Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-12-07
When the New Woman Came.

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The new woman had arrived one
day about thirty years ago. She wasn't
heralded by any brass bands or beat
ing drums. She Just quietly elbowed
| the bosses aside and made a place for
herself, and she's been making more
room every day since. AT first we
laughed at her. It was a good joke.
Then we sneered at her. She gave US
the wink that there was something
doing. BY the time we had got ready
to club her back into her old place 1t
was too late. She was running things
to suit her own ideas.
Today ONE have the right to vote
In many states. Five years hence will
see 'em voting In all. Man, the boss,
has been deposed, and the sooner he
makes terms the better for him.
The new era has changed many
things, but nothing more than that
feeling we call love. Years ago 1
loved and courted. 1t took me a full
year to find out whether the girl loved
me or not. There was time wasted.
There was anxiety and delay. / was
afraid to ask, and the girl was afraid
to answer. Even IL she loved there
vas the old man and the old woman
to ask, the grandfather and the grand
mother, the uncles and aunts and
cousins.
How II Is with the new woman7 She
knows her mind, and, knowing II, she
doesn't are what others think. When
you have courted her for four weeks
she Is either ready to cling to you as
the vine does to the oak or to point to
the door and tell you to take a skate.
Here and there some Fifth avenue girl
still buys q husband for so much cash
In hand, but even that sort Of barter Is
going out of fashion,
Old Love on Modern Basis.
There Is just as much love since the
new woman arrived as there was be.
fore, but 1t has been put on another
basis. The new woman wants to know
where her bread and butter is coming
from, and she doesn't become the cling
ing vine until she finds u Most Of
them can go out and earn SIS per week
without ~clinging to any oaks or bass
woods.
The new woman runs the house. The
boss hung or by his toes, but he had
to 20. There are a million homes In
this country now where the wives car
70 to the store and buy a spool OF
thread without being Jawed all night
by the husband.
The new woman started the fashion
of having two hats a year instead Of
one hat every fifteen years. There
vas talk that the country would be
bankrupted, but the United States
treasury IL still paying all vouchers.
The new woman wears puts and
rats, and she powders and paints.
That's her business. IL the Dos.
doesn't like 1t he can lump 1t.
The new woman wears high heels
ON her shoes. Men would have KEEP
her as fiatfooted as q washboard, bu
he Just couldn't
The new woman shoots, rides, play
ball and walks around alone. DOM
try to be funny with her or you ma!
get six months In the hospital.
In conclusion and just before takini
the highway for x Crossroads lot M
exclaim: Heaven bless and prospe
and progress the new womanl sh
, has turned the world upside down. bu
the world Is the better for itr
Oysters . Foot Long.
Labadist missionaries In Amer1ct
wrote to Europe in 1867 that they has
eaten oysters n foot long. They sait
they were very palatable and fully a
good as the English variety. An ear
" writer states he had seen oyster:
thirteen inches In length In Virginia
where in 1909 many Of the famishes
settlers found in the oyster banks I
| means Of D~reSerying fife.