The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-05-31
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And she has been after him ever
since.
She il . person Of free extrac-
ton, being made Of mana rib.
I don't know why Adam wanted
10 fool away bis ribs in that way.
bat / suppose he was not account
able for al he did.
Il costa more to keep . woman
than three dogs and shotgun.
But she pays you back with in
tersst-by giving you house full OF
children to keep you awake at
night and smear molasses candy |
over your Sunday coat.
Besides, . wife is . very con-
venisnt article to have around the
house. She il handy 10 swear at
when you cut yourself with q
rasor, and don't feel like blaming
yourself.
Woman 10 . superior being in
Massachusetts,. There are about
six thousand more of her sex than
males in that State. This accounts
for the terrified, hunted-down ex
preston Of the single men who
emigrate from the East.
Woman was not created perfect.
She has her faults-such as false
hair, false complexion. ETC., etc.
But she is q great deal better
than her neighbor, and she knows
it quite well.
Eve was . woman.
She must have been model OF
. wife, for it cost Adam nothing to
keep her in clothes.
I don't think she was happy.
She could not 60 to sewing cir
elss and cir her information about
everybody she knew, nor excite the
envy OF other ladies by wearing
her new spring bonnet to church.
Neither could she hang over the
back fence and, gossip with her
near neighbor. All these blessed
things were denied her.
Poor Eve! she's dead now.
And the fashion she inaugurated
10 also dead.
Woman IL endowed with q tre-
msndous fund Of knowledge. and
= tongue TO suit
She has the capacity for learning
everything she was divinsly in
tended 10 know. and q few extra
items beside.
Young ladies take . good deal Of
stock in classes and learn fast.
When you see . young lady
student, With an absorbed look IN
her eye, and lips moving. you IN
derstand at once that she is mem
orisine . passage from Virgil But
perhaps q closer inspection will re-
veal the fact that abe il only chew
ing gum.
There il some curiosity in femi
nine nature.
For instance, ] once knew I
young lady who could easily pas
another one on the street withou
looking around 10 zee what sh'
had ON.
Poor thingl she was blind.
One of the worst habits womal
can get into is o riding habit.
But it 10 not much worse thai
the modern walking -dress, whicl
ladies persist in wearing on th
streets.
When . woman approaches
crossing she pauses for one AeetinI
instant, gives = sudden kick tina
would 6re the envy Of . Mexical
mustang, and then catches he
train on the Hy.
The average age of woman
about twenty-five. She never live
to be very old.
Some Of them look to be we
sdvaucsd in years, but you shonl
not judge by appearances.
If YOU will take the trouble t
ask q woman how old she is. 20
will get at the real facts Of th
: matter. And discover that she
quite young.
She seldom passes her thirtiet
birthday. About that time she b
gins to tear up certain leaves
the family Bible.
Scientific men are trying to e,
plain why women cannot thro
stones with the force and precisio
of the sterner sex.
This 10 glazing nonsense. w
men may not be able to thro
stones with force and precision
but they can hit the mark ever
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