Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-27


women, it is time that the common
wealth availed itself more directly of tht
reserve forces and sources of such supe
riority."
Why Women Work.
1t Is curious that the world has vet &c
be convinced that women do not love 70
work any more than men do. They are
credited with dependence, with love OF
ease and luxury, and yet when salaried
position is IN question the woman has to
take less because she needs less.
! 1t cannot be because she spends less.
| Tor the extravaganza of women was
dwelt upon by Solomon and Jeremiah.
and 1t is a song that has never known a
rest. The reason for the difference in
wages is generally found to be in the as.
| sertlon that women vino do not need q
| support or have few responsibilities.
crowd into the paid occupations. There
Is an Inconsistency here. IF she loves
ease why does she work? If she spends
more, how is it she needs less?
The truth is that very few women
work for anything but necessity. Here
and there is one that loves independence.
works for it and deserves it, and here
and there is another who would rather
work than forego certain luxuries, and
she earns them, but the majority of
women work because they have respon-
sibilities, and as class they are our
most reliable, sober and economical
workers, for no woman with family of
little children CANDLES away their bread
and butter, or no sister or daughter who
IS of necessity the bread winner wastes
what she earns, and comes home to a
sad, hungry family, bringing them emp
ty hands and indifference to their needs.
-Pr0gresS.
DiO Lewis on Women.
Now stand with me at my Office win
dow and see lady pass. There goes one.
Now isn't she pretty looking object?
A big hump, three big humps, & wilder
ness OF crimps and frills, hauling up
of dress here and there, an enormous,
hldeous mass Of false hair or bark piled
on the top of her head, and on the top
OF that little nondescript thing orna-
mented with bits Of lace, birds tails, etc.,
while'the shop windows tell us Of the
paddings, whalebones and springs that
occupy most of the space within the
outer rig.
In the name of all the simple, sweet
sentiments which cluster about home.
1 would ask how man is to fall in love
with such d compound, doubled and
twisted, starched, comical, artificial.
tOuch-me-nOt curiosity. This dress
checks your movements. With that
wasp waist, your lungs, stomach, liver
and other organs squeezed down out of
their place and into one-half their natrl-
raj size, and with that long tail dragging
on the ground, how can any man of any
sense, who knows that life is made up of
use, of service, of work, take such
partner? He must be desperate to unite
himself for life with such deformed.
fettered, half breathing ornament. III
were III the matrimonial market might
marry woman that had but one arm.
or one eye, orno eyes at all, if she suit
ed me otherwise, but so long as God
permitted me to retain my senses would
never join my fortunes with those Of a
woman with o small waist.
The English IsatrOH.
In England it is the dowaoar
and mature matron who is an.
tocrat of everything. It is said,
III legendary way, that the Briton
rules his house; but that is as true as
other legends, and no more than thew.
The will OF the intelligent wife is abso-
lutte law, and her advice is held AS real
wisdom, and her suggestions are hon
ored quite beyond the belief of an Amer
lean, who speaks contemptuously of the
"old woman" or the ameddiinr old
girl :" and yet the advanced matron of
the mother country is far less youthful
IN her thought, manner, pleasure and
appearance than the American lady. who
Is OF the same age, the same freedom
from lmportuning cares, and the same
exemption from sorrow. The TRANQUIL
htles that come to the American are in
consequence of ripening process rather
than decaying one. The composure of |
the average English woman it is not
hypercrltical to mention as a refined
quality OF stupidity, or perhaps. to be
more just and courteous, of torpidity.
The furniture of her mind becomes cum-
bersome, If not immovable, with age
therefore, she cannot be stirred to social |
innovations, and in her hand lies the |
balance OF power. In fact, the English |
woman, by nature and habit, is medita- |
tive rather than contemplative, which |
makes the old easier and more agreeable |
to her than the new hence, to the aver
age feminine authority, novel amuse-
ment, if considered at all, is carefully
examined, and, if it be approved, it is
added to those pleasures that have
been consecrated, but it must
not displace or even modify them. "To
modernize is to vulgarize," is what the
English authorities teach their followers.
and nobody wishes to be mentioned as
dong just that, even though in the Sc
cret places OF thought he may desire to.
1t may be admitted that to be unconven-
tional, even in a few things, would be
bliss unreasonable to visitor.
Both Sides.
Why demand that all the morality !
should be on the side of woman? What |
ever degrades woman also degrades q
man. Take some of the vices and hab-
Its OF the day. A man smokes a filthy
cigar, or carries about half an ounce of |
tobacco In his cheek, and yet expects his
wife to preserve clean mouth and a
sweet breath. Again. a youno man