The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-07-09
woMAN's WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

Difference Between Masculine House,
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 dozen, who hire
fiat or a house, as the case may be, and
set up 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 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 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 hundred dollars toward fur
nishing the fiat. We put billiard table
in the back parlor and hire 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
Schreiner2
Men should look after their preroga
tives. In the last legislature Of Wiscon
sin the chairman of the judiciary com
mittee reported adversely a measure fol
enlarging the rights of women in thai
state. He explained that he could no
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 til,
legislature, even men like unto himself
laughed him to scorn and named hin
"Old- Man-Afraid-o f-the-Girls." Thu
the masculine scepter is dropping t.
pieces, and men themselves seem rattle
to enjoy it.
Miss Anna W. Kelly, of Denver, wa
appointed reading clerk of the Colorad
senate. She got the place because sh
was the best reader among a number o
competitors, six of whom were men.
Gertrude E. Fonda, Vermont girl
won fifty dollar prize for the bes
original design by woman for an art
Gle of furniture. Her design was tina
of O bookcase in the form of book.
know not who wrote the words bt
low, but they are golden: "It is one c
the most deplorable symptoms of til
state of things which prevails in man
societies when, if men and women VIII
are not married are noticed to be unite
by close ties of friendship and sympathy
, people assume at once that something
, wrong between them. That assumptio
may be, and perhaps is, a naturi
growth of a corrupt and immoral St
) ciety, but if we are to mend matters "
must change all that"
Yale college has received during IL
8 past year gifts amounting to 81, 151, 27
: Harriet T. Leavenworth lately bestowe
! on the college $4,000. And Yale HI
. not even an annex for the education
= women. Harriet T. Leavenworth, aren
u you ashamed of yourself?
If there is one thing uglier than al
: other it is the lambrequin around Il
: fashionable basque this spring, hangi1
half way down the skirt.
/ Helen Campbell. author of "PriSone
Q of Poverty" one of the finest, stronge
woman souls in America, has receive
|. the 5000 prize from the American &c
i nomic association for writing the be
/ paper on women Wage Workers. Y
a are glad of it.
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