Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-09-11
WOMAN GOSSIP.
The Young Woman Of the Period
Who Thinks for Herself-A Wife
More than Houselkeeper.
The Newest Phase OF Physical Gull
ture at Newport-Women as
Artists.
THE GIRL WHO STRIKES OUT.

W nv oihihho w.
The young woman of tho period
thinks for herself TO a large extent, and
whatever Miss Anthony may say, tho
result is not always gratifying. There
are many things, says the New York
Graphic, to be considered before it may
be safe to let the young woman do this
thing. What, for instance, is the
weight of her alleged brainP What
kind of bringing up has she hadp
What has been her course OF reading,
and how far does her imagination out
strip her common sense?
Several recent cases of striking
out" on the part of young women have
been extremely unfortunate. Ono
young woman was rebuked by her
mother, and Immediately removed her.
self to the nearest cemetery, stretched
herself out, took poison, and died.
She had read novel wherein the
beauties of suicide had been conspicu-
ously pointed out. A st. Lawrence
county young woman also disagreed
with her maternal parent, and immed-
lately walked ten miles through the
mud to the nearest railway station.
She had previously parted in anger
from her sweetheart, and the latter had
married the girl she most hated and
gone west; but as the girl had subse-
quently died, it is conjectured that she
has gone west too, with some definite
but highly improper object in view.
The title of her favorite novel is not
known. Probably, however, there need
be no doubt as 10 tho kind Of novel
favored by the 16-year-old daughter of
gentleman of Long Pine. La. This
young lady. according to a dispatch
from Missouri Valley. ran away with
doc" Middleton. the highly romantic
captain of the noted banditti of Ne
braska county, Nebraska. The father
of the young woman followed the cou-
pie, though unsuccessfully; but short
ly thereafter doc" and his bride re-
appeared at Long Pine, the former
armed to the teeth and defying inter-
ference, but somewhat inconsistency
declared that he was about to reform.
If the young woman of tho period
must really strike out for herself-and
it is evidence of progress that she pro-
poses to do so-she had better prepare
herself for the great event. 1t is not
urgently necessary, for instance, that
she should be exceedingly sensitive to
the criticisms of her ma, however I'M
Just the old lady may be; and again
suicide is the worst kind of striking
out that can be imagined. Then the
husband that is secured by striking
out is pretty apt to turn out bad man,
for it is beyond the power OF this young
woman's ineXperience to distinguish
the good from the bad. Moreover, of
all the husbands that it is in the power
of the striking-out young woman to
secure, the nasty bandit is the worse.
He is very pretty in her minds eye-it
may be assumed that she has mind,
perhaps-with his jaunty cap, his
familiarity with whisky and gunpow-
der, his flash language, and his demo-
cratic finger nails; but he is never a
reliable provider, and in the long run
his wife is apt TO be deprived of him
by the law, and her children are liable
their fathers crimes.
There are few persons SO entirely en-
ticing rs the properly educated young
woman. She can DO tolerated any
where, and the community that does
not have her to greater or less extent
is only half blessed. But the young
woman who strikes out after the man.
ner suggested by cheap novels is most
unfortunate in ninety-nine out of a
hundred cases, and if she ever returns
TO the home that grows dearer the far
Their she gets away from it is to solicit
q forgiveness that she ought not to
have made necessary, or to take her
place in the little cemetery among
whose graves she played when she was
too young to be disconnected and un-
happy.