Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1893-04-07
woMAN's WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
The Melancholy story of Four Hapicss Old
Maids.

wanted to marry. but never did. and Is
soured and cranky in consequence. As
have said, there are few old maids now,
but heard an impressive story of four of
these unfortunates lately. Their father
thought women ought to be supported by
the men, and they thought so too. As
long as he lived the father took care of
them. They did not know how to do any
work and scorned it. After they Were
all grown their father died. There was
nothing left to feed and clothe his four
daughters. They had one brother, with a
wife and family of his own. What do you
suppose these four ablebodied, alleged
intelligent women in good society did?
Of course you will say they Immediately
learned useful employments, went into
the noble world of work and earned their
own living, being too just and high spir-
tied to depend on the one brother. But
no! Not they! They every one slumped
down and hung like four millstones
around the neck of that one brother. So
they do to this day: so they have done
for l2 years. II is superfiuous to say
the brother does Sot enjoy il. But these
girls were brought up to believe that
woman should be sweetly dependent on
man and look to him for support. They
have done SO with "A vengeance. They
are well on III years now and live all four
! together in IA house by themselves. with
nothing to do but take note of their
nerves and dyspepsia and consume pat
ent medicines. II is like graveyard Of
gloom and despair, that home of theirs
They believed that woman's mission was
to marry; they missed it. and this radi-
ant, glorious and beautiful world became
only a place for them TO nurse their
grievances. One of them came near be-
ing married once, but month before
her bridal day she broke off the engage
ment because she feared her husband
that was 10 be could not support her in
the style in which her generous brother
had done. She belonged TO that class of
women utterly selfish, who look on men
only as instruments TO provide them
with money. So the four lived and
abused the world and all mankind until
at length one of them became insane.
She is now in lunatic asylum, melan-
cholv victim of false education and
having nothing TO do but dwell ON her
own wrongs and ailments. Anybody
would go crazy who lived like that.
1t is better to be dependable than de-
pendent.
The New Century club building ir
Philadelphia was planned and its con-
struction superintended by women. and
it is one of the best specimens of modern
fireproof houses extant. IL has iron
stairways, its floors are laid in mineral
wool. and the lathing on the walls is Of
steel wire The clubs new drawing
rooms are marvel of convenience. ele-
gance and artistic beauty.
They do not call him the dude any
more. He is the sissy man" now.
Every day comes the news that one or
the other house of some state Legislature
has reported favorsbly a joint resolu-
ton submitting "a constitutional amend
ment for woman suffrage to the people
The senate of the conservative old state
of Pennsylvania has reported such
resolution.
One of the greatest of living women is
Mary Ellen Lease. orator, political agi-
tator and member of the Kansas bar
Eloquent and logical beyond most, she
is absolutely fearless, and this is the
greatest quality of all in moral war-
fare. Probably in the whole course Of
her singularly eventful life it has never
once occurred 10 her to conceal one of
her convictions of right and justice be-
,frht nla th..
frown of Mrs. Grundy. For this glory
IN Mary Lease.
Mrs. Taylor of Little Washington,
Pa, has done something in oils. She
began by making few modest and care
full investments in the Pennsylvania oil
fields. She held them till they became
profitable; then sold them at an advance
and made other investments, or kept
them and sold the petroleum. Mrs. Tay
lor is now worth $3,00O,0 900, won by her
own business shrewdness and industry.
She is able to support husband.
A stained glass window has been
erected in lexington church, England,
TO the memory of the late Duke of Devon
shire. 1t was painted by the women art
students of Wimbledon, and the sub
ject was the ascension of our Lord.
Just what connection the death of the
old Duke of Devonshire had with the as
cension of our Lord is perhaps clearer to
the English mind than to that of an
American.
Nearly 500 women are employed as
station agents on the French railways,
but they get only half as much pay as
men. This is partly owing to the fact
that comparatively few occupations are
open to Frenchwomen, largely also to
the fact that women cannot vote. Deny
ing women the right to vote and paying
women less than men for the same work
will both be looked upon as relics of bar
barism in 1898. Just watch and see il
this is not so.
IL is offensive in the extreme, this talk
that every once i'll awhile appears in
some newspaper about putting a tax on
bachelors and using other means to lure