Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-10

cultivate their children's affections, instead |
Of being obliged to constant toll i'll order
TO supply physical wants up to time |
when the youngsters can branch Oil by |
themselves, having, through lack OF asso- |
citation or training, become indifferent to
their parents Just when failing faculties
most deserve youthful sympathy and sup
port.
1t is notably true that people who are
too poor to have time for study, sometimes
too ignorant for observing effects, are the
ones who, being of all least prepared TO
sustain them, are surrounded by largest
number of children. The parents having
no means, the children have little time to
attend school, and are rarely put to work,
growing up catch-as- catch-can, coming to
maturity without trained abilities for earn
ing livelihood; the girls marry Oft early
for support and perpetuate their undeSlra-
BILE kind. The boys turn out as tramps, or
if earning meager support, continue on an
inferior intellectual grade, comprising hui
manitys wastes, since nothing they do
benefits society. Contrast their lot with
that of the student girl and draw common
sense conclusions.
Another remarkable discovery resulting
from this Vassar investigation was that
though not only Vassar, but other college
girls had married later in life than usual,
divorces among them were exceptional
cases.
This fact seems to carry out the previous
assertion, that they would marry only after
well weighing the subject; having passed
youths impulsiveness. they evidently de-
termined to abide results for better or
worse. Either they made more congenial
selections than girls with unschooled
ind oil hoe Strpn OF hpnp1
their reasoning facilities that they seek ex-
plantations and find mitigating circum-
stances which they are able TO conciliate,
rather than aggravate, after the usual man
Ber of separations. Having had time TO
benefit by observing experiences of others,
they probably know better than green
young girls how to
RETAIN THfIR HUSBANDS AFFECTIONS,
Or perhaps, how to better manage their
men. Counting out those women who
marry Just because they have not been
raised TO any trade by which to support
themselves, also those who marry for fear
some fool would think they could not get
a husband, those who marry to spite some
one, and there is every reason TO believe
/ that college women, who have married for
pure affection, will outnumber those out
| siders who did so, for the reason that col
I W
| for other reasons.
| When the prejudice against old maids
died dismal death. persisted also the idea
that liberal opinions, born of education,
detracted from wOman's attractiveneSs.
| Before the era of women's schools, it was
! fashionable for girls to be ethereal in BODY
and mind, delicate even unto sickness to
| be pale, languid, idiotic was ne Plus ultra of
gentility. The Delicate Girl was succeeded
| by women so erudite that people of ordi-
nary school educations paled in their pres
! ence. An austere manner, conversation
confined entirely to technical topics too
deep for commonplace peoples ken, was
considered al fat for the Learned Girl who
was the fancy of fashion for time.
| From one TO another extreme is usu-
ally the flop that all modes make, and
so the Gushing Girl came into vogue.
She might known little of everything or
a great deal about nothing. No one could
ever tell from her talk, for she was always
ELUSIVE over anything, from baby in Bos-
ton to the Holy Cross mountain in Colo
RADIO. She was here, there, everywhere, in
a minute-a female Jack out-of-the box
who died a slow but natural death From
the whenceness of the whitherward came
THE GUSHING GIRLS GHOST;
Reconstructed in clinging garments, pos.
ing over a pea pod, rhapsodizing on the
crack III teacup not half as wide as the
crack in her own Uranium, crying to live
soulfully up to anything long, lanky and
ugly, the esthetic girl held fashions ador.
ing cranks spellbound wherever she per
petrated herself upon a public tolerant of
because sorry for her misfortunes in having
been born without brains. To cling was
the esthetic girls best hold, and she
chung to life with such tenacity that long
hard blows were piled by pen and public
before she disappeared. Something I'M
usually vigorous was needed to brace NJ
the dormant female mind, and it came il
with the athletic girl who knocked out al
predecessors in one round. She was nu
: merous. She boxed, rowed, fenced, walked
learned the bicycle, played baseball, foot
ball, talked sports, rode after hounds
prided herself on swimming, and Travelled
on her muscle, She contented herself with
coping mems accomplishments without
their vices, and fortunately did not grow
coarse. She put on heavy shoes, shor
frocks, let out her corset strings and pa
raded with pride a sun-burned complexion
she got while pitching for
PICKED PETTIcoAT NINE.
After full and complete metamorphosi:
from previous conditions, the athletic CIR
joined a gymnasium and gradually let her
self down. To-day she is merged into {
new type, an outgrowth TO be expected
from wrestling with nature through hel
former athletic campaign. The Natura
Girl has the floor. That she has come t
stay is doubtful. Her principal character
istic is frankness, but in all things she
must appear at ease, cultivating deportmen
that is neither too vivacious or too re
served. To gush is very bad form. Sh,
talks of family affairs both yours and hers
introducing topics heretofore kept con
cealed; will, perhaps, state the dinner bill
of fare, and ask what you had. Suggest
| that yoYshould not eat so much meat il
f hot weather, and names over fat-producinI
foods if you need them. With the advan
tage of past experiences, she essays to b
confidential without oppressive, franl
5 without boldness; in fact, to do everything
in It's normal way and to appear perfect
{ sane. She is harmless, amusing and vel
come, is this latest phase of fashionabl
E female. CAROL GROUSE.