The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-01-30
YOUNG WOMeN'S TIME.
WHIST IL ~ That They do which crmp-is
Them IA be Always '.Rnsy?'.

Does anybody know what becomes
of IA girls ,imep Was there ever :,
girl who could tell what she did with
it or where she put it. or account in
any reasonable way for its mysterious
disappearance?
Are the girls minutes like the lost
pins. of which nohodv ever iind>
trace though the factories have hecn
at work so long that onc would think
that the dropped ones would constitute
in themselves an adequate source Of
supply?
There are some things which have
this capacity for utter annihilation.
Wild animals are never found dead in
the forests; watering place friendships
vanish into wind swept space; the hole
in the stocking speaks of texture
which once was there. nut is there no
longer; yet these things get out of the
world no more quietly and unaccount-
ably than the hours and minutes OF II
good proportion of young women.
There is Il theory. which Is common
ly accepted. that a girls time is all
spent upon dress. Certainly little of
it goes great way. but the amount
mast be small. Older women. with
many social and domestic cares. dress
quite us we'll as young girls, and usual
~ better.
They cannot give all their time. or
even any appreciable part of it, to the
planning and purchasing of their raj
meut. so there is evidently fallacv in
the idea that feminine attire is capable
of cngrossing the entire 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
untenablc Even the mildest of tlirta-
tions calls for two tlirters and. AS the
student of our social system is never
weary of pointing out. we have no
class of men whose time is their own.
A girl may spend her evenings and
Sundays in amusing the masculine
half of creation, but business hours
are sacred from her invasion. Her
will might he good To SO spend the
hours from sunrise till midnight, but in
the nature of the case her opportuni-
ties are limited.
Is ii domestic cares which are so alb
sorbing? The newspaper paragrapher
would say not. aud | think on the
whole he was right. This is not be-
cause more girls are unwilling to share
the household responsibilities but he
cause during the time Of their educa-
ton home life goes on without their as
sistance. and once out of school they
iind no place ready made in which they
can be useful.
Ii is about us easy for the camel to
70 through the needles eve as for the
daughter Of a well-to-,lo family To find
any domestic duties worthy the name
in her fathers house.
There are yet other ways in which il
is popularity supposed girls time is
euipioted. such as study and CORE
>pondence. But did you ever 90 to "A
morning class? If so. you know per-
fectly we'll the for,nula: Il was so
busy ! hadn't minute to spare for
preparatiou!'
Have YOU any women among your
correspondents. and did one of them
ever write letter without explainin.
how busy she was and had been for
weeks past and would he for weeks to
come? Whatever the mysterious.
grinding tasks which fate imposes upon
the young women who have apparent
Is nothing to do, by their own con-
ir>Sinn studying and writing ar. no,
among things sought.
P-rhop. the subject is worthy OF
scientific investigations. IL would be
~ useful to the race as the discovery
al IA. north pole. and. though the in
qnirv might he aS long ani tedious as
an Arctic exploration. it would not l..
:" dangerous lndu>tri,Ily it might be
of value.
Here Is "A vast amount nl labor. which
we know. on the testimony of every
girl in the land. is put iuiih daily. vet
without yisihlc result. N"fttl not ex-
pcfinnents la make il productive bc as
legitimate as those for the reduction of
aluminium or the utilization of tine
solar force?
Anlhropologists might spare nltle
time from the study OF cranial develop
ment aud iurm their attention To iind-
ing out what becomes of Il girls time.
1t ought surely to be done. il for no
other reason than to 9ra,ifv the dear
girls themselves. who certainly are as
much in the dark on this question as
,nyoue else - kut,. Fs.i,rS lftshijlgkOu.