Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-07-20
SUBMISSIVE WOMAN.

How the Gentle Sex is Treated In Ger
many.
Col. Higginson in the Woman's Journal.
The young western states, which
should naturally be the homes ofali pro.
gress, are filling up, on an enormous
scale, with a race of men in many re-
spects admirable, but accustomed to
views which are very close to barbarism,
In all that concerns the condition of
women.
1t needs but to travel in Germany or
to converse with those recently returned
thence, to feel the Importance of this
fact. 1t is not long since young Amer.
lean traveller, talking with German
lady, asked her why there was so much
astonishment in boarding houses when
own shoes? Because" she said, "no
shoes" WHO does it?a fi sHis seryapt.n n's pXn y
Suppose he cannot afford to keen a
servant" "Then his wife does it,"
edo you approve of thai?" Certainly
| do" was the final answer; twas not
woman created to be the servant of a
MANI"
All the theories of social courtesy in
Germany. so far as have known inn
ply Difference as due tc the man, not
woman. A young physician lately from
Berlin was telling me the other day at
his boarding house there, soon. after
arrival, he stepped aside to give prece-
dence to q lady who, like himself, was
entering the dining room. She begged
him to precede her, when he declined,
she sidled reluctantly in, keeping her
face always deferentially turned toward
him as toward a crowned head. This
happened two or three times, until she
at last demonstrated with him, pointing
out that nobody else did as he did and
that it made it awkward for her. After
this, observing that every other man in
the family made his way into the din
ing room and left the ladies to follow as
they could, he found it easier to do the
same, and SO adopted the common
practice: But is it strange that our
young Americans, after three or four
years Of such social training. return home
to advocate, in the Popular Science
Monthly, the inferiority of woman?
Mrs. Pitman in her European
"Breezes" gives an amusing account Of
the awkwardness of Hungarian officers
at being asked to hold lady's shawl for
Heri SINCE their professional etiquette
forbids their carrying anything in their
hands. But the same is the rule in all
good society in Germany, and if a gem
tleman and lady walk together in the
street IT is only the lady, not her escort,
whom propriety permits to carry par
Gel. To such 9 paradoxical extent does
this go, that a lady once begged of
young American to allow her for her
own sake, to carry the bundle; it would
never do for her to be seen walking with
man who would 80 degrade himself as
to take it. This throws light on tae
story-which has always seemed little
incredible-of the Rev. Dr.. Christlleb's
remark that the spirit Of Christ must be
wanting in America, since he had more
than once seen husband fetch his
wife's shawl for her. "Bear ye one an
others burdens" was not to be found, it
seemed in the good PASTORS Bible. And
as the Bible of German science seems
equally destitute of any such passage, it
looks as if the whole civilized world
were in a fair way to be perceptibly
retarded through the curious backward
ness Of one highly educated but semi civ
ilized nation.