The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-03-23
Social Notes

Every four years with the coming
of leap year that old nonsense about
wonan's age comes up. 1t would seem
that In this age of women, when they
are just beginning to take their right
full place, that this could be eliminated,
One of the best modern philosophers
says: afraid to grow old? Ashamed
to grow old? DO the lilies and the
roses hesitate to bloom into the full
splendor Of summer time? Does the
waving grain fear to ripen n the
golden beauty of the autumn? Do not
the crimson checked apples change to
their mellowest, sweetest, rarest per-
lection as the days grow shorter and
the shadows lengthen to the long win
ter nights? And beyond the SHOWS
and the shadows is there not another
brighter, happier spring?" 1t used to
appear at the marriage license window;
and good souls are caught wondering
whether a kind clerk or a ~soft-heart-
ed Legislature will not relieve the fair
creatures of the duty of confessing how
old they are when they put their
on the electors books. All
women under so could be girls, still,
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right a few centuries ago in lands
where it was though women and
horses needed youth, strength, plump
ness and just enough brains to come
when called, 1t might do now in Tur-
key until a few more Turkish women
learn they are a bit better than quad
rupeds. But in America, the land that
knows no king but bows to 10000, 900
queens; in North Dakota, where votes
for women leagues have just been
started; where the women of the
state are progressing so rapidly as
leading club influences of the nation;
in Fargo, the home of the prettiest,
the cleverest, the best-where some of
the women are crowding more Of real
value into twelve months than the
shirks and moaners will record in a
dozen years-the idea is preposterous.
The woman Of so? She can be old
and Wrinkled in face, in mind, in
heart; throwing away all ambition:
sealing up her soul in the past; soured,
peevish,. disappointed; making no eff
fort to be friendly, but grumbling that
she has no friends; counting her career
as ended, her plans all broken, her
hope all vanished; living, existing for
the ten, twenty, forty years that may
be left her as if she longed to meet
the undertaken every day. That wo-
man of so? She should have years Of
health and happiness before her. Ter
mind should be at it's best-skilled by
training, made strong by work and
struggle, Gained by experience; her
brain still young, ready to see and
study n grow broader; her heart
still young, eager to hope and dare
and love; her life still young, for be-
fore her she can see a quarter of a
century Of wonderful opportunity, to
learn, to plan, to help n to do before
she will be ready to sit down and rest
and look back over the busy years.
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Miss Emir Best is expected home
this evening from Bottineau, where
h is instructor in the domestic
science department of the State School
of Forestry. Miss Best will spend a
weeks vacation with her mother, Mrs.
w. H. Best of Third avenue south.
Grand Forks Times: The Flower Of
Power. is the title Of a pretty play
written by Miss Vera Kelsey, daugh-
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Fourth avenue, which will be presented
by the girls of Kappa Alpha Theta
sorority at Corwin hall Saturday even
ing. Those privileged to see it are a
company of invited guests including !
the patronesses, sorority mothers and
sisters, some freshman girls and Mrs.
March Of the University of Minnesota
chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta who
arrived Thursday evening and is being
entertained as the guest Of Mrs. F.
j. King of University The
presentation of the play will be In the
nature of a social function and the
girls who will take the leading parts
are Miss Clara Pennington, Miss Jes-
sic Bulge, Miss Margaret Fawcett,
Miss Donna Forkner, Miss Selma Has
sci and Miss LaBelle Mahon of Lang
don. A number of Theta women and
girls will be here from out of town
for the event and among them will
be Mrs. Charles +. Amidon of Fargo
who will be entertained at the
home of Judge and Mrs. c.. F.
Templeton on Reeves avenue Mrs.
Walter L. Stockwell of Fargo who will ,
be the guest of Dean and Mrs. Joseph
ENOhiCuS VI university avenue Dedn
Donaldson of the agricultural college
faculty, Miss Beatrice Olson of the
Fargo high school faculty, Miss Rose
Conmy who teaches at Humbolt, Mimi,
Miss Aletta Olson and Miss Jean
Fraser of Grafton. Miss Mahon will
be the guest of Miss Selma Hassell.
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On next Friday evening will take
place the last of the Ell ZagaI
dancing parties which have been
given during the winter months. These
events have been largely attended and
the young society people of the city
are looking forward to next Friday
evening with muc pleasure. The
party will be given in the handsome
ball room of the Masonic temple.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Moore of STAN
ley, N. D., who have been spending
their honeymoon in this city left
Thursday for Grand Forks, where they
will be guests for several days OF Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas Moore.
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Park River Gazette News: The G..
d. Lord home was the scene Of a de-
lightful house party from Friday until
Monday, where Miss Frances Titus of
Mimic, Howard Maher of Devils Lake
and Lynn Stambaugh Of Fargo enjoyed