The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-01-27
IN FAIR WOMAN'S DOMAIN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO MAID
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MATTERS OF INTEREST TO MAID
AND MATRON. -2s%R.=
Two Things Which Continually Hnr-
rnss the Modern Busy WOmnn-Less
Of the "NVon,un Questton'-Paris
Needlewonen. =.
The 'busy'' woman of the moment
is the busiest creature in existence.
She is really dreadfully overworked and
pressed for leisure. Two reasons for
this are assigned by the New York
Times One is because she is still,
while poking her obtrusive little nose
about in mems work, full of her fem
inine traits and characteristics. In her
heart of hearts she has never quite
given up her liking for dawdling; she
hates to be ready on the minute;
things are wearing that have to be
done on Friday absolutely, instead Of
Wednesday or Saturday, if she feels
more like it. And, besides she is wife,
mother, hcusekeeper, neighbor friend,
lady Of the house, nurse, counselor,
confidant, and half dozen more things
all the time that she is the business
woman" Her confrere, the business
man." gets up in the morning. eats
his breakfast puts his morning paper
in his pocket, kisses his wife and babies
and slams the frcnt door on all do
mestic cares till evening. The business
woman does two or three hours work
in the way of getting children off to
! school, ordering meals, planning sewing,
Writing family letters, seeing trades
men, Supervising a household in it's
many details before she, too, takes a.
train to the Office. If you watch her en-
route you will see that she docs not
let her newspaper, if she reads one at
all. absorb hcr, for she frequently lays
1t down, and ii you are another woman
you will know by the pucker in her
forehead and the compression Of her
lips that she is still full Of home cares.
The business woman, pure and simple,
is not quite developed. And, as has
been hinted, there: are some reasons
why we are In no hurry that she shall
be. The second cause for the busy
woman's want of leisure is her. want OF
system. This is not wholly her fault.
She is not born with it as her brother
is. Generations Of business men have
implanted hereditary business instincts
-punctuality, system, promptness, ap7
plicatiOn, perSeverance-andt they quick
" develop in most young men. 1t will
them the same chance. "A
Less Of .sthe Woman Qnex ti.,n.'' s
''Whatever amelioration the condition
of women may need today" says Hekn
Watterson in The Forum, lit is not
to be accomplished by going into rhetor-
ical or executive session about it. The
| individual wrongs from which individ-
ual women are suffering are not, alas!
tt. be righted by papers in congresses,
and the sex wrongs from which all
women are supposed to be suffering are
! only aggravated by being made the
subject of excessive consideration. Take.
| for example, the enc: wrong OF Which
women complain With most sharpness
ard most justice une quail payment for
| equal work. Anything that helps to
emphasize the fact that women are
newcomers in any field Of work tends di-
rectly to lower the wages for that
work; enything that helps to arouse the
| prejudices of men and so keeps up u1l-
! fair discrimination against women
workers tends directly to dcprcss
wages; : :nytbing that introduces g false
distinction into work-and the sex dis
| tfnction is a false one-Win lower
wages; any sentimental considera tioll
that serves to cttrude the fact that
women are not equal to men in units
of horse power Is sure to lower wages.
] The fact is, women workers are at
| a considerable physical disadvantage III
comparison with ren, and the less said
about it the better. The less said in
| declaration Of womhn's rights and In
! glorifcation of her achievements the
better for both rights and achievements.
The strongest assertion OF "a
| right is the assumption of it, and the
OILY proof Of equality of work is equal
| ity Of work. Now, all these and many
| other things like them are the stuff
| Of which womens congregational dis
| clssions are made, ard they all serve
! c]larmingly to keep alive that intlngi-
bic something called the "Woman Cues
| tion," Of which men are already very
| tired, and Of which women ought to
! NC. 1oI Aueu nave dlfEaOy r1Scn, VIII
| tht: wonderful multiplication within the
! last few years CT powers and activities
| common to both sexes, to recognize the
fact that work is a neuter noun, and
chat so far as women workers are con-
ccrned the chivalry Of disregarding their
| sex is greater than the chivalry Of rec
| ognizing it. Both men and women were
equally culpable in the sex-copscious-
| ness of two centuries ago. To- day it
| Is women and not men who are rcspon-
sible for it.
| Photographic Beauty Asleep.
| 1t is an undisputed fact that pretty
woman never looks SO pretty as when
| she is asleep. Beautiful woman, recog-
| nizing this truth about her appearance
when she is asleep, is now taking advan-
tage Of it in a marvellous way, and the
latest fad is the photograph Of her
self in the arms Of Morpheus. Usually
she rests on a divan, and the clever
photographer arraIges the pillows un-
der her head so that not a single beau
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