The Mankato free press., 1923-06-29
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mrs. Henry Ford mas evtoent-
iy changed her mind about not
wanting 20 live IN the White
House. Henry has told the world
that he would consent to be the
presidential candidate Of any re-
sponsib'e patty or persons
Here is a brain throb from Sister
Bess Wilson Of The Redwood Gazet-
te: Iowa is making quite fuss
because she now has newspaper
owned and managed by woman.
That just shows again how far be-
hind Minnesota our neighboring
state is. Its been years and years
ano years since such women as Mrs.
Stone and Mother Harwood did
their splendid work as pioneer wo-
men editors in Minnesota and now
the state is full of the print shops
where women are doing the work,
having long since ceased to consider
that there is anything unusual or
out Of the ordinary in such job. 1t
is just as much and just as easy a
woman's busines as II is a man s
for real brain work and endurance,
housekeeping has editing backed off
the boards! II was just a masculine
bluff that made it seem so exclusive
'ly a mans job and the women OF
Minnesota called that bluff pretty
nearly a generation ago
About the only spot occupied
by mere man that women have
not invaded is the prize ring
and there is possibility that
they will engage in the fiste
business sooner or later men,
bers of the fair sex having be-
come patrons Of the fights.
Here is a morsel for your think
ing apparatus: All the business OF
the world will be transacted by
women within a century, if the trend
now indicated by census statistics
continues. Mrs. Alice Foote Mac
Dougall. New York feminist. an
nounced Monday Mrs. MacDougalI
said she had discovered that since
1880 the percentage of women in
business increase from 14.7 TO 2l.O,
while the percentage of men gain
fully occupied dropped five tenths
of one per cent. I don't pretend TO
predict what the men will de- she
said. Some one has to do the
housekeeping, l suppose, and If the
women are otherwise engaged, the
men will have TO do it, probably by
that time. though, inventors will
have relieved human drudgery to
such an extent that it will be pretty
easy for the men"
There are men who will make
mighty fine housekeepers-nit.
y y y
There is no race suicide in the
fly family. There always is full
baby carriage. An interesting study
Of the fiy conducted by the govern
ment reveals the following figures
showing the marvellous increase ey
cry three weeks if nothing interferes
with the life cycle OF the fly. On APP
I'll IL, two flies start to propagate
their kind and by May they have
125 flies in their family. This is in
creased to 1900 living descendants
by May %. The following figures
crease: June 13, 1000 flies; July
4, 25,92O. 900 flies; July %, 1856
300, 900 fly pests; August l3. 93,312.-
100000 flies; September 5,598,720-
100000 fly descendants.
These figures demonstrate that
il you would do away with the
fly pest you must do your swat
ting early and with great fire.
quency-Iikewise with great
force and severity.
ST. Cloud Times: There was d
times when mother insisted on
knowing whore daughter was at 10
p. N.
There are some daughters
who are singing in these mod
ern days: "Oh Where Is My
Wandering Mother Tonight.
Is society, in its search for thrills,
becoming artificial? Does this artifi
ciality tend TO destroy the home and
make marriage less binding? Con-
Iingsby Dawson, in his new novel
The Cost of Folly now appearing
in serial form, turns the searchlight
of his observation and brilliant story
telling ability on these questions.
Joyce Gathway's experience, her life,
is the inside life of society-its lofty
disregard of accepted standards of
morality and its supreme selfish
ness. Coningsby Dawson knows the
truth about society. And he does
mot hesitate to expose its grave
Questioned about the
Istory, Mr.. Dawson said that it dealt,
by implication, with God-The For
gotten Factor in Modern Life. In
my story" he added, "the girl who
the traffic laws of the
Invisible Policeman, failed to get
help from the one man who had a
right to save her. Within twenty
-four hours, for doing nothing worse
than thousands of our girls are do
ing at every summer resort of fash
;on, she found herself Stunned, pen
niless, and figuring in a divorce"
Which goes to show that It
makes a difference in society"
who the party Is that gets too
GAY. Some women can "hlt
the pace" and still hold their
place In the "charmed eircIe"-
others are cast aside. Why?
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