The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-14
A PARADISE FOR WOMEN.
1t Is Found in the Northwest, Where The,
Are Spoiled with Much Attention.

Are Spo1led with Much Attention.
Correspondence New York Mail and Express.
Next to a tree the frontiersmen of the
Northwest worship a woman. In travelling
through the cities of the Northwest one
finds an illustration, in the rapid apprecia-
ton in the value of women, of the truth Of
Chaucers line.
Great press at market maketh deare ware.
Western women are injured in the last
way in which woman thinks other women
have been spoiled-by too much attention.
The pride engendered in women by an ex-
cess of males finds good example in an in
cident in St. Paul. A gentleman had secured
admission into one of the most fashionable
clearinghouse of that city. Its keeper was
buxom dame of forty, who dangled upon
her arm a handsome young husband in his
teens. A few days after the gentleman's
admission a timid protest was made
by one of his fellow boarders that cake, un-
like morter, does not need to be held to-
gether by hairs. The lady of the house at
once summoned all her subjects into the
parlor. ''Some complaints" she said, shave
come to my ears about hairs, flies and the
like. No real gentleman would complain
about such trihes, and the next party who
makes any complaint about the matter,
give fair warning that L shall bundle him
neck and crop out of the house"
Think of how many long-suffering ladies
of her class in New York had their wrongs
avenged by a single word of this brave
Amazon. As you proceed toward the
unfenced prairie, the West becomes more
and more the paradise of women. Almost all
distinctions are personal, and it is only in
few of the cities that social hierarchies have
begun to form. Indeed, the queen of one of
the great railway municipalities of the north
west was herself a servant and is not
ashamed of it, Throughout the villages it
is thought social distinction to wait upon
the table we'll. In fact, in the frontier cities
the mattresses at the hotels are persons Of
no slight consequence. A request for cup
of coffee, if not made with proper humility,
is often met with the rejoinder, Twill you
have it now, or will you wait till you
get ira joke that, however stale,
enjoys great prosperity with all ex-
cept one of its hearers Every thrifty
waitress is is indeed real estate magnet. She
has her three claims, homestead, presumption
and free, which when proved up give her
kingdom as large as many an old German
State. The majority of the girls OF the North
west are, however, schoolmlstresses. 10 have
been a schoolmistress is there regarded as a
title of nobility, though the order is so large
that there is nothing invidlous about it.
The diverse fountains from which the male
and female aristocracies of the frontier
spring are remarkable. Sober bar-tenders
constitute the former, schoolmistresses the
latter. ibid you not keep a bar on
the Jim river or the Cheyenne?' is a safe
question to ask any local millionaire who is
assuming too much of the air of the Bourbon
or the Hapsburg. But the hundreds of met
tlesome schoolmistresses who in spring and
autumn gather their little hocks together in
The island huts that dot the waving fields of
grass and wheat-no State could have bet
ter foundation for its intellect and morality.
In the summer the girls are engaged gather
ing in the harvest, for which they are paid
50 day or more. In the winter they work
at home and indulge in social recreations.
And what strange parties they meet