The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-11-09
Facts of Interest
To Women Readers.
Symposium of Information, Partly Grave.
Partly Cosby and Partly Gay.
MOTHERHOOD:

MOTHERHOOD:
One morning fair. my baby
Climbed up into my bed.
And down upon my shoulder
She lad her little head.
She had her precious dolly
Clasped in u close embrace:
She told me how she loved Il.
She kissed its battered face.
Iasked her IL she couldn't.
For only one short day,
Give me her precious dolly
To take with me away.
She slipped her arm around me.
And ears came to her eye.
She battled with them bravely
And sweetly said, I'll try!
s'But, mamma, while my dolly
Is gone away from me.
is there some other dolly
Whose mamma i can be?
wondered II as bravely
My sorrow could bear
If asked to give my darling
Back to my Fathers care.
Midland Monthly.
According to Judge Lambert Tree, OF
Chicago. the ''new woman" Is eXciu-
sively an American product. III l un-
derstand the subject Alright" he tells
Walter Wellman, who in turn tells the
public there is not and never has
been such a tlring in Europe. l have
spent, years at a time in the different
countries of the old world. l am just
now on my return from summer
tour of the continent, but SO far as l
have observed there is no such thing
on the other side of the water as wnat
is known in a newspaper and popular
spo
haps, in a very limited and much more
serious sense in England and In an
offensive sense in France. AS TAR as
business goes, women in Europe all
have been of more importance than
woman in America. Among the lower
classes, as we all know, the heaviest
share Of the work falls on them. l
have seen them working in the fields
hltched to plows with oxen, httched
to carts with horses drawing burdens
through the streets. ! have often seen
a woman at the top OF q ladder laying
brick, while other women mixed the
mortar and carried it to her in mods.
BUT they were not posing. No notice
was taken Of them. no comments MADE,
no newspaper paragraphs written. 1t
was a simple matter of necessity Then,
in France, for instance, if Paris Is
France, and London Is England, wo-
men have for years been not only
clerks In many business houses, but
managers. The large hotel Is often
managed by woman. That means
more than 1t does In this country;
for in Europe one head in hotel d.
reo.s everything--every question as TO
assignment Of rooms. paying Of bills,
etc, is referred to one mind.
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GIRLHooD:
Thine eyes are filled with dreams,
Swallowed by tresseS OF unh1ndered nadr,
LIKE the grass by woodland streams
Thy look IS thoughtfulness unstaiaed
with care;
Clear on thy face
Are written tenderness and love ana
grace.
As IN the Gawns first glow
A forecast or the glorious day We see,
So with q glance We know
The perfect womannood fore.>'d IL thee:
Whether to wish thy growth or to re-
gret. Arthur L. Salmon.
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ut Is true" adds the judge. ''that to-
day In France there Is a movement
toward something which has slight
resemblance to the new woman But
there Is no possibility Of her becoming
there what, according to newspaper
account, there is a possibility Of her
being here-an incongruOus anomaly,
q stout, elderly female, with bloomers
and pink parasol, who demands her
rights to the latchkey and ballots. The
CVepGh new woman Is fantastic, pi-
quaat. chic, thing of chiffon and
o.s ,-.>etes vWacious. interesting-in
short, French. She Is untranslatable.
She calls forth the rapier thrusts of
French newspaper wit, compared to
which our newspaper humor on the
same topic might be classed as the
meat-ax variety. In comparison with
women, new or old. of other countries,
however. the women of America have
g most favorable showing. They are
the quickest in any social predicament,
the most self-confident, II I may coin
word, the most 'self-protectionist.'
They always know what to do. The
American woman is like a cat-she al
ways hands on her feet. While In diplo-
matic service / have seen American
women in trying places-at courts. In
the presence of royalty. knew every
thing was new and strange to them,
but I have never seen one OF them
make q false step. I have often rea-
soned on this popularity OF American
women, ard have arrived at this
theory: 1t is due to the fact that Amer
dcan women are not cOddled when they
are children. They are early thrown
into the world to think and decide. for
themselves. Their parents have no time
to devote to them. They early learn
that money and rank do not mean
everything, and that the child of the
poor man can measure swords Of wit,
keenness and beauty with the child of
the rich man. They learn that 1t Is
to themselves above all others that
they owe the duty of self-protection.
With American girls 1t is a race, and
the fttest survive. Many, Of course,
are ruined by the test, but those who
do survive are the cleverest, brightest,
most self-poised. self-competent wo-
men in the world"
TO A CLEVER GIRL:
She paints a little-glorious things,
Which nature ne'er Produces;
She's also musical and sings
When asked, nor makes excuses.
And yet not pictured canvas shows
The colOring delicious
Which 'neath her skill so pract.ced grows
Upon the dinner dishes.
No melody is half 80 sweet
As that whose notes come streaming
Out of the kettle, small Gnd neat
Where CHEEKY Goals are cleaning.
Upon your charming. gifted youth
The world with Joy II looking;
But Of your dainty arts. in sooth,
The daintiest Is cooking.
Exchange.
s:-:.
"Amber," that gifted contributor to
the Chicago Times Herald, is inclined
to believe that woman, as she existed
up to fifty years ago II q lost type. "A
new race" she says, "is entered on the
scale Of development. and as surely as
the demands Of today cannot limit
themselves to the requirements Of yes
terday. 30 surely the new type cannot
be happy under the restrictions and
laws fitted to the old. Like the old wo-