The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-10-09

she had all the money she asked for
and none that she did not ask for, and
wanted little fund that was all her
own. Perhaps she wanted to enjoy
the novel pleasure OF earning money.
Women who have never worked for
money put romantic value on the
privilege. In these days of women in
business and in the professions they
see many examples of women who sup
port themselves and do it we'll, and
the idlers envy them their ability and
independence.
Often when women have no other
cause for restlessness and sentimental
melancholy they fancy that being a
cipher is the root of their grief. They
long to be figured, or think they do,
which is all the same.
One of these butterfly philosophers
talking to a friend of her own sex,
who was familiar with the pleasures
of self-dependence, said How l
envy your ability and activity. If l
could only do some one thing and do
it well-if it was only to iron shirts
Il believe I would be happier. Still
the desire was mere monetary
within, else she would have set about
fronting shirts at once and might
soon have learned to iron them well.
Another, after years of longing for
profitable range of action, earned a
few dollars by literary work, and so
intense was her delight, and so much
brighter looked these than all other
dollars, that she had one attached to
ring and with great pride displayed
it as the first dollar she had ever earn
ed.
A young lady of this city, who does
nothing in particular, and whose
father works on salary, and not
large one, either, took it into her bang
ed and vacant head that life with
out horse and. buggy was al empty
and hollow one. The father, Being
an easy-to-be-entreated man. procured
the modest turnout at a sacrifice of
personal comfort, and the young
lady's career as a Jehu began. She
went into the business of Earring invai-
ids" with great spirit She knew she
could pay the horses board and make
a lot of pocket-money besides. A pri-
vate hack for invalids was the royal
road to fortune in her opinion. She
advertised and started into the novel
industry at once. She spent the most
of every day trundiing over the city
and creaking through the parks with
invalids and i'm her busiest weeks never
earned more than paid the horses
expenses Of course her tile counted
nothing. 1t would have been nothing
ANYHOW.
Many of the women who take to
slaughtering time after this method
live in boarding houses and beyond
keeping their bodies arrayed like Sol
ONION in all his glory, have absolutely
nothing to do. Usually they have no
children, and the poodle, which is the
recipient of their maternal caresses is
benefited by the ride.
ALI women like to drive. partly be-
cause they have a genius for the whip
hand and partly because it is SNOWY
and easy way of spending their time.
As a general thing they know but
little about the ethics Of driving. and
were it not for the rare sense Of the
equine race every woman that ever
slapped line on a horses shuddering
back would be instantly ground to
pieces.
A nervous invalid is not likely to
be largely benefited by ride which
is governed by an ordinary female
driver. The abrupt turns on space
of a postage stamp. the flying down
hill and galloping up and all the other
imperfections of the illogical sex in
the role of driver are apt TO be a.
little trying to weak and excitable
patients. Still. as fresh air and
sunshine and the sigh of trees and
grass, and the flowers will always be
things that sick women will long for,
the amateur drivers will be likely to
hare plenty of business on their hands.
Whatever money they got by this pro-
cess they think they have cleared, as
the husband or father pays for the
horses keeping.
The invaii.' airing industry may
develop ina" :"nething reputable and
profitable, cut it is not likely to do SO
until those who engage in it prove
that they are not ashamed of it BY
conducting it openly over their own
names.
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