The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1907-01-10
Modern Woman
What Shall Be Done With Old
Womenp Serious Question, the
Consideration Of Which Is Com
mended to Feminine Clubs = &

mended to Feminine Clubs !: :.
One Of the not over many live wo-
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-live years old to do
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 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 in cases of entire
physical disability or great age, say
eighty to hundred. 1t looks to me
like putting premium on incompe-
tency and slumping. The elderly wo.
man who is willing to work can find
something to do IL she will take what
she can get, chiefly domestic labor, It
must be confessed But it is far bet
ter to work in kitchen than to go
to the poorhouse or be dependent on
grudglng relatives. The female de-
pendence that has been fostered for
ages in the world is largely response
BILE for the useless, helpless, uncomey
old woman of today, the one that is
rather than rouse her soul power, take
good hard knocks and earn her living. |
The chief trouble is that in most cases |
woman Is willing to slump down |
and let herself he 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 time to pro-
vide will stop their grunting and
groaning pull themselves together and
look for work, they will be sure to find
of some kind.
A case is reported in which woman
q divorce from her husband
SO that she could have him as sweet
leart again. million wives in this
country will in their secret hearts un-
and appreciate her position,
hough they won't say anything.
ss q
Take notice. The pendulum is swing
ng backward. Women chefs are in de-
nand in fashionable circles. The Marl-
borough, one of the richest, SWEETEST
4ondon clubs, has woman chef. 1t is
ertain that on this planet at least
ever at any time has there been any
ook equal to just the old time negro
unity. in her red and yellow turban
pho presided over the southern kitch-
n. III black woman can cook better
han anybody else, white women can
Q almost as we'll. A salary of 81 200
D $4,000 is something that cannot be ,
-
iris, think about it,
photographs of women who proclaim {,
1emselves advocates of nothing but I
omestlc life for their sex always look
-upid, ! notice. These are usually :
omen who owe their prominence to {
ie fact that they are the wives of
ell known public men. 1t looks as If s
ley felt their own intellectual inferi- \
'ity painfully and took refuge in it by I
lying that home is woman's sphere. !
ertainly home is the proper sphere for I
e woman who is too stupid for any n
her. and she should stay there. But @
at every other woman should do the d
me. n
Work is the sovereign remedy for all Il
$. Work on joyously, even if some a
y you drop dead at your task It's 4
happy way to so and makes least Il
,uble for those around you. n
Question by Bernard Shaw, the err u
tic draniatist: III you want to per- W
nifty God, why not personify him as n
attending an entertainment. given re-
ntly by pupils of the school of opera rt
New York. was impressed with the O.
ality of their acting as well as sing o.
:. Everything went off so smoothly Ct
d merrlly as TO be notable. / under a
'od 1t II little later when | saw these p
g young people flock around the di- II
,tor of the school. Nine. Ogden Ii
ane The affection for her was un- v
ubted and then | saw why the pu.
s. performance was SO excellent. 1t
IS the result of the affectionate good h
u between teacher and pupils. N
Take notice that one of the best rifle p'
'ts In this country is a woman, Mrs. NJ
zabeth Toepperwein of San Anto- u
, Tex. She was permitted to enter
} lists as a contestant among the
pert marksmen of the national guard
! proved herself one of the best. She
now regularly enrolled by the war G
'artment as a member of the ma ii
aal marksmen's reserve. al