The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-23
Facts of Interest
To Women Readers.
Symposium of Information, Partly Grave,
Partly Cosby and Partly Gay.
THE NEW WOMAN:

She talked with great intensity of each
base propensity, and spoke with volu-
bility of womans higher plane;
She dwelt on domesticity with mental elias
ticlty, and said that such felicity was
really quite in vain.
With gestures oratorical and phrases met
aphorlcal, she voiced the powers nu-
merical that woman had untold.
And spoke with zeal dramatcal of voting
systematical, and ballot boxes sphere
ical, and votes not bought with gold.
She said in eacf-gcnlty the doctors of di-
Vlnity would come from femininlty;
in boomers they would be;
And matrons with rapidity would lose all
their tlmdity, and no more assinity
In Congress would We see.
And while with such audacity she showed
her great capac'.y, and talked with
great ddaclty her husband learned to
sweep;
And while with such agility she dwelt on
her utility with such intense pug
naclty, he put the twins to sleep
New York sun.
The affectation Of some women for
cigarettes is based on Il fallacy. There
was time, perhaps, when the cigar
cite was romantic. That dime, however
has passed away. except in cheap nov
els and books. When in either the novel
or the play the adventures wishes to
show beyond all doubt that she is real
ly wicked, or the heroine yearns to be
real naughty. they smoke cigarettes.
OF course, observes the Philadelphia
Record, the audience is shocked by the
,f % h,t L.,
sophisticated part Of the audience. TO
the man of the world, however the
''wicked" cigarette Is simply a nonsen-
sicality; and young girls who are con-
sumed with secret longing to emulate
their cigarette-smoking sisters should
do SO not with any deluded notion of
r"mance, but simply with the same
d-blooded question Of taste with
-siich they would take to smoking a cob
pipe, like some old women, or to chevy
ing navy plug.
THE DEBATE RESTED:
Boys" said a teacher in a Sunday
school, "can any Of you quote a verse
from scripture to prove that it Is wrong
for a man to have two wives?' He
paused, and i'm a moment or two n bright
boy raised his hand. well, Thomas"
said the teacher. encouragngly. Thomas
stood up and said mo man can serve
two masters" The question ended there.
boston Home Journal
A st lstical New York woman has
figured Jbut that there are nearly ten
thousand of her sisters in Gotham who
belong to clubs and are more or less
active workers in their various organi-
cations. There are eighty-seven wo-
mems clubs in all, important and un-
important ones, and touching all the
imaginable interests of wonmen, from
bicycling to relieving the suffering and
minstering to the intellectual needs of
the indians. To enjoy membership in
some Of these clubs the pleasure and
privilege requires considerable outlay.
Soross. perhaps, costs in the course of
n year from $40 to $50. The fee alone is
SIS, the dues are so and the gold badge
So Then there are eight meetings in
the season, for the luncheon privilege
Of which every member must pay 81.
The anniversary dinner requires anOth-
or So Of every member, and the great
reception levies again tax Of 81. Mem
bers who wish to take one or two friends
as guests to the luncheons must pay 81
apiece for the right, and the whole aver
ages at least the first named amount
for any sister Of Sorosis who is faithful
ana a regular attendant. The Ladies'
New York club comes a little higher,
but its privileges are such as men en-
joy. The initiation fee is $50 and the
dues $50. Food Is served in the club
dining room at restaurant prices, the
cost of room is 81 a day, but, besides
this, there are servants tips. and all
winter long a list Of classes and special
readings or musical afternoons Is post
ed, to which generous or culture-seell-
ing members lightly succumb. The
Professional Woman's League modest
ly demands s. dues of its members, and
then leaves them to join such frae
classes as they have time for, and to
give what they can and will over above
the dues. The Berkeley Ladies' Ath
letic club has no membership limit, and
asks $40. for its season of benefits in the
gymnasium. Easily 100000 annually is
spent by the women club members Of
New York.
WHEN WOMEN VOTE:
A circular came in the course or the mall
A circular dainty and white.
Twas printed in script and well gotten
up,
And worded in fashion polite;
In envelope square and with monogram,
too,
Some function IL seemed to denote;
But when IT was read 1t proved but to be
Il brief invitation TO vote.
She pondered 1t Overland knitted her brow
She never had had one before
Then studied the date for a minute or two,
And thought of engagements score.
And could she find time she asked of her.
self
Shed luncheon she knew for that day.
And an afternoon tea that she ought to
attend;
The outlook was pleasant and gay.
The new invitation was novel, of course
And tnat had a charm of it's own,
But the joys of n tea she had tasted before
While those of the polls were unknown
She wearily sighed and picked up her pen
As one whom a problem besets.
And the campaign committee received the
next day
Her daintlly written regrets.
Chicago Post.
On Twelfth street, near Sixth avenue.
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