The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-09-15


| OF the incident Many respectable
| women unaware of this rule Of many
| New York restaurants. have been If
| frOnted from time to time in the same
way. The hotels claim that the ar
| rangement is intended to exclude dis
reputable women, hut as any woman
with a male escort may be served it
will be seen that it is ineffective
Equally unjust is the rule OF many
New York hotels that woman unac-
companied by man will not he sup
piled with lodgings after & O'Clock in
the evening. Many Il belated woman
traveller has on tt!.& account found her
self unable to "';,jn other safe quar-
ters overnight ,-l Il bench at the rail
road o. ro.tr,' -, N.
Taking care of other peoples chill
dren has been the vocation of Miss
Susan Crangle. who at eighty-four
years of age is rounding out a life of
singular helpfulness by daily moth
ering' the 80 little children who at
with the rich st. Bartholomew church
of New York. Miss Crangle. who was
born of an arstocratic Baltimore fam
lily. was left an orphan without money
when five years of age 4 relative
then took her into her family and
made her useful as caretaker for first
one baby and then another When
she was eighteen years old Miss Gran
gle accepted the invitation of Il mar
Tied woman friend to go west. and she
helped her TO bring up Il large family
of children. Then she assisted several
of these children to bring up families
of their own. Many attached friends
would now be glad to welcome thi.
lovely and active old lady into their
homes, but she is happiest when sur
rounded by little ones and prefers her
independence to any life of sheltered
ease. She has made homes for little
orphans, helped invalid mothers to keep
their little ones about them and other
wise served as mother by proxy 10
scores. One wonders how the world
would get along if such women as
Miss CrangIr married and had children
of their own TO occupy their time.
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In Australia women may be elected
to any public office. WOman's suf
fragc has been an unqualified success
in that country. Now New Zealand
has just voted to admit women rs
in
having ot!n' i;e been granted full Do
litical cG.>.-.t fourteen years ago
Finland. il &c empire of the autOcrat
of the H IL. has women serving in
its pariiauurilt, yet in this alleged land
of the free the only equality which
men accord women is that of hanging
on to a street car strap while they ap-
prOpriate the only vacant seats
If Miss Dolores Poquette, who lives
on a farm in West Boylston, Mass,
makes a success Of her experiment, We
shall have next the overall fad. Re
Gently Robert Chambers wrote Il nOycl
in which he described six orphans
brought up by an eccentric expert
mentalist in boys attire in order that
they might have perfectly developed
bodies and lovely faces. Whether Do
lores heard Of the novel or not, she
is conducting the same experiment on
herself. although she says her object
is the attainment Of comfort, not beau
ty. She dresses in overalls and lump |
ers, hunts, fishes, helps her uncle with
the farm work and is never indoors If
she can help it. She has feminine at
tire, but dons it only when she goes
to town. Although but sixteen years |
old, she is said already to be remark
ably strong, agile and well developed |
1t is not more than year since she
dOnned male attire, and she says she |
means to stick to it,
Egypt is beginning to provide educa-
ton for It's women. The first Egyptian |
woman A. 3. is Il Mohammedan girl |
graduated. There are now
seven girls schools in the land of the
Nile, and the students are said to show
a wonderful interest in their studies.
In the days of its ancient greatness
women were accorded the same edu-
cational advantages as we'll as the
same political rights as men Perhaps
the reform heralds new era for the
of Egypt.
japanese women have petitioned
their government for the cancellation
Of the existing laws prohibiting wom-
IN taking part in political meetings as
either promoters, speakers or visitors.
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Five young women psychologists
nave been appointed to make special
researches for the Rockefeller Insti-
ute For Medical Research in New
York city. They are Misses Maud l..
Menten, Nellie r. Goldthwait, Mabel
?. Fitzgerald, Bertha Barker and Mar
ba Wollstein.