Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-04-20
What a San Francisco Woman Says About
the PecuIiarities of Her Sex.

What a San Francisco Woman Says About
the PecuIiarities of Her Sex.
From the San Francisco News letter.
Women in this county begin, as rule, to feel
old when they are only thirty, but they will rarely
acknowledge the fact, even among themselves.
The reason is that they begin what is known as
life when far too young and when they ought still
to be in the nursery. If they are poor, they have
to do battle with the world, and if rich they have
to struggle through its Injuries, which doubtless
wearies one and proves the harder battle Of the
two. Ii a woman has to work when very young,
she will naturally feel the effects before she is
thirty. If she is rich and whrls through life in
round Of dissipation she is worn out at thirty.
There are very few women indeed, who conduct
and carry themselves with any regard to health
or longevity At thirty the life of the majority Of
women is past-the best part Of their existence is
gone There are few women like Patti or Bern
hardt. They are the exception that prove the
rule.
The foundation of woman's life is laid when
she is young. One cannot live life and have an
other one afterward. When young we are always
more apt to be impressed or dazzled by those who
live reckless lives. The power of reasoning is not
fully developed, and we are imbued with what is
pleasurable. But in after years these memories
and recollections will return to us. They can
never be forgotten
The fruits of our early life will return to us also
hundredfold, and then we reap the harvest Of
youthful folies that are ineffaceabe. 1t is not so
surprising that there are but few women who,
when advanced in years, are able to enthral or
hold the public. A woman who is capable OF do
ing this must not only be personally attractive but
she must be endowed with that rarer gift of men
tai attraction. Paint and POWDER smile and
well-made dress will do much to captivate the fool
ish public, but an enduring and peasurable i'm
preston can only be secured by ceverness on both
sides. The American air and American climate
are often enormously held responsible for the
premature aging of women, whereas the fault is
with themselves and the lives they lead. Our
women take no exercise in the open air. They
will daily go shopping, than which there is no more
fatiguing occupation, but it is not exercise. They
become so weared that they ride home on a car
instead Of walking. A walk to or around the park
would be exercise, or to climb the hills across the
bay and how many American women are there
who ever take such exercise? yet they would be
in far better health If they did so. The majority
OF American women do not work, but live life of
idleness. The wife of plasterer or carpenter
desires to be lady; she must not work, but pre-
fers life of idleness. She needs no children and
will adopt almost any means to avoid having
family This is Of itself enough to wear out any
woman and make her feel and look old ct thirty.
The real laborers, the word aborer is generally
understood, of America, are the Irish Germans,
Portuguese and other foreigners 1t is they, both
men and women, who really work hard and raise
families The American woman, as a rule, keeps
her home and family, when she has one, much
neater and more attractive than the Irish or Ger
man, but she tries to live beyond her station and
do more than is justfable from the standing and
earnings Of her husband, who is a laborer. In