Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-18
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.

"0pen your mouth and shut your eyes
Three little maidens were saying
And see what God will send your Little they
thought
he listened while they were playing;
So little we guess that light light word
At times may be more than Praying.
81, - said Kate, with merry blue eyes,
Would have lots of frolic and folly -
said Lu, with bonny brown hair,
Would have life always smiling and Jolly"
+" And would have just what our Father would
send,'
Said loveable, pale little Polly
Life came for the two with sweetnesses new,
Every morning in gloss and in glister;
But our Father above in a gush of great love-
Caught up little Polly and kissed her.
And the churchyard nestles another wee grave
The angels another wee sister,
The current number of Fortaightly pub
fishes a lot of counter declarations in favor
OF womans suffrage, in reply to the
woman's protest against it in the Nineteenth
Century. This latter is signed by all the
priestesses and high priestesses of the cult,
but for all practical purposes they might
just as well have saved themselves the
trouble, since their views on the subject
are fully known by everybody. While
there are few gentle, worthy and womanly
women mixed with the rabble of cranks,
failures and disappointed females who
clamor for suffrage and sigh TO unsex them
selves, | believe that the vast majority of
the sex prefer to remain women, and have
no more desire to crowd around the ballot
box than they have to become cab-driyers
or blacksmiths What are men good for
If not to save women from disagreeble con-
tact with the world? In the Niaeteenh
Century Mrs. Ashton Dixie and Mrs. Faw-
cett publish articles in which they denounce
all women who do not agree with them on
=
(but essentially feminine) reasons why the
opinion of their opponents should be ig-
nored. Having thus dealt with their open
enemies, they turn upon those within the
temple who are not yet prepared to admit
that, though no political distinction ought
TO be recognized between the sexes female
suffrage should be confined to girls old
maids and widows. In this they have con-
siderable difficulty, because unable to find
real reason, though they search heaven
and earth for it, for making such distinc-
tion. In commenting upon the matter, the
Truth says: "Why, dear ladies, we see
through all this. 1t is our old friend, the
thin edge of the wedge. We know that
the old maids and the widows are only the
advance guard. Once admit that they
have right to the suffrage, and we must
necessarily admit that all women have a
right to it. If all women had votes,
women would rule, for there would be con-
siderably more female that male voters.
The @oman's rights ladies, therefore, deem
1t more expedient to ask, at first, for part
of their number, though why Miss Jones
should lose it when she becomes Mrs.
Smith, and only regains it again after she
has buried Mr.. Smith. no male mind can
: apprehend."
No end of nice things are being perpet-
ually written on the subject of giving
occupation to boys; but it is seldom in
deed that girls are advised as to what they
shall fit themselves for. 1t is supposed
that they are going to marry and keep
house and rear children; but the hard
fact is that in many sections there are
more women than men-and, therefore,
unless polygamy comes again into fashion,
how are all the poor creatures to marry?
Again, every community has widows, most
OF whom have children to sdpport. and
young women with aged parents or
younger brothers and sisters dependent
upon them. What shall they do for
living? Among other avenues of labor
which afford fair field to women and in
which may be found health and pleasure
as well as support, there is that of horti-
culture. That the sex are born horticult-
urists, both by taste and inclination. IS
evidenced by the house-plants which most
of them cultivate, and with success enough
even under unfavorable circumstances. to
indicate that if bread and butter de-
pended upon it they would make frst-class
florists or fruit-growers. Their natural
carefulness, keen eyes, quick perception
and deft fingers would combine to make
her far superior to the average man in the
finer operations of horticulture Another
advantage is that fruit or flower culture
require but little land to begin with, and
not much cash outlay, and returns are
quick. For good products the demand is
always good and the prices remunerative.
Then, above all, it enables a woman to
earn her livelihood at home, which, after
all is said, is the place that suits her best.
She need not come to California to raise
oranges or olives, or go to Mexico TO cult
ivate coffee, or anywhere else out of her
own county, wherever that may be- The
products of the locality where she belongs
will do as well as any other
One of the most interesting women in
New York City is Mrs. Florence Kelley
Wischnewetsfy, to whom, jointly with
Miss Ida NJ. Van Etten, is due the passage
of the bill giving New York State six
women factory inspectors. Mrs, Wisch-
newetsky is daughter of the late Hon.
w. W. Kelly (fam:liarly known as "Pig-
iron Kelly"), and she seems to have in
herited her fathers ability. She was a
Cornell coed, and went abroad to study
in the German universities where she ac-
quired her unpronouncable name by mar
rying Russian medical student Though
by no means beautiful, she hes a wonder
fully strong and expressive face, and is a
writer of much force and originality. She
is President Of the Philadelphia Society of
Working Women, and to her energetic
work in New York and Albany is largely
due the success of the factory bill.
From St. Petersburg comes the informa-
ton that the Czarina has Just had three
magnificent dressing gowns made for Prin-
cess Alexandria of Greece, who is about 10
be married TO the Grand Duke Paul of
Russia. One of them is made of white
silver fox-fur, cut princess shape, and
edged with a border of real gold-plaited
threads, four inches wide The second is
made of sable, fastened up the front with
six agraffes, each composed of cluster of
real pearls. The effect of the pure white
pearls on the bright, dark fur, is said to be
dazzling. The third OF these luxurious
garments is made of blue fox-fur, and is
encircled at the waist by diamond belt.
Several thousand skins have been used to
make these dressing-gowns, which repre-
sent an almost fabulous worth. The Car
ina has explained the lavish outlay by say
ing that the Princess, who comes from the
sunny South, must be well protected
against Russian cold. 1t may happen that
a coat of mail would have been better
bridal present if she goes out riding with
the royal family among the bomb-throw-
ers.
Mrs. Ella Dietz Clymer, the new Presi-
dent OF the most popular woman's club in
the country-Sorosis--is possessed of more
than ordinary grace and beauty. She is tall
and slender, with light hair and dark
brown eyes that grow wonderfully lumin-
Gus when she becomes interested. Mrs.
Clymer has most musical voice, and re-
Iigious temperament, and taste for the
mystical We shall probably hear of her.