Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1893-06-09
woMANs WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
BOSTON Ladies' Who Have just Struck Q
BloM For Independence.

BOSTON Ladies' who Have just Struck o
BLOW For Independence.
The women of Boston have just struck
large, significant blow for independ-
ence. At least dozen of them have
appeared on the streets in trousers.
Some call them divided skirts, others
boomers and others Syrian trousers, but
they mean all the same thing. Mrs. b.
o. Flower, wife of the editor Of The
Arena, is among the prominent women
who have adopted the costume, and the
other day, when she went into a MILL
merry store on Washington street for the
innocent and praiseworthy purpose of
buying new bonnet, she came near
causing blockade around the premises,
so great was the curious crowd. And
now the latest is that Mrs. May Wright
Sewall and Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery
have appeared ut the Worlds fair in the
same full Syrian trousers and short
skirts. Just the other day in q New
Jersey village woman was turned out
of church simply because she wore these
garments. Think Of the courage it takes
to defy Dame Fashion! These women
stand for principle as well as trousers.
Success to theml Why should won.
an he compelled TO drag around the bur
den Of yards of superfuous dry goods il
she doesn't want tor II anything will
drive a woman 10 boomers, it is the
present idiotic skirts. with their pounds
Of hair cloth lining and useless widths
of goods and trimmings.
A woman applied for a divorce the
other day on the ground that her hus-
band had not allowed her new bonnet
in II years. Picture the arid waste Of a
woman's life unblessed by new bennett
"They also serve who only stand and
wait" but think Of waiting for II
years! Think Of the. phenomenal pa
tience and forbearance Of that woman
when she saw her husband bring home
his new beavers and derbiesl She ought
TO have a monument IL any woman ever
did. Better late than never. but IL your
case had been mine that little legal docu-
ment would have gone in at the end of
the first year, for, mind you, IL was not
entirely the question Of n bonnet, but II
she could call her own. II was u clear
case Of freeze out on the domestic
pursestrings." Her husband treated
her worse than the state does its crimi-
nails serving out sentences in the peni-
tentiaries, for they are allowed 20 earn a
little money by working extra hours.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton SAYS, IF yon
want 10 keep young, get an idea" IL Is
a significant fact that the women who
take the livelicst interest in the worlds
work have always younger faces than
those who hive in narrow ruts. The first
thing Susan Is. Anthony did after being
appointed by Governor Flower one Of tho
managers If the New York State Indus
trial school was 10 discover that II girls
stood over the washtubs and ironing Ia
bles six days out Of the week doing things
in the good old fashioned ways of our
grandmotheis when they could just as
well take the clothes over 10 the boys
laundry. which was fitted up with all the
modern appliances Of machinery. IL took
quite little while 10 convince the author
titles that this proceeding was right and
proper. but they finally consented. and
now less number Of girls do the work in
two days and have leisure for other and
pleasanter occupations The keen eyee
and clear brains 81 few more women
Of the Anthony stamp might work won
ders in certain other state institutions
which could be mentioned.
Miss Frances +. Willard was refused
as delegate 10 the general conference
Of the Methodist church simply because
she Is n woman. Will some small girl
who knows her arithmetic take her slate
and reckon up just how many hundred
years those Methodist dignitaries are be-
hind the present agei But Miss Willard
had her retort courteous ready. She
said II future conferences did not reverse
that decision IL would Toe well for Meth
odist women To found a church union
"to bring about "A recognition Of women
and men rs OCCUPYING an equal plane in
the household of God" This is a hint
which the next general conference would
do well not TO ignore. After allowing
women To pay off the church debts with
fairs and festivals. lead the prayer meet
ings, teach in the Sunday schools and
sing IN the choirs, they might naturally
expect that the exercise Of 80 much lib
erty would embolden them to ask for
more. If anywhere under the sun there
is IA spot where men and women ought
to meet on an equal footing, it is the
Christian church. ALICE f.. IVES.
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