The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-07-21
Modern Woman
The Vacation Habit - A Book
For the Small Girl - A School
For Mothers - Sweet Revenge
For the School Board. :: :: ::

! The vacation habit is responsible for
many foolish eccentricities. and one of
/ the most deplorable is the vacation
/ trip Many persons who can i'll af
ford it and who have pleasant subur-
ban homes annually pack their trunks
for heglra to some expensive sea
shore or mountain hOstelry where they
are devoured by insects and robbed by
rapacious landlords and servitors For
only a few weeks display as much
money is spent as would make life toll
cradle for the rest of the year. while
as it is they will be compelled to
scrimp and save to make up for the
outlay. There is too much nonsense
/ preached about the value of change
of scene. Any one who lives in a
quiet and attractive place has chance
to spend n satisfying vacation at home
| instead of counting nervous prostra-
ton by trying to keep up with the
! fashionable procession on a very small
! income
| An English lady, Mrs. Broadbent.
has just published book called
Winding the Baby" with view to
reforming careless little girls from ten
to thirteen on whom the responsibility
of caring for baby brother or sister is
sometimes thrust. There are serious
chapters on taking baby out" "babys
Sleep" "baby's exercise "why does
baby cry?" etc. The serious ex-mayor
of the town of Huddersield. a certain
Benjamin Broadbent. Esq. has writ
/ ten a serious preface on infant NOR
| tally, but il the small girls Of Eng
| land take this serious book as serious
ly as these serious minded people ex
pect it is to be feared that there is
something seriously wrong with the
| juvenile population of Great Britain.
1t is bruited a0r0ad that John d.
Rockefeller is to finance philanthropy
whose object is the educating of moth
ers in regard to the proper care Of
! their babies. Poor Mr. Rockefeller.
j There are troubles before him! There
| isn't the mother living who doesn't
consider her system of infant up
bringing equal II not superior TO any
other system ever invented. and when
the aged millionaire or his representa-
/ tives begin to circulate with their note
books and criticisns-tO say nothing
Of their own special brand of triple
/ warranted system-they will learn
what trouble is
The revenge of the New York cit!
board of education in investigating al
legged charges of lobbying and absence
/! without leave by teachers who were
sent to Albany to work in favor of the
bill for increased salaries is about as
mean an exhibition Of petty spite as
was ever made public. One thinks it
would be public service if some one
would start movement to investigate
| the fair minded and chvalrous board
out of Office. For meanness and bigot-
ry this matter of the salary bill is
something to make every New Yorker
blush with shame for his town.
/ Hackensack. n. J.. wants to put up
new schoolhouse in its Fifth district.
one where the residents are largely
wealthy people. Some citizens think
| the Fifth district doesn't need it's new
>schoolhouse at present A meeting of
| voters was recently held to decide the
question. and twentyone ladies from
| the wealthy and exclusive district
were induced by male members of
| their families to go and vote upon the
question, as the law gives them the
right to do. The measure in favor of
the schOolhOuse was lost. but perhaps
| the Hackcnsack ladies. finding them
selves none the worse for that lively
voting experience. will put on their
thinking caps and wonder whether it
would really he any more unfeminine
to 60 to the polls on election day and
! drop their slip of paper quietly In the
box.
Now IL the joyous picnic season.
when the small boy and girl of the
family go happily forth at dawn of
day with well laden basket under the
benefcent care of the Sunday school
teacher and return late at night minus
nearly all their possessions, including
garments, unacceptable from insect
bites and loaded down with an assert
rnent Of what mother calls trash" but
happy as kings and queens-are ex-
pected to be. but never are.
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The Baroness Adelina Patti Ceder-
strom. whose silvery notes have charm
cd the civilized world for the last half
century, IL fond Of BIRDS but. oddly
enough, this human songbird especial
~ dotes on the harsh voiced parrot.
She is said to have seventeen pet par
rots at Craig y Nos castle. her home
In Wales