Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1907-02-27


sheep led the way to the fire escape
and saw the frightened creatures one
by one descend the fire ladders to the
ground Flames and smoke were
pouring out of the windows from ev-
cry floor as they passed down. WRAP
your skirts around your heads as you
go down, girls,' was the order given
their heads on. The sheep obeyed and
were thus saved as they went down
from being scorched or from breathing
the smoke and flame. Last of all the
two girls who had proved themselves
developed human beings went down
the fire escape too. Splendid cheers
greeted them as they landed. 1t was
noble exhibition of feminine presence
of mind, only the newspaper young
men were quite cheated out of their
favorte headline announcing that 1.-The
Women Became Hysterical."
have found out when people begin
to get old 1t is when they cease to
learn anything new.
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have been much interested in read
ing of the woman's colony being estab-
lished in Refugio county, Tex, by
Mary f. Hayden. She has already
bought there tract of 5000 acres,
farm. orchard and gardening land, to
be distributed among LOCO women,
more or less. The women may have
husbands If they SO desire, but all the
farms must be in the women's names,
and women must have the manage
fnent Of the colony affairs forever,
Why not7 Men have had the manage
ment of all public affairs since history
began, and the mess they have made
of them proves it is time now for wo-
men to have chance. The leaders of
the enterprise will try to get the Tex
as legislature to grant suffrage to the
colonists. One of the commendable
features of this woman scheme is that
it admits men as residents, though not
as bosses, of the colony.
Note what W. G. Whitney said in
Washington when he was secretary
of the navy, II don't believe there is a
job in this city, from the presidents
down. that some woman cannot fill
and doubtless will some day."
A prominent London club contained
one member noted for his gossip and
base innuendoes concerning women in
English society. Most men scandal
mongers exceed women when they set
their heads to the slandering businesss
but this one in London was most par
ticularly yirulent. Some of the club
members who remembered that their
mothers were women investigated and
found the scandal monger was retail
ing lies of his own invention. They
permitted him to resign, which really
was considerate of them; then, watch
ing when he departed, twenty of them
lined up ON the stairs, and each gave
him parting kick to speed him on his
way. Probably that man will talk no
more about women.
1t is conceded that the best art pho
tographers in this country are women.
Some of them receive very large sums
of money for their artistic photographs
Some years ago a beautiful girl in
professional life was married to a
young man in the same occupation as
herself, only his education was not yet
finished The young wife worked on
and gave him money to complete his
studies in Paris Thus the husband
was enabled to become highly accom-
plished and command large sums of
money in his profession. Then sud
denly he turned from the faithful wife
who had made his fortune, neglecting
her for other women and spending on
them, not for her, the money she had
enabled him to earn. She was sur
prised. Why? The wonder is that she
expected anything else. The man who
will let woman work for him is gen.
orally of that sort.
/ don't know how it happens-per-
uhpS SOlue lldu can tell-pul INC manu-
soonest women among the Indians of
southern Mexico are those descended
from the ancient tribe of the Zapate-
cos, and these handsome women have
maintained supremacy over the men
of their tribe ever since history knew
about them. The strong. handsome
women are sit" in their tribe. They
dress picturesquely and artistlcally
and transact all commercial and other
outside affairs, leaving their men to
hang around the house.
ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER.