Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-30
An Essay ON Closets.

In the opinion of the San, Judge Hill
ton is mistaken in assuming that the
failure of the Woman's Hotel was due to
the fact that young men were neither
kept on drauget in the hotel nor were
permitted to be brought In by the board
ers. The real cause of the unpopularity
OF the enterprise was the absence of rock.
ing chairs, tootstooIs, hooks, and closets
= articles which are even more necessary
than husbands or lovers to the comfort of
women. Doubtless, the Sun is right for
there is nothing better established than
the utter inability of woman to live with
out closets.
The nature and origin Of the female
passion tor closets ought long ago to have
challenged the investigation of scientific
men. The love of closets is dis tin
gushing characteristic of The sex. Man
does not care for closets, and can live
comfortably in a house without single
closet A bureau, trunk or even two
or three chairs are all that he needs. He
keeps his shirts, collars, and other more
abtruse garments in the bureau drawers
or in tibet runk, and throws his coat and
trousers the chairs. If an unmarried
man has acloset, he rarely knows what to
DO with il, and, as rule, uses it only as
place Of deposit for boots, guns and
crumpled newspaper. The married man
looks on the closets as diabolical device
for the concealment of his other coat and
his new umbrella. Articles such as these
constantly find their way into the closets,
where they are conceald behind innumer-
able skirts, all Of which must be thrown
on the floor befor the object of search can
be found. In fact, it may be truly said
that the male mind loathes closets in
every form, and there is no case on record
Of solitary man building closets for his
own use. Robinson Crusoe built chairs,
but he never dreamed of making
closet.
On the other hand, woman's comfort,
not to say her life, is wholly dependent
upon closets She refuses to use a trunk
except when travelling, and she believes
that burear-drawer is meant to hold
nothing except pasteboard boxes, in each
one of which she puts piece Of ribbon.
an artificial flower. or a small lace collar.
tits alleged, though of course there are
difficulties in the way of proving it, that
women do not object to placing their
garments on chairs when preparing for
bed, but there is no good scientific des-
cription of the female process Of going to
bed, and we know nothing concern
ing it with certainty. There are stories
to the effect that when midnight fires
have occurred at large hotels, female
garments have been found hanging over
the backs of chairs, but the stories need
Authorization.
However this may be, it is morally GER
tain that no woman will use chair as a |
permanent place of deposit for clothing.
not only is this true in her own clothing,
but she refuses to permit her husbands
clothing to occupy chairs. Many a man
who has left coat temporarily on chair
has seen it snatched up by his wife, with
the remark that she wished he would Quit
"cluttering up the whole room" Of
course one coat laid on one half dozen
chairs cannot truthfuily be said to tsclut-
ter up whole ROOM" but of such is the
veracity Of woman.
So deeply rooted is this feminine pas
sion for closets that it is doubtful if any
woman can live when totally deprived of |
closets.