The age-herald., 1897-12-12

There is no doubt about 1t that we who are representative are having an unhappy time of it. It Is possible that when we enjoy we enjoy as no others do, but when we suffer, what it does mean! From toothache to the loss Of one's best friend. from disappoint- .ment in a frock to coming down to bread and butter without jam. there is such intense woe that all the pleasure in the world, or at least in this world of worry, cannot compensate for our sorrows. We who have seen New York at it's worst, with one side of the street dug up to let the gas pipes go in, the other side dug up to let water pipes go in and the middle dug up for the bene- fit of the car tracks, have endured smells-you cannot call them odors- that are past description and have come to the conclusion that the Amer ican public is the most long suffering and the most absolutely idiotic of any in the world. No other nation would endure what we do.
 As a nation we may have rights; as ties. Good, clean street cars are start ed for the benefit of the public. The in- dividua1 pays his nickel and has to stand. If he were an Englishman, he would write letter to The Times, all other sufferers would join in signing a nd rN xVot1l6 be forced after the seats were all oc- cupied to put out a sign announcing that it was complete" and if any one entered after that it would be because he preferred to stand and against the rules and wishes of the corporation. h. dependent! As individuals we are the most servile in the world!
 We are so afraid of what somebody will say, and we are so ready to start on a pilgrimage of improvement and so willing to stop midway We have good intentions of which we repent, and naturally these go to make an uncom- fortabIe roadway for somebody here after. It does not make the least differ ence whether you wear Q No. 10 or No. 1 shoe in these days of wretched
  tirely covered with mud that 1t looks as if country roads had been gone through rather than what might be called and should properly be the by ways of civilization.
 With the various effects in the way of chills, levers, nervous exhaustion and the queer stomach troubles and horrible colds that have come from stagnant II one type of woman is abroad. She is not altogether pleasant. She is crude. Crudeness in a woman is offensive. She must be like the orchid, the product of civilization. But the woman who is to the front now and who is doing much talking is the sanitary woman. No place is sacred to her, for she rushes in where even the most daring angels would not venture, and no human be- ing is free from her fads. She tests the way we breathe, the clothes we wear, the friends we have and scorns tradi- tion as she does dust.
 I hate the sanitary woman. Tam per, fectly willing to live on asIdid my grandmothers, With no knowledge what ever of sanitary blessings. In fact, sometimes wonder if they are blessings. The sanitary woman is most unpleas- ant person to visit you. On her arrival she carefully inspects the plumbing and has to have some special treatment of her own given to the bath nearest her. She criticises the food and counts it as worthless unless it belongs to the spe- cial health variety which she upholds She tries to convince you that you are not properly clothed and that she is, while the fact that she looks guy and you do not only adds to her indigna- tion. Nine times out of ten, unless she is very well bred and simply slightly in- sane, she manages to call you frivo- lous female
 Of course every woman is a female, but no woman likes to be called that It is putting her on Q par with the anil mals in the menagerie. Still it is a curious thing that in this world men unless they are cranks and then they are not men-like frivolous females. have an idea that Eve frivoled. I am sure that Lillith did, and I would be willing to bet my last gold dollar (now worth $1.65) that all the women of an- cient history who were in the least de- gree charming were frivolous. One does not want the air dissected and the wa Ter analysed With ones dinner. One does not want the charms of graham bread and the, delicacy of baked ap- pie and the intoxicating qualities of oatmeal the theme at breakfast, nor does one wish the value of flannel worn next to the skin and no corsets the subject for lunch.
 Imagine. if you can the sanitary wo- man in love- Imagine the discussion of what one ate and drank and wore es being part of a love affair." Fancy talking about new health food be- tween 2 kiss. Oh, it is past belief! It is absolutely fair to conclude that the sanitary woman has DO rnascn for ex- is.ence and that in time she will drop into that de.uetcde which is her proper piece Sslah!
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