The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-22
DOINGS OF WOMEN
The National WOman'S Indian
Association.
WHERE THE WATCH Is WORN
Big Slippers, Big Slippers!"-Do You Spell
1t With W or W?-woman's Wages
"A Florida Room.

PteetuenI OF the Woman'S National Indian
association, who is one of the most effective
Sneakers OF her sex now on the platform.
she Is wholly occupied with the duties of
her position, which require her to go from
place to place organizing local societies
which take upon themselves the support
OF Indian children at Hampton institute and
Carilsle, and the furtherance of civllizing
efforts in behalf Of the tribes. These soc1e-
ties have now spread themselves IN such a
network over the country that the wife of
prominent Congressman told me few
weeks ago that on one occasion when an In
dian bill was pending she, as her husbands
secretary, opened and sorted in a single
morning over two hundred letters which
came to him from women in ali parts of the
country as the contents of one mail.
In private conversation Mrs. Quintan
does not hesitate to say that one of the
great difficulties encountered by the women
who are giving so much of their time and
energy 20 work for the wards of the gov
eminent is the impossibility of affording
protection to the Indian girls who are edu-
Gated in the east after they return to the
tribes. Indian girls who have been shielded
by tue safeguards to which white women
a. - dCtusbuHleu nave stronger attraction,
not so much Tor Indian men, but more par
ucularly for the squaw men. the whites
ana the half breeds who have married In
dian women
Mrs. Quintan has travelled much, especi-
ally among the northwestern tribes, and
she tells stories at which cold types would
shddder of the maddening shrieks her ears
have heard from Indian girls in the bushes.
pIeadlng Tor mercy, and of the wretched-
ness and shame of girls whose education
mas taught them to look with horror on
thlngs which are more or less matters of
course to those who have never left the
lepees. Such forced degradation accounts
for many a relapse to blankets and barbar-
ism, and yet there is another side which is
or!ght with pictures of family devotion.
''BIG SLIPPERS. BIG sL1PpERsr'
That the Indian has sense of humor was
amuslngly illustrated to a very we'll known
lady who has given large sums fer the
maintenance at school of Indian BOYS and
girls. This lady was a beautiful New York
WldoW, she has recently married a second
husband. During the engagement period
her betrothed, who was widower asked
permission to leave at her house pair of
slippers to wear during his frequent calls. |
These slippers were of generous propor- |
lions, so much so that members of the fam |
lily asked at times if in building them the |
contractors required scaffolds or special |
frames, and one evening when the owner |
had left early 1t happened that they did not !
get tucked into their accustomed closet be-
fore the appearance in the drawing room
of other callers
Quietly the pretty widow lifted the tell
IaIe loot coverings and dropped them into
arlbbon-tied waste basket. One of her In
dian youths was with the visitors and for
an instant she fancied she met his keen
eyes, out no CLEAN of especial intelligence
came into them, and the incident seemed to
pass without attention.
@Some weeks later her lover and her
Indian visited her on one and the same
morning, the lover bringing great bunch
OF roses and a bank note inscribed with
plump and comfortable figures. When he
had been dismissed from one recertion
room she crossed the hall to the other, slip
ping the flowers into vase and the cash
into the hand of her protege.
"A gentleman" she began, ''sends you
this money!
big Slippers, Big Slippers y, inter
rupted the Indian, and lifting the great
fragrant mass of roses with one foot he
danced about the room on the other his
toes holding the flowers high in the air
while he shouted "Big Slippers, Big Slip
persl"
If ever this lady and her husband are
complimented by adoption into an Indian
tribe, whatever may be her title he will be
known without doubt as big Slippers
WITH AwoR A w?
Do you say woman or do you say Woman,
In other words, do you or do you not
spell it with big, big W?
1t was IN somewhat representative
group OF literary and business women a
lew days ago that CHANGED to hear ven
turesome individual urging the propriety
OF the modest lower-case letter. She set
forth, IN substance, that whereas women
COMPLAIN xt-0 GO n |
morality set up by society to which to refer
the conduct OF men and women vet in
nearly all active employments women en-
courage the permanent maintenance of two
business standards; one, the every day.
counting house rule by which the doings of
men are reckoned, and another and very
much more generous but less honest yard
Suck, by which to measure women's sue
cesses so to get, by special allowance, a
good showing.
This woman who led so rash an assault
on woman maintained that the first bust
ness successes of her sex were entitled to
radiant halo of fitness, and that the sec
ono success should have an even brighter
glow OF secondness, as showing that their
predecessors were not accidents, but that
tne ooZenth success should content itself
with plain circle of light and the hmm
dreoth success get along without any dec
Grafton. In other words, that in many de-
partments OF business women had become
as usual o1hce fixtures as the average office ,
stool, and should not any longer pose as
prodlgles, or look to have achievements
very good and creditable in themselves
puffed-after the manner of the frog who | {
burst IN trying to swell himself to the size
OF an ox-out of all likeness to themselves.
She suggested that by summing them
selves in over fiattery, which mapni-
hes genuine but modest doings into great |
ones and really great doings into tower
ing, colossal doings, instead of establishing
that equality with the other sex, as proofs {
OF which all these high-colored records are
Drought forward, women practically keep ;
themselves in the attitude of precocious
children. to be pstted on the head and re- :
warded with sugar plums.
10 not know that this sounds especially 9
radical. but the business women and the 2
literary women proclaimed that thew !
Mouia hob say woman nor yet Woman nor =
WOMAN, but that they meant to saw |
WOMAN every time. They would Hutter :
lhe RIBBONS and let the dove shake out her : !.
wings. They would praise WOMAN and I
pet her and lead her by the hand. and tate c
every stone for long time vet from under 1
tne 1eet OF the toddler. They were right I
enough, and yet. r
WHY WOMEN ARE NOT WORTH MINIS WAGES a
Some points that were given me this '
morning by the president of the second =
largest Young Women's Christian associa- !
tion In Inc country are worth considering.
Several thousand working women are con-. e
nected with this association Thew earr q
on an average S. per week. Few earn more :
than ST. Many earn $3.50. Four dollars iS Q
considered excellent pay for worker with q
out much experience. Why these low fip y
ures? e
To the employment bureau attached to q