Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1886-11-16
Daily eagle
WOMAN AND HONE.
REPLY TO A JOURNALISTS CRITl-
C!SM OF THE FAIR SEX.

Amrscments for Little Convalescents-A
Creole Mothers Advice-Woman's In
dividueIity-Disercnt Ways of Growing
OId-Titlcd Engl:shmen-Homo Hints.
A nan down in Hartford, who probably
introduces himself as "a journalist" is terri
bly, and pitiably ignorant of this fact He
sprcutad forth tie other day in quite har-
angue Of which this is portion:
This apartment of the household will
be found an interesting locality by those
young ladies Of the present time who are de-
voting themselves to novelties While it is
true that the rolling pin, in red plush dis
guise, has ventured into the parlor, it does
not signify that it is all there is Of interest in
the kitchen from which it came. There are
several articles of usefulness IN q well reg
ulated kitchen to which our young ladies
should be introduced before their cards are
filed A cotillon with a cooking range for
a partner, pan Of biscuit and joint of beef
in the set, would prove most enjoyable;
waltz around the floor with a mop handle,
mop en- train, would bring the roses to the
cheek: schottiSche Ia dashboard de soap
bubble party would be 'awfully good; while
a polka mazurla with vegetable dinner ac-
compartment would place the laurel crown of
usefulness firmly upon the brow of the wives
of the generation just stepping across the
threshold. an exploring expedition to search
for the kitchen should be formed in each house
about $50 q. IN"
Now this is all very well for man that
likes that sort Of thing, but in words like
unto his own, ut won't wash" 1t Is not gal
liant, to say the least, and worse than that, 1T
is not honest. l would like to ask the mana
few questions, first, Of course, STIMULATING
that he drop all old habits and tell the truth.
I'd like to ask him il he ever took a full quar-
ter's sessions in dancing these same Schot-
tisches and waltZcs and cotillons and polkas.
If he had personally enjoyed what he asserts
to be so enjoyable; if he had ever IN this same
way brought roses to his cheek; if lie had
proved for himself that aInusements
were lawfully good" if he had ever, or his
own accord, taken similar exploring eXpedl-
tons at $50 q. II.
| would like to ask him if he would think 1T
truly reasonable Of any desirable young wo
man to refuse the offer of his protection and
LOYALTY and general allegiance unless lie could
prove that it was his daily habit, as well as
his desire to always black his own boots, to
keep the ashes from accommodating in front OF
the furnace door, to shave himself, to do up
his own laundry bundle, to walk invariably
to his Office and to always be ahead Of his
mothers request to see about spring doors and
awnings. I'd like his bold assertion that
nothing pleased him SO much as to spend the
hour from to a. IL. in bending back over
an empty stomach pulling weeds in the front
walk, ralliHG the rubbish from beside the car
riagc house, or better yet, currycombing
Billy the horse.
I'd like TO know il he were equally as ready
to obey his fathers lightest law and save the
old gentleman as many steps as his sister or
the girl that he has III mind, when he so Sc
verely malignS the sex, is TO obey and serve |
her mother
With one more question [ think I'd be will |
ing to let him 90, on condition he'd never say |
such a thing again. I'd like to ask him what |
kind of young woman, and above all what |
kind Of an old one, arc his especial adnira- |
tion-whethcr he likes best Of all the girls |
whose finger nails are broken off by contact |
with that same aforesaid "nop en- train;' |
who has felons from pulling clinileIs from out |
the CRATE; who gets all hot and red faced |
from scrlibbing and doing dishes, and all |
smelly" from cooking; whether he admires |
most the old lady with hand like horn, knotty |
and twisted with years of labor; with tired
old feet that can hardly bear her slender
weight; deep drawn eyes that look as if they
had seen the sun rise from the wOodshed door
for the last sixty years, except Oh the days
when she WAS too sick to be able 20 go out
through the wet grass and pick up chips to
cook the o'clock breakfast by. Whether
he likes best such pictures to dwell upon, or
whether those that please him best are, after
all, the girl whose finger tips are pink and
whose nails are bright, who comes down rosy
and laughing to breakfast at the same time
he does, and who is as fresh as a rose all the
day l@lf., and the snowy haired old lady,
with kind, happy eyes and light hands and
softly stepping old feet, who has seen q few
of lfe's pretty things and enjoyed them right
well, and can now give to others the pleas
ures that others have given to her
What do You suppose would be the sub
stance of this poor, foolish fellows confession
could we once get him into the proposed pal
ace Of truth, with every door shut. If he
were like most men he'd own up like man
that he was simply trying to be funny at the
expense of his mother, his sister, his wife ana
women in generally Is. NJ" in New York
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