Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-09-06

telling the truth when I said | thought
1t was Miss Randolph. Because knew
her own people, she accepted me with
the proviso that | should be introduced
to her mother. She did not care
whether | was millionaire or an artist,
she only wished to know, and she found
that out at once, whether | was gen.
tleman or not. What rest that type
is -
eyes" responded the Captain. ''She
is rest. She is essentially a woman.
Oh no; | have got that wrong. For
years people have been clamoring for
Women-alwayS with capital w. |
have met her. or them, and [ must con-
fess think the crying need of the day
is for lady. ! prefer good manners
and consideration to bad manners and
a college diploma, and l am old-fash
toned enough TO like women to take an
interest in the affairs of the nation
through the knowledge which they OBJ
tain about them from their mankind. |
haven't seen the Chicago fair, but |
have read a deal about it; and if it
should be q failure, [ believe it is be-
cause it 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 a
series of squabbles that are as disgrace
full as possible, and which plainly point
out that woman's mission, as they in
terpret it. is not only to talk, but to say
the wrong thing in the wrong place. |
feel, when hear all this gabbe about
intelligent women, women of brains,
women of affairs and women ofbusiness,
| feel like praying, oh, Lord send us
few ladiesr
THE WAYS OF WOMANKIND.
felt that 1t was my time to speak, so
| said in my most parliamentary tone:
"Gentlemen, aren't YOU clever enough
to see that woman is swinging around
in circle? She deplored the fact that
she was only asked to be lOveable, to be
good-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-hke, 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 a fool Of herself; but the circle
will swing around, the proper state of
affairs will be reached, and she will
come back, Ii not q 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 viii take the trouble
| to look at it, you will find that the wom-
en- who are ciamoring to be called wOm-
en- 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
THE 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 q 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 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
very quiet, but the silence was
broken by a womanss voice. 1t
|
in its shrillness the tang of envy, hatred,
malice and uncharitableness 1t said:
"WeH, [ don't think it's fair, when
there are not very many men here, for
a girl to come from off yacht and have
half the men around her, while nearly
all the rest are hanging around that
Southern girl. Ny 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 tor that Southern girl-Well, we
all know that her mother makes her
clothes; and the men that are not hang
ing around them are hanging around
that married woman from Boston. Oh,
of course men like to hang around a
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 a young girl again, so that
when he came he could court her all
over. [ hate that kind of talk-silly,
sentimental rot What [ like"-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
! IL queer GudG In6 U0dulllul summer Jlmo,
which brings out all the lovely flowers,
should also bring to the surface all the
horrible weeds ?'
And he answered; "No, it isn't so
dreadful, because a good botanist quick
ly 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
bic we saw our girl, the summer girl,
and the young matron from Boston, the
three bellies of the ball, eating iced
cream together with the fervor ofyouth,
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 gooda time as only
three handsome, healthy women can