The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-06
Modern Woman
What Shall Be Done With Old
Women? Serious Question, the
Consideration Of Which Is Com
mended to FEMININE Clubs :: ::

mems organizations is especially con-
cerned with finding employment. for
"out of works of its own sex. Its
hardest task. quite impossible often
times. is to get anybody~to hire wo-
man past forty-fve years old to do
! ANYTHING. Ali want young women, at
least women who have retained the
capabilities of youth and have added
| others from experience, which all Wo-
men viii do when at length they learn
how AS remedy for the evil the
organization is agitating the subject
of old age pensions. | have always
had my doubts about these old age
pensions, except i'll cases OF entire
physical disability or great age. say
| eighty to hundred 1t looks to me
like putting u premium Oh incompe-
tency and sIumping 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 go
to the poorhouse or be dependent Oh
| grudging relatives. The female de-
pendence that has been foStered fer
| ages in the world is largely RESPONSE
bic for the useless helpless. uncomeiy
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.
The chief trouble is that in most cases
Il 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 Il time to pro-
vide will stop their granting 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 a woman
wanted divorce from her husband
so that she could have him as a sweet
heart again. A million wives in this
country will in their secret hearts I'M
derstand and appreciate her position.
though they wont 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 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 kitch-
en-. If black woman can cook better
than anybody else, white women can
do almost as we'll \ salary of 81 900
to $4,000 is something that cannot be
picked up at schoolteaching. College
girls, think about its
Photographs of women who proclaim
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 II
they felt their own intellectual inferi-
ority 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 OH 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
a happy way to go and makes least
trouble for those around you.
Question by Bernard Shaw, the err
ratio dramatist: eff 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, was impressed with the
quality of their acting as well as sing
ing. Everything went off so smoothly
and merrly as to be notable. | under
stood it little later when l saw these
fine young people flock around the di-
rector OF the school, Nine Ogden
Crane. The affection for her was I'M
doubted. and then l saw why the pu-
pills performance was so excellent. 1t
was the result of the affectionate good
will between teacher and pupils.
Take notice that one of the best rife
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
| pynarf marlxSm of tho nn topa1