Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-10-06
WOMAN 5 FUTURE.
Hopeful Bah Wants Her Sex to Re-
Turn to the Purely Feminine
FEMALE FOOLS ON BICYCLES.

RLOOMERS, SHIRT FRONTS AND
SLANG AMONG WOMEN-UP-TO
DATE MISS PERT-IS MANS
BRAIN LARGER AND STRONGER
THAN WoMANS? = BRAVERY
AMONG WOMEN-0UR GOVERN
MENT'S RELATION TO THE AR
MY-ENERGETIC WOMEN VISIT
OPS IN NEW YORK AT THIS SEA-
SON-BAB UNEARTHS THE RO-
NANCE AND TRAGEDY OF AN
OLD FRENCH CHURCHYARD-
CAN WE ENJOY LIFE WITHOUT
SUFFERING ?
From Our Regular Correspondent
NEW YORK, October 2, 1895.
Too much bicycle, too many bloom
ers and little too much of the almost
masculine is going TO result, and we
ought to be thankful for it, in a return
to the purely feminine. The stiff shirt
mas grown limper and Emper, until only
lis collars and cuffs have any backbone;
the cloth gown has had frill put here
and a trimming there and the result
Will be that lace frills, soft, pretty
frocks and dainty looking gowns will
take the place of the h.deOus fr0ck thar
lately has been known as tailor made.
Women are beginning to think that il
isn't SO desirable to be put up In all the
slang of the day, to perfectly under
stand the last divorce case and TO be
able to talk about the latest scandal,
and they are commencing 10 understand
b., 1.fr,fr1 q
they chance ceasing TO be at all. Who
wants to have anything TO do with wO-
man who can stop a street car with
whistle? Fancy weeping out the great
est sorrow of your life on q tailor made
girl? Fancy asking for some advice,
advice about an important question, Of
a. girl whose tie is just like yours, whose
shirt collar is as masculine as IS posi-
BILE. and who assumes pair of boomers
when she rides her metal horse. Awful?
I think they are worse than awful. I
think they are-there is only one word
to express it-damnable.
THE WOMAN ON A WHEEL.
A woman looks like anything but a
woman on a bicycle, and l don't believe
that going out on a bicycle IS going to
make them a bit more healthy than if
they walked, nor IS it going to make
them a bit more womanly, nor a bit
more lovable. Up jumps Miss Pert and
asks me if I want women 10 be fools.
No, I don't; but l think good many OF
the fools are on the bicycles.
"Ah," says Miss Pert, you regard
women as inferior to men?' Well,
YES. in some respects. But there are
women who are so lar superior 10 men
that masculine eyes can never reach
I'D to them. Then there are women who
are decidedly inferior. And then there
are other women who are delightful,
and desirable and companionable.
WOMEN WHO ARE ON THE LEVEL.
| believe in women cultiYating their
brains: why shouldn't they? But l
think that, no matter how much the
brain cultivation may go on, II must
always be confessed by the people who
are willing to tell the truth that the |
average mans brain is One-third larger, |
and. believe, one-third stronger, than
the average woman's. But women are
nice-some women. And, on, cant
they endure pain and privation and en-
courage some man for whom they care!
A BRAVE GIRL IN THE FAR WEST
Think of a girl, very fashionable
girl at that. who had a fine wedding
with satinand orange blossoms, ana dla-
monds and pearls, and all the wonder
full things that usually appear at we'd
dings when people have plenty of mon
ey, think of this girl going with her
husband way out to the far, far West
and living. not in a comfortable little
cottage. but in a hut. She and an Irish
were the only women there,
and when the men were ordered out,
she stood in front of that hut and
waved the flag until the last soldier was
out of sight, and then she cried. And
after an awful battle her husband was
brought home to her frozen. | don't
mean frost bitten but / mean with his
fingers frozen so stiff that one had to
be cut off, and for days and days she
nursed him until one day she could
nurse no longer, and he was just able to
sit I'D in bed with a blanket pinned
around him. and smile down at the
brave girl at his side as she lay there
with her baby in her arms. A superb
layette was. flying around the country,
but it didn't get there until six months
afterwards, and that little baby's
clothes were made of it's mothers.
There's a brave woman for you! And
to-day? Well, to-day the hard times
have gone by, and she is as bright and
happy and loving as only a gentlewo-
man can be, and the beautiful diamond
bands on her hands, those tiny little
hands that did such good service, each
tell of the time when she smiled the
regiment off and bravely waited for
them to come back. And the one that
glitters the brightest glows because of
at Piney Ridge. You see it isn't the
women who are anxious to be differ
emit from all the other women who can
endure, as only women and angels can,
and it is not the new woman, but it Is
that woman who has lived through the
centuries, always initiating those who
were last at the cross and earliest at the
grave.
WHAT A MISERABLE, MEAN GOV
EMINENT
we have got. The army is, to degree
our aristocracy. We want the men
who go from West Point to be a credit
to us, and to be spoken Of wherever
they may be, as American gentlemen.
And what do we do? (When l say
I'VE" I mean the government hX-
pect them to live well, entertain Well
dress well, and for this they are given
well, not the amount Of money that
good mechanic would earn. IL Is dis-
grace. And 1 will tell you something
else that is a disgrace, too. And that
is the average army story. In IT, nine