Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-14
The Girl Who Strikes Out.

The young woman of the period
thinks for herself to large extent, and.
whatever Miss Anthony may say, the
result is not always gratifying. There
are many things, says The NtW 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 brain? What
kind of bringing up has she had? What
has been her course of reading, and
how far does her imagination outstrip
her common sense?
Several recent cases of striking
out on the part of young women have
been extremely unfortunate. One
young woman was rebuked by her
mother, and Immediately removed her
self to the nearest cemetery, stretched
herself ont, took poison, and died.
She had read novel wherein the
beauties of suicide had been conspic-
uOusly pointed out, A st. Lawrence
county young woman also disagreed
with her patcrnal parent, and imme-
diatcly 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 rs the girl had sub
scqucntly died, it is conjectured that
she has gone west too. with some de-
finite but highly improper object in
view. The title Of her fayOrite novel
is not known. Probably, however,
there need be no doubt as to the kind
of novel favored by tie l6-ycar.old
daughtcrof gentleman Of Long Pine,
La. This young lady, according to a
dispatch from Missouri valley, ran
away with Doc Middleton, the high
ly romantic captain of the noted ban.
ditti Of Nicbrara county, Nebraska,
The father Of the young woman fol.
low the couple, though unsucccssfully;
but shortly thereafter doc" and his
bride rcappcared at Long Pine, the
former armed to the teeth and dcfying
interference, but somewhat incOn-
SistcntIy declaring that he was about
to reform.
II the Young woman Of the period
must really strike out for herself and
it j. 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 un-
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 incXpcricncc to distinguish
the good man from the bad. More
over, 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
mind 5 eyc-it may be assumed that
She has Il mind, perhaps with his
iaunty cap, his familiarity with whisky
and gunpowdcr, his flash language,
and his democratic finger nails; but he
is never Il reliable providcr, and in the
long run his wife is apt to be deprived
of him by the law, and her children
are liable to be tauntcd with and to
suffer for their fathers crimes.
There are few persons so entirely en-
ticing as the properly educated young
woman. She can be tolerated any
where, and the community that does
not have her to II greater or less extent
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