The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1907-02-07
Modern Woman
A Dame With More Money Than
Brains OF Culture Makes a Show
Of Herself - One Of Americas
New Rich s. $ s. 81 s. 8 s.

| l9h1 was BONhtu W hlils uClt Nub
no doubt about that. She wore green
feather nearly as long as her arm, and
the greenbacks fairly shone over the
rest of her costume. Her hair was
skippy. She came in waving her arms
ut her sides, sticking her fingers out
and wriggllng her body after the man
ner of overdresscd, tightly laced wo-
men bent on making an impression.
They always make 1t. She frisked up
to the counter of the book room of
great department store and said in the
feminine artificial society squeak: ooh,
Miss Sales, Is Trial by Marriage out
yet? I'm just dying to read it," ''It's
out today" answered Miss Sales, with
face all the more serious because she
could hardly keep from laughing.
"Well," said Madam Money-and-noth-
ing-ese, "just send 1t down to me ut 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-
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ed the laugh that had been held in
leash. The book Madam Money really
meant was that very serious and revo-
Iutionary volume, "The Family"
Madam evidently thought 1t was u hui
morous novel.
Much newspaper comment has been
aroused by the confession of young
society woman in New York that she
spends $4,000 year on dress. The
| statement has given occasion to the
question, How much should woman
| spend year on dress? Well, as much
as she pleases if she can pay for 1t,
but she will not spend $4,000 unless
she Is fool.
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
murder cases on record even for the
terrible year of 1906. Such morbid
curiosity is sure sign of either an en-
tirely empty or actually diseased mind.
A normal civilized soul, whether that
of man or woman, shrinks from tales
of murder and horror and blood. A
right minded refined, gentle woman
would have got as far away as she
could from even the echoes of that ter
rible murder trial. The morbid craving
of present day American women for
the horrible, the scandaIous and the
unclean is one of the most lamentable
phases of our alleged civilization.
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Here are some Of the editorial topics
treated in the Picking Woman's jour
nal, the daily Chinese paper edited by
a Chinese woman: evils of Obtaining
Evidence by Torture" "Evils of Opium
Taking" "Proof That the World Is
Round and That 1t Moves "Love OF
Country"
The spectacular and violent methods
adopted by the band of English ''suf
fragettes," as the women sutfragsts
are called has been much condemned,
yet the result Of it will probably be
that the women of Great Britain in a
lump will get the ballot long before
those of the "free" United States. The
British say the ballot seekers have
made such a "crying nuisance" of
themselves that the easiest way to get
rid of them will be to let them have
the vote. Just so, Then, too, many OF
the ablest, most famous men in Great
Britain, among them George Meredith,
Israel Zangwill and Bernard Shaw,
have come out in newspaper letters de-
Tending and upholding the suffragettes
and calling attention to the ridiculous
attitude in which the government finds
itself.
Judge Swartz of Norrlstown. Pa, has |
given the decision that wife has no
right to invite even her own mother to |
visit her II her husband objects. Wo-
man, you poor, pusillunimous creature,
go way back and sit down. Judge |
Swartz must have mother-in-law-pho- |
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The south has candidate for the |
next presidency of the General Fedora
tion of Women's Clubs. She is Miss
Louisa h, Poppenheim OF Charleston,
s. G.. The south has never yet had
federation president, though some OF
the ablest clubwomen OF the country
live there.
care you one of them new thotters"
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Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Is the moth
er of grown children, yet she takes n
daily horseback ride of from twenty
to twenty-five miles. Brave and inspr-
ing example for women who slump as
they approach middle age,
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Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery, lately
home from Europe. says the women
over there are far more alive and en-
thusiastic than the American women
in all matters pertaining to the ad-
vancement OF their sex. Verify the last
shall be first.
ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER.
WOMEN MIST LIVE