The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-11-27
THE PAGE FOR WOMEN
Evolution of What Was Once ~.
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There was time, howeve, s,n
it may be to realize, when w =, uliacaA
not read newspapers, when IN + ,s
jority of cases the daily ton ~ sae ~
regarded by them as IN r'S,lal VI
enemy of the household. r .aaslalos
guide housewife" began her hDas
opposite an autocrat, who n V s,., D
full silence delayed the sayorv s, !
fast too satisfy his curiosity WI, Ossal
ing the antics of bull and bs.. .esaas
when the youthful members ~
family, unable to repress tba,. "
bling spirits. brought forth 10y, ~
lions of paternal wrath fro. s'a
cleaner of the stock market y
evening the same Condition.
vailed. My lord must need ~
behind the well-filled sbeo, ~ ,ss
It's contents and steal forty WINS s.'s
fore becoming properly attnnss
wifely condolences, and womass.
perforce from long years Of as
ence, accepted in a matter q,
way these conditions as part ana !
eel of conjugal life.
BY and by there doomed nm,
horizon an editor with an ia.
who said to himself, "Once IN
shall run story with feminine ~
est; the women may like it,
like it they did. Nay, mora -
proved their appreciation by booss
the circulation of that narti..l4
journal, and so gladdened the h.
of the astute editor. Other NAM.
took up the good work. follos'.
closely in the footsteps Of the A..
ageous pioneer, and thus It eams
pass that, like the fiashings of ) I
teor, paragraphs began to scintir,
in the leading newspapers tbrons'
out the land, concise, to be sure
unmistakable in their tendeucv
please women.
Then came day big with IN
when a valiant editor, throwing n
ton to the four quarters of the sos
gave space to women writers
womanly subjects, and thus eyOlr
the "Woman's Page" The ess
was instantaneous, widespread },
beneficial. The mind of Won,
broadened as she read, and. not i,
tent with the restricted spberp
fashions, recipes and beauty tau
she stepped over the borderland /.
the very domain of man. into
world of science and politics: n,
ping and treating the policies Of
day with so rare an intelligence
just an appreciation, that men CO..
only wonder and exclaim at vi
they termed-phenomenal. Tcl
the Woman's Page is fixture.
longer does the feminine end Of
household await in trembling sils
behind the coffee urn the pleasure
her life-partner. She has become
oracle which decides the choice
journal in her particular province
So powerful a factor is the won
editor and so far-reaching her il.
ence that even the masculine elem
seeks the benefit of her services.
more, it has been known to cons
this authority on the delicate spri
ing of a microscopic mustache
plead for suggestion in the adiu
ment of a complex love affair
be sure, in this wise old world, ths
are still many doubling Thoms;
who relegate women to their social
sphere-the kitchen-whose dull
intellects deny the benefit accrt
from the feminine atmosphere
journalism. who sneeringly sugg
that fashions alone are ladled ID
to its many readers and who wifi
close their eyes to the growing
fiuence of women. These mar
graphically classed under the gs
Crank, and with whom there is ID
sympathy. The spirit of comrads
is abroad in the land, and TO-DAY
and women, hand in hand, traVs
the paths of knowledge. WhatlS
ests one is bound to please the %
The Woman's Page, silently
unostentatiously, crept into the
life and is there the accepted 9
sellor, ameliorator and all-round
fidante of its many readers
made the arbiter of style and fssi
the authority on epicurean COZ
tons, a guide-book by land and
the healer of bodily ills. an adj
of domestic cataclysms, the
stone of legal wrangles. the ns
piece of woman's emancipatiOHr
restorer of fading loveliness
finally, the sympathetic receptaa
to which are poured the triOuls'
miseries and heartburnings Of
day commonplace HUMANITY
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