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The New Woman Everywhere

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Day
26
Month
September
Year
1902
Copyright
Public Domain
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The New Woman Everywhere

IN a restaurant the other day I sat opposite a young couple who evidently had not long been married. The girl had not yet lost the air of triumphant possession that wives of a few weeks wear; the youth still rolled his eyes toward his girl in the adoring, goslingy way which characterizes young husbands ere they learn that after all their brides are just made of common flesh and blood like other women. Sweetie declared she wanted just what Dickie desired to eat. Dickie said, oh, no; she must have what she fancied for herself, and presently they settled it by getting partly what one liked, partly what the other liked, which is the best possible way of settling matrimonial differences. Sweetie was a pretty bride, with large eyes, delicate face and the perfect American girl profile. She was tastefully and rather expensively dressed too. So far all was as it should be. She finished luncheon ahead of her husband. Then she made a break in good manners that was as a fathomless chasm. She picked up the table napkin and in the eyes of all mankind deliberately and carefully wiped and polished her pretty teeth with it. Then in a voice purposely loud, nasal and strident, in which the crudities and unculture of generations sounded, she said: "Dickie, when we come here again we'll go to the upstairs dining room. They are such a common, low set of people that eat down here." That girl must have been brought up in the same family as the well dressed young man next me in a train who sat with a toothpick above his ear, put there like a pencil for convenience for use at intervals!

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The National Boot and Shoe Workers' union has a woman organizer to travel among her sex employed in the shoe factories and bring them into the association.

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It is not enough to have no bad habits. It is even more necessary to have some good ones.

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It is now acknowledged that King Edward's safe recovery from his desperate illness was largely due to the indefatigable care of the noble women trained nurses who watched over him. All right. Maybe women's services to the human race will be appreciated by and by.

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Helen Gould is earning praise from the new woman all round. Two hundred girl telegraphers in the Western Union offices sent her a petition asking that their pay be raised and setting forth reasons why this was a just and reasonable request. People get helped who help themselves. Miss Gould took the matter into consideration, with the result that the women received a substantial increase of salary.

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Girls, notice the poor old women whom you meet every day, feeble, awkward, shabby, stumbling bodies, with their deprecating, ignorant, " 'f raid smile," as though they were apoligizing to all mankind and the Almighty for being alive. They were satisfied to remain weak and ignorant and timid and to "lean." It was too much trouble to be and do anything else. Is this what you are coming to?

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A newspaper says that some New York brokers have decided that they will not allow women to buy and sell stocks and to speculate through their offices. Dear, dear, but this is dreadful!

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Buffalo is a good city for women. It has fifty lady physicians in good practice, at least one woman who is making a fortune in the pickling and preserving business and public spirited feminine associations that possess two of the handsomest and most convenient women's clubs in the world. Perhaps Buffalo is near enough to Rochester for its women to be inspired by General Susan B. Anthony.

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Miss Theresa Torgatsch is now supervisor of the German teachers in the public schools of Chicago. She is German born and university bred and noted no less for her knowledge than for her teaching ability. Her predecessor in office was a man, Dr. Zimmerman.

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When there is a wedding among your friends, send always best wishes. Wait till the pair have been married and have lived happily ten years. Then send congratulations the heartiest.

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It has been brought to light that that great man, Professor Gottfried Wilhelm Liebnitz, had one of the lightest weight brains on record. There is now hope for women, isn't there?

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At the summer school of the University of California more than half the students were women, and they came from nearly all parts of the earth, particularly from the far orient. The new woman is moving all around the world.

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Miss Myra Lloyd Dock of Harrisburg is a member of the Pennsylvania forestry reservation commission and one of the most accomplished botanists and foresters in the state. She is a lecturer on botany.

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ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER.