The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-09-30
woMAN,s WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
Shall Business Women Eat Luncheon Un-
der observation-disclosures
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opposite well known restaurant. We
entered, following the crowd. At the
door we were stopped Ladies are
not allowed in here" said a waiter.
This is a business mans restaurant.
There is ladies' dining room up stairs.
Up stairs we went. We took in the sit
uation at a glance-a gaudy, swallow
tailed waiter feeling business, waiting
half an hour for the least order, with
! grinning monkey at your elbow, listen
ing to all you say, remarking audibly
unless you get a gorgeous dinner, rolling
up the whites of his eyes and sneering in
your face unless you give him fee
which is enough to buy your whole din
ner elsewhere. am so sick of that kind
of thing that the English language can
not express my feelings. We looked
witheringly at the dread presence that
came forward to smirk us into a
seat. SIS this the only place where
business women can go for baked
potato and a cup of chocolate" The
smi7ker said it was. "And l suppose
the prices are twice as much as they are
down stairsY' Eyes, they are three times
as much, answered the smirker This,
then, was all the great restaurant in the
second largest city of the union could do
for business women; charge them three
times as much as man is charged for
the same thing, when women as rule
do not even get the third of the wages
paid to men, and expect them to fee the
walters besides. 1t is not the square
thing at ali, and the same conditions are
to be observed in all cities. Business
women have no chance at all when it
comes to the noon hour. If some shrewd.
capable women, clean, dainty and good
cooks, would open moderate priced little
restaurants in the busy portion of the
large cities and have it understood that
business women were especially to be
accommodated there, believe they
would be a great success. At the same
time the opposite sex need not be dis
eliminated against simply because they
are men.
Earrings and pierced ears are going
out of fashion.
A nice girl colnpositor was working at
her case busily one day some years ago
when she saw a certain good looking
man whose acquaintance she afterward
made. In course Of time the two were
married and the girl became Mrs. Mil
Ter. Now the nice girl printers husband
is governor of North Dakota.
In Chicago men teachers have almost
disappeared from the public schools ex-
cept as principals, and the women are
crowding them hard even there. Miss
Bernard, principal of. the Jones school,
has been in the Chicago public schools
fifty years. Some of the girls have
reached the place of assistant superin-
tendent and get salary of $500
The trade in cut flowers for the cities
is becoming larger and larger every
year, and the demand is happily one
that will never go out of fashion. Wom-
en- are very successful as florists, and if
they would turn their attention with
zeal and sense TO the business many of |
them would amass wealth in the course
Of years. The work is beautiful and
healthful. A young woman florist in
San Diego is doing a thriving business
both in the wholesale and retail trade,
while two others in another part of Cali
fornia are making a good living cult
waiting roses alone.
One of the noblest women ever bon. |
to bless and help her own sex was the
late Lydia Becker, of England. She
was a member Of the Manchester school
board, and there worked especially for
the industrial education of girls. She
believed that if the daughters Of the poor
could be made accomplished cooks and
housekeepers, knowing now to sew and
make the most and the best of what they
had, it would go a long way toward
ameliorating the condition of all. She
arranged for instruction to evening
classes in sewing, cooking, nursing and
laundering during the present year.
All members in full connection. Q,
years old or over, viii vote in the Meth
odist church this October and No
vember on the question of whether
women are to be admitted as Law
delegates to the general conferences.
VIII the whole church do as the
general conference itself has done for
the past twelve years, l wonder, and
administer a slap in the face and drive
down and out its most faithful and self
sacrificing workers again? And if so, | |
wonder if the women will still stand it
and remain in the church, and like pa
tent beasts of burden work all the hard
er for being kicked and cuffed?
These women who know something
and have won high honors in their stud
les do not have TO wait for opportunity
10 work. Helen Leah Reed, who capt !
ured the Sargent prize at Harvard last
commencement, has already become lit !
erary editor of The Boston Advertiser. |
while Elizabeth Hodge, who distin-
guished herself at the Oxford examina- |
tions in England. is to become mistress |
of st. Mary's college at Johannesburg, |
South Africa
Lady Dixie and John Burns are work !
ing together in the effort to form wo1ne1 !
into trades unions in England. Lady |
Dixie told the members of the Labor |
congress that she had found many girls |
in the chainmaking trade working sew !
enty-hve hours q week for sixty cents. |
Do we fatter ourselves that slavery has |
ceased to exist among civilized nations: /
There is labor slavery in all the coun.
tries of civilization still that Is as bad rs I
African slavery ever was in its worst |
days.