The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-11-16
WOMAN NO LONGER CHATrER2
When She Has Anything 10 Say Now So
Writes 1t

Writes It
One of the joys o: my childhood W.
TO stand in front Of a newspaper shop.
with face close 20 the glass, devourisg
eagerly all the illustrated comic papers
Ia sight. The news agent was often
irconsiderate. in that the papers were
folded in two, 50 that half the pictrre
or the moral thereof was frequently
missing Then ] used 20 pretend tlist
il was a stupid Joke, and ! did not
care 10 read any more. Even in those
days the critical spirit of the age mist
have injected me. fer ] remember.
SAYS a writer in the New York Advsr-
tiscr. a vaz.ue discomfort. due no doubt
TO the uDexpres>ed idea that, had IL
not been for t&lkativc women and for
warlille uothcrs-in-law, the editors Of
comic papers would De short Of aia-
terial
Mothers-in-lzw have been grossly ma
/ Egned, but We all know the talsa live
woman The disciplinary effects #
( contact with such a being are un-
rivaled- Concentration of thought can
not be attained more surely than by
reading ssSiduously while the woman
( talks one OF two things is inevitable.
! You either quarrel violently OF learn 20
| read steadily through everything, aud
10 quarrel with people who know your
/ private affairs is foolish. for il leads TO
q publicity which modest souls shun-
/ The only thing TO be done Is TO read
! with persistence. Practice renders
| this quite simple When you are an
/ adept You will find yourself throwing
| in a gracious Yes" or NO" whenever
/ the woman stops 10 take breath
Owing - the vast increase In news
/ paper correspondence and 10 other lit
( erary causes, the voluble woman Is rap
idly becoming extinct A few years
ago almost all the writing was done by
men. Consequently whenever man
was filled with sxubersnt vitality be
wrote n novel OF poem Thus he WAS
able to remove tho pressure from his
brain, and-double joy-e1pound his
views without contradiction II Ia
could not get anything printed, he
could still write. As last resource, he
could always write letters 10 the news
papers, sign them "Patertamilia>,-
PRO Bono Publico," or AN Indignant
| Ratepayer This kind of thing has =
| particular charm for some people; you
can say So many nasty things about
! your enemies under cover OF n swim
ming bath agitation or schoolboard
/ question
For woman. till lately, there was
nothing Of this kind. Consequently
I her vitality dubbed over in foolish
ness, and her sex was stamped as n sex
OF babblers. through no actual fault OF
its own. Those women who did not
chatter were either dull and unrcspon-
sive. or they we're sensible and ex-
pressed their exubcrance. As phvst
clans might say, repression induced
caustic speeches when the individual
was of guard and thus women got the
reputation Of being scolds- Again.
through no fault of their own. all this
Is being altered Now. nearly every
woman a least writes % the Eewspa-
pers. and many write for the neyvspa-
pers, and very well, too-some times.
and 80 a blessed end is served. Journal
ism is n healing balm. The voice Of tho
talkative woman will soon De heard no
/ longer in the land and the comic papers
+ will have 20 take a new line.