Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-10-18
Modern W oman
Is Il MOI Time For New Deal
In the Management Of Economic
Afansa Mems Fortunes and
Womens Wages

John ID Rockefeller is credited with
complaining that he is not nearly so
rich as he IS accused of being, having
snly paltry $500, 100000 or So Lately
railroad northumberland also COM
planned that his annual income was
greatly overrated in the popular belief.
He has really small income, after all,
only $150,000 a year, he says. At this
moment there is on my desk an alb
stract of the report Of average wages
paid to schoolmistresses in Maine. 1t
happens to be Maine in this case. but
the story will fit almost any other state
in the Union. In Maine the woman
teacher, on whom depend largely the
morality and intelligence of the voters
of the state, receives $500 a week for
her labors. She has spent years Of
time and hundreds of dollars fitting
herself for her profession. The Maine
factory girl gets an average of $3.50 a
week. even though she may not know
how to read and write Her work,
however, lasts all the year, while that
of the woman teacher stops during two
or three months, so that the factory
girl, miserable as her pay is, is really
better off than the teacher Now, do
you fatter yourself you are civilized,
you women who say our sex does not
need the right of suffrage? II state
legislators and congressman were hon
est and could not be bribed the amass-
ing of billion dollar fortunes In this
country would be impossible. 1t is
only by the bribing of lawmakers that
these ubiquitous fortunes can be piled
up. Men have had government all their
own way since the world began, and
here is the result Legislative knaves
and scoundrels have allowed greedy,
conscfenceless knaves and scoundrels
to own the earth and women teachers
get $500 a week. Working women.
does politics concern your interests In
any way?
What bore is that rattle Drained
woman who can never tell story
straight She undertakes to tell you
Of something she has seen or heard.
The result is simply confused tumble
of what's his name and thingumbobs
and so and SOS and something or others
and all that sort of thing and over
there somewhere. This woman's brains
are not compact They practically rat
tie around in her skull She is never
accurate either in her thought habit or
in her work. Don't let the rattle brain
habit take hold on you. When you
pretend to listen to anything, listen
carefully, concentrating your mind on
the story. Note in your memory the
main points. Get the mental habit of
exactness and accuracy
HR
The number of insane persons has
doubled in the civilized world In the
past ten years. The rate Of increase is
higher among men than among women.
And still old fogies talk about "wo-
mans emotional, excitable nature" and
appear to believe themselves.
If you wish to be popular, keep your
griefs to yourself and your ailments
from everybody but your doctor. Peo-
pies own souls are all SO full of heart
ache and disappointment that they
ought not to have those of their ac-
quaintances unloaded upon them.
94
The seasons record for woman
swimmer is that of Mrs. Charles L.
Brown Of Chicago. In company with
several men Mrs Brown swan out into
cold Lake Michigan five miles to the
Hyde Park crib, which furnishes the
city water. The time she occupied
was two hours and forty minutes Mrs.
Brown arrived first at the crib.
The next, and the thirty -ninth, annual
convention of the National American
Woman Suffrage association will be
held in Music ball, Fine Arts building,
Chicago, Feb. IA to 10, 1907 And it will
be the first one in all the thirty nine
years at which the noble. powerful
presence of Susan B. Anthony is lack
ing.
Women's clubs are in the main
achieving really useful and public spir-
tied objects, yet sometimes they still
do amazingly fool things. In leading
feminine club in one of our largest
cities a lady was recently proposed for
membership She was professional
woman Of unexceptionable standing
socially and morally and Intellectually
even brilliant She was proposed for
membership and vouched for by some
of the clubs most respected members,
yet the fool women of the governing
board rejected her. This was the rea-
son: An outsider, who had nothing at
all to do with the government of the
club, told some of the executive COM
mittee she had heard the candidate had
done things frowned on by tabbies--
nothing wrong, perhaps, but just
frowned on by old Tables. Without