Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1887 — What Boston’s Girls Are Finding Out. [ARTICLE]

What Boston’s Girls Are Finding Out.

What is the outcome of the surplus woman here ? With all the pain and privation accompanying the condition of affairs, there is good working out of it. More women in Boston than perhaps in any other American city are being taught to depend on themselves and their own powers. More women here than elsewhere are, through these hard paths, being taught the error of marrying simply for a home and an assured support. Women here are commencing to find out that their “rights” are their own powers; that talent, executive ability,and other forces of mind, of which the many now know little, belong to womah as much as to man. They are finding out that actresses in the drama of life are as necessary as actors, and that the play cannot go on Without them. There is to-day in Boston a generation of' younger women, •whose characters, being shaped by the present Condition of affairs, have determined almost unconsciously to “paddle their own canoes.”— Boston letter. . —; Still at It. ■ • Penitent husband (returning from the club) —I’ve (hie) got anuzzer load, Jessie, Disgusted wife—No, John, you’re mistaken. - P. H.—.Mishtaken! Zen (hie) I’m all right, D.W.—No, John. But you haven’t got another load. You’ve never lost the one you got the day after we were married.