The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-27

Women are patrOnizing creatures, to be
sure" says writer in the Baltimore News.
al know whereof 1 speak, Tor my labors
bring me in constant contact with my sis
tiers. I'm not of ignoble birth, as you
know; my education has not been entirely
neglected. my manners are fair and 1 1ress
neatly. Yet 1 never make business call
upon woman who has gained prominence
in any way that don't lose every particle
of self-respect / possess.
81 feel 1t oozlng out at my finger tips
while I wait in the ante-chamber for the
great one. 1 send up my card first, Of
course. with an expIana ton OF my errand,
so that no suspicion that l am anarchist
with a bomb concealed about my person
may disturb the serenity of her ladyship.
''Then 1 wait an uncomfortable time
while she writes an essay on some abstract
subject or curls her hair. After while
the servant comes back and says one OF
three things-either that his mistress is
busy and cannot see me, or that if 1 will
write what l want on my card she Will
write an answer. or that she win see Ine
in half an hour when she has nothing else
to do.
''In the latter case. by the time / am
ushered into the boudoir of her exalted
highness / am in a condition of abject hui
mility. Uriah Heep was never one-half
so tumble. I don't take offense at the
brusque manner in which L am greeted. at
the fact that my patroness-for such
feel her to be-keeps her eyes fixed on the
wall opposite about an inch above my head
nor that she forgets TO offer me chair
/ feel that / deserve all this and worse
things for obtruding my miserable person
atty upon such a noble presence.
when / inally emerge it takes a half
hour of the air and the sunshine to bring
back the just-as-good-as-y feeling
that is the birthright of every true Ameri-
can.
But there's another woman who is even
more appalling. 1t is she who patronizes
one openly and explains her conduct by
saying that her parents trained her to be
courteous to the 'laboring classes / meet
her quite frequently, and / invariably feel
like replying as a well-known California
newspaper woman did once under like cir
cumstances.
=" Il always give any news / can to you
working girls, said the great lady.
Thank you. responded the reporter
cordially, and now IL you'll tell me where
your husbands coal yard is L think I'll
reciprOcate by ordering my fuel from him.
And the great lady wasn't bit pleased.
II saw story in one of the New York
papers the other day that shows the pat
rOnlzlnS woman Is not a product or any
one city or condition. It's a very good
story and here IL is:
"A young woman who has won marked
success as an illustrator of children's
stories paid a call last week upon the
woman editor of a certain periodical. The
proprietor OF the periodical had already
offered the young artist every inducement
10 contribute TO any Of his publications as
much as she would consent to do. choosing
her own subjects and her own terms. The
editors of the other periodicals published
by the house and other editors of periodi-
Gals published by other houses had made
her most fiattering cvertures. She and her
work had just been exploited in a leading
critical review as one of the notable art
Developments of the end of the century In
face of all this the work the young woman
proposed to do for the woman editors
periodical was pretty small beer The
woman editor began by keeping the artist
waiting an unconscionable time. Word was
finally brought that she might enter the
august presence Well, Miss Blank said
the editor with swing of her swivel chair
and all the authority of a country school
teacher, and what can L do for your
Isn't that good?"
The art schools of New York and the life
of the students in them is handled In the
January Woman's Home Companion in an
article entitled THE Girls Art Schools of
New York" The author writes of how the
students live follows:
There is no absurd dressing among the
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