, 1892-01-20

What Shall We Do with Our Helpless
Men and Women?
The differentiation of work between
the sexes has resulted in some deplorable
consequences. For instance, it is proved
that men make the best possible ~tailors,
cooks and even laundrylnen. Yet the
average man in ordinary life Is 80 help
less that he cannot cook a breakfast, or
if his life depended on it he could not
mend his own stockings neatly. He has
been differentiated so far out Of the
sphere of domestic labor that he has not
the remotest thought of the trouble and
worry he causes the women of his house
hold. He filings clothing, boots, cigar
stumps, papers and litter about him
royalty; he leaves bathtub or wash ba-
sin a sight to behold, not caring a pin
that in every case some woman must
follow around after him like a slave
and set things to rights. Many a
time the woma is his own ~grievously
thinks of this fact no more than
if he were in a stable or barroom. 1t is
this kind of thing that makes life so hard
on a woman. There is no reason in life
why men should not be trained to wait
on themselves and keep things neat and
tidy. 1t is quite as much their business
as it is that of their wives and mothers,
especially as they are the stronger phys
ically. At least they ought to be trained
SO that they will not actually make work
for women and so be the torment and
heavy burden of the household. And l
say last as i said first, all boys ought to
be trained to darn stockings, sew ON
buttons and mend a rip or put on q
patch neatly, so they can take care of
themselves when thrown out on the
cold world alone. AS to IN they
have had it d~ingdonged into their
ears so .hany generations that a wom-
ans place is housekeeping that they
have oftentimes no more business sense
than q cat. The way these ladies are
robbed when husband or father dies is
matter of history. | recall at this mo-
ment a good, pie making, crochet work
ing housewife whose husband was en-
gagged in a thriving trade and was really
well off. He died suddenly. That silly
woman knew no more of his affairs than
her five-year-old daughter did. Con-
sequently all she had was stolen by
lawyers and dishonest debtors, and her
brother was obliged to remain a bachelor
in order to Support" the foolish crea-
ture. Believe me, there is such a thing
as the two sexes attending to their re-
spective duties a little too closely.
Eleanor Kinks Idea is the name of q
bright and attractive monthly paper just
started in Brooklyn by that accomplished
journalist and faithful friend of her sex.
Eleanor Kirk Ames. The name is the
editors own idea, as the paper will be.
1t will be devoted to the interests of
women For some years Mrs. Kirk has
been receiving from twenty to seventy
five letters q week from women asking
advice in matters of health, dress, family
troubles, social usages, etc. She has
answered these letters privately and in
her correspondence hitherto. Now she
will answer them in her own paper and
add to them besides other topics of vital
interest to women. She has seen SO much
of life herself in its ups and downs and
asides that if she cannot make a good
paper for m nobody can
Myrtle Peak and Lola Grimes have
driven a trotter in harness and made
quicker time than eco. What won't
this weaker sex do next?
Frances Willard remarks that many
women's minds are filled with an in
sipid brain soup, where a few Jumps of
thought swim in a watery gravy of
dreams"
Anew hospital called the st. Andrews
Intirmary for Women is to be established
in New York city. The funny part
about this infirmary for sick ONE is
that its board of managers is a board of
man-agers indeed-not a woman on it.
1t consists of a number Of doctors of
divinity, lawyers, etc. How much these
distinguished gentlemen will know
about directing a hospital for sick wom-
en-, to be sure.
We owe to women the invention of
the superior street sweeper, the i'm
proved method of heating cars, a chain
elevator, n reaper and mower, a ma
chine for feeding cattle on the cars, a
practical fire escape and the much used
paper bag, but they will get off the cars
backward just the same.-New York
World.
Somebody has compiled a "Woman's
Manual of Parliamentary Law" Why
should there be a woman's manual of
parliamentary law? Roberts RULES of
Order" and Cushing's Manual arc
good enough, eve for a woman.
FILA ARcHARp CONNER
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