Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-08-13
s%uPERFLTOUS WOMEN.
AS THEY ARE TO BE SEEN IN Dr.
FERENT CIRCLES IN BOSTON.
Tho Grimnes of tho Ineyitabie-statis.
tics Observation-Disclosures Feasts
How They Become so Grcat-Literary


tics Observation-Disclosures Feasts
How They Become SO Great-Literary
Bant!ornes--A Problem for sociologists.
Especial Correspondence
BosToN, Aug. Q-The superiiuous woman
i'll Boston is "a faet-a grim, realistic, numerical
fact, which can neither be ignored nor
properly adjusted i'll the social economy. She
is pcrvaSiye to a point that ought to interest
legislatures in her behalf. don't mean that
she is careering through the world at amy
startling pace, soaring unprotected mascu-
EAity into apprehensiols of matriinony. On
the contrary, She is, for the most part, a
modest person, and u most worthy peraon.
She pervadei solcly because of her ntlneI'
osity. She can't help it. SHE is everywhere
The atmosphere is dense with fenltilflity.
Every thno | come to Boston / ] notice it more
and moro. Travellers who land hero for the first
time, iirm il the belief that the superliuity OF
women in Massachusetts, is a newspaper joke,
generally haul down their flag and surrender
at the end of the week. 1t all means some
thing if VIC could oaly read the signs Alright
Yesterday o man was telling that his sister,
family had just been increased by a pair o
twins. Unfortunately they are girls" he
said, and ho sighed as he spoke.
A sensible woman spoke up: Don't yot
think the Creator knows what ho is alout'
Would he create women, stperilnous or other
wise, for any but a wise purpose!'
To which tho sighar nothing replied.
will say it, al excess of feinininity is Il
bad for society as an excess OF maicu!inlty
1t is mentally enfeeblingt TO both men ard wo
men. In many boarding houses rows OF lls
bandless women, maids and widows, youns
and old, surround the tables, much to tleii
own disgust. Here and there a coasunptivt
youth or u shaky'old man relieves the petit
coated monotony and feeds his own vanity al
the same time. That's the worst of it! What
mon there are pass for twenty times then
worth on account of their scarcity, till they
s.cSs~ so great III tilRir own estimation that
they become insuTerable to everybody save
those who are obliged to endure them.
Like the bGckwoodsman who praised his
sweetheart till she wouldn't speak to him
she thought she was so much his superior
the suparauous rwomeaof Boston get paid fol
their homage to men III 1nIch The sa8e coin
. They are lorded over, snubbed, putdown ant
otherwise made to feel their insigniticance il
"A the presence of a creature born to pantnloon
and command. The creature may be--fre
quently ~is--little in body and mind, marrow
| of soul and feeble as TO brain, and with
face as ~unllandsomo as an Aztec god. ALI til
i same, he believes he is a most satisfactot.
piece of the creators handiwork. He hasn'
enough rivals to keep him humble.
"Marry that old manfp said n young lady
when a recent May ard December allianc
was being discussed. why shouldn't shef
|. would marry anybody-Inarls you, anybody
TO get out of my present environment Th
young ladies of this city talk a good dec
about their environments. What was he
environments The routine work, the drudger
aye.., ef a home ttiiifrb was only kept togethe
by keeping boarders. There industry wage
a spirited and rather hopeless battle wit
poverty in its genteeler aspects. Her imaEin;
tion was active, and by reason of her sci
v%ironment' rather depressed in tone, and 81
saw herself growing old, lreggtactee, dishear
ened, and virtually imprisoned-for you al
? truly imprisoned when you know you are
!, a place which you can only get out of by
> miracle. For this reason she drew her Co
/. illusions rather strong. Had she beensa graz
!: higher in brain she would have taken
"careering,' and would have succeeded, TO
for the Boston woman of good executive bra
knows 10 such word as fail.