Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-09
VIII be a Fine Creature--WilI Believe
in WaIkIug-Matches, and ba an
Enthusiastic Athlete,
The Modern Woman Cleaner Ihhn Hsr
Predeeess0r-Th Girl OF the Flu
tHre Will b. Hearty Es.er.'
VIII the Coming woman BIsrTJ?-As wo
man Advances, Man VIII Gu With Der.
& Graphic Pen -Piotuce
Copyrighted, 1858. J

pen and pencil. Even then, so gradual
mas been her development that the frs
step In the process must be to give her q
background against which distinctive
outlines will stand out sharply.
StSiistIcians tell us that We have
gained upon the generation Immediately
preceding ours by FIVE years In the aver
age dUrstion Of human life. When we
COMPARE the mstrons and maidens Of To-
dIy with Wnat we know Of their grand
mothers al the same age, we are sur
prisea that the Improvement upon the
record - set down az SO low figure.
II Michelet'S Dogma, "Ls femme est
uue uslsde," were ever acknowledged es
tru =, l. was before cur girl'% lime
NaIrhor we nor they NAY live to See the
FUN lmeDt OF Horsce Greeley's prophecy
of the day when people will be as mach
$50 mnd OF illness as dTUnkenness,fbu
we b,tss the steadfast advance of sound
sensa thss has delivered Us from
the pliful weakness OF being vain
of b, Oily iufrmity. Our foremoth-
els, in soccer Eteralness, "enj)yed
poor health" PslloT, slimness, even
fainlirg f.s we're rsckoned among the
recommendations Of gentlewomen to the
cbivalry OF men. The fair one of the
"Chi dEen cf the Abtey" dSy WAS al cling,
anu cTOCp, and bedewmenG. Her slsngy
grandson would COZ dense the epithets
into UDs-"slump." Red. rcurd cheeks
were 3lanched by external applications
OF prepared chalk, snd internal of vine
gar; plumpRe IS was phYsicked and dieted
into lines Of fragile grace, and the owner
OF perVerse robustness blushed at her
own vulgsrity.
Our grandmother took general fragility
as Sir Leicester Dsdlock, govt. 1t was
"AmoDg her dignities." Her great-grsnd-
daughter will consider 1t plebeian. II one
doubts the physical Improvement of the
sex which promises this total reversal Of
notions and ideals, let him contrast the
women he meets to-day on the street and
st home with their predecessors of thirty
years back. All the gain is notS in adj
pose tissue and colOring. There Is q
spring in the tread, erectness of carriage,
3 general sir OF conscious vitality, which
Di Vernon may have had, but which the
conventional "Edy" of her time would
have trowned upon ss hoydenish.
The Coming Woman-if her mother
NOW Oar Girl) do not vitiate her forces
by late hours and immoderste indulgence
in the dance-will be, physically, q fine
ILGdtuIGs CSIlSLHGulCb Will uhhG SOuG-
thing to do with her development as
promised BY this generation. Outdoor
life will have more. Tennis, boating and
riding clubs are wholesome manifesto
ti0ns Of popular sentiment. So far from
spari2g her complexion by wearing a veil
when she goes out, and sleeping IN g
linen MAX, our grand daughter will
court the kisses of the salt and mountain
hrcnrec OT1r dnnfharg GlFnnEy no
ARR rs they did mineral waters. Our
Gil lives in it, and by it. 1t is
the illiteFgte country girl now who
wears her sun-bonnet all the summer
day, end jealousy encsses her hands in
gloves when she goes TO drive; who
never walks unless upon compulsion.
The Coming Woman will believe in
wslSilg-mstches and encourage athletic
games by intelligent enthusiasm. She
will drive, ride, and row we'll; enjoy
camping out in the woods and morning
dip jE the lake or surf. At the height Of
intellectual culture she will live lovingly
near to nature, grow and blossom and
ripen thereby.
The reasons for pslpsble amend
mant In the bodily estate Of Our Girl,
and which form the base Of cur sSpguine
anticipstiops Of her future sre not many,
but patent.
For one thi"g, she il cleaner than were
her foremOthers.
It does not look nice when written, but
the nGkedness is truths. The former
days were dirtier than these. Doctors,
nurses and mothers were afraid Of fresh
air and water. Bedroom windows we're
listed, and cslked, and nailed down in
December and not raised until April.
Babies were dabbed ali over daily
with wet cloth unless the
weather was very cold; their SEM
ors took q plunge or sponge-bath twice or
thrice each season. Dsinty and delicately
neat as wss the clothing OF our ancient
gentle-woman, faul:Iess as wss the order
OF her house, she neglected the
Weightier matters of the law OF personal
ab,adOD and war against psstilence
germs. Insensible perspirStion, bacteria,
the indissoluble marriage OF dust and
disesse-Whst knew she Of these mys-
teries of physical iniquIty? Every inch
of her granddSughter's skin will be
clesnsed, and each article of body and
bedlinen thoroughly aired each day; she
will sleep with her window open, and no
sewer pipes will CONN unicate directly
with her bed chamber.
Another secret Of our girls superiority
TO her grandmother is that she Is not
ashamed to be hungry and to eat heartily.
Those stately grSnddsmes Of ours studied
how to keep thin the walls encasing
their pure souls. A nibble st q biscuit,
q sip of coffee, q peck st the pinion
of q partridge at breakfast, suficed to
keep the trembling, beautiful thing in
the csge until repetition Of the per-
formauce, with variation of viands, at
dinner time fastened the door until the
supper hour. That it was "not pretty for
little ladies to eat much" WAS drilled
INTO them with their prayers and cA'c-
chism.
Toe Girl of the Future will care health
fully and heartily for her food, and be
proud Of her culinary knowledge. Cal
cined fats ard scslded fiber5 will notform
part Of her dietary. she VII compre-
bend that beef tea Clarified Is stimu-
liant, not nutritive, sad that while milk is
the white stsf Of life to most people,
constitutional idissyncrscies may make
it as deadly as the little serpent Of the
Nile to others.
She will probsbly select for herself s
specislty-perhsps, a profession. With
the acknowledgement OF woman's right
to earn an honest livelihood in any path
she may elect to follow, comes the dis
sipstion of false shame in working for
wages. The New England girl has 81
ready put this under her feet ;her women
children will have their cwn bank &C
commits make-and lose-mOneV Secun-