The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-05
ABOUT WOMEN.

Mrs. Cleveland has the reputation OF
being an exceptionally good housekeeper,
and il is told that in the privacy OF her life
at Oak View she will sometimes don big
white apron, and, with feather buster in
hand, 90 over the house, putting the fin
ishing touches TO the already well-dusted
corners. She invades her kitchen when
she thinks II necessary, and some Of her
admirers even 90 so far rs to say that II
worse came 10 worse she could make pot
OF coffee or bake a pie fit for President.
Miss Lemer- Arnim's statement in the
lecture she recently delivered at st. Sayior's
hospital, London, that she had heard Of
ladies holding on TO a cross bar while their
maids laced their waists in the fifteen-inch
corset, has excited much incredulity Ac-
cording to the Queen the lady has, how
ever, but told OF practice of tight lacing
which, il carried 10 such exaggcraiion, is
yet prevailing habit growing, rather than
diminishing, since the fashion has come in
OF the tight walking jackets.
The Berlin ladies, including many be-
longing TO the higher grades OF society,
have presented a petition TO the Prussian
minister OF education complaining OF the
present state OF education In girls schools.
The chief complaint is against the custom
OF appointing masters instead OF mistresses
for the upper classes OF these schools. II
is asserted that only the managers and
masters approve Of this system, which was
agreed upon ut Weimar in 1872, while the
parents are opposed to IL on the ground
that the masters do not understand the in
ner life OF the girls, who are thus educated
in purely external, inconsistent and SUI
perlicial manner.
According TO the Courier-Joundi, chew
ing gum is designed 10 preserve an organ
already perfectly developed. At what a
cost OF patience and peace, and life itself,
woman's jaw has evoluted to It's present
state OF perfection IL would he painful 10
inquire. II can only be kept in such q
state by constant exercise, this being well
known law OF nature. But there is many
poor woman who is compelled for hours
at time TO dispense with someone upon
who 10 exorcise her Jaw. Indeed, there Is
no woman, however favored, who IL not nj
some time forced TO undergo such de-
privation. Here Il where the chewing
gums mission becomes self-evident. II is
the chewing gum which steps in and fills
the breach.
A stout woman has recently been com.
planning that the fashion newspapers and
magazines print no plates that give feshy
women any satisfaction. She AYERS that
none but women OF slender, graceful
figures can study these plates TO any ad.
vantage, and declares that foreigner who
saw these periodicals would suppose that
all women in America were OF willowy
proportions And yet the number Of such
Is said by modistcs and dealers in the
wearing apparel Of women 10 be small
minority American women, especially
those who have the means 10 dress in ac-
cordancc with fashions DEGREES, are In.
clined 20 plumpness, and the regret Of
such, when they examine the elaborate
plates displaying handsome garments on
supple-formcd women, may he imagined.
But the makers Of these magazines smile
when these complaints arc brought 10
their ears, and declare that 10 print
realistic plates for stout women would
cause Others 10 smile, too.
at Is one Of the inscrutnble mysteries
81 life why the slowest and most 'pcrnick.
ity' and most selfish Of women generally
obtains possession OF the drcssing.room
flrst, and holds Il until the patience Of ey-
cry other woman in the slceping-car is
about exhausted" remarks an evidently
irritable person in the Pitisburg Dispaich.
Regardless Of the comfort Of Others, she
washes, and powders, and puts up her
hair, and lots out her bangs, and brushes
her teeth, and manicurcs her nails, and
arranges her collar and cuffs, and all the
rest OF Il, with the calm delbcration Of
one who has nothing 90 do but loaf, and
the whole day before her To do Il, while
her suffering sisters are waiting waiting
with unkcmpt hair and growing ire, her
painful and selfish slowncss. From all
these and the many iainor miscries Of q
slecping-car, women pray 10 be delivered.
II nothing better could be devised In the
way Of accommodations, one great Inn
provcment could b. easily put In practice,
and that Is 10 have car for women 10
themselves. That alone would reduce the
disagrecables of night travel very con-
sidenbly.