The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-09-27
Modern Woman
Is 1t Not Time Fer New Deal
In the Management Of Economic
Affairs? = Mems Fortunes and
WOmen's Wages ::

John D. Rockefeller IS credited with
complaining that he Is not nearly so
rich rs he is accused of being. having
only paItry S3oo,o00.000 or so. Lately
a railroad multlmlllionairs also com
planned that his annual Income was
greatly overrated in the popular belief.
He has really a small income, after all,
only $4,000 a year. he says. 1t 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 VIII TT 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 $3.50 4 week for
her labors. She has spent years OF
time and hundreds of dollars fitting
herself for her profession. Tie Maine
factory girl gets an average of $500 q
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 rs 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? If state
| Legislators and congressman were hon
est and could not be brlbed 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,
conscienceless 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 a bore Is that rattle Drained
woman who can never tell a story
! straight! She undertakes to tell you
of something she has seen or heard.
The result is simply confused tumble
/
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.
q e
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 Two
mans emotional, excitable nature" and
appear to believe themselves.
SE
If you wish to be popular, keep your
griefs to yourself and your ailment,
from everybody but your doctor. PEG
pies own souls are all so full of heart
ache and disappointment that they
ought not to have those of their &C
quaintances unloaded upon them.
q y
The seasons record for a woman
swimmer is that of Mrs. Charles L
Brown of Chicago. In company witt
several men Mrs. Brown swan out int
cold Lake Michigan five miles to th,
Hyde Park crib, which furnishes thu
city water. The time she occupied
was two hours and forty minutes. Mrs