Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-04-21

suffered anything for a kiss: indeed, my
mother never punished US, except by
refusing to kiss us when we went 10 bed.
when | grew into womanhood | was
glad | had acquired the habit OF working.
| for when ! married Mr.. Beecher his
| time was so taken up with his duties
| that ] was obliged to assume all of the
management OF the house. j always
answered his letters. sometimes thirty and
| forty a day. / attended TO his personal
affairs. and really believe he would
| never have had new suit OF clothes If
/ had not bought them. His salary was
| paid to me- the checks were made out In
my name and ! cashed them 10 save
him trouble.
II took entire charge OF the children.
! sent them TO school and TO college, and
did everything for them without consult
! ing their father TO tire his hard-wOrklng
brain. tried TO make his home resting
place II seems 50 strange not 10 have
Inn to think for. You know we were mar
ried lacking three months OF fifty years.
/ That is a great while for two people TO be
together. Other women lose their hus-
bands i'm five, ten. fifteen, or twenty years.
81 do not feel that Mr.. Beecher IL dead,
only gone on a journey n little while
before, and even now there Is so much
that can DO for him. People write me
and want 10 know things about him.
Why. only yesterday / answered thirty
letters. / sat up until 1 o'clock to finish
the last one. No. / never needed
chaperon. | was always too busy"
SAYS THERE Is NO NEW, WOMAN.
Mrs. Lyman Abbott. wife OF the cele-
brated Brooklyn minister, and herself
widely known all over the country in her
Aunt Patience talks to and from all
hot i- pnaI nd lnral,y In,
swered the question in this manner:
81 dislike the phrase new woman ex-
ceedngly. There Is no such thing. WO-
men are the same now as they always
have been They have always been free.
but TO hear them talk one would think
that somebody had suddenly emancIpated
them from slavedom. our grandmothers
were brave. thoughtful. noble women,
helpmates TO their husbands. brothers.
and sons. They thought, acted and
struggled against evil fully as much as
any woman of to-day. They were not
nonentities or ignorant, as SOME of the
women Of to-day assume when they talk
about the new woman.
"Oh, how the term dlspleases me. /
have no patience with the non-meanlng
words Woman to-day Is Just what She
was n hundred years ago, and as for the
question whether she should have "a
cnapefon or not, mat - a difficult
problem TO solve. Circumstances vary the
decision. Women brought up in the coun-
try do not require the surveillance girls
in the city need. ] think where one is
thrown in contact constantly with
strangers that she is far more exposed
than when associated with people with
whom she has grown up. In cities should
recommend a chaDeron / think our
schools teach the young women 10 be
frivolous and superficial; they do not in
struct the pupils thoroughly in one thing
but hurry them through number of
books which they dimly comprehend.
our public schools have much to learn.
They graduate the children too young.
and ovsrcrowd their minds. Before "A
girl Is fully grown she IL turned out as
educated. Such n child, Uniformed in mind
| and body. certainly requires the guidance
| of an older person. upon entering society"
MRS. SANGSTER'S VIEWS.
Mrs Margaret l.. Sangstsr. editor OF
| Harper's Weekly. was busy at her desk
| when | stepped in and asked her about
| the new woman and her need OF chape-
| ronage. She laid down her pen and said
You know j am very old-fashlOned
woman. and, OF course. would approve Of
| the chaDarOn. In fact. | dislike all In
! noNltions on old customs. / think 1t is
| much pleasanter for Il young woman 10
have some older person with her; IL r.