Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-01-30
YOUNG WomEN's TIME.
what - ~ That They do Which C9mpeIs
Them TO be Always "Busy7"

Does anybody know what becomes
Of girls timer Was there ever y
girl vino could tell what she did wsth
it or where sire put it, or account ia
any reasonable way for its mysterious
Disappearance
Are the girls minutes like tire lost
pins of which nobody ever finds a
trace, though the factories have been
at work so long. that one 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 anuihIation.
Wild animals are never found dead IN
the forests; watering place friendships
vanish into wind swept sDace; the hole
in the stocking speaks of texture
which once was there, but IS there no
longer; yet these things get out of the
world no more quietly aud uuaccouut-
ably than the hours aud minutes oil
good proportion Of young women.
There is theory, which is COMMON
iy accepted, that girls time Is all
spent upon dress. Certainly a little Of
it goes great way. but the amount
must be small. Older women. with
many social and domestic cares. dress
quite rs well as young girls, and usual
Is better.
They cannot give all their time or
even any appreciate part of it, to the
planning and purchasing of their raj
ment so there is evidently falacy ia
che idea that feminine attire Is capable
of expressing the entire attention of a
woman.
There is another theory that Il girls
time is spent 10 entertaining members
of the other sex but this is absolutely
untenabIe. Even the uudcst OF tira-
tions calls for Two llirters 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 be good TO SO spend the
hours from sunrise till midnight. but in
the nature of the case her Opportuni-
ties are limited.
Is il domestic cares which are so alb.
sorbingg The newspaper paragrapher
would say not, aud ] think on the
1 whole lie was right This l. not be-
| cause more girls are unwilling TO share
/ the household responsibilities bat be-
cause during the time OF their educa-
ton home life goes on without their as
>stance. aud once out of school they
End no place ready made in which they
can he useful.
II is about rs easy for the camel to
/ 20 through the needles eve rs for the
/ daughter of a well-to-do family to find
any domestic duties worthy the name
| in her fathers house.
There are vet other WAYS in which il
is popularity supposed girls time is
/ empjUSed such AS study and CORE
/ spuudence But did you ever 90 20 u
morning CLASP II 50. YOU know per-
1 iectly we'll the formula: Il was 50
| busy / hadn't minute to spare for
/ preparationl'
Have YOU any women among your
/ correspondents and did Que of them
ever write letter without explaining
! how busy she was aud had been foS
weeks past and would be for weeks TO
come? Whatever the mysterious
/ 2iuding tasks which fate imposes upon
the young women who have apparent
/ lv nothing to do, by their own con-
lr~son studying and writing are nor
rmnug things sought.
Pernaps the subject is worthy Of
scientific investigation. IL would be
as useful td the race rs the discovery
nl lhr north poles and though the in
gUrN might be uS long and tedious as
an Arctic exploration. lt would not be