The San Francisco call., 1896-07-26

NV lady spends days and dollars for the
whitening of her skin, the polishing of
her nails and the fitting of her frock. In
triumph she exhibits the result in the
sight of him she desires to charm, and oft
and often sees him led captive by a
maiden with freckles and a snub
nose. The intelligence In her eye
and the pleasant charm of her voice
have made my lord blind to freckles or
features, Or my lady sees him appar-
emily lost to the world in deep discussion
with a woman who, as far as the dictates
of fashion are concerned, is hopelessly old
fashioned. Faulty as her outside garb
may be, there are inner adornments that
balance things to my lord. She knows
something and she knows how to tell it.
When l read-as a penance-long pages
in magazine or newspaper about the toilet !;
how, by half day of hard manual labor,
we may make ourselves physically lovely
for the other half as long as we neither go
into the sunshine or face wind; how the
hair may be tortured so that wisp may
DO duty for a mass; how to take sun
baths, moon baths, milk baths and baths
without end; how to live in a constant
stew in a laboratory of drugs and instru-
ments of torture, do not wonder society
women look worked to death all the time.
And then-these two words are fearful
test-beside the most lovely manu-
factured beauty, the result of ten years
of hard labor, stands girl who has had
to work for her living, and has only leisure
enough to be clean in person, neat in
dress and progressive in ideas, whose eyes
shine clear and bright from busy brain,
whose plain serge dress is strictly for use
Which is sweeter, more wholesome
more satisfying2
1t is like putting side by side lovely
satin rose from the millIner's and sweet
wild rose from the woods, and seeing which
the bees will seek.
1t is getting to be the fashion to dres:
the inside as well as the outside, for the
same poor little reason it used to be proper
to be pretty and imbeclle-men like it
The stuff we hear about men preferrins
silly women is only stuff.
Silly prettiness bores them dreadfully.
Men of culture and wealth in increasing
ratio are taking unto themselves wives
who are workers and thinkers, and more
and more society girls are realizing tha
they must work themselves up to the
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behind. As they need not work for bread
they work for play, or 'go in" for some
thing.
do not envy the woman who has neyel
had to do a days work. l pity her sin
cerely. She has missed the best of life
What excuse can one have for living with
out work? She has lost all the independ
ence, the self-reliance, the feeling of being
worth the space she occupies in the world
that comes from eating the bread earned
by ones own hands or head. This doe:
not include the woman who has "only'
kept house and raised family of children
She has earned more than she has re
ceived.
suppose there are men who have neve
worked, but 1 always forget to mention
them, as well as to think of them
The word man seems TO imply
one who does something. There arr
men, and then there are those other thing.
that have exquisite bachelor apartments
give pink teas, and have their pretty pinl
nails manicured. They do not mix.