Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1892-11-12
WoMANs WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS
Giving Car Seat to u woman-A Dis
appearing Fashion.

Giving Car Seat to woman-A Dis
appearing Fashion.
IL used to look very queer to person
from the west or south when he entered
street car or a coach ON the elevated
roads in New York and found women
standing hanging to strap, while all
about them men occupied seats, with
thelr noses buried in newspapers. 1t
seemed objectionable rudeness at first.
Then, by and by, if they remained in
New York, these same men who were at
first shocked gradually acquired all the
gall OF the native New Yorker and kept
their seats with the best or worst of
them. New York men have good rea-
sons in explanation of their conduct.
They say truly enough that if they gave
up seat to every woman who comes
into a car in New York they would be
bobbing up and down all the time, and
that this would be impossible in the
crowds that fill the public conveyances
of the big city. Then there is another
plea. They say, these New York men,
that since woman is pushing her way
into all the industries and going down
town every day, let her take her
chances and hustle the same rs
the men do. If she can't hustle,
then let her quit. If she is equal to a
man, let her prove it. So, since New
York sets the fashion for the rest of the
country, men of other cities are falling
into the habit of keeping their seats and
letting women stand. Well, for one
do not object. There is, however, a
place to draw the line. 1t is when a
strapping young athlete sits in his place
and leers up with look of infinite i'm
pertinence into the face of feeble
woman old enough to be his grand
mother, while she stands tottering.
pity the woman who is his mother and
the woman who is to be his wife. But
for the rest never mind. Men tell us
that if we claim to be their equals we
must hustle and prove it. Very we'll,
we accept the gage. In no spirit of
antagonism, but as friendly comrades,
we shall prove to men that we are their
equals in learning, in endurance and
business ability, and their superiors in
the finer spiritual and moral qualities
they have so neglected. Not destroying
our nervous systems with whisky and
tobacco, we shall be receptive to all the
finer, more powerful forces of the uni
verse. With souls full of fire, with i'm
mortal patience and determination we
work ON, and the kind of women the
glorious Twentieth century will smile
down upon-you shall see.
The summers fashion of belt and
blouse waist has revealed defects in the
figures of young American white women
that one is sorry to see. The belt is too
often girted in till the girl looks as if
she would break in two. The necessary
effect of this is to throw the body out of
poise. Below the waist it stands prom
inently forward in an unsightly way.
The back, on the contrary, hollows so far
in that the young woman looks as if she
had been struck in the back and denied
in. Then the shoulders bow out round
again till the expression of the whole
figure is something like the letter S. So
far Us | have noticed, the strong, 1.-THE,
graceful young negro women have
much finer figures than the average
white girl. Their strong, splendid
shoulders stand firmly above waist not
too small, and the figure below the waist
is straight and willowy. They seem
somehow to be built for looks and for
wear both. Perhaps the active physical
exercise their mothers have been taking
for generations, with little pampering
and luxury, gives the daughters such
firm, beautiful figures. If today sculp-
tor were to look in America for the
model of the Venus of Milo, he would be
more apt to find it among the colored
girls than among the white ones.
Mrs. McGuirk, that able and enthusi-
astic newspaper woman, knew Lizzie
Borden some years ago. Both were as
sociated in the fruit and flower mission
at Fall River Mrs. McGuirk believes
Lizzie Borden could no more have
murdered her father and stepmother
than an angel could, and she has writ
ten a powerful letter to the New York
Recorder in the accused girls defense.
She paints strongly the injustice of call
ing a woman fend simply because she
does not "wave tear stained handker-
chief in public"
Let us pray to be lifted out of the
commonplace up into the region of great
ideas and great aspirations.
Arlo Bates tells good story of a
woman who, though she needed work
and had no immediate prospect of it, re-
fused to take an engagement at very
low wages because of the effect it would
have on the price for such work in gen.
eral. 1t is pity there were not more
women like this. If there were then
women's wages would not be so low.
One is glad to be able to add that soon
after her refusal to take the cheap place
this admirable woman who stood up for
her sex got a good paying place.
There is no Disgusting the fact that a
long skirt does not look well ON BIZ
cycle. 1t mars the appearance of the
prettiest girl, Tapping about and flying
up and down with every motion Of the