The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-12-27
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WOMAN'S WORLD.
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The new woman is getting entirely too
independent. She is carrying her indie
nendenca TO. an extreme which threatens
serious consequences comments the Kan
sas civ ..Times.,, 1t is all right for her
10 90 into politics and be elected to office
it is all right for her to be q, bank presi-
dent or preside over the meetings of the
Board of Directors of a railroad corpora
ZION. if is perfectly proper for her to go
on the road as a commercial traveller for
a cigar house., or as the advance agent
for a theatrical company; nobody is go
ing to object to her shoeing horses or pc
ing the captain Of a steamboat; there
isn't a single objection that can be urged
against her uniting with a ciup ana
studying culinary art and owning NOT
q voice will be raised i'll protest against
her preaching the gospel or going TO the
Klondike; there is only praise Tor ner
when she enters the legal profession or
hangs out a shingle with y M
scribed on it beneath her name 1t mas
come to be recognized as a matter OF fact
that all these fields Of activity are open
to her. and men have ceased to grumple
at being jostled in the busy walks OF
business and professional life by the
gentler, but none the less persistent, sex.
But when it comes to women buying
boxes at a horse show, paying for thelr
own flowers and entertaining their gem
tlemen friends without a cent OF expense
: on the part of the latter, as was done at
the New York horse show, it is time TO
call a halt and inquire, whittier are we
drifting?D 1t is all very nice for the
impecunious beaux who enjoy the hospi-
tality of these women, who have ideas
so progressive that they overstep the
bounds set by conventionality. 1t. doubt
less enables them to sit in a box when
otherwise they would have to mingle with
the throng in the grand stand. 1t posi-
bly, permits of the expenditure of a few
dollars more weekly upon. haberdashery
1t certainly does not add to their self
respect, neither does it tend to elevate
them in the eyes of other people, to say
nothing about the estimation in which
they are held by their hostesses,
There may be a shade of difference be-
tween a husband enjoying a life of elegant
leisure on the proceeds of his wife's labor
over a washtub and a chappie occupying a
box at a place of public entertainment at
the expense of a woman. with more money
than taste and more independence than
ra6psmant coma neo,,e n,i5ht ;ns;s+ that
+bara e s,,,nl,, ais+;nctior otbars aoain
nil aon+and +h.+ 49, - j.. aiearan.a ~
asm,,cb &c tho latter eniovs immunity
from arrest ~ fro charea Of vaerancv
while fhe former does not whether tbere
is a distinction without a difference, or
both or neither tho faot remains tbat
when the new woman "a rrias her ,3;s,a-
gard of established enstoms ~ tba axtant
of naving ALI tho hills she is ooine several
naees too far IN advance she il tbrou;ng
abo1t herself an atmosnbere If ;ndeti-
cacv into which No salf-rasnactine man
cares 70 nenetrate
So
nrofessionaI bo,,salxeenar mada bsr
annear.naa - u1ashssatoa A~aaS.as.
ago although the rise Of the nrofassiopaf
bo,,secleanar in New vork ana o+hor .jIj1s
has only racentlv heen bara,5ad rhis
nrafessian.1 bo,sa.lnnar - vuo~hinrtan
cama from Daxtan q - ,,;s,+ soma reIs
lives after tba aaotb - 10 h,rhana -
tbeir obios bo,,xebola artah,ishma.1 .sa
e,nnIe bad a1,ays li,ad ~ - +be -.
hand,s annie income and when ha#d;ad
he left noth;ng
The DAYTON woman arri,aa n x,rashi,a
ton at tha basinninp &c s,,bmar srgI So
noted the great nnmher If bonsse IN
washington that were closed nm for tha
summer or about to he closed nm She
was . horn bousataanar ana ~ -,
dered if she eotldn,t maize sametbing ~
getting the contracts f. rive soma ~ +ba
houses abont to he closed a;,n . tboro,srh
overhauline from caliar II sarrot boT,ra
the doors wera laoka5 ana tba ras;deoaae
fnrned over ~ +ba s,ner,,;s,on - 49,
night -watcbman Har spggostions ! ~
frst -rasids,oa, - nbiah ssessS,1s
Of ! famo,,s nafentea ~ thissa;4D -
cefved viz snnro,ra1 49, -
ana pot ner,nission ~ arsrha,l ~ aaea
Of nearly ! bInd~ad nranaisaa4 u.nsins
TON 70 mi1fes obo,,+ ~ 49, e
tba bot zraahar 80
Thor she 49,
ana = eo,n,a of oo1ore5 a@s1 nen
49, ' "sseiiosi
houses naroo.oa cLss.. = .A
ner - ~ nor,,
Of The boues ret,,rnad - ~
fa,,na 49, ra.iaonaas r
&c gold da,1ar $50 - e4e"i
TN nertaa - Dasenie-'-
for har warL and aisils lees
ev ~ = d,,rira har e. q 4ioa
CO. 49, 49, -, "oih.
now s,aaratsa a. aAu
o,aantnr .aa
OA many ~ tHc uiUSL wealthy