The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-08-20


This Il certainly a. age Of organ.
Iizstion4 We have unions and clubs,
leaguex and societies They are pro
tective. social and literary, and the
eagerness with which women are re-
Gently entering into them is note
worthy.
The Sorosis in New York was the
pioneer woman's club, and in its be-
ginning it was derided, its members
held up to ridicu'e, its object called
unwomanly.
But the contagion has spread, and
Maine has now State Federation, a
Council Of Southern women" Is be-
ing formed, Massachusetts will soon
have State organization, as she has
numerous independent clubs in her
cities, and in Milwaukee, Chicago,
Pittsburg and San Francisco, as in
nearly every other large city, and in
many country places, are fiourishing
organizations Of women. The most
surprising of all the clubs however,
is the new Sorosis established in
Bombay, India.
These clubs are now considered a
matter of course, and women are not
supposed to be infringing on sacred
masculine ground when they enter
them.
1t is undoubtedly an effort of wo-
men to emerge from the isolation in
which SO many Of them have to live.
With minds that are quick and hun
CRY for food, they have often been
compelled to be satisfied with the as
sociation Of children in various sta
ges of infancy. Loving them tender
| ly, watching and caring for them has
been a labor of love, but not many
women but feel that they are not all
sufficient to satisfy their intellectual
natures, and they feel too that an
able bodied woman can give her fam
lily the best of care and have some
time for other matters. Half of the
broken down nerves and the irri-
liability of the mothers in the house
hold are due TO the lack of social
stimulus, to the over absorption in
the minntae Of family life.
II the Womens' Clubs succeed in
lifting the busy housewives for but
a few hours each week out of the
well-worn grooves Of every day life,
and placing them face to face with
the ambitions, the successes, the mo.
tives of other women, they will go
back to their duties, cheered by the
companionship and made more pa
tient by the sympathy.
suppose man never knows how
lonely woman may become He can
go out and seek companionship. He
need never sit and gaze hopelessly
about the four walls of his room be-
cause it is night time out of doors.
His opinion on such Imprisonment is
easily obtained from his frank ex-
pressions TO even the lovelest of
nurses during onvaescence-wh
he feels well enough to go out and
yet must stay in. And yet be is
practically undergoing no closer con
finement than that in which many
women pass their lives.
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Looking about over the closely
clipped heads of many of the men we
know one can hardly help feeling
amused at the distance we have gone
from the days when long hair was an
honorable crown for men as well as
women. We don't have to go back
to the time of Samson and Absolom,
nor even to our Boston ancestors who
wore their thick locks falling to their
waists. If we unearth some old pic
lures of our great grandfathers, we
will find that their luxuriant curls
foated on their shoulders. We can
follow the line of pictures down to
the present day, and find the hair
growing shorter until now one is Of |
ten at loss to know whether nature
or art is responsible for an entirely
bald head. Surely the long, heavy
hair must have made our worthy an
cestors wish during the hot summer
days for polar seas and icebergs.
1t is curious to notice how shaving
a portion of the head is still regard
ed as a mark of tlishonor, as we have
had recent illustration in the Iams
case, while it is entirely the proper
thing to have the whole head shaved.
One isn't supposed to occupy much
time in discussing mans hair, or
lack of it, any more than the man is
supposed to take much time in car
ing for it, but in the days of curled
and powered locks it was weighty
and intricate subject, and now that
there is so little of the subject left it
brings up the contrast.
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1t is hard thing to feel old friend
ships breaking away--to find old
friends disappointing one. tits hard
est because friendship is delicate
thing, and once shattered, we can
scarcely fit the pieces together again.
Once friend falls away from his
place in our hearts we unconsciously
look about to see that his place be
filled more worthily--at least, we
look for the qualities we missed in
him-and then perhaps we try to re-
instate him some time when old mem
cries come over US, but it is of no use
the ashes are dead-and life seems
a sadder thing when we realize that
we can breathe no warmth into them
again.
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heard physician say the other
day that the field of medicine for the
future lies in preventing disease rath-
er than in new treatment for diseases
already contracted. DIR. Koch is
giving encouraging reports of his
success in improving the lymph
for which indeed he never claimed
the efficacy that sensationalists and
enthusiasts attributed to it.
Scientific physicians all over the
world are directing their attention to
this great field of disease prevention,
and the time will doubtless come
when many of the ills that flesh is
heir to" need not be suffered.
l believe it is thought that all self
limiting diseases will be held in check
by treatment similar to the inocula-
ton that rids small pox of the great
err part of the horror.