Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-11-28
A wonAEs IDEA OF MEN.

Men are strong. They do things ard don't
mind it. They can open doors in the dampest
weather They can unstrap trunks without
breaking a blood vessel, turn keys in moment
which women have lost their temper and lamed
their fingers over for half an hour look down
precipices and not be dizzy, knock each other
prostrate and net be stunned. You may strike
them with all your might on the chest, and it
doesn't hurt them in the least, q mean if You
are a woman.) They never grow nervous and
cry. They GO up stairs three steps at time
They put one hand on a four-rail fence, and
leap it without touching. In short, they do
everything easily which women try to do and
canuot. Moreover, men are SO "easy to get
along with" They are good natured and con-
veniently blind aEd benevolent. Women crit
icise you, not unjustIy, perhaps, but relentless
ly. They Judge you in detail, men only in the
whole. your dress is 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 wien you are spoken TO, you can be
very comfortable 1 do not mean that men
can not and do not appreciate female brillian-
cy; but if you are good listener, and in the
receptive mood. you can spend an hour very
pleasantly without it. But woman finds out
in the first three minutes that the fringe on
your dress is not a match. 10 four, she has
discovered that the silk of your sleeves Is fray
ed at the edge; in five that the bidding at the
heel of your boot is worn out. By the sixth,
size has satisfactorily ascerlained, what she sus
pected tie first moment she set her eyes on
vou," that you trimmtd i your bonnet yourself
The seventh assures her That your collar is on
" Limitations" and when you part at the end
Of ten minutes, she has calculated Hiih tOlcra
ble accuracy the cost of your dress, has leyrled
her mental cve-g'ass at all your innocent little
suhtcrluges, ard knows to a certainty youl
mas; history, present circumstances and future
piospects. VI eli, what if she does? Nolhing
in particular; ii is only being stretched on tie
rSrk llle willie. You have no reason to be
ASHAMED, and you are Got ashamed. leuf
boots ure only beginning to be shabby, ard VT
all know tie transitory nature Of galIOon.-
Your hinge Is too dalk, hut ', u runsacked th,
city aud did your best, "ni gels could do n
more" You trimmed youI bonnet yourself
and saved two dollars, just what you INTENDED
10 do. Tie mtans wire worthy, and the cud
was wen" Your lace is not real, according
to the cant of tie shopkcepcrs; but it Is real
real cotton real linen real silk, or whatever TIN
material may be, and you never pretend'd /
was IIouton or pcin:; and il lace is s"it al''
white and fue, ard SETS IF tic throat and
wrists prettiIy, ] do rot see why it may nul
lust us we'll Gr made in \ a,erica for two cents
4 vuld, ns in Paris for two dollars ar tw" hun
died. In luct. Ills vhoIe matter OF lace i
something entirely bcyond the range Of my
comprehension. Why, have sen w"men wlic
in the old,rary afhrs If lie we've n'at to "a
fault, fall down aud worship bit Of dingy ole
yellow lace that looked fl fer nothing bat The
wash tub; and when demonstrated with cXcus'
themselves by saying, why, it is fifty or five
hundred years old;" which may be very lucid
explanation, but l cannot say fully under
stand and appreciate it.-GAIL HANHToN.