Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-06-19
A Prize Essay on Woman.
man came woman.

than three dogs and a shotgun.
But she pays you back with inter
giving you house full OF
children to keep you awake at nights
and smear molasses candy over your
coat.
Besides, q wife is a very nven
lent article to have around the house,
She is handy to swear at whenever
you cut yourself with a razor, and
don't feel like blaming yourself.
Woman is the superior being III
Massachusetts.
There are about 10000 more of
her sex than males in that state.
This accounts for the terrified,
hunted-down expression of the single
men who emigrate from the east.
Woman is not created perfect.
She had her faults-such as false
hair, false complexion, and so on.
But she is q great deal better than
her neighbor, and she knows it.
Eve was a woman.
She must have been a model vile,
100; for it cost Adam nothing to
keep her in clothes.
Still ! don't think she was happy.
She couldn't go to sewing circles
and air Ler information about every
BODY she knew, nor excite the envy
of other ladies by wearing her new
winter bonnet to church.
Neither could she hang over the
back fence and gossip with her near
neighbor.
All these blessed privileges were
denied her.
Poor Eve. she's dead now.
And the fashion she inaugurated
is dead now.
If it hadn't been for the cOnfound-
ed s.snaik'' perhaps the ladies Of the
present day would dress as ecOnoml-
calIy as Eve did.
But the only place where her
primitive style is emnlated Is in GER
tain portions OF Africa, where the
women consider themselves in full
dress when they have but a pos
tage stamp stuck in the center OF
their forehead.
What q beautiful example in sim
plicity of dress is shown some OF the
followers of fashion by that domestic
animal, the cat, which rises IN the
morning, washes its face with Its
right hand, gives its tail three tre-
mendous jerks, and is already dress
ed for the day.
Woman IS endowed with q tremen-
dous fund of knowledge, and a tongue
to suit.
She has the capacity for learning
everything she was divinely Intended
to know, and II few extra items be-
! sides.
Young ladies take a good deal OF
! stock in Classics and learn fast.
When you see q young lady stu
dent from Vassar, with an absorbed
look in her eye. and her lips moving
YOU understand at once that she Is
memorizing a passage from Virgil.
But perhaps a closer Inspector
will reveal the fact that she IS only
chewing gum.
A Woman may not he able to sbar
pen a lead pencil, or hold an um
brclla, but she can pack more arti
cles into a trunk than a man a mt
a one-horse wagon.
The happiest period of woman
life is when she is making her wed
ding garments.
The saddest is when her HUSBAND
comes home late at night, and yell
to her from the front door steps t
throw out q handful of keyholes O
different sizes.
There is some curiosity in feminin
: nature.
. For instance, l once knew a youn
lady who could easily pass anothe
one on the street without loOkin
around to see what she had on.
, Poor thingl she was blind.
One of the worst habits q woma
can get into is a riding habit.
:. But it il not much worse than tn
modern walking dress, which ladie
= persist in wearing on the streets.
When a woman approaches ii
crossing she pauses for one feetin
, instant, gives a sudden KICK thu
would fire the envy of n MeXica
:, mustang, and catches her train @
the fly.
:, The average age of woman is twel
ty-swo.
= She never lives to be very old.
y Some of them look to be well 81
vanced in years, but you should nj
~ judge by appearances.
- If Won will take the trouble to as
. a woman how old she is, you will g
at the real facts of the matter. ,
" And discover that she is qni
young. She seldom passes her thi
tieth birthday.
I'll About that time she begins to te'
~ out certain leaves in the family Il
$ bic.
u Scientific men are trying to G
10 plain why women can't throw ston
al with the force and precision Of Il
"A sterner sex.
=. This is glaring nonsense
~ Women may not be able to thrc
=. stones with force and precision, b
:; they can hit the mark every time wi
=. q grid-iron or q stick of stove WOO
" Experience has taught me that.
4. Women, as a general thing, q
~ hard to manage. L know but o
~ way to keep a woman in check.
And that is for her to dress in gin
ham.
tie "Never lie on your left side,' sa
of an exchange. No! If you happ
i'll to be on that side when you want
re lie TO your wife about the importa
to business that kept you at the office
n late, turn over.
&c A mule was killed out west I
Ill other day by a stroke of lightnin