The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1908-07-25
WOMEN FROM TEXAS.

escape when contingent of the party
of Texas bankers, with their wives,
daughters and sisters, who were
visiting New York, passed through
Madison Square. Mrs. Eugene Riser.
wife of the president Of the Citizens
National Bank, of Ballinger, Tex,
happened to be of the party, anu
Mrs. Riser also happens to be one
of the best shots in Texas.
Il wish" she said, looking long
iagly at Diana, ''that l had my gun
with me, so could shoot that crow. >
Mrs. Riser is said to be woman
of many accomplishments. A grad
uate of Vassar College, she can new
ertheless round up herd of cattle
like a veteran cowboy, and she does
it frequently, too, when the cowboys
on her ranch are otherwise engaged.
She can rope and throw a steer in
twenty-five minutes, the record being
twenty-five.
Mrs. Riser can run the bank. too.
quite as we'll as she runs the ranch.
and she is a firm believer in women
as bank clerks.
Gas a Glass; she said, women are
more trustworthy than men. They
are more painstaking and more hon
est, and they naturally don't have
the same temptation to become en-
bezzlers. The only difficulty with
Their, is that they sometimes get mar
RED"
Texas women appear to be nothing
IL not progressive and enterprising,
and the accounts given by some OF
the visitors of the club work in Ter
as might well excite the envy of the
clubs of this more backward State.
There are clubs in every little
town and village" said Mrs. c. T.
Lester. of Canyon City. They are
of every kind-literary. musical, So
cial and civic. They are a grea.
many civic clubs and the chief work
of the club women as whole for
some time past has been the beauti-
flying of Texas We have really &C
complished a great deal. We agi-
tate questions till the men take them
up, and then we help them in every
way We can. A great deal has been
done to improve the parks in this
way, and one offshoot of the work is
the establishment of free open air
band concerts. In Waco people go
out of their way to drive past the
Courthouse and hear the music which
the band discourses every evening as
a result of the women's work. A
great deal of humane work is also
done. You can hardly pick up a pa
per without seeing something abou:
it."
Mrs. C. A. Beasley, of Houston.
thinks that the chief difference be-
tween New York and the cities Of
Texas is that the latter are smaller.
She didn't find anything even at
Coney Island that she hadn't seen in
Texas.-New York Tribune.
IMPLIES VENUS DROPPED HER
HIS.
Again Mrs. Arthur Stannard, known
through her pen as John Strange
Winter" is militant in defense of
Englishwomen, this time on the score
of their beauty. She denies that
America has the most beautiful wo-
man in the world in the person of
Miss Marguerite Frey of Colorado. or
In the person Of any other girl. The
novelist also takes issue with the as
sertion that whereas London holds
greater types of loneliness than the
provinces, all those types come from
the provinces. She adds, II admit
there are practically NO beautiful wo-
men in the East End, but what Of the
better class women born and bred
In the West End? I can go into the
West End streets and point out doz.
ems of young women who are born
cockneys and who are Infinitely more
beautiful than Miss Frey. There Is
no beauty in the whole world equal
to that Of an Englishwoman. She
may not have the acquired chic Of
the American. but she possesses IN
indefinable loneliness which is her
birthright and cannot be acquired. I
have made curious discovery in my
study Of English beauty. It Is that
union Of black-haired person with
red-haired person invariably re.
suits in beautiful children. A eirl
with such parents almost always Is
the possessor Of curiously beautiful
complexion, a complexion Of clear
white and rose pink. which compels
admiration. At q moments notice
I can name round dozen English
girls who will hold their own in any
beauty contest ON earth.-New York
Press.