Show AND HOME AGE UNMARRIED WOMEN MIDDLE THE TH UE AND TODAY op OF YESTE YESTERDAY castern liro women lnell A Illy nee of Is lackin Z store stores keep non nonon n Ib ebnon yd touch with your ilone houle bold married by the time I 1 am lm I 1 lam still not if and like ill pou put on a gown cap a vIll thirty i 11 ial renounce bounce all the vany sister of all heard such if e we not a asin their teens have row gir not t props giren gk en forth such gentl we burle ae at fit that callow period cuts nt of or view of the girl of st sixteen x teen arwe the point deem it Is after all alia a as we may absurd of ata atavism cism or return to the old species ehi ill which our ancestors were trained ideas mairim matrimony ony and social extinction the only alternatives alternative presented to the vt kaible sible mind of tho the properly educated rs and thirty in the ancient rung sloay marked tho the last possible day chronology wt age J is to a it certain extent tt a aglace term depe depending very much upon condi conditions tiong of life and the plane of thone the ht in 1 the last century both med men pushed forward earlier were women 1 a a social and domes arena political s s i the into consequently often ran through tte and con ti their allotted gamut of pleasure and pain before they had bad reached threescore long 1 ne I 1 and ten ars is the ke middle aged sp spinster anster of our time holds no unenviable position nor does she her to seat herself incumbent upon feel lit it in a shady corner of the drawing room I 1 because fb rhe docs does not happen to possess the distinction a of a husband what whitt became of ter in the past it Is 13 impossible to bay my called oad old maid and that was she was probably Dro bably the endom end of her career now we seldom hear the term applied and would era erea be i la doubt a as to what old maids were to look like were it not for an occasional comic valentine in which the charms of this obsolete genus are set forth ju 10 bibb colors in viewing the limi limitless tims potentialities for and happiness that rise up lip be foit the intelligent progressive and healthy dingle woman we may w well ell sigh over so much w wasted tel force in the past when she wined to have no distinct place in social or domestic life except to do tho the things thai that no one else cared to do anno 11 wharton in liar pers bazar influence of or batern women W man under the title of womans comans Wo mans influence cc in anthe the F east ft t mr air J J 11 1 has written a series of stul lies of oriental women who have risen rien tofate to fame and greatness among the hindmo I 1 I 1 I 1 adoo and other races of Hin Ilin doostan among tie the women whose liTe sare are given are the ranee of argal the empress noor jehan the tile itanece of jod pore and many othera others who conclusively showed that seclusion has not been able to subdue their strength of will or to deprive them then of courage in the moment of danger in ancient days as its sir lepel grifiin points oat out in the introduction indian women enjoyed coul comparative ive freedom they attended with men social and religious festivals gad and received an iqual i share sharo of the edue education a of ahe day it was ats not until india fell from its ingli estate into comparative bar and when an era of wara wars and troubles set in that women in india lost their Cu allty wil wit b h men then the sulman conquerors set an exit mple of seclusion though says loir expel it may lie ile fairly asserted as that the pui illon of a married woman today way I 1 is r poc bally lally and legally more secure ure nil protect i d against arbitrary violence nce t ither to person or property than that 0 of t an in whose disabilities un athe few yea years were a reproach to our civilization it la remarkable that the women who have made a name in ind indian ian lii lipory ory have been sikhs Mahr attas or edans the tile reason probably being that these peoples generally defer deter the marriage of girls girn to a responsible age while among the two former races the tile seclusion if f women in Is much less strict at the present day when tho the pax britannica pert permits nit all nil women to go about without Ithol lt fear seclusion in the zenana is a mark of respectability and the tile women of the tile higher cIn classes ssell have not the slightest desire to go abroad but for all nil that their influence is very strong and occasionally as athe the begum of ha has s shown they are even now capable of ruling a state with the greatest Krea test ability and courage A physical dy iid you ever see e her I 1 mean the clean girl the girl who always looks neat and well vell binder As the old saying is clay stick to her but whether it would or not it for the simple reason that she never gives it a it chance if she were condemned to die on the tile scaffold shed sit up all ia night to wash and iron her fichu and shirts and handkerchief etc and she would be late at the ceremony on accorn account t of af her careful toilet tollet the clean girl la Is rarely a fashionable tirl girl she belongs rather to the old maid mald order or sort some mornings on raj my way down town in a street car I 1 ain amuse ilse myself by looking around for the clean girl I 1 dont always find her on the tile con arary I 1 see many things which surprise unbuttons rn me buttons oft off or hanging by one thread raveled graveled edges here and there rents fastened IP tip with a pin buttonholes too large to hold the button gloves ripped or lutat out at the finger ends and worse than these I 1 see sign of untidiness dried mud mili on the bot tom lomot of a skirt stains of food on the front of 0 a sack asack or jacket and going a little higher I 1 gee that face and neck have been tirelessly carelessly bathed and nuil that the hair Is not dot completely tree free from dust lust and dandruff but other mornings the clean girl cornea comes tripping in and I 1 am ant al always ways glad when she tales takes a seat beside me she smells as fresh as a it clover field and looks it too the scalp alp beneath her soft brown hair is tans all free mm from dust and dandruff as if she had just left it the hairdressers chair and her skin has that fresh wholesome look which the human epidermis presents when it Is kept well all acqua acquainted with both liot hot and cold water one otie to cleanse and the other to tone UP 1 l and aud bring the blood well to the surface abid id impart that glow which only cold water sier can give there maybe may ile it trace of ti ee ce po powder der on the clean girls face but it ig very fc light just juist barely enough to re move tle shine new york letter store stoves every good housekeeper dislikes to pee see a only stove yet often dreada equally the grimy hands acquired in the process of hacking macking A pair of thick gloves cloves Is 18 of courana cou cOur raea sea decew ary part of the outfit of any tiny ionian woman who mho does kitchen work and yet as she should to keep her hands dalgity dal lity ty asa As a rule bartoo far too much blacking oa on otovea A cake of blacking such ch aa as is 18 nold sold for eight centa ought to 44 t a it year tor for blacking one stove it if milre blanking i it will not be rubbed idao to the of the stove aa it lc be but remain fas a fine dust to be afterward aal blown about the kitchen aal and cause 0 gelle rally in rimy appearance so often seen in tl for kitchens afresh A fresh coat of a ack ek not iw be applied oftener than ollee be 4 A ben t hie lie ja anes ties shot should id also w cleaned out ont and the interior of the stove thoroughly y brultz us lul out bafo before re pu putting eting on lew I 1 blacking the old blacki blacking ng should t grabbed tile new cw coat t must now be and the stove thoroughly polished ine the tove inthey if they are of pol POI cn 1 iron hotl should ilot not be blacked but cleaned brit like ken a att acl el knife with loor or the nickel knobs and other ther part vart of f 0 I 1 tile move doubt bo be rubbed 1 l with a chun ault hainor inor old dmn shrunk k en efi nanncy in ur an a brush Is s one orie of t the he best things with which to apply blacking to ahtone a tov e A sti stiff ft brut brush h such as is 14 used for thia this purpose Is the brat best brush for I 1 polishing do Is h nt during the month polish the stove e with the polishing brush each morning just after kindling the th fire beep nn an old cloth always on hand in cooking to rub off any grease spot as its soon as it occurs if the tile spots aro are obstinate a few drops of kerosene oil put on will remove them the ground edges and nickel work of the stove store should be rubbed off at least once a week besides the monthly doming cleaning when the stove Is blacked home Aing magazine azine mothers keep abreast of lour your ChIl childrens drent there Is in enry every cla class community a ka of people who scein incapable of receiving any education outside their own limited experience life runa runs along cisily enough for them until their children grow up and begin to look forward to something broad er for themselves then 1 hen the battle for su prelacy begins in earnest the child seems ungrateful to the mother and tho the mother seems seem tyrannous to the child it is cry very hard bard for a mother who has laid down precise ideas of how her life and belongings belonging shill shall be arranged and finds that life falls fails to arrange itself according to her plans to discover cr that her own daughter is 13 oneff one of the chief opponents of her ideas and yet this must lie be exactly what happen happens s to the woman oman who fal falls Is to learn progression la is a law of the ani verbe and one who attempts to retard its w heels wheels is sure to bo ile crushed beneath them there Is something thing pitiless in the power that BO so often carries the child so far beyond the parent it is the tile law of heaven that love should go downward down ward to the child not backward to the parent A true mothers love is sacrificial of self and asks no return no childs love however tender can equal a mothers love and it la is not natural that it should A great deal lias has been said of the duty of children to their parents when eiery every thinking man and woman must rec that the chief obligation is duo due from the parents to the children one obligation is to keep abreast of the times time with the child KO so that the parent shall I 1 be a mentor in lit times of need a safe guide and companion not an incubus to do all this is to fulfill in the highest sense the trust which heaven has laid laic upon parents new ew york tribune Aln american erlean girl giris and loreign I 1 fen men do young women in this country like diplomats for the uniforms they wear tor for the foreign tongue in which they speak for their nearness dearness to ro royalty balty or tor for the possible chance that they will take them to court some day in ill the JI farst place PI a ce many ninny american young women do not care anything at all for diplomats but there are others w who ho like the social charms and acquirements acquire ments of adepts It really cally not many american young women lose their leads over nver a young ayoung person dimply because lie Is in the diplomatic service one point of resemblance between beaw een an all alien and a n native american la is that each is likely to bo be taken at hia ills true value it may maybe be that ft a title adds add to the market value but not many titles CO come pier er here and most of those that 10 lo do need rc gilding there 1 here is it good deal of tun fun in a it young foreign at tache and the young women who like fan fun and ti that rt Is what youthful society is for like the fun of the it is I 1 a kind of fun that represents the accumulated experience of centuries of young and old men who devote themselves to the busin business evs of making themselves agreeable to the tile people to whom they are accredited there arc are young women of course who are captured by the most in ane of foreigners and so there are insects that mistake a tallow dip for th the e sun not all confined to the male hex bex the truth 14 is that the tile world docs does not an and d will not waste much sympathy pAthy on oil an american youth who cannot make his way with voth an american girl against a riva rival whose sole claim to consideration la is tha that he is i a fo fon re igner Ilar pers weekly A saying that allus lo no 10 foundation ibo the oft repeated assertion that women are hard upon each other is almost without foundation there are two classes of women who are prone to b be e 11 severe overe I 1 in a their judgments of their sisters to the tile first be long those who owing in part perhaps to temperament and in part to force of e n va rosment ron ment have never come face to fa face ce with it genuine temptation and hence ft find nd it impossible to understand how another can be tempted to the second class belong those ahot v ho goaded by a consciousness of their own shortcomings are always on the alert to detect in others evidences of similar weaknesses but while re presenta tive of these two tw 0 classes are to be found in n every i ery community aud and in tit every grade of acial life they are happily in tho the minority the w world orld thank cod I 1 is full of true women tender pitying mother hearted women who are always mindful of the tile sisterhood of woman and who at all times stand ready to rebuke the slanderer to plead the cause of the oppressed and to u urge rge 9 gentleness and forbearance toward tho the weak and erring never in n tho the I 1 worlds history have the relations between women been BO 10 cordial and beneficent as now the long C in be behalf half of comans Iw womans wo mans 11 though not yet a success ho so farr far the ballot in concerned baa has steadily yr y r by year been drawing woman into a it be better A understand ing of women into broader and kil kindlier lIller sympathy with her in her aspirations pi rations 4 her perils and her needs and today everywhere it ta is woman that Is reaching out the tile helping liand hand to woman Pt patient jt motherhood the train training ing of children either girls or boyn boys kholl should id he ile commenced at that moment wheat the ke mother can see in them the first gleam of the knowledge of right and wrong when they know for the flat time that one action merits s whether it receive it or not reward and another punishment because 0 of f the action itself not because of their pare parents atwill nt will prior to this training can call be nothing more than disciplining but when n thia this time arrives the mothers rea real I 1 duties commence and from that moment date late her re les girls and boys require very much the same treatment in this matter of training and I 1 do not know that 1 I believe in making very much it any distinction in it the samo im amount mount of firmness of common sense of respect to in iu bidual character and regard for india individual id talents should be shown in the one cam as in the other the greatest care must mast be exercised by the mother as her children grow older to retain etain their affection to be one of and one with them to have her daughters talk over the tile people I 1 and nd especially the men they meet with her as they would with girl friend and to k keep p an over ever watchful any over their eirl girl and men friends alike eye I 1 believe most sin sincerely cerel y in girlsie gir friendships in the girl makes after she Is fourteen or fifteen mrs airs john job wanamaker iu in ladies home journal feminine trall hand oat on the he through lin lins s of tho the new york railroad girls new haven and hartford the dining car staff taff on form part of every a assist t the he cook tb they e 7 the kitchen girls bles and arul fruits ts clean and prepare cut bre bread ad and dressings isings make salads and ire 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