Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-10-08
A GIRLS MINUTES.
What Is 1t That Young Women Do That
Compels Them to BE ALWAYS "BusyP"

Compels Them to BE Always "BusyP"
Does anybody know what becomes of a
girls timer Was there ever girl who
could tell what she did with it or where
she put it, or account in any reasonable
way for its mysterious Disappearance
Are the girls minutes like the lost pins
of which nobody ever finds Il 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 supply?
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 a 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 a girls time is all spent
upon dress. Certainly little of it goes
in that way, but the amount must be
small Older, women, with many socia
and domestic cares, dress quite as well a.
young girls, and usually better.
They cannot give all their time, or ever
any appreciable part of it, to the planning
and purchasing of their raiment so there
is evidently fallacy i'll the idea that fem
nine attire is capable of engrossing the en
tire attention of woman.
There is another theory that girls tim,
IL spent in entertaining members of the
other sex, but this is absolutely untenable
ho ,f lie 70
dirters, and, as the student of our socia
system is never weary of pointing out, w
have no class of men whose time is thei
own.
A girl may spend her evenings and Sun
days in amusing the masculine half of ere
alton, but business hours are sacred from
her invasion. Her will might be good to 81
spend the hours from sunrise till midnight
but in the nature of the case her oppor
tunities are limited.
Is it domestic cares which are so absorb
ing? The newspaper paragrapher would
say not, and think on the whole he il
| right. This is not because most girls ar
unwilling 10 share the household response
bilties, bul because, during the time o
their education nome life goes on withOu
their assistance and once out of schoo
they ind no place ready made in which
| they can be useiul
| 1t Is dDCI,t rs easy tor the camel to z
through the needIe : eyea for the daughte
of well to do family 10 find any domesti
duties worJhy the name in her father
| house
There are yet other WAYS in which it |
popularity supposed Il giIs time is EN-
| ployed, such us study and correspondence
But did you ever go to morning class
If so you know perfectly well the formula
81 was so busy | hadn't Il minute to spar
for preparation!'
Have you any women among your COZ
respondents, and did one Of them eve
write a letter without explaining hoN
busy she was, and had been Tor weeks pas
and would be for weeks to come? What
ever the mysterious, grinding tasks whic
fate imposes upon the young women VIII
have apparently nothing to do, by thei
own confession studying and writing al
not among the things sought
Perhaps the subject is worthy of scientiti
Investigation. 1t would be as useful to til
race as the discovery of the north pole
and, though the inquiry might be as Ion
and tedious as an arctic exploration,
would not be so dangerous. Industrial
it might be of value
Here is vast amount of labor which W
know, on the testimony of every girl in tn
land, is put forth daily, yet without visibl
result. Wouldnot experiments to make
prnd lctive be as legitimate as those for til