The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-03-31
Modern " oman
|. Is an Exploded Superstition
That Two Women Cannot Live
In One House In Peace-Ihey
Can and Do. :: :: :: ::

Once more | have had flung Into my
| teeth that Old sentence George Wash
| ington is said to have written III bis
diary after his mother, Mary Ball, VEN
cradle and "sot in her ways" had paid
| a visit to him ans his wife, Martha
! Gusts, who had had two husbands and
naturally thought she knew things.
After the visitation was ended the Ed
| Their Of His Country wrote with his
own hands, "Never again will ! live IN
the same house with two women" But
| that was before the new woman came
! Oh the scene. Today women, even moth
| er-in-law and daughter in-law, have
something else to do than quarrelin2.
Many of the most attractive and dc
| lightful homes in the large American
cities are maintained by two or more
women engaged in professional or com
| mercial life, who club their incomes
| and halve expenses, thus atfording
comfort and even luxury that neither
| could enjoy alone. | personally know
! two charming women who dwelt in
| perfect affection and harmony for
| twenty five years. Would the hand
some clubhouses and hotels for women
| that are now being built by the dozen
| in our cities be erected, do you think.
| If two women or two hundred women
| could not live in peace in the same
| house? 1t is this blessed new woman
ont hot hos IJCrhf no
! change, if it ever was a fact that two
women could not dwell peaceably to-
! gether Women's minds have been
| broadeled and developed. They have
| learned to look on one another as
| friends and comrades, fellow sufferers
from ages of wrong and oppression.
| They have now colleges professions
and varied commercial and industrial
occupations to take up their time and
thought They have learned that WON
ans best friend is woman.
| Headline from a Cleveland newSpa-
per: 1T costs about all you have to
court an up to date girl
Many women think they are artistic
when they are only decorative.
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AS l passed two women on the street
! the other day | heard one of them say:
That's always the way. When people
marry too young, there's always trou
BILE" Yes" answered her companion,
land when they marry too old there's
always trouble too. There's trouble
either way"
1t is melancholy to think of he num-
Der of middle aged women who dis
| figure themselves by careless dressing,
| particularly by wearing clothes twenty
years too old for them. Rusty black,
Slovenly neckwear. hats that would
make Il professional young beauty look
| like an aged crone-these are some OF
| the costume characteristics of women
who ought to be in the prime Of their
| feminine beauty. A woman of any age
who has Il good complexion can wear
hat of any color-a jaunty, youthful
hat, too-aHd look well in it. And even
| if she mas the complexion of a mummy
a little round shabby black hat is not
going to mend matters. 1t will only
make them worse. The right kind of a
/ hat for d woman, though she be CEN
| fury old. is one that is becoming to her,
| regardless altogether of age. Old wO-
mems hats in general are hideous and
would be uu1ecoming 10 anybody. Let
US have young hats and young hearts.
Israel Zangwill, the novelist, is one
of the most faithful and enthusiastic
champions of the suffragette women in
England. By the way. women will
get the franchise in Great Britain be
fore they do in America. Englishwo-
| men are working.
| Mrs. Lille Devereux Blake has
worked more than thirty years for
| woman. To her are due the law III
/ New York state which requires the ap-
pointment of women on boards of trus-
tees of institutions where women are
placed. the law giving women the right
to vote on school questions, the law re-
| quiring seats to be provided for sales
women behind counters and finally
that which permits married woman
to make a will without her husbands
J consent.
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| A man lately applied for divorce on
the ground of cruelty and barbarous
| treatment The cruelty consisted in
the fact that his wife would not cook
to suit him. Poor man! And yet one
could hardly blame him if his wife's
cooking was like that of some women
! / have known.
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