Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-05-14

Honesty of Women----Their Great
Tenacity of Life.
WOMAN IN A BOARDING HOUSE.
A lone, lorn woman in a boarding
house is character in many story
book. Either she is an inexperienced
girl. pretty, of course, and gay; in
which case she has sorrows from the
malevolent old Tables who would take
away her reputation for her innocent
imprudences, and she is consoled, in
the usual way, by brilliant match;
or else she is equally beautiful, but OF
maturer years; reticent and very supe-
rior; with brow of marble, an unfath-
enable eye and romantic history. In
real life, the lone, lorn woman in a
boarding house is not the center of in
terest and incident which she is in the
story books, but her position Is one that
merits attention. Passing over those
congregations of celibates which inhabit
scores of downtown boarding houses,
we come to the single lady artist, or
church singer, or other genteel work
ing woman who occupies q room on
the uppermost floor of such boarding
house as is otherwise occupied by mar
ried couples without children. The
household is made up of these and the
landlady's family and the servants,
with, perhaps, q single gentleman or
two. Nobody is very young. A
solemn stiffness prevails at meals. The
family of four at the west end of the
. table speak only in low tones among
themselves, for they do not know any
of the other boarders. The ladies all
dress for dinner, but the husbands
come in their business suits looking
rather tired. Among these the lone,
lorn woman finds no one whose life is
arranged like her own. She has to be
out on business during the day, like
the men, and, like them, lives in a
world of interests and thoughts, which
she leaves behind at dinner, according
as she is able and practical in her mon
ey-earning work. She has to know
many classes of facts and of people
concerning which the other women
have wrong ideas or none at all. 1t is
great good fortune if she is not misun-
derStood of her fellow boarders. upon
whom she makes an impression of
alarming freedom and undesirable
breadth of experience. 1t is quite pos
sible that such woman may injure
her professional progress by shrinking
timidity or mincing primness of some
sort, and yet be in private life of an ex-
cessiVe independence, or vice versa.
present state of popular opinion, is the
distrust that some of her own sex have
of their fellow women whose right con-
duct can have only preference for its
cause and not necessarily circumstance.
1t is safe to say to people who really
know something about boarding houses
of this sort, that every lone, lorn wo-
man has among her fellow boarders at
least one who is convinced that she is
mot proper person. forgetting that
the lone, lorn woman may live her not
altogether gay or easy life in safety if
she has that only protector of wo-
mans modesty, which is her modesty.
Such suspicion may appear to its OBJ
ject gratuitous form of error indeed.
having its humorous side even; still it
remains the hardest hurt that one wo-
man can give to another.
For other considerations, there is the
advantage to one who boards with
set of people differently occupied from
herself, that one has the rest of a change
of atmosphere and the pleasure of hear
ing the topics of the day talked over by
people of different education and habits
of thought Sometimes for whole
winter set of really congenial people
may chance to fall together in
a boarding house. Then there will be
courtesy given and comradeship estab-
lished, and agreeable hours are spent
which it will be pleasant to recall.
Nevertheless, the summer comes and
the company is scattered all the same.
HOW TO REDUCE AD1PosE TISSUE.
A St. Louis reporter interviewed
Fanny Davenport on the question of
her extraordinary victory over super
abundant adipose tissue and the tactics
by which she accomplished it. She
said: ''You ask me how reduced my
weight? Well, it is nothing more than
hard work and perseverance. I have
worked as few people can imagine.
My friends said I couldn't do it; that I
couldn't give up my sugar, and my
sweetmeats, and my habits, but did"
''Wil you i've me your recipe?"
asked the reporter. '.Fleshy people
would like to know how to do what you
have done"
"Well, you'd be surprised to know
my weight when I began and my weight
now. When 1 went to Italy, where I
stayed three months with my sister, I
weighed $50 pounds. To-day I weigh
1913 pounds. Had paradise of time
though. worked hard; walked two
miles every day and dieted myself. No
candy-that broke my heart; no sugar
in anything, and nothing with sugar in
it; no vegetables of any kind except
sliced tomatoes and others on which vim
egar can be used. Not a particle of
bread. Now eat only dry toast, q few
crackers, little meat of some kind,
and I drink claret. I will have my
cup of coffee in the morning, though I
ought not to take it. l exercise; that
is what has made me what am. I
made up my mind to do it and I have
done it. never felt better in my life.
I feel strong and well and equal to my
task. 1 believe that feshiness is dis
ease, anyhow, and that very fat people
are never WELL"
':Do you think it was absolutely nee
essary to the part of Fedora to be slen-
der?''
eyes, I do. How would a big feshy
woman look falling around the stage
and throwing herself into gentlemen's
arms? There would be too much dam
ger of ridicule."
WOMEN ARE HONEST.
Although hundreds of women hold
positions of financial trust in this coun-
try, we have yet to hear of one of them
being guilty of embezzlement or defal-
cation, says the Albany Journal. The
evidence clearly sustains the positions
of those who believe that women are
qualifed-morally, physically and in