Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-11-20
A Woman's Idea of Mon.

Men are strong. They do things ant
don't mind it. They can open doors in the
dampest weather. They can un,trap trunks
without breaking blood vessel, turn keys
in moment which women have lost their
temper and lamed their fingers over ior
half AN hour, look down precipices and not
be dizzy knock each other PROSTATE and
not be stunned. You may strike them with
ali your might on the chest, and it dOesn
hurt them in the least, Il mean if you are a
w0man.) They never grow nervous aud
cry. They gQ up stairs three at a time. -
They put one hand on a four rail fence, and
leap 1t without touching. In short, they
do everything easily which women try To do
aud cannot. Moreover, men are 50 easy
to get along with" They are good natured
and conveniently blind and benevolent -
Women criticise you, not unjustly, perhaps,
but relentlessly. They judge You in detail,
men only in the whole. If your dress il
neat, well fitting, and well toned, men will
not notice it, except few man.milliners.
and few others who ought To be, and TO
whose opinion we pay no regard. If you
Will only sit STILL hold up your head, and
speak when you are spoken to. you can be
very comfortable. do not mean that men
cannot and do not appreciate female bril-
llancy; but II you are good listener, and in
the receptive mood, you can spend an hour
very pleasantly without it. But a woman
tnds out in the first three minutes that the
fringe on your dress is not match In
four, she has discovered that the silk OF
your sleeves is irayed at the edge, in five
that the binding Of the heel Of your boot is
worn out BY the sixth, she has satisfac.
tOrlly ascertalned, what she suspected the
1rst moment she set her eyes on you, !"
that you trimmed your bonnet yourself -
The seventh assures her that your col
lar Is only Imitation and when you part
at the end OF ten minutes, she has cacua-
ted with tOerable accuracy the cost OF your
dress, has leveled her mental eye. glass at
all your innocent little subterfuges, and
knows to certainty your past history,
present circumstances and future prospects.
Well, what harm if she does? None 10 par.
tlcular. 1t is only being stretched on the
rack little while. You have no reason to
be ashamed and you are not ashamed. -
Your boots are only beginning to be shah
by, and we all know the transitory nature of
galloon. Your fringe is too dark, but you
ransaeked the city aud did your best, "an-
gels could do no more" You trimmed
your bonnet yourself and saved two dollars.
which was just what you intended to do
The means were worthy, and the end was
won. " Your lace is not real, according to
the cant Of the shopkcepers; but it is real
real cotton. real linen, real silk, or whatever
the material may be, and you never pre-
tended it was Honiton or point; and if lace
is soft and white and fine, and sets of the
throat and wrists prettily, do not see why
1t may not just as well be made in America
for two cents yard, as in Paris for two
dollars, or two hundred. LII fact, this whole
matter of lace is something entirely beyond
my comprehension. Why, | have seen
women who in the ordinary affairs of lie
We're near to fault, fall down and worship
bit Of dingy old yellow lace that looked fit
for nothing but the wash tub; and when re.
monstrated with excuse themselves by say
ing, Why, it is fifty Or FIVE hundred years
old" which may be a very lucid explana-
tion, but cannot say fully understand
and appreciate it-[Gail Hamilton.