The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-11-26
The PAGE FOR WOMEN.
Evolution Of What Was Once Consid.
cred a Startling Idea.

ia cred a Startling Idea.
There was time. however difIicuit
II may be to realize. when women die
not read newspapers, when in the ma
;ority Of cases the daily journal was
regarded by them as an insidioub
enemy Of the household; when tho
guide housewife" began her busy day
opposite an autocrat, who in disdain-
full silence delayed the savory break
fast too satisfy his curiosity regard
ing the antics of bull and bear" and
when the youthful members of the
family, unable to repress their bub-
bling spirits, brought forth ebulli-
tions of paternal wrath from the
cleaner of the stock market In the
evening the same conditions pre-
vailed My lord must needs retire
behind the well-filled sheet, digest
its contents and steal forty winks be-
fore becoming properly attuned to
wifely condolences, and womankind,
perforce from long years of expert
ence, accepted in a matter of fact
way these conditions as part and par
eel of conjugal life.
BY and by there loomed- upon the
horizon an editor with an idea, one
who said to himself, "Once q week I
shall run a story with feminine inter-
est; the women may like It," And
like 1t they did. Nay, more, they
proved their appreciation by booming
the circulation of that particular
journal, and SO gladdened the heart
oe
took up the good work, following
closely in the footsteps of the cour-
ageous pioneer, and thus 1t came to
pass that. like the fashings of me-
teor, paragraphs began to scintillate
in the leading newspapers through
out the land, concise, to be sure, but
unmistakable In their tendency to
please women.
Then came day big with fate,
when valiant editor, throwing eau
tion to the four quarters Of the globe,
gave space to women writer's on
womanly subjects, and thus evolved
the "Woman's Page" The effect
was instantaneous, widespread and
beneficial. The mind of woman
broadened as she read, and, not con-
tent with the restricted sphere of
fashions, recipes and beauty talks,
she stepped over the borderland into
the very domain of man, into the
world of science and politics; Crap
pling and treating the policies of the
day with so rare an intelligence, so
just an appreciation, that men could
only wonder and exclaim at what
they termed-phenomenal. To-day
the Woman's Page is fixture. No
longer does the feminine end of the
household await in trembling silence
behind the coffee urn the pleasure OF
her life-partner. She has become the
oracle which decides the choice of
journal in her particular province
So powerful factor is the woman
editor and so far-reaching her infu.
ence that even the masculine element
seeks the benefit of her services. Nay
more, 1t has been known to consult
this authority on the delicate sprout.
ing of microscopic mustache or
plead for a suggestion in the adjust.
ment of a complex love affair. To
be sure. in this wise old world, there
are still many doubling Thomases
who relegate women to their so-called
sphere-the kitchen-whose dulled
intellects deny the benefit accruing
from the feminine atmosphere in
| journalism. who sneeringly suggest
that fashions alone are ladled forth
to its many readers and who wilfully
! close their eyes to the growing in
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graphically classed under the genus
Crank, and with whom there is little
sympathy. The spirit of comradeship
| is abroad in the land, and to-day men
and women, hand in hand. traverse
the paths of knowledge. What inter.
ests> one is bound to please the other
The Woman's Page, silently and
unostentatiously. crept into the home
life and is there the accepted coun.
sellor. ameliorator and all-round con-
fidante of its many readers. 1t is
made the arbiter of style and fashion,
the authority on epicurean concoc-
tions, a guide-book by land and sea,
the healer of bodily Ills, an adjuster
of domestic cataclysms, the Black
stone of legal wrangles, the mouth
| piece of woman's emancipation, the
restorer Of fading loveliness, and
finally, the sympathetic receptacle in.
TO which are poured the tribulations,
miseries and heartburnings of every
day commonplace humanity.-New
York Evening Sun.
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