The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-25
TALKS OVER THE TEA CUPS.
THE SOCIETY AND BUSINESS WOMEN.
Easter Season and Its Entertainments-A
Pen Picture of Mrs. VIII Carleton-The
True Woman Always TomaaIy IN
der Trying Circumstances.

The society woman as they have found
her is being beautifully p shown up by
some OF the socalled business women in
terested in the worlds fair. The direct
cause OF the TRADE against society women
is the appointment of those upon the
board of managers with Mrs. Potter
Palmer atthe head. The spirit of antago-
nism between the ladies of society and the
working woman is inexplicable as
It is senseless. So tar as we
can discover the working woman
is the one most given to denouncing
the society woman. "She is handsome,
she is rich, she likes fine clothes and likes
TO go; therefore she has no interest in the
woman who earns her living" that is the
grand complaint. Stuff and nonsense.
AS well say that because the meadow
brook likes fowery paths and reflects sun
shine it refuses to freshen the useful
grass. Question business woman closely
in regard to her dislikes for society wo-
men and you will find it will all merge
into her dislike of some woman on
whom she has been "cut." In
vestigate the nature of the woman
complained of and you will find that she
is generally gilded farthing, and her best
friends suffer from her 'Odd ways" (which
is polite term for unbearable insolence).
Out of ten society ladies you will probably
strike two whose manners SAVIOR of the
kitchen; but you will find eight sho are
kind, sympathetic and willing to aid any
woman who is earning her living. They
do not blazOn forth their charities to the
world, but they carry on a large amount
of private aid. They do not study the
working woman in just the best manner
possible, it is true. Their motive is per-
fectly sincere, and they are moved
by an honest desire to know
and help her But they do not know Just
how 70 convey this impression to her.
They generally throw an overwhelming
amount OF patronage in their manner,
which puts the business woman on the
defensive in an instant and instead OF be-
coming friends the gulf between the two
widens. Nor does the business woman
approach the society woman in the most
polite manner. She begins by expressing
her contempt for society and ends by de-
handing aid in an aggressive manner.
If the two classes of women could be
brought together on common ground as
friends, and the society women be allowed
the chance to speak freely, it would be
found that courtesy on the part OF the
working woman would meet with like
response on the part of the society woman.
The TACT that the ladies of society are
interested in the worlds fair should
argue for its success. They have the
time and the money to expend
which business women have not. The
women needed in the work are liberal
minded women who have travelled abroad
and have met all sorts of people. A mar
row-minded, petty, jealous woman on the
board would be great mistake. Liberal
women, with the interests OF all classes of
women at heart, are just as numerous
among the ladies of society as among
women who have organized missionary
societies or founded SOUP houses.