The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-09-14
THE QUESTION OF THE FUTURE;

The piano is in the cellar.
No more twill see the light.
For all your time for practice
Is devoted 10 the bike"
Your easel lies in the attic,
High art has taken flight,
For YOU must construct n method
To get garbage" out of sight.
They say that at the meetings
The way you talk and fight,
Would turn a politicians hair
From deepest black to white.
You have taken TO the bloomers,
Strange fads your brain may hatch;
But tell me, lovely woman,
VIII you adopt the useful patch?
Philadelphia Press.
jill
According to the Minneapolis Times.
lovely new woman has made an extra
ordinary advanced step IN an out-of-
the-way place on the coast of Massa-
chusetts. Here she is living in an in
terestinG community of her advanced
sisters. who believe In freedom of dress,
and fearlessly practice what they be-
lieve. The place Is an exclusive spot,
and is called Wianno. They wear what
they believe most healthful. No men
are included in this community. Dur
Ing the summer months the women
make this world of their own. The
Rev. Anna Shaw is their leader. These
women believe that freedom of limb
and the smallest possible weight or
clothing is necessary to enjoy to the
full the out-of-door life they lead. For
boating and fishing they all wear di-
vided skirts ending below the knee.
When they battle they wear no skirts.
There are no puffed sleeves and no
corsets. in this little Brook Farm COM
munity of earnest dress reformers.
They believe that in order to bathe
properly woman should reduce her
suit to the smallest limits. So, to pre-
vent their movements being hampered.
they wear woven Jersey tights and
tunic In fact, they wear a regular
niau's bathing suit.
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These women come from different
parts of the country, They come from
as far west as Kansas. Sometimes
there are nine. Sometimes there are as
many as sixteen or seventeen. The
number varies with the arrivals of
guests. w3o are continually coming and
going. Some are middle aged. The
majority are young and pretty. The
girls show the effects of their manner
of life ard methods of dress. All are
graceful. They know how to stand and
walk and breathe. They have studied
the structure of the body. They cut
loos; from everything that hampers
their movements. Their shoulders are
thrown back Their heads are carried
as the Maker of the human body de-
signed that they should be held. They
carry themselves as the beautiful
maidens of Greece did. They all look
forward to accomplishing something in
the world. and they want to be physic-
ally fitted to carry out all their ambi-
tions. They look forward to living and
enjoying all the advantages of being a
woman. They believe woman has Il
right TO live and think and mark out
life for herself.
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All are workers. Some are wives. They
have left their husbands at home. Mar
ried or single, elderly or young, each
woman in this community is against
petticoats. The youngest and most adj
vanced girls wear knickerbockers Old
er ones wear divided skirts. Matrons
add short skirts over the gathered bi.
furcated garments In the house all
these are changed for pretty colored or
white dresses. These are also made on
health lines. On dressy occasions they
wear gowns of artistic shades and ma
terals artistically made. On six days
the members of this community wear
bifurca ted garments and chase health
and strength. On the seventh they
wear ordinary gowns. and observe the
Sabbath. At all times 1t is a God-fear-
ing. moral community, under the Rev.
Anna Shaw's roof. When the members
of the community gather about the
table, their heads first bow in silent
grace.
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The age OF the heroine In novels, as
is pointed out by contributor to the
Chicago News, has advanced only
slightly to meet the taste of the adj
vancing centuries. In Shakespeare's
day she was at the beginning of her
teens and at the time of Dickens she
was only IS. Shakespeare was very
chary of mentioning the ages Of his
berones. evidently believing that
woman is as old as she looks. At the
restoration a bunch of dramatists
came forward with an array of hero
ines gay as to morals, bright as to
wit and of youthfulnes most extra
ordinary in combination with their
knowing minds. Fielding, the first
realist, had heroine of II, but she
was truthful to the age. The great ro-
mancers wrote of women whom they
tell us were IS and 90 but whom we
know were 2S and 30. Sir Walter Scott,
with plaintive submission to the popu-
lar desire, meekly described his hero
ines as II, though they were really 30.
Rebecca was no yOungster, though he
says So Thackeray was too great an
artist to conform to the popular error
and his two women heroines he touches
but lightly in the first bloom of youth,
waiting until they are past 25 before
the real story begins. Dickens has
only q few young girls in his books
Bella Wilfer, Dora, Dolly Warden. His
ideal, the Agnes sort of woman, strikes
one as having never been young
George Eliot fell in with the popular
error Dorothea Is not yet 20 accord
ing to the author when she displays a
breadth of character belonging to
woman of 40. Her only equal Is Gwen
dolen, with her witty woman-of-the-
world speeches. who is described as
being but 81. Modern fiction shows an
older heroine. Catharine in "Rebert
Elslnere" Is 26. Marcella, "a; Miss Will
kins devotes herself to people of 40 and
so; Cable has his creole heroines still
IS.
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CHOICE RECIPES:
Canned Corn First select fine, fresh
corn, remove the husk and silk carefully,
cut the corn Off the cob; pack 1t into Jars,
pressing 1t closely. The jars when done
should be filled to overfiowing. Put on
the tops without the rubbers and screw
them loosely. race nay OF straw IN tne
bottom of the wash boiler. or better still,
wire frames that are made for the pur-
pose, stand the Jars on this and pour in
sufficient water to half cover them, cover
the boiler tightly and boil continuously
for three hours; four. hours better.
Watch the boiler carefully to see Il
there IL sufficient water to make full
II there is sufficient water to make full
volume of steam. At the end of the time
lift the jars, put on the rubbers and screw
down the covers as tightly as possible;
put them back into the boiler as quickly
as they are screwed and when the last jar
Is In cover the boiler and boil for thirty
minutes. This time the jars may be in
nut in quickly and need not be put up-