The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-10-05
>cr:hncr's MONTHLY.


of its illustrations render .ScrijRefs Tor October
aremalkable number. The illustrated articles
aret: In and About Paris; Mignonette, a poem ;
On the Tobacco Plantation Modern Athens /:
Autumn Game on the Praires and At his Gates
DR.. I. N. Coan, of the iadepen6tNt, contributes
very suggestive essay under the title of Brood
Views, and A. McElroy White ;luminate- a
celebrated divine in his paper. Mr. Beecher as a
Social Force. The number is rep.ete with minor
articles. which are all .eadable and possessed OF
great merit. DR.. Holland is, as usual, thought.
full and suggestive in the Topics of the Time,
and the other editorial departments are gifted
with their accustomed ability.
With the next number will commence the
fifth volume of this excellent periodical, which
will contain some features of more than ordin-
ary interest, among which will be new serial
by DR.. Holland-Arthur Bonniface--to be su.
perbly illustrated by Miss Hallock Bretr Harte,
r. H. Stoddsrd and other eminent writers will
! i've ever published.
The following is from the pen of DR.. Holland /:
| The NEW YORK WoMAN.-What kind of u
being is the typical New York Woman! Our
! neighbors across the waters evidently regard her
as something very different from the typical
Enelishwomup and they form their judgments
not SO much by what they know OF the New
York Woman ut home, MS by what they zee Of
her abroad. They find her extravaganza in her
! tastes. something more than self.as.ured in her
bearing, loud IL her dress, and superficial in
her education aud ompllshlnon,s-if she has
any. Now We &" not admit that woman who
Gu be thus characterized is the type of New
York won ,nbood. The world does not mold bet.
ter women, or better educated women, or better
hammered women, than to be found in great
numbers in this much DETAINED city but the
Eng!ismaD does not them for they jealous
ly guard their society when he comes here, and
when they travel they are unobtrusive and do
not attract his attt ton. The average travelling
Eoglishnan in New York knows Just as little Of
the best society of New York as the average ira.
Yelling American does of the best society of Lon.
don.
Yet the Eagli,hman has apology in what
he secs, and, perhtp- lii all that he sees, for the
severity of his Judgment. There is type in
woman hood in New York--nnd it has, alas far
200 many representatives, which every
American, every where, has re-.on TO be ashamed
The same type be found in all the large
cities Of the country, but it exists III its prrtec
| ton here. 1t lives in hotels and boarding
houses; IL travels, il haunts the fashion bic
watering places; it is prominen: AZ the opera
ma the ball; III -hors. it il everywhere it can
show It's If and it. clothes, Il rejoices over u
notice OF is-eit in the EreldHJ Chaterj0r. or the
Weekly .Nah mi Nuter as among the proudp,t
and most graceful of its social .ctievement- Its
Grand first question is: "Wherewith1l shall
tie clothed :" aud when that is answered AS we'll
NJ ii can be, the next is: SLOW and where can l
| show my clothes SO MS to attract the most men,
| distress the greatest number OF women, and
make the most stunning social sensation ~ We
have no fears of exaggeratng in this character
ization. We have seen these women at home
and away; and their presumption, bodness,
vanity, idleness. display, and lack of all noble
and womanly aims are disgrace to the city
| which produces them, and the country after
| whose name they call themselves
Of course there is sufficient cause for the
production OF this type of woman, and it is to be
| found in her circumstances and way of life. 1t
| is prevalent among the noaCeaur ,iches-anloag
those of humble beginnings and insufficient
breeding and education. 1t Is fostered in the
boarding houses and hotels-those hotbeds of
jealousy aud personal and social rivalry and aim.
, less idleness. The woman who finds herself
housed and clothed and fed and petted and fur
nished with money for artificial as we'll as real
wants, without the lifting of finger, or the bur.
den OF care, and without the culture Of head
| or heart that leads her to seek for the higher
eatisfactions of womanhood, becomes in the most
natural way precisely what we have described.
| 1t would he unnatural for her to become any.
thing else. Tho simple truth is, that unless
women have routine of duty that diver.s their
thoughts from Themselves, and gives them some.
thing t. think of Besides dress and the exhibit.
ion Of it, they degenerate. The only cure for
this that we know of is universal house keeping.
There is no man who can afford to pay II fair
price for board, who cannot afford to keep house,
and house keeping, though it be never SO hum.
BILE. is the most natural and the he,lthiest Office
to which woman is ever called. There j. no OF e
thing that would do SO much to elevate the type
of New York womanhood as IA universal seces.
sion from boarding house and hotel life, and II
| universal entrance upon separate homes. Such
q step would increase the stock of happiness i'm.
prove health of body and health Of m,nd, and
raise at once the standard Of morals and nan
| ners
The devil always finds work for the Idle hands
to DO, whether the hands belong to men or We n =
en-; but American men tao. ,pt to be idle
They are absorbed III work from early until late,
and leave their idle wives, coopeG up in rooms
| 'h't cost them u" care 10 get RID of the linz err
Ing time as they eau. L. it kind 20 90 this, or
Is 1t cruel! 1t il Ia kind in its motives. it 1, cru.
81 in ,'- results. The whole system OF bo riding
huU.r nd hotel life j. vicious. To liy. la puh.
! | : To h. GA dress parade every d., I, De al.
sEy. part aud parcel of 9os ping multitude, 10
1--we "in,c->ly year after year. with thoughts
concentrated upon ones pet.on and ones selfish
d. light, to be perpetunlly without "A routine Of
l"ait'y duty, 1t IL I" tke the broadcast ana
hIieir>t road to deg, "d",o" of all that is ,dmi
rablc aud lovnbe in w"manhoud Ii il 10 make
by the most natural process, that gnv,unudy, ioun
| frivolous. Dreteutip,Is vain. lntriytiuy un.u,i.