The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-07-07
Modern Woman
The Shopping Mania-Some Mas
cuGne Illusions In Regard to 1t and
Women's Bargaining ProchNites.
The Married Woman Martyr. ::

Fun is poked at the woman who
haunts-or is said to haunt-the "bar
gain counter" When a woman wishes
II dress cheaply, she is supposed to re-
sort to these with frenzied persistence
That the bargain counter is a snare to
woman is e. sad masculine Illusion.
The advertising writer Of any large
store will tell you with what anxious
solicitude he words the lines of his
special SALE announcements. knowing
that women have grown so conserva-
tive In regard to such enticements
that only something especially alluring
Will bring returns. The deluded male
who believes that these bargain sales
present an irresistible attraction to the
other sex should see the cynical smile
that wreathes the coUntenance of the
fair shopper as she approaches the be
quilting table, the more than doubt with
which she gingerly picks up for ex-
animation one of it's choicest offerings
and the bitterness Of scorn with which
she casts it from her when it is not all
It should be. The woman who per
sistently buys merely because she is
getting something cheap-well, she has
mania and Is lowering perilously on
the outskirts Of those regions where
brain storms" abound. If not via the
agreeable path by the bargain counter
she probably would traverse some 9TH
er road to the madhouse. So. if you
have the Irresistible impulse for
bargain sales, don't flatter yourself
that you are cultivating a sweetly
feminine weakness. Consult an alien
list at once.
Married woman, don't. for heavens
sake, make a martyr of yourself to your
husband and children, neglecting your
personal appearance, making slave
and drudge Of yourself and picking
yourself to the bone for them. If you
do they will take you at your own val
uatiOn and look on you as their slave
and drudge not entitled to the slightest
consideration-note even to good clothes
And at the end of your career Of self
sacrifice your husband will fall in love
with a younger and prettier woman
who does wear good clothes. If you
want even your children to admire
you, you must take good care of your
body and dress becomingly.
A woman's league in Berlin is collect
ing money to build ships for the IA
therlard Boxes for contributions are
distributed among its members, who
are found everywhere and in all ranks
OF course the strenuous kaiser highly
commends the idea. But one is led to
wonder whether. if women devoted the
energy which is now given to furnish
ling the snews of war and clarifying
its successes to working for universal
peace, the millennium would be much
nearer at hand. When public senti-
ment the world over is in opposition to
war, then we may look for an end TO
all hostilities. Women are the real
makers of public sentiment.
A dozen fluffy balls were waddling
about the poultry yard of the village
house standing nearest the picnic
grounds. The tenement children crowd
ed their faces against the palings, and
the settlement workers peered daintily
over in an endeavOr to observe these
new and interesting fowls.
what are they?" echoed the club
woman who was chaperoning the par
ty. "Why, my dears, can't you see!
Those are dear little goslings.'
The old woman in a sunbOnnet. who
had q pint of meal in one hand and a
feeding box in the other. lifted her
head scornfully from the coop over
which she was bending.
"Goslin's! Ma'am, them there's
ducksw
In this enlightened age one would
suppose that the average parent on go
Ing out knew better than to lock chill
dren I'D alone. Yet the frequency of
tragedies due to such causes proves
that there are still many careless or
thoughtless parents. A wealthy farm
er of New York and his wife shut their
children in the house while they drove
to the village On their return tney
found their house in ashes, one child
dead and the other SO badly burned
that he may not recover. The coroner
believes that the children were playing
house and the fire resulted from han
ding matches. This Is only typical
case. To put matches where a child
has access to them and to leave him
alone with them ought to be consid-
cred nothing short Of criminal neglect.
Yet In such cases a wealth of SYM
patty is poured out on the bereaved
parents, who really should be hailed ig-
ANONYMOUSLY to court and made to suf-
fer under the law.
In decision by the comptroller of
the treasury the United States govern
ment officially declares tobacco to be
rcnnccitv Of course If that is the