The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-09-06
WOMAN GOSSIP.
The Young Woman OF the PERIOD
Who Thinks for Hcrsclf-A Wifc
More than HOusekccpcr.
The Newest Phase of Physicai Cu''
turc at Ncwport-Womcn as
Artists.
TIE GIRL WHO STRIKES OUT.

THE GIRL WHO SHINES W
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 New YORK
grdphic, 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 had'
What has been her course of reading,
and how far does her imagination out
STRIP her common senseP
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 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 immcd-
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 subsc-
Cuently died, it is conjccturcd that she
has gone west too, with some definite
but highly improper object in view.
The title of her fayoritC novel is not
known. Probably, however there need
be no doubt as to the kind Of novel
favored by the 16-ycar-old daughter of
q gentleman of Long Pine, La. This
young lady, according to dispatch
from Missouri Valley, ran away with
Doc" Middleton. the highly romantic
captain of the noted banditti Of Ne
braska county, Nebraska. The lathcr
of the young woman followed the cou-
pie. though unsucccssfully; but short
" thereafter "DDc" and his bride re-
appeared at Long Pine, the former
armed to the teeth and dcfying inter-
ference, but somewhat Inconsistency
declared that he was about TO reform.
If the young woman Of the period
must really strike out for hcrsef-and
il is evidence of progress that she pro-
poses to do so-Shc 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
-, il ftr n ,t a I'M nIlt Ian Il
for it is beyond the power of this young
woman's incXpcrlcnce to distinguish
the good from the bad. Moreover, of
all the husbands that il is in the power
of the strking-out young woman to
secure, the nasty bandit is the worse.
He is very pretty in her minds oye-it
may be assumed that she has mind,
perhaps-with his jaunty cap, his
familiarity with whisky and gunpow-
cratic finger nails; but he is never
reliable provider, and in the long run
his wife is apt to be deprived of him
by the law, and her children are liable
to be tainted with and to suffer for
their father crimes.
There are few persons so entirely en-
ticing as the properly educated young
woman. She can be tolerated any
whore, and the community that does
not have her to greater or less extent
is only half blessed. But tho young
woman who strikes out after the man
ner suggested by cheap novels is most
in ninety-nine out of
cases, and if she ever returns
10 the home that grows dearcr the far
thcr she gets away from it is to solicit
II forgiveness that she ought not to
have made necessary, or to take her
place in the little cemetery among
whose graves sho played when she was.
90 young to be disconnected and I'M
lappy.