St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-22
ABOUT WOMEN.

The lines of female industry are con.
stantly broadening. A vocation in
London the past two years has spread
to New York. 1t is the professional
bugaboO. Something of the kind. but
not professional, has been in occasional
use for some time and in several places.
Even in st. Paul mothers have been
known to threaten their tired little ones
with the policeman. or "a man down
town." if they are not good and sweet.
This New York vocation materialiZes the
hgment of the imagination. Where the
maternal statutes are ineffective, this
professional woman is sent for, and re-
duceS the insubOrdinate to subsection
by virtue of the air of austerity and the
suspicion of reserved thunderbolts. She
has some medical knowledge, probably
enough to bring the children out of fits.
II they are frightened into them. Only
females with ''frightful mien" would
seem to be eligible to this line of do
nestle industry.
Whether ladies learn to ride the BIZ
cycle or any of its school with the
grace requisite to give it popularity OF
not. they are bound to take up, as
fashionable freak, the somewhat rural
blackboard. 1t is more sensible one
than some, also. The high priestesses
OF fashion in the East have sprinkled il
with the wine, and it is now the thing,
At one of the notable rural resorts i'm
the radius of New York city, the other
day, the ladies of highest social recOg-
milton, led by the wife of ex-Secretary
w HITNEY, gave blackboard parade.
There was procession of them, ladies
and buckbOardS decorated with flowers
and artistic furnishing. There is moth
ing very tony about the blackboard, but
it is really one of the most comfortable
vehicles, particularly where there are
rough places to be passed. The gentle
teter is an excellent exercise for ir-
valids and those who do not use the
Severer activity of horseback riding. 1t
is often prescribed by physicians, and
is rational thing.
THT
While the constitution makers in W.
omlng had the nerve, or possibly the
lack of it. to provide for female suffrage,
full-o1bed and manly, such as they have
had In that territory, there were some
men who tried to put their puny cor
porations in the path of the coming
woman. Some of this class have con-
troll of the council of the little city of
Casper, and have wrecked themselves
In passing ordinances prohibiting W0m-
ell from visiting any saloon between 7
a. IN. and 10 p. m, or to smoke pipes,
cigars or cigarettes upon the streets, or
disturb the peace with indecent. pro-
fame or rOwdy language or demeanOr.
There may be no reputable women in
that locality, but it is evident that gen
tlemeH do not pass the ordinances. Ii
is not manly way of expressing dis
like of female suffrage.
THH
While women are coming into aVOca.
lions that men have had a monopoly on,
there is one notable sphere of high at.
tainment that men are crOwding women
out Of--that is, fashionable or scientific
cooking. The wealthy magnates and
clubs now have only men for cooks. II
TRANSFERRED the other day that one of the
VANDERBILTS paid his cook $4,000, and
high salaries are the rule. 1t averages
probably ahead of base ball. Miss
JULIET CoRsoN. the tea cher and recog
niZed authority in this science, explains
the cause of this. She comedies that
men are better cooks, because they put
more mental resources into the pro-
gramme. They know better what to
order. Her observation is that
woman's idea of dinner is about alb
SOrbed in roast. vegetable or two
and pudding, while the men are try
ing TO devise some new QlSneS, ana are
fertile in expedients. They take pride
in their skill and achievements. This
is the view of woman, and some pru-
dence may well be had in its indOrse-
ment by family men.
fHF
Men do a good deal of badgering at
the ladies for their serviity to fashion,
but when one OF their own number
gives an exhibition of independence. he
is set down as an eccentric, if not an
absurd crank. There have been many
attempts to get rid of the dismal con-
ventional black of evening occasions of
ceremony, with the clawhammer and
eXpanSe of laundry work. The need of
reform is conceded, but all attempts in
that direction have been failures. The
style is continued by the slavery of
fashion. 1t is reported from Paris that
a change is to be inaugurated, but as
depicted it is far from reform; in fact,
more suggestive of the mOuntebank
than the gentleman. In the interest of
the artistic and attractive, it is to be
hoped that any change may be in the
direction of the knee buckles and tights
of the last century. They come much
nearer the requirements of art and true
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