Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 26, Number 38, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 March 1896 — Page 2

BAB'S LETTER.

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NEW YOBK, March 11,1896.

Even the most learned of magazines thinks it worth while to take up the question of the wages paid to women, and whether they really earn them or not. I do not know why this old ques--tlon has been brought op, because 1 folly believe that wherever civilization exists the woman whose work is on a par with man's gets a man's salary. But—you see that will come—I do believe that, under many circumstances, women do more work for the same money than men do, because it is the nature of a woman to busy herself about that which her hand findeth to do. A business man engages a woman typewriter four days after her arrival she is not only doing all the work involved under the head of stenography and type-writing, but, ten to one, she is keeping the office in order—I don't mean sweeping it, but making it neat— running the letter book, and doing the hundred and one things that are required, but whioh a man stenographer would scorn to do. I don't know but that he is right. He is hired as stenographer and private secretary, not as a man of all work but women—well, my friend, women usually ueed the money so badly when they work for it that they are willing to give the helping hand wherever it is needed, and forget that by so doing they lessen the value of their services.

Do you think I am wrong? No, I am not. THE WISE WOMAN will do that which she is hired to do, do It weil, and, exoept in the case of an emergency, let the work of others alone. I agree with the learned magazine in one respect: Women will never be, physically, fit to compete with men. Their nerves are finer, utruug on a more sensitive chord, and, being women, they throw heart and body into whatever tliey may be doing with the result that, while it is well doue, the woman herself is worn out and fitted only for rest. There have been artioles written on how wouieu should work, how they should live, how they should eat, and how they should have their being, until one would think that the average woman was so drunk with advioe, she found standing on her feet with firmness somewhat difficult. Of course, that women have to work outside the home is a misfortune. But that they do is a fact. They can starve, but it is not a pleasant mode of death, and most of them have a strange fancy for clinging to life, poor as it is, that is wonderful. Mrs. Tom Brown, who last year was as merry as a grig, did not think there was a trouble in life and believed that Tom Brown WAS the greatest man on earth, to-day faces a problem. Tom Brown has failed, and instead of being man enough to go out and look for work of any kind, no matter what it is, he sits at home and moans and worries and blames his trouble on everybody but his owu shortsighted self. In the meantime, food, coal, and wood are needed. Poverty has if anything increased the appetites of the children and Mrs. Tom Brown sayp to herself, being a loving woman, "Poor Tom, he can't help it but I'll, try aud get something to do." Mistake number one. The chances are that if Tom Brown had seen his wife and children hungry and cold, aud realised that they would starve or freeze unless he worked for them, it might have made a man of him, and he would have started out and done something. Or tried to. As it is, he says: "I can't do anything the world is against me if she wants to, let Mary try."

WRITING FOR MAGAZINES.

And Mary does try. Poor, foolish Mary! She has read of the immense amount of money made by Mrs. Humphrey Ward, of the great sums earned by Mrs. Burnett, and she sits down and writes a story. And while she is writing the story, the Brown family go in debt to the grocer and the butcher, and the milkman and the baker. And the story comes baok to Mary, and she concludes that the editor of that magazine is a fool. And then it comes back from another, and she oonoludes that the editor of that magazine is Influenced by other women not to take the work of other women. Then that poor story oomes back from another magazine, and then Mary does what she ought to have done in th® first place, puts the story in the fire and warms the children by it. Do I underrate Mary's ability? No. But the woman who oan write a good, original siory is not treated as Mary is, and, in addition, she forgot that success of the pen oomes to the few, for, after all, my friend, the women who make muoh money with their pens are few, •ery few. What would I advise her to do? Put all the ohildren to bed and think awhile. Think and think, until ahe knows what ahe oan do beet. If her talent lies in the baking of cakes and the making of bread, and the oonoootion of dainty dishes, and this is a great talent, then, it Mary la wise, ahe will go to those neighbors whose oooks are poor, who have no knowledge of the great art of oooking themselves, and she will let them know that ahe will make for a proper prioe whatever they may need in thta speolal line. The devilled eggs for Sunday evening's tea the light, lady cake, that is a joy to the taste, a pleasure to the eyea, and not an insult to the stomach the meat salads that the men like, or the dainty puddings that the whole family enjoy, Mary oan make to order. Now, if Mary has a talent for oooking, and manages properly, she can, in her own little town, make an income that ought to ahame Tom, but whioh doesn't, though It will keep that awful wolf, Debt, from the door.

Possibly, Mary's talent Is with her needle. She oan take the finest of cam

brie needles, a very cobweb of thread, and hemstitch the daintiest of linens. Oh, no, she needn't embroider centre pieces or doylies or tea cloths the world is full of them. Instead she can go to little Mrs. Matron across the way, who is young and happy, and who is hoping for a greater happiness, and she can offer to make for her all the tiny little dresses, the pretty petticoats, the funny little caps that are to be worn by the most wonderful baby in all the world. And doing this work and doing it well will cause Mary's reputation to spread, and it is possible that she may have to teach her oldest girl to help her when the orders are many. And Tom? Oh, well, Tom is a man, and he will let Mary earn the money while he tells the men bow when a fellow is married he ought to be master in his bouse. And Mary will continue to love him. For such is the nature of woman.

CULTIVATION OF FLOWER8.

Or, else, it may be that whenever Mary sticks a flower in the ground, it blossoms and is sweet and the neighbors come to her to beg an orange blossom for the bride, a nosegay for somebody who is sick, or some white roses for gotoe one who has closed her eyes to this world and its worries Why should Mary write poor stories when she can grow good flowers? The boys help her make a pit, and papered it, so to say, with bundles of straw, and covered it with old glass, and Mary had hundreds of viojets for Easter Sunday as her offering when ber neighbors bad none. It is a curious thing, but flowers know when people love them ani grow and blossom under the hands that express tenderness in touching them. Mary may feel like selling ber soul when she takes money for these lovely blossoms, but she is not she is saving her soul by trying to be honest. You think these things are not possible? I have not told you of one case that in not true, and in whicb a really and righty Mary did not manage to earn the bread and butter, even if she could not compass the raspberry jam upon it.

THE WOMEN WHO ASKED BAB'S ADVIOE. I sometimes think it is the women who have been most gently bred who are most willing to do that honest work which their bands find for them to do. The world and all oi us in it have a fashion of jeering at boarding-houBes, and yet, I know no more honest way and no more womanly way for a woman to earn her living than by making a home for those who have none. Unfortunately, most women do not look at this in the right way. They start out with the determination to make as much money and give as little consideration aa possible, forgetting that everything put in the. market in only worth the market prioe. Consequently, she who offers to ber boarders an untidy table, a badly-cooked dinner, rooms not properly oared for, and none of the politeness whioh a hotel keeper shows his guests, need not expect to m^ke enough money to pay her landlord. Good oooking does not cost any more than that whicb is is bad, and only a little more care is required to achieve a dainty table than an untidy one. Some time ago a young woman came to me who was eager to make her living. She was alone in the world, except—and always when a woman needs to earn her living, there oomes that except—for one old lady who depended on her She had a little money and a few diamonds, and she thought she would succeed on a newspaper. I threw my whole soul in my talk to her. Generally, I do not indulge in that worst of vices—advioe—but in this case I did, and the result is, sucoess. This young woman rented a small house in the neighborhood of the big olubs she got a man friend in eaoh olub to permit her to use his name on her cards, which were business cards, and nothing else. They stated that she would rent comfortable rooms at a reasonable price that she would serve a light breakfast, if desired, and that a valet would oome every morning to attend those gentlemen who wished his servloes. The first month she lost money, but her diamonds went into pawn that her rent for the next month might be paid in advanoe, and at the end of that time she had made enough money to pay the rent, though the furniture and valet were still a loss. However, I uaed to see her and oheer her up, and we would have a lovely ory together. In four months' time her house was full.

NOW, 8HB IS MAKING MONEY,

the furniture is paid for long ago, and she says she doesn't believe any lodger will leave until he dies.

Because? Beoause she has given what she promised—value for value received. Instead of one small towel, strongly suggestive of a dinner napkin, the towel raoks In the bedrooms are oovered with great big ones, snob as men like, and there are damask ones, and rough ones, and Turkish ones. The rooms are kept Immaculate. The bath rooms, on eaoh floor, do not have, In one oorner a collection of brooms and dust pans, in another three or four trunks piled up, while the hot weather doesn't run until 12 o'clock in the morning, and no water runs after 11 o'clock at night. The tnb Itself does not require a thorough bath before one enters it, but there is a comfortable ohair, foot baths, plenty of towels and a bathtub' that shines so you oan see your ftoe in it. Hie only request made Is posted in the bath rooms: "After using the bath, gentlemen are requested to ring the bell so that the room may immediately be put in order.** She pays the valet so much a month she ehiups the men who require his services so muoh a week, and makes a good peroentageon this. Breakfast is served at a oost of fifty oents a morning. It oonslsta of a pot of the best ooffse, botiing hot, not tepid two French rolls,* pat of fresh butter, a pitcher of boiling, not tepid, milk, and all this la served on

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dainty napery and in delicate china. There are no rules and regulations. If Mr. Burgundy fanoies coming in at 2 in the morning and not getting np until 3 the next afternoon, that is entirely bis business, and as my friend refused to receive any but gentlemen who had refer encds in her house, she does not fear tbe scandals that occasionally arise ir houses where pefeple are not known. ,.

CATERING TO MEN'S WANTS. Do I think keeping a boarding house is easy work? I do not. But I think if women want to make money out of it, they had better find out what their boarders would like, and cater to the people who pay them. The. average land lady seems to regard her boarders as enemies, wretched people from whom she must try to get the most and give the least. My friend, this is not the way to succeed in business, and if wo men must go into business let them show what fine creatures they are by making successes of whatever they undertake. Miss Determination, who has taken her degree as a lawyer, scoffs at the very feminine ways by which I tbink a woman can earn her living. But I wonder how many cases *he has had that have been paid for I suppose a woman lawyer is all right, out I prefer a man to conduct any case in which I might be interested. Miss Chatter scoffs at my quiet ways of making money, for she is

WOMAN'S LOYALTY TO MAN. I I think we want something bigger, physically, than ourselves, to fill these positions Men may not compare with us mentally, but they are greater and, no matter what you say, you will have to acknowledge that this is true, physioally. They were built that way and we can talk about a new woman and a new century, and everything else new that we like, but it is tbe old man that we stick to. That one whose arms are strong enough to enfold us, when we are happy that one who is tender enough tg sympathize with us, when we are un* happy, and that one who is enough man and enough boy to be a rook of refuge in trouble, and an interesting oompanion at all other times. They are always talking about the new woman, and never about the new man. Thank goodness for this! For generations back, the same type of man has satisfied the best of women—tbe man who is honest beoause it is right the man who is big, mentally and physically because he is a man and tbe man who is tender and loving and considerate beoause you are a woman, and he loves you and in that love he has a queer little pity for you, beoause you are a woman and yet he wouldn't love you if you were anything else. Here's to the old man I You loved him your neighbor loved him and, with all his faults and all his virtues, and because he is what he is, he is ardently loved by BAB.

What will do It?

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General Grant's Prediction. "Though I have been trained as a soldier and have participated in many battles, there never was a time when in my opinion some way ocrald not have been found of preventing the drawing of the sword. I look forward to an epooh when a court recognised by all nations will settle international differences instead of keeping large standing armies, as they do in Europe."

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"Br—I want some sort of a premif

"Br—why—she hasn't said whioh she will be yet''—Cincinnati Enquirer.

Inflammatory Rheamattsm Cnwd in 8 Days. Morton Hill of Lebanon. Ind- say* "My wife had Inflammatory Rheumatism In ••err muscle and joint, her aatlterlnf was terrible and her body and faoe were swollen beyond recognition bad been in bed tor six weeks and had eif bt physicians but received no benefit until she tried the MYSTIC CURB FOR RHEUMATISM. It gave immediate relief and she was able to walk about In three days. I am sate It saved her life." Sold by Jaoob BaurjOOok, Bell A Black and all druggists, Terre Haale.

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a doctor somehow I wonder if there4'goon as this imitation blood gets in the aren't times when, like all other women, she is capricious and nervous and wishes she were dead, and I conclude that I would rather have a man, stupid though he may be, to attend me when am ill, to find fault with me if I have not taken good care of myself, and to make me conscious of the fact that I am going to get well. It may be only ignorance, but I don't like to thinks of Miss Determination in court pleading for some horrid wretch who is guilty, and for whom she is forced to lie. Honestly, I would rather the men would do the dirty work. That sounds very mean, but it is true. Idon'tliketo think of little Miss Chatter, who is going to marry your son or your neighbor's son, coming into a sick room with a businesslike air, feeling your pulse and making a doubtful statement. Oh, I am glad if she oan be a nurse I am glad if her fingers, so oool and soft, oan touoh the hot forehead and make it seem better, but I don't fancy women lawyers and women dootors and women preaohers

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Occasionally in cases of serious wounds where there has been great loss of blood the published reports state that "saline solution" was injected into the veins to supply the deficiency. The average reader, however, has a very vague if any idea how a solution of salt takes the place of blood.

Not to go into a complete analysis of (he blood, it is sufficient to note that of 1,000 parts, 780.15 is composed of water, albumen 65 parts, sodium and potassium 8.871, coloring matter (supplied by the red blood corpuscles) 188, leaving only some 12 parts to be composed of fibrin, fat, calcium and magnesium, etc. Where there is serious loss of blood a state of collapse sets in, beoause the normal weight of blood being reduced the heart's action is diminished, there being less resistance for that organ to overcome.

To counteract the result of shock and collapse it is necessary to stimulate the heart by restoring the normal weight, in other words to get it to work by giving it something to work on. As the analysis shows, of 1,000 parts of blood nearly 800 are composed of water and sodium, and therefore a plain saline solution makes a good substitute. The heart does not know the difference, and

It goes to pumping away as usual as

veins. The saline solution serves to tide the patient over the danger point. As the food is converted into chyle, new blood is formed, tbe red corpuscles are supplied rapidly from the normal tissues, and the saline solution is thrown off through tbe secretions in the usual way.

Formerly transfusion of blood y?as the means employed, but this always objeotionable method has been supplanted. The greatest objection to the transfusion of b?ood from one person to another was that to supply the necessary amount to restore the wounded patient it was inevitable that tbe volunteer should be almost as badly drained, so that the physician would have two patients on his hands where he had one. Besides there was always the risk of transfusing disease to tbe patient with the other's blood. Dogs and sheep have been sacrificed to surgery for this purpose, but most people prefer to use blood of their own manufacture to any imported from beasts or their fellow creatures.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

WHAT HEADACHE IsT

The Dang-er Signal that Nature Gives to Women.

It Signifies That Serious Female Trouble r.{yT Is Imminent..

Most female diseases manifest their presence by a headache. When a dull heavy ache in the head is accompanied by disordered stomach, bad taste in the eyes, pains groins, lassi ness, despon regularity

it is time to locate the trouble and remove it. We will tell you right now that the symptoms indicate positively that serious womb trouble is imminent.

Don't let this fearful disease get you in its power. If you are uncertain, write to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass., giving full symptoms. Your letter will be read, aoted upon and answered by one of your own sex, and without charge.

Note Mrs. Snyder's letter to Mrs. Pinkham. "Before taking your remedies, day after day I would read the testimonials of women who had been cured by the use of your Vegetable Compound.

At last I decided to write and tell you my condition. "I had been examined by physiciani who told me that my womb was very large and prolapsed, and also said there was a growth on the inside of the womb that must be cut out menstruations were so painful that I suffered for three days of every month, and it was impossible to get any rest. For two months I B. Pink stable

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