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Show WOMAN'S WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS. Ir)'crence Ht'twei-n Masculine lluue-kri lluue-kri pltii- and rniiliiino llourkvriliii;. It may not bo so in other cities, but in Vt-w York there is a constant aggregation aggrega-tion of unattached women into groups of from two to half a dozen, who hire a flat or ft house, as the case way be, and set up a homo for themselves. Hather fitrangely, too, the dame is true of unattached unat-tached men. Scores of these, too good looking youths of a marriageable age, widowers of middle age, and bachelor who never mention their age drift together to-gether into groups, and thone, too, go to housekeeping, independent of woman. Tho difference between the housekeeping of tho two sexes when they go it alone without the help of the other is amusing amus-ing as well an suggestive. The women wom-en bachelors come out strong in bric-a-brac. Japanese and China ailk wall hangings and household decorative art generally. They have flower pots in the windows, and not seldom a sleepy old tabby cat and canary birds. Eating arrangements they think little about. Tho ideas of the man housekeeper may le best expressed in the conversation I heard between two young men in a restaurant. res-taurant. One of these bad just goue to housekeeping in a Hat with throe other men. "Its arranged this way, you see," ho said. ''There are four of us. Kach puts in a hundred dollars toward furnishing fur-nishing the flat. We put a billiard table in the back parlor ami hire a coon to do the cooking. The first man that breaks the contract and marries forfeits his hundred dollars to the rest and must leao his share of the furniture in the flat." Tho billiard table, the "coon" and tho cooking were the uppermost ideas in tho young man bachelor's preparations prep-arations for housekeeping. . Have you read "Dreams," by Olive Schroiner, this wonderful girl, Olive Kchreiner? Men should look after their prerogatives. preroga-tives. In the last legislature of Wisconsin Wiscon-sin the chairman of the judiciary committee com-mittee reported adversely measure for enlarging the rights of women in that slate. Ho explained that ho could not recommend the bill, as it was contrary to that state of subjection which naturo indicated was tho proper one for woman. Thereupon his associate members of the legislature, even men like unto himself, laughed him to scorn and named him "Old-Man-Afraid-of-the-Girls." Thus tho masculine scepter is dropping to pieces, and men themselves seem rather to enjoy it Miss Anna W. Kelly, of Denver, was appointed reading clerk of the Colorado senate. She got tho place because she was the best reader among a number of competitors, six of whom wero men. Gertrude E. Fonda, a Vermont girl, won a fifty dollar prize for tho best original design by a woman for an article arti-cle of furniture. Iter design was that of a bookcase in the form of a book. I know not who wrote tho words bo-low, bo-low, but they are golden: "It is one of tho most deplorable symptoms of the ?tate of things which prevails in many societies when, if men and women who are not married are noticed to be united by close ties of friendship and sympathy, people assume at once that something is wrong between them. That assumption inriy be, and perhaps is, a natural growth of a corrupt and immoral society, so-ciety, but if we are to mend matters we miibt change all that." Yale college has received during tho past year gifts amounting to 1,1.11,072. Harriet T. Leaven worth lately bestowed on the college $1.1,000. And Vale has not even an annex for the education of women. Harriet I. Leavenworth, aren't you ashamed of yourself? If then; is ono thing ugli;r than another an-other it is the lambrequin around the fashionable basque this spring, hanging half way down tho skirt. Helen Campliell, author of "Prisoners of Poverty," one of the finest, strongest woman souls in America, has received the $'.'00 prize from the American Economic Eco-nomic association for writing the, best paper on "Women Wage Workers." We lire glad of it. |