Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1906-11-07
Modern Woman
Wisdom Leaned In Restaurant
Conversaion-Woman Disciplined
Her Husband With a Booiack.
After That He Behaved :: ::

Eyes," said the big, good natured
looking man, they're doing well now.
and Sans a rich man, though he al
ways was q mean one. I've known his
wife all her life. She told me when
she was girl she was going to marry
Sam. You want to look out l says
to her. That Sam Brannan Is pretty
crooked stick, I'm afraid oh, guess
he's all right she says. And 1t wasn't
long after that till the wedding. Three
months after they were married l met
her one day, and she says to me, Sam
Brannan's the meanest man that ever
lived He did treat her awful bad,
that was fact, till one day he went
a little too far She's an O'Riley-
fightin' blood from way back. 1t was
twenty years ago I'm talkin' of. and In
them days men In the country wore
long boots and had bootjacks lyin' all
around convenient. The day I'm tell
in of Sam slapped her because she
told him she must have some money
to buy clothes for the baby. She was
up, and, as 1t were, without KNOWN
what she did Sans wife grabbed a
bootjack and give him one in the head.
He went over like wooden man, and
she just kept on till she whaled him
up hill and down dale. Sam was SO
surprised like that he couldn't get over
It, He seemed to be afraid of her aft
er that and what she might do. He
behaved fairly decent to her, consider
ing he's Sam Brannan. She's got
three children, fine ones, and her life
is bound up In them. She told me she
never had to lick him but once after
~-Bhe whaied him with the bootjack,
and now she's got him broke In. That
was the only way to manage a mean
man like Sam Brannan."
There Is always promotion for good
taste in Dress" says French girl who,
from dressmaker's assistant, became
stage favorite, largely because she
knew how to dress.
The woman that prldes herself on
being strictly domestic and having no
interests beyond securing the animal
comforts of her children and her hus-
band is a mighty heavy woman to sit
next to at dinner.
Here Is Mrs. Langtry back among us
again, 1.-THE. graceful and fair as n
girl of twenty, absolutely blooming in
her perennial youth, yet the parish reg
church, Isle of Jersey, makes her fifty
two years old What do the conceited
kidlets who make out womaI to be
old at forty say to that?
She was dressed in rusty black from
head to foot. Her chest Topped down;
so did the corners of her mouth; so did
the cheeks that had tobogganed to her
jaw below. Her very garments looked
tumbledown, as though they, too, pro-
claimed they suffered woe past the
power of old black serge and nuns
yelling and dusty sable chiffon to bear.
"Good morning. How do you dor
asked an acquaintance In a cheerful
tone A sigh, like the last gasp Of
dying hurricane, came from the wo-
mans toes upward. Well" walled
she. 'its no use complainingw
SH
Really, 1t does not matter so much
what you set your head to Just 80 you
stick to it and work for it with all your
enthusiasm. You will be sure to gain
1t at last If your aim is in accordance
with the great underlying law of COM
mon sense 1t is lack of enthusiasm
and perseverance that makes most
women fail.
The next biennial meeting of the
General Federation Of Women's Clubs
will be held at Boston in 1908.
The most important recent recruit to
the woman suffrage cause Is handsome
and wealthy Mrs. Potter Palmer, one
of Americas brilliant social leaders.
If rich society women generally took
interest enough in their own sex to
work for its good the complete eman-
cipation of woman would come speedi-
ly.
SS
His distinguished name Is Baron San
tos Won Dobrowski Donnersmarck of
Germany-at least he claimed that was
it-and he married a rich American
girl. In due course, and not very
long course either, he got hold of her
ready money and $4,000 worth of her
jewels In Paris and ran away to Ham
burg. She followed and had him ar
rested for robbery. AT the trial of the
baron the court held that, no matter
though husband took every cent of
his wife's money and turned her out
barefoot, she has no redress, for under
the German law a husband cannot rob
his wife. What's hers is his and what's
his is his own.