Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 25, Number 14, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 September 1894 — Page 3

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SPINDLE FUNCTIONS.

UPPORT OF THE ORTHODOX OF "WOMAN'S SPHERE."?!1

The KBterukl Xnattnot Mark* the OiMd Distinction Between Men and Women.

Mrs. tjnui Linton Thinks the Snflwc* Movement Decided Retrograde Step.

For all the endeavors of certain reason era of the present day to prove the exact mental and moral identity of man and women, there is a marked difference between them, both In their estimate of valnet and their power of generalisation. How should there not bet Ever since the first female creature gave birth to the first offspring the maternal instinct of oar©, protection and attention to details has grown and developed until now, when a human child has to be kept alive by the most unremitting watchfulness—the most absorbing attention to every kind of small yet highly important detail. A newborn infant is not merely let to live. It has to be made to live by warmth, by proper food, by safeguarding it from aooidents and injuries from which, it cannot protect itself, by the devotion of the adult intellect and the major part of the day's time to this one important task of keeping tho newborn child alive until such time as, more firmly established and more soHilly rooted, it asks only tho leave to live—asks only to have its young body unmolested and its growing strength untmnpeml with. Then nature does tho rest. Theu nature and the mother go hand in hand, and the character, as the direction, of the oare required is somewhat changed. But even then, at least in civilized countries, and especially in our own century and generation, the mother has still to guard and overlook, either in her own person or in that of her substitute and alter ego, the nurse.

Now, this instinct of the mother, Inherited for as long as tho world has lasted and increased and improved on as civilization has advanced, is the one grand distinction between men and ^vomen. The paternal instinct is of quite a different character. The paternal instinct provides and defends in a more generalized way. The maternal distributes and divides according to individual and sometimes indeed according to personal partiality, for that, too, is essentially a womanly characteristic born of the larger issues. We may say that the paternal instinct answers to the principle, the maternal to its application this one to the framing of a law, the other to the administration when framed. The one rules the senate, the bench, tho board tho other the home, the nursery, tho drawing room. Within the tent, to tho woman belongs the care of the hearth, tho handmlll, the spindle. Before the door the man plants his spear and tethers tho beasts on which the safety of the whole family depends.

Now, it is just this universal and all pervuding maternal instinct which seems to us to militate against the political usefulness of women. When you want a burning glass, you do not use a spectroscope. For those things which need concentration you do not employ dividers nor prepare a ground plan by elaborating the details of pediments and cornices. By the very nature of things women are both (uncustomed and forced to attend to details and are therefore not, as a rule, able to generalize broadly, to see far ahead or to see all round a subject, to care for abstract principles as superior to the claims of the individual. On the contrary, they are essentially and necessarily individual. This care for the individual is port of their raison d'etre, it is the very heart and soul of maternity, and it passes far beyond the limitations of the cradle and the nursery.

Women, for instance, care for the health and well being of their husbands and sons far more than for the efficiency of the service, whatever it may be, on which thpse are employed. Who among them would wish the man she loved to lead the forlorn hope of tho most gallant assault, to be in the forefront of the most righteous battle? Would she not rather that any other woman's husband should lose his life rather than hers—any other mother's son gp down to his untimely grave, honored as it might bo, rather than hers? Surely! This care for the person as beyond tho cause runs through the whole of the womanly character, always granting the exceptions which prove every rule.

To some of us who have the true respect for our own BOX—or, at* vro think it, the true—the now proposal to throw the balance of poJ^fcnl power into the hands of women seen. Va decided retrograde step. Divisiou of fu. \lon is an attribute of evolution. The higher tho organism the more distinctive tho function and tho more oompicto the division of the sexes. In tho lower classes of society the men and women are much less separated in their work than they are in tho higher. They toil in mixod gangs In tho hop gardens here, tho vineyards there. They assist tho men in their arduous, Glthy. revolting work, now at the cart tail, now at the pit brow.

On tho whole, then, our reformers might perhaps pause before lending their strength to tho eudeavor to assimilate tho lives and spheres of the two sexes—at least, so far as granting to women the hitherto specialized ofllces aud work of men. Not the most ardent upsetter of the present order proposes to give to men the specialized offices and work of women—to make young Auguste my lady's tire boy nor handy James the nursery man in charge. We allow tho fitness to the one side of the house, but we deny it to the other. The sight of Hercules with tho distaff and spindle la shocking to all sane taste, but many of us think that Omphale In the lion's skin is charming. So she is perhaps as a midsummer night's dream. How she would work as an active agent In tho management of empire is open to uncomfortable conjecture and Is a fit matter for doubt.—Mrs. Lynn Linton in London Queen.

Keeping Food.

Food that has little odor itself and food that absorbs odors readily should be placed at the bottom of tho refrigerator. All foods with a btrong odor should bo kept on the top shelves. Sour milk or cream should not be kept in the refrigerator. Salnd dressings, tartar sauce and oelery should be covered closely, or they will flavor everything that Is sluafc up with them. Pineapple, strawberries and raspberries should not be shut into a common ice chest with milk or cream. In the refrigerator where there is a circulation of 4ry air butter, milk, cream and other delicate foods may be kept in the lower part «V the refrigerator, and the fruits, vegetables, etc., with stronger flavors and odors, may be kept on the top shelves. If arranged in this way, thero will be little danger that one kind of food will absorb the flavor or odor of another.

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MJm WUI*rd »itd Lxdy Horoereat. When interviewed in regard to thereport that both Miss WUlard and Lady Henry Somerset favored bicycle riming for women because they saw In that a covert means of Introducing bloomers, Miss Wlllard said: ••That story, like so many others against us, smacks of the saloon and would no* deserve any reply if it had not been promulgated In so many ways."

Lady Henry Somerset said: "The core and center of my interest in bicycle ridifg for women la that I have been Impressed by the great improvements wrought in shopgirls, typewriters, teach era and other women of sedentary habits In England by the inspiring outdoor exercise that tho wheel gives."

Miss Willard further said: ••We both believe that we need suoh a reform in the dress of women as will make It more oonformable to reason, but we nei ther of us have ever advooated bloomers, and on wsthetio grounds must oppose them. My own bicycling costume Is a simple street dress, with the skirt shortened so that It clears the ground. '•We havo neither of us ever advooated bloomers, but we both believe that the taste and skill of artistic modistes will yet evolve a ooatume for the bloyollst? that shall meet the conditions of utility, com fort and that third condition, which we consider especially important—beauty,"

Requisites of a Woman Physician. A woman who would be a physlolan n«^-t to j-vK-.i b. ml. i- of human nature. Shu must umi, sell reliant, oourageous and fertile of expedient. She must be a suporior woman. By this I do not moan a woman of lofty carriage and lordly airs. On the oontrary, It is an advantage in the long run to bo possessed of unassuming manners. But she must b© superior to the small foibles of her sex. ^Her education and knowledge will generally divest her of these. She must not projeot her personality too strongly In the sickroom. Sho must be ever ready to listen to the plaints of the sick one while she gives baok none In return.

The element of strength she must carry with her always. The weak, the suffering, the misguided and sinful ones must feel that they can lay upon her their burdens and know only that their distressed hearts and bodies are relieved. Her own heart may be breaking, but she must not Bhow it.

Her body may be weary unto exhaustion, but she must be just as willing to wait patiently, to work cheerfully, to minister hope and courage and give no sign. Thfi) attitude of patient and doctor is on the one hand, that of asking, and, on tho other, that or giving.—Susan E. Crocker in Donahjp's Magazine.

Aids to Beauty.

What a capital beauty book Mr James Corbett could write! "If I get time and out of an engagement, I will," ho told Housoand Home. ./ If I were a woman and wanted to keep In condition, this is what I'd do. Keep my temper, even though I had to whip myself to it. Make the best of bad bargains. Sleep nine hours a day, take a cold bath, at least flvo minutes' exercise with light dumbbells and a cup of hot milk, water or tea before breakfast every day in the year. These stimulate the entire system of respiration, circulation and digestion. I would mhnage in some way to get half an hour's exercise in the open air every day. Woman's life is different from man's so Is her nature. Consequently she needs less and lighter food, drink and exorcise. The best skin whitener is temperance. The best complexion brightener is good digestion and good temper."

Domestic Service.

A bright woman thus concludes a paper on domestic service:

1'The

class of women

now in housework, as a rule, do not know their business. Remedy: Establish schools to teach them. The more self respecting young woman will not go to such schools because housework is considered a low grado of oocupation. Remedy: Elevate it in the general mind by making instruction in it partly intellectual. Girls or women who are not physically strong dare not undertake the sort of housework which involves exposure and strain. Remedy: Offer somewhat lower wages and hire a man or muscular woman to do the roughest unskilled labor. Girls and women who have homes are sometimes unable and sometimes unwilling to leave them. Remedy: Employ such by the day. Servants seem to think wo arc their natural enemiee. Remedy: Bo their friends."

Carving Knives Are Small.

Carving steels arc not tho formidable weapons they were a decade ago. There is a feeling in the tender breast of hospitality that tho carving blade should be small as well as keen. Now the voluptuaries of tho dining room wield graceful bits of cutlery in smooth handles of pearl, ivory, bono, porcelain, stag and plated silver as delicately designed as tho manicuro articles In a lady's toilet case. In tho choice carving sets that come in satin lined leather oases tho knifo to demolish fat turkey, a high capon or a juicy little pig is smaller than tho regulation pie cuttor.

J)r. Mary Putnam Jaeobi.

Dr. Mary Putnam .lacobl has written several able books on medical topics.

Her

works on "Hysteria" and 'Brain Tumors" are a recognized authority. Doctors in active practice are not, as a rule, writers, but in the comparatively short time women have had the advantage of the hospitals and patients for observation, and the limited number as compared with men thoy have done quite as much for the advance ment of science. We could mention the names of hundreds of eminent specialists in eveTy department as well as general practitioners.—Boston Woman's Journal.

Mrs. Emily Collins.

Mrs. Emily Collins, now of Hartford, lived in Louisiana some years ago and served as an observer of the weather during three years for tho agricultural bureau under tho auspices of the Smithsonian in stituto at Washington, to which sho made reports. This was before the signal service was Instituted. She took the same meteorological observations—three times in each 24 hours that are now done by the signal service. Having lost her husband, sho leased the plantation and returned north, where she has taken an active part in the woman suffrage movement.

She Pears thr famrrs.

Miss M. E. Brad don, who has written 54 novels, quails before the camera. One hundred dollars and a royalty on every picture sold have been offered to her if she will oonsent to be "taken," but she is not tempted. She* knows and fears the resources of the snap shot, and when she is abroad Is constantly on the alert to protect herself from a possible, indeed a probable, kodak. In these days of ubiquitous buttons to be pressed, however. Miss Braddon cannot hope to escape much longer.

mr TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, SEPTEMBER 29,1894.

CHILDREN'S COLUMN.

THE WHIRLIGIG.

An Amusing and Instructive Toy That 0#n Be Made at House. Out a thin section, about one-eighth of an inch thick, from the top of a vial oork pass two fine needles through this at right angles to each other so as to form arms projecting from the ciroumferenoe of the oork disk. Ta eaeh end of these needles affix small rectangular pieces of oork of the same thioknesa as the disk, and to the left hand edge of each of these apply a thin ooating of sealing wax.

Cut small slioes of camphor, slightly smaller in area than the waxed edge of each of the oork floats, and having sof

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tened the wax over a candle affix the cam phor slices. When the whole is completed, it should be about *he proportion shown in Fig. 9.

Now procure a perfectly clean basin or saucer and nearly fill it with pure water. As everything depends on entire freedom from grease, tho basin must be carefully cleaned and the water above suspicion. For tho samo reason it is necessary to

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that the cork and needle whirligig Is free from oven as muoh grease as may oome from the hands, whloh should tx) very carefully washed, or, better yet,the whirligig may be immersed in ether for a moment just before placing it on the surface of the water.

When the whirligig la plaoed In post tlon, it will at once prove its right to its name by beginning to revolve at a rapid rate, and this it will keep up for from three to flvo days, according to Its size and the amount of camphor used.

To add to the novelty of the affair, thin paper waltzers appropriately colored (see Fig. 1) may be cut out and fastened on

the cork disk, or a needle standard may be decorated with a paper spiral (see Fig. 8) and made to give an oddly screwlike motion to the whole apparatus. In fact, an ingenious boy or girl will find the perpetual whirligig a basis for many novel inventions.—Youth's Companion,

Willie's Naaghty Foot.

When Willie's sister displeased him, he would kick her. His mamma told him she would punish him if he did it any more.

Now, Willie forgot what his mamma said, or maybe he didn't oare. So he kicked his little sister again. His mamma saw him do it from the window. She called him into the house. "Didn't mamma j3ay that she would punish you if you* kicked your sister again?" "Yes, ma'am," Willie answered.

Well, go into the dining room and wait till mamma comes." Then mamma went out into the yard There she pulled an apronful pf grass. She came Into the house with the big bundle. She found her little boy crying. He was very much scared.

She told him what a naughty foot he had. She said she must put a poultioe on It.

So she put the grass on Willie's foot and tied it up in an apron. She mode him lie down on the lounge.

Poor Willie! He was taken from his play. There he lay on the lounge, with his foot as big as a half bushel, fie cried, and he sobbed, and he moaned.

But that was not all. A gentleman camo in just then. "Why, what's the matter with Willie?' he asked. "Oh, he has a naughty foot!" his mamma said.

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Willie was so ashamed that he didn't look up. The Bible says, "The way of the transgressor is hard.'' And It means when a little child or anybody else does wrong punishment follows.—Uncle Lee in Our Little Ones.

A Prudent Maiden.

'B.VI/II.

Said little Gnsde Jones In very serious tones,

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always takes my parasol where'er I chance to gw, "Case if I went widout

I hasn't any doubt ,-*•

Dat taj siaQ would git rtt&ed. don't voa V.V V.

AnientUed Stepping

Chinese urchins in some parts of the empire pick up odd coins in a curious manner. On rainy days, when a lady ch&nocs to oome to a muddy place and does not wish to soil her shoes, she beckons to an urchin, who will. If he is In the business, drop down in front of her, making a temporary stepping stone, on which the lady reaches dry land again.

The remuneration received for this is so small that It would hardly tempt a New York "dock rat."

The Fires Will Make Work For Many. "What is the probable loss from the fire on pino stnmpage throughout the state?" was asked of a leading logger. "The loss is in one sense nominal," replied he. "You understand, fire does not burn the body of a pine tree. It only burns off the bark and foliage. The trunk of the burned tree is as good as ever it was, with this exception—the tree, after it is burned, must be cut the sucoeediug winter, elsd it will beoome worm 6atQ.ii -yygrthless.

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'It will kick his sister. I have

put on it a grass poultioe. Don't you think that will cure Its bad habit?" "Oh!" tho gentleman said, and he understood it all.

'This fire is a blessing! in disguise to labor. Every owner of burned pine stnmpage must go to work this ooming winter and cut every foot of it, and many of these owners are foroed to cut perhaps hundreds of millions of feet of stnmpage they would not otherwise have out for years to come. They are, you see, forced to employ immense crews of men they would not otherwise have had use for,"—St. Paul Globe.

imtf x,ie Gracious Czar. The czar, has just issued his approval of the institution of dueling in the army. The commander in ohief at Kiev, in issuing the new dueling code, says: "The ozar has conferred upon us a new mark of his imperial grace in granting us the right to defend with arms in our hands that which is most preoiouB to all of us—our honor. This gracious aot on the part of his majesty makes it our duty, still more than heretofore, so to rtgulate our oonduct and manners alike in offloial and sooial interocmrse as to obviate all inimical misunderstandings and frivolous quarrels."—Moeoow Let-

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