The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-17
THE NEW WOMAN.
Her Right, Duty and Privilege to Be Neat
and Clean.


The other morning / was walking
along the street, when there hurriedly
turned the corner ahead Of me a young
woman OH her way to her daily task,
clerk, stenographer, telephone
girl, l know not, but one of these.
She was a good looking person. Her
eyes were bright, her cheeks rosy with
the glow of health. She had fur jacket
on, in the top Of the style, with full
sleeves and collar standing up to her
ears. And around the bottom OF her
skirts that young woman presented an
appearance which would have been
disgrace to IA respectable scrubwoman.
A strip of braid 4 inches long tagged
beneath her gown and swished her shoes
and gathered the dirt from the street at
every step. Her dress dragged the ground
all around, and it was frayed, drabbled,
filthy and ragged. At one side it dipped
down lower than elsewhere, and there
the rags were an inch long. Inever saw
an Italian woman ragpicker with dir
tier, raggeder skirts than that young
woman in fashionable hat and up to
date fur jacket, wore. Her shoes matched
the skirts. They were run over, shabby
and unclean. That glimpse of her skirt
and shoes as she crossed the street in
front OF me revealed the awful slovenli-
ness and real uncleanliness Of the girl
l knew she was a sloven, and always
would be. Ipity the man who gets taken
in by her fresh looking face and marries
her. The house she keeps will be as
comfortless as the open street, as I'M
clearly as city dumping ground. And,
while am dealing with this disagree
able topic, may as well speak my mind
aud say that an infallible test of the
purity and honesty of girls heart and
mind is the neatness Of her shoes, hose
and skirts. They need not necessarily be
new. They must necessarily be clean
and we'll mended. have seen girls fash
ionably dressed and apparently well
dressed wearing alleged white skirts
so soiled that / would not have dust
cloth so black and discOlored. Clean
illness and neatness of person and cloth
ing are absolutely necessary to re-
fined and honest mind. There is lack
Of conscience as well as of high breeding
in one whose outside garments are neat
and "slicked up" but whose undergar'
ments are soiled and ragged. In rough
work it is not always possible to have
the outer garments spotless. 1t is al
ways possible to have the skin clean ano
the undergarments fresh and in good or
der, and every real lady keeps hers so.
A newspaper writer who seems II
| know saws that the ladies of the Nc
Kinley administration do not belong tt
clubs or take any part i'll public work
but they are devoted solely to thei
homes and families. If that is so, thel
the Mckinley administration first ant
last will be socially the stupidest Of
record. The woman who cares for moth
ing outside Of her housekeeping and he
own family is as dull and uninterestin
as q sheep or hen. These creatures ar
devoted solely to their own families.
A lady at the congress of mothers sus
pested that there should he trainin
school for mothers. A training schot
for fathers would be good deal MOI
to the purpose.
When l see what good times and goo
chances women have in the four state
granting them full suffrage, sometime
doi4 see how can help moving inl
one of these states and becoming cit
zen and enjoying my full human right
Do not regret that you were born
half century before women enjoy the
full rights and are pecuniarily indepen'
ent and are strong, beautiful and fr'
physically. Be glad that you live no
and can help on with the good work
bringing about these grand results.
1 lately saw model of so GALE
"storm dress designed by man dres
maker. 1t was the most absurd thii
and the least suited to its purpose
. anything that even man ever piann
out for a woman. 1t was so long that
reached to the ground. 1t was full
: Yards wide, and, as if to illustrate
. fearful and wonderful possibilities III
real storm, the wind was shown to
blowing it all about her back and boz
,, like q balloon in hurricane. Fol-
genuine storm dress it would be t
most maddening thing woman cou
put herself into.
s Jan. 10 Mrs. Alice A. Minnick
Beatrice, Neb., and Miss Caroline
Pier of Milwaukee were admitted
practice law before the bar OF the {
preme court of the United States.
\ Several women in New York city {
$ having good success as real estate agen
: Bronn 81 Bronn is the firm name OF T.
bright, attractive sisters, Jeanette a
Cecille Bronn, who have opened an
flee of their own. Mrs. Roome, who
e in the employ of a firm of dealers
Y Staten Island, has sold $50, 600 worth
n lots in the past two years in spite OF
: dull times.
Y There are 200 women in the Chica
r ctenographers' union. l have Oft
T. thought how much women stenograph
l.1cA xLo,,eolxac hu forYnin,