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Show WOMAN'S WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS. Which Hour la s Woman's Life Is the Happiest? Copyright by American Press Association The Ladies' Home Journal contains letters from a number of prominent women wo-men in answer to tho question: Which is tho happiest hour in a woman's life? Frances Willard says the happiest hour in her life was that in which she was least conscious of herself and most uplifted up-lifted into holy thoughts and purposes, which is a beautiful answer. The happiest hap-piest hour in Jennie June's life was the hour when she paid off a $10,000 mortgage mort-gage that it had taken ton years to liquidate. liqui-date. Rose Terry Cooke, who preaches that a woman ought to obey her husband, hus-band, believes that the happiest hour of a woman's life is tho hour of her death. ; Hose oughtto think that way. Anybody who believes such a horrid doctrine as Blie pretends to could not well think otherwise. The idea of "oboying" a man! Mrs. Frank Leslie declares the happiest hour of a woman's life is when she is dressing to meet her lover after long absence. But they are all wrong. The happiest hour of n woman's life is when she is asloep. There is no good reason why a woman should not earn her own living in paying employments unloss sho is tho mother of little children that demand her care. On genoral principles why should men support womon? Just as long as they do, jnst that long will women be dependent depend-ent on them. When women have pecuniary independence inde-pendence all gates will open to them of their own accord. Tho way to get pecuniary pe-cuniary independence is to go in for it and get it. From the remarks of certain ladies on tho subject of woinon'a bathing costumes and ball and dinner dresses we are to conclude that tho Creator did a most improper im-proper thing when ho made the human body, that magnificent and beautiful statuo of pink tinted flesh. Women are not a bit more immodest from wearing a bathing dress which will allow them to use tho muscles freely in swimming. There is a very old and noble saying, and it is this: "Evil to him who evii thinks." It ought, however, to read as follows: "Evil is in the heart of him who evil thinks." For four years Miss Cora L. Outcalt has been official stenographer of the supremo court of Nebraska, that grand young state which bus grown so wonderfully won-derfully since the lait census. When this energetic girl was only 18 years old she was unrolling chirk of tho Nebraska house of representatives, and filled her office to tho satisfaction of all, The Nebraska State Journal says. With her savings in this placo sho went to St. Loius and took tho course in stenography..' stenog-raphy..' Sim found work at her chosen occupation immediately. Since receiving receiv-ing the appointment of clerk of the supreme court sho has legun the study of law, looking ahead to still further honors and emoluments. It will thus be seen that since she was IS this girl has been engaged iii steady and arduous labors, yet wo have no record that her health broke down once under the strain. Girls' health does not break down any more from work or study, as the old fogy doctors declared it would under the strain of higher education and general employment for tho sex. And they professed pro-fessed tho greatest solicitude for the perpetuation per-petuation of tho race, these blessed doc-tore. doc-tore. Well, the race isn't dying out much as yet. The way to look young is to preservo tho child nature and not hit tho griefs and disappointments of life make any lasting impression of gloom upon you. Tho child breaks its heart over a broken toy, but forgets all about it next morning. morn-ing. All our griefs are as broken toys. The youngest looking woman for her ago that I know said to me: "I do have the blues sometimes. 1 cry my eyes out all afternoon, and then get up and go to tho theatre and have a lovely time iu the evening." All this is sound philosophy, except the crying part. Don't do that. It is babyish, and hurts the complexion and eyes terribly. In tho counting and handling of money , in tlie treasury department at Washington Washing-ton men are nowhere compared with women in the matter of speed or the detection de-tection of counterfeit money. Senator Blair, the great introducer, ha? reported to the United States senato in behalf of tha majority members of tho committee on woman suffrage in favor of a constitutional amendment giving to women the right to vote. The report says: "Prejudice and custom have denied to woman the suffrage, but it is impossible to give a reason for the exercise of suffrage suf-frage by man which does not apply with equid or greater force in favor of woman suffrage." |