The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-02-29
Topics of Interest to All Members OF
the Gentle Sex.
HEALTH AND HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Carefully Selected Recipes. suggestions
MS to the Care of the Home and
Other Matters Entering Into
woman's Widening sphere.
THE IDOL MODS:

In1t tlaffll MN. W nat ) the Ouus
If he should ever get a hint
That lovely treSses change their tint?
All me, the idol mods.
Again. thc merry maiden's feet
Look very small. divinely sweet,
In glossy heather shod.
What praise he'll lavish goodness knows;
But ii he saw her tortured toes
The idol then would nod.
For him her face is wreathed in smiles
Alisosynists would call thrm wilcS-
There's JOY whore she has troi;
But then, one day, he sees her frown.
His airy castles tumble down,
Why does the idol nod"
An, we'll for him who comes to think
That life has drab as well as pink,
That man is not god;
And happiness he'll only find
As soon as he makes ny his mind
That idols always nod,
In the February number of the North
American Review Mrs. Amelia f.. Barr
writes on "DisContentcd Women and
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore puts the ques-
tiun: Does the Ideal Husband Exist -
Mrs. Barr is a writer of successful
novels. that. although not distinctly
works of genius, are stiil worthy of
their success: and Mrs. Livermore is
probably the best public speaker among
the advanced women of the country.
Their themes though bearing widely
different titles are nevertheless closely
akin. Mrs. Barr is II conservative, and
she begins with the statement that dis
content is six thousand years old and
that it is eternal. since lit is in the
race" But she adds that it Is in IL
Special way Il characteristic of women;
and she easily establishes the fact To
her own satisfaction by saying that
the feminine spirit of dScOntent was So
strong in Eve that she could not he
satisfied in Eden and lost Paradise
through her restless impaticnce. There
was IL time, observes the i'uifalO En-
quirer, when IL citation of the story OF
Ewes temptation was conclusive in Il
controversy over feminine pcrNerSity,
hut 1t has gone by. You can nui prove
anything against the new woman by
q slur ON the inuuisitive lady in the
primitive garden. To say that diScon-
tent belongs To humanity is philoSophic.
because ii is clearly the SOurc" of the
progress of the race: to say that 1t be-
longs to women rather than men Is
II statement 50 far against common oh
servatiun that it requires proof; and
Mrs. Barr offers none. Sh" merely
points out certain classes Of diScOntcnt-
ed women, which is an easy device.
one class is composed of women dis
hears 81 .,raot da,I nn mis- tonne. and mo-
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shiftI.ss I, keen hn,.s. and wumrn
who, having Il faCult! for other things.
are too busy to give themselves over to
the details of housekeeping; but we
venture to say uIerr Is nothing that an
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