The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-12-01
WOMAN IN THE NEWS.

selves because they could not
face life after their spouses had
crossed the Styx only IA wives refused
TO live on under the same circumstances.
There is nothing the fair ones do not at
tempt, but they always come back to
the plane and sentiment established
longer ago than history relates, which
has TO do with those comfortable old
fundamentals--love, marriage, home,
family.
Ii is vastly entertaining to follow the
woman-literature in the newspapers for
a week at time. The result astonishes
as well as amuses. 1t gives one curious
sense OF the tremendous effort women
are making to perform that feat they
call "elevating themselves and pre-
serve their old mistressy over the world
in the old way. Only the other
day womnn's "league" discussed the
subject Of how to be beautiful forever.
There were some very fine speeches
about "living on high spiritual plane,'
by the younger women, but the best
preserved woman in the room declared
that her only specific was a cheerful
disposition and her only cosmetic soap
and water.
Women are taking the initiative. In
one Of the most recent popular novels
one of the best women characters egged
her lover on TO a proposal, and declared
she would have asked him If he had not
taken her determined hints. One of the
latest engagements announced is that OF
a young New Yorker to daughter Of an
English baronet. 1t is a gamo of
vice versa, this development of the new
woman, and nobody can judge just yet
how it will result. She fights with very
great energy and persistence for her
rights" and when she attains to them
she tosses them aside, without sigh, to
take her place as wife and mother, and
utterly exlinguish her advanced self in
a modest nursery.
The most pathetic note that has been
sounded about women for week is the
gossip about the nuptials Of the new
Gar of Russia, who has entered
into a repulsive union with wo-
man he dislikes, and who is wholly
indifferent to him, for the sole and
nasty purpose of breeding an heir to the
Russian throne who shalt have GER
tain set of prescribed ancestors, Com.
pared with this Breckinridgism seems
tolerable.
BY the way, nothing more humorously
despicable has come to light regarding
women recently than the dirty attempt
OF manager, who proposes to arrange
lecture tour for the extinguished Ken
tuckian, to get Endorsement from WASN'T
ington ladies by sending them a note to
the effect that if no reply was at once
received their names would be used for
advertising purposes. No address was
given to which a reply could be sent.
This scheme is quite on par with the
known history of the smirched sample
of Southern chivalry.
Of woman-items Of the sort that are al
ways being known about-of love aud
loyalty and heroism of spite and hate
and crime and meanness almost unbe-
lievable. A woman pleaded her
own cause in a civil court
and lost it. A young woman
left her Chinese husband, after
brief trial of Oriental connubial bliss.
A girl asks $40, 900 for kisses she gave
without restraint. A man is beaten
nearly to death for kissing girl. A
lady pays her way into the theater to be
able to look at another's costume. A
plucky tailoress sued her employers for
breach of contract and won. A
young woman is made colonel
by newly-elected Governor.
A swindling female engages herself |
TO ten or dozen men at once, and was |
brought to book, rs sucft decievcrs
should be. A girl was beaten by her |
mother to estrange her from her lover,
but she left home with only wrapper
for raiment to cleave unto the lover. A |
young woman shot man she suspected
OF poking fun at her for wearing male
attire. A woman asked New York
judge TO enjoin her husband from elop-
ing with another woman.
In connection with women's dress
there are constant developments of
publicity that is not altogether palatable
to men of good taste, not to say modesty.
The invisible portion of lady's ward
robe used 10 be considered as more or
less unsuited TO the exigencies of polite
1t is only recently that the
march of the ready-made raiment has
invaded this realm. We began to see
"lingerie" announced in advertisements,
the details deicately limited at. Now,
however, there is no pretense of dis
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