The Lake County times., 1907-01-23
Modern Woman
ADame With More Money Than
Brains or Culture Makes Show
Of Herself = One of Americas
New Rich :: :: :: :: :: ::

She was gowned to kill. There was
no doubt about that. She wore a green
feather nearly as long as her arm, and
the greenbacks fairly shone over the
rest of her costume. Her hair was
peroxided: her gait was mincing and
skippy. She came in waving her arms
at her sides. sticking her fingers out
and wriggling her body after the man
ner of overdressed, tightly laced wo-
men bent on making an impression.
They always make ii. She frisked up
to the counter of the book room OF
great department store and said in the
feminine artificial society squeak: "Oh,
| Miss Sales, is Trial by Marriage out
YETI I'm just dying to read it." Its
out today" answered Miss Sales. with
/ a face all the more serious because she
could hardly keep from laughing.
'Well," said Madam Money-and-noth-
| ing-else, .'just send it down to me at the
| Ten Dollar a Day hotel. We're stay
Ing there. We haven't opened our
house on Millionaire place because
we're going abroad. you know. 1t Is
so stupid on this side, you know. Sun
day on this side is the worst day Of all
so perfectly dead and dull. I'm al
ways bored TO death on Sunday. Be
sure to send Trial by Marriage be-
| fore Sunday. l want something anus
ing" Then she turned, with her giddy,
girly -girly air, and skipped out, wear
ing the manner of one who thinks she
| has made an impression. After her de-
parture the young woman clerk releas-
ed the laugh that had been held in
leash The book Madam Money really
lutionary volume, 1.-THE Family"
Madam evidently thought 1t was a hu-
morous novel.
Much newspaper comment has been
aroused by the confession of a young
society woman in New York that she
spends $4,000 a year on dress. The
statement has given occasion TO the
question, How much should a woman
spend year on dress? Well, as much
as she pleases If she can pay for it.
but she will not spend $4,000 unless
she is a fool.
q o
Lately it was announced that 200 wo
men stood in line an hour to get admit
ted to the courtroom where the trial
was on of one of the most atrocious
5 murder cases on record even for the
terrible year of 1906 Such morbid
curiosity is a sure sign Of either an en-
J. | {roI c01
A normal civilized soul, whether tina
, of man or woman, shrinks from tale:
of murder and horror and blood.
right minded, refined, gentle woman
0 would have got as far away as sh'
could from even the echoes of that ter
rible murder trial. The morbid craving
of present day American women 70
0 unclean is one of the most lamentabl
phases of our alleged civilization.
D.
Here are some OF the editorial topic
treated in the Peking Woman's Jour
nal. the daily Chinese paper edited b.
a Chinese woman: Evils of Obtaining
0 Evidence by Torture" Evils of OpiuI
Taking" "Proof That the World
Round and That 1t Moves" "Love Q
n Country"
o. b.
The spectacular and violent method
adopted by the band of English ''su1
o fragettes," as the women suffra gist
are called, has been much condemned
yet the result Of 1t will probably b
that the women of Great Britain in
lump will get the ballot long befor
those of the free" United States. TT
10 British say the ballot seekers hay
made such a crying nuisance" {
themselves that the easiest way to g
20 rid of them will be to let them hay
5 the vote. Just so. Then, too, many I
q, the ablest, most famous men In Grei