The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-12
Feminine
Snapshots

Leu Us 11dVS 0uSdAA o' ~
thOny Birthday Dinners
and Celebrations.
Let no woman who loves and believes
In her own sex forget that Susan B.
Anthony Is eighty-six years old this
February. She was born Feb. 10. 1920.
A woman writer called her not long
ago the washington of her SEX" which
Is fitting. only that Washington him
self had not a task so tremendous as
that Of the woman leader-OvercOming
the prejudices Of the whole world,
savage and so called civilized. l know
that the time is coming, perhaps not to-
morrow or even for generations, but
sooner or later, when the name Of Su-
san B. Anthony will be honored and
revered among those Of the worlds
greatest reformers and martyrs. The
same woman that names her the Wash
ington Of her sex truly says: BE
cause she in the courage Of her convic-
tons stood the ignominy and suffered
the scath1ng criticisms Of the world we
business women Of today are able to
earn our living in self respecting pro-
LESSONS and can obtain the education
which enables us to enter our offices
equipped equally with men so far as
colleges can give it to U.S." More than
year ago Miss Anthony wrote to
President Roosevelt, asking him to
as he would treat the negroes; no bet
ter, no worse. If the president ever
answered that letter Of the pioneer
fighter for her sex the answer has not
been made public. In speech not
long ago Susan eloquently advocated
the earning Of money by married wo-
men. "Why should not a woman
work?" she asks. "Why, if she is
earning good salary, should she sur
render it, even when she marries, when
it will help keep a homer" Let us have
even in her lifetime birthday banquets
for Susan B. Anthony. Let there be
music and flowers and brave speeches.
The other day I asked dentist
which endured pain better, men or wo-
men, and he answered Immediately,
"Oh, women, by all means" So there
we have the unprecedented testimony of
one that knows, for the feminine per
son who can bear to have her molars
and incisors ground and pounded at
by dentist without making much fuss
about it Is certainly "superman," as
Bernard Shaw's play has 1t.
Miss Esther A. Rowland of Worces
ter, Mass, was the first person in this
country to manufacture valentines. Be
fore she began, in 1S49, all these mis-.
sives were imported. Miss Rowland
was graduate of Mount Holyoke SEM
mary, and after she left school she took
scissors, paste pot, colored pictures and
paper and began at first to make imi-
tations of the valentines which her
father, a stationer, imported. She sent
some samples of her work to Boston
and New York. They were sold imme
diately, and a large number Of others
was ordered That was the beginning
of her trade, and from that time on till
she died, some months ago, she had all
the orders she could fill. She became
very well to do.
In Rudyard Kiplipg's "Kim' he
makes the aged lama say in answer to
Kim's question whether the old woman
of Kulu would ever learn any sense
''My son, she has millions of lives be-
fore her; she will learn little in each"
We may hope this will also prove true
Of those women who carry about with
them hand bags containing valuable
gems or large sums Of money and Ell
Their forget the satchels and leave them
somewhere or else have some burly
thief wrench them from the frail WON
an wrist and fingers. But women have
been doing this fool thing a long time
now-so long that it seems as If they
would need more incarnations than
even the old woman Of Kulu.
49,
Notice this, from Carroll D. Wright,
and think over it: 1.-The capacity to take
advantage Of an opportunity is the ca
pacity that is needed and not the op-
portunity to live without capacity"
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Luther Burbank, the famous pomol-
ogist, says that the American is to be
the finest human product on this globe.
Well, maybe, but American men will
have to cease saturating themselves
with tobacco poison and drenching
themselves with alcohol poison before
that can be.
Take notice that the recent victory
Of Joseph Chamberlain in getting him
self elected to parliament in the face of
a tide Of opposition against his party is
largely attributed in England to the
work of his brainy and tactful Amer
lean wife. But it's queer, isn't it,
that while a woman has brains enough
to secure the election Of her husband
to high political office she has not sense
enough to vote on her own account?
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