St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-12
WOMAN'S HARD LOT.
Men Can Have an Easy Time
Whatever Happens, but Woman
Always Has to Suffer.


Whatever Happens, but Woman
Always Has to Suffer.
New York Mercury.
Women have very hard time, no
matter how you look at it.
How would military man like to be
on dress parade from the cradle to the
grave? That's what a woman has to be.
A man can luXuriate in mental dress
ing gown and slippers half of his life
and stretch his arms and put his feet
up and take fate easily, but woman
can't shake the harness off and have
good fling in any direction whatever for
one moment, without paying for it for
year.
If man has ten minutes in which to
keep an appointment he can jump into
his clothes anyhow, run after car, get
there on time and never turn hair. A
wOman's hook won't hook, her buttons
won't button. she loses one glove, her
hair comes out of crimp and she can't
even swear at the conductor. who
wouldn't pull the bell rope till after she
had walked quarter of a block and
partly dislOcated the arm that brand
ished her umbrella. She is fifteen min
utes late, and the men all speak male
dictions under their breath at the
woman who ''never can be on time"
while the fellow who took fancy to
her on former occasion discovers that
sees guy with her face flushed and
her collar aWry, and never looks at her
again.
When things go wrong with man he
can neglect his barber for a day or two
and forget the brilliantine for his mus
tache, and grow black and hollow
around the optics, and ten to one he
will simply seem in female eyes $50
Byronic and interesting. you know"
But woman may have a Thousand
gnawing devils at her heart-strings and
she's obliged to put on just so much
hairs on her temple, and pinch the
wrinkles out between her eyes just the
same, or she's handed over to the world
by her hundred most intimate friends
as 'such a wreck, my dear" and the
jury on the case, and even her lawyer,
begin to find excuses for the husband.
1t is generally supposed that if a
woman can only sit down and have a
good cry that is panacea for all her
woes. But when she finds out that the,
indulgence makes her nose red and
swells it, she has to give up that salts
faction along with the others. A man
may exhibit fearleSSly, upon occasions,
carmine proboscis produced by causes
far less confessable. but wife is pro-
nounced not half wife and woman If
she shrinks from him on that account.
If man has weary nerves and a
humping headache nothing prevents
his coming home and tying towel
about his brows like Turk, and being
as grumpy as one the rest Of the even
ing. But woman in the same case
can only look longingly at her old wrap
per ana then go and painfully build up
her Psyche knot and an agreeable smile
of exactly the right angle. else she will
hear that ''Hang it! It's enough to
drive fellow to his club to have an un-
tidy wife lying about on the sOfaSW and
that 1.-THE deuce knows why woman al
ways manages to look pretty before
marriage and never after"
In fact, being woman at all is a
snare and delusion,
1t sounds very, very nice, but it's aw-
full. A woman isn't even allowed to
grow old in peace. Going the course of
all nature is just the worst crime she
can commit. If she isn't married, her
brothers don't forgive her for it, and if
she is married her husband won't.
So there it is; bore any way you
look att.