The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-06-05

keeping and Feminine Housekeeping.
1t MAY not be so in other cities, but in
New York there is a constant aggrega-
ton of unattached women into groups
of from two to half a dozen, who hire a
fiat or a house. as the case may be, and
set up a home for themselves. Rather
strangely, too, the same is true of unat-
tached men. Scores of these, ~too-good
looking youths Of a manageable age,
widowers Of middle age, and bachelors
who never mention their ~age-drift to-
gether into groups, and these, too, go to
housekeeping, independent of woman.
The difference between the housekeeping
of the two sexes when they go it alone
without the help Of the other is anus
ing as well as suggestive. The wom-
en- bachelors come out strong in
bric-a-brac, japanese and China silk
wall hangings and household decorative
art generally. They have flower pots in
the windows, and not seldom a sleepy
old tabby cat and canary birds. Eating
arrangements they think little about.
The ideas of the man housekeeper may
be best expressed in the conversation l
heard between two young men in a res
taurant. One Of these had just gone to
housekeeping in a fiat with three other
men. Its arranged this way, you see,"
he said. There are four of US. Each
puts in a hundred dollars toward fur
nishing the fiat. We put a billiard table
in the back parlor and hire a coon to do
the cooking. The first man that breaks
the contract and marries forfeits his
hundred dollars to the rest and must
leave his share Of the furniture in the
fat" The billiard table, the coon"
and the cooking were the uppermost
ideas in the young man bachelors prep
arations for housekeeping.
Have you read Dreams" by Olive
Schreiner, this wonderful girl, Olive
Schreiner?
Men should look after their preroga-
tiyes. In the last legislature Of Wiscon-
sin the chairman of the judiciary con
mittee reported adversely a measure for
charging the rights of women in that
state. He explained that he could not
recommend the bill, as it was contrary
to that state of subsection which nature
indicated was the proper one for woman.
Thereupon his associate members of the
legislature, even men like unto himself,
laughed him to scorn and named him
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Thus
the masculine scepter is dropping to
pieces, and men themselves seem rather
TO enjoy it.
Miss Anna w. Kelly, of Denver, was
appointed reading clerk Of the Colorado
senate. She got the place because she
was the best reader among a number of
competitors, six of whom were men.
Gertrude L. Fonda, a Vermont girl,
won a fifty dollar prize for the best
original design by a woman for an arti-
Gle of furniture. Her design was that
of a bookcase in the form of a book.
know not who wrote the words be-
low, but they are golden: "It is one of
the most deplorable symptoms of the
state Of things which prevails in many
societies when, if men and women who
are not married are noticed to be united
by close ties of friendship and sympathy,
people assume at once that something is
wrong between them. That assumption
may be, and perhaps is, a natural
growth of a corrupt and immoral So
ciety, but if we are to mend matters we
must change all that"
Yale college has received during the
past year gifts amounting to $1,151 ,272.
Harriet I. Leavenworth lately bestowed
on the college $4,000. And Yale has
not even an annex for the education Of
women. Harriet 7. Leavenworth, aren't
you ashamed of yourself?
If there is n thing uglier than an
other ii is the lambrequin around the
fashionable basque this spring, hanging
half way down the skirt.
Helen Campbell, author of prisoners
of Poverty" one of the finest, strongest
woman souls in America, has received
the $500 prize from the American Eco
Domic association for writing the best
paper ON women Wage Wcrkers.' We
are glad of it.
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