The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-11-24
The.....
Woman QfIt.
Female Depositors In the
Banks - A Great Woman's
Letters - Sensible Talk In
Regard to Race Suicide.
Where Hair Comes From.

During the recent panic I'D Ne"
York some Of the metropolitan news
papers remarked spitefully that meS'
of the frightened depositors lining W
to withdraw their money from banks
suspected of being weak were women
But no newspaper thought it neces
sary to comment on the fact that men
only-men who had been trusted anu
depended upon-were responsible to'
the unhappy financial conditions
Why should men sheer at women II
they exhibit anxiety in regard to then
savings? AS a rule. the deposits repre-
sent the results of years of tonIng a.
wages below the male average fo'
work in the same line.
These same papers added TO the PIE
turesaueneSs of their pages by pictur.
ing gray haired widows weeping be
cause all they had in the world was
held by these banks. In many cases II
was all that stood between them ana
the poorhouse A man may repair his
losses. but such women cannot do SO,
Whether or not there is any truth III
the charges matters very little. Man
claims to expect so little from woman
it is amazing that he should feel sur
prised over what, according to his doc
trine. is a natural display. The propa
bilities are that there is little more
than a grain of truth in any of thes'
stories. In the case of one bank at
least | know from personal obserVa'
ton that few women stood In the line
The lesson in this is that women
should trust less to the representa-
lions of oily tongued male capitalists
and acquire business knowledge
enough to put their funds in places
where they will not be affected by
changes in the money market. There
are other ways Of investing money
than in banks. Investigate them.
There might be less money in The
banks-for from the statement it look:
as if women were thrifty nowadays
but it would afford banks less con
venient scapegoat.
Queen Victoria's letters, which hav'
been published in England under tn
| direction of the king. throw interest
ing sidelights on the royal character
| Many of the letters were addressed t
her uncle, Leopold L.. king of the Be
| gians. who evinced an almost paterna
interest in the young queen. The boo
ends with the death of the prince con
sort, so that all of the persons mel
! toned in the letters have now passe
away. In regard to her coronation on
of Victoria's most naive observation
| was The crown hurt me a great deal.
| This quite corroborates the proven
that uneasy lies the head that weaI
crown" That the queen was nor
broad minded on the Irish questio
than many of her subjects is SHOW
| by her comments on Sir Robert y
Peel.s bill to increase the grant to
Roman Catholic college in Ireland.
am sure poor Peel ought to be blesse
by all Catholics for the noble an
manly way in which he stands forth
do good to poor Ireland. But the hi:
Otry and the wicked and blind pasSio
the bill calls forth are quite dreadful
and | blush for Professionalism.
Presbyterian clergyman said quite tn
ly that bigotry is more common tina
shame"
Mrs. Adlai E. Stevenson, wife Of Il
vice president during Clevelands AZ
ministration. made some very sens
bic remarks at a recent meeting of Il
Illinois Federation of WOmen's Club
In discussing the much exploited que
ton of race suicide she said:
There Is no thoughtful mother
America who has not been more tina
startled by the appeal for larger fam
lies. While this appeal has been urgen
| do not recall that there has been Oh
word in regard to the health or Ii
= of the mother. nor has the ability
the mother, physically, mentally, mo
ally. spiritually or financially, to re-
, children been touched upon
T. y
| Inc greatest Hair 1ldIkel III IL
world is in Brittany, France. The
every fall agents of dealers in fal
hair go from village to village whc
country fairs are held and shear Il
women of the district like so maj
sheep Young girls, matrons and Ct;
haired grandmotherS are all eager
be shorn in exchange for the SIN;
sum of money or the finery which Il
, agent gives them. The trade in fal
hair is said to be very prosperous
dustry, thanks 10 the curling iror
rats. switches, etc, with which t
, average woman supplements her ov
increasingly scanty locks. Curlil
irons and crimpers have also injur
the hair so that it looks as if the
would soon be more baldheaded VOL
en- than men. A healthy head of h
is to be preferred over the most ella
orateIy rated couture in the world.
, The most beautiful woman of h
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