Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 25, 1894, Page 11

(O — TRUE IDEA OF WOMANHOOD Lady Cook, nee Tennio U, Olaflin, Discourses on the Bubject of Bexual Purity, YOUNG WOMEN SHOULD KNOW THE TRUTH wn and False M Dolng T o to Prevel ashion Notes. r Duty Un- Resulta—F Wherever we look on the mediaey art, we ¢ numberless concep. tions of the Madon and the child No two of them may » alike, yet they all por tray the painter's ideal of pure maternity and Joyous Mary may be a Duteh bl or an [Italian brunette, or even a hard German housewife of the old school; but, plain or beautiful, she s always honest, clear-eyed, placid content. And th child, the infant Hercules of the Christian faith, he must cleanse the Augaean stables of the world, the wrestler, the ser pent strangler, the heir of infinite tialities, lies toying with the breast of his How utterly human it The bride of God s rian peasant girl; the , naked infant. How wupremely happy, too, she appears, as she gazes calmly down nito the eyes of her hoy! What Joy is there like that of a mother? Joseph 1x not always present, and, w s only as a decent wkward, His office apears to lave Usuaily, if not alwiys, there is a Jook in his face exp of ddep tho as one would say, “This is () who was born to' redeem th a perfect e for all men a* 10 follow. seems 10 he a Coubt in his mind as to the conception, the beginning of the great mystery. The artist never knows exactly how or where to pose him. The child, however, is an obvious necessity, but holds a ondary plac Mary is the center. All eyes turn to | On a thou- wand canvases she stands out the saintly type of the glorified human mother. A8 the ages proceed our ideals either advance or retrograde. innocence. who poten- must o i no n church re and substi- rgin. for Bona D But, as paganism gave way to Christianity, so the mythical theology of nineteen centuries is rapidly vanishing under the firm light of modern scientific research. What is false will_be abandoned. The time has come when the Virgin must be respected and revered for the great good which she accom- plished by bringing the grand man, Christ, into the world, and henceforth all mothers must look to her as offering the noblest possible example for them to follow and fmitate, in order that they, too, may bring fnto the world pure and lovable children, worthy of being called the images of God There are in our country 3,000,000 wives at least, and unless poverty has compelled thou- kands of their children have never known their mother's breasts. million women, all vowed to the duties of maternity, and the greater number of them deficient in nourishment and its elementary require- ments. And why? Because they have un- rgone no kind of preparatory training: be cause they are ignorant of themselves and of their duties; hecause, too frequent they were wedded from sordid motives and to unsuitable men: because when love should have entered as a God, he came as a b t the untold wretchedn their ives, the dally miseri a de homes; to say nothing of shau adulterie: widespread prostitution, o diseases and early deaths. Our % reveal but a very small fraction of the existing social corruption. Could we see the whole at once we should recoil with hor- ror at the sight. Throughout all nature re- production is the highest function of every living thing, and to it all other functions are more or less subsidiary. Maternity is thus the supreme effort of the supreme or- ganism, neither to be_undertaken lightly or without forethought. Yet the mothers of our arrlageable girls have rarely given their daughters any information as to sexual re- Jations. Prudishness or false modesty re- strains, Consequently, their knowledge, ac- quired by experience, often comes too late to prevent unhappy results. The same girls may not study physiology. not Tearn how o produced, and how they are formed. are thus a ready prey of all who can take advantage of their ignor- ance. ‘They must SACRIFICED AT THE ALTAR. The period arrives when the girl—young, fair, innocent but Intensely jgnorant of all Bhe ought to know, is thrown by conven- tional marringe into the arms of a man whose habits and thoughts have nothing in common with hers. Even a roue—and roues nowadays are botii young and numerous— is not refused if he happen to lav gatisfactory Income. In the latter even if she do not become physically tain must become morally so—frequentl M lier offspring must inherit and at maturity the virus derived from its father. Lovely and innocerft as she may be, she is not the typical mother, her boy the Christ. Syria neve our d In that ignorant and region conld not have existed noets painters have had occasional il lier. The typical mother can ither be a slaye not a genitrix of She Is the free, the perfect woman, who b been embraced by the Divine man. All that substracts from the freedom of woman hinders her development and there fore lessens her value as a wife and a mother, For this reason we do not cease to advocate the necessity of equal rights and equal laws for the sexes before society can possibly improve in purity and in happiness and before woman can rise o her truc dignity. Although the duties of men and women differ the statue of both, in the eve of the law and of society, should be the same, and nothing should be required of the one which is not also demanded of the other, For instance, let man continue to vegard chastity as indispensable in women but let woman also require the same from man, And-let her, it modest, regard as a profound insult & proposal from any one whose delicacy and power of appreciating her purity have been destroyed by contact with lust and infamy. Too long has woman been enslaved, the toy and vietim of man But the dawn of her emancipation has come. A few have already seen the light bonds which enswathed woman's facult are being 1o ned soon drop ¢ Then we shall se Sie Only and limbed and strong of mind, joyous, serene, loyal, true of heart and purpose, irradiated with @& wise intelligence, despising shams and frivolities, tender with a woman's sweet- est. tenderness, loving shnple truth—a noble mother raised to a higher pedestal This {8 the true ideal woman, capable, too ot realization. This Is the true mate of the true man, and worthy of bearing the world's heroes, LADY COOK, I ee Tenuie C. Claflin “In re ce to Melba," from Paris writes, 1 met a hers the other day and asked her if not think it queer that the Ame thought her 80 cold and so void of acting tal ent. Well, she told me she w 't surprised et it, because Melba had a fauit quite com- mon with artists, that is that of singing to gome one she knows In the hall; and that she warms up only on the condition that she has triends listening to her. Strange faces treeze her and then she becomes indifferent Nevada Is another artist who must feel a triendly, sympathetic current between her and her audience. I remember when she sang ‘Mignon' at the Comique she answered her triends by telling them that she would sing different phrases for each one of them and think of them when she sang them. She told v hat when she sang ‘Connais tu le Pays' she always thought of me, because 1 was so fond of Italy “For my part, T think Melba made mistake 1o go to America In a crowd. She ought to have gone alone, in better tines, with a goad company, as Patti and Niisson did, and then she would have heen appre clated at her worth, and would have made money for her mavagers. 1t s not often that one meets with. such an eable volce as Malba's, and with such a superb method, and comparisons are: often odious. They ertainly were .n the judgmoeats be- tween ber lyrle taleut and that of Calve a correspondent Bre he L great aty Re- | works of | | to the fascinating gem, acting fs attrastive to the d it takes ucated car perfect aingl nd 1o my mind that is why one had more success than the other In Ameriea I should think a beeii able to trans ich as Melba has the way of improvement and trahsforma tion. It was not possible to see a more plain, insignificant type of an English woman than Melba when she first came to Parfs to take lossons of Marchesl, Her plain woolen dress, too short in the skirt, looked like the last year's cut of an obseure provincial town the combination of colors showed that she hadn't the least notion of what taste w in dress, and her hat looked as if it had been made for any one else’s head but hers. To day she fs not only the best dressed woman of Paris, but she wears her clothes as if sl were born with one of Doucet’s last cr tions, There fs not a thing that the most fastidious can criticise in her dress. Now I hold that a woman who has that faculty can_have the one of transforming hersels on the stage, and It {5 because she has such an exalted i« of music that she renders it mor she sings do act told me th rs now occupying the music loving public in America, Melba Is tha great est musical artist.” who has physically woman hersell The young lady who goes to Concordia Kan., to teach school will find a very exact 1g rule which was recently adopted by the rd of Education. It seems that several lady teachers have married in the midst of the when it was impossible to fill their This the Concordia school board proposes to regulate, and it did s cently by the adoption of the following lution “Inasmuch as it seems to be the custom of lady teachers of the public schools of Concordia, Kan., to contract and consum mate marriage without the knowledge or consent of sald Board; therefore be it “Resolved, By said Board of Education that should any of the lady teachers of the Concordia schools hereafter commit matri- mony during the term for which they have been elected, they shall forfeit a sum of money equal to one month's salary in case the groom is imported from some other state or county; in either ta hornet's nest young lady t ried to forel county, Missouri: one Moines, Ta., and the other young man a citi- n of Jewell, a_neighboring county friends of the young ladies say the order will not hold in court, and that if the board attempts to enforce it an injunction will be asked for on the grounds that the Board of Iducation cannot legally impose such obligations upon a teacher. ident of Des Traveling is more or loss a test of eve body's real disposition it must acknowledged that in the wear and tear migratory life men pan out to much greate advantage than women. A woman is so accustomed to having things her own way at home, says the Philadelphia Times, that she expects the same state of affairs to follow her when she boards a railroad train or ocean steamship, and she is woefully put out when she discovers that it is utterly im- possible for her to eat white bread all the time, If any one eulogizes another as a delight- 4 ompanion it is one of the high possible to be pald, f o reason that that one sentence inelu It means the said party does not ¢s wish to sit by the window or monopo- » shady side. It means that he or she on time, 1 amiably to the i the bag ment it 15 ex- ¥ to pra read: plans of others, docs not ars : - m pected and is always more than to blame, There are very few women tha test of a long Jo an grace- > wing, ; and trying cireu; how perfectly ds lightful she must be when everything g nly. Now that opals .have been favor, and it is understood that, instead of being omens of ill-fortune they are really lucky Ktones, it is easy to understand why supernatural agencies have been ascribed and it may be of interest to learn xomething of low to best preserve its brilliancy and beauty. There is probably no other stone so susceptible to outside influences as an opal: The stone is « soft stone, compared with other gems, and the flashing of its colors fs due to the refraction of light on the tiny scales and almost invisible fissures within the stone, which acts like a prism, dividing the light and throwing out all the varying hues of the rainbow. The play of color is Dullness and brilliancy succeed ¢ with the regularity of atmospheric varia- tions, moderate warmth having a distinet luminative effect, while much heat is ca- pable of robbing the stone of all its beauty by drying the moisture contained in the minute cells. It I8 a curious fact, too, says the New York Sun, that there are vapors emitted from the human body in certain diseased conditions that are capable of rendering the stone dull and opaque. And the fading of life and fortune and the opal may be simultaneous, but the stone is th nt victim of the condition of th W )t the cause of disaster. S Walter Scott, In his “Anne of Gelerstein, distorts the properties -of the opal * to heighten the uncanny element in his story, and to carry out his plot made use of the supernatural. To this story may be traced that “‘uncomfortable feeling” about an opal which people not at all superstitious in other matters cannot seem to shake off. 1f A man or a woman attempts to wear one, friends and acquaintances continually bring up the old superstition until the uncanny stone sometimes ceases to delight. But it is time this old superstition be sent flying after the old witch and her broomstick; for in the old days the stone was highly prized as an omen of good fortune. Most of the finest opals come from Hun- guary, but the principal vein has been ex- hausted lately, so that the gem in its finest varlety s exceedingly rare. The clear, bright opals with the lumingus fire come from Mexico. Any opal, and particularly the Mexican stone, will become dulled by wash- ing the hands with the rings on, and they bir - brilliant play of color. Th are not durable like diamonds, noj loy stand the same wear, restored to onstantly s as romantic hat took place dur. the early days of Seattle’s boom. There the usual dearth of women, 5o a ship started from the east laden with a unique freight. There were forty adventurous women on board, and they were all married within three hours of landing. They are even today referred to as the “ship women,” and many of them are living and enjoying the social triumphs of their accomplished daughters. Muny a heartache and many a disappoint- ment remains “after the ball is over,” and a great many girls ask themselves, as they subside into the retirement of Lent “Is 1t worth while all this striving an effort, this golng out year after v, endeay- oring with more or 58 to hold one’s n the swim?' “It is simply because body thinks that we ought, and we feel yes that it is incumbent upon us get marrfed,” sald a very plain- spoken young woman. Do I im- agine for one instant that the pater would pay my big dressmaker's bills without protest, or that poor dear mamma would sit for me, night after night, at the balls, and give expensive dinners, eic,, if it were not to give me ‘a chanc We know it and they know that we know it, although it is not openly spoken about, and it 1s called letting us ‘g0 out' and ‘giving us a good time,” while it really means that we are to get married if we can.” It seems that an entirely new industry has been opened to the energetic young man that will no doubt be emulated b the clever young woman. This idea emanated in the “wild and woolly"” west, and seems especially sulted to the sensible young woman who knows her own sex well It is that of wife hunting. About 100 youug eastern men, who have gone to Perry, OX%l., and different towns, to settle, and have ed, find Ute very lomely without s soolety, as everybody knows, says iladelphla Inquirer, there are ho to speuk of in th new townus. Therefore, the men have hit upon a novel plan. They have clubbed together an guged a Mr. Emmet Whit of Perry field of come east uud aclect wives for them, uy | could do anything in | THE _OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25 1894-8I their dutle prevent them from o person. Mr. Whitmer s In #lon the photographs of over. thirty g looking young men, who are pining for the charms of matrin He is making a bee- line for the New England factory districts, o his strange mission will cause a flutter in quiet orthedox New England It 15 a hopeful sign of the times that not a few spirited girls are rebelling against being put, as it were, upon the market. It f remains one of the incomprehens| incon- | sistencles of maternal s he ma Jority of mothers, hov g and de may be to their daughters, would | a8 a really good woman actually said the | other d see them unhappily mar- rled than not married at all, Mrs. Blizabeth Addison Williams will be 106 years old April 9. The anniversary day will be observed by a reunion of her six children, fifteen grandehildren, twelve great- grandohfldren, fifteen grea at-grandchil- dren, and a number of the e scent, Mrs. Willlams, wh was Addigon, was born in Delaware, and at an early aj with h parents in vehicles While coming westward she stopped at inn where General Washington being entertained for the and she suys she shook his hand. In 1804 she married John Wil- llams, and twelve children were born of the unfon, six of whom are living. he eldest is rs old, and th ngest Mrs. Wil- llams last year designed and comple she terms a centennial quilt. She sle teen hours a day, and smokes a pipe. #till vigorous and enfoys the use of all her faculties. A conspicuous incident to her long life Is the fact tnat she has never seen a railroad train or steamboat, al- she can hear the whistle of the loco- motive every day as it passes within three miles of her home. night, There are striped changeable moliairs for making long travelling capes and redingotes, A pretty conceit, in high favor among young women, are dresses and hats to match The fancy for fabries with black grounds and colored figures has brought out many twilled wools of various light weights, Dressy toflets of fine black woolen and silk-warp fabrics are prettily made up with yoke, crush collar, and belt of colored shot vel some of the French zephyrines and crepa- lines are now woven so wide that t be made into seamless skirts or long overdresses, Dark bengalines shot figured with a silk dot vests and sleevepuffs for of medium weight. Pointed wreaths of flowers are used trim berthas and the bodic of evening gowns. Upright bouquets of the bloss are worn on the shoulders. New sleeves are more drooping and limp than ever, and the long-shouldered eff are_emphasized by several rows of shir in the upper parts of the sleeve. Handsome new gowns are textured seeded satin in black or dark colors with black watered silk skirt frills, and full mutton-leg sleeve Any extra garnitures are of black lace. There are some new hopsacking weaves which are converted into costumes that are made up with black moire slecves, revers, blouse and directoire neck scarf, with long lace-edged ends and wide bows. Many of the spring patterns in satins, ne silks and silk and wool mixtures g changeable ghimmer- irecian with a color and make admirable woolen costumes effect, gns on their ing surface are small as a rule. Tan in all tones is still a favorite dye. Some of the tan cloths and fancy heather mixtur which include the tan shades in the me are made up with trimmings of green velvet shot with dead-leaf brown. Very attractive white wai with lac or embroidery, sertion, and all the models show the re- fined ideas of a tasteful designer combined with practical wear and easy laundering. Short w s made of wash- able fabric: tiful colors, in pink, ciel blue, cre ., and In stripes, checks nd fancy s, will again be bighly favored for bo y and country wear. Embroidery done by intricate machine processes, but having all the fine, dainty ef- fect of handiwork, is to be this year more than ever favored, as it can be so constantly utilized on both bodices and skirts of new gowns. The short directoire waist, with immense revers and cape collar, is still used by de- signers and dressmakers for gowns of wool bengaline and camel’s hair, and also the pop- ular Persian wools In changeable shadow stripes. s are trimmed edging and in- FEMININE NOTES. Mme. Mary Anderson Navarro is said to be an accomplished banjo player. Thirty women have just been graduated by the Royal University of Ireland. It is sald that the fashions in Lapland have not changed for 1,000 years. k The death is announced of Mrs. Austen, the sole surviving sister of Cardinal Man® ning, whose scnior she was. Among the graduates of the Drexel Insti- tute School of Stenography and Typewriting 15 a young Indian girl, Edna Baglefeather. women than men go blind in Sweden, \d Ireland; more men than women the United Nor in the rest of Europe and in States, ““Paidology” sounds obscure, but it is not. It is a new science—"child study'—which Mr. Oscar Chrisman of Clark university has promulgated. The French senate has just passcd a law which confers upon women engaged in busi ness the right of taking part in the elections of Judges of the tribunal of commerce. A woman writer who has won reputation writing under a masculine pseudonym is Mrs. Clairmonte, who rge Egerton,” is the author cf that very successful book, “Keynotes.” Miss A. G. E. Hope, a graduate of the Liverpool (England) Training school, and one of the first teachers employed by Mrs. Hem- cnway, is the efficient superintendent of the Boston cooking schools. Mis: ace White, the ycuthful daughter of Mrs. Sallie Joy White of the Boston Her- ald, inherits her mother’s journalistic ability and is winning her way to an honorable place among the younger newspaper women. The crown princess of Roumania inherits the t the late em- D) e already possesses a large collection of these articles, though it does not yet represent the value of that left by her ancestor— 000, Among the judges at the coming dog shcw at Madison Square Garden is a woman A. H. Whitney of classes of dogs upon whi well Informed wfoundlands and pugs hia Bracunlich, busin gineerin fining Journal of ork, was by a recent action cf the British Imperial institute made one of the tweny life fellows of that honorable organi- zation. 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