The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1890-08-14
new BOBS AND NEW BETTYS
Men and Women Who Are Changing
Places.
FOPs ana Their idea Of
Marriage.

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Of things will be reversed.
Femininity is on the decline. The old
fashioned girl has disappeared to make
room for her swagger sister. This dis
gusting young creature, although pure
hearted and clean-minded enough, ans
wers to the nickname Of Jim, Jack,
Teddy or Billy. She wears spats, shirts,
blazers, a fob, sash, monocle, four-in-
hand and a derby in summer, and is
tailor-fashioned in cool weather.
A Ahail-fellow-well-met-sort-of-a-girl, she
cultivates slang, uses the "pump-handle"
when she shakes hands, and at longer
range salutes the boys or q sister bachelor
by lifting her straw hat on the public
street. She talks dog and horse-races,
she can roll cigarette, strike light on
the sole Of her shoe, mix q cobbler or o
cocktail, and pass judgment on them, too.
She accepts as jolly the familiarity Of
tone and the absence Of dignity on the
part OF the young men who follow in her
train. The conventionalities are nothing
TO her and she regards all restrictions and
reserve as tiresome. The nonenities from
which these masculine maidens get their
model are permitted 10 buttonhole them,
to smoke and lounge in their society, to
keep their hats on, TO use coarse language
and tell stories that they dare not repeat,
which is neither lovely nor wholesome.
This perniciOus thirst for masculine
attire has been the corruption Of good
form and it is to-day followed by loss Of
conventional social dignity. Because Of
this looseness men are careless in their
treatment Of woman. They study their
own comfort and not only go to dinner in
their slippers, but make evening calls In
q tennis suit; II it suits them to keep
their hands in their pockets they do 30
and seem TO think that 1t Is hardly worth
while to assist lady into car or coach
or step aside TO let her pass in or out Of q
public doorway.
The counterpart Of the masculine girl
is the etfeminate man, who crowds the
piazza OF the summer hotel or monopo-
Lies valuable space in the athletic club
room. He pays his dues, not that he
cares anything about the sport, but be-
cause 1t Is the style and there is an ad-
vantage in having access TO fine station
cry. This Miss Betty is as masculine as
a chicken and as vain as q peacock. He
talks in thin, treble voice, his hands are
soft and white, his fingernails are mani
cured twice 4 day and his coat fits tight
to show off the graceful line Of his figure.
He wears snake rings on both hands,
perfume in his hair and thustache, an
inehable look Of WEAKNESS and cultivates
q supreme contempt for people In general.
Like his colleague his mind runs TO cheap
fiction and his purchases are confined to
the L station news stock. Although an
ardent advocate Of marriage he has long
since ceaLed to regard it in the light Of
his progenitors.
He is lover Of his own comfort and
ease. He fancies silk underwear, good
stories and select amusements. He must
have good clothes in variety and abund-
ance, and, being gourmet, cannot abide
home cooking. OF course he Is fond Of
society, and would not object to wife,
provided she is able to take care Of him
and will promise that they shall not be
bothered with family relatives. This
exquisite empty-head is not to be blamed
for putting himself in the highest market.
A free-born citizen, he has yet to know
why he should not command as high a
price as the fops and dandies in the foreign
market for his name and hand.
Interrogate this shallow, impecunious
youth and he will tell you that "really he
has no desire to marry and no intention
Of providing for q wife, but II any rich
girl comes along with little beauty and
money enough for matrimonial VEN
ture, why, don't mind signing the con-
tract"
She does come along; it is a notori-
ons fact that she does more than her
share Of the lovemaking, and the con-
tract Is signed.
Everything goes to prove that these
money marriages are on the increase.
The mannish young woman does not
stop at masculine attire and manneFisnls.
She shows her ability to go it alone by
dispensing with an escort at the theatef,
on the street and in the tour for pleasure
or business. She thinks II smart to wait
on herself, and 1t is her boast that she
can go where men 60 and have as much
cides TO 90 In business she at once be-
comes q hustler. She does her own man
aging, sells her book or pictures, keeps
her own bank account and considers her
self the equal Of any man. Once she has
II she maFries she will hold the reins, and
so long as the victim keeps quiet his pro-
vision Is assured.
1t has been estimated by an employe Of
the United States bureau Of labor that there
are "a 900 married men In the city Of New
York who are supported by their wives,
less than 1000 Of whom are In menial serv-
ice. The modistes are In the majority.
This includes dressmakers and milliners,
many Of whom own property, some being
very wealthy and all well-to-do. The
boarding house keepers rank next In num-
Der; the professional women, who em-
brace doctors, lawyers, dentists, aurists,
writer's, teachers, musicians, lecturers, de-
signeFs, painters, and embroiderers, come
third. Then there are the shopkeepers who,
Il Is said, make the best providers.
And 80 "the old order changes" !" and IN
Q little while the girls who 60 the pace and
the more serious ones who walk of with
the honoFs Of the university men will not
only be able TO take care Of themselves but
take care Of husbands, provide homes for
them and stand between them and the
world.
Not long ago Mrs. Potter Palmer, Of Chi
cago, read O paper before q new club Of
swell young ladies who meet in north side
drawing rooms, advocating the financial
backingof every girl at the age Of maturity
In order that she might be enabled to make
good marriage. Just what kind Of an in
fiuence the dependent feminine husband
and the independent masculine vile will
have on the social system remains for
speculation.