Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-05-06
THE BOSTON WOMAN.
Sho Il Not Only Transccndentally De-
Iightrul, But Sho Is Superb.

Iightrul, But Sho Is Superb.
or all the complex products of modern
civilization it is to DO doubted if there
10 any thing more astonishing or moro
inexplicablc than that thing which tho
Boston woman calls her mind, writes
Aolo Bates in the Chicago Tribune. Bos-
ton mon, as rule, do not take the
trouble to assert their possession of any
thing of tho sort, and, ii they have a
mind, simply use it and say nothing
about it. But the Boston woman has
her mind on her conscience, SO to speak,
and while she has left none Of the super
constituencies toward conduct which
plagued her ancestors, she does agoniEe
over tho proper cultivation of hcr mind,
her ethical sense exhausting itself in
this direction.
1t would be interesting to know just
where the Boston woman draws the limo
between amusement and cultivation, If,
indeed, she draws it anyw bore. She
mixes lectures. and receptions, study
classes and luncheon parties, so thor
oughly and with such an air of looking
at them from tho Same pointof view that
one can not tell whether il is that she
takes every thing so seriously, or looks
upon all so frivoiously. The impression
which the looker-on inevitably gets is
that whatever her attitude toward one
Is her attitude toward all; but masculine
perspicacity is seldom able to discover
just what this is.
81 was so fired by the lecture one
day." Boston woman said, "that went
straight to the library for volume Of
FIGHTER. l was determined to know all
thcre was in his philosophy to know,
but thought would begin with small
volume first. l asked tho, librarian for
tho smallest volume on FIGHTER she had, ,.
and she gave me a little book that
looked as though baby might master
it, it was SO small and pretty. But the
viciousness of that volume can not be-
gin to express to you. sat down with
it one night, and l could not comprehend
tho first word. 1t was worse than a nom
sense rhyme, and it wasn't half so anus
ing. But 1 said to myself: 4 havo
taken it in tho evening when my brain
isn't clear But the ncXt morning when
I tried it it was moro lncomprenensible
than ever. / said to myself that igno-
rance was on the whole preferable to
idiocy, oven in Boston; and so mildly
but firmly carried the small book back to
the library; and now listen to the lect-
ures as If they wero not really meant to
be understood, but only to be enjoyed
as music. They are charming on that
basis"
Prof: Louis Dyer is alsogiving lectures
to the fashionable Boston women, and
the conversation at the lengthy lunch
cons aforesaid turns upon lofty subjects
at which tho masculine head reels mere
ly to hear mentioned. Tho women do
play their part most admirably. They
are as grave about it as children over
the make-believes of their childish
sports. They might really BIO in earn
est for all one could tell from their
manner.
81 am afraid would never do for Bos-
tom" clever Western girl said the
other day. 81 have frivolous moments
even while the discussion of the uni
verse and tho ultimate end of man is 90
ing on. / even let my frivolous atten-
ton become absorbed in the exquisite
flavor of an entree or q salad while ! am
hearing the deepest truths Of philosophy
discussed at an intellectual luncheon.
"You forget" she was answered,
shat philosophy has no truths; it has
only theories. But, laying that aues-
ton aside, it is to be inferred from what
you say that you must really he q Bos-
tonian changed in your cradle. Your
attitude is precisely that of the Boston
woman, except that she consciously and
deliberately lets her mind wander.
once discussion is started in which
she does not have to bear part, she de-
Hbcratcly turns her mind out to grass
and lets it run its unregcnerated course.
Her only care is to preserve an outward
semblance Of attention; and for assum-
ing comprehension and an enjoyment
in topics in which ono has not tho
slightest interest or understanding, the
Boston woman is probably without rival
in tho world"