The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-07-25

In her home she further claims. the
decorator finds his affairs, after build
ers. and their people have had their
percentages; the painter hangs his pic
lures on her walls, the sculptor brings
her his marbles and his bronzes, Eu-
rope gives her tapestries and silken
draperies, the orient gives her rugs.
fax fields are sown and open their blue
flowers for her napery, silver and gold
are wrought for her table, the work
mer in the factories of Sevres and
Dresden and other great establish
ments compete for her favor. The
violets on her breast are but one
bunch, the roses in her vase but q
single cluster, it may be; but the
leagues of greenhouses that stretch
across the land arise at her order, as
the palace arose at the word of the
afrite, and those who find work there
find 1t because of her.
She is sure thar the shopKeepers,
the girls behind the counters, the man
icures, the hairdressers know her for
their best friend And it is still fur
ther her contention, that when she
goes abroad the carriage maker, the har-
ness maker, the breeder and breaker of
horses and all those who serve IN her
stables, or in any way upon her equip
age and equipment, find their account
in her existence, and exist, indeed,
with all their own households, because
she does; and that the more dwellings
she has in town or country the more
people are the better off by means of
it. -
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She will tell you, too, that she is the
support of the finishing schools, fo-
her children, with their teachers of
science and art and languages and
manners, and that even the toys of
these curled darlings of fortune give
food and clothing to whole companies
of folk in Swiss valleys, in French
workshops and in the hidden places
of our own cities. And whether
enough is paid for any of these pos
sessions of hers, whether wages should
be higher and costs lower, is a Ques-
ton she demurs as something alto
gether on one side of the value to So
ciety of the society woman. a.,
And not only to the toilers, to hard
labor, does she insist that she is a
chief source of income, but that she is
OF financial importance from another
point of view. She contends that tine
great opera, the symphony, in which
the musician has scaled the strains OF
heaven, is heard by those of lesser
means only by reason of her and
her numbers; that she affords a theme
to the novelist and buys his book; tc
the playwright, and is his patron, and
that the newspaper which has the best
record of her daily doings has the
best circulation and in consequence is
able, through it's larger receipts, tC
give the latest intelligence and the
fullest reading-for to most other
women this successful one, so called
is an object of interest, and they fol.
low her movements as they do those
of heroine of romance.
That the fashionable woman carries
on and endows various great benevo.
lences she does not mention as show
ing her value, since she does not dc
such things because she is fashion
able woman, but because she has the
purse of one; but, nevertheless, she
holds that the entertainments which
she organizes in sweet charity's''
name. require services which spread
money broadcast, and If she does not
spend her days among the poor 2nd
her income in gifts to them, she has
learned from the political economist
himself that the wages which are paid
for her comforts and pleasures are
more beneficial in the receipt than any
charity. Whether or not she leads the
life that is best for herself, in so far
as it has no other aim than enjoyment
of the passing hour or the obtaining
of social supremacy, it is life that
she believes good for myriad others,
and if she loses her soul in social friv-
olity, losing it, others find their ad-
vantage. 1t may be, it doubtless is,
a poor and vicious state of society that
makes her life possible, but society be-
ing as it is the fashionable woman
locks upon herself as an unmistak-
able benefactress.
The bonnet rouge at work upon the
streets, who sees the carriage or auto