The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-06-24

All the world beside I've sighted
For home, sweet home.
CHATS WITH GIRLs-THIs, THAT AND THE
OTHER.
MY DEAR Girls old Sol is be-
ginning to assert his supremacy over
all the other planets, and June, lovely
June, is now upon us in all her beauty
her roses, her woodbine, her straw
berries, and we miss them all too
soon, for they, too, go with June
Since / talked with you. Miss. Jane
Adams, of Hull House, Chicago, has
been taking out some slices of her
always busy life for others good, and
giving us the benefit of them. She
is most thorough woman in every
sense of the word, and mighty
helpful one, too. She brought out
the old idea of how the daughter of
the family used to be brought up to
feel that her place was at home, and
her duties to her kinspeople; but the
more democratic notion of life and
larger conception of duty induce the
modern woman (be she mother or
daughter), to a recognition of what
we may call the social claim, to per-
form other duties in addition to those
of her family life.
Every woman does not go out to
help in some public activity because
she is restless or ambitious. 1t is the
desire to do good to others that ac-
tuates the breasts of the majority
you can take my word for that.
Look at the work of say-even one
of the women's clubs-the health pro-
tective department. The members
of that are untiring-all done without
a thought of pay, remuneration or
compensation, except the attainment
of the object and results for which
they work the abclishment of the
evils they fight against. A great
deal of good has been accomplished
against expectoration in public places,
street cars, &C., and an ordinance has
been passed making it a fnable and
indictable offence, as it most certainly
is against decency and health.
Physicians, who are large-minded,
but not too large-headed, are CRATE
full to these busy women, the protec-
tors of the health of other households
as we'll as their own. Wonderful
strides for good have been since the
short walking skirt was adopted. 1t
is now almost general-rarely is the
trailing one seen, and we hope it will
stay where it rightfully belongs, at
home. The crusade against the fash
ionable scavenger, which cal! the
trailing skirt, was eminently success
full. The wearers at last began to
see the dangers they lent themselves
to-positively walking into them and
dragging them into their households,
polluting the atmosphere from attic
to cellar. That skirt Git rhymes to
dirt) helps to pour shekels into the
doctors money bags, while he makes
out his prescription on his dainty
little white paper, so pure looking
now, but perhaps evolved from vat
of ancient soiled old rags.
Why, the horrible and malodorous
garbage can, so unpleasantly sugges-
tive to gaze upon, and which plays
"hob" with your olfactories, does
not carry one-half the danger of dis
ease with it that one very stylish,
trailing skirt does, worn by one of
our girls who prides herself, no doubt,
on her neatness and cleanliness, which,
she knows, ranks next to godliness.
A bacteriologist told me that he and
his fellows just "dote on' examina-
tions of such on account of the end
less varieties of specimens. What do
you think one found lately on dress
skirt almost new? And it had been
brushed out daily, too. He found a
whole geological collection-a small
menagerie-2oo, 900 germs, bearing
diphtheria, tonsilitis, pneumonia, also
microbes numberless, bearing typhoid
and consumptive tuberculosis. This
is no fairy story, girls, it is disgust
ing and dangerous fact. Now, just
think of this when you have your
new gown made, and don't have it to
"just touch" but to ''just escape"
the ground. Don't help the street
cleaner in his work, and for which
you get no part of the contractors
money. Now that would be fulfilling
an unsel6sh social duty, wouldn't it !
There is nothing in all the world,
girls, just like the American girl
Every now and then man scribbles
a bit, biographer, historian self-con-
stituted, or whatever he may be call
ed, comes from the "other side" for
hop, skip and a jump tour through
America and returns after rrbbing up
against "hoodlums" one day and
"sassiety" the next, during his very
long Cd residence in "The States" of
four or FIVE weeks, to write up the
manners, customs, makeup and total
summing-up of the genus homo and
femme Of this greatest nation on the
face of the earth. No matter what
else they say, true or untrue, they
generally confess themselves baffied
by that extraordinary outcome OF
Western civilization, the American
| girl; but often to revenge themselves,
by the notation of innumerable in
stances os her peculiarities and lido
syncrasies. On the whole, though
,, she puzzles them, they are greatly
delighted with her, especially if her
father is a multi-millionaire, and she
is in the matrimonial market.
The Audubon societies are still
growing, and certainly towards a
noble teaching. The wanton de-
struction of birds. to be used for dec