The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-09-22
A GIRLS MINUTES.
what Is 1t That S3ahs WON en- Do That
Compels Them to BE lt1ars;"Rnsr9,,

What Is 1t That x4abg wSme en Do THat
compels Them to BE
Does anybody know what becomes of q
girls time? Was there ever a girl who
could tell what she did with it or where
she put 1t, or account in any reasonable
way for its mysterious Disappearance?
Are the girls minutes like the lost pins
of which nobody ever finds a trace, though
the factories have been at work SO. long
that one would think that the dropped
ones would constitute in themselves an
adequate source of supplyi
There are some things which have this
capacity for utter annihilation. Wild ami
mails are never found dead in the forests;
watering place friendships vanish into
wind swept-space; the hole in the stocking
speaks OF texture which once was there,
but Is there no longer; yet these things get
out of the world no more quietly and un-
accountably than the hours and minutes
Of good proportion of young women.
There is a theory, which is commonly
accepted, that girls time is all spent
upon dress. Certainly little of it goes
in that way, but the amount must be
Hnall. Older women, with many social
and domestic cares, dress quite as well as
young girls, and usually better.
They cannot give all their time, or even
any appreciable part of it, to the planning
and purchasing of their raiment SO there
nine attire is capable of engrossing the en-
tire attention of woman
There IS another, theory that girls time
is spent in entertaining members of the
other sex, but this is absolutely untenable
Even the mildest of filtration calls for two
nirters, and, as the student of our social
system is never weary of pointing out, we
have no class of men whose time il their
own.
girl may spend her evenings and Sun
days in amusing the masculine half of Gre
alton, but business hours are sacred from
her invasion. Her will might be good to so
spend the hours from sunrise till midnight,
but in the nature of the case her oppor-
tunities are limited.
Is1t domestic cares which are so absorb
ing! The newspaper paragrapher would
say not, and think on the whole he is
right. This is not because most girls are
unwilling to share the household response
hiities, but because, during the time of
their education home life goes on without
their assistance, and once out of school
they find no place ready made in which
they can be useful.
1t is about as easy for the camel to go
Through the needles eye as for the daughter
of a well to do family to find any domestic
duties worthy the name in her fathers
house.
There are yet other ways in which it is
POpuiarly supposed a girls time is en-
plOyed, such as study and correspondence
But did you ever go to a morning classf
If so you know perfectly well the formula:
4 WAS SO busy 1 hadn't a minute to spare
for preparationi'
have you any women among your COR
respondents, and did one of them ever
write letter without explaining how
busy she was, and had been for weeks past
and would be for weeks to come? What
ever the mysterious, grinding tasks which
late imposes upon the young women who
have apparently nothing to do, by their
Swn confession studying and writing are
not among the things sought.
Perhaps the subject is worthy of scientific
investigation. 1t would be as useful to the
race as the discovery of the north pole:
and, though the inquiry might be as long
and tedious as an arctic exploration, it
would not be so dangerous. Industrially
1t might be of value.
Here is vast amount of labor which we
know, on the testimony of every girl in tho
land, is put forth daily, yet without visible
result. Would not experiments to make IL
productive be as legitimate as those for the
reduction of aluminium or the utilization
Of the solar fOrces
AnthrOpologists might spare a little time
from the study of cranial Developments and
turn their attention to finding out what
becomes of girls, time It ought surely
to be done, if for no other reason than to |
gratify the dear girls themselves, who GER |
tainly are rs much in the dark on this |
Question as any one else.-Kate Fields |
Washington.
Iron In the Sun