The Portland daily press., 1879-07-26
Women.
Their Words and Ways.

Then we have the Philadelphia belle, who,
not so severely abstracted as the Boston belle,
or so alarmingly on the alert as the New York
belle hits perhaps about the happy medium.
Pretty shoes and stockings are a part of her
creed; she also wears silk mits to match her
costume, and goes to the hair-dresSer. Having
done all this, she is quite too sensible to let her
EFFORTS run to waste; she reads little, but
nothing more serious than Harper, and this
she holds herself ready at any time to relin-
qulsh III case OF the superior claims of what
may prove the beginning of an advantageous
settlement in life.-Saratoga Letter.
An Ohio woman writes: ''What is fashion
able for one is not for another, for fashion now
more than ever consists in adapting the cos
tune to the occupation, time and circumstance.
Ones dress should be suitable to and harmo-
nious with the general style of the wearer. 1
hope am not fearfully in the minority when
say think it is womans duty to dress as
well as her means will admit. Now that the
heated term is upon us a word on summer
dressing may be in place. The beauty of sum-
mer dressing is in its freshness and its COM
fort''
M. e. w. s." contributes an article on
American heroines to the Boston Traveller in
which she sets forth the following views; sit
may be that there has always been an original
American heroine coming out of the ground in
our new country. Pocahontas was admired in
England for her singular dignity, her repose of
manner She testified no ill-bred astonish-
ment at anything demanded to be presented
to the Queen as her only equal, and calmly
turned her large black eyes to look at the un-
accustomed splendors of the court as sheiwould
have looked at a new blaze of gold and scarlet
in an autumnal forest. Perhaps the American
heroine is in the air, new product like some
rare orchid. We see no such new develepment
among the men. Now will come in our edu-
Gated heroinesl Our violet-hooded doctorsi
The higher education of women never had
such food to feed on! The immense activity of
tho American brain, the free air of thought
the concessions of mighty man that if woman
can learn the alphabet she can learn ANYTHING
all this promises future most brilliant for
the learned American heroine. No woman
was ever injured by too much education Some
women have insulted learning by making it
appear pedantry, others have called an unsexed
strongmindedness learning, but that was be-
cause they did not know quite enough No
sufficiently learned doctor will forget to have
her hood lined with the most becoming colors.
NO student will wish to conjugate any verb so
thoroughly as she does dIno No American
heroine will forget, however she may study or
flower of some mans life, and that to make
him happy is the object for which she was
born America has created and raised her
rare and beautiful orchid simply that an Amer
lean man may pluck it and wear it next to his
heart"
An American woman writes: eat night
my husband comes home with rush, hangs
his hat upon the floor, throws his coat upon
the first chair, sends his boots flying in anoth-
er direction, works his feet into his slippers
while unfolding his paper, reads, eats, reads
again until bedtime, throws down his paper
for some one else to pick up and rushes off to
bed This is the programme with exceptions,
until Saturday night. Sunday morning he
bolts his breakfast and tears around while get |
ting into his Sunday best and rushes off to
church; comes home and bolts his dinner, (nev- |
er eats, reads little, sleeps little, and away
he goes again. When he tries to keen quiet.
ne Is sure to make more noise; If he starts to 90
around mud-puddle he is sure to step flat in |
to IT. II he crosses the room carefully he is sure
20 kick the table leg or fall over chair; and let
MN go TO a table where spare clean cloth has |
been spread, and you will see more of 'decora- |
tive art i'll five minutes than you ever dreamed |
could be accomplished in so short time He
is strictly temperate, naturally kind hearted, |
attends strictly to business and pays his debts
ike man; was once chatty and domestic, |
fond OF his family and home but has allowed |
himself to drift with this rushing reading hab- |
1t, until nothing could break it up short of |
breaking his neck. Fancy a wife trying to |
coddle such streak of lightning.
New York man went home last night and |
found his wife wiping her eyes with $4S lace |
handkerchief, no supper ready, the blinds |
pulled down, and the six-months-old baby
sprawling on the hall floor, screaming and veil
ing like calliope "For PHYS sake, wife,
what's the matter?" he asked in agonized
tones Has somebody attempted to kill you,
or rob us, or what? Speak, dearest speak,"
Obj began the wife; "boo-hoo-hoo!-our
DdearIlittle-oh! boo-hoo"' '!Speak, wife!
Don Don't d drive me crazy! Speak! ",oh!-our-
Answer me at oncel' 80 you brute! Boo
hoo! You've no sympathy for me- Yes. | will
tell you. Our dear little dog has been sent TO
the pound! There! do you know now, YOU
wretch?"-New York Express.
woman writes as follows to western
newspaper; Make home a home and
make 1t one in every sense of the word. NV
husband is great smoker; he loves to play
cards, dominoes and chess; he is at liberty to
smoke III any room in the house, and am
always ready and willing to join him in the
Inherent games. l endeavor in every way to
be not only helpmate, but a companion to
him, and the result has been that have and
enjoy his society; he prefers passing his even
ings at home with me to seeking other society
cannot understand why women will run the
risk OF losing their husbands society and love
merely for the sake of gratifying an over-fas-
tldious taste. If they do not like tobacco, did
they object to his using it during the days of