The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1857-10-14
OF What Women are Made.
"Of earthly good. the best Is good wif',
A bad, the bitterst curse Of human life. +"


Simondes, poet, famous in his generation.
who hourished abou. four hundred years after
the siege of Troy, tells US, in noted satire that
the gods formed the souls of women out OF those
seeds and principles which compose several
kinds of animals and elements, and that their
good and bad dispositions arise in them ac-
cording as such and such seeds and principles
predominate in their constitutions. He says:
The souls of one kind of women were form
cd out of those ingredients which compose u
swine. A woman of this make is sloven in
her house, and glutton at her table.
A second kind is of the fox, foxy, and has
an insight into everything, good or bad some OF
this class are yirtuous, and some vicious.
third kind of women were made up OF
canine PARTICLES these are scolds, always
barking and snaIling, and live in perpetual
clamor.
|. il fourth kind were made out Of earth. Such
are the sluggarls, who pass their time in indo.
lenco and ignorance, hang over the fires whole
winter, and apply themselves with alacrIty to
no kind of business but eating.
The fifth species of female were made out OF
the sea, and are of variable, uneven tempcrs-
sometimes all storm and tempests, sometimes
all calm and sunshine. ...
The sixth species were made of such ingre-
dients as compose as ass, or beast OF burden |;
these are naturally Glothtul and obstinate, bit,
upon the husband exerting his authority, will
live upon hard fare and do everything to please
him.
Tho cat furnished material for seventh spe.
cies Of women, who are Of melancholy, for.
ward, unamable nature, and SO repugnant to
The offers of love that they fly in the face Of
their husband when he approaches them with
conugal endearments. These species of women
g likewise subject to little thefts, cheats, and
pilfirinSs. 1851
The eighth species Of females were takea
out of the are. These are such IS are both
ugly and ill-natured, and having nothing beau
tiiul in them selves, endeavor TO detract from
or ridicule everything which appears SO in
others.
The mare with flowing manc, which was
never broken to servile toll and labor, composed
a ninth specie of women. These are they who
have little regard for their husbands who pass
away their time in dressing, bathing, and per-
tuning who throw their hair into the incest
curls, and trick it up in the f.irest flowers and
garlands. A woman of this species is the very
thing for a stranger to loop upon, but very dct-
rimental to the owner, unless it be king or
prince who takes fancy to such toy.
The tenth and last species of women were
m9dc out of the bee and happy is the man
who ges srch a one for his wife. She is alto
ceth r faultless and unblameable. Her family
10, rishes and improves by her good manage.
mt. She brings him a race Of beautiful and
yirtuoIs children. She distinguishes herself
among her sex. She is surrounded with gyacrs.
She never sis among the loose tribe of women,
nor ras,es her time with them in wanton dis.
courses. She is full of virtue and prudence,
and is the best wife that Jupiter can bestow Oh
man.