New Woman Sayings

NEW WOMAN SAYINGS

THE  founders of the American republic held it to be self evident that all men are created equal. Concerning women they were silent, either deeming the feminine sex not worth considering or else thinking it best not to stir up the woman question. Owing, perhaps, to this most melancholy failure on the part of the. fathers to define the status of the befrilled half of the race, American women have apparently taken it for granted they are not included in the Declaration of Independence, but have the right to divide themselves into two great classes --classes that may be broadly designated as snobs and menials. The snob is she who has money; the menial is she who works for her living. In the first class there is likewise a subdivision -- namely, she whose husband accumulated the money which floats her in the swim and she whose  father or grandfather got it. The one whose father or grandfather got the  millions holds herself higher in the scale of being than the person whose mere husband made the money. There are thus the heavy snob and the middle sized snob. In a pretty factory town is a flourishing Christian church. This church proclaims the equal sisterhood of women and that all are one in the spirit. The women of the church organized a society for social and other purposes. It was under the general direction of their pastor. Some factory girls, intelligent, nice looking and of high character, got into the club with the approval of the pastor. Immediately there was a fine feminine outburst among the American women whose ancestors had come over in the steerage a generation or two ahead of the factory girls' ancestors. A meeting was held at which both the heavy snobs and the middle sized snobs joined in venting their indignation on the factory girls that had dared to come into the club. They sputtered, then they gathered up their skirts with a swish, stuck their noses in the air and resigned from that club on the spot, not forgetting to shut the door with a bang. Oh, my! Oh, my! Oh, my!

 My sisters, boss not; neither be bossed.

Know this: You are never too old to learn anything you want to learn.

 Mrs. Waterman, sixty years old, is about to enter Cornell university as a freshman. She expects to take the full college course. She does this to get knowledge that will help her in some researches she purposes making in Italy. She says, "I find I learn faster than I did forty years ago." Fine old girl!

Here is how Eleanor Kirk speaks her mind on the subject of both mental scientists and doctors: "When a scientist' advises the wholesale sweeping out of doctors, I know where to place him. He belongs among the fools. Likewise when a medical practitioner condemns all students of mental or divine science I am able accurately to estimate his caliber. He's another."

 There is one woman doctor of divinity. She is Rev, Augusta J. Chapin of the Universalist church.

Men build houses; women build homes.

Dr. Ida E. Hyde is assistant professor of physiology in the University of Kansas. She received part of her scientific education at Heidelberg, Germany, and her record as a student was so high that it induced the governors of Heidelberg to open their medical department to women.

Two women, Sarah B. Carter and Margaret Bowman, have been appointed copyists in the county register's office in Brooklyn. these are the first of their sex in that office. They had no vote, but their names stood high on the civil service list, and, although the register was considerably, upset in his mind over appointing them, there was no help for it.

Mrs. E. F. Holmes, the "silver queen of Utah," having made her fortune, spends her winters east wearing beautiful gowns and enjoying social life. Nobody has a better right. Mrs. Holmes is the 'partner of Senator Kearns of Utah in his mining enterprises. She controls and conducts her end of the business personally and has done so with such conspicuous ability that she is now worth $50,000,000, so it is said. This is what might be expected of women in a state where woman can vote.

 Mary Hartwell Catherwood gets much material for her charming stories from dreams. If people took more careful note of their dreams, not in the old superstitious way, but from the modern viewpoint of psychological science, they could learn much of that borderland which for so many ages has baffled human research.

Camille Olivia Green, colored, after an excellent examination has received from the Louisiana board of pharmacy a certificate empowering her to deal out drugs and prepare prescriptions. She is the first woman druggist of her race.

ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER