Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-03-23

black is no longer worn by womerl
Dear, dear, what pity, Everything is
red How dazzling! But this writer's
concluding statement is perhaps the
best; The American women have
actually become so possessed with a
desire for rlotous extravaganza in their
costume that their stockings are en-
bellished with costly hand-painted de-
signs, which are, of course, lost after
each laundering, and must be renewed,
but never with the same pattern" Now,
isn't that just startling? What sue
cess as fashion editor that man would
make! How well-informed some men
arei
And all this is written in sober earn
estness, and printed in periodical of
unquestioned literary standing.
Still another writer, also in a maya
zine which generally commands respect
for its accuracy of statement. arduously
bemoans the fact that ''our girls are be-
coming more and more frivolous, and
bases this observation upon some
wagers made upon the recent election
by a few silly girls. Zone girl" he
says, allowed her face to be decorated
with lather and was shaved; another
walked a mile barefooted around the
village where she lives; another rode
mule in man fashion, while fcarth
wore false mustache to school" And
these instances are cited to show that
American girls are becoming more
and more frivolousr' IL this is so, then
the American men are fast becoming
idiots, if we are to believe the character
of some of the wagers which they laid
upon the election. For one man TO
trudle wheelbarrow of apples for one
hundred and fifteen miles; for we'll
known banker 10 be a ear conductor
for day; for an artist to hire hand
organ and play around the streets of
one of our largest cities; for a business
man to stand as target for two dozen
eggs OF uncertain age-are these the
performance of sane and well-balanced
men? Yet they were all carried out
during the week after November last
Because a dozen girls make geese of
themselves must four million of
American girls be called frivolous?
Am to be written down an idiot, be-
cause dozen men, who unfortunately
belong to my sex, show all the signs of
lunacv, and choose to make public
spectacles of their mental decline?
Let us, my friends, you of my own
sex who may read these words, try and
pick all the flaws we choose in woman,
and what good does it do? We always
come back to her, and glad we are of
the privilege, too! Nervous? But yet
how calm and steady when the right
time comes Illogical? But yet how
certain the intuition, how unerring the
instinct Without judgment? But yet
how safe her counsel, how sure her
guidancel Never leader? But what a
helper! Timid? But yet what sweet
heart! Unsystematic? But yet with
what neat precision is marked the
training of her children. Dressy? But
yet how she can wear her gowns!
Never ready? Rarely for the theater,
but yet how ever ready with her sweet
womanly sympathy in time OF trouble.
Fond of pretty things? But yet how
they become her person, her room, her
house! Expensive? Well, bless her,
yes. but the cheapest article for the
money ever created! And long may we
love her to brighten our homes, make
wise our children, make men better
than they are, and life the better worth
the living And we'll love her, too, for
the enemies she has made. Edward w.
Box, in Ladies' Home Journal