The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-07-05

| stick or the rolling pin as
but she called at the drug store and
got some poison that settled the fate
Of about a dozen men. She was found
out and hanged, but man invoke to the
fact that women had grown tired of
his bluff.
Why SO much about the pilgrim
fathers and so little about the pilgrim
mothers? The stiff necked old chaps
came over here in search Of liberty,
and yet how much did they grant
their wives? If a wife "sassed back
at her husband she could be placed in
the public stocks. If he cuffed her
ears that was his right. While he was
sitting around on Plymouth rock talk.
ing politics she was pounding the cor1,-
meal for the family.
When the New Woman Came.
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 q 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 it
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 l
owed 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 if she loved there
was the old man and the old woman
to ask, the grandfather and the grand
cousins.
How it is with the new woman? She
knows her mind, and. knowing it, she
doesn't care 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 a 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 it 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 out. 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 IN by his toes, but he had
to 60. There are a million homes In
this country now where the wives can
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thread without being jawed all night
by the husband.
The new woman started the fashion
Of having two hats a year instead of
II hat every fifteen years. There
was talk that the country would be
bankrupted, but the United States
treasury is still paying all vouchers.
The new woman wears puffs and
rats, and she powders and paints.
That's her business. If the boss
doesn't like it he can lump it.
The new woman wear high heels
on her shoes. Men would have kept
her as fatfooted as a dashboard, but
he Just couldn't.
The new m shoots, rides, plays
ball and walks around alone. Don't
try to be funny with her or you may
get six months in the hospital.
In conclusion and just before taking
the highway for X Crossroads let me
exclaim: Heaven bless and prosper
and progress the new woman! She
has turned the world upside down, but
the world is the better for it,"