The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1907-11-16

are some 32,641,781 American women of the class
he desgnaes, and with scientific punctlio tells u.s.
In the United States there exist Amercanized
strata of population derived from the early rnmi-
grants, English, Dutch French Spanish German
Danish, and Scandinavian. The newest additions of
whom the majority Russians, Poles Austrians
and Italians cannot be reckoned as American wo-
The influence of America has not entered into
the flesh and blood of SUCH But even when the
class of the American woman is thus defined it is
impossible to point to typical American girl, such
would anywhere be recognizable The Gibson
Girl" is merely type of young women often met
with, such as the still modern Harrison Fisher
Girl so recently appearing in the lighter literature
of the land. In reality the American women are as
specialized by descent education locality and climate
as are the jewellers in separate provinces of other
countries Every American man, and still every
American woman, different from each other ac-
cording as they live in New York Boston, Chicago,
San Francisco, Baltimore New Orleans, other
cities Just as the Germans are according they live
in Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, Munich
While the American woman thus varies in type so
that the dress, voice, and countenance of Boston
cuurist distinct from the pork-packer's child of
Chicago the French creole of New Orleans or the
aristocrat of New Amsterdam descent yet all these
American girls have certain common characteristics
which Mr. Won Brandt specifies as follows:
There are however two pecu1iarities to be found
IN American girls. Whether born merely brought
OF Judgment, and the same complete self-reiance
1t is hard to say whether this is the result of the
education in public schools and in the coeducation
of colleges, in their freedom from that condition
of legal and social subserviency which the genter
sex is doomed in older countries. It is with us
most frequently the that the female members
of the family occupied with providing for and
looking to the future, while the men are making
provision for the present. its needs and its expenses
Such thing is nconceivable in the United States
Here the number of girls and women who make their
own living is ever increasing
Then the writer goes into statistics and shows that
women are not supplanting men in money-n1aking
occupations Only eighteen per cent of American
women work for wages. He thinks that coeducation
is getting setback in the United States and that
girls even in female colleges learn little else than
independence and the love of liberty To quote his
words:
1t cannot be doubted that the life led by Young
girls IN colleges and universities is nothing more
than what the Americans call having good time"
time, however, which they gladly give up on any
OF obtaining occupation. More fire.
quenty than IN Germany do women EMPLOYEES and
factory workers leave present place for better
wages IN distant town in the South or West
he concludes by reviewing the question of trace
suicide" due, he thinks, to "the love of free life
the self-wi the hatred of responsibility of the cares
Of household, which distinguish the American girl"
This same spirit accounts, he declares, for the fire.
luency of divorce, out of every ten weddings
ending by the legal separation of man and wife