Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1906-09-05
Modern Woman
Women Who Helped Vindicate
Dreyfus-La Fronde. the Wom-
ans Daily Newspaper o. P, is.
Championed His Cause :: ::

nobly to prove the innocence of Cap
tain Dreyfus of the French army.
Great glory they get. and justly. So
does the press likewise glorify Matthew
Dreyfus. brother of the foully wronged
man, for his devotion TO the captain,
but scarcely a word. mind you. hardly
grudging mention, of the women,
without whom the vindication would
never have been made. The chief of
these was Nine. Dreyfus herself, who
never ceased for one day her splendid
effort to restore her husband to his
rank In the army. Not for Il moment
did she doubt bis innocence. Her
faith and the knowledge she was work
ing to clear him kept Dreyfus alive
four years ON Devils island through
torture that would have killed a saw
age Indian In a quarter of the time. 1t
was Nine. Dreyfus who interested
Zola, also a Jew, In her husbands case
and instigated him to write the fiery
document 'J'Accuse," which reopened
the case. Zola was dismissed from the
Legion of Honor. only escaped impris-
onment for alleged libel by flight to
England and finally died, probably a
suicide, but not one hour did Nine.
Dreyfus cease her work She got the
generous aid of Nine. Zola after the
death of the novelist. Nine. zola was
one of those present at the ceremonial
and impressive reading of the docu-
ment which ut last freed Dreyfus from
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the worst wronged man of his genera
ton. Nor was that ALL La Fronde,
the womans daily newspaper of Paris,
edited by the beautiful Nine. Four
nier. contained from first to last elo-
quent articles in his behalf. but all
that is not worth mentioning in this
age of mans glorification of maseu-
Unity.
Alas for the woman without idealsl
Don't entertain the family at break
fast with the recital of your various
ailments If you never slept wink
all night" don't let anybody know it.
When particularly unpleasant
scandal law case Is on you will gen.
orally observe that the principal wit
nesses are "the neighbors." Oh, yes!
The neighbors know all about 1t, of
course!
Begging Historically for something
is not praying for it. Calmly willing
and trusting Is far better.
Many women do not even think they
think. They simply believe what they
are told to.
Wasn't that a brilliant Chicago wo-
man who burned up $4,000 In money
and securities which she owned in her
own name in order to compel her hus-
band by law to support her? The fool
killer appears to have been skipping
Chicago lately.
America Is probably the only country
in the world where there are men who
wear diamond rings and pick their
teeth with Il fork
Here Is a saying somebody sends me
without name or date attached: "a
clever old maid once said 1t was far
better to be laughed at because you
were not married than not to be able
to laugh because you were" What do
you think?
Don't marry an old man" is the pa
thetic advice to her sex of an unfortu-
nate girl who permitted herself to be
tied up to an old mummy in whom all
sentiment and romance and all the
springs of real life had dried up, leav-
ing only desire for the mere physical
comforts of the animal. She contin-
ues, "All he cared to do of evenings
was just to sit in an armchair and
smoke" Wasn't that a layout for do
nestle happiness?
There is no end of business opportu-
nifty for the bright stenographer who
knows how to spell and punctuate and
how to make herself useful to her
employer. One young woman who
started as a stenographer for busi-
ness firm now is travelling saleswoman
for them, with pay of $50 week. An
other girl stenographer who kept her
eyes open, saw the need of luncheon
club for girls in a downtown district
of New York. She established such a
club and gets ten times the money she
received as stenographer. Kate E.
Griswold, editor and publisher of the
most successful advertising magazine
in America, began life as stenogra-
pher.
A remarkable sentiment In favor of
the ballot for women has for the first
time in the history of France developed
among feminine circles there. Nine.
Isabel Bogelot, sweet faced, refined