Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-04-12
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GIVE THE GIRLS A CHANCE.
oons Practical Manifestations of the
daughters Revolt In England.

more interesting now that the daughters
have taken up the pen for themselves.
Lady Kathleen Cuffe and Miss Alys
PeaIsall Smith say some things which
readers will regard as pertinent or i'm
pertinent, according to their viewpoint.
1t is safe to say that great many
daughters will take occasion to leave
the following paragraphs lying around
where their respected parents may come
across them. The parents might do
worse than read them if they care to get
q glimpse of the real inner workings Of
their daughters minds. As Miss Smith
says, it may be a revelation which will
astonish and perhaps horrify them, but
it may serve the purpose of moral clap
Of thunder and clear the murkiness Of
the domestic atmosphere
Miss Pearsall Smith says in The
Nineteenth Century for March:
Possessing no money in her own
right and obliged to beg, too often from
an unwilling father, for all she gets, q
girl OF character as she grows into ma
t1rity and lives on as Il woman i'll her
f4t' fers from a sense of
III that no ono who has
not vAper.l 1T can understand.
Many young women under these cir
eunstances would gladly engage i'll
any honorable labor, however mental,
that would enable them to BIO indepen-
dent and to own themselves. But this
Of course is not to be thought of for
moment Gould the parents Of these
daughters, who have never thought of
them as independent beings, but only as
appendages to themselves, created for
tho purpose Of ministering to their
pleasures and waiting upon their fancies
could they for a single moment get a
glimpse into the hearts of their quiet,
accomplishing daughters they would be
astonished and perhaps Mortified. What
can our daughters want more than they
have now?' they would ask. They have
good home and every comfort and the
society of their parents friends, perhaps
carriage to drive in and horses to ride
What more can they possibly desire?'
To such parents l would reply, Your
daughter wants herself. "
Lady Kathleen, speaking in the name
of the more or less unemployed tea
drinking, ball going damssl, says:
"She considers it hard that she cannot
walk the length Of two Or three-even
five or six-streets to visit friend
without having first provided herself
with an unhappy maid or attendant Of
some description, presumably to prevent
her from losing her way or getting run
over. Or if the friend she wishes to visit
resides at a greater distance she is not
considered capable, without the afore-
said chaperon, Of driving quietly in a
hanson as far as that abode. So it is in
everything No early morning stroll in
the park Or afternoon tea party may be
undertaken without the same faithful
domestic walking gloomily by her side
or waiting drearily for her in alien
'front.' halls. A young married woman
does not wear her wedding ring in her
nose or other prominent spot to assure
the passerby Of her social status, aud
owing to prevailing fashion her clothes
do little to distinguish her from her un-
welded sister. Yet she can walk through
The streets alone and drive in hansoms
alone. Why cannot the girl?'
Mrs. Crackanthorpe, who sounded the
frst note Of the ''revolt," gives another
vigorous blast, in the course of which
dhe makes the following remarks:
''They paint enchanting pictures Of
the beauty Of tho modest maiden wait
ing like the violet in the sweet seclu-
-sion Of home until the casual passerby,
man, shall Gull her and transplant her
to his own sunny bank. But do these
ladies ever pause to reflect that they
themselves are the prime authors Of the
pother, if pother there be? Why do they
write books? Why do they write plays?
Why do they sit on committees here and
committees there, Summing in the east,
drinking tea and promoting causes
in the west? Their mothers did none of
these things. They were content with
flannel petticoat making for the chilly
Hottentot, or at most with the sight of
his counterpart, the converted Jew, on
tour with a travelling mission. What
about school boards, boards of guard
ians, political work Of all sorts, to say
nothing of rescue homes,' happy
evenings and girls clubs?' What
about exhibitions Of women's work,
women's trades union organizations and
Q host Of other public and semipublic
occupations too long to enumerate here?
Do they for one moment imagine, these
happy, well employed and resourceful
women, that their adoring little daugh-
ters-for daughters do adore until
Thou shalt not checks the ardor Of
their devotion-are not taking notes by
the way and saying silently in their lit
tie hearts, My nanny does so and so.
When I am grown up mean to do just
the same I shall write plays and go
behind I shall make speeches. 1
shall run about, too. just like her?' "
An English paper calls attention to
the newest development i'll the emanci-
patton of woman and says that if the re-
volt of the daughters should become seri-
GUS the rest of the family would better
look out for consequences. This new
step is the formation of volunteer mill
tary companies by women. The Volur-
teer Staff Corps For Women is the name
given to the organization. 1t is to be
under strict military discipline, and its
work is to be based ON the manual Of
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