Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1862-11-21
A WOMAN,s IDEA OF MEN.


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 fiagers, over for half
an hour, look down precipices and not be
dizzy, knock each other prostrate and not bc
stunned. You may strike them with all
your might on tho chest, and it dossn't hurt
them in the least, U mean if you are wo-
man, They never grow nervous and cry.
They 60 up stairs three at q time. They
put one hand on four-rail fence, and leap L
without touching. In short, they do svery-'
thing easily which women try to do and can.
not. Moreover, men are SO easy to eet
along with" They are good d-natured and
conveniently blind and benevolent. Wo.,
men criticise you, not unjustly, perhaps.
but relentlcssly. They judge you in detail.
men only in the whole. IL your dress is,
neat, well fitting, and we'll toned, men will
not notice it, except few millincrs. and a
few etherS who onght to he, and to whose
opinion We pay no regard. IL you will only
sit still, hold up your head, and speak when
you arc spoken to, You can be very comfort.
able. do not mean that men cannot aud do
not appreciate female brilliancy; but if YOU
are good listener, and in the right receptive
mood. you can spend an hour pleasantly
without it. But a woman finds out in tho
first three minutes that the fringe ON YOUR
dress is not a match. In four, she has din.
covered that the silk of your sleeves IL frny.
cd at the edge. In five, that the binding OF
the heel Of your boot is worn ont. By tho
sixth, she has satisfactorily asccrta,ned. what
she suspected the first moment she " set her
eyes on YOU" that you trimmed your bon
net yourself. The seventh assures her that
your collar is only imitation;" and when,
you part, at the end of ten minutes. she haa
calculated with tolerable accuracy the cost of
your dress, has levcled her mental cye.elass
at all your innocent little subterfuges. and
knows to a dead certainty your past history.
present circumstances, and your future pros.
poets. Well, what harm il she doesY None
IN particular. 1t is only being stretched ON
the rack q little while. You have no reason !,
to be ashamed, and you arc not ashamed. +,
Your boots are only beginning to be shabby.
and we all know the transitOry nature Of
gallo0n. Your fringe is too dark, but you
ransacked thc city and did your best. s'sn.
giles 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 shop keepers; but it is real--real cot.
ton, rea! linen, real silk, or whatever the ma.
terai may be, and you never pretended it i,
was lionlton or point; and If lace is soft and
white and fine, and sets off the throat aud
wrists prettily, do not see Why it may not
Just as well be 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 compre.
henslon. Why, have seen women who in
the ordinary affairs Of life were neat to a fault
iall down and worspa bit Of dingy old yel.
low lace that looked fit for nothing but the
Wash-tub; and when demonstrated with ex.
cuse themselves by saying. Why, it is Atty
or five hundred years old )" which may b
very lucid explanation, but cannot say
fully understand and appreciate it.-GsN
Hamilton. '' wv