The evening times., 1900-02-09
Feminine Disadvantages
Tr0n tIa Now York ~uul


GO education i never really Co-educJtiou al
all. The girl who spoke sighed and looked on.
OF the window at a dozen men playing ball Then
she began once more filling up the hole IN he's
stocking, punctuating her remarks with vicious
lit;le dSbs at her dsrning egg
1T begins when tots. tine din
enCc. she continued Jim and I twins. yoi
know" Her roommate nodded. And ny family
believed in our having the same advantages, 81
Theoretically were brought Up on the CO.
educational plan. What happened Really.
don remember much about the fr>. stages Bu,
l remember well enough the day when ! want
ed to 20 out hitChing with Jim Mother foUnC
that half the buttons were of my shoes. and 81,
made sit down and them on. By tn,
time | through il dark and I couldn't
go When Jim's buttons came of she put then
on for him. That is Just about far OuI
equality with men j. effective.
Now we've come to college toGrther how Is
it? I darn my stockings and JimS. too.
while he is out PLAYING ball and taking m 4
glorious amount OF oxygen to spend on hi5 t'feei
lesson tonight It's Just as II used To be u
the cook was taken sick. il was. Daughter. must
have you help me with the dishes this morning.
and the parIOrs need Gusting. and the beds have
to be made. You'd better put off your studying
until this afternoon Jim in the mean time finish
ed his and went of 10 skate in the afternoon,
while | plodded away alone.
eve are born into the bondage OF little things
Tie girl spread out her fingers in the stocking
and looked at the hole critically. No she said
catching the look Of surprise in her romantic
face. This isn't a sudden thing. l haven't
said anything about it before, but have Kept up
an eternal thinking. Jim's the dearest boy in
the world 1t isn't that It's Just that we are
different | have to meet a dozen small demands
to his one He himself comes and me.
and says See here. sis; you write home tor me
this week. I've got TO go to football practice. OF
baseball practice. a fraternity meeting. or some
other thing that seems TO him valid aud ample
excuse for the moment. Why. see how il is in
such everyday matters picking up rooms.
Jim throw his necktieS all the room,
his towel under the bed, his blankets over the
window SILL and his collar into the wash pitcher.
He shuts the door on this chaos. When he comes
back. he finds his necktie magically returned
to his drawer. his towel neatly folded in the rack.
his bed tidily made, and in all probability. his
collar in his bureau carefully washed and ironed,
Wit! collar button in il, too.
'If / attempt to leave even my bed unmade.
what happens? II stays that way. We pay the
same price for board. That is one of our eguali-
ties. But am a girl, and girls are supposed to
care for their rooms, and be neat and eieanly
and feminine
NO. said the coed patiently after listening
to a protest from her roommate. 'No, am not
making a plea for masculine women l hate
'em" She broke her cotton in the vigor Of her
feeling 81 am Just saying different from
men. You needn't remind me that stood higher
than jim in spite of all the Obstacles It's the
obstacles that mean pain and discomfort. What :
the use of it? Jim with his lower grade is happier
than I am When he begins his fight with the
world it won't make bic of difference ghether
he stood few units up or down. He's getting
muscle for that fight now"