Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-11
THE DAUGHTERS OF EYE.
WHAT THEY ARE DOING AND THINK
ING AND WEARING.
An Ola Podrida Prepared and Arranged
by One of Them for the
Sunday Union.
PosT-NUPTIAL MUSINGS

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Adown the lanes my love and I-ah, me
| The time IS past for such roman ic roaming
He holds the baby while Pm getting tea
We used to Sit with lamp turned low, together
| And talk OF love and its divine effects
When nights were long and wintry was the
Fornobler he than Knight with knight Y feather
/ And l, TO him, the lovelest of my sex.
Now, oft when wintry blasts howl round the
| gable,
Immersed in smoke, he pores o'er gold and
stocks,
The fact ignored that Just across the table,
The loveliest of her sex" sits darning socks
| oh, bygone days. when courteous and single.
De called me Angel as he pressed my hand
| Oh, present time wherein that self-same fellow
To that same angel-grown a trifie yellow
| Calls out, g." Matilda, do you understand
| All. yes understand-one thing for certain
Love after marriage is a beauteous myth
| AT whlch, who once have passed beneath the
curtain,
Turn up their poses-disenchanted with.
One of the best journalists of the day
says this in regard to young girls, which
ought to be repeated in every newspaper
in the land and taken to heart by every
mother; ''The young American girl who
understands French, delights the soul of
her parents by continually reading French
books, to keep up her knowledge of the
language, is not the girl that you or /
would want our sons to marry. To be a
bit French, the orange flowers would not
sit straight ON her head-they'd incline a
little to one side in rakish fashion. I
look every day at a young girl, pretty after
the delicate American style, well dressed,
and evidently adored by her own people.
| wonder if she might not be counted
among the peaches that are sold at fifteen
sous? They are apparently just as fine
and large as those that brought fifteen
francs-but take one up, examine it with
magnifying glass, and on the peach at fif-
teen sous you see tiny speck, that doesn't
go in far at present, but mars the perfec-
tion of the peach and it grows each day
Now, the girl that | see has done nothing
very wrong that am sure of. But she is
familiar with wrong doing, for she has
listened to tales that ought not to be told
before her, and has read no end OF French
novels, and thinks nothing of growing very
intimate first with this man and then
with that one and she enjoys with the air
of a gourmand the champagne she takes at
dinner. She is nineteen years old, and
has had three seasons out and if she
were putyinto fruit shop, metamorphosed
into blushing peach, she would only bring
fifteen sous-a second-class price. Whose
fault is it? Her mothers. | think, when
the great Day of Judgment comes, there
will be before the bench for reprimand
more prodigal mothers and fathers than
sons and daughters; for, after all, if you
do not try to keep your girl sweet and
womanly, innocent and pnre, she has no
one to blame but you. Do women ever
think Especially society women') all
that it means-this caring for female
child?"
As to the male children-much prosy
advice is bestowed upon the miniature
ms that never gets beyond the drums of
their ears. One of the most useful ideas
head, is that the owner of it is bound to
make his mark in the world if he only
chooses to try. Teach him that it de-
pends entirely upon himself whether he
crawls or fiies-whether or not he scars
above the dead level of mediocrity. Give
him confidence in his own inherent capa-
bilities. Argue that he has the same fac
ulties by which others have arisen to dis
tinction, and that he has only to cultivate
them and apply determined will in their
exercise in order to rise. Bid him shoot
his arrows at the zenith not at the hori-
zon. \ boy who sets out in life with the
Presidency in his eye, although he may
fall short of the mark, will be pretty sure
to reach higher position than if his am
bition had been limited to the office of
town Constable, or tide-railer's berth in
the Custom-house. This is a land where
poverty is no serious impediment to ad-
vancement. Very few of our millionaires
were born with golden spoons in their
mouths, and several of the most distin-
guished of our statesmen earned their
bread IN early life by the most humble
occupations In this favored land, For
tunes gifts are wrung from her by heads
and hearts that know no such word as fail.
Fame has no special favors for the silk
stocking class. Aristotle says that action
is the essence OF oratory but more true it
IS that energetic will is the soul of success.
The very best temporal advice that
father can give his son is to "aspire"-the
higher, the better. And, as President
Garfield used to be so fond of saying,
There is always room at the top"
According to a writer in the Westminster
Reriew, it is not the old maids that make
up the surplus female population in
England-it is the widows who food the
labor market. He proves that in the
fright little tight little island" there are
nearly one and half millions of widows,
and less than half that number of widow
ers. What is the reason?
The unmarried female Briton has fres h
cause for complaint. As if it were not
enough to have so many Englishman
marrying American girls-the very best of
them, too-but now Sir William Moore.
England's Surgeon-General, is trying to
close against her the Indian matrimonial
market, which was fast becoming her only
hope. This ungallant officer strongly urges
Anglo-lndians to stop marrying English
girls, and to make shift with native wives.
He declares them to be as good, or better,
than the Anglo-Saxon female, pretty, and
with docile disposition, and above all,
with strength and willingness to bear
many children-the sine gai non of an
English husbands happiness.
Speaking of our cousins across the water
there is in London a corporation COM
posed OF men and women, called "The
Ladies Residential Dwelling Company"
This corporation has already erected sew
eral dweiling-houses for the use OF edu-
Gated women, who are compelled to earn
their own living, and to live in lodgings;
and block of these dwellings is now in
contemplation. The buildings are ar
ranged in sets of flats, which rent from
81 80 to Sc 30 per week, or from two
pounds to five pounds per month. There
is cooking range set in each suite, but
there is also large general dining-room
connected with each house, IL which din
ner Is served after the work of the day is
| finished.
| There are twenty-eisht women serving
in London as Poor-law Guardians More
than three hundred English women have
pursued the study of medicine and gone to
India to practice it. The Orerta1ad Mail
says: Iu India lady doctors are now ia
miliar to us aud though at first they were
somewhat ridiculed by those who could not
appreciate their value, they are fast max
ing their presence felt for good in every
corner of the land.n
II you want to send fresh cut-howers a
| long distancs-eyen to Europe by the slow