The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-05-14

AND round her stu the SHOWS shall sweep :
TIN dawns the joyous hour foretold,
And fairy Spring with wand Of gold =
Exulting from the skies doth leap. a.
asn ss psiSSs 's s Of gay nS%nnee
The happy poet shall advance Z:
And WOO with his enraptured glance
The wonder Of her waking eyes.
Arthur Austin-Jackson In The Spectator.
-r~ Woman and Her Talk.
Conversation is one thing; talk is anoth-
or. Cultivated women in general. con-
verse better than cultivated men. WON.
en-, as sex, talk vastly more than any
kind Of men do or possibly can. There is
not question about that. Their organiza-
ton, their gregariousness, their disposition
to be always doinr something, insures
their garrulity. A man often finds it hard
to express himself; has really nothing to
say; prefers silence as rule. Not so the
ordinary woman. Whether she has any
thing to say or not makes no difference.
Having nothing on her mind, she has
ABUNDANCE on her tongue and the album
dance will never run off. The possession
Of ideas not infrequently interferes with
his speech, never with hers. The fewer
she has the more voluble she is. Unbur-
dened with a single idea, lOQuacity never
tires her, be its effect what it may on
others.
Many of the emptiest women are the
nOisiest. Indeed, their noise is commonly
proportional to their emptiness. Every
man has observed this so many times
that it has ceased to impress him. A
woman is seldom struck by wonian's
chatter unless it curtails her own. Ehen
it becomes a strife of tongues, the victory
being to the nimblest, to the least capa-
BILE OF fatigue. Has anyone ever heard of
tongued-tied woman? She is apt to
work very hard, often harder than man,
but limitless exercise of tongue must
give her rest. If so, who would wish to
restrain her interminable utterance?
The average woman's excessive oral: flu
ency is something that must be accepted.
1t is Il phenomenon of her sex, her inher-
itance and her privilege. To reduce it to
the normal requires training-much self
discipline. She talks, talks. talks. Hav-
ing nothing to say in the beginning, she
ends with saying nothing: Strictly
speaking, she does not end-she is never
ending. She is interrupted merely by
circumstances-she is forced to stop.
When one of her own sex and kind or of
the other sex visit her, she dilates on
vacuity for half an hour, for an hour,
for two hours. Her speech is but words,
words, words. The richness, the verbal
superiority, of the English language con-
tributes to her weakness. Not few of
our so-called orators have taught us that
man may make long speech without
conveying any definite meaning: The
average woman is, in her talk, still more
efficient in her ineficiency. But she
seems to be satisfactory to the mass Of
her auditors. She may adapt herself to
them. may gauge their understanding,
anticipate their taste Woman's intuition,
whatever her grade, ranks high.
Hardly any woman wall deny that she
talks a great deal, and that she is very
fond of talking. As to talking we'll or III,
she will say that this is matter of opin~
ion, and that she is, of course, ON her
own side, as she ought to be and as every
body is. She will probably maintain, if
she be nettled by criticism, that many
men are stupid, very stupid; that they can
not talk; that she has therefore to talk
for them: that they must be helped out in
for them TO make comments on her gen
erous efforts to assist them. There may
be more than a spice of truth in this.
Most men, she will contend, furnish on
~ a crude outline of anything, whether
important or unimportant. Their. state
ments and stories lack color, interest,
dramatic point. Above all, they are defec-
tive in details. She dotes, she declares,
on details, and her doting is evident, no
expansion of the smallest circumstance is
extraordinary. What might be said in
ten or fifteen words she will distend into
200 or 300 and reiterate her dilutions
again and again. What she has uttered
with ininitesimal REORGANIZATION in. the
drawing room she rehearses in the hall
way, in the vestibule, at the front door,
always following 44er caller or callers, un-
der the impression that it is impolite to let
her good afternoon or good evening"
Junius Henri Brown in Philadelphia
North American.
Mans Most vuls ar Hal It.
If men were compelled to wear skirts
for period / think they would insist
more than they now do that their fellow
men should stop the nasty habit of spit
ting in public. There is no practice of
man which is more distressing to women
than this disgusting habit. Women con-
stantly complain of it, especially in our
larger cities, where sometimes the side
walks are scarcely fit for them to walk
upon. They revolt at the practice, and
they are right in so doing. Yet year in
and year out the abit not only continues,
but increases, and the protection of clean
illness, to which every woman walking
upon our streets has perfect right, is
denied her. In New York city, the board
the grounds Of public health, and the po-
lice department is lending it's cooperation
in the enforcement of an ordinance d.
rected against the evil No action taken
in New York for years is SO highly to be
commended, and the ordinance should
quickly extend to other cities and be put
into force. 1t is an undertaking which
public opinion will sustain in W whatever
part of the country it is attempted. Ev-
cry community should be urged to try the
experiment. The time is ripe when
every decent man should take some steps
to see to it that the nastiest and most
vulgar of all American habits should be
entirely stopped. New York city has
started the reform. Let the boards of
health of a. few Of our other ia large cities
which appeals to every clean-minded man
and woman, will soon spread. 1t is a
work in every way calling for the atten-
ton and action of boards of health and
all bodies and citizens interested in the
health of communities. The splitting
ha bit is an absolute menace to the public
health. Smaller communities need
cent men Of the smallest community can
come together, awaken interest in the
matter and see that a prohibitivc ordi-
nance is passed. And if the men are
slow in seeing their duty it is to be de-
voutly hoped that the women will take
the question in hand and see to it that
this disgusting habit receives that nec-
essary public attention which it has
lacked in the past.-Edward w. Box in
Ladies' Home Journal.
Work and Social Position.
But what of my social position?" is
the cry of the woman who is obliged to
become self-supporting. She may ask it
frankly of some one who can furnish her
a more or less satisfactory answer, or
she may only ask it of herself in secret
in a wondering, pathetic way.
Social position is dear to all, but es-
pecially dear to the woman who was
born into a high one, who has expert
enced it's importance, and who has regu-
lated her life by it's inexorable laws.
The fear of losing this position deters
many women from attempting pecuniary
but women who have food
and raiment supplied them from relatives
not near and having other claims upon
their incomes long to be self-supporting.
Unless a woman has a marked talent