The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1898-11-04
Love Making in Puhlfc.

Very much in the way of sad complaint
has been written on the unluving ways Of
married couples, says the Philistine.
And now I wish to vary the monotony
with small protest against too much
loving on the part of the married-jin pub
quirer.
Love between man ami woman being
the one strictly personal thing in the
universe, It seems meet that its gentle
manifestations should not be accompanied
by a brass band. Unmarried couples, /
will admit, are often put to severe straits,
and there may be good excuse for two git
one. In view of the fact that Reuben
and Mollie have, to love in public or not
at all, when I And them nesting in the
park or by the grassy roadside, or ON the
sofa in the dimly. -lighted parlor, I inward
" say: God bless you," look the other
way and earnestly study the STATS.
BIT what must we say OF MIR: and Mrs.
tops? We know they are married, and
this is seeming proof that they prefer
the society of each other to all the world,
so It seems superfluous for Mr.. Smith to
softly pull his wife's ears and say ketchy,
ketchy, ketchy, on the yeranda when com
pany has been invited. But really, do
m mot n the M dye efss the In dne %o
at the dinner table: my ownest-own, is
90 feelin' bad all over? Poor little oofty~
gooftyw They have little jokes between
themselves, shy whisperings and =""you
knows" that mystffy and put at unrest all
the onlOokers In Venice. =
cannot fully agree with a cynical
friend who declares that married couples
vate. My opinion is that there being
conjhga1 insists on every hand, this couple
is simply bound to advertise to the world
that their experience is a success, and not
being quite sure of it, they mutually agree
to work the amatory wig-wag viii le. the
world looks on.
"CoMscious weakness takes strong atti-
that if loved a woman very much, and
between us there was an absolute under
standing, it would not be necessary-to re-
assure each other at the opera.
Business Women Do Not Eat Enough.
An eminent physician in one of our
large cities has been making inquiries as
to the diet of business women, and COM
pairing it with that of men in similar
positions. He makes some valuable ;sug-
gcstions as the result of his investiga-
ton, and gives utterance to suulc <triti-
cisms on the habits and management of
the women themselves. f.
"1'he fact u.s." he says, ''three-quarters
of the women who board themselves are
about half starving themselves. Not:that
they deliberately and with malice afore-
thought neglect lnealtime or refuse to
eat IL fair amount of food, but they will
not take the trouble to cook dishes suit
able for them. l found Mt least a dozen
women out of the thirty employed in one
large house who frankly admitted that
they never cooked a hearty meal For their
own eating. They claimed that they felt
quite we'll on a diet Of bread and butter
and coffee or tea, with an occasional piece
Of cake or pie. Fruit in the season is
it is too costly for women of moderate
meane or those who earn but small sal
aries" IL - 49, L; a. n : = ''-'
1t seems an impossible problem to han
die. but in some way there must he an
arrangement by which women can club
themselves together and, by uniting
forces, live admirably and under much
more healthful conditions than those
which at present exist. E; ~. g g. !