Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-03-01
womAN's WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
esas D,Ecuittes C~resring Young Nen
Have 10 Coatend With.

esas DiGcuities C~resring ysuns Nen
Have 10 Contend with.
A talented and ambitious young man
aas confded to me u curious story. lie
has determined to make = career for
himself-write his name high in the pro-
fession ho has chosen. He loves that
chosen life labor 50 much that he has
vowed nothing out death itself shall
come between him and the highest sue
cess. He tolls with grand ardor daily
and dreams glorious dreams Of his work
nightly. And ! glory in his spirit, his
uncomfortable desermina to le. noth-
ing part him from his ideal. glory In
that spirit whether it exists in man or
woman. 1t is such splendid dream
and SO rare . thing. But this young
man hes one trouble. 1t Is not born Of
his self collceit. for hc Is as modest
youth Us lives. Ho tells me he enjoys
particularly the society Of ladies. A
bright, sweet. merry good girl gives him
just tho society he most desires and
needs. But if he makes up to such a
girl. shows that he enjoys her CON-
pany-I may as well out with 1.-THE
pretty girl at once concludes he
wants to marry her. and begins to de-
port herself accordingly. He is poor
snd could not marry nm angel If he
wanted to. But he does not want to
marry anybody. Alone with his pow
erty. his work and his glorious dreams.
he has something else to think Of than
falling in love with girls and hampering
himself with matrinony. would that
more young men, and women. too, were
like him. lie has endeavcred to minglc
in the society Of girls several times, al
ways with tho same result. He is good
looking and attractive. and the girls
speedily begin to n1skc eyes at him and
murmur soft hinfs which might mean
everything or nothing, just as . man
would take them. So this youth has
shut himself away from the society Of
girls altogether. he does not enjoy the
life, bat what would you have? Now.
here Is question: Has young man any
right to seek the society Of young ladies
il hs is not ready to marry one Of them:
A wicked young man sends me this,
cul!ed from his philosophical reading.
"Wonlen distrust mon too much in gen.
eral and not enough in particular"
There are about 200 women lawyers
in this coantry, either pracsicing or con-
nccted with law publications. In tween
ty-cne law firms tas husbands and wives
are in partnership.
II you are o woman and have all the
rights you want, for heavens sake be
ashamed to tell it.
!, The lessons in American civil govern
ment published in ''Far and Near" by
Lucy Adams Barrows are the best
have seen anywhere.
| For the frst time IN its staid and con.
seryative history the London Lancet
| this year includes the Wosncn's Med.
| ical school of London in its list Of the
colleges in which a complete medical
education can he obtained.
There Ia one rich woman. Mrs. Phebs
Hearst. widow Of Senator Hearst, Of
California. who has warm side for her
own sex. She has endowed Eve scholar.
ships for young women at the State Uni
versi.y of California Would there were
more like her. Anyth.n; but the woman
who dies and lcaves . large sum Of
money 70 theological school whose cal
low young students are nourishea or
such terts az Il suffer not woman q
teach"
There are by the last census 3.467 cc'
cupstions in which women are earning
money in America This ought to allow
absrty Of choice 10 the individual.
| ELIZA kRCHAno CoNKA