The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-10-21
Lovely Women.

Lovely Women.
Good woman, we know you have your
wrongs, ard we know You need your
rights, and we intend that you shall
have them your rights that is. YOU
shall have your rights if we have to give
them to you Yourself. Not only your
rights, but your let's. Take the whole
pair there is nothing mean about us.
Seriously we believe In your emanci-
patton
We know you do more work for less
money than your brother can be hired to
do. We know that you are undergrad.
as rule, for most that you do. We
know how you have been elbowed and
crowded out of the professional world so
long as men could keep you out. We
know that your rights have been. disre-
garded alike by the hostility Of your enc
mics and the careless thoughtlessness Of
your friends. We know how your cour-
age, fidelity and ability have been un-
derrated. And, if we could, we would
overturn all this in minute. Person
ally. we would like to put the ballot in
your hands this fall, knowing as we do
that your hands would honor it, and we
would like to see you cast your first
vote for our nominees But, with all
this, we fear that man is not your worst
enemy.
Your most imperious and pitiless
tyrant is woman. Now, don't flare up
and interrupt before we are through.
Nobody, we repeat, is SO hard on you as
women. No man with whom you deal
IS SO pltiless as women. Your worst
tyrants are those of your own sex.
Only few days ago we heard Mrs
Iivermore lecture on ssSuperfuous
Women" She told us all about the
beautiful things she saw at the Centen-
Ina, all made by women. We enjoyed
her lecture, applauded and indorsed it,
but we felt sad when she told about the
beautiful things she saw at the Centen-
NAL that women made. Here, to our
way Of thinking, is the most imperfect
phase Of woman's education. We don't
know what she can make, but we do
know what she can't make. She can't
make her own clothes.
Now, how can women expect to go
out into the great world and compete
with her brother until she can make her
own clothes as well as her brother makes
his? Don't tell us you can, because we
know better. You can't.
See here. Three years ago-it may
have been four, but it was certainly
three-we went into merchant-tailor-
ing establishment in Burlington to order
o suit of clothes. We selected the cloth.
the cutter measured us, the proprietor
said, We will send the suit to the
house when it is finished" That was
all. We never bothered about it, didn't
go to see how the suit was coming along !;
it came home, was put on, it fitted as a
matter of course, Just as we expected it
would, and there was nothing lacking
about it. Since that time we have never
troubled the cutter for a new measure.
He does not want it. When we want a
new suit we merely select the cloth and
go out, and In due time the suit follows
us home. If we are 1000 miles, from
home we have just to write and the suit
is made (*), sent by express and fits just
as though we ran in to fuss over it six
times minute.
Now, on the other hand, our wife
wants a dress. After two or three or
half dozen stores have been ransacked
for the goods, the dressmaker is sought
out. The matter Of measurement is
tedious, and then the matter Of fitting
is one OF numerous and repeated trials
Finally the dress is finished and sent
nome. Then it is sent back to be taken
in here and let out there, and at last
after the customer has been fitted more
times for that one dress than her hus-
| band has been measured in three or four
years, the dress comes home for the last
time. and is pronounced by the wearer,
her friends and the dressmaker as beau.
tiful and perfect fit, and it is finished.
Beautiful it certainly is, far more
beautiful than anything her husband
| ever wears. Colors and material, STYLE,
blending shades and contrasting bits of
| color, are all in the perfection of good
taste. No man can improve upon that
| But it isn't finished. When it is COM
pleted as far as the skill of the dress
!! maker can finish it, and it is to be nut
on, 1t has to be pinned somewhere
sometimes in two or three, often in half
dozen, places. It always requires a
pin. Leave out the pin and the dress is
| all awry somewhere. On all this broad
AASAACdIl COutllleut tleic Is not one
woman who can dress so as to make any
kind of an appearance in good society
| without pins.
Now, suppose our tailor should send
our suit home, and when we had put sr
the coat we had to pin it at the neck :?
Or suppose there were no suspender-
buttons aft, and we had to use pins
there? Suppose he made our shirts so
that we would have to pin on the collar.
how long would such a shirt or suit Of
clothes stay in the house? Who would
be responsible for the language used by
the man who had to pin on his coat !?
No tailor would dare to so tempt the
wrath Of independent man. But woman
alas she patiently pins on the dress
that she paid some one $50 or $40 ito
make, and doesn't think anything about
it. We will not pursue this painful sub
5ect. Let the women of America take it
up and think about it, and learn, in the
noble independence of womanhood, 70
make their clothes before they put them
| on.-Bo6. Burdette.
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