Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-03-21
The Coming Man and Woman.

the man has generally been the bread
winner, and as such it has seemed APP
propriate that he should take the mi
tiative in propositions looking to
matrimonial partnership. This has
been the theory, at least, although it
has been frequently limited that the
ladies have always had good deal to
do with bringing men to the point in
such matters. But, at all events, the
actual declaration of affection, as
rule, has come from the man, and he
has enjoyed the advantage of being
able to propose as often as he liked un
til he could find somebody who would
accept him. Women, on the contrary,
have had to sit down and wait patient
ly until somebody asked them, and
very often have been obliged to take a
person they didn't want, or, in diplo
matte language, a persona non grata, or
to go without a husband altogether
But all this, it is said, is to be changed
in the course of the next decade or
two. when the twentieth century wo
man has fully possessed herself of the
promised land of business and politics
into which she is now entering. Being
no longer under the necessity of marry
ing for home or support, and hav
ing awakened to a full consciousness of
her own ability and superiority. she
will, it is argued, probably insist upon
abolishing, or at least revising, present
customs in regard to negotiations and
propositions for marriage. Being es
sentially a business person, and with
little foolishness about her, she will
look at the subject from common
sense standpoint and deal with it in
common-sense way. She will demand
and exercise the right of seeking and
selecting a husband and of putting the
important question, and it will very
rarely happen that she will make
mistake in her man or receive rebuff,
for her feminine tact will tell her when
she can speak with fair prospect of
success and her feminine charm will
render her nearly irresistible as a suit
or. But. as already said, if her practi
cal development proceeds on present
lines she will eliminate to a large ex
tent the romantic tendencies and iul-
pulses which have heretofore governed
her in such affairs and conduct her
courtships and matrimonial enterprises
with strict reference to the best sou
ton of great social and economic prob
lens. The coming race of women will
want a race of men worthy of them,
and they will do their best to train
their masculine partners up to higher
standard. Even the best materials
which they will have to work with will
necessarily be poor an unsatisfactory.
but by perseverance aud careful setc-
ton in the matter OF husbands there
can be little doubt that in few gener-
ations they will he able to greatly i'm
prove the average of the male sex
Ugly men, awk ward men. men weak in
mind or morals. men too tail and men
too short, men too thin and men too
fat. will be studiously ignored and left
to die out, and only the fittest be al
lowed to marry and survive. At least,
these are some of the predictions that
are being made by enthusiastic social
prophets about the twentieth century
woman. Broadly speaking" says one
of them in an interview in the London
Chronicle, Il think we may trust the
cultivated minds and pure instincts of
the women of the future in the choice
of partners. Idle and selfish men wouid
be almost universally rejected. The
coarse and sensual, the weak in intel
lect and body, would rarely find part
ners. Thus it will come about that
the lower types of men, morally and
physically, will remain unmarried, and
the advance of the race in every good
quality will be insured" In other
words, the coming woman will bring
the millennium along with her and
make man only little lower than her
own angelic SELF Let us hope that she
will come, and come quickly, and that
she will accomplish her mission.-Bal
timoTe Sun.
Don't ruin your digestive organs
with pills and puIgatives. Take Sim
mons Liver Regulator.
SAID SHE WAS A WITCH-A Polish
woman named Yogota Yagaska was ar
Powell on a charge of administering
poison to Jennie, the twelve-year old
daughter of Mrs. Anna Parodovicz, OF
Ridge street, Wilkesharre, Pa. The
woman was suspected of having be-
witched the child, and this, it is alleg-
ed, was the cause of her continued ill
ness. The court saw no good reason
for holding the woman, and therefore
discharged her. The mother of the
child then asked that the woman go up
to the house and see her. She consent
ed to go provided that Chief M1llington
and John Kutskie would accompany
her, although she affirmed that she
could do nothing, as she had not be-
witched the child. When they got to
the house the girl was resting quietly
and seemed all right. The Polish peo-
pie then wished to search the woman
for evidence of witchcraft and she con
sented, feeling safe under police pro
lection. During the search one of the
Poles was heard to remark that the
best way to do was to kill her, and then
the girl would recover. Mr.. Kutskie
informed the chief, and he Immediate
ly took the woman away. The woman
has been accused in Darance township
Iax IL. 4,
farm of COnstine Gurki, the uncle of
girl, where she was working
Health demands a healthy liver
Take Simmons Liver Regulator for
dyspepsia and Indigestion
NEVER TOO OLD TO ELOPE.-The
groom, aged 70, and the bride, 70 years,
were the giddy clippers who were mar
ried at Cleveland, O., on Saturday. c..
M. Gates welded Caroline SAWYER.
Both live in Bellevue, o. Gates has
for some time past been paying his ad-
dresses to Mrs. Sawyer, who was a wild
ow, but met with active opposition
from her two grown-up, married daugh-
tiers, who declared that their mother
should not make second marriage and
they would prevent it. The two old
people put their heads together and
elOped with the result above described.
They will visit a brother of the groom
in that city several days before return
ing home to brave the wrath of Mrs.
Gates's children.
That was a good joke on those re-
publicans who mailed about ten thou
sand copies of Chairman Wilson's
tariff speech as a campaign document.
1t was all a mistake and they thought
they were mailing ex-Speaker Reeds
speech on the opposite side of the same
question.-DanUille Register.
The Virginia Court of Appeals rem
dered decision in favor of a SUBJ
scriber to the stock of the Virginia
Land Company at Roanoke who de-
clined to pay his assessment because
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