The Jersey City news., 1891-04-21
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system, it is perfectly consistent with
human dignity to ask another for
honor, affection, devotion, all the
most precious things in life, but 1t Is
not permitted to be indebted to one
another for material necessities. In a
normal state of society man is the
bread winner, and can ask woman
to share his loaf without loss of self
respect.
Suppose, however, the proposal of
marriage devolves upon the womanf
She is placed in the awkward position
of a supplicant for material benefits.
Why this should be ignominious is by
no means easy to explain, but who
will venture to dispute the facts?
Compare the mental constitution OF
the two sexes. Here it would seem
for q moment as If so delicate an office
might wisely be given to women. A
man reaches decision by a process OF
reason, while woman jumps to 1t by
the simpler and director method of
intuition. No one pretends to urge
that reason is of any use at all in the
direction of the affections.
But, on the other hand, woman
lacks to marked degree the mental
quality of single-inindedness. As she
reconsiders her answers, and SO has
made proverbial "a woman's no" so
she might take to reconsidering her
suit, which would lead to all sorts of
embarrassments.- Kate Fields Wash
ingt0n.
Treat Children Carefully.
Don't yank the baby over the cross
ing by its arml How would you like
to have the dime museum giant come
along and haul you across town by
the collar bone? asks the Chicago
Herald. What would be a mere in
dignity to you is positive cruelty to
a child. Don't feed your children on
sweets. Candy, as it is served by
most confectioners is too rich for the
stomach of the happy-go-lucky os-
trich, and it is absolute and irretriev-
able ruin to the digestion of a child.
Saddle the best colt that ever entered
the Derby with five hundred weight,
and how far will it hold out? You
saddle your child with heavier odds
when you start it for the race of life
with a poor digestion Let the baby
drink concentrated lye and be done
with it, but don't give it tea and
coffee. Wouldn't dead baby, pro-
vided 1t went to heaven, be about as
we'll off as a dried-up wisp of nerves, a
wizened little morsel, old before its
time, with q stomach like tanned
leather and nerves like blazing fagots?
p No matter what anybody says to
the contrary, tea and coffee are unfit
drinks for children, and tend to nerv-
Gus precocity. l sometimes wish q
great, strong wholesome angel would
come from heaven to teach poor NOR
tails how to care for this beautiful and
wonderful mechanism of the body.
He would have his hands full bring
ing up shattered and broken human
ity to the perfect test and standard.
Just think what an outcry there
would be among musicians if one,
unto whom had descended the heir
loom of a priceless violin, should
bang and batter the tuneful shell
against the stones and leave it over
night in the dews and stuff it full of
sand and pebbles, and otherwise mis-
use it, so as to render it of little
worth. But could that be worse than
the way We treat these delicate bodies
of ours-the heirloom of the ages? If
the Master Musician holds each to ac-
count for maltreatment of the price
less violin, will we not be in q sorry
plight?
The Revolt of the Maiden.
Some time and in some fashion the
young unwedded woman will be called
upon to make decided stand against
the invasion of the .matron upon her
special province. There is scarcely
place left now for the sole of her slip
per between the schoolroom and strip
of carpet before the matrimonial
altar. She is simply driven into a
corner and told to marry at once, or
lay down her passport into realms OF
social gayety.
This arrogance of the married
woman concerning her monopoly of
society amusements is more intoler-
able than trade union tyrannies. She
won't hear to having impaired ladies
brought into competition with her
attractions. If they choose to chime
1t must be with a conjugal clapper,
and not as merry, Independent tink-
lers, ringing distracting little tune
of minated friskiness.
Girls are still permitted to have
debuts, but even on those occasions
the young matron steps in, and by
right of double blessedness, takes all
the cakes and ale. The shy, sweet
miss is left to cut poor figure indeed.
And so on from first to last.
The married woman opens the ball,
leads the German, occupies the opera
boxes, demands all the dinner invita-
tions, fills the victoria, receives at the
tea, thereby squeezing the girl into
such small corner no one is ever able
to find her behind madam's over
crowded engagement book.-ILluS-
trated american.
A Sweeping Classic alton.
Women are often contemptuously
called gushers. This is too sweeping.
While there are undoubtedly some
who may justly be so classified, it
should not be overlooked that women
have great capacity for enthusiasm.