The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-09-01
Modern Woman
The Crime Wave and Chldrens
Fairgrounds - Kind of Savings
Banks That Appeal to Women.
Minor Observations. :: :: ::

crime has been proved 10y observation.
The most CHASTITY feature of this one Is
that little girls have in the majority
of cases been the chief victims. Now.
is it possible that mothers are to-
blame: Are the children of the poor
not sufficiently well guarded: 1t
would seem so. The fact of the mat
ter is most chilt'rcn are allowed to
roam about or pl", upon the streets in
city III country town with so little s'I-
ppryiSion on the parents part that 1t
is a wonder there are not more TRACE
dies instcad OF so few. 1t is trn"
that many mothers are too busy to
play the part of nursemaids to their
children. bat they can train them to
stay i'm the yard. or If they live in n
fiat ioin the other mothers in the house
In contributing enough to make Il safe
playground on the roof If the landlord
won't pay for it, In large cities chill
drcn need more Fairgrounds wher"
they wilt be under the supervision. of
q responsible older person. That par
cnts appreciate having them so cared
for Is shown by the popularity of
recreation grounds and vacation schools
wherever opened. The present is n
good time to start campaign In favor
of the establishment Of such play
grounds in every community.
Some day an enterprSing man, or
woman. will open a bank where de
pOSitors are not required TO tell their
ages. Then what rush of women
investors it will have. After all. it
does seem that some system might be
devised better than the absurd and
embarrassing catcchismS to which
feminine depostors are now subjected.
1t is interesting to know that it il
not necessary to tell the real age. pro
vided the woman gives something ar
proXimatply correct. and takes the pre-
caution of remembering what she has
given On the witness stand women
are not often asked to tell their ages.
When questioned such an answer as,
Il am of legal age" will satisfy the
court \ judges decision in IA case
where Il woman refused to tell her
age was that she could not be sworn
to It. as II was something based en-
trcly OH hcarsav evidence. since at
the time of her birth the defendant
was too young to have had any knowl-
edge of the event. Women don't like
to tell their ages. and there is no ren
son why they should he required to
do so. AS Bronson Howard says in
"Aristocracy.'' "The woman who will
tell her age will tell anything" And
there's something in that too.
Society has realized that the CONVEX
sationists are no more. and it IS
said we may now look for improve
nents along this line. In London con
vers:ltion has become so much q lost
art that women are tnkin@ mp its study
seriously \ woman who advertised
i'm London newspaper Offering tn
give lessons at 50 much per hour re-
ceivcd nine answers the first day Her
charge is So Il week for two hours
conversation each day. When fash
ionahc .\lnr:ic; takes up this new fad
conversation classes will form Il source
of revenue for many bright and needy
women.
In the Horse. Healen district in tn
state 81 Washington number Of
women have taken homestead claim
and are living ON them aicne to com
nj, IF hn In
| This land consists nf IL belt twenty
| i've miles wide by $50 miles long. 1t
has an altitude of 1000 feet. and iii
! its unbroken state was Il wild country
| covered with sagebrush. Many men
! who took up claims there abandoned
country. but not one woman has yet
done SO. Some of the earlier women
had to 90 out to work in order tn
earn the money to secure the required
improvements, but succeeded in max
ing good. One of the young women
is a schoolteacher. another was Il
cook in an Indian school. while others
are widows who are trying to make up
| for the thriftlessness of their late hus-
bands. Yet there are still persons i'll
| the nnsophisticated east that consider
woman the weaker vessel.
In the writing of memoirs and BIZ
ography many women are earning
| well merited commentators. Mrs.
Maria Freeman Gray Of San Francis
co. widow of the famous Judge Gray
who In 1863 pronounced uncOnstitu-
tional the Iowa law debarring the Ell
trance of free negroe.. into that state.
has contributed fine biographical
sketch OF her husband to a current
magazine Mrs. John Watson is said
to be at work on the memoirs OF her
! husband. the late Ian Maclaren. Mrs.
George CORVALLIS West. widow Of
Lord Randolph Churchill. assisted her
son with the book relating to his IA
theirs career and is said to he elabo-
rating some further biographical ma
terial. while Mrs. Lecky. wife Of the
historian. is preparing life Of her
husband. Women are particularly