Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1910 — American Women. [ARTICLE]

American Women.

A favorite fling of the French at the English has always been that the latter are a nation of shopkeepers. An Englishwoman has called Americans “a nation of housekeepers.” During a visit to this country she was struck by the fact that so many American women of means and refinement either "do their own work” or actively superintend the domestic arrangements, taking a pride in this duty. Our friend was surprised to learn that “an American woman will spend the forenoon in cooking or dusting or cleaning, then dress herself like a duchess and sally forth to the meeting of a fashionable club where she is to read a learned paper, like as not, or else call a carriage and make a round of social calls. And her standing does not seem to be implied in the least by the fact that during part of the day she has done the work of a menial nor has it affected her own personal attractiveness.” No other woman has done so much as the American to emphazise the dignity of labor. —Housekeeper. We heard a woman say to-day: “I have my faults, but I am ap good as any woman who chews gum on the streets.” L_ kick about, he buys a gold brick.