The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-06-15
Facts of Interest
To Women Readers.
Symposium of Information, Partly Grave,
Partly Cosby and Partly Gay.


plumbers, AIS powder and cartridge
makers, three .roofers and skaters, three
boat builders, six boiler-makers, one
well borer, one wheelwrlght and nine
whtewashers. There are few occupa-
/ tions in which women outnumber men.
The women teachers outnumber the
men nearly three to one and the same
Is true of boardlng-house keepers. The
disparity is still greater, of course,
among nurses, launderers and laun-
dresses. housekeepers and stewards,
seamstresses and servants. The total
number of servants in the country Is
1,O25,O of whom only 237 900 are males.
Women take the lead numerically in
| typewriting, in dressmaking, milll-
merry, lower-making, boxmaking, as
cotton mill operatives. In silk mills, in
making corsets and buttons and
hosiery.
Some of DR.. Holmes brightest things
never got into any OF his published vol
umes His reference In "Elsle Vennor' to
| the "twcnty-seventh letter of the alpha
bet" so puzzled one lady reader, who was
| reading the story in company with rela-
| tive, that she wrote to the author, telling
him that neither she nor her cousin Ed
| ward could make out the meaning. The
answer received was characteristic: "Bos-
| ton, March 4, 1S61:-My Dear Miss Lavina
The twenty-seventh letter of the alpha
bet is pronounced by applying the lips of
| the person speaking it to the cheek of a
friend and puckerng and parting the same
with a peculiar explosive sound. Cousin
| ~ h,u t,c ID
labial consonant, no doubt. and allow
you to show your proficiency by practicing
it with your lips against his cheek. For
further information you had better con-
suit gra NINA Very truly yours, o. w.
Holmes. kate Fields Washington.
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In this department Of The Tribune
of May II appeared an extract from
| an article on Women of the French
Revolution which, we have since
learned. was written by Mrs. John
| Dale of London, for the March Bel
gravia. The omission of credit to Mrs.
Dale was unintentional, and we take
pleasure in correcting 1t.
Rev. Kittredge Wheeler, a Baptist
| pastor of Chicago, recently preached a
sermon to wheelmen, in the course of
which he thus automatically expressed
his dstaste for boomers: I'm dscuss-
| ing this subject I shall hardly venture
| to touch upon the bicycle costume,
| for the reason that if were addressing
| a company of cyclists in the latest and
most up-to-date uniform l would be in
Il 20 No Nr
dience, and when a speaker is in doubt
| in regard to so fundamental question
| as sex 1t would be wise to speak very
| cautiously. If not to be altogether ST.
| lent. | will, however, venture a single
! suggestion to wheelmen. See to 1t that
| you costume is as masculine as pos
sible. Distinguish and emphasize your
sex in some way. Wear a mustache,
| let your beard grow or sew upon the
| back of your costume three big, red
| capital letters, NAN. You have
no right to appear on the street or even
on your wheel. in a costume worn by
females, for several reasons. In the
first place, it is wrong for you to at
tempt to deceive the public Second
your appearance in female costume is
an insult to the fair and gentler sex,
for you make an awfully homely wo-
man. Third, you subject yourself to
civil arrest and punishment, for it is
an offense against the law for a male
to wear in public the female attire. If
there be only two costumes suitable
for bicycle riding, the single closed
skirt and the knickerbocker, I say tc
the men, be gallant, let the women
have the choice, and If she choose the
knickerbockers, do you take what is
! left. Be man and put on the skirt
Make 1t universal and let the public
understand 1t. This will distinguish
the sex on the. wheel"
In the Chicago Herald, that excellent
paper from which we get much that is
readable and new, Walter Wellmar
thus gives mans view of the new
woman problem:
THE GOOD OLD TIMES:
Oh, Grandma, is 1t really truc
That men did once delight
To look on girls as goddesses
Who dwclt upon height?
Oh, did they really slave for them
oh. had they then no grievances
They organized to air?
Did they ne'er vow her tyranny
Was more than they could bear,
When Woman wore petticoat
And never cut her hair?
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~, ", unoonsoinrs ps a,aen ''e'
Erer ve, the eea of progress c,mo
'Twlxt them to intervene
That heavy sen in which, today
We watch her throne careen?
Was she thing of beauty once.
Fer yet she did alright
Wonu THE worIu py p,a~'i's OUT
r in D,oone'tes ,', n,. ne"sn