The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-03
WOMAN'S WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
A Girl Party Where No Chaperon Was
Needed.


Needed.
It was at the Twenty-third street sta
ton of one of the New York elevated
roads that they came on the train. Every
eye was fixed on them, for they nearly
all wore white, and twenty-five pretty
| girls coming into car all at once dressed
in white viii make even the iaded, tired
New Yorker glance up from his evening
paper. Their sunburned faces showed
| they had been down for dip and day
at the seashore. Some Of them had
dainty baskets in which they had car
RED their lunch. The rest had RECALLED
themselves ON blue6sh, steamed CLAIMS
and other sea food. They looked like
the girls of a graduating class at school,
or they might have been young women
clerks in one of the great dry goods
stores. l could not quite make them
out, and l, who have interviewed sena-
tors and members of parliament and
high nosed, homely old women who
thought they were leaders in society,
and did it without any compunctions at
ALL did not dare ask these girls
who they We're and where they had
been. Their sweet, girlish dignity
abashed even me. They were as merry
as the sunlight, and talked and laughed
together, and you could not detect from
any glance or word that they were mar
riageable girls. They were just bright,
sensible and natural, seemingly utterly
unconscious that the men, young and
old, in the car were watching them.
l really think they were thus uncon-
scious. The eternal thought Of sex that
seems to fill the minds of some girls was
apparently entirely absent from their
meditations, and greatly to their advan-
tage. There was not an older person Of
either sex with them; nobody but them
selves. They need a chaperon? They
might have been trusted to go around
the world alone.
While they are about it let the Pres
byterians revise the word ''obe<lient" out
of their marriage ceremony. Nothing
needs revision more than that The
Methodists have already ordered that
"obey" be left out OF their marriage ser
vice.
Philipps Garrett Fawcett won the
senior wranglership which years ago her
father tried for and failed, although he
won wranglership. Professor Fawcett
in studying for the prize became nervous
and lost his sleep, and SO was left be-
hind. But not one night did Philippe
lose any rest. she kept her head on,
slept nina hours Of the twenty-four, went
to bed early and did not worry about the
prize she was contending for, so she
gained it. So all the prizes in life are
gained.
Mrs. Livarmore's popularity as a lect-
urer does not diminish, d rather in
creases. She has been busy all this sum
mer speaking for Ch&utauqua assem-
blies. Her enga. ,eme- IS last till Sep
TENDER, and she finds this the busiest
summer of her life.
A woman who has travelled much alone
writes to The Homemaker that she al
ways pins her faith to blue coat and
brass buttons when she desires informa-
ton or attendance. She has found rail
way and steamboat employees courteous
and kind and Invariably to be depended
on. This is tribute to class of hard
worked men that one is glad to read.
There are now two women on the
Chicago school board, Mrs. Ellen NJ
.:ttchen and Miss Mary z. Eur5.
Mrs. D. ". Swan, cultured public
spirited woman of Scranton, Pa, has
been appointed member Of the board
of directors Of public charities in THAI
place.
Every innovation that viii help secure !
honorable pecuniery independence foI
women workers is to be welcomed. The |
gallant Texans of the Houston cotton
exchange and board of trade have |
elected two women members of their or.
ganization. These two ladies', Mrs. Cora
Bacon Foster and Mrs. Ella Hutchins
are partners in Furnishing
real estate business they have built up
in Houston.
At last Oxford university. England, |
has opened It's doors a little way to I
women. That is to say. the girls have
got their noses in. Hereafter women
will be admitted to the medical exam
nations OF tie university.
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