The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1895-08-24
ORDERLY AND NEAT.
WHICH SEX is BEST ENTITLED nc
Es SO CHARACTERIZED?

The Testimony Of Those Here Quoted "a
Sors the Some Ladies' Have
to Say on the Subject-Discouraging Ex
periences With Women Guests.
A bachelor said in my presence a vear
or tWo ago: Women are not by nature
or habit so clean or orderly as men q
so delicate i'll their ideas of small mat.
ters.'
cOmbated the assertion, with indig-
nant protests, and assured the speaker
that only a disappointed bachelor, whom
some woman $ pertidy had soured, could
make such a statement.
Nevertheless set about studying the
habits Of the sexes i'll these respects, and
| began to question people who had wide
opportunities Of judging such matters,
and the result has no been wholly COM
plimentary to my sisters.
First, / noticed the dress of men and
women in public conveyances. It is
rarely indeed DIG sees a man, with any
claims to respectable attire, who dis
plays solled collar, cuffs OF shirt front.
But l have observed soiled laces about
the neck of maay III otherwise richly
and ~fashlOnaJ..I attired woman, and
soiled white gloves are woefully in evi-
dence Il ruin scores of handsome tot
let's.
l do not Think have ever seen fringes
or tatters about the ankles of a man.
1t seems to be an understood law
among the most ordinary types of re-
spectacle men that the first rayeled seam
or ripped lining shall be attended to bv
the tailor before the garment is worn
again. But women who carry fortunes
upon their backs display torn ~1ounces
and ragged laces frequently on the street
crossings or in alighting from vehicles.
Only a few weeks ago | walked be-
hind a young lady i'll a prominent New
York avenue and admired the perfect
fit OF her brand new promenade costume
and the exquisite details, which exhib-
tied excellent taste and Judgment of the
wearer or her modiste. Hat, gloves,
gown and wrap and veil were in har-
mony. But suddenly there came a mud
dy crossing. The lady lifted her dress
and showed a charming foot elegantly
booted; but, alas, above it a silk petit
coat, with three rags hanging from it.
The harmony was ruined by a discord.
just as l was about to emerge from a
Turkish bath establishment one day a
young woman who speaks three Ian
guages fuentlv and who belongs to a
rich and influential family entered and
tossed off an expensive cloak, display
ing a faded silk waist which was out at
he elbows and badly soiled about the
neck. Her skirt was trim and modish,
her cloak and bonnet irreproachable,
but the waist she wore was %inexcusablv
shabby. could not help but wonder if
she had appeared in this garment at the
breakfast table.
Perhaps IN similar intimacy men may
see similar untidiness among members
OF their W SEX, but / doubt it.
On the other hand, where is the wo-
mar who could endure for ten minutes
the filth of smoking car in which
refined men pass hours? The recollection
OF passing through one by accident to
reach a parlor car is sufficient to un-
nerve the average woman.
Talking with a lady who has a large
country home, where she entertains ex-
tensively, I asked her opinion on this
subject. She gave it as follws:
Il will tell you our experience" she
SAID, which, l fear, is not a solitary
one. II SO happened that two young Ia
dies and two young gentlemen had been
passing a week under my roof, and the
morning Of their departure my house
keeper was i'll, and | went III person to
super1ntend the cleaning of the rooms
which they had occupied.
The young ladies, mind vou. had
been reared i'll homes of culture and
learning and We're 70 al appearance
dainty and refined specimens e their
sex. Yet this was the condition Of the
which they had occupied for a
week: \
The handsome dresser cloth was
and spattered by toilet creams
and washes. = b9z of face powde- had
been overturned on the velvet Garnet.
and the print q . small slipper toe had !
tracked ii a5ylt tlo room. "A l4rs.. M