The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-07
Good Natured Gossip.


men are excluded-that the idea enter
tanned by most of the male sex, regarding
the charity and loving kindness Of their
sisters and sweethearts and wives toward
one another, is as much myth and de-
fusion as Brother Watts statement that
fsbirds in their little nests agree" 1t is
the way of this wicked world and Of we
weaker vessels that, as those tiny song
sters will fight like cats and dogs on some
occasions, so the most dainty and delicate
woman, who looks as though she fed on
rose leaves and communed with angels,
NAV have the sharpest of claws hidden be-
meath her soft exterior, which can rend
sister woman's charities to shreds and pick
il to the bones. Though the average woman
will stand up till the last gasp for her sex,
as whole, she is sure to decry any in
dividual female upO'l whom is fallen the
shadow of suSpici5r-On the same princi-
pie, probably, that she defends the black
est one while running down the race of
men 1 am afraid, my dears, that the can
did truth is we are not, as rule, over
burdened with the jewel consistency.
However, let US be consistent in this, that
in our weekly cOnclave, for which The
HERALD has provided, we promptly frown
down all approach to illnatured gossip.
In the country tea parties above mentioned,
If = wise to be among the very first ar
Ia ., for she who comes last is likely to
be left without a leg to stand on, so far as
reputation is concerned. Though we meet
expressly to discuss the absent woman,
perhaps commenting on her idiosyncracies
and her weaknesses, as well as her modes
and her manners let it be in a spirit of
sister, kindness, remembering that none
of US has been above criticism from the
1rrha n11l, mr. ba1- N-oc horo
boOzled by the serpent down to her latest
descendant.
Well, among the on dts of the day. do
YOU know what sort of girls they have in
Texas? One of them Mrs. Rodgers), is a
cattle queen in her own sight, worth more
than million dollars, which she made her
self in raising lonE-horned stock. An
other, the Widow Callahan, is one of the
largest individual sheep owners in the
state, her immense flock numbering more
than fifty thousand.
Apropos to this, some body has been
counting up how many lady preachers
there are in the United States, and puts the
number at 275, ''with more a-coming''
The BuckspOrt Clipper says that the most
enterprising business man in the town is a
woman. 1t is Miss Annie Lancey, who has
leased mill property, and is operating the
same day and night. She employs four
teen men, and makes them all hustle, run
ming rotary on long lumber during the
day, and at night the single and lath ma
chimes.
By the way, a prominent New Yorker
said the other day: For every five girls
you put into business offices you will make
at least three old maids. They will be ap-
preciated for their work and all that, just
as boys are; but they will lose the inhu-
ence of their sex over men" Is it then so
fatal to matrimonial prospects to become
self supporting: In order to realize the
highest ambition of every true woman
that of becoming a home-keeper, a wife
and motber-must girls remain like q
clinging ivy, though there be no oak to
cling to! Many, born of poor but respect
able parents" would miss many little lux
uries if they did not earn them with their
own hands, and others, orphaned in child
hood have neither brothers nor male rela-
tives to whom to look for support. Non
sense, girls. Be womanly woman where
ever YOU are: and when the right man
comes along ne will take you from the
Typewriter or the sales counter or the
desk or the shop as readily as if he found
YOU sitting idly in the parlOr, and thank his
lucky stars for the spirit of honorable indie
pendence that has made you just what you
are.
The working women are the sturdier
flowers in the garden of life-the rose and
rosemary, the holyhocks and marigolds
and datfys and dahlias, no less highly
priced in their own place than the more
fragile sisterhood. Among the eXotics,
whose mission is mainly TO be sweet and
beautiful, let US speak of the most popular
woman in London, if not in all Europe
the Princess of Wales. She certainly does
not advocate female suffrage, nor prohibi-
ton, nor any other ism or ology, and is as
much a devotee to fashion as she is faith
full and loving mother. The people fondly
call her the ''Well Beloved" and when the
policeman in the park rides down the row,
clearing the way for the luxurious carriage
that rolls along bearing the princess and
her daughters, the multitude forsalke their
chairs and rush to the rails to greet her.
She, in her black dress spotted with white
(being still in light mourning), looks as
charming and sweet as ever despite her
growing deafness and not firm health, and
smiles her gratitude for the devotion of her
husbands future subjects.
Speaking of royalty, don't you wish that
you STOOD in the shoes of the Empress of
Germany, to whom the Sultan of Turkey
has just given necklace, worth 100000,
ii it is worth a picayunes That worthy
woman had Jewels enough before; but it is
carrying out the scriptural prophecy: ITO
him that hath shall be given" BY the
way, the only two women in the civilized
world who have gowns garnished with
DIOIuSlOn VI IOdl pearls are Ouo l1uCu-
talked of italian queen AID Mrs. Bonanza
Msckay, who once wore calico frock in a
mining camp.
One of the very prettiest, but also the
most unaffected of New Y ork society bellies,
Mrs. w. w. Astor, went shopping the other
morning so exquisitly dressed that must
describe her to you. Her gown was of the
palest gray green, with wide, dark green
ribbon set on above the hem Of the skirt,
which was plated in what are called &C
cordian pleats all the way around to the
hack. where it was merely gathered and
hung loose. There was short hip drapery,
whose ends disappeared under the folds at
the back. The bodice had jacket fronts,
lined with darl1-green silk, turned back
from a loose waistcoat of the same dark
green. Above her carelessly knotted curly
hair was little turban of gray--green rough
straw, trimmed in the back with many up
right bows of the dark green ribbon. At
her waist was pinned little cluster OF
corn flowers; her gloves were light tan,
and she carried little silver-e dyed gray
green leather purse and a director.e
parasol of dark green MORE.
At lawn fete last week, another Filth
avenue leader of society, Mrs. Henry
Clews, wore an extremely artistic costume
of old rose and black lace. The silk petit
coat was a pale shade of the color now so
,.,l1ad told r.Oap ,; and over IL