Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1902 — FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN

THE WOMAN’S FAULT, WOMAN of experience laid /p\ down the law lately as follows: In almost nil the cases of unhappy marriages, or family trouble, It Is the woman’s fault. Somebody has to be unselfish, nud keep putting things right, in every household, and the woman is the one to do It. When she stands on her rights and will not do it, she maybe a tine character, but the result Is dangerous.” It was a hard saying—a counsel of perfection. Yet it had more than a little wisdom in it. Every one recalls household situations where a woman standing on clear rights would have probably wrecked all future peace, but where a woman’s wise unselfishness, Instead, brdught matters slowly right In the end. Patient Grlzcl may have gone too far, but she was on the right track. There Is such a thing as a determined renunciation of self in order that a tangle may be set right, which produces even a higher- moral effect than Insistence upon just rights. Such openeyed renunciation is very different from being trampled upon or ground down in spite of protest. It has the dignity and the power that belong to all voluntary sacrifice; and It calls out in response there ts in the soids around it. Individualism Is woman’s watchword to-day. But Individualism cannot be practiced by all the members of a family without breaking up family relations In short order. Some one In the household must take the collective view, which subordinates Individual wills to the common good. One such person in a house will make it a home; nud woman has always been the homemaker rather than man.—Harper’s Bazar. The Kver-Advancing Woman. The first woman to be admitted to the bar of Maryland, has been sworn In at Baltimore. Two years ago she was denied admission, though regularly graduated from a law school. The Maryland Legislature has since passed an act authorizing the admission of modern Portias to the State's courts. This is one of many similar recent concessions that seem to justify the Woman’s Journal, organ of the fair pleaders for equal rights, in saying that “there can be no doubt which way the procession is moving.” The progress of woman’s suffrage within the past few years is worth noting. Women now have county and partial municipal suffrage in England and Scotland; suffrage at all elections except for Parliament in Ireland; municipal suffrage In Kansas. Nova Scotia and Manitoba; school suffrage in Connecticut, New Jersey, Illinois, Ohio, the Dakotas, Arizona and Montana; suffrage on all questions of taxation for such of them as are taxpayers, in nil the towns and villages of New Y'ork and likewise in Louisiana; full suffrage in Utah, Colorado and Idaho, and—most notable of all—full suffrage at all elections, including Parliamentary, throughout the now Commonwealth of Australia. As never move backward” and rarely stop half way round, we may apparently make up our minds that "Mr. Chairman aud gentlemen,’ as the first sentence of campaign speeches, will be had form nearly everywhere before the twentieth century is very old.—New York World. Prominent Nebraska Woman. Mrs. Emma Page, of Syracuse, Neb., who was recently elected president of the Nebraska State Federation of Worn-

cn’s Clubs at the annual meeting In Columbus, Is one of the most enthusiastic clubwomen in Ihe State. She has been an inspiration to tlie women of licr city, and her enthusiasm lias beeu Infectious. Her election to the Important place of the presidency was a

surprise to those who dhl not know her, but not to the people of her city. She is a woman of great energy, brimful of enthusiasm nud very optimistic. The only opposition to Mrs. Page was Mrs. C. S. Lobitigler, of Omaha, who withdrew from the race near the end and left the field clear for the Syracuse woman. * To Repair a Mackintosh. To mend a mackintosh procure a small tin of India rublver cement or dissolve some strips of pure India rubber In naphtha or sulphide of <arl>on to form a stiff paste. Apply a little of the cement on the surface of a strip of the same material of which the mackintosh is made, which can be purchased by the yard or In remnants from the waterproofer’s; also apply n little cement to each side of the torn part, and when It begins to feel tacky bring the edges together and place the patch nicely over, and keep In position by putting a weight over It until quite hard, which will Is* In a few days. The Return of the High licet. .lust ns the rejoicing over the going out of tin* long skiyt Is at its height comes the melancholy Intelligence that the high heel Is coining In. Of course, this means that women will go nbout with their bodies tilted forward nnd their minds. In the opinion of many, tilted backward. There nre fashions that excite smiles and route that pro-

voko derision, but it Is more In sorrow than in smiles that one criticises the high heel. For if report be true this Instrument of fashion’s torture ■brings many physical woes in its wake and makes weak eyes and sprained ankles commonplaces in woman’s existence. It has always beeu associated with the wasp waist, and everybody knows that it is in the category of the Incompetent that the wasp waisted, Jiigh heeled woman must be placed. Of course, there are many women who will always cling to common sense heels and ideals in spite of fashion's unwholesome advice, and it is much to be hoped that the high heels will be adopted only by women who tread the primrose paths which do not require pedestrlaus to be sensibly shod.—Chicago Tribune.

MRS. EMMA PAGE.