The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-07
WOMEN AND NEWSPAPERS.
"sAB" MAKES ANEW INVESTIGATION.
She Says n Women Are Better News
paper Readers Than Men-HOw She
Proves It-Other Matters-Under-
wear-America For Women.

newspapers. He believes he is the only
animal capable of comprehending them,
and he says she devotes herself to the adj
refreshments and the marriages and
deaths. This may be partially true, but l
doubt 1t; and even if she did, l fail to see
why she would be doing any harm. 1t is
much decenter TO read the advertisements
than to read accounts Of political speeches
where the personalities are abominable,
and where the grammar must make the
queen shudder-I say the queen, because
we always refer to good English as the ex-
elusive possession of the queen.
As for reading themarriages and deaths,
she is certain, after she has done that, to
get herself thoroughly posted in regard to
peoples position, and she doesn't meet
some man on the street and ask him how
his wife is when his wife has been dead
three months, nor does she Jest about
babies who have gotten married TO some
young innocent chap, who has made his
debut on the sea of m%atrimony for the
first time in the past two weeks. To my
way of thinking, women read the news
pdpCl6 II EAGdl 0tdA u hlt-tAiEciAItY
but then, of course, l look at it from a
voman's standpoint. Nothing gives one
a greater amount of information than the
advertisements, and no essay, no history
OF q murder, no glowing account of a
dance was ever more lucid in its descrip-
ton than is the story OF how a lady, after
suffering for years for the lack of a silk
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and has since become a good wife and a
good mother. They are at once full of
l imagination and harmless. But m
Aother things, and. funnily enough.
Ayill find more in the newspaper
She seems to have a sixth
her discover the para
" else finds-that is, no.
and she can exploit the
krite actress, her near
Nv book, or what they
(hd, while a man wonders
q IL. and can not believe
BIT OF the very newspaper
has pondered for two
/ regard the newspapers as
E~ucators OF today, and am de-
m TO such an extent that one
rome goes to buying them.
prove a devotion more firmly
Somebody wrote to me and
II / would advise women TO read
Papers, and ! answered them, Yes,
l say 1t three times, and each
lean it more emphatically than |
first. OF course there are rood and
Newspapers, as there are good and bad
hen, and I would just as o advise
Y6u TO get acquainted with the wicked OF
your kind as / would TO read a newspaper
that catered to all that was mean and low
In the world. But after all, / think the
bad ones are few and far between. The
average American editor knows his audi
ence. and he knows they would rather
hear OF good things, OF happy times, and
OF ways that can help other people along,
thar almost anything else. Then for fear
he will make his clientele all angels, he
puts in between some chatter, or babble.
or similar gossip that's as frothy as the
white of an egg, but which never did any
body any harm, and is warranted not to
lie heavy on the stomach.
80 very much attention is being paid to
the sort of underwear worn by the smart
woman OF today that she may be inter
ested IN knowing that her most severe
Judge is her laundress. One bit of
machine sewing Simply sends her swiftly
10 the bottom Of the sea. and the young
woman who has decorated her belongings
with tucks done by the machine had bet
ter do her washing at hOme and develop
the muscles OF her arm ii she wishes 20
retain the position which is hers bv right.
Her underclOthes are few in number, but
fine of kind, and whether she chooses to
wear linen cambria or silk the sewing
must be that fine kind that is done in the
convent, or else it must be equally fine
and the work of some decaved gentle
woman who is paid a very good price
for it.
Linen cambria is the protest made bv
some women against silk, which they ar
q has grown vulgar; but the people
whowear silk are quite convinced that
there is nothing so pleasant to the skin or
that looks Us pretty n the fine fabric it
self, and that cambria, even ii it be as fine
as that warranted to 90 through a wedding
ring, has not the same charm, nor does it
look as we'll as the dainty hued silks. The
very latest silk petticoat, which is, OF
course, drawn and tied in the back so that
IL permits a glOve-fitting skirt over it, has
the entire front and sides embroidered in
.feVr-de-iss in white, silver or gold thread.
10 say that this skirt Is expensive is speak,
ing mildly in regard to it, for in reality it
10 worth almost as much as is a diamond
ring. Every stitch of the embroidery is
done BY hand, and the 6eT-de-iys are so
thick together that it seems as If they
were heavy brOcade rather than sewn on
the stuff. A most fetching night gown
has a broad sailor collar and deep cuffs
embroidered in the same way, only the
flower OF fashion is in silver thread. These
are extremely pretty to look at, but one
must be careful they do not get near the
face, as an undesirable scratch would GER
tainly be the result.
A man who was talking the other dav
said: DO the people never get tired OF
hearing about women ~ and another man
answered, mo" In every other country
in the world politics come first, but here,
what women are doing, what women are
saying, and what the women are thinking
is always of interest to the average man.
This is essentially the country of women.
IL a woman sold her jewels that America
might be discovered, wOmankind has Ger
tainly reaped advantage from it, as no
place else Is the same consideration shown
her.
She can make'or damn a play. She can
cause the success, or the total extinction
OF a book and nobody has any interest in
pictures unless women want to GO and
see them. Her power is marvellous and il
she doesn't always know how TO use il,
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