Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1908-08-06
THE EXCLUSIVE SEX.
The Sisterhood Of Women Will Lag
Behind the Millennium.

wv omen,' observes the Rev. w. A.
Bartlett OF Chicago, "are more exclM-
sive than men. They form clans and
gaze askance at the newcomer who
docs not belong to their set
All of which is true. And the Chic.l-
go divine might have added the add j.
tional truth that women are also nur-
rover than men, less generous towar d
human faults and failings and prom e
to view strangers with SUSPICION.
1t Is the exceptional woman who will |
take stranger on trust and think NJ,
evil.
The brotherhood of man may some
day be realized, hut the sisterhood of
woman will lag behind the millennium.
Women are not wholly to blame for
their petty child's play of belonging to
a special circle and looking down on
the rest of creation. Centuries of igno-
rance and false standards of life are,
welded into this bauble called ~exclu-
slveness."
It Is fostered by Silly pride and bol-
stored up by empty heads, and finally
It becomes a fetch to the woman and
matter Of great envy to her neigh
bors.
To be exclusive" is to missythe best
Of life, to bar out knowledge ito live in
hencoop.
Your true democratic eye axes in the
full sweep of the horizon. 1t is not
fixed on knothole in the wall.
pity the "eXclusive" woman pro-
foundly. How very. very tired she
must get of the same old 'borcs in the
same circumscribed social set. even
though that set holds nothing but De
Peysters and diamonds,
When you visit the social dictator at,
Smiths Crossroads you quickly learn
to place the residence Iy the warmth
OF your hostess smile or The stony cold
| ness Of her stare.
1t is the same old pfetense that the
city keeps up transplanted to the
cruder environment of the village.
There may be many more interesting
people outside the society woman's
doors than In, but she. will lose caste
if she admits them, so she ignores
their presence.
1t would require courage to invite to
our homes such people as we really
like or who need our friendship and
thrust out the inane, the vapid and no
account, wouldn't it?
If find Mrs OIsrien, the washwo-
man, more interesting as she certainly
ts wfttier, than Mrs. de Gasoline, why
shouldn't have her at my party or
reception1
Half the wrinklessthat linz the mod
ern woman's brow and keep the. mas
seuse In spending money are due to
the strain of keeping up false posi-
tion before the world and trying:to ap-
pear sevres or rare porcelain when in
reality they are but common clay.
Automatic Duster Wanted
Every woman, rich or poor, who is
anywhere near normal is interested in
her hom4 and when it is considered
how many useful domestic articles
have been invented by women it.seems
remarkable no one yet has devised an
automatic duster. There is the carpet
sweeper. which requires only to be
pushed gently along the floor and not
only sweeps, but picks up the dust.
Would not dusting machine he use
full in every household? It need be
only a simple device, something on
wheels to be propelled by light pres
sure. with en- arm that would raise
and lower Itself automatically Ito dust
articles Of various heights. If 1t
brushed the dust off everything and
gathered 1t in box, as the carpet
sweeper does, it would be not Sonly
boon to housewives and ho,ls,anaids,
but highly sanitary aeeice. I'cubt.
less the invention VIII come stss,a or
late. Why not soons