Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-11-26
A Woman's Iiaa of Men.

Men are strong They do things and
/ don't mind it. They can open doors in
I the dampest weather. They can unstnr
( trunks without breaking a blood vessel,
/ turn keys in moment which women
have lost their temper and l.ined then
fingers over for half an hour. look down
precipices and not be dizzy, knock each
other PROSTATE and not be stunned. You
may strike them with all your might on
the chest, and it doesn't hurt them in
the least mean if you are u woman. }
They 90 up stairs three at time They
put one hand on four-rail fence, and
leap it without touching. In short, they
do everything easily which women try to
do and cannot. Moreover. men are so
''easy to get along with" They are good
u .ured and conv eniently blind and be
ueyolent. Women criticise you, not un-
justly, perhaps, but relentlessly. They
Judge you in detail, men only in the
whole. If your dress is neat, well fitting,
and well toned. men will not notice it,
except a 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
briliiancy; but if you ara n good listener,
and in the receptive moOl, you can spend
an hour very pleasantly without it. But
a woman finds out in the first three min
utes that the fringe OIL your dress is not
a ILatch. In four. she. has discovered
that the silk of your sleeves is frayed at
the edge, in five, that the binding of the
heel of your boot is worn out By the
sixth, she has satisfactorily ascertained
what she suspected the first moment she
"set her eyes on you" that you trimmed
your bonnet yourself. The seventh as
sures her that your collar is only. ''imita-
tion;" and when you part at the end OF
ten minutes, she has calculated with toll
erable accuracy the cost of your dress,
has levelel eye1laSs at all your innocent
little subtrrfuges, and knows TO a dead
certainty your lrlst history, present cir
cumstances and future prospects. We'll,
what harm if she does? None in particu-
lar 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
shabby. and we all know the transitory
lldlllTc Ol SilllOOl. our lEil9t - lbb
dark, but you ransacked the city and did
your best, CANCELS 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 shopk keepers; but il is real-real cot
ton, real linen, re silk, or whatever the
materiallmay be, and you never pretended
it was Honitor or point; and if the lace Is
soft and white and fine, and sets off the
throat and wrists prettily. do not see
why it may not just rs well he made in
America for two cents yard. as in Paris
for two dollars. or two hundred. In fact,
this whole matter of lace is something
entirely beyond my comprehension
Why, have seen women who in the or
binary affairs of life were near TO a fault,
fall down and worship bit of dingy old
yellow lace that looked fit for nothing
but the wash-tub; and when remonstra-
ted with, excuse themselves by sayi ng,
"Why, it is fifty or five hundred years
old:"whieh may be very lucid explana-
tion, but cannot say | fully understand
and appreciate .it-Gaa Hamilton.