The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-10-26
Facts of Interest
To Wora1en Readers.
Symposium Of Information, Partly Grave.
Partly Cosby and Partly Gay.
THE WIVES AT HOME:

, THE WIVES AT HOME:
Not alone in life's low stations.
Soothing poverty's red smarts-
mot alone In heathen missions
Are the women OF brave hearts!
But at home in endless toiling,
And immured In life's humdrum.
There are sacrifices noble
BY the little wives at home!
Toillng patiently with weakness
Hushihg .children's plaintive cries,
They are blazing out the pathway
From the earth to Paradise!
And while others laud the votries
That in foreign countries roam
] will save my sweetest praises
For tho little wives at !1, home!
It Is possible that there Is good deal
Of shrewd philosophy In The Amerl-
cans semi-humorous observation:
Singing Is highly recommended as q
nerve tondc, and justly. 1t Is noticeable
that birds are silent when they are sad,
and unless they can be coaxed to sing
they pine away. Human will and rea-
son can rise superior to inclination. and
force from the very talons of distress
that with which to conquer 1t. When
the world looks bleak, and affairs go
wrong, sing The Star-Spangled Ban
ner' at the full compass Of your voice.
II YOU sing 1t every morning the neigh
bors will become used to 1t. Plaintive
songs are not to be encouraged unless
one has surplus vitality to get rid OF,
but no matter how much or how little
voice you have, let 1t out dn a ballad or
choral now and then, or join the church
choral society ito Improve your spirits
both by the vocal exercise and the So
cial intercourse with healthy and ac-
tive persons. All social gatherings
where early hours are kept are benefi-
cial. II, as q great psychologist de-
clares, happiness Is health we need to
go where enjoyment is and catch some
OF 1t when we feel like immuring our
selves In solitude and nursing our mis-
ery."
HER GREAT ACCOMPLISHMENT:
She has mastered Greek and Latin.
She has read her Huxley through;
She can sit in silk and satin
And discourse on Trilby, too;
She can argue evolution,
She can bake a luscious tart:
She Is up In elocution,
And a connoisseur in art.
She's the fountain-head Of knowledge,
And at tennis she can play:
She came riding home from college
On bike the other day;
But I've heard Of something better
Since with her plighted troth;
She can draw upon her papa
For enough to keep US both!
Mrs. Edward Fridenberg, president Of
the Wednesday club Of Harlem, an or
ganization Of forty women who desire
to educate themselves upon current Is
sues, tells the Sun: ut Is a great pity
that the newspapers are exaggerating
the women of today as they are. The
old lines. She is the outgrowth Of all
that was best in her grandmothers and
great-grandmothers. She has larger
and wider and more liberal views than
her more conservative predecessors, and
she Is prepared to forego a great many
prejudAces that 1ampered the woman
of the past. The mothers of sons and
the wives Of husbands have walked up
to the fact that their career in life Is
a complicated one. and SO Is that Of
the vast army Of single women who are
entering the trades and professions.
Mothers Of today realize that they
must not only know what their chill
dren are studying, but must be able
to help them; wives see that they must
keep up with everything that is going
on; that they must be versatile in argu-
ment and conversant with the Ques-
tions of today, and one sure sign Of
woman's progress Is that she has
learned that other women can have
views different from hers, and yet be
right. I am glad to see women enter
ing the trades and professions. and
sincerely believe that they will raise
their status until the woman who does
the same work and does 1t as we'll as a
man will receive the same pay. think
the reason they do not receive the same
pay now IL that they have neglected
their opportunities, and consequently
are not fitted to do their work so we'll.
! am q woman suffragist, although
am not identified with any suffrage So
cfety. Individually I believe that wo-
men will not receive the same oppor-
tuntties and pay that men do until they
get the franchise. and they will never
get that until they want 1t. When all
women want the right to vote and ask
for 1t, you may be sure they will get 1t.
The reasons urged against woman suf-
frage are puerile-worse than puerile,"
added this leader Of women, with a
stamp Of her foot and a flash of her
eyes. = women can never be mems
equals until they have the same rights.
When they do demand and get the same
rights they will look ON life more se-
riously. and will attain a degree Of
perfection which they cannot possibly
unless they are fitted to meet life In
the same way"
~ II II H e
WHEN POLLY SMILES:
When Polly smiles the grayest skies
Take on q heavenly blue; ~,
And o, the light In Polly's eyes
How bright 1t Is! How true!
And from his perch, on her sedate 20
Young shoulders. you can see
Love shoots mis- arrows swift and straight
When Polly smiles at me.
But o, my soul! when Polly frowns,
How black and fierce the skies!
And. oftentimes, a raindrop browns
The light in Pollys eyes. (.
But when kiss her all the rain
And; storm clouds quickly fee
And happy skies are blue again,
Tor-Polly smiles at me!
Anna Toxier, in Truth.
u i II
"These women, who affect mannish
clothes and mannish ways, who walk
with a swagger, and smoke cigarettes,
these women that the newspaper are 30
fond Of talking about" added Mrs.
Fridenberg, "are not representative Of
woman's progress They may make
q scratch as they pass through the
world, but they won't make any mark
that will influence the generations to
come. The serious woman Of today who
Is leading womankind has q wide hori-
zon. She perceives the needs of her
SEX ana c0mprehendS the relative Inn