Intermountain Catholic | 1907-04-13 | Page 7 | " a Woman as Noisy as 40,000,000 Men"

"A WOMAN AS NOISY AS 40,000,000 MEN" Justice Hands Down Opinion Against Housewife in a Neighborhood Feud. For being called country jakes, rubes, jayhawkers and other agricultural expletives. Mrs. Mary Gideon, Mrs. C. S. Pepper and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Yjekwire took the stand before City Justice Marsh in the case of the neigh-boorhod neigh-boorhod vs. Mrs. P. J. Carroll at Sacramento Sacra-mento last week. Justice Marsh manifested astonishment astonish-ment UOOll fliseoi-r.ftiio- .Ko. calendar. Carroll and Packard had been on the calendar two days before. Tjiis quarrel was found to be" a branch of a family feud of long standing and extensive connections, as complicated and biter as the average war of the highbinder tongs. Mrs. Gideon touched the ham first. Generally speaking, she had been recced at and pestered by Mrs. Carroll for years, had been called names most annoyingly rural, the limbs of her trees which spread over Mrs. Carroll's yard hid been hacked and mutilated." the Carroll children had been coached to throw all outdoors into her back yard-rocks, yard-rocks, sticks, broken bottles and bones. Gets Madder and Madder. She had told all of this to i; policeman police-man once, and ho lauhged. She had more to sav ind iaii-i foeif ,-,.i r prior, and she became madder and madder at the irritating smile of Mrs. Carroll. Mrs .Pepper testified, along with the rest of the neighborhood, that she had been classed as a rustic, called names she couldn't think of repeating, had continually dene nothing and been abused for it. Coming home from the lodge late one night Mrs. Carroll had rushed forth from hiding and lorn out the major part of her hair. .Mrs. Wiekwire feelingly corroborated the statements of her neighbors. The neighbors of Mrs. Carroll, she declared, nan aiicinpteu to boycott her. to have nothing to do with her. and then Mrs. Carroll ot her children at them with orders to stone them. Frank Wiekwire succeeded his wife. He was fat and jolly and inclined to wash his hands of the matter. The motions and gestures of his wife prodded prod-ded him on, however, and he testified that he had heard lots about Mrs. Carroll, Car-roll, although he knew nothing of the matter himself. Arraigns Whole Neighborhood. Mrs. Carroll took the defensive, and proved her ability to hold her own in u I war of language with four ordinary women. The araigned the whole neighborhood neigh-borhood with groat rmnfedness and vehemence ve-hemence and exposed plots and conn-terplois conn-terplois hooked up by the neighbors. She was totally surrounded by bad neighbors, and had been for years, and it seemed as if she could never get done being pestered by them. She wound up with the declaration that if she were not a peace-loving, law-abiding woman she could have had several of her neighbors down in court every day for the last five years, and her forgiving for-giving disposition and kindly nature had spared each one of them long terms in jail. . After all the testimony had been taken Justice Marsh pondered and then weightily declared: ."One woman in a neighborhood can kick up more trouble than forty million mil-lion men." The defendant was led over the burning burn-ing sands for some moments, and then Justice Marsh imposed a fine of $20. to be collected if there was any further vestige of an outbreak on the east side. The Plain Girl. The plain girl was "tired to death" of being mentioned as "that plain girl over there" and looked long and scru-tinizingly scru-tinizingly at her figure one day hi the glass.. After this scrutinizing "process she determined to kill the faults of "plain Mary Brown." First of all, she began some exercise for rounding out her figure. The one she used most frequently fre-quently was this; Stand erect, with the head held easily, arms at the side. Taking in a full breath very slowly, lift the arms shoulder high, at the I same time rising on the toes. Now bend the knees very slowly, keeping the body in a well-poised position. Then rise very slowly, still on the toes. Then sink back to position. This exercise ex-ercise she found developed a habit of walking, standing, sitting and rising j correctly, straightened the shoulders and rounded out the hollows. Bending the knees did away with the stiffness, and with that the awkwardness disappeared. disap-peared. Her face, neck and arms she bathed in very hot water every night, rubbed in a good coid cream and rubbed rub-bed out every suggestion of a line or wrinkle. In the morning she washed her face with hot water, making a lather lath-er of soap on her hands, not touching a cloth to her skin. This was followed by a good dashing of clear hot water and that in turn by a vigorous spatting with the fiagers dipped in cold water. She practiced smiling to make the corners cor-ners of her mouth turn up, and soon she found the forced smile had become be-come a natural one: that the contented spirit within generaled by the "smiling habit" was beginning to show itself in a happy expr?sslon, brightened eyes and an utter routing of all the old lines that erstwhile marked her face. The Witchery of Beauty. Personal beauty has always been a great power, and probably always will be. It is one of nature's srifts. which like intellect, may be used for good or ill. If you are indifferent to your dress or personal appearance, you run the risk of bringing upon yourself the contempt of the world, and thus losing your influence. This has been the fate of good but eccentric people from time immemorial, and some of our best men j and women have lost much of their influence in-fluence because of their Indifference to the world. It is the duty of every mother to teach her daughter to have respect for her porsonal appearance, as well as her intellectual attainments. Many a plain girl, by her daintiness of dress, and by what is termed her "good management" of herself, has became a social power, while her sister, more generously gifted by nature, has proved a failure because of her indifference to the influence of social appearance. We feel instinctively pained by unlovely-things. unlovely-things. And there is no necessity for any woman to be repulsive; if she dresses herself neatly and becomingly and does not scowl or look cross, but puts on a pleasant expression, she can not fail to be attractive.