The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-09-29
CAIRO BULLETIN.
TffENEW YORK WOMEN.
WHAT SHE Is AND WHAT SHE
OUGHT TO BE.

woman and they form their judgments
not 90 much by what they know OF the
New York Woman at home
% by what they SEQ of her abroad. They
find her extravagant in her tastes, some
thing more than self-assured in her bear
ing, cloud IN her dress, and superficial in
her education and accomplishmen,s--if
she has any. Now we do not admit that
woman who can be thus characterized is
The type of New York womanhood. The
world does not hold better women, or bet
ter educated women. or better hammered
than are to be found in great numbers in
this much DETAINED city but the English
men does not see them, for they jealousy
guard their society when he comes here
and when they travle they are unobtru-
sive and do not attract his attention. The
average travelling Englishman in New
York knows just as little Of the best socie-
ty Of New York as the average travelling
American does of the best society.of Lon
don. tR a..l
Yet the englishman has an apology in
what he sees, and, perhaps in all that he
sees, for the severity of his judgement
There is a type of womanhood in New
York-and il has, alas far too many rep
resentatives--of which every American,
everywhere has reason to be ashamed.
The same type can be found in all the
large cities of the country, but it exists in
its perfection here. 1t lives in hotels and
clearinghouse it travels, it haunts the
fashionable watering places it is promin-
ent at the opera and the ball; in short, it
is wherever it Gun show itself and its
clothes. II rejoices over notice of itself
in the Evening Chatterbox,' or the
Weekly Milk and Water, as among the
proudest and most grateful of its social
achievements. Its grand first question is {:
"Wherewithal shall I be clothed ~ and
when that is answered rs well as it can be,
the next is "How and where can l show
my clothes so as TO attract the most men,
distress the greatest number of women,
and make the most stunning socia, sensa-
ton p We have no fear of exaggerating
in this Characterization. We have seen
these women at home and away; and
their presumption, boldness, vanity, idle.
ness, display, and lack Of all noble and
womanly aims are a disgrace to the city
which produces them, and the country
after whose name they call themselves.
OF course there is sufficient cause TO
the production Of this type of woman, an,
it is to be found in her circumstances an,
way Of life. 1t is prevalent among tn
noureaur riehes-among those of humbl
beginning and insufficient breeding an
education. 1t is fostered in boarding
houses and hotels-those hotbeds of lea
ousy and personal and social rivalry. All
aimless idleness. The woman who fine
herself housed and clothed and petted an
furnished with money for artificial
well as real wants, without the lifting of
finger, or the burden of II care, and wit
out the culture of head or heart that lea,
her to seek for the higher satisfactions
womsnhood, becomes in the most natur
way precisely what we have describe
1t would be unnatural for her to becor
anything else. The truth is, that uni,
women have routine of duty that
verts their thoughts from themselv
and gives them something to think of |
sides dress and the exhibition Of it, tn
degenerate. The only cure for this ,
know of is universal housekeeping. The
is no man who can afford to pay ia
price for board, who cannot afford
keep house land housekeeping, though
be ever so humble, is the most natural al
healthiest office to which woman is ev
called. There is no one thing that wou
do SO much to elevate the type of Ne
York womanhood ne q universal secess
from clearinghouse and hotel life, and
universal entrance upon separate HON
Such step would improve the stock
happiness, improve health of body a
health Of mind, and raise at once the star
ard of morals and manners.
The devil always finds work for il
hands to do, whether the hands belong
men or women but American men
not apt to be idle. They are absorbed
work from early until late, and leave tn,
idle wives, cooped up in rooms that C,
them no care, to get rid of the hngrri
time as they can. Is it kind to do this,
is it cruel If it is kind in its motiv,
it is cruel in its results. The whole sN
tenn Of clearinghouse and hotel life is
cious. To live in public, to be on DIRE
parade every day, to be always part al
parcel OF gossiping multitude 10 Ii
simlessy year after year, with though
concentrated upon ones person and on,
selfish delights, TO be perpetually witho
aroutine OF healthy duty, is TO take Il
broadest and briefest road to the degrad
tion Of all that is admirable and loyable
womanhood. 1t is to make, by the INC
natural process, that gay, gaudy, lou
frivolous, pretentious vain, intrguin
unsstisfed and unhappy creature viii
the Englisrnan knows AS the "The Ne
York Woman"
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