIII Keep on Scrubbing
Floors as Before

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/ Recently have read OF two women
/ whose heads are level Both have
] fallen heir to considerable fortunes:
| both take the matter as calmly and
philosophically as If they picked up
/ thousand dollar bills in the street every
/ day. One Of these philosophers IS Mrs.
/ Mary Smith Killien, a bright faced
! IriShwoman who scrubs the floors Of a
4 great Office building in New York Mrs
/ Killien is a widow with two daughters.
whom she has brought up by the labor
Of her hands. Her pay is only Il few
dollars Il week, but when she got the
news that a brother had died and left
4 her $4,000 and that the money was
waiting for her she said: Sure. this is
4 very unexpected. I'm not needin the
money particularly, but it will come in
handy for me daughters. They will get
an eddycation for themselves. but their
mother will stay here an scrub an
earn an honest livin' II 1 wint home ]
suppose I'd hang out the winder all
day an get as stout as an elephant
Why should l quit work because I've
few dollars? Would ye expect me to
lay down like an ould woman? Indade
I'm continted to work as long as God
Almighty gives me strength
The other woman whose head IS
packed so full Of good strong common
sense that she cannot be dazed by good
fortune lives In Washington. She is
Mrs Edith Sage Emerson, niece of
Russell Sage. She is not going to con-
test her uncle's Will but will accept
thankfully the $4,000 Uncle Russ
widow has given to each of his nieces
and nephews. She appears to be the
one Sage heir who remembers the fact
that she never earned a dollar of the
Sage fortune and there is no reason,
therefore. in equity, why she should
get any of it. When she gets the $50
600 she will so to Europe and study
art. which she has longed to do for
years.
Only weakminded women and old
men in their dotage live in the past
Don't do it. Look forward and al
ways look for something brighter and
better than the past has brought, do
Ing your best to deserve it,
gs.
Do you know what Herbert Spencer
said? in the history Of humanity the
saddest part concerns itself with the
treatment Of woman. Cannibalism the
torturing Of prisoners. the sacrificing
of victims to ghosts and gods-these
| h0 hy7+ oGfn hut ,n
ment Of woman has been universal and
constant. The amount of suffering she
has borne is beyond the imagination."-
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Here is the story Of q hysterical man
and one of those air obstructing. dust
catching lambrequins: Edward Harri-
gan got up in the morning and lighted
a gas stove to get breakfast on The
flame blazed up and set fire to the
mantel lambrequin Edward screamed
for help His wife fainted"-at least
the newspaper young man said she did.
Neither of the nervous pair had sense
enough to grab that fool drapery and
choke the fire out, which could have
been done in half a minute by any
body with q head on. Instead an alarm
was turned in, and the fire department
came, wagon hook and ladder and en-
gine. A dozen gallant fremen rushed
in and put the lambrequin out The
extent of the damage was the loss Of
the lambrequin.
Thirteen men were out in a launch
in the Housatonic river The launch
struck log and sank The men were
thrown into the water. Two women
who knew how to run a launch put
out in their own boat and rescued all
OF the thirteen men.
l have heard a choice bit of slang
which is new to me. A salesgirl in 8
dry goods store was imparting to a
companion one of the thrilling conf
dences which young saleswomen gen
orally exchange when a customer in a
hurry is waiting for them The girl
who heard the tale raised her hands
looked upward and exclaimed. Well
now, wouldn't that put your eye out?"
Out of thirty stories IN a recent
months issue Of leading magazines
seventeen were by women writers