The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-20
Modern " lllan
Where Women Did Not Become
Hystencal''-Two Level Headed
Girls Save Thirty Others From
Being Burned to Death :: :.

A fire burst forth III big candy fac
| tory in New York city. On the fifth
and sixth floors of the building thirty
girls were at work. There is either a
sheep or a savage in every undevelop-
! ed human bcing-in woman. unfor
| tunately, too often the sheep. A crazy
panic started among the sheep women
in that factory, and they rushed to the
windows and were actually idiots
enough to be about to jump out and
| be dashed to death down six stories.
| There were two young girls there.
though, who were not sheep, but de-
veloped human beings. These two
rushed from window to window, call
ing: Don't jump, girls. Well get
| down by the fire escape!" They caught
| the feminine sheep by the skirts and
| held them back from jumping. In
| stinctively the sheep recognized their
leaders, and the panic stopped. Then
the two human beings among the
| sheep led the way to the fire escape
and saw the frightened creatures one
by one descend the fire ladders to the
ground. Flames and smoke were
pouring out of the windows from ev
cry floor as they passed down Wrap
your skirts around your heads as you
go down. girls" was the order given
to the sheep by the two who kept
their heads on The sheep obeyed and
were thus saved as they went down
from being scorched or from breathing
the smoke and fame. Last of all the
two girls whS had proved themselves
developed human beings went down
! the fire escape too. Splendid cheers
greeted them as they landed. It was
noble exhibition of feminine presence
of mind. only the newspaper young
men We're quite cheated out of their
favorite headline announcing that The
Women Became Historical"
I have found out when people begin
to get old. 1t is when they cease to
learn anything new.
| have been much interested in read
ing of the woman's colony being estab
lished in RefugiO county, Tex. by
Mary F. Hayden. She has already
bought there q tract of 5000 acres,
farm. orchard and gardening land, to
be distributed among 1000 women.
more or less. The women may have
husbands if they so desire, but all the
farms must be in the women's names,
and women must have the manage
ment, of the colony affairs forever,
Why not? Men have had the manage
ment of all public affairs since history
began. and the mess they have made
of them proves it is time now for wo-
men to have Il chance. The leaders OF
the enterprise will try to get the Tex
as legislature to grant suffrage to the
colonists. One of the commendable
features of this woman scheme is that
it admits men as residents. though not
as bosses. of the colony
y
Note what Y. c. Whitney said in
Washington When he was secretary
of the navy, u don't believe there is a
job in this civ from the presidents
down, that some woman cannot fill
and doubtless will some day"
b.
A prominent London club contained
one member noted for his gossip and
base innuendoes concerning women in
Englis4 society. Most men scandal
mongers exceed women when they set
their heads to the slanderng BUSINESS,
but this one in London was most par
ticularly virulent. Some of the club
members who remembered that their
mothers We're women investigated and
found the scandal monger was retail
ing lies of his own invention. They
permitted him to resign, which really
was considerable of them; then, watch
ing when he departed, twenty of them
lined up on the stairs, and each gave
him parting kick to speed him on his
way. Probably that man will talk no
more about women.
1t is conceded that the best art pho
tographers in this country are women.
Some Of them receive very large sums
Of money for their artistic photographs
Some years ago a beautiful girl in
professional life was married to a
young man in the same occupation as
herself, only his education was not yet
finished. The young wife worked on
and gave him money to complete his
studies in Paris. ThuO the husband
was enabled to become highly accom-
plished and command large sums of
money in his profession. Then sud
denly he turned from the faithful wife
who had made his fortune, neglecting
her for other women and spending on
them, not for her. the money she had
enabled him to earn She was sur
prised. Why? The wonder is that she
expected anything else. The man who
will let a woman work for him is gem
orally of that sort
l don't know how it happens-per