Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-08-01

 cnapero1ed. Sometimes she has money of her own, and has only taken up with the new way of life owing to the backwardness of men and the absence of appreciation at home maybe she has mother who is not so advanced" as she, or a sister who is more attract i've. The latter cause has driven many an elderly girl into female bachelor dom. She develops mission, p does little public speaking and is honorary secretary to something or other-for preference. something which has to do with the woman problem, and the discussion of it in mixed company. Her friends have put up with it as best they can, but there is nothing particularly interesting about her to the rest of us. She laboriously wastes her life in elaborately worked out nnfemininitv, and occasionally marrfes professional philanthropist, who suffers for the sake of what he can do with her money.
 With tile poorer kind it is different
 The fairly-weIf educated daughter of indigent parents often takes the first steps toward female bachelordom with out knowing whither they tend. An editor has generally to answer for her earliest deviations from the straight and narrow path He prints some lit tie twadd1e of hers, and she proceeds to bomb bard him and his fellows, with unremitting industry. day and night. Perhaps three out of thirty chance con- tributions get into print before she dis covers that fashion reports and de- scriptiye ''pars'' are hers to write. if only she can get the opportunity of writing them. There is d living to be earned by this; but it has to be attend ed to assiduously and worked at man fully. She slips into it gradually. and claims mans freedom which in- deed, is more or less a necessity of her unprepossessing calling the time she finds she is doing the work of the humber kind of hack male jour nalist for about half his pay. She wants to come in and go out when she likes-or when her employers like without having to account for her pro- ceedings; and, indeed, it would be hard to deny her the right to do so. She sees no reason why she should not get such solaee as comes her way; so she does not hesitate to go to the pit of q theater with some brother of the craft wh om her parents know not. She will not always spurn a music hall. She smokes cigarette after the days toll is over tor no woman can smoke sensi- bly, like man over her workl and she comforts herself for the many unpIeas- antnesses of her surroundings by pre- tending to think that she is living her own life" To do so more effectively
 she talks eagerly on subjects that used not to form any part of conversation in which women joined. She is strong on the rights of woman to be and do any thing she chooses, and her converse tion is apt to be little embarrassing to old-fashioned men. But she is far from meaning any harm by it.
 Society not having made up it's mind to accept the working female bachelor, she gets no ladylil1e dissipation. She goes to many fine functions and gorgeous dwellings to do the dresses; but she is only there on sufferance. The servants regard her as a young person" and their betters are little afraid of her. Besides, they are not quite sure that she is not rather im- proper young woman, Nice mammas in slightly lower circles cannot coun- tenance her or permit their daughters to associate with her; manners are con tagious and the female bachelor lets her men friends visit her at her rooms. Yet her morals are the conventional ones, and she gets no particular excite ment or forbidden joy out of her de1i- ance to the ordinary rules which regu- late the conduct of well-bred women.
 She is not contented with her life after the first novelty of '.emancipa- tionn has worn off She realizes that she gets all the discomforts of male bachelordom much multiplied, and none of it's alleviations. The world of business regards her as a woman, and allows her none of the equality of man hood; the world of ease refuses her the privileges of the womanhood she seems to defy. 1t is natural enough, but it is unfortunate. Every day makes it more difficult than ever for a considerable portion of our middle-class women to marry, and every circumstance tends to make the young spinster less inclined to bear patiently the drudgery and ennui of the l few respectable omployments open to her. The demand for journalistic haclz-work, on the. other hand, grows daily greater, and women do it better and cheaper than men. There is room for any number of them to make a bare living at it, it seems; and the chances are that, in spite of it's hard ships. the woman who cannot be en- tirelv idle will continue to press into it. The life is hardly brilliant. when all is said; and the temptations to make it more endurable by whatever means must sometimes be almost over nowering. Women get very little by l,v fo 1xiy,tr 71ron themselves to ILul-