Telegram-herald., 1891-07-20
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services ~ hoescse~p~r. aud home
makers. they woald not be coInp~iird 10
lie 10 their hushaads a. probably half ~
tAesa now do. Two lsaie. were telling
ne lately hov they managed TO get pan
money cut ot their husbands. sni money
~ savs up httls sals.s of thair own. Said
one Il buy df.ss pattern of . aoor
rax. Charley aska me how much II
east. tell him. bat always add on a
da.lAr ar MY eebls nnte. so that he
will think spout that ,nach moro than
really did. Then can keep the money
foe myself" oh. yes.@ said tho arst
lsdy's friend. 1--WE always done ths.
TOO. Most os the married women know
get money the sanas way. by pretending
to their husbands that things cost more
Than they do. Mn. ~. help. her mother
good daal by tho money she sklmps In
that way. Old NJ would raise the roof OF
ths hous. IL hs kaew It," could not help
expressing surprise ut this. TO iae. new
method II economy. oh" said tho
tirst woman. that's nothing. I'd never
have cent of my own to bless myself
with IL didn't fool Frank about what
pay for things" Tho strsngcst part Of
all this confession was tho fact that the
wives who made it seemed to feel no
sense of shame or degradation In tho
fact that they thus were as dependent as
slaves on their husbands for money, and
like slaves were Obliged 10 cheat their
masters TO get what they were de-
termined to have. But the thing is q
degradation to tho name Of wife and 10
oil womankind. If women are driven
to deceive their husbands in this thing
they will finally think nothing Of deceiv-
ing them in anything else. Further
more. one who practices deception and
falsehood does more harm TO himself and
his own character than to anybody else.
II is . thoroughly despicable business all
through. Better square stand up fight
for her rights in the beginning than that
a wife should thus demean and degrade
herself. Then, if the fight avails not, it
is better to take in washing or to 60 out
scrubbing and earn her own spending
money than thus to Cringe and crawl
and lie Moreover. IL wife tells her
husband frankly, courageously and kind
ly her needs ne will nearly always see
the reasonableness Of them. But the
regular allowance is best, unless the wife
has inherited or can earn her own in
come.
In New York has been established in
the last year or two something for which
there is room in all the largest cities Of
the Union. An enterprising. accom-
plished woman. Mrs. Annie c. Hardy,
has founded Ladies' Guide and Wis
itors' bureau in the metropolis. Wom-
en- who are strangers in New York can
arrive in the city any time Of night or
day. and il notice has been previously
sent to the bureau a messenger there
from will meet the stranger at tho sta
ton and conduct her to tho woman's ho-
tel which is connected with the bureau,
or anywhere else she wishes. For
moderate charge typewriters are found,
expert women guides and interpreters
are sent out shopping and sight seeing
with those who need them, escorts and
chaperons to theaters and other places
| Of amusement are furnished, and many
other things arc done for women who
busy women who wish to accomplish
the most in the least time. The bureau
also keeps list of select boarding
houses and hotels. and directs strangers
to them. 1t is pleasant to record that
this enterprise, established by woman
for women, is meeting with success.
Nothing more amusing has been laid
before the public in long time than the
appeal of number of self styled WON
en- Remonstrants" against having wom-
an suffrage put upon them. They depre-
cate the going out of women to the
| wage earning field, declaring in SO many
words that women must in the indus
tries "always compete with men and al
ways be beaten" 1t is true that in their
peculiar line no man can compare with
the women whose work it is to detect
counterfeit money in the departments
at Washington. It is also true that
women do the heaviest and most respon-
sible figuring in the bureaus Of statistics
in Sweden and Norway, and that the
Norwegian minister Of finance employs
only women mathematicians. It is also
true that a woman, Cynthia Westover.
secretary in the street commissioner
Office in New York city. is the mathe-
matician and statistician for depart
ment that employs 1000 laborers, and
that she has so organized the Office work
that IL never ran so smoothly as 1t
does now. But facts are nothing to
these persons who assert out Of their
own heads hiat women must always be
beaten In composition with men Ia the
industrial walks In truth, the solicitude
OF these mysterious and sly 'remon-
strants" about breaking up of home and
the cruelty Of forcing weak women TO
compete with strong and godlike men is
something touching But now let me
tell you the funny part. It's beginning
to leak out slowly and delightfully."- that
IT ia men themselves and nobody else
who are behind this movement Of re-
monstrance against women. II u they
who have % wrought on the sympathies
Of tho women nearest them ns 10 induce
these lsdi>s 70 stand as shield between
their masculine timidity and the public
and demonstrate against woman euf-
frags. II Is men themselves who are be-
hind this antiwernan movement, there
fore. men who fear the competition Of
women. undon btstIiy with good rsason
too. So LET IA pity these poor little men,
even while we laugh at the huge joke Of
it, Sly joey Bat
"A Women writes this: ''In o63ces
snd shops, wherever the dsughtsr of Eve
wants 30 serve the son al Adam, she sp-
peais to bis chivairy rather than 10 her