The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-09-28
woMAN's WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

WOMAN'S WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
The Faults of Woman as Seen Through "a
Mans Blue Glasses.
A man who has apparently Just been
left out of his maiden aunt's will sizes m
the faults of our sex in heroic style. /
would like to have women read his ac-
cusatlons and then ask, each one for her.
self, how much truth there is in them so
far as she herself is personally concerned.
This 'disgrunted male man affirms that
women are spiteful to one another. Then
he declares they are unwilling to wait till
another person has finished speaking be-
fore they break in and take up the CAB
themselves. Moreover, they presume OH
their sex in their relations with men
in a way that is altogether abom-
Unable, and this they do even in bust
ness matters. The typewriter girl
wants to have shorter hours and
to have her defects excused because
she is Il woman. Our critic then charges
upon tho sex because of 1.-THE Indifference
with which II woman will contemplate
the fact that the convenience of others
has been sacrificed to her caprice. Very
Observable in young women" Further.
when persons call to see us we keep them
waiting an unconscionable length of
time before we make our appearance.
We do not keep our engagements. and
we have no sense of the Importance of
fulfilling our promises. Then after
having knocked us down he proceeds to
walk over us as follows: ''What 1 do
insist on, however, is this-in public the
average woman shows an Inconsistencies
ness, disregard for the ordinary
courtesies of existence (Which amounts
sometimes to positive insolence) to n
degree not anywhere nearly approached
by the average man." | NAV sav
that this has not been my experience in
some nine years of travelling in the eleyat
ed railway cars twice day with the aver
age New York city man. Still, if there is
any ground of truth in the masculine
writer's accusations, it must be laid to
women's unbusinesslike training and
their having been kept heretofore seclud-
ed from the public in the so called sacred
ness of home. Thus they take their
homo manners with them into public
places. Men do not dare to, or they
would get their heads knocked off.
Great-grandmother Van Nostrand Gel
ebrated her one hundred and fifth BIRTH
day at Milestone, N. j., q few days ago
amid the general rejoicing of tho neigh
Dorhood, which takes as much pride in
her as if sho were the great-grandmother
of all the inhabitants. Mrs Van Nos
trand preserves all her senses perfectly
except that of hearing, which is slightly
impaired. She is healthy, happy and
Jolly, and she attributes all this and her
extreme age besides to the fact that she
never wore corset. She SAYS other
women might live to be as old as she is
If they would give up this pernicious
article of their wardrobe. But most
women would rather not live to be 1O5
than to give up their corsets.
The Waltham matchmaking establish
ment employs 1900 women among its
5000 work people. The superintendent
OF the Waltham exhibit at the Worlds
fair said of them, "In many lines of tho
work women are superior to men. and
III all lines of the work women are more
faithful than the men," Yet if that very
superintendent needed foreman for one
OF his departments he would select for
the place some strip of boy and put
him up over the heads of the oldest and
faithfulest women in the works and
give him twice the pay of tho best
salarled among these excellent work
women. 1t is SO in every department of
industry, such is the power of the sex
superstition. This is the most discourar-
ing feature Of woman's attempt TO rise
industrially.
Advocates of the short dress reform do
not insist that all women shall shorten
the skirt whether they want to or not.
They simply ask that women be permit
ted to do as they please about it. If
lady wishes to wear short skirt for
walking and for the street, they ask only
that she be allowed to do it without mar
tyrdom.
Alice Stone Blackwell tells delicious
little story in late number of The
Woman's Journal. 1t was town meet
ing day in Barton Landing, Vt. Tho
ladies' thereabouts had been tainted with
the poison of woman Suffrage notions,
and number of them determined to at
tend the meeting to see how the superior
sex conducted itself on dignified public
occasions. They accordingly attacked
the hall in body. At the same day
and hour the schoolteacher of the place
marshaled the pupils, male and female,
of the political economy class and took
them to the town hall also, that they
might see how the sovereigns of this
nation hold it level. Arrived at the
building, they found their political rulers
III squabble and state of disorder ONLY
excelled by the famous scrapping match
in the British parliament. Unpleas
antness was in the air, plainly. To
see how in the twinkling of an eve tbo