Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-09-03
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What l. IL That Young Women do Thai
Compeis Them TO BE Always s.Busy9r

What Il IL That Young Women do Thai
Compeis Them to BE Always s.Busy7r
Does anybody knox what 1econss Of :
girls timer Was there ever girl who
could tell what she did with il OF WHERE
she put il, or account in any reasonable
way for its mysterious disappearancef
Are the girls minutes like the lost pins
/ Of which nobody ever finds a trace. though
the factories have been at work so lone
I that one would think that the dropped
7 ones would constitute In themselves an
adequate source Of supplyf
There are some things which have this
Z capacity for utter annihiiafion. Wild ami.
mais are never found dead in the forests:
watering place friendships vanish into
wind swept space; the hole in the stocking
speaks Of a texture which once was there
but Is there no longer; yet these things get
out Of the world no NOS quietly and un
accountably than the hours aud minutes
of good proportion Of Young women
There is a theory, which is commonly
accepted, that girls time is all spent
upon dress. Certainly a little Of IL goes
in that way, but the amount must be
small Older women, with many social
and domestic cares, dress quite as well az
young girls, and usually better
They cannot give all their time, or even
any appreciabie part Of it, 10 the planning
and purchasing Of their raiment, so there
is evidently fallacy in the idea that femi.
nine attire Is capable or engrossing the en-
tire attention Of a woman
There Is another theory that a girls time
Is spent In entertaining members Of the
other sex, but this is absolutely untenable
Even the mildest Of Irritation calls for two
firters, and as the student OF our social
system is never weary Of pointing ont, we
have no class Of men whose time is their I
own.
A girl may spend her evenings and Sun
days IN amusing the masculine half OF ere.
alton, but business hours are sacred from
her invasion. Her will might be good to SC \
spend the hours from sunrise till midnight,
but in the nature Of the case her oppor
tunities are limited
Is it domestic cares which are so absorb
ingi The newspaper paragrapher would
say not, and think on the whole be is
right. This is not because most girls are
unwilling TO share the household response
bilities, but because, during the time Of
their education home life goes on without
their assistance, and once out Of school
they find no place ready made in which
they can be useful
IL is about As easy for the camel TO 20
through the needles eyeas for the daughter
OF a well TO do family to find any domestic
duties worthy the name in her fathers
house.
There are yet other ways in which it is
popularity supposed girls time is EN-
ployed, such as study and spondence
But did you ever go TO morning classi
If so YOU know perfectly well the formula:
Il was 50 busy hadn't minute to spare
Tor preparationF'
Have you any women among your cor
respondents, and did one OF them ever
write a letter without explaining how
busy she was, and had been for weeks past
md would be for weeks to Gomez What
,yer the mysterious, grinding tasks which
ate imposes upon the young women who
awe apparently riothing 70 do, by their
'wn confession studying and writing are
lot among the things sought.
Perhaps the subject is worthy OF scientific
1t would be as useful to the
ace as the discovery Of the north pole:
md, though the inquiry might be as long !,
md tedious as an arctic exploration, IL !,
would not be so dangerous. lndustrially !
t might be Of value
Here IS a vast amount Of labor which we !,
now, on the testimony OF every girl In the ],
and, Is put forth daily, yet without visible =
esult. Would not experiments to make il !,
roduetiye be as Legitimate AS those for the !
eduction Of aluminium or the utilization /,
the solar forceS
Anthropologists might spare little time >
-om the study Of cranial development aud !
irn their attention to finding out what !.
acomes OF girls time. II ought surely \
, be done, II for no other reason than 70 !.
ratity the dear girls themselves, who Ger =
'inly are rs much In the dark on this
1estion as any one else.-Kate Fields
darlington.