Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-10-06
WORDS FOR WOMEN.


the greatest cplcs ever written. For
this action It seems that she could not
plead youth as an excuse, although we
respectfully submit that the accounts
OF her age, ike everything else IN her
story, are rather apocryphai' More
reliable are the records which come TO
us from Aspas'a, whom ferie'es we'd
ded when she was 80 ana who' Tor ~
years or more, maintained an una.
minlshed reputation ior beauty ana
powers OF fasclnahoni; oi Cleopatra,
who charmed Marc antony when she
was past ~, ana maintained nor EN-.
pre- icr neariy Ten years longer anu
oi lhvia, VINO al 10 won inc near. Oh
Augustus, and better still, kept ~ 70
the last In modern history the famous
Diana OF PoltIers was 80 when sne won
the heart OF henry IL, ltnen DuKe o,
Orleans, ana Just half her agel, ana
she was considered the first lacy ana
most beautiful woman o. tnc coar np
10 the day OF his death: AFTER ner
came Anne OF Austria, Ninon de ! En-
clos, Blanca Capello Madame de MAN
tenon, Catharine ii OF hussia, Mile.
Mars, the famous French tragic actress,
vnd last and perhaps most beautnul Oh
were admired and loved long after
tbey had passed what is generally con-
sidered as the hey-day of woman's
charms. II is q noteworthy fact that
Q majority Of these wg!nen were either
French or lived in France and con
formed to French nnersand customs.
IL Is not probable that this Is because
the women OF France are any more
beautiful or retain their beauty any
longer than those Of other countries.
Indeed, some travellers have professed
themselves unable TO see the beauty
of the Frecnh women about whom
they had heard so much. The custom
in France, which opens the world and
all its pleasures. Opportunity for con-
quest included. to a woman only after
she is married. has caused French wo-
men to cultivate with care their
charms, both of mind and person. and
TO preserve them as long as preserya.
ton is possible. Fascination becomes
an art worthy of their deepest study.
To degenerate into the ahousehoId
drudge uncultivated, untidy and un-
lovely. which seems TO many of the
women of the Tuetonic races to be the
tvpe of female womanhood after mar
riagc. is furthest from their thoughts.
The state of affairs which this custom
produces, and of which it is an indica-
ton, is not to be either envied or imi.
tated but could American women
learn from their French sisters the art
of being charming, nay, fascinating, up
TO and beyond middle age they would
be the happier for 1t. To win hearts
is the easiest thing in the world; to
hold them one of the hardest. The
French women desire to win and hold
many her English or American sister
is, or ought to be, satisfied 10 win and
hold one. 1t is Just us hard to do the
latter as the former of these things, but
upon doing the latter depends the hap
piness Of every woman and her family.
She who does not put forth her best
efforts to do Il must bc content to look
upon her life as failure. n'a
very icw' P,ooapiy, u INC .n1usAnu'
VINO throw old shocs Ai'cr oi'ua, Par-
ues as tney are icaving nouc Anow
anything oil tne origin Oh the custom. custom.
Like almost al oi our common cuS.oni5
its oriSih Is ancient anu can pc 'r"ceu
TO bioie tunes IL was then tne Gus
tom ior tae prother OF cniiuiess iial,
70 marry ms wiuo" VI ~ ',"'s ~. nav
iect her, the ceremony was public, and
consisted IN her ioosing ms shoe from
n,s ioo. anu sPi's'g ~ n's nc, ,aoc, ct;s h;s
sninS u 'no snoo m.s . y noo' " .'s
apanuoning nli uohi,nlo' over nei, anu
ner Spr''apg ~ n's 1 aa'o nv, was an as's.' !,
.ion oi inuePeiusnsc, ihern was MI
a,'air n VI 'n's anu p.."cen Al, nuen W anu !.
poa]. IN so'ao parts u ,. .ne I'ls. s,.l !. y
was y custom " carry = supper pclore =
u newiy nnriieu .,s couP'v M ns y 'oken VI
VI .hc or,uc > suplec''on ny ise cqs.on as
!. eAis.s Win Win US Is very o'u IN hngAnu
anu oco'ianu. my usual Saying ~
.nat II Is thrown Ior luck, anu Una, rs
.nc luc', III lllis country, pu. orig g'''ai,y
u meant remuneration Oh au'norl'y
over tne oriue py 'nc parents. was
formerly custom among tne uerinahs