Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1895, Page 16

16 “THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1895—TWENTY PAGES. CREATORS OF IDEAS The National Museum to Illustrate Woman's Inventive Genius. MOST OF THE ARTS AND INDUSTRIES Primitive Occupations Which Un- derlie the Structure of Civilization. CREDIT DUE THE SEX Written for The Evening Star. OMEN AS CREAT- W s of ideas! ‘0 show what the gentler sex has ac- complished in the way of invention is the purpose of an ex- hibit that is being prepared for Atlanta by the National Mu- seum. It will include no machines or con- trivances patented by women. The object in view is altogether different—namely, to illustrate the part which the female of our species has taken in the creation of the arts and indus that underlie the struc of civilizattc That she was actually the mother of mc of them will be demonstrated by a s of lifelike groups of sa in their primitive occupatior weaving, tailoring, shoemaking, pottery making, basket making, skindressing and farming. It is at the request of the ladies of At- Tanta that this exhibit is being framed. The groups are designed to illustrate the subject matter of a hook recently published by Prof. Otis T. Mason of the National Museum, entitled ‘“‘Woran’s Share in Prira- itive Culture."” opinion is that women ave not sufficiently appreciated in this world, and that they do not receive credit for a tenth part of what they have Gone in the building of civilization. While men have hunted and fought, they have been the conservators of the elements of rogress. In fact, are and always ave been the industrial sex. Women were the {i farmers. Even to this day among primitive peoples they do all the work in the fields. Before thoy learned to plant they gathered fruits, dug roots and collected seeds, especially the of grasses, which were destined to be trans- formed by cultivation and selection into valuable cereals. Abundant proof exi that they devised and built the first er: ries and storehouses for provisio protect which they domesticated the sat. Some at least of the animals most useful to mankind were originally domesticated by women. It was the wife who, wolf pup in the forest, brought it home for a plaything for the children. From ‘he savage wolf thus introduced into the fam- finding a young ily circle came the faithful dog, not only a@ guardian, but a beast of burden, a car- rier of packs and a drawer of sleds. The Eskimo woman takes the baby silver fox and feeds it until the best time arrives fo stripping it of its hide. The Pueblo woman kceps eagles and hawks in cages for tho!r feathers. Every native hut in Guiana is the abode of many species of birds bred by the women for their bright plumage. For Grinding Food. ~ For the grinding of seeds women in- vented an implement which has since been exalted to the service of the apothecary— namely, the mortar. Arctic women grind nothing for food,but south of Mount St.Elias the mortar and pestle are used for pulver- izing dried fish. Further to the southwar is a stretch of country devoid of t Faratus, until the acorn and of California is reached, when makes its appearance. It is found in the rica, where among all negro tribes work of grinding grains devolves upon the Nomen. In the old plantation days in the United States every farm had its mortar and pestle of wood for crushing hominy. Ransacking the vegetable kingdom, prim- itive women discovered various drinks fur- nished by nature. Thus the woman of An- gola is seen climbing a gigantic palm with a huge calabash tied around her neck. Tap- ping the tree, she suspends the calabash so as to receive the Juice, and a few hours later she takes down the receptacle full of palm wine. In many countries grow plants which in their natural state are polsonous or extremely acrid. The women of all these lands have learned independ- ently that boiling of heating drives off the poisonous or disagreeable element. The re- Moval of the poisonous matter from tapio- ca by means of hot water is a discovery ¢f savage women. Women were the first butchers. It was their business to skin and transport the meat of the deer, elk, moose, bear and buffalo slain by their husbands. They in- vented pemmican and the process of pre- Paring {t. On the plains of the great west the atmosphere is so dry that meat y be cured without salt. The squaws cut the meat into thin strips, dried it, and beat it to a powder with sticks. To extract the marrow, they smashed the bones with ham- mers of stone set in wooden handles, Sew- ing up the pulverized meat in sacks of buf- falo hide, they poured over it the melted marrow and other fat. Thus was made the pemmicun, formerly used as rations for United States soldiers; it was digestible aad wholesome, though’ ill-smeiling. Primitive Cooking Methods. _It goes without saying that women were the first cooks. The evolution of the cul- inary art began with parching, as we pre- pare pepcorn or peanuts. Then came roast- ing, or baking, in pits, with hot stones; next, mush or gruel, griddle cakes and boiling in pots. Bread, except as griddle cakes, was unknown in Savagery. One of the most important discoveries made by the aboriginal woman was that of soap- stone. it is a fact. famillar enough that stones in general crack and break when brougnt into contact with heat. Soapstone ts an exception. This was ascertained by the primitive female mineralogist. All over Eskimo land both lamps and cooking pots are made of soapstone. It is a rare substance, and savages deserve much credit for finding it. The earliest pots had no legs, but were proped up by loose stones. One sunny day a company of say- age women were chatting and chipping in @ soapstone quarry when it occurred to one of them to leave bits of stone project- ing here and there for legs. Happy thought! No sooner said than done. after that all soapstone pots had legs. Early women inventors were taught by spiders, nest-building birds, animals that store food, and workers in clay like mud wasps. Their quick minds were on the alert for hints from nature. Birds and beasts are bi akers, The women who made the first baskets were the earliest geometricians; the patterns they devised included triangles, squares. polygons and eycloidal curves. The designs which they conventionalized from nature are eagerly And gopied by modern weavers and jewelers From them the potter and the architect have obtained a thousand {deas. They have become classi whole body of decora- tion that has come vut of the textile in- dus on sitys, in women's brai 1 colors in textiles, finding out how to lyes from mineral and ve able sand how to fix them by mordant: covery of coal tar dyes commonly used were tho: age womer Women were the first ta e moved the tough tendons 5 and legs of various animals, dried them i the sun, and split them into f T they got thread for sewing. On fean con y knew how to cure make up th of fishes aud reptiles, as well as of all sorts of nd mam- mals, They prepared the dileg, tortoises and econ lend they made an r blouse fr skins of hirds sewn together, the feath n the person. Tha o ich tha skins ewing on the ed was a thorourh rations as puck nd Artists. ly | hide and uppers of dressed skin. Prof. Mascn says that the woman who invented the moccasin should have a statue by the side of Watt. The Eskimo woman is a bootmaker. She carries a part of her equipment of tools in her mouth, using her teeth to help various processes. The reti- cule, tobacco bag, traveling case, bandbox and packing trunk, all exist among say- ages, and in North America are made by women, chiefly from the pelts of animals. Women were the first ceramic artisans; they developed all the technique, the forms and the uses of pottery. : All through Latin America women in grinding grain rub one stone up and down upon another. The stone that is used to do the rubbing is the original of the familiar roiling pin, regarded by every civilized housewife as an indispensable possession. Of course, as the food-bringer, it became woman's duty in the earliest times to pro- cure salt. Many animals, before man, had learned to look upon salt as necessary to happiness. In the aboriginal larder it serv- ed for seasoning, but not for preserving. No savage ever thought of curing meat with salt; food so preserved is a product of civilization. The Indians dried their clams and oysters. In Mexico, in ancient days, the bi salt was got by boiling water from saline lakes In pots; it was kept in cakes or balls. The Aztec kings had a monopoly of salt, so that the Tlascalas, who kept their independence, were forced during many years to eat their food un- salted. In savagery women are hair cutters and sometimes shavers. Within a few hours after its birth an Andamanese baby has its head shaved, the operation being perform- ed by its mother with a sharp flint or piece of bottle glass. Women are the barbers in the Andaman Islands; they shave each other's heads, and also those of the men. It has been said that it was a godsend that the savage woman did not know how to make a light that would serve to work by at night. But the Andaman woman makes terches of resin wrapped in leaves, to be used in fishing and traveling. We were the discoverers of the valu- le food plants of the world. They were » first herbalists and doctors, gathering beginnings of the modern materia ica. Eskimo Women. Lieut. Peary, on a trip across Greenland, saw an Eskimo woman carrying a rough stone for & house foundation that weighed 300 pounds. It was slung in a rope of wal- rus hide across her back. The Eskimo wo- men of Point Barrow carry heavier loads than white men can. In Africa women do all the burden-bearing, acting as carriers of feod and baggage on every expedition. Prof. Mason says that Atlas ought to have bee a woman. If the originator of the th had not been a man, we should every- ere now behold an idealized female car- rying the globe on her back in a basket. Savage men, hunting and fishing, are much alone and have to be quiet; hence their taciturnity. But women’ are con- stantly together and chatter all day long. ‘Thus, and through their training of the young, they are the makers of language. Single blessedness is possible in savagery, but far tess happy chan in civilization. Pref. Mason defines civilization as “the ever-increasing possibility of the number of unmarried females that might exist in a community.” He tells a story of a young Eskimo wo- man, of remarkable physique and mental capacity, who held herself aloof from the young men. She sald she was as strong as any of them; she could shoot and set snares and nets as well as they. She had her own gun, bought from the proceeds of her trapping. She did not desire to do the work of a wife, preferring that which custom allots to the men.: When winter came, havi made a convert in a smaller, less athletic damsel, the two erected their own house and lived and traded in deflance of public sentiment. When on one occasion they were off on a deer hunt, outraged pub- lic opinion combined nm a mob which re- duced their winter quarters to a shapeless ruin. The néxt year they gave up the un- equal contest and returned to the ways of the world. RENE BACHE. VEGETABLE FAD. THE ‘The Tendency in Hats and Frocks is to Run to Greens. Millinery absurdities grow apace. It Is related that a duchess who resides in Paris nsible for the ridiculous radish and hat trimming. She made a wager a clubman that she could set any is respo! rut with fashion she liked, and to prove it appeared within a week with a hat “of crumpled aw adorned round the lower crown Brussels sprouts radishes, while at the back rose ing. aigrette composed of fe, watercress and tiny ing to their graceful vine. On the ver: of the broad brim nestled wee white mice with ruby eyes, nib- at a diminutive and admirably imi- tated ear of corn. In lieu of a bouquet de sage the witty duchess sported a dainty cluster of pink radishes and green peas fastened to the lace at her throat by a rake and hoe of diamonds.” It is said that she created a sensation when she appeared in this vegetable rig, but the originality of p bold and d sparazus a vo and they adopted {t at once. Hence the not always pleasing ensemble of the ultra fashionists. The tendency in hats, as in frocks, ts to run to greens. Green hats, green trim- mings, with a mixture of lace and chiffon and horrible monstrosities called roses, but h are as green as grass. This wearing of creen in summer is a sensible idea, though few women have caught on to the fact that green reduces the apparent high color given by too much caloric in the at- mosphere. Fiesh pinks and bright greens form a charming combination, and that is why so many women look prettier this sea- son than they did last. As an illus of the pink and green d, one that a dainty young matron wore recently will answer nicely. The skirt was of pale green lawn with six rows of pink beading at the foot. The blouse bodice was green silk with dots of pink, crush belt of green, and the lower part of the sleeves of the green. The cape was cf green with six rows of the beading in pink, and two ruffles of pale green chiffon. The hat of soft silky straw in a bright shade of green a big choux of green chiffon on one de and some wild roses on the other, with a band of black velvet around the crown. The effect was thoroughly charming. —— In His Paver. From the Detroit Free Press. I came along to the gate of a humble cabin in a town in Alabama just as an old negro handed a couple of jugs to his son, who was about ten years of age, and sai Now, Julius, yo’ gw cery an’ git a quart o’ n’ hurry back.” n the bey had gone I sald to the n down to de gro- asses in one ob dem ou didn’t tell him to get anything in her juz. Is he going to leave it at ‘ocery?” sah—gwan to bring it right back ."" he replied. ut why d two jugs to get a quart 1 Mit's Jess way, sah. If he only took one jug he'd be erful suah to bump | it or drap it an’ ‘iasses. If he takes | iwo © to drap de empty one ‘an’ dat makes de odds fing else yo'd like to ax | as de ; color and prevented bai s. It will HOME AND CHILDREN Some Fersons Why Boys and Girls Disappoint Their Parents. INFLUENCE OF THE DOMESTIC CIRCLE The House is Something More Than a Mere Abiding Place. AMERICAN HOME LIFE Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. DONT BELIEVE [es the American home life is just what it was when I was a boy,” said a father to me recent- ly. It was the con- tinuation of a talk on the subject of In- teresting one’s chil- dren in the home and its surroundings, which had grown out of a remark of one of his younger daugh- ters. School was closed for the summer and his daughter was restless and lonely. She had asked for permission to go to the other side of the city to spend the night with a girl friend of her own age—about fitteen—and had been very properly refused, since it was late, and she would have to go unattended. “You might stay at home with us one evening,” interposed the mother gently, as her daughter moved crossly about some It- tle duties. The only reply was a slamming about of chairs, and a hasty, “I hate this dull old house at night. Papa is never at home, the boys have to go out on the streets or be snubbed and fussed at for making a noise, and the girls all have some place to go where there is*some fun. But you just make me stick here till bed time, with not a soul to talk to. It wouldn’t be so bad if there was some one who wasn’t above talking to ‘just a girl.’” Then the mother sighed like a martyr, the father laughed at Laura's ebullition of temper, while the daughter, dnly a child in feeling, went off to have a little fretful weep all by herself. It was then that the father referred to the decadence of home life, and I thought about it long after we had all separated for the night. His boyhood was a sheltered one. There were but two children, end they were both studious, fonder of a book than ball bat, more interested in science than street scenes, and devoted to a father and mother whose sunlight of existence they were. Their life was ideal, in its easy réund of quiet pleasures found between the four walls of home. Away From the Home. Marriage with a “village belle’ gave life a new side for the studious man, and he rather liked the change for a time, but soon got tired of it, and leaving social du- ties to his wife, he began to seek quiet in his office which could not be found at home. Sons and daughters came, six in all, and the fashionable mother became a fashion- able invalid who must not be “worried,” so the older girls began to look out for them- selves; the boys, glad to be freed from home restraints, found congenial companions in the street, and the last of the flock, so many years the junior of the others, pettish, spoiled Laura, was the only one left to them, the others being old enough to select their own companions and pleasures, as American young men and women are large- ly left free to do after a certain age. It was rather late in life for that man to find out that his home, though hand- somely furnished, was not all that was recessary to make a pleasant abode for his children. His library was unat- tractive to his children, because never in his life had he tried to interest one of them in a single book on its shelves. He had taken pains to have them well educated, but knowledge of books does not breed desire for them. That is a plant of an- other growth entirely. His parents had read, too, and with him, nearly everything that was worth reading, and their interests became his, but he rel- fishly chose to read his own books and think his own thoughts, undisturbed by the superficial questioning of the untrained minds of his children or the profane inter- ference of the new class of thinkers with his preconceived and settled opinions and beliefs. His fine piano was seldom used, ex- cept to show off the mechanical perfection of his daughters, who were “brilliant” players, but utterly lacking in sympathetic execution. His mother had been a good musician, and listening to her perfect interpretation of great masterpieces had been one of the hts of his boyhood’s home. His wife was also a good pianist, but she stop- ped pratice when the first baby came, and the girls got no stimulus from her, and the one sentiment they held regarding her was to keep her out of the way, and not make her “nervous” or spoil her rest by undue noise, or excite her with contention. Domestic Life Neglected. Now, you know that is not a healthy Kind of atmosphere for children to grow up in. If the boys and girls of whom I have spoken had been at all viciously inclined they would every blessed one of them have gone to the bad on a gallop under such treatment. Home with them was simply a to eat and sleep in, and all their ures were to be derived from sources far removed from the home circle, in- stead of originating inside of it. The home should be a place that the children love and are loth to leave under any circumstances. They should be able to find in it everything that appeals to the better nature, and’ solace for all the ills outside of it. American home life is not just the thing it ought to be, and we have to acknowledge it. We live too much in public, and the characters of our children are developed in an atmosphere of excitement, nourished on artificiality, bolstered on show, and taught that domestic life is a secondary matter. They are led to regard every other phase of life more important and fuller of enjoyment than anything that is con- nected with home and its environments. Tiat is why American girls grow nervous and colorless at twenty-five, and American boys are blase at twenty-one. And all this accounts for the lack of repose in Ameri- can manners and the lack of moral stamina. “T hate this dull, old house,” was Laura's plaint,and with the directness of a thunder- bolt she struck straight home. The house was dull, despite its evidences of taste and refinement. I had listened to the ail- ments and ills of my friond Laura's mother until I found myself suffering out of pure sympathy for her. The plano was closed and the guitar, banjo and violin were shut up in their cases, the girls all being off on pleasure bent. The Neglected Boy The book cases were as “spick and span” as though they had never been opened, and I confess to a liking for books that look as though they held some interest for hu- man beings, even though they do get dis- reputably thumbed. The roses dropped their petals unheeded in the garden be- cause their perfume was deleterious to my friend’s nerves. Laura’s mocking bird rg blithely kitchenward, because its acket” disturbed the quiet of the front part of the house, and the dog or cat that would loaf ‘round in that region isn’t born yet. When dogs and cats shun a house it is a forlorn hope that you may find some one companionable in it It with some regret, but no surprise, that I learned from Laura's mother that the eldest son of the house was inclined to be wild and “stay out nights,” causing m no little anxiety. After ‘seeing his are-lool room I made up my mind that if I had been the son of that house I would have stayed out all the nights, always sup- I could be a boy and retain my position and love for bright, And I may as weil con: fess that I t e that boys have just as deep-seated love for pretty things and are as amenable to their influence as girls. I never could understand why girls should be so tenderiy rourished all the time, their consulted, their preJ- be left to grow like wepds, to be like them, too often, pulled up &nd cast aside after maturity, nobody seeming to realize their power for good or eyli until seed time is almost at hand. Boys need the peculiar refining influence to he obtained only from @ simple yet elevated‘and attractive home life. They need it, ff-anything, more than girls do, for the daughters of a house are generally able to make their own sun- shine and happiness at home, and boys can only shine in the reflected glory. Parents make a mistake that they have no playtime with their children. The hour or two in the evening, just before the babies are put to bed, which the true moth- er devotes to amusing and solacing her little ones, entering ‘into their joys and sympathizing with their-little worries and trials, should never be given up as long as a child remains at home. When they get too old to creep into her arms and <ob out the story of fancied wrong, they can yet come to her knees in the twilight and talk over the day’s work and worry with her, and be sure of her gentle counsel and ad- monition, Scme Duties of Parents. A mother’s sweet way of getting over hard places helps a fellow a lot, when he has about made up his mind that the world is a hollow sham, and who can doubt that the girl whose heart is a book of open pages to her mother is going to keep in the straight path? If these fretful, fault-find- ing, hypochondriacal mothers only realized how much sorrow for themselves, how much misery for their children, they are fostering in selfishly pushing their off- spring aside to permit indulgence in their own peculiar aches and ailments, or to be able to devote more time to the world, they would surely devote more time and motherly attention to the home circle, where their influence widens each day and leaves its impress on the world in what- ever is good and honorable and of high degree that comes to one who bears their names. Nor should this intimacy with the chil- dren be confined to the mother. It is just as much the duty of a father to learn the habits and tastes of his children as their mother. He should make himself their counselor and the able coadjutor of the mother. There should be no division of in- terests, no conflict of opinions between the parents to weaken the influence of either with the children. They should be ani- mated alike by a desire to obtain the best results in the rearing of their childrea. The very best results in properly rearing chil- dren can be obtained by interesting your- self in their pleasures and recreations. Parents who provide for and share in the innocent amusements of their children lay up for themselves a store of filial love and gratitude which they probably could rot obtain so surely in any other way. The red letter days of childhood are those in which father or mother took some especial pains to give the little ones pleasure. The hap- piest hours which memory holds sacred for most men and women are those connected in some way with the fireside of the pater- nal home, and to create this close bond of sympathy between themselves and their children parents must take an interest in the pleasures which are naturally the ruling element in the lives of their children. When parents are thus interested in the affairs of their children it more firmly ce- ments the bond between the brothers and sisters, bringing them more closely to- géther, and increases their affection for each other, Their common interests in childhood, carefully fostered by judicious parents, remain’ a commonality through life, be it long or short,-and the childish de- lights and pleasures constitute a tie of treasured memories, remaining long after the world and its busy work has been laid aside for the quiet, secluded retreat of de- clining years. SENORA SARA. —— SUMMER ‘IN THE CITY. udices and pride cai ce to, and the boys Opportunitics for Recreation and Change Open to Urban Residents. What blessed breathing places the parks are! How desperately unfortunate must those be who live in large cities where parks are among the luxuries denied the tofling thovsands. They can never get away from brick and asphalt, Belgian block and cobble stones. Washington has been favored in this respect above her larger sisters. As a summer residence it is only equaled by Washington as a winter residence. : It certainly is a sight worth viewing to go to one of the | parks on bright, sun- | ny, summer mornings and see how they are turned into nurseries and kindergartens by loving mothers and faithful nurses." The small “trundle bed weans tumble around on the grass in a very ecstacy of pleas- ure, while the older ones play with their dolls and_ trundle their hoops, ride their wheels, or look at their picture books, breathing the sweet-scented air. The cities where the yearling population can enjoy such inestimable privileges are few and far tween. pees York has her Central Park, but it would cost more than her poor could save in a lifetime from their scanty earnings to reach it. There are thousands of waifs there who never saw a blade of grass, who would be frightened out of a year’s growth at sight of an elm tree, and whose loftiest idea of heaven is a place where there is enough to eat and nobody to beat them. Kansas City, with St. Louis annexed, has but one poor little park, and the “keep off the grass” sigas are thicker than the trees. The noon hour in Washington always im- presses the visitor with the snimated scenes in its parks. The departments are emptied for lunch, and the parks lying close about the big white buildings are swarming with clerks and government em- ployes, who come out to get their lungs filled with fresh air enough to __ fortify them for the long hot afternoon’s work. They brighten per- ceptibly in the half hour that is theirs to cool their feet in the grasses, and it is a frequent remark among them that “Washington is simply heavenly in the summer season!” In the evening the broad walks, lMned with seats, are filled with well-dressed people out for an airing. But the prettiest of all sights is Wash- ington at sundown in summer. Stores and shcps, departments and offices are, most of them, closed, and Washington’s popula- tion turns itself ioose to have a good time. There are parks in the.city and parks out- side. There are suburban picnic grounds and splendid woods for shady strolls; then there are the long, tree-shaded streets, with over a hundred miles of pavement as smooth as a floor, for. riding, driving and cycling. There are cable and horse and electric cars to take thousands in any direction. Why, even the poorest can get a breath of the purest country afr—pine scented and health giving—for a six-cent round-trip fare! He can find, for that sum, grass that never saw a scythe, trees such as formed the temples of the Druids and flowers that grow as free as the wind for any hand to Pluck. ¢ > re As soon as may be,,after the stain and soil of the day is remo’ and clean clothes are donned, the éXodus to the parks begins. Sometimes the din- ner is taken in a big basket, and whole families go to the park or the woods to picnic under the trees. Perhaps it will be a merry party of half a dozen girls with thelr “chap,” who are out for a lark of the most hoydenish kind, with lunch enough for ail comers. Hereis a knot of eager botan- ists, and there a squad of incipient geologists, for, be it known, Washington parks and District of Columbia hills set forth a rich field for lovers of both “ol- ogies.” ‘There are bubbling springs of water, ice cold and pure as though filtered, with medi- cinal qualities of high esteem, free to thos who have a tin cup; there is the Zoological Park for the student of natural history, and last, but not least, there ts the smooth- ly flowing Potomac, along whose banks are spots of world-wide historic interest, and the prettiest and stanchest of pleasure boats to carry, merning, noon and night, all who are on loafing bent. WORLD WITHOUT MEN Pauline Pry Discusses the New Woman and Her Progress. INCREASING AS MONEY EARNERS What Will Happen When the Spirit of Home Goes Gold Hunting. MAN’S EMANCIPATION Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. AVE YOU EVER reckoned what will be the condi- tion of the last man on earth? I can tell you. He will be a woman. This is no idle speculation, but a fact deduced from of- ficial figures. I don’t pretend to say just when or how this. transformation — this amazonizing of hu- menity—is going to take place. But that the process is going on, Carroll D. Wright, the superintendent of the census, is my au- thority for stating. The statistics of occupations recently published by the government show that in the United States there is no business pursuit of men which has not been invaded ty women. Figures—cold, hard figures— shew, however, that during the past ten years the increase of women in all gain- ful occupations {s 47.88 per cent as against 27.64 per cent, the increase of men. These statistics do not include matrimony in the list of gainful occupations, so that every bit of this advance of woman in the race for the mighty dollar indicates the widening domain and accumulative power of modern: feminine independence. Like every other star of empire, this of woman’s rises in the east and gradually illumines the lana beyond—in the New Eng- land, central, southern and middle. states, varying according to states, from one-third to one-half the whole number of money makers are women. Out west, from Mon- tana to California, man is comparatively on top in this commercial war of the sexes. He outnumbers the “weaker vesse!s” thir- ty-three to one. The Primitive, Clinging Style. On an average, one-half the women of all the eastern States attend to their own busi- ness, while in the west the primitive, clinging style of woman, who presumably remains content to get married for a liv- ing, outnumbers the new woman about ten to one. That these figures are in support of my prophecy that the last man on earth will be a woman, there is this: You might sus- tain a hope of man’s future with the fancy that the marvelous progress of woman in the world of business merely indicates that nen are retiring from gainful pursuits to live on their female relations; that history is repeating itself and the.condition of the sexes relative to labor is reverting to that of the squaw and chieftain. But no such fond notion may longer delude you once you have the figures of the matter. ‘Tho sad, sad truth is, where a perfected civilization has raised the market value of woman, permitting her a constantly in- creasing producing power in the world out- side the family, men with the fruits of the same civilization are dying off. You may call it evidence of the law of the survival of the fittest, or anything you please, but in that part of the land in which we take our greatest pride men have disappeared from the face of the earth, until in Massachusetts the excess of women numbers 50,000, tapering toward the cruder humanity of the west, which remains rel- atively masculine in numerical strength. Not a Limited Sphere. The versatility of woman is something of a revelation as discovered by federal means. One-fifth of all the agricultural laborers in the country are women, and there are 226,227 farmers and overseers. There are 219 of the so-called fair sex mining coal— fancy their faces—and 133 women miners not otherwise specified. The poetic idea of the frailty of woman js struck dead with a record of thirty female quarrymen and thirty-two who earn a living as woodchop- pers. Then just to show the possibilities of the sex and assure the world that no branch of busin will suffer when the last man sinks in the process of evolution back to the shadows of the missing link, there are two women veterinary surgeons, 147 bartenders, 21 hunters, trappers, guides and scouts, 4,875 claim, commission, real estate and insurance agents, two whose gentle voices compass the labors of an auctioneer, 237 draymen and hackmen, 24 hostlers, 4 locomotive engineers and fire- men, 1 pilot, 29 sailors and 83 undertakers getting their fair hands In on disposing of the remains of evanescent man. A further fact, as told by figures of the new woman, that is in the line of a reve- lation, is that, as man’s enemy in business, woman is relatively least to be feared in the professional fields, where there is the greatest gabple about her triumphs. Of a total 104,803 physicians and sur- geons, there are only 4,555 women. In lit- erary and scientific pursuits the sexes stand 989 male, 2,725 female. There are but 208 women lawyers in the country to compete with 89,422 men. There are 1,235 women clergymen pitted against 87,060 men clergy- men—if you don’t mind the rhetoric of that distinction between the sexes frocked for good works. Some Hope for the Men. It gives one engaged in the business a new lease on life to know that there are no more than S88 newspaper women in the land, while 20,961 newspaper men form a conspicuous instance of the brave endur- ance of the doomed masculine nation. As teachers of music and art and other branches women are three times as many as men. Yet in colleges and universities the professors are 4,697 men to 735 women, which indicates that the higher education of men is not without promise in sustain- ing the tottering empire of their sex in earning a livelihood. Still, while as matters now stand, men practically hold the fort against women in the professions, this is not to say their condition is not falling off. Daring the pest ten years the advancing femalo foe has increased in the professions 75.84 per cent, while the corresponding increase of males is scarcely more than half that— 48.58 per cent. In every individual class of occupation ihere {s a similar advance of the glory of women, the percentage of increase in trade and transportation being the most remark- able. This is 263.25 per cent for women as against 71.75 for men. This, to be sure, in- cludes the increased number of female stenographers, clerks, bookkeepers, &c., that have come to be employed in trad Still there must be an increasing applica- tion of the energy of men in these same channels, as in spite of the very much greater percentage of increase of women in all branches of trade and transportation,in the less Important ones, the increase ‘of men in each instance considerably outnum- bers that of women. Thus appears another reason why the spirit of man no longer should be proud. He is not only diminishing in numbers in the business activities of the world, but what there is left of them, is of a quality that commands not high, but lowly places. The World Without Men. There are women who would take these census figures I have shown, and after using them to draw a diagram of the doom of man, would just settle back to enjoy the picture without a thought of who ts to blame for it. But thank a just providence, I am not that sort, and I want to point out to you that when the dey dawns that shail light up not a man left on earth to love, marry, divorce or In any way deceive, wo- men will haye nobody but themselves to reproach for the dull level of the life before them. The least assertion of Independence on sthe part of woman 1s a deadly blow aimed at the vital part of the whole human struct- ure, There is a sort of interior independ- ence possible for women and profitable for mankind—a detachment of the spirit from ———r MUNYON'S HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES: MUNYON'S Rheumatism Cure never ls to relieve in three hours and cure in three days. MUNYON’S Dyspepsia Cure is guar- anteed to correct constipation and cure ell forms of indigestion and stomach trouble. MUNYON’S Catarrh Cure soothes and heals the afflicted parts and restores them tobealth. No failure; a cure guaranteed. 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In the first place, as old Pompey said of preaching, “If everybody turn preacher who'll be the congregation?” If both wo- men and men are to rule in the world,what willl be left at home? Gone Gold Hunting. Babies and hired help, which means a rapid nurturing of humanity for a condi- tien of society in which the spirit of home having gone gold hunting in the world, the empty structure will fall in, and govern- ment incubators under civil service rule will be the sole, sad reminder of mother, home and heaven, passed from view. Measured in the light of the law, modern feminine independence is a certain sort of stealing. It is a law of nature for women to marry, and success in business does not interrupt’ the action of this inborn ten- dency. Neither does the self-assertive wo- man permit matrimony to interrupt her business, and for a married woman to en- gage in a gainful occupation on her own account. amounts to illegally appropriating to her own uses her husband’s property in her. This, too, mind you, while she con- tinues to demand the price commonly paid for such property in board and lodging and clothes. Nor has a man anywhere any hope of redress for this grievance, that is the ob- verse of his wife's glory. He can sue another man for allenating his wife's affec- tions, but how can he sue a profession or trade that engages his wife, though in ef- fect the two cases are little different. Also, he can sue a railroad company or anything responsible for an accident to his wife that deprives him of her services, and he can collect the damages awarded. But his wife deliberately deprives him of her services at home to sustain her independence in the world, and so far from collecting damages, he can’t usually collect car fare when he runs errands on her business. Still the world prates about the justice and greatness of the emancipated woman! A movement to emancipate men is stir- ring in the gentle bosom of PAULINE PRY, eee VARIETY IN BODICEs. The Style of Using Ribbons for Trim- ming Summer Dresses. Bodices, and more bodices! It looks as though women would tire of them after a while, but they don’t, and the infinite va- riety never palls. This is a remarkably elegant design for one. It will adapt itself to satin or silk, if lining is cared for, but will be equally as pretty in lawn or cam- bric or swiss unlined. The prettiest earni- ture, if made of any kind of silk, would be embroidery. If cotton, then use lace. The craze for extra bodices is shown in the re- mark of a merchant, who said: “Oh, we buy the ready-made waists by the carload Jots. It isn’t much use to bother with a thing less!’ A fad in trimming that is so costly as to confine itself to the rich is to trim the dainty mauve and pink with a dozen rows of very narrow satin ribbon. The effect is something elegant beyond description. A quaint fancy to go with these gowns Is a prim little cape, to be cross-folded in Mary Washington or Marie Antoinette style, made of the thin stuff, and sometimes frilled with the same, all trimmed with rows of the satin ribbon, or to make the cape perfectly plain and iinish with the narrow ribbon. Capes of all kinds will be in vogue all summer. They are not ex- pected to come below the elbo and though very flaring at the edge, fit like Paper on the wall about the shoulders and neck. Some of the capes are unlined, but most of them have a circular cape of silk or satin in some pretty color, or black, with a wide full fall of lace, silk mull or chiffon hanging over. ——.__ The Girls We Kvow. From the Ladies’ Home Journal. Let any one of us, for example, look among the girls of our acquaintance and see how many we know who, as daughters, turn to their mothers as readily and as naturally as turns a flower to the sun. How many do we know? Here and there one, yes. But are they in the majority? We rather find that the average American daughter is absolutely independent of her mother in all but: those things in which she must, of very necessity and of her very being, be dependent upon her. By far the majority of mothers have not the confi- dence of their daughters, and one needs only to be in any position which invites human confidence to know how true is such a statement. The English girl looks to her mother for counsel and guidance on every point in her life. Does the Ameri- can girl? The life of a French girl siways remains a part of the being which bore her. Does that of the American girl? The Italian girl's life is known to her mother almost as well, even in its most inner thought, as to the girl herself. Is that of the American girl? The gospel of the Swiss girl is that of solicitation for her mother, morning, moon and night. Is it the gospel of the American girl? The Dutch girl never dreams of telling her mother that she is going to do thus and go; she asks if she may. Does the Ameri- cea girl? In Germany the daughter's first thought, when she reaches proper yea is to relieve her mother of every domestic care and thought. Is it the thought of the American girl? Is there need that I, or any writer, shall supply the answ: to these questions? ee It Looked That Way. From the Indianapolis Journal. “Spillam’s bill came back today, the bookkeeper. “What did he have to say?” asked the merchant. “He didn’t have anything to say. It was ris widow who did the saying. She writ said ‘Don't you think that in sending a bill to a man who has been buried running three months you are rather {t into the ground?’ ” IF YOU FEEL “ALL PLAYED OUT” Take Horsford’s Acid Phosphate. It repairs broken nerve force, clears the brain and strengthens the stomach. RAILROADS. . PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. Station corner of 6th and B streets. In effect June 28, 1895. 10:30 A.M. PENNSYLVANIA LIMITED.—Puilman Sleeping, Dining, Smoking — Sgn = arrisburg to Chicago, Cincinnati, Indianay St ‘Louise Cleveland nd ‘Toledo. "Buttet Parlor ir to Harrisburg. 10:40 A.M. FAST LINE.—Pullman Buffet Parlor = to Cys Parlor and Dining Cars, Har- tisburg to Pittsburg. 3:40 PAL “CHICAGO-AND ST. LOUIS EXPRESS.— Pullman Buffet Parlor Car to Harrisburg. Si ing and Dining Cars, Harrisburg to St. Louis, Cincinnat!, Louisville’ and Chicago. 7:10 P.M. "WESTERN EXPRESS.—Pullman Slee} ing Car to Chicago, and Harrisburg to Cleveland, Dining Car to Chicago. 7:10 PM, SOUTHWESTERN EXPRESS.—Pullman Sleeping and Dining Cars to St. Louis, and Sleep- ing Car Harrisiurg to Cincinnatl. 10:40 P.M, PACIFIC EXPRESS--Pullman Sleeping Canandaigua, Rochester, and except Sunday. - for Elmira and Renovo, daily . For Williamsport daily, 3:40 P . for Williamsport, Rochester, Buffalo, and Niagara Falls daily, except Saturday, with Slee ing Car Washington to Suspension’ Bridge uftalo. 10:40 P.M. for Eric, Canandaigua, Rochester, But- falo, and Niagara Falls daily, Sleeping Car Wash- ington to Elmira. jew York and the East. 4:00 F ? IONAL LIMITED,” all Par- jor Cars with Dining Car from +Baltimore, for New York daily, for Philadelphia week-days. Regular at 7:05 (Dining Car), (Wining Car), and 11:00 (Dini 8:15, 4:20, 6:40, 10:09, and 1 day, 7:05 ‘(Dining Car) A. except 235 PLN ‘ 20, 9:00, 11:00 (Dining 12:15, 3 4:30, “6:40, 10:00, and 11:35 P.M. For Philadelphia only, Fast Express 7°80 A.M. week-duys. Express, 2:01 and 5:40 P.M. daily. For Boston, ‘without change, 7:50 A.M. week-days, and 3:15 P.M. For Baitimose, 6. 0, 11:00, and 1 Limited: 7:20, 9:00, 9:05, 10:30, 11:00 A. 5S Limited), 4 10:40, and’ 11: For Abnapoll P.M. dalt 9:00 A.M. . 5:00, 52% -_ On Sunday at 5, 6:15, 8:02, and 10:10 SEASHORE CONNECTIONS. For Atlantic City. 9:00 ( 11:00 A.M. week days, daily. For Cape Ma; ._ 10:00, 12:15 and 11:35 P.M: urdars only), 12:15 M. daily. t othees, st corner Of 13ci street and Pennsylvania iv and at the station, 6th and B streets, where orders can be left for the check ing of baggage to destination from hotels and res- idences., . M. PREVOST, J, R. Woop, General Passenger Agent. eneral Manager. Je28 "BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. Schedule in effect June 8, 1895. Leave Washington froin station corner of New Jersey gvenue and C st. For Chicago aud Northwest, Vestivuled Limited trains, 11.30 a.m., S.20 pau. For Cincinnati, ‘St. Louis aud Indianapolis, Ves~ tibuled Limited, 3.45 p.un., express, 12.91 night. For Pittsburg ‘and Clevelind, express daily, 11.30 a.m. ard 9.10 p.m. For Lexingtou and Staunton, 11.30 a.m. For Winchester aud ay stations, 25.30 p.m. For Luray, Natural Bridge, Boadoke, Knoxville, Chattanoug: muphis api New Orleans, 11.2 Pum. daily;’ sleeping cars through. For Luray, 3.45 daily. as For baltimore, X7.Wy x7.1; ih, dagerstown, alii and a5.30 p.m. For Boyd and way point: 40 pan. ay pouuts, 26.00, 28.00 ad.33, *5.35, 05," *9.40, m. For Gaithersburg and w m. al2.50, 30 p.m. VasLington Junction and way points, b9.00, =» DIS p.m. Express teains stopping af Principai stations onl, 1. For Bay Ridze 43.00, Sundays, 9. en ROYAL BLUE LINE F PIULADELPE All treins Mumiwatcd with Pintsch light. Boston and the ar), 7.00 Din {hbo “a2 8.08) (Pee 16.00. o'clock). ning Car), (9.00 ig Car), 8.00, 5.05 Sleeping Car open For Philadelphia, New York, vst, Week days (4.59 Dining Car), 8.00, (16.00 acu. Dining Dining Cur), 3.00, 5.05 Dining 2.01 night, Sle Sundays, (4.55 Di a.m. Dining Car), E inirg Car), 8.00, (201 0 for passengers, 10.00 p.m. Buffet Parlor Cars on ali For Atlantic Ci day trains. 10.00 and 11.30 a.m. 30 pm. ’ r Cape May, é Saturdays only, Sandys oniy, 4 aExcept § ily. tSunday’ only. trains. | from hotels and uster Co. on orders left ennsylvania avenie D. 15th street and at depot. CHAS. 0. SCULL, Gen. Puss. Agt. ak Baggage called tor residences Dy Union at ticket offices, Gig New York avenu R. B. CAMPBELL, Gen. Manager, £8. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. @tedmont Air Line.) Schedule in effect May 19, 1895, All trains arrive and leave at Pennsylvama Passenger Station. 8:00 A.M.—Dally- Local for Danville. Connects at Manassas for Strasburg, daily, except Sunday, and at Lynchburg with the > ‘ik and Western daily, and with C. & O. daily for Natural Bridge aud Clifton Forge ly—The UNITED STATES FAST 11:18 A MAL Iman Buifet leepers New York and Washington to , aniting at Char- lotte with Pullman Siceper for Augui ; also Pull- man Sleeper v lontgowery, with cons nection for New Orl e ; connects at Atlanta with Pullman Sleeper for Eirminghom, Memphis and St, uls. aak0! P-M.—Local for Strasburg, daily, except Sum- a ‘Daily—Local for Charlottesvilk |.—Daily—WASHINGTON AND SOUTH. TIBUL ay Pullman Vestibuled Sleepe man Sleepers Washington bury, Asheville a New York to Me phis via Birmingham, New York to New Orleans via Atlanta and Montgome-y, and New York to Tampa via Charlotte, Columbia and Jacksonville. Day Coach Washington to ile. Parlor Car Co- lumbia to Augusta. from Greensboro’ to Montgomery. TRAINS BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND ROUND ee EE HILL leave Washington 9:01 P nd 4:39 P.M. dally, ex s P ndays ouly, for Round Hill, Qaily, except Sumbty for Leesiurg 5 for Herndon. Returning, arrive at Weshington 8: A.M. and 7:00 P.M. daily, ond 2:25 P.M. daily ex- cept Sunday from Round Hill, 8:34 ALM. daily ex- cept Sunday from Leesburg ind 7.06 A.M. daily, except Sui from Herndon only. Through traihs from the south arrive at Wasbing- 2 AM., 2:20 P.M. und 8:80 P.M. Manassas Division, 9:45 A.M. dally, except Sunday, end A.M. daily from Charlottesville. Tickets, Sleeping Car reservation and information furnished at offices, 511 and 1300 Pentsylvania ave- nue, and at Pennsylvania Railroad Passenger Sta- tion. W. H. GREEN, General Superintendent. J. M. CULP, Trattic Manager. W. A TURK, General Passenger Agent. my20 L. 8. Brown. Gen. Agt. Pass. Dept. CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY. Schedule in effect June, 1s: Trains leave daily from Luion Station (B. and P.), 6th and B sts. ‘Through the grandest scenery in America, with the handsomest and most complete solid train serv- sf west from Washington. “B38 ~ DAILY.—“Cincinnati and St. Louts Special olid Vestibuled, Newly Equipped, Elec- tric-lighted, Steam-heated Treinu. Pullman's finest sleeping cars Washington to Cincinnati, Indianapo- lis and St. Louis without change... "Dining Car foom Washington. Arrive Cincinnati, 8:00 a.m.; ndianapolis, 11:30 a.m., and Chicago, 5:30 p.m; F 345, p.m, St ee Si DAILY. —The famous “F. F. V. Lim- 9 BM. DAILY ited) A olid vestibuled train, with dining car Cincinnati, Lexington and Loufsville, without change. 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