Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-10-13

with aims are inclined to be pushing and are COM
mended to the field for foreign missions where they
can expend their surplus vim and not render them
selves obnoxious.
The woman without aims suffers with ennui-she
Vegetables The woman who hangs out of the win
dow has no aim; the woman who chews gum rarely
has an aim.
Society women have various aims-sometimes
real, more often imaginary. They have fashion,
and bric-a-brac, and openings, and art furniture,
and pink teas, and various things. They are given
to emulation-this is an important aim.
The accessories to this aim, such as envy and
hatred and malice, they constantly endeayor to
conceal Skill in concealment of these accessories
is another important aim.
Woman is by nature intense. To bring about
desired result she is even ardent, conscientious,
strategic Take the society woman for example.
What a martyr she makes of herself to fulfill the
demands made upon her. She bears up under all
sorts of physical strains night after night in the
same routine of pleasure, till 'monotony' only is
expressive of it. The courage with which she
makes an attack on calling list is perfectly in
domitabe and after she VIGOROUSLY conquers it to
the last visit, there is no great amount of triumph
connected with it. But she thus offers herself
gladly upon the shrine of her ambition, and it per-
haps never occurs to her that her aim is far beneath
the stars Fashion and social duties are suchnoffen-
sive aims. Suppose she were to devote half of
this energy to some other cause-humanity, intel
lecual development, social purity, political impur-
ity or something of the kind Woman is an eff
cient individual. IT'S said cher work is never
bo
he chose to work while there was yet work to do.
Man has some system about his work, and there is
time to begin and time to stop. If woman had
good sense she would adopt the same plan.
But woman is capable of great achievements
her energy is unhagging. Duty is relgion-its
fulfllment is eloquent prayer. Be her duty society
or house-cleaning, she engages in it, soul and body
| think 1t was Charles Dudley Warner who sug-
gested a method of escape from the arduous de-
mands of society on woman, the outcome of which
amounted to nothing in the end, by institutng a
sort of social clearing house, with a bookkeeper
and clerk, where ladies could send in their cards
and be given due receipt for the discharged obga-
ton and have their affairs balanced according to
rules of double entry, and then every woman
would know just how she stood by an occasional
statement presented her, and proprety would not
be outraged.
Her time would then be her own and she could
devote it to some more noble cause.
Now, think, if awoman should study the science
of government with one-half the intensity she ex-
hausts on the latest fashon-pate, or if she should
denounce the latest code of ''immorals' with
fractional part of the epithets she heaps on the
head of an unfortunate dressmaker, how the hui
man race would bound on toward the millennium.
Women as class have imaginary aims, but thev
are none the less active in their pursuit of them on
that account HARYoT Holt