Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-09-16
woMAN's WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
The squabblc OF tho womon Managers NJ
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WOMAN'S WOhlO IN PARAGRAPHS.
The Squabblc OF tho Women Managers At
Chicago.
One paper says these squabbles have
dealt "a terrible blow" TO the cause of
women. Another man editor, who GER
tainly must have been lunching off mince
pie and buttermilk, gravely observes.
at is certain that the conduct Of the
board of lady managers has been snch rs
to create an unfnvorable impression of
the advisability of calling on women TO
take an active part in the management
of great public undertakings" Dear,
dear! And when few weeks ago the
members of the British parliament in
dulged in a free fight in the midst of
meeting and gouged one another's cheeks,
and BACKED ono another's eyes, and
smashed hats down over faces promis-
! cuously, and rolled over one another in
the dust, clawing like cats and bowling
like hyenas, that did not ''create an UNI
favorable impression of the ACCESSIBILITY
Of calling on men to take active part in
the management of great public under
! takings," did it? Oh, no. for the animals
in that menagerie were men. Go tol
| The meetings of the lady managers
at Chicago were no worse than mems
| meetings are every day IN the week, and
that is the worst that can esaid of them.
That is bad enough. But why men
should expect women, without lnowl-
edge of parliamentary usage or speech
making, and without experience in or
| gani2ation, to do better than they 10
themselves is something past finding
out 1t is to be deeply regretted that
some ladies are so quarrelsome and so
bent on their own way that they do not
mind even making holy show OF them
selves. But the woman cause has received
no blow from the stormiest of the meet
ings at Chicago. Only through struggle
and defeat can come victory. Women
will learn from the experience at Chicago
some more of their needs, among other
things that just now they need most Of
all to control their exuberant likes and
dislilies and learn parliamentary usage.
/ Yes, ladies. in the name Of heaven, hui
mainly and common sense, learn self
control and parliamentary usage.
Miss Margaret Brainard does fine
business by shipping early violets, daifo-
| dis and jessamines from her Mississippi
home TO the northern states in spring.
A California widow is educating her
four boys OF the proceeds of farm of
30 acres which she had set in pruncs,
cherries and apricots several years ago.
She attends to all the pruning Of the
trees herself and is her own foreman.
One lady in California has two farms
-one Of 10 acres, the other Of 12. From
the apricots, cherries and vegetables
which she raises ON these two patches Of
land she gets an income Of 81, 900 year.
Is not that better than clerking for some
man at 81 a week?
/ In various little sea trips this summer
/ / have had occasion 10 notice many hus-
\ bands and wives taking an outing to-
/ gether. The difference in their physical
| appearance is striking. Take, say, a hus-
1 band and wife about the same age, and
that age anywhere between IS and GO.
The wife is apt TO look haggard, sharp
faced and fretted, with skin the color Of
an Egyptian mummy. The husband. ON
the contrary, though he is often oyerfat
and squabby, has rosy, healthy skin
and face and a serene--nOt 20 say jolly
look. He eats more than is good for him
often and is careless abont his health;
still he is far better preserved and hand
somer than his wife. Iattribute the diff
ference as against the wife's good looks
] 20 g... feafeft..s
and the wearing Of tight corsets in her
girlhood. These four things consume n
good complexion "a fire consumes paper.
II is n frightful pity married women caro-
so little about preserving the health and
beauty Of their bodies. After the Of
60, however, the tables arc turned. The
wife becomes no worse looking. She
could not, therefore stays as she is. The
husband is apt 10 go down hill rapidly
and in n few years becomes a physical
ruin. Few objects are more unpleasant
than an old man in his decrepitude.
Such decrepitHde is the result Of over
INDUCING the appetites and passions for
lifetime.
That admirable lady, Olive Harper,
thinks American women liayo life so
much better than the women Of other
nations d. that they ought 10 DO quietly
thankful instead Of talking Of wornan's
downtrodden condition here. II Is true
that American women have many priv
ileges that women Of other nations do
not, which we appreciate with all our
hearts. Bot il that going 10 hinder as
from claiming and getting every advan-
tage and opportunity open 70 The human
race? Not If we know ii.
Another California woman. once
wealthy, bnt afterwsrl reduced to pow
erty, has shown her sisters what our sex
can do. She conducts a large business
in growing and selling cut flowers. Last
year she had 1900 clrysanthemuns in
bloom, and she has seven acres Of these
plants. Shs caught the tide Of fashion
at its food when she began 10 grow the
autumn flower.
One woman florist IN Mississippi grows
eanelias especially for the northern
lower market and makes good thing
Of it.
II you are getting too fat, stop eating
breakfast for awhile.
Mexican girls are beginning 10 learn
telegraphy. and also are taking places in
telephone offices. These graceful, black
eyed maidens make charming as well as
skillful operators.
ELIZA ARcaARD CONNER.
Tie yourg ladies Of Toledo are in adj
vance Of those Of most other cities. At