Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-10-28
No. Is.
woMAn's WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
Read Below and Then Say Which Is the
Extrayagant Sex.

ENtrata%aAt sex.
Coming down town in New York el- |
evated train yesterday morning | over. |
heard two gentlemen commiserating the |
sad fate of one of their friends who hac |
married early in life. One of them wa.
plainly the kind of man who stays single !
in order that he may spend all his none,
on himself, which is good thing foi |
posterity. John would marry" said he,
''and now look at him. His children are
growing and have to have music lessons
and all that, and it keeps his nose right
down. But now he's in it," Yes" said
the other, with an extravagant wife
too. With some women $50 a month
is as good as $50 is to some of the rest"
An extrayagant wife! Let us see. The
two men belonged to the class of average
well dressed city men who smoke and
drink moderately, as they call it; not
drunkards OF slaves to tobacco by any
means. but who just smoke, say. four
cigars day, take drink of whisky
before each meal and perhaps four glasses
of beer in the evening. On Sunday the
indulgence is little extra, of course.
am informed by gentlemen who have
been kind enough to "'fcss" to me that
81 day the year around is fair aver
age for the alcohol and tobacco con-
sumed by the ordinary city man. And
yet these very men talk of extravagant
wives! A dollar day would elothe out
and out annually family Of children.
| wonder men can look woman in the
face and preach to her about extraya-
gance.
The native Maoris of New Zealand .
were enfranchised in 1872, several years
later than the negroes of the United .
States. The Maoris still vote in New (
Zealand, and the negroes still vote in
some parts of the United States. This
year New Zealand has extended the right
of suffrage till it now includes women,
so that New Zealand women, white and I
Maori, can vote and hold office as freely /
as a man can. But the women of the .
United States, except in Wyoming, can
not vote yet.
If Mrs. Ada Bittenbender, tho Ne |
braska lawyer, is not chosen chief JUS /
tice of the supreme court of that state |
it will be because the ProhibiCionists 1
have not votes enough to elect her.
During the past summer some of the
women's clubs in the large cities inau. |
gurated the delightful fashion Of buying
or hiring house in the country or by |
the seashore, where the members could 4
go and take their ease away from the |
discomfort and mixed company of
great hotel. One of the clubs that thus
had its own stepping and resting place |
was the New Haven Ladies Cycle club /
Their country clubhouse was within |.
reach of New Haven by bicycle and tine 1
members spun out upon their wheels to
their cottage and back again as they
pleased. Flis is a charming idea and |
ought to be followed up extensively an
other summer and hereafter.
Though Miss Ella Knowles inst missed
by few votes being elected attorney
general of Montana she was afterward
appointed assistant attorney general, |
which is quite satisfactory. This brave,
bright young woman has lately been in |
Washington to confer with the secretary
of the interior and the United States at |
torney general in reference to Montana
school lands.
1t is to be hoped that the sweet po-
tato flour which is made by means Of a
st. Louis woman's invention will soon
be on the market. Doctors are discov.
ering just now that wheat and corn
bread and all cereals are very bad for the
Z, L.
starch and mineral salts and make our
muscles grow old and stiff, so the cx.
perts say. Likewise yeast fermentation
is very harmful we are told. If sweet
potato bread will do any better by us,
then we ought to have it.
1t gives Inc pleasure TO record that the
first woman to register and vote in her
ward in New Haven under the new Con
necticut school law was the wife of O
newspaper editor. Her name is Mrs
Abby b. Sheldon.
Mrs. Josephine Butler, in an inter
view printed in the English paper called
The Young Woman, gives this as her
word to girls: The one thing / feel is
their lack of dignity. The sense of their
own worth should be impressed upon
girls in all ranks of life. They are too
cheap. They are made cheap. and they
allow themselves to become cheap. They
ought to remember that they are queens
born, and that they must conport them
selves as such"
have lately seen in some paper the
statement that the great raisin industry
of California was founded by woman.
Miss NJ. f. Austin. u teacher who had
lost her health in her profession. She
built the first dIier for the raisin grapes
and invented the style Of packing which
made the California raisin attrac i've to
buyers. This is all true. but not all the
truth. which is sad enough in this case.
Miss Austin had not capital enough to
extend her own vineyards and purchase
the appliances necessary to complete her
success. At the same time her health
always delicate. broke down agaia. Miss
Austin died in March. 1889. and died not
at all wealthy. Others reaped where she
had sown, and sown so bravely. The
raisin grape growers of California ought
to bnild "a monument TO her memory.
ELIZA ARcHARD CoSSER
Pardonabie Slang.
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