Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 22 March 1890 — Page 2

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By MAX O'RELL (Author of "John Bull aad His Island," "John Ball, Jr.," Etc.) and JACK ALLYN.

Translated by Mmo. lHul Blouot Copyrighted by Outsell C\x. Sow York, nnd published by special arraiipemeut through tho American lYees

XII—EMANCIPATION OF WOMEN. £xtlnction of Muu—Ladle* Purlfyiog tlio Streets of New York.

In a country where woman is a spoilt child, potted and made so much of, it is strange to find women who aro not content with their lot, but demand tho completo emancipation of their sex.

It makes ono smile. I was talking ono evening -with Mrs. Dovereux Ulako, middle aged lady, of a ilucnt. agreeable conversation, who has declared war to tho knifo against the tryant man. "You must excuse me," I said, "if I ask questions, I am anxious to learn, Tho American woman appears to me ungrateful not-to bo satislied with her lot. She 6eems to rulo tho roost in tho United States." "Ho," roplied Mrs. Blake, "she do«a not, but sho ought." "But sho certainly does," I insisted"Do facto, perhaps, but de juro- no." "Wliat do you want more?' "The right to mako laws." '\it do you moan by that?*'

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iv s, and even the right to a Beat in t'.. ..ise of representatives." .lis appears to me a littla exacting, and almost unfair," I observed timidly. "You probably already make your husbands vote as you please f, added to this, you are going to throw your own votes into the electoral urns, it means the extinction of man, neither more nor less, i. and, as Leon Uozlan says, 'It is perhaps as well that there should lie two sexes for 6ome timo longer at all events.' My dear lady, you aro spoilt children, and spoilt children aro never satisfied."

I felt a little out of place in this energetic lady's drawing room. Nevertheless I learned very interesting things that evening.

A lady gave mo some very curious details on tho subject of New York life. "We wero speaking of the security of women in the liirgo cities, and of tho risk they ran in going out alone after nights full. "I have been struck with tho respectability of your American streets." I said to her. "Ono never sees vice flaunting by daylight, and in tho evening, whenever 1 have been through the great arteries of your city, I have seldom seen anything that could shock the eyes of an honest woman. In Paris, tho boulevards aro infested with street walkers from 8 o'clock in tho evening, and tho evil is much worse in London." "You aro right," said tho lady "but if wo had waited until the men swept our pavements, we should have had to wait a long time. We cleaned them ourselves." "What do you mean? "A few years ago several young women, among whom I might name members of our test society, resolved upon going alone in the evenings, and of striking the first man who dared to accost them. They finally succeeded in accomplishing the disinfection of tho main streets. Vice still exists, but it hides instead of parading itself. If you are able to go out at night with your wife, or even your young daughters if a lady can go to the theatre alone and. if it please her. return homo on fooi, it is to us that thanks aro due. And do you not think that women, young, good looking and well bred, who could master their disgust so far as to do that which the authorities were too cowardly to undertake, aro worthy to have a deliberata voice in tho councils of the nation?"

I could not answer this. I am going to launch a rather dangerous assertion. It seems to ine that tho American woman does not render to man -.*• a hundredth part of tho adoration lie renders to her. If love could spring from gratitude, Jonathan would bo tho most beloved of men. But does love ever spring from gratitude?

In tho eyes of the American woman man has iiis good points. He insures her a good position when lie marries her, he workB hard to satisfy her smallest wishes, ... and so long as his signature has any valuo at tho foot of a check this will bo an extenuating circumstance in his favor.

A young Baltimore lady told mo ono day that she often invited twenty or thirty girl friends to lunch with her. Not the shadow of a man at these parties. The same kind of entertainment is generally given by numbers of young ladies in society in other cities. At theso lunches there are often as many as forty or fifty of. Brothor Jonathan's fair daughters, and the}-, with no other helps than their tongues and their teeth, spend threo or four hours most merrily without the aid of man, and have a "real good time," as they call it.

There are numerous women's clubs in tho United States. These sauctuar ies aro never profaned by tho presOnco of man. Tho very postman and tradesmen only approach it with hated breath.

Tho members have their library, drawing room, dining room, boudoirs, bedrooms, etc. They make music, read, write, chat and paM time very agreeably.

Onoof themost important ladies'clubs is tho Sorosis club, of New York. Once a year tho ladies of Sorosis give a banquet, to which gentlemen as well as ladies are invited.

Tho spirit of independenco in woman produces excellent results, it must be confessed. You find in America women who by their tale^,u have won for thernsolves positions which numbers of men might envy. And do not imagino that I am speaking of bluo stocking, spectacled spinsters, disdained of Cupid. Not at all. Tho American woman has always tact enough to remain womanly. Even among the heroines of the platform I havo always Noticed a littlo touch of country. which proves to mo that man is

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not in Imminent danger of being suppressed in America. Only a few days after I set foot in Now York a friend took mo to visit the officcs of tho principal newspapers of tho city. Passing along a corridor in Tho World's offices I remarked a lady writing in ono of the rooms. My friend lod the way in, and presented mo to her. I found hor to be a protty brunetto of about 20 or 83, delightfully piquanto, and with most distinguished manners. I learned that this young American girl did all the literary reviewing and gossip for Tho Now York World and took up as large a salary as ono of tho best writers on tho staff of Tho Paris Figaro.

Tho St. Nioholas Magazino is conducted by a lady, Mrs. Dodge. Sinco hor husband's death, Mrs. Frank Leslie has carried on, under her own management, tho numerous magazines which issue from tho houso founded by that gentleman.

Tho largest newspapers, and all tho principal roviows, havo ladies on their staffs.

Miss Mary Louiso Booth, who directs The Harper's Bazar, roceives a salary of 5S.000.

The two editors of Tho Critic aro Miss Jeannette L. Oilder and Mr. Joseph B. Gilder, sister and brother of Mr. Richard Watson Oilder, poet, and chief editor of The Century Magazine.

I might nanio many more.

XIII—PRUDERY.

Comstock and Ills War on ItadKles. Transformation of the Vocabulary—Sly Drinking*

The New England descendants of the Puritans have inherited a more than British prudery. Charles Dickens speaks in his "American Notes" of people who covered tho nakedness of their piano legs with little ornamental frills. There still exist worthy creatures who would think it indecent to speak of such and such a star as being visible to tho naked eyo.

Tho word "leg" is improper you must say 'lower limb." Trousers have become "lower garments." Instead of going to bed people "retire," so that tho bedroom becomes tho "retiring room."

A lady having said not long ago in a Philadelphia drawing room that she felt cold in her back created a veritable panic among tho hostess' guests.

I read tho following piece of information in a- New York paper among tho news from a Now England city: "The authorities havo begun a crusado against tho nude in art. Ono of the wealthiest gentlemen in the city will be proceeded against for keeping in his house copies of tho 'Venus of Milo,' the 'Venus do Medici,' Canova'B 'Venus,' Powers' 'Greok Slave,' 'The Laocoon,' and other works."

During my stay in New York I was constantly hearing of a certain Mr. Anthony Comstock, who had attained celebrity by a campaign ho had undertaken against nudities. I must say, for tho credit of the New Yorkers, that Mr. Comstock has earned for himself a reputation as grotesque as it was noisy. Tho indvidual whoso mind is so ill formed that he cannot look at an artistic counterfeit presentment of the human form divine without thinking evil is to be pitied, if not despised.

Meanwhile, tho American newspapers seemed to look upon Mr. Comstock as a legitimate target for their jokes and satire.

Tho New England ladies have the reputation of being the most easily shocked women in tho world. An American gentleman told me that a Philadelphia lady, at whose sido he was seated one day at table, grew red to her very ears at his asking her which part of a chicken sho preferred, the wing or tho leg.

The following information is from a correspondent: "There exists in a certain Now England city (ho names it), a fashionable man milliner who lias a room reserved, ostensibly for fitting, but really for ladies who do not disdain to imbibe privately, through a 6traw, certain American drinks which they would not dare touch in public. In this dissimulated bar, under cover of silks and satins, they delight to chat on fashion and frivolities while absorbing pretty tipples invented for their lords."

Tho prettiest part of the affair is that the husbands pay for the beverages without knowing it.

On the bills tho milliner has added so much for trimmings (read: iced champagne), so much for laco (read: sherry cobbler)—and the duped husbands have nothing to complain of except that the new fashions demand a great deal of trimming.

XIV—JOHN BULL'S COUSIN GERMAN.

Rotten I'ctp) ami Tnr nnd Fcntlicrs—Woman's Standing lu tho States. Jonathan is tho cousin german of John Bull, but yet not so German aa one might imagine, for, if Germany supplies America with threo or four hundred thousand immigrants yearly, these Germans do not Germanize America on the contrary, they themselves become Americanized.

Ono strong proof of this is tho way in which women aro treated from one end of tho United States to the other.

Whilst English justice gives merely ono or two months' imprisonment to the man who is found guilty of having almost kicked his wife to death, an American town is in arms at tho mere rumor of a man liaving maltreated woman.

An inhabitant of Greene's Run, West county, Virginia, had been known for some timo to havo subjected his wifo and children to harsh treatment. The complaint becamo at last so general that an avenging mob took upon itself to chastise him. At midnight his house was surrounded. A squad of masked men broke into the houso and tio& his 1 lands, took him to the yard, and gave him a fearful thrashing with cowhides and hickory withes.

The following I extract from a Pittsburg paper: George Burton, a well to do man of Ohio, ono day turned his wifo out of tho houso and loft for Pittsburg. Next

day ho returnod, bringing with him a dashing widow, named Fentou, whom ho installed in his wife's place. When Mrs. Burton applied for admittance, eho was sent away, her husband saying that ho had some ono clso to care for him now. Tho nows spread, and tho fomalo neighbors docided taavengo tho wifo's wrongs. After 10 o'clock at night three hundred women went to the house and beat tho doors open. Burton and tho dashing widow wero dragged out, tho man being chased soveral blocks, and pelted tho while with rotten eggs. Tho widow was poundod and puinmelod until tho polico rescued her. Sho and the man wore locked up in eafo keeping. Tho neighbors then ransacked tho house, and when they left it, the place looked as if a cyclone had struck it. It was with great difficulty that tho objectionable widow was conveyed to tho train in safety by tho police next day.

Sometimes tho chastisement takes a comic form. A man who ill treats his wife, or forsakes her for another woman, is often tarred and feathered. The operation is curious and satisfies tho vengeance of tho populace, while procuring them an hour's amusement.

This chastisement is often applied to a woman whoso conduct is known to be immoral. In such cases, I need not say that it is the women who operate on tho culprit. The idea appears primitive, but morality thrives by it

If men may not tar and feather a woman, women occasionally give themselves tho pleasure of tarring and feathering a man, which shows once more how privileged woman is in America. On the 12th of August, 1887, tho editor of a paper in a littlo town in Illinois had to submit to this ignominious operation at the hands of about 600 of his townswomen. His crime was that of liaving spoken cavalierly of tho feminino morals of tho township.

The susceptibilities of American women aro sometimes very easily wounded. A paper having announcod a man's death under the heading: "John K. gone to a better homo," the widow brought an action of libel against the editor.

Tho women aro not content with beating tho men in tho market place, they beat them at elections as well. During my stay in tho States, tho town of Oskaloosa, in tho state of Kansas, returned all the women put up as candidates for election to tho town council. At the head of tho poll was a Mrs. Lawman, who was proclaimed mayor.

Tho further west one goes, tho moro apparent becomes tho power of tho women the further west ono goes, the rarer docs woman get. Is this tho reason?

To every American hotel there is a ladies' entrance. This is to prevent contamination from the possible contact of man. When it rains or snows an awning is thrown out over the pavement but I dare say a permanent triumphal arch will ultimately be demanded by the ladies.

In tho states of* Kansas and Colorado, and others, a woman, on entering a railway car, will touch a man on the shoulder and say to him, almost politely: "I like that seat, you take another."

I was riding ono day in a Chicago street car. The seats wore all occupied, but in America that does not mean that the car is full, and presently tho conductor let in a woman, who came and stood near my seat. At the moment of her entry I had my head turned, and it might have been twenty or thirty seconds be5 fore I perceived that sho was standing in front of me. Then I arose and offered her my placc. Do not Imagino that sho thanked me. Sho shot me a glance which clearly said: "Oh! you havo made up your mind at last you take your time over it." I need not say that sho was not a lady, but she was stylishly dressed a nil looked highly respectable. Tho American lady accepts graciously and gracefully tho homage men render her, but the vulgar woman—rich or not—exacts it as her due.

The arrival "of a woman in anv littlo town of tho far west puts tho male part of the population in revolution. "Whoso wife will she become?" is the great, question of the day, and all tho eligible tnen of tho neighborhood enroll themselves in the list of her suitors.

Idaho territory lies very far west indeed, and there is an alarming scarcity of women there. This has been curiously illustrated of late in the town of Wagon Wheel.

Recently two young ladies traveled to that remote region to attend to their dying brother. Immediately after liis death, tho sisters prepared to return home. Before they could get away, nearly tho whole population of tho town —headed by the mayor and other high officials—were making matrimonial overtures to them. Feoling ran very high during five or six anxious days, and tho mayor's chances, despite liis inaturo years, ruled the betting at six to one. At tho end of tho week both young ladies had capitulated, and wero duly engaged. The mayor was, however, cut out by a handsome young miner. Tho wedding day was fixed, and tho mother of tho young ladies was summoned. Hero troubles began. She duly arriveed, but was indignant with her daughters for the scant respect which they had manifested toward their brother's memory by suoh haste to wed. The girls explained that thoy had yielded lo tho overwhelming force of circumstances. As usual, explanations increased tho offense, and the mother vowed that neither of them should bo married out there at all—that, in fact, tho engagements wero "oil," and that they must bo off too.

Tho cup of felicity was thus rudely dashed from the lips of the two accepted men, and they made haste to tell their sorrows to the town. An indignation meeting was held, and tho mayor appointed a committee to wait upon the irate matron in order to ask her to reconsider her resolution. Tho mayor, with rare magnanimity, placed himself at tho head of tho deputation and implored tho good lady to grant the petition, which ho ardently urged. She, however, stood firmly on her parental rights, and declared that sho would not leave tho town without her two daughters Ti,nn tho eenius of tho mayor

shono forth liko tho sun, nnd provoa equal to tho occasion. Ho proposed a compromise. Why noed sho leave at all? Ho drew hor attention to tho fact that sho was fair, plump and fifty-odd, and that similar languago might betaken as descriptive of himself. There and then ho offered her Ids hand and heart, and tho young ladies kind father ana protector.

That settled tho matter, and three marriages took place with a great flourish of trumpets at Wagon WheeL

XV-DRESS.

IJgTit Troufwr* Carnw a SnnMitlon—llannctx t« Frighten a ChocUiw—Veil the I'ut, LftfliVH,

In America, gentlemen's dress is plain, oven severe. I remember well tho sensation I created with a pair of light gray trousers in a small Pennsylvania town. Evory one seemed to look at mo as if I had been a strango animal in tho hotel the waitresses nudged ono another, and tho street urchins followed me as if I had been a Sioux in national costume. One of tho local papers announced that a Frenchman had landed in town tho day before "in white trousers," and that Ids popularity had been as prompt as decisive.

With evening dross, tho American gentleman wears no jewelry of any sort. Simplicity, rather severity, in dross is a mark of distinction in a man, and tho American gentleman is no exception to tho rule.

American ladies dress very well as a rule, but there area great number who cover themselves with furbelows and jewels. The fashionable headgear during my sojourn in tho States was a high, narrow construction, surmounted with feathers. At a certain distance it gavo its wearer tho look of an irato cockatoo. The ladies wearing them walked liko English grenadiers in busbies.

There aro French milliners in New York, I believe. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes pretends that they deteriorate on American soil. Ho said: "By tho timo a French milliner has been she months in Now York, sho will make a bonnet to frighten a Choctaw Indian."

At tho thcatro women wear Gilk,which prevents ono from hearing, and hat3 a foot high, which prevent ono from seeing.

Boston ladies eschew show nnd glitter and wear diamonds very sparingly, oven jn tho evening.

But tlio most striking contrast may be seen by going straight from Now York or Chicago to Canada. "Hero wo aro in England ont^o more," I thought, as I looked at a «vy of Canadian girls disporting themselves at an afternoon danco In the Athletis club of Montreal. Half a dozen New York women would have had on the worth of all tho fifty or sixty toilets in tho room.

American ball toilets aro ravishing. Horo tho diamonds are in place. I do not know any gayer, moro intoxicating sight than an American ball room.

Low necked drosses aro much worn by American women, not only at balls and dinners, but at their afternoon receptions. It seems very odd to us Europeans to seo a lady in a very low necked ball dress at 4 in the afternoon, receiving her friends who aro liablted in ordinary visiting toilets or tailor mado gowns. In France, a hostess seeks to make show of simplicity in her reception toilets, so as to bo likely to eclipse no one in her own house.

Decollete toilets are universal in America, old ladies vying with young in the display of neck and shoulders. It is true the Americans are not peculiar in this. Many times, in a European ball room, havo I longed to exclaim: "Ladies, throw a veil over tlio past, I pray you."

You may see somo wonderful costumes in tho (streets of tho largo towns, disguises rather than dresses. I havo seen dresses of an orango terra cotta shade, trimmed with huge bands of bright green velvet costumes of violot plush, worn with sky blue hats, and other atrocities enough to make one's eyes cry for mercy. Violet and blue! O, Oscar Wildo, I thought you had been in America!

Tho wives of men -with middlo class incomes imitate the luxury of tho millionaire's wife. I expected to find it so in a democratic country, frogs try to swell into oxen. They puff themselves out Until they burst, or rather until their husbands burst.

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