Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1895-01-24


The dutiful bachelor got tickets to the
play which cost him So each. The din
ner cost him $5. The girl had changed
her mind about seeing the particular
drama she was dying to witness few
days before and said SO. ''But / have
the tickets,'' said the gentleman No
matter, replied the girl. II don't want
to see it. Let us 60 to see the Bing
Bang instead" " To the Bing Bang they
went. That cost SO more. When the
play was half out, the young woman
was tired of it. Let us go home, she
said. Still the devoted bachelor obeyed
Out on the street the lady expressed
desire to walk home. Only then did the
bachelors long suffering and put upon
manhood assert itself He thought there
was the place to draw the line, and he
drew it. He vowed he would not walk
home if he had to sat on the sidewalk
all night and roll his eyes up at the
moon, and he did not walk. The young
woman was surprised, but yielded. Per
haps i'll her secret heart she even thought
the man who had spent $l2 to give her
obstinate person. What the man thought
leave my masculine readers, if / have
any, to judge. But know what | think
1t is that girl who would hint to a
man to take her to place of amuse-
ment and then behave as this one did
deserves never to be taken anywhere by
invitation Of a gentleman. Moreover,
wish girls would spend their own money
on their own amusement. 1t is degrad-
ing it is indelicate, for a girl to ask a
man to spend money ON her. IL he asks
her out of pure good viii and liking
for her, that is his right. But women
have no right just because they are
women to impose financial tax ON men
just because they are men. When my
favorite dream of financial Independence
for women is realized, there will be no
more of these humiliating scenes. Wom-
en- will pay their own way to theaters
and everywhere else, like the free, noble,
high spirited, independent creatures
they will be then. Speed the dayl
Develop all the financial ability there
is in you and acquire all the knowledge
Of business that you can. You will have
need of it before you die.
If / did not know there is certainly
justice in this world in the long run.
should sometimes despair. But justice
is done, and SO sure as the sun rises ret
ribution will fall on the heads of those
officials at Washington who have made
such unrelenting war on women clerks
during the past year or two. Ladies
who have given to their country flaw
less service for many years have been
turned out ON the streets to starye, mere
ly at the behest Of some young male snip
Of clerk who wished to reward political
friends This is the story told and believ-
ed. Men may defy heaven and earth to
achieve their own petty desires and work
their own petty spites, yet vengeance
overtakes them at last, some way or
some time. Let those who have done
this thing look out.
The superior healthfulness of sleeping
alone has never been recognized in
American families as it should be.
When the country was new and houses
were scarce and small, economy often
required that two members of one fam
lily should share the same bed. But there
is now no need Of this. During a nights
sleep every human being loses pound
of waste matter in inseDsible perspira-
tion. 1t oozes out of the skin pores and
permeates the bedclothing. II one has
a bedfellow, that bedfellow becomes
saturated with this perspiration and at
mosphere Now, however much we
love our dearest ones, we do not wish
to be filled with the castoff particles Of
their bodies any more than they wish
to be saturated with ours. In case of
persons not particularly attached to one
another, or in cases when one is neat
and cleanly and the other the reverse,
the double bed becomes positive torture.
In Europe the sanitary reasons for sleep
ing alone are much better understood
than in America There single beds are
the rule. Miss Julia Hutchins Far
we'll appreciates the Importance Of this
subject, and in her school for girls at
Long Island City has instituted the rule
that the young ladies must sleep alone.
What is the reason men as a sex do
not care for pure air?
The two fine women in the Colorado
legislature and the brainy woman who
has been elected to the Office of state su-
perintendent of education in Colorado
are reminded that the eyes Of their fellow
country women as we'll as their fellow
countrymen are upon them.
There are now 2, 600 women doctors
practicing in the United States. Seven
~ of them have appointments as hospi-
tai physicians and surgeons. But every
insane asylum and every public chari
table institution in which women are
kept should have women doctors and at
tendants. 1t is one of the rights of our
sex ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER
Too Smart For the Doctor.
The daughter of well known jockey
was very iii, having caught a severe
cold. A doctor was sent for and was
buttonholed by the mother, who request
"a IL ~, favor Ior- hx- lrvfei hor