St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-13
WHY WOMEN OFTEN FAIL.
Some of the Disadvantages That
Beset Them in the Struggle.

New York Recorder.
Modern woman walls frequently
about the environments that hinder her
advancement, and plans cruSades
against what she considers the fore
most drawbacks to her development.
Only she is very apt to name the wrong
things as drawbacks.
First and foremost among the real
hindranceS Of feminine endeavor come
tears. Women have always wept-wept
for real wrongs and wept more for
imaginary wrongs. Some one has said
that the moistest object on the face OF
the earth is woman weeping for an i'm
aginary grievance. Woman can never
advance far till she anchors her .auyer-
ing chin and seeks relief in time Of trial
by some other than the tear method.
Then there is diet. Women are not
good ivers. Two-thrds of them sub
sist principally on bread and tea. Gen
erationS present and generations future
derive their nouriShment from bread
and tea, and then woman hints about
having hand in national affairs.
Again, here is woman trying to be great
with her corset laces pulled up so tight
she hasn't drawn long breath
since she was twelve years old.
The modern woman isn't quite as
bad as her great-grandmother, but she
will never make much of flutter in the
world till she gives her internal organs
a chance. Tight shoes are similar IN
favorable environment.
Lack of self-respect is a greater him
drance to development than vanity.
The Mother Hubbard gown was CONF
bated for Just cause. 1t is an old pioneer
sentiment that a country never pro-
dresses until the women make their
dresses to fit. The Mother Hubbard
gown initiated against civilization.
Again. here is woman trying to be
great with never pocket. She hasn't
had a pocket in three generations.
Married women claim they never have
anything to put in a pocket. but the
question has never been fairly tested.
A pocket means individuality to the
possessor. When a woman insists upon
having it, and having it in an accessible
location, the sentinel of progress will
! note the fact approvingly.
The grievances of the farmers wife
have often been dragged into notice and
redress sought i'll the diversion of grange
guilds. What can be expected of
woman WHO wears sun-bonnet? What
future can she possibly have? The Gre
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disfigure themselves. The first thing
the emigrant who lands on the shores
of freedom does is to purchase hat. 1t
seems little, but it means great deal.
When the refOrmer makes pilgrim
age through the country and gathers
up the sunbonnets that hang behind
the kitchen doors, the farmers wife
will have progressed one step toward
the goal the grange guilds have marked
out for her.
Some more environments which en-
compass woman are 'rick-rack" and
crazy patchwork, and various kinds of
crochet edgings which exhaust her ply
steal nature and dwarf her mental pow
ers.
But the worst environment OF all is i'll
health-such as comes from indigestion
and lack of exercise. This last is the
key to more existing evils of the world
than any other one thing. 1t drives
man to drink and the world to perdi-
ton.
The reform agitator in the camps of
the women has therefore few things
to turn attention to primarily; tears,
tea, tight corsets and shoes, Mother
Hubbards, pockets and sunbonnets, tat
ting work, idleness, dyspepsia and laZi-
ness. These few obstacles overcome,
the crusader will find the way clear.