Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-05-13

amusement, anu Will % Rep6 ON bne
balance Of the week. The company is
fully up to the standard, and is prepar-
ing another piece of the same character
for next week.
Evolution of the American Girl.
EDITORS HERALD 1t is extremely hard
to have ones most self-sacrifcing Efforts
to benefit the female eek not only un.
appreciated, but actually repudiatsd. Is
it not? Permit me, however, as CRATE.
full American girl of the period to exon
crate myself from the general reflection,
and to assure you that unselfishly and
perfectly subscribe to your unique and
chivalrous suggestion that darning
stockings or socks ia q slavish, pncon
GENIAL occupation, and your theory that
we ''oupht 10 be waited upon, and that
from the four quarters If the globe fhould
come servitors to do our sweet bidding"
ought to receive rs unqualified a mascu-
lire acceptance Rs we should accord it.
| Putting the scheme in practical opera
ton, however, the fact that we do not
darn our own stockings does not neces-
sarily imply that the 60 undarned. There
are q vast number OF poor but skillful
hands that will, for the trifling con-
sideration of one dollar and n
half, inspect ones dainty lingerie
and fine hosiery, one day in each week,
and repair them, II required. To many
the work is not distaeteful, the pay
always grateful. and the majority quite
love the little mistress, who may thus
improve many an opportunity for kind
word and friendly interest to, very
often, retioed, sensitive dependent.
The girl that enjoys the emancipation
fiom care that these circumstances afford
her. may not be merely a frivolous hut
terfy, or mistake John Bright for the
Inventor of the famous kidney disease, !"
either, but woman, whom the seduc-
lively luxurious element has moulded
into creature of delicacy that is posi-
lively delicious; OF such cultured taste
that her very presence is an artistic
crea ton her heart, with its careless, in
tense and impulsive affections, bub-
bling fountain of gladness, her caprice
and coquetry an enhancing study, her
love, in all its innocence and ideality, an
inspiration, and her mind, in it's quick
ness of perception and subtleties OF dis
tinction, a refreshment. One can
not, of course, assert that tie
mere external advantages OF
luxury and leisure, will effect such stu.
pendous mental, moral and physical re-
suits; but the popular idea that associ-
ates gross selishness and hypocrisy
with the exquisite attributes OF mind
and person, is not always infallible, Tie
American girl is just rousing to con.
seriousness of her powers. The gallant,
if erroneous, deductions of Prof. Ward
which endeavor to prove her tho source
and chief factor, not only of her race,
but of civilization also, mildly asserting
that woman is the race" is, at least, a
compliment to her growing importance.
To divest it of it's biological basis and
resolve it to its social aspects, che is
surely emerging from the chrysalls
state. She has sufficient mental acumep
and ambition to call in question the
desirability of filling "woman's
sphere" as it was defined some fifty
years ago. She signally fails to see the
ennobling result of devoting her intelec-
tual energies to basting roast of beef in
such ar improved and scientific style as
will make it slip down the critical gullet
of her lord and master with the desired
facility of a toboggan slide. She
would infinitely prefer being an cold
maid'' (Which by the way is by no means
an obloquious epitbet) than spending
her existence in the dewy dish-water,
and she cordially confesses that she has
once or twice in her life enjoyed mere
ecstatic OCCUPATION than taking noe
turnal promenade with q rebellious in
FAINT OF abnormally developed power of
vocalization and unlimited capacity for
collie. And yet the American girl is a
1 Iati,,fY vptfa on1
mother, but in the moral responsibility
Of her motherhood and in the daily
| watchfulness exercised over the young
share and willingly resigns him to his
| "bonne's" care when he exhibits symp-
| toms Of desire for melodious excite
ment. Observe my opinions are selected
| for the advancement, convenience and
edification of my sex, who censure them,
while the men lat least so far as l am
personally interested), CALAMITY support
them. Take veterans advice. Do not
refuse one advantage that the other sex
would extend to you. merely to prove
to them your disputed business ability,
and, to display your native shrewdness,
make the most out of every transaction
that you, in all honesty, can. You have
not the remostest idea of the extent of
your power, or the absolutism of your
imperial sway. "Yield to mans taste, |
and be will yield to your interest,"" is the |
somewhat ignoble precept of the saga
cious Tomlinson. Know that there is |
more potency in a sweet smile and an |
appealing glance, than in the unparalleled |
attractions of French cuisine, an allur-
ing array of neatly darned socks, or,
above all, every button in its place. Was
it Parthenia's house-wifery, or her be-
witching graces of mind, body and soul,
that implanted the divine passion OF love
in the savage Ingomar; or that trans
formed him from the ferocious barbarian
to the gentle lover, that endured with
mild patience the innocent coquetries of
his sweet lady-love? Men are not brutes.
as we often exclaim, but beings of senti-
ment and sensibility, who would, did
we not influence them rightly, be at once
our soicitous father, our respectful con.
our admiring sweetheart, our adoring
lover, our tender husband. go to An
geleno Heights" and let her learn to
know that when women sue, men give
like gods"
Tender to them plenty OF opportunity
Tor the unrestricted exercise of that
blessed prerogative of generosity that |
snail sI obtain for them preferment in {
Heaven (for have l not, as an authority. t
the disinteresied adjuration in illumin. I
ated print, that designatss the money c
box with the inscription Good Ioveth a | r