The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-03-05
AMERICAN WOMEN ARE MOS
PETTED.

PETTED. u
That we are the most INDUCED and
petted women in the world is un.
doubtedly true; it is dificult to see
why we should claim powerful place
in the national life, says a writer
In Appleton's. While the women of
other countries are making and saw
ing, our women are wasting and
spending.
The light-hearted italian women
are q source of wealth to their coun-
try by their frugality and their not
inconsiderable business ability. Their
less Nght-hearted and less comely
German sisters are miracles of hard
working thrift. No one who has lived
in Germany can fail to have observed
what comfortable homes and what
substantial meals the German haus-
frau of all classes conjures from in
comes so tiny that the American can
only wonder how they manage to live
at all.
It is also interesting to observe
that for her success in homemaking
the German woman reaps her reward.
The German husband may seem to us
unchivalrous in the minor details
Of life. He may talk with brutal
disparagement about the female
brain" but when he goes out to
amuse himself it doesn't occur to him
to go alone. He takes with him his
wife and his children. That pathetic
person whose husband neglects her
for the society of men, for whom
our tears flow so often in this coun-
try, is not found in Germany
While the poorest class of English
women are bad homemakers and
while we undoubtedly learned some
Of our lessons in inefficient and waste
full cooking from our English kins-
women, English women of the upper
classes put us to shame in the parss
they play in the political life of the
country They have their definite
part they are expected to play in
the game of politics. The well-edu-
Gated English women do not exist
who cannot talk intelligently on the
political situation.
American women cannot. Politics
bores them.
It is, however, in France that wom-
an has the most power. From the
peasant up she takes more active
part in the affairs of her country
than do the women of any other land.
The prosperity of France is builded
on the amazing thrift of French wom-
en- She combines with this thrift a
supreme talent for home-making.
Housekeeping does not give her ner-
vous prostration. and the brisk cheer
fulness of all French women is the
one thing that notably strikes the
traveller in France, whether he comes
from America, Germany or England.
The French woman's business ability
Is pre-eminent. With her thrift, gay
ETY. and business ability it is not sur
prising that she /wields the power
that she does.
PRINCESS DRESS TO BE RE
TANNED.
With the old Princess gown the
waist was in it's natural position, i'm
mediately below the ribs But it is
now shorter though not SO very
short as with some of the Directors
frocks of last summer. The outline
Is very graceful in the new models,
the lines of the shoulders and arms
being closely followed, not a single
fold sor scrap of fullness being per-
mitted in the sleeves beyond the
tucks that help to fit them to the
arms.
And in many of the very newest
the waist is in its natural position,
so far as the front of the dress is
concerned, curve upward to the
back being all that there Is to re-
mind us of the previous order of
things.
Immediately below the waist the
new skirts closely define the figure,
and the clinging form still prevails;
also the inconvenient but becoming
length in front and at the sides The
tunic, copied from old prints of the
Directoire and Empire periods, when
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Greek, is confined to house and even
ing gowns. The slimness of the sill
houette is still imperative, and all
supple materials, such as cashmere,
crepe de chine, and the softer quail
tiles of cloth with chiffon velvet and
its cousin germany, are consequent
ly in the greatest favor.
If there is trimming, it is always
of the fiat kind. as embroidery or
braiding. Frills and even tucks
would be regarded as destroying the
clinging-in effect. Everything posi-
BILE Is done to preserve the slender
outline. Those whose adipose tissue
declines to conceal its questionable
exuberance are to be condoled with,
and recommended to abstain from the
Understandable frock