The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-18

AhS prdnu new woman OF To-Day, the Qatl-
sci tip to date,
Has come upon tho scene to stay with en-
ergy clatc.
The airy telegraph machine. che big typo
= Wakes daily into rosy life and rippllng
melody.
But on early triumphs now she makes q
great advance,
TIL her commercial triumphs have the
A spirit of romance.
Her bloomers soon she'll gayly don and
under fortunes star,
She'll be an alderwoman or she'll drive
the bobtail car;
She'll sit on the judicial bench, as happy
as n Turk,
And leave her humble lord at homo to
scrub and do the work;
He'll have to put the kids to sleep and
sweep the Harlem fiat
And ask her for the blooming cash to buy
winter hat.
Full soon her lord will take the floor to
talk about his plights,
And try to form brotherhood to strive
for husbands rights.
The brand new woman of today-she'll
mako things hum and hop
And, In the language of the bard, she'll
always be on top
Oh, she will guide the ship while he within
the castle lolls
To make the church fair tides and the
church fair paper dolls.
And While she goes to routs and balls and
fills her life with fun,
He'll wiring his hands and weep and moan
... Mans work is never donev'
-, Exchange.
A writer in the Sun is disposed to put
upon American husbands a large share
OF the blame for the unsatlsfactoriness
of American wives and mothers. This
s her argument: "It may be said that
every girl on marrying means to make
her husband a good wife, and that she
would do so If she had chance. But
what is the history of most marriages? =?
The honeymoon over, friends are re-
ceived and the bride rushes into a sys-
temo Innocent hospitality to show how
well she can keep house, and after q
while the husband begins to find what
he calls tame cat parties q trifle dull.
What does he do? Does be lay himself
out to be as entertaining as in the
days Of courting? Does the wife get
the same attention, Are her wishes
he take the same interest in her trivial
household news? Does he still tell her,
and what Is more, show her, that he
still thinks her peerless among women,
and that while he does not wish to
make recluse of her. he still prefers
her society alone as he did in their
happy courtihg days? Is the fact not
rather that as soon as the novelty of
new association wears off, the man
takes the first plunge, and, in small
things at first, begins to neglect the
woman; instead of taking one certain
night for hts club, ITO take several; to
say business keeps him out late and
give the truth away half dozen times
the next day, thinking his wife does not
find this out because she is at first too
hurt and too proud to speak of it?
Then she, too, takes her own path and
s thrown in with other women who
nave lost all home ties, all home inter.
ests, even in their children. Is it any
wonder that the woman grows careless.
purposeless, given up ito dress, not for
men but for women, and finally objects
10 an evening at home even with
friend to dinner, and breads a tete-a-
tete with her husband a thousand
time more than anything else in the
World?' If she does not develop into
1 frivolous nonentity, she takes the
,ther extreme and becomes hard and
naterialistic.
'The fault lies largely with the men.
rf they would take one-half the trouble
al~r hot
clerks, their horses, or their dogs and
f they gave them one-half the true con-
sideration to which they are entitled,
and ceased to regard them as so much
necessary impedimenta and furniture
around the house; if they chose them
for life companions instead Of because
some one else admired them or some
other foolish idea, the young American
woman Of today would be a very diff
ferent creature in the human gamut,
and no one would be more pleased with
the change than she herself. She may
not know this at 90 years, but at 40 the
Divine Word could not persuade her to
the contrary. And, again, is it not
more than possible that when the hus-
band Of the present learns enough to
continue to act something more like
the lover Of the past, the new woman
will evaporate even more quickly than
she has sprung into being?
THE MODERN KIND: p
Safely at rest within its foury bin,
= The rolling pin
Erstwhile the weapon dire Of many
Is laid away. '~ '-
Long, lean. and lank, the terrifying broom
In closet gloom Id.
Dreams of the time when It toh, labor
vainD
Raised dirt and Cain. q
Blowly the fiat-iron, coated gray with dust
Falleth to rust;
every object used in past dispute
Lies still and mute.
Softly the clock in this domestic bower
Chimes midnights hour;
Blithely he fits his key into the door
Not as of yore.
Did he thus unmolested come and 60.
His wife, you know,
Belongs to seventeen clubs-with more in
view,
Hail. Woman New!
q +@ New York Mercury.
If tho announcement Is accurate that
sleeves are to be bigger than ever the
coming season then 1t is necessary that
the arm of the law be invoked. There
Is precedent for this, for as early as
1853 the town of Dedham, Mass,
adopted the following: "And be 1t
further enacted THAT hereafter no per-
son Whatsoever shall make a garment
FOR women or any other sex with sleeves
more than half an ell wide in the widest
part and so proportionate for bigger or
smaller persons. And for the present
reformation nj n1p 10