The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1892-01-30
SHORT HAIRED WOMEN AND LONG
HAIRED MEN,

you mol want 10 say, as traveller
once did to a guide who was showing
a mummy in the Vatican, that he
considered OF very great interest
"Now don't try to impose your
vile second hand carcasses on us.
If you've got nice corpse, fetch
him out"
1t doesn't sound SO bad the first
time that you hear a f'low mortal
prattling about "short haired women
and long haired men," always direct
ing their remarks to those men and
who are trying to reform some evil
in the world. II sounds rather witty
the first time you have heard it out
of his own brain; but after you have
heard it few thousand times, and
know that it is as stale as the Egyp-
tian mummy, and have noted that it
is used by people without brains to
describe those who have, and by
those who condemn the wo.ks of
Others without knowing what they
are talking about, and SO have no
words OF their own to give al inte!li-
gent reason for the venom within,
you feel like meeting HIM with his
own weapons and inviting him to
trot out fresh idea, if he has one,
and rot impose his second hand
slang on you.
Rjdicule has always been a STUN
bling block in the way OF ad
yancement How many, many,
women would like to discard the
senseIess corset, the tight shoe, the
dragging skirts, and dress comfort
ably and plainly, with less anxie.y
about it all, but are prevented from
doing so for fear they will be called
cranEs and ranked among the "short
haired women and long haired men"
Most people can stand anything
better than to be laughed at. 1t is
a pleasure to wear No. 4 shoe on
No. s foot, or a No. S glove on a
No. 6 hand, compared with what it
would be to overhear some remark
about = big hand that YOU might
happen to own.
There is scarcely a women but
would be glad if she could muster
up courage enough to set visitors
down to a plain, comfortable meal
such as would not be burdensome
to prepare, but she might be called
lazy, or "bluestocking," Or worse
than all, cranky retormer. And
SO the mincing of meat, the beating
of eggs, compromising OF dressing
and the preparation fices and cakes
and pastry, goes on, and the weary
woman looks towards the coming of
company with dread, rather than
with pleasure.
1t is high time somebody was
rising above caring for the critics;
especially is it important to observe
common sense in serving food at
table. The changing of plates and
slow process of serving out food IN
LAYERS OF courses Is appalling to con-
template This fashion is growing
and spreading, and it will not be
long before farmers wives, help or no
help, will be expected to serve about
three courses for breakfast and four
or five ior dinner. The Head of the
Sidncys says, 'I'll help kick against
this, Mary, my plum! They won't
call NE longhal ed if l do, for I've
got none to be insulted. When l
sit down to dinner l don't want
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