Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-09-07

telling the truth when T sa;d T +h
1t was Miss Randolph. Recanso' 4n6ugnt
| ner own people, she accented mo Nn t.v
the proviso that | should be intr .e VIII
W nef mother. She did not cara
, Mhether | wasa millionaire or an art ise
sne on y wished to know, and she fnnnj
tnat out at once, whether | was 90, 80
| is !" lest that type
Yes, responded the Captain ..sba
~ d rest. She is essentially a woman
Oh no; have got that wrong. For
years people have been clamoring for
iMonleh-alWays with a capital VI.
f iane met ne, her, or them, and I must con-
i iess l mink the crying need of the dav
10 lor lady. prefer good manners
anu consideration to bad manners and
o, ool,ege diploma, and | am old-fash-
interest in the affairs of the nation
through the knowledge which they Oh
tam about them from their mankind
haven't seen the Chicago fair, but I
nave read deal about it: and If il
should be failure, | believe it is be-
cause 1T is woman-ridden. The women
on this committee. the women on that
committee, and the women who are do
ing the entertaining, seem to be in q
series OF squabbles that are as disgrace
lul as possible, and which plainly point
out that Woman's mission, as they in
terpret 1t. is not only to talk, but to say
the wrong thing i'll the wrong place. /
feel, when hear all this gabble about
lhtelllgent women, women of brains.
women OF affairs and women ofbusiness,
l feel like praying, ooh, Lord send us
a few ladies = -
THE WAYS OF WOM,NKTND
1elt that 1t was my time to speak, so
L sad III my most parliamentary tone:
Gentlemen, aren't you clever enough
to see that woman is swinging around
in a circle? She deplored the fact that
she was only asked to be loveable, to be
ood-mannered, and to allow herself to
be taken care of. She is now having a
taste of the other side of it ALL She is
trying to be business-like, and she loses
her temper; she is trying to be imper-
sonal, and she breaks down and cries;
she is trying to be hybrid, and she is
making fool of herself; but the circle
will swing around, the proper state of
affairs will be reached, and she will
come back, If not a repentant, at least a
better woman. To me there is nothing
SO fine as a gentlewoman, but they are
the result of the same good breeding
that is necessary to make thoroughbred
horses; and if you will take the trouble
to look at it, you will find that the wom-
en- who are clamoring to be called wom-
Ell with a capital w are the first of
their kind; they are strong in muscle
and in brain, in another generation hav-
ing had the edges rubbed off by
TIE PUMICE STONE OF SOCIETY,
the result will be all that you can de-
sire, for not one of these women ever
wants her daughter to be what she is
The most finished actress | know
doesn't want her daughter to go on the
stage; the best public speaker | have
ever heard preferred that her daughter
should marry young and have a happy
home life; the women with the capital
w are the cause; the result will be a
type of summer girl who, if she is not
Just like the one you have been talking
of, will yet have q feminine charm of
her own and will realize that this is her
best weapon in the battle of life"
The music had stopped; most every
body had gone to the supper room; the
Artist had disappeared; the Captain
and |, with that respect which we have
for our physical selves, did not propose
to eat iced cream, salad, and drink bad
ly iced champagne at that hour IN the
morning, SO we were left alone. 1t was
broken by a woman's voice. 1t
was not pleasant voice; it had
in it's shrillness the tang of envy, hatred,
malice and uncharitableness. 1t said:
"Well, | don't think it's fair, when
there are not very many men here, for
a girl to come from off a yacht and have
half the men around her, while nearly
all the rest are hanging around that
Southern girl. My daughters are just
as good to look at, but they mayn't be
as brazen. Somebody said that girl
from the yacht had on a Worth gown;
probably she bought it secondhand;
and as for that Southern girl-well, we
all know that her mother makes her
clothes; and the men that are not hang
inc around them are hanging around
that married woman from Boston. Oh,
of course men like to hang around
married woman; they can be freer with
her, and then she tells that her hus-
band said he wanted her to enjoy her
self while she was here, and try and
think she was young girl again, SO that
when he came he could court her all
over, [ hate that kind of talk-silly,
sentimental rot What [ hke'-and
then the voice ceased as the speaker
moved away.
The Captain said:
''BORN IN A GARRET, IN KITCHEN BRED.
And laughed. Then l added: Isn't
it queer that the beautiful summer time,
which brings out all the lovely tioWers,
should also bring to the surface all the
horrible weeds ?'
And he answered; "No, it isn't so
dreadful, because good botanist quick
" discovers which is good and healthy
and beautiful to have and which is rank
and poisonous and undesirable.
Down in the supper room at one ia
BILE we saw our girl, the summer glri,
and the young matron from Boston,. the
three bellies of the ball, eating iced
cream c,a together with the fervor of youth,
and drinking toasts, with no regard as to
whether the champagne was warm or
cold. No fear of dyspepsia came into
their lives. About them were their
various admirers, and altogether they
were having about as good a time as only
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