Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-10-23
WOMAN'S wAy

cra,4;~e" .elllhg blow to the lords of
81 Oy very quietly ACCOMPLISHING
sne work SO much better and more onicJ[,
tnan the man clerks lave been ab1a IN
+I,a 'na' Chere Is talk of largely extending
.ne mum Der of typewriters and women f.
manipulate them.
Every victory of this kind won nv the
%onlAn VINO, instead of demanding high
place and power by bombastic assertions
ueVotes her clever wits to performing
TUG outy assigned her so worthilv and
wen tnat she gets invited and welcomed
up nlgner, does more for the cause than
whole federation of woman's clubs gab-
oiing about what woman could do if she
were not kept back from honored place
by the tyrant man.
Woman's sphere has been enlarged
greatly and her limitations vastly ex-
TENDED IN the past two years, but there
are TWO or three peculiarly feminine
points beyond which she does not seem
aole to evolute herself; one of these is
everlasting talking about what she does
ana the other is of making personality an
important factor in business arrange
ments.
Because few thousand men are sue
cessful lawyers or merchants or whatever
they do, they do not rush off to Washing
ton or Omaha to talk it over and glorify
their possibilities as the few score pro-
1esslonal women delight in doing. The
world seems ready to accept the profess
slonal woman with serene composure; it
is the woman herself who calls attention
to the irregularity of the proceeding by
talking about it, and sitting herself up on
st. Simon's pillar, removed from the
masses.
A woman writes an article for publ
cation. She t;...a infinite pains with its
conception and expression, and perhaps
1t Is better than any man from Adam
down could accomplish. Does she send
1t in like man with some stamps for
its return and let it's merit be impartially
determined? Not at all. She puts on
her new suit, curls her bang the most
becoming way, adjusts her bonnet with
infinite care, and with the article tucked
away somewhere among the parcels she
ladens herself with, she asks for private
interview with the editor, who is, as
every one knows, the busiest man in the
world
After long talk on desultory subjects
she begins to undo the package, in the
heart of which the article is hidden. In
her nervousness she drops the varied
contents of the parcel. The editor picks
them up with Spartan smile that ought
to insure him front row cushioned seat
in glory. Then her umbrella goes down,
and some angel ought to put rockers on
the seat as he picks that up. Finally the
story is found, deposited in his hands.
and she departs.
1t Is the same everywhere, in offices,
shops, wherever the daughter of Eve
wants to serve the son of Adam she APP
peals to his chivalry rather than her own
capability, and perhaps it is only fair to
say, with modicum of success.
Where woman wants to do mans
work and asks for it in a mans way, and
accomplishes it just even little better
than he can, and doesn't go and get up
club to drink tea and talk it all over
every week, there will be established the
much hoped for equality of sexes in honor
chartered about so long and SO vainIy.-
A Woman in New York Sun.
Has WOman's Progress Helped Housework
What do women know of plumbing?
Politics, the professions, trades innumer-
able, questions of finance and of political
economy-all are grappled by the fem
the avowed object of which is the all
around advancement of its members in
questions pertaining first to the home
and then to the well being of society at
large. 1t is question, however-if Que
may dare 10 say so-whether the many
and often vexing problems relative to
home economics are attacked with any
thing like the enthusiasm bestowed on
womans equality with man, womans
suffrage, the higher education of wom-
an, and like questions.
That astonishing progress has been
made by women during the last half
century is an incontrovertible fact.
Nevertheless, the advance has been
greater along almost any other avenue
than that appertaining to the intelligent
comprehension of the improved appli-
ances placed at their disposal in the
modern dwelling, even if in the ordinary
departments of housekeeping retro
grade, rather than progressive move
ment has not taken place. 1t may be
doubted whether the old fashioned
housekeeper, to whom women's clubs
were unknown, was not the superior of
her more advanced" sister as practi-
cal and painstaking manager.-New
York Post.
Better Individuality Than Influence.
1t is vastly better to have individual
ity than influence, even in this world, to
consult your own needs and standard of
duty rather than try to suit thousand