Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-09-21
WOMEN.
.,v WHO ARE so CALLED ARE aes oooesly MISUNDERSTOOD.

,v,.o,n the Present Generation
 VI Not Appreciate Becauss It D'''
 Do'' .,,orstand Them-Ths other ISps
 ], Woman Who Is Always An"Ois'
 u;.tv and sympathetic man once
 A 4. .a ma q would rather marry aaiu on who looked feelings and hao Roii'' shon a woman who had feelings oa hio looked none. Of course the say ' gnu ao more from his wit than his 'ps ,ootbv but could not help feeling tl,ora were moments when l could s'~s 'sa with him, although have known
 ,l,o and the services of the woman Ene ..n ro feelings to be underestimated'
 i.n .I., dapoh,ors have friend-a wom-
 pAy s,lw little past girlhood-whose u ,.,any is moro sought after and rel
 naf than that of almost any one :. .Fns~ ,, She has admirers by the score and s.,ointanees hHD" everywhere, and no won So, she is cultivated, always cheer ee,' ,an5 -, wiIl listen to and rally the poor '. t"lLer She is asked to everything
 4Sa shape of feast. for she IS the ,'nnsement and relaxation of whoever "av he about her. At the same time' '.,So ,,Sanever her praises are sounded, the .'io0v io, winds up with the inevitable and ss.bea,tening a,b,es tag, After all, you know, sbe has no feelings.
 e'' And this is perfectly true. Quick and eomprohending as is her smile ana ,,racefnl as is her glance while one is atl.;ng to her. there is always the con. ';at;on that not q trace of real interest ;s involved. If she only had heart, inc girl would bo m angel.
 Iilo the old fashioned word. And .,bon have been alone with her I have .S often wanted to say, My dear do be < \ g, angeIp' But she has no heart. Ii she were fo marry q foreigner and go abroad fo live. she would leave us all without moments regret So her friends are yevod with her want of feeling and warn the world against her.
 And this iswhat seems to me unjust.
 Tako this girl as she is. Whether it ia her nature or not, she never refuses fbo challenge to be agreeable; whatever her own plans and likings are, she never batrays impatience when they are crossed Her companion may be plain, awkward and tiresome. but her eye and her gay little joke are never dulled for tbat reason. h fine, she may be the in- carDation of the light which shines, but does not warm, yet while she keeps q whole circle in good humor by her wit. as she does, it is 2 poor return to gird at her
 Again, and speaking now of widely different type, can call to mind older women, often only the survivors of more rigid era-exaet, severe. stern. un- bending and ruling their households with a rod of iron. How little this gen eration understands theml How little merit it allows to the implicit faith in duty, the untiring devotion to work, the almost fanatic hatred of waste and self indulgence and the Spartan maxims of life ill which they were brought up and which they still observe. What has be- come of our eyes that we cannot see the beauty of such lives? Why do we no longer recognize their value? These are not the women who have feelings, but look none. They are without feelings at all, according to the standards of our new, diversified and exacting society.
 hear young girls saying that their grandmothers or aunts, or what you please don't understand them, and really 1 think that many older people than these schoolgirls make just the same absurd complaint. can appeal with safety to every one. Who has not known one of these same stern women almost bring the dead to life by her powers of nursing, or confront single handed and maintain her family on & beggar's pittance, or save falling household by simple economy and hard work? l shall be told that all these things are admitted, but that is just the polnt-they are not If they were, the cry of mo feelings" would never be raised, out of very shame.
 know on old lady who has had the misfortune to live long life and to see all her descendants grow up unable to understand her. She is of the old, unsparlng sort and they, artistic, orig lnal clever, modern people. have no piace for her either ill their theories or their interests. With these her notions can scarcely be expected to agree either, yet the complaints como not from her, put from them. They are not complaints lh words, They arc complaints crystal hzed into entire disregard for the old school, which does not, as it cannot, Wholly sympathize with them. It seems to take an outsider, like myself, to see what do see-that without this erect, white haired ancestress, who is appar- eiitiy so separate from them all, wives ana husbands both would have to teach themselves the fortitude which she com munieates m merely by her presence. ineiF households would be dragging on "ithout the strong axles, so to speak, "hioh she put i'll almost unnoticed for oach newly married couple, and the whole family, now held together in an unusual vigor, would soon fall apart and be dispersed.
 believe there must be many such oaseS' 1 have the deepest respect for snese strong, unbending characters who uo hoe conceal their utter intolerance of e@f eg selt eentered modern methods. = -1ay dohhstone i'll Ladies' Home Jour-