The record-union., 1897-02-28

fault of over-reaching herself. Some
day man will take the new woman
gently yet firmly by the hand and lead
her back to her proper place. AS soon
as she awakens to the fact that she has
important work to do here she will cast
aside all the artificiality in which she
has encased herself as in an armor, and
attend to her home and its duties;
when that day comes the millennium
will have been reached"
AS she finished she arose, took her
baby from the couch and left the room.
A woman like that is bound to be a
good mother: she isn't going to neglect
her husband and children for the sake
Of a silly fad. It's model wives and
mothers that the world is sorely in need
of to-day, not paragon of Amazonian
strength who aspires to bloomers. Ath-
letics are all very Well in their place,
but they should not be allowed to usurp
all the time and attention of the wife
and mother.
| Has it ever struck you how certain
| girls of your acquaintance acquire GER
| tain dainty little articles of wearing
apparel? You know that her
| people are not in posi-
| tion to buy these things for her and her
plausible explanation of having them
given her you can not quite believe; you
cannot help but wonder how it is that
this girls friends are so unusually gen
erous. People do not give away rare
old bits of lace and costly jewels as
rule, and one day the explanation comes
to you. Mrs. Bloodgood comes to see
you and tells you of the loss of a certain
valuable bit of jewelry given her by her
husband not long ago. Of course the
first thought that comes to her upon dis
covering her loss is that one of her ser
wants has stolen it, never stopping to
consider that servants can have no pos
sible use for such an article. When
servant steals it is usually thing they
can convert into ready money without
the fear of arousing suspicion by its
value. While she is still bewailing her
loss in comes Miss Highly, but upon
seeing Mrs. BloodgOod she at once be-
comes nervous and distrait and soon
takes her departure. Some time after
this she again calls and upon being in
vted to take a cup of tea removes her
gloves and upon one of her fingers gilt
ters a ring of such startling similarity
to the one missed by Mrs. Bloodgood
| that you cannot help uttering an excla-
nation of surprise, thereupon the girl
with an easy little laugh shows it to you
and tells you it was given her for
Christmas present by the man she is en-
gagged to. What can you do but pretend
to believe her even while you know that
the man to whom she is engaged is only
a struggling clerk with nothing to de-
pend on but his salary? Another thing,
you have never seen the ring missed by
Mrs. Bloodgood. Its a hard thing ~
blast a young girls reputation therefore
you keep silent, yet you can't for the
life of you help wondering what partic-
ular thing is missing whenever you hear
of her being invited out.
A certain well-known society woman
in this city had upon her dressing case
a set of solid silver toilet articles en-
graved with her monogram. She gave
a swell dinner party one night and when
her guests We're gone she made the dis
covery that one of the pieces was miss
ing; she knew that none of her servants
had stolen it and had the unpleasant
fact thrust upon her later that one of
her guests who had sat at her table and
accepted of her hospitality was the
thief. The next time she gave an en-
tertainment she took the precaution of
claiming to the dressing case with tiny
silver chains each article upon it, more
over she stationed her own maid near
at hand with strict orders to watch
carefully every woman who left the
room; needless to say nothing was taken
that night.
There are some women who do not
think it crime to steal little things
they think will not be missed; their
ideas of honesty, IL they ever had any,
have been perverted in their youth.
| They have been brought up with the
| idea that it isn't the disgrace of steal
| ing as it is the disgrace of being caught.
| Their one idea is to get away with their
plunder undetected, yet, no matter how
sharp and cunning they may be the
woman who steals is bound to get
| caught sooner or later and the delight
they felt in their stolen treasure is but
short lived after ALL BESELENA.