St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-14

Harrison, on the last of his reception
days in indianapolis the past week, was
hunored by a delegation from one county
that was composed of fifty-tW0 uni
Termed women. who are known as the
"Carrie Harrison club" The majority
were married women. They wore dark
uniforms with white and red trimmings
and iaunty blue hats. They were ac-
eompanied by band composed entirely
If women from Montpelier. The Carrie
Harrison Club of Indianapolis, with
drum corps, met the visiting club at the
denot. and a dispatch says: 1t GER
tainIy was a rare sight to witness nearly
leo uniformed ladies, with a female
band of 1G pieces. marching through
the streets at the head of a column Of
1000 men,"
Yes, it certainly was rare sight, ana
as deplOrable as rare-One calculated to
make Gen. Harrison pull his grand
fathers hat down over his blushlng
face and ask heaven why it didn't call
the Door. deluded SimpletOnS home to
change their blue uniforms and comets
for more becoming white robes and
harps. OF course, it is wOmen's priv
Iege TO make fools Of themselves if they
enjoy it. though one cannot but wonder
how an alleged all-wise Providence can
sit unmoved on his throne in the skies
and permit them to do so. There is no
kind of work that is degrading to
woman if she pursues it mOdeStly and
with holiness of purpose. But the i'll
stant she tricks herself out like the
prize elephant of a menagerie and at
taches herself to a brass band to parade
the streets she is an object of
contempt, no matter what cause
she may be marching in. 1t is
neither here nor there that men do the
same thing. No woman is justified III
wearing long ears and going on four
feet because men for generations back
have gone the same way. The blow and
show of political demonstrations is
relic of barbariSm. kept in vogue to
catch the vote of the great unciyiliZed--
a means of moving stupidity to action
which quiet persuasion could never ac-
cOmplish. Many man, with band
before him and brass buttons on his
coat. has succeeded in getting himself
hurrahed into an exalted station
shat he could never have otherwise at
tanned. If women have no higher
aim in mixing in public affairs than to
gain nOtoriety for themselves, and, for
general veal or woe, the settling of
vital questions to the tune of Yankee
Doodle" better a thousand times did
they paddle their canoe back into dish
water, cOnfine the philosophy of life
once more between the cover of a cook
book. and limit their efforts within the
four walls Of nursery.
\ modern young woman lately con-
fesseS of herself, what is doubtless true
of all her sisters. Il am not anxious for
soul or experience she says: Il
agree with some other great mind that
the latter is only fine word for suffer-
ing and | can get all the suffering l
want during the breaking in Of a pair of
new shoes. such as | have had on my
tender feet, the past week. EmbarrasS-
ing as is the confession, / must own l
have reluctantly come to the conclusion
that my feet are good deal tenderer
than my heart.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox writes to
friend something of her own expert
ence (aS uSuaD, that may be hint to
ambitious verse makers: Il lost money
on my first two books, and ''Maurine''
5 only now beginning to be a success
after ten years. People are too busy in
This age to read long poem, unless it is
from some well known poet. You can
afford to wait, tho l remember how
hard it seemed to me at your age. Yet
believe me, there is GREAT happiness
in the very restraint and hope and rest
irssness which you now endure. 1t is
one of the most remarkable phases of
fame, and yOu, too, will find it So"