Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-11-28
Asroines of Lsps Ago.

w. iheroines of Le1s Ago.
The approach Of the l0eth anniVer7
sary OF the birth of the worlds greatest
wornan7 novelist, George Eliot, reminds
the thorghtful what a distance women
6ay. Strayelied in one century. 1t IS
Just nd Yeats ago that George Eliot
created such stay at home bodies as
MaEsie Tnlliver and Dorothea Brooks'
II is a far cry from the mid victorian
ideals of George Eliot's day to the
freedom women enjoy in Greenwich
Village and similar happy hunting
grounds sat the present time. The nine-
teenth century woman never daoped
In politics and social problems ihat
WAS too bold-too much like running
into a mans world. Pretty Latin ana
French phrases were proper but the
woman who dared to think for her
self and who consulted her father and
her brother afterward was 3 distinct
shock TO her generation.
In thess days when women BACK
their own candidate, prepare her plat
form and run her quite independent
of any mans assistance, it is hard to
remember that only 100 years ago II
was fashionable for women to have
faintins spells and brains were not
proper In our best feminine circles
In rhsr4 essay on French women,
Gsorns Eliot reveals her impatienes
with the faintins. fashionabls, sis-
xantly sheltered ladies OF her tune
She pleads that "ths whole field OF
reality ;bsi laid open to women as well
a. toSmen." In trenchant phrases, she
smiles sat lady novelists who write
ally novels Of the mind millinery
type, sMhere the heroine is a lovely
creature of noble birth, perfectly
dressed, estatically religious and al
HaystinSiov with man still more
nobly born, and If possible more per-
4ectly dressed" Usually she pointed
out that the noble heroine was rescued
from contact with sordid life by an
obhsins hero, who married her and
hid her. away from the worlds impuri-
Ties in his perfectly noble ancestral
castle, oraelse the theme varied to the
wrong man whom the beautiful hero
tne marries and who later consider
atsly dies. on his deathbead bequeath-
ing her TO the man she really loves. .
George Eliot had little sympathy
with the women Of her day who
wasted their time weaving fabrics
out oflcobwebs." To her the waste OF
feminine energy and gifts was as ap-
paliingEas II would be to woman OF
the twentieth century. So it has come
to. pass in one hundred years that
George Eliot is assuming her place as
q pioneer who blazed the trail which
women follow now as naturally as
she knew they would several genera
tions ago; Somehow, George Eliot un-
aerstood that women would, in the
eo1rse fEevents, do things in the same
straightforward way which the men
OF her time assumed for themselves.
1t is Interesting to remember today
that even mid-Victorian biographers
called George Eliot an agnostic and
free thinker.
Arrangements for fittingly observ-
Ing the looth anniversary Of George
B1iot's birth are being made by Mrs.
Ida Benfoy Judd of West Sixty
ninth: street, New York.
Use Soap Freely, But Don't Waste II.
Look out for the soap! That is
another article that has greatly in
creased In price. The amount required
in a shousehold may almost be cut in
half by careful use. Keep a box ahead,
cut bars in two, remove from the box
and pile in a dry place if possible.
Green soap is used up twice as fact
rs the, seasoned bars. Never allow 1t
10 soak in a floor pail, tub or dishpan
"a great but very common waste. To
sAve Gseap and clean your hands, try
putting clean scraps Of dry toilet soap
through the food chopper, using the
finest plate. Mix one part Of the
powdered soap with four parts Of corn
meal. Another good way to remove
stains from the hands and to keep
them soft is to use corn meal and vine
gar and rub thoroughly. Or try con-
serving soap by washing the hands
With a tablespoonful Of corn meal 1t
10 gritty enough to remove the dirt,
and leaves the hands soft and white.
II was much used in this way by our
Ers2t-grandmothers.
A Laundry Hint on Buttons.
To prevent buttons from heins
broken or pulled OF by the wriuser'
button; up the garments and turn them
wrong side out before putting them
through the uIinger.
Progress of Women.
- Eahfburgb University has nearly
SEQ women medical students.
- There are approximately 3,OOO-Wo-
men ministers in the United States.
Women in Finland have had the
right to vote for the past thirteen
years.
- More than $4,000 women are en-
ployed. in the textile mills in Georgia.