The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-03-14
wOMAN's WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS
Read Below and Then Say Which Is
the ExtraVagnnt Sex.

Coming down town in a New York el-
evated train yesterday morning [ over
heard two gentlemen commiseratiug the
sad fate of one of their friends who had
married in early life One of them was
plainly the kind of man who stays
single in order that nc may spend all
his money on himself which is a good
thing for POsterity. John would marry
said he, and now look at him. His
children are growing and have TO have
music lessons and all that. and it keeps
his nose right down. But now he's in
it," Yes said the other. with an ex-
travagant wife, too. With some women
$50 a month is as good as $3.50 is to
some of the rest" An eXtravagant wifei
Let us see. The two men belonged to
the class Of average well-dressed city
men who smoke and drink moderately,
as they call il; not drunkards or slaves
to tobacco by any means, but -..)
smoke, say, four cigars a day, take
drink of whisky before each meal al
perhaps four glasses of beer in the even
ing. on Sunday the indulgence is a
little extra, Of course. | am informed by
gentlemen who have been kind enough
TO 'feSS" to me that 81 a day the
year round is a fair average for the al
cohOl and tobacco consumed by the or
binary man. And yet these very men
talk of eXtravdgant wives. a dollar "A
day would clothc out and out annually
family of children. I wonder men can
look Il woman in the face and preach
to her about extravaganza.
The native Maoris of New Zealand
we're enfranChised i'm 1872. several years
later than the negroes of the United
States. The NIaoris still vote in New
Zealand and the negroes still vote in
some parts of the United States This
year New Zealand has extended the right
Of suffrage till il now includes women,
so that New Zealand women, white and
Maori, can vote and hold office as freely
as man can. But the women of the
United States, except in Wyoming, can
not vote yet
During the past summer some Of the
womens clubs i'm the large cities in
augurated the delightful fashion of buy
ing or hiring house in the country or
by the seashore, where the members
could go and take their ease away from
the discomfort and mixed company Of
a great hotel one Of the clubs that
thus had its own stopping and resting
place was the New Haven ladies' cycle
club. Their country club house was
within reach Of New Haven by bicycle.
and the members spun out upon their
wheels to their cottage and back again
as they pleased. This is a charming
idea and ought to be followed up eX-
tensively another summer and here
after.
Though Miss Ella Knowles just missed
by a few votes being elected attorney
general of Montana, she was afterward
appointed assistant encouragement.
which is quite satisfactory. This brave.
bright young woman has lately been in
Washington to confer with the secre-
tary of the interior and the United
States encouragement in reference TO
Montana school lands.
II is to be hoped that the sweet potato
-four which is made by means OF a St
Louis wOman's invention will soon be
on the market. Doctors are discovering
just now that wheat and corn bread and
all cereals are very bad for the human
stomach. They stuff us up with starch
and mineral salts and make our muscles
grow old and stiff. so the experts say.
Likewise yeast fermentation is very
harmful, we are told. If sweet potato
bread will do any better by US, then we
ought TO have ii.
Mrs. Josephine Butler in an interview
printed i'm the English paper called The
Young Woman, gives this as her word
to girls: THE one thing 1 feel is their
| lack of dignity. The sense of their own
worth should be impressed upon girls in
all ranks of life. They are too cheap.
| They are made cheap, and they allow
| themselves TO become cheap. They ought
| to remember that they are queens born,
and that they must comport themselves
| as SUCH"
! have lately seen in some paper the
statement that the great raisln industry
of California was founded by woman,
Miss NJ f. Austin. teacher who had
| lost her health in her profession. She
| built the first drier for the raisin grapes
and invented the style of packing which
| made the California raisin attractive to
buyers. This is all true but not all the
truth, which is sad enough in this case.
| Miss Austin had not capital enough TO
extend her own vineyards and purchase
| the appliances necessary to complete her
success. At the same time her health.
| always delicate. broke down again. Miss
| Austin died March, 1889, and died not
| at all wealthy. Others reaped where she
| had soUn. and sown so bravely. The
raisin grape growers Of California ought
| to build monument 10 her memory.
ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER.