The herald., 1894-04-22
GIVE THE GIRLS A CHANCE.
Some Practical Manifestations of TIN
Daughters Revolt In England.

Daughters Revolt In England.
The daughters revolt is growing
more interesting now that the daughters
have taken up the pen for themselves.
Lady Kathleen Cuffe and Miss Alys
Pearsall 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
glimpse of the real inner workings of
their daughters minds. AS Miss Smith
says, it may be revelation which will
astonish and perhaps horrify them, but
it may serve the purpose of moral clap
Of thunder and clear the murlriness of
tho 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 fEom
girl Of character es she grows into ma
turity and lives on as q woman in her
fathers house suffers from sense Of
bitter humiliation that no one who has
not experienced it can understand.
Many young women under these cir
cumstances would gladly engage in
any honorable labor, however meniRl,
that would enable them to be indepen-
dent and to own themselves. But this
Of course is not to be thought Of for
moment. Could the parents Of these
daughters, who have never thought of
them as independent beings, but only as
appendages to themselves, created for
the purpose Of ministeriRg to their
pleasures and waiting upon their fancies
could they for single moment get q
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
q good home and every comfort and the
society of their parents friends, perhaps
q carriage to drive in and horses to ride.
What more can they possibly desireT
To such parents would reply, Your
QluEAtGT NcG-tS IfS1HSi4.
Lady Kathleen, speaking in the name
Of the mere or less unemployed tea
drinking, ball going damsel, says:
"She considers il hard that she cannot
walk the length of two or three-even
five or six---streets to visit q friend
without having first provided herself
with an unhappy maid or attendant of
Soma daoo,-; ~. 20 x,,a<,1ovt
her from losing her way or getting RUN
over. Or if the friend she wishes to visit
resides at 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, and
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
first note of the revolt" gives another
vigorous blast, in the course of which
she makes the following remarks:
''They paint enchanting pictures of
the beauty of the 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