The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-01-21

II am QulU6 sure GudI Il0 gins W H
90 out of the State to school do MOI
receive any better education than
they coald obtain here in Texas" saio
bright.eye girl to the Home Corner
the other day; "but to go abroad and
to mingle with people who are differ
ent from those they have always
known is good for them. One of the
best things about it is that it teaches
them to be broader in their views,
more liberal in their judgments, more
charitable in their criticisms. If you
want to find people who are the mar
roWest and the most untOrgivlng take
those who have never gone out OF
sight of the smoke of their own CHM
neys."
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And the Home Corner, thinking it
over, decided it was time that Texas
built up such schools that the young
people from other states would be at
tracted here when they desired a
really fine education. And when this
came to pass, the Texas girls and boys
would find in their own schools the
contact with people from other cOun-
tries which would have its broadening
and humanizing effect. But then, it
is one of those "endless chain" prob
lens, for how are our best schools to
be built up unless they are first pa
tronized by Texas people?
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If there is one thing more humili-
ating than another to all womankindss
it is the departments that are pro-
fessedly set aside for their use in the
great papers and magazines. Taking
the daily papers of the large cities as
an example, one finds them abound
ing in interesting matter every day in
the week, but they point forward, in
vague hints and numerous para
graphs, to the mammoth issue of Sat-
urday or Sunday in which there is
going to be a "Woman's Department"
Nothing is left undone to stimulate
the feminine curiosity about that de-
partment. There is delicate intima-
ton that women read the papers
every day, or at least glance over
them, else where would be the use of
the advertisements; but there are also
constant reminders that for really
feminine literature one must look to
that Woman's Department. And
when that important issue is before
you, at last, and you seize the paper
and turn to the columns generously
set aside for our reading, what do
you find? Grand and inspiring
thoughts written for you by gifted
women? Suggestions that come to
you like benedictions when your heart
is heavy and your nerves are I'M
strung? Instructions that may help
you to be better and truer woman,
and to lead noble life?-Oh no! none
of these! But the proper length of a
dress skirt, so please you; and the
latest styles i'll visiting cards, and the
newest way of embroidering impossi-
BILE flowers and impractical foot
stools And this is the woman's
- the few columns
given up especially to woman's
reading! This is mad world, my
masters, and the maddest creatures in
it are the people who arrange the
woman's department for the daily
papers.
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Not long since the papers of Chicago
made an indignant protest because
Humane societies carried their work
to such enthusiastic lengths that they
quite overlooked any mere human be-
ings who might happen to need aid.
AS might naturally be expected,
women are the chief promoters of
societies. Many woman has willed
immense fortunes to furthering their
interests, and now there are asylums
for friendless dogs and homeless cats,
and worn out horses, and salaried
people have charge of them. A few
months ago there was q wild up
heaval in New York, and many bitter
tears were shed, because it was dis
covered that the matron of the home
for friendless cats was neglecting her
charges. The matron was PROMPTLY
fred" and new one appointed
amid great enthusiasm. There were
thousands Of poor children in that
city who would have been only too
glad to share the beds and food of
those cats; but the asylum was for
cats; not children. Though thou BRAY
a fool in a mortar, with a pestle, yet
will not his foolishness depart from
him. Homes and asylums for vag-
rant. cats and dogs, with wretched
children growing up in the streets!
Women going about town with pamp.
cred dogs in their arms, while miser-
able babies wall with fainter and
ever fainter cry, and their mothers
have no food to give them! In
the opinion of the Home Corner there
could be but one combination of CIR.
which might excuse the
woman who goes about with a dog in
her arms. If there were nowhere in
all the world a ragged or hungry or
homeless child, then perhaps the
Judge who will one day sit in iudr-
ment over the actions and motives of
men, might extend pardon and pitv
to the woman who becomes mere
nurse for dog. But things being as
they are, the world needs help and
comfort too sorely for such paltrv
waste of womanly pity and compass
sion.
Nv
One misty, mostly morninr tho cold