A BLOW TO HER PRIDE

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 47, 21 November 1907, Page 38

A BLOW TO HER PRIDE

Mrs. Anna Shaw, president of the American Woman Suffrage Association, ' said in an address in Chicago :— 1 An excellent cure for false pride is a little college settlement work. I know a Philadelphia woman. She is proud because her great-grandfather, a carpenter, happened to own land that is now worth millions. In her haughty way she did some settlement work- during Lent. There was an old woman whom she visited every few days. She carried the old woman jellies, tea, olives, and such-like luxuries. And she was secretly pleased with the attention she attracted as she passed up and down the narrow, squalid street. ' " Your neighbors stare at me a good deal," she said conrplacently one morning. ' " I'll be bound for that," said the old woman. ' " I suppose they are very inquisitive, eh ?■" ' "They certainly are, the busybodies," the old woman grumbled. '-" No doubt they question you about me a good deal ? " '"Indeed they do, mum." ' The visitor smiled again. ' '> And what do you tell them ? " she asked sweetly. ' " Oh," said .the old woman, " I just say yer me dressmaker, and let it go at that." '