The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-08
Modern Woman
What Shall Be Done With Old
Women Senous Question, the
Consideration Of Which Is Com
mended to Feminine Clubs :: ::


cerned with finding employment for
tout Of works of its own sex. Its
hardest task. quite impossible often
times. is to get anybody to hire a wo-
man past forty-five years old to dc
anything. All want young women, at
least women who have retained the
capabilities of youth and have added
others from experience, which all wo
men will do when ut length they learn
how. AS a remedy for the evil the
organization is agitating the subject
Of old age pensions. l have always
had my doubts about these old age
pensions, except in cases of entire
physical disability or great age. say
eighty to hundred. 1t looks to me
like putting premium on incompe.
tency and slumpng. The elderly wo-
man who is willing to work can find
something to do if she will take what
she can get, chiefly domestic labor, it
must be confessed. But it is far bet
ter to work in a kitchen than to 90
to the poorhouse or be dependent on
grudging relatives. The female de-
pendence that has been fostered for
ages in the world is largely response
BILE for the useless, helpless. uncomely
old woman of today, the one that is
ready to cringe and stink in anywhere
rather than rouse her soul power. take
good hard knocks and earn her living
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a woman is willing to slump down
and let herself be taken care of by
charity. The old time woman was
brought up to consider it no shame to
let somebody else earn her living for
her. She was also brought up mostly
without knowledge of any money get
ting occupation. Her case is hard. but
! she herself can remedy it. If some of
the old women for whom the ladies
mentioned have such a time to pro-
vide will stop their grunting and
! grooming, pull themselves together and
! look for work, they will be sure to find
employment of some kind.
| A case is reported in which woman
! wanted divorce from her husband
so that she could have him as a sweet
! heart again. \ million wives in this
country will in their secret hearts IN
derstand and appreciate her position,
though they won't say anything.
Take notice. The pendulum is swing
/ ing backward. Women chefs are in de-
mand in fashionable circles. The MARI
! borough, one of the richest. SWEETEST
/ London clubs, has Il woman chef. 1t is
certain that on this planet at least
never at any time has there been any
cook equal to just the old time negro
aunty in her red and yellow turban
who presided over the southern ktch-
en-. If a black woman can cook better
than anybody else. white women can
| do almost as well. A salary of $1,000
! to $4,000 is something that cannot be
picked up at schoolteaching. College
! girls, think about it.
Photographs of women who proclaim
i themselves advocates of nothing but
domestic life for their sex always look
stupid, notice. These are usually
women who owe their prominence to
! the fact that they are the wives OF
we'll known public men. 1t looks as if
they felt their own intellectual inferl-
GRITTY painfully and took refuge in it by
saying that home Is wOman's sphere.
Certainly home is the proper sphere for
the woman who is too stupid for any
other, and she should stay there. But
let her not take it on herself to declare
that every other woman should do the
| same.
| Work is the sovereign remedy for all
ills. Work on jOyOusly, even If some
day you drop dead at your task. It's
happy way to go and makes least
trouble for those around you.
! Question by Bernard Shaw. the er-
J ratio dramatist: IF you want to per-
sonify God, why not personify him as
a wOman?'
/ Attending an entertainment given re-
Gently by pupils of the school of opera
in New York, l was impressed with the
quality of their acting as well as sing
ing. Everything went off so smoothly
and merrily as to be notable. l under
stood it little later when l saw these
fine young people flock around the d.
rector of the school, Nine. Ogden
Crane. The affection for her was IN
doubted, and then l saw why the pu-
pills performance was so excellent. IL
| was the result of the affectiOnate good
will between teacher and pupils.
Take notice that one of the best rifle
shots in this country is woman, Mrs.
Elizabeth Toepperwein of San Anto-
Mo, Tex. She was permitted to enter
the lists as a contestant among the
expert marksmen of the national guard
and proved herself one Of the best. She
is now regularly enrolled by the war
department as a member Of the ma