Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-04-10
WOMAN GOSSIP.
The Woman Of the Future to be Self
Reliant and Sclt-Sustaining.
The "Eummc CONNIE il Faut" at
Home and on the Street.
women--why Women Laugh
M w0MAN oF me- FrrrRE.

French Womcsl---M Women Laugh.
THE WOMAN OF THE FUTURE.
As we forecast the woman of the fu-
ture She VIII be educated, selt-reliant,
self-sustainiug, says W0m0R'S Journal.
She viii engage in any pursuit for
which she has capacity and inclination,
and viii thereby deliver herself from
want aud degrading bondage. She
viii take a deep interest in and exert
powerful influence on the government
of the country without losing her puri-
ty, her womanly grace, or q single
really lovely quality. She will find
time TO inform herself both rs TO candi-
dates and measures, and will discharge
her duties at the polls without the neg
lect of her domestic obligations, In
exceptional eases she will hold Office
and devote herself to politics; some
times to the bctterment and sometimes
to the prejudice of society, as is the
case with man. But on the whole her
influence will be purifying the wisdom
of ages To listen 60 male and female
.sages one might suppose that some
hundreds of years ago women had sud-
denly been seized with desire TO emu
late the wasp in form and had since
more or less successfully been, by the
aid of ligatureS. cndcGYoring TO merely
cut herself in two.
With all due Difference to the rational
and hygienic in dress, | would suggest
that there is more method in the mad
ness of the tight-laclng women than
this. If anybody Will take the trouble
to examine the corset of q fashionable
stay-maker. such as are sold in first
rate houses for the modest sum of e.,
the inquirer viii find that saving per-
haps somewhat eXaggeratedly slender
waist, this article of dress follows
pretty closely the beautiful rounded
form of a young woman OF from %
to %.
Now, it very frequently happens that
at the time when fashionable girl is
expected TO make her debut in society
nature has for various reasons denied
her various items necessary TO make up
that Indispensable requisite for a ball
room success--a pretty figure. The
| fashionable corset is, therefore, had re-
course TO, and with this useful founda-
| ton TO build upon an artistic dress
maker can do wonders to sr emcut
nature.
Later on. when the delicate girl has
developed into the faded mation, with
| tlaccid muscles and decided tendency
| to indistinctness of outline, what so
useful as the well-made corset into
which the somewhat dilapidated figure
is run as into a mold? Torture it may
/ 4f 81 h..s hon a,ts,l ~, of
her friends say TO her, How wonder
fully Mrs. Smith keeps her isUre@'
1t is useless to hope that tle present
! generation Of society women ill tear
OF their corsets and exhibit themselves
| TO a wondering world Our hope lies
in the future. While Lady Haberton
has been crying in the wilderness the
leading female lawn-tennis players
have devised for themselves dress
pretty, feminine, graceful, and healthy.
| Those who have watched tho free and
| graceful movements Of young English
| GIRLS on the tCnus-grJuud may hope
that the time may come when the best
of them will no longer, like Meredith s
delightful little Garcia Grandson, sigh:
I'm afraid I'm girl. used to keep
| hoping WISH y puu VIII uc Noilltht
with their own happier lot in an age
when boating, swimming, and tennis
will have so beautifed and developed
their figures as to enable them to laugh
at and discard the aid Of Messrs.
Worth & Co. Toquote once more from
Meredith; The subsequent immense
! distinction between boys and girls is
less one of sex Than education. They
are drilled into being hypocrites."