The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1883-10-13
About Women.
Matrimonial Memoranda.


Matrimonial Memoranda.
Never taunt with past mistake.
Never allow request to be repeated
Let self-abnegation be the habit of
both.
81 forgot" is never an acceptable ex.
cuse.
you must critlcise let it be done
lovingly.
Make marriage matter of moral
judgment.
Never make remark at the expense
of the other.
Give your warmest sympathies for
earh other's trials.
If one is angry let the other part the
lips only for kiss.
Let each try to yield oftenest to the
wishes Of the other.
English Girls.
A London paper, while not insensi-
BILE to the charms of the fair foreigners
who visit England, claims that young
Englishwomen of the middle and up
per ranks are physically stronger than
their compeers in any other European
country or in the United States. Well
bred American girls are famous for an
elegant and refined type of loveiiness (;
French ladies are the best dressed in
the world the youthful frauleins of
Germany have the best heads Of hair.
the Spanish girls the brightest eyes to
be found anywhere and in Florence
and Venice may be found, to this day
direct descendants of those Old-World
beauties still fresh and fair upon the
canvas of Titan. When, however, all
is said that courtesy to the foreigner
demands, young English ladies remain
stouter of limb, clearer of complexion,
and altogether more hearty than others
elsewhere. Plain food, sound sleep,
suitable clothing, exercise in the open
air, and the plentiful application Of
soap and water, are the hygienic open
secrets for the preservation of health in
the human being, and the use of those
aids, helped by climate favorable to
physical development and personal
beauty, have made young English wo-
men what they are at their best.
HeroIc Wives,
DIR. Edward Eggleston's important
historical paper in the September
Century, on Indian War in the Colo
nies,'' says of the heroism of the wives
of the pioneers 'The women o.
those times developed readiness an(
courage as remarkable as that of thu
men. The Swedish women, near th'
side of Philadelphia, while boiling soap
were warned that the Indians wer
coming. They took refuge, soap and all
in the fortified church, blew the conch
shell horns to alarm the men, and whe
the Indians tried to undetermine tn
building, ladled the scalding soap upo
them, and so saved themselves froI
destruction until their husbands arrived
The renowned Hannah Bradley,
Haverhill, in Massachusetts, who ha
more than her share of captivities an
adventures, killed an Indian who wi
rushing into the open gate of her hu
bands garrison, by throwing boilir
soap upon him aud when the sayag
came to capture her a third time, 81
saved herself by shooting the foremo
dead. In 1876, the battle which II
colt was fighting, in defence of Ha
ley, was decided by the promptness
the women, who loaded with small sh
and nails cannon that had just
rived from Boston and conveyed it
the defender these discharged 1t,
the dismay and rout of savages.
story is told of maid servant in ID,
chester who defeated an Indian sing
handed by the use of musket ant
shoyelful of live Goals. A young 6
in Maine, shut door and held it, a
thirteen women and children had I'll
to reach a blockhouse while the lndif
were chopping down the door a
knocking down, though they did
kill its defender. Twelve years al
Bickford's ingenious defense of
house, at Oyster River, some won
at the same place, initiated it. Th
being no men in the garrison, they i
an alarm, loosened their hair to apr
like men, and used their guns
briskly that the savages fled. In L
Esther Jones saved Heard's garr
in the township of Dover, in !
Hampshire, by mounting guard
calling so loud and confidently q
make the Indians believe that help
at hand. The stalwart Experi'
Bogarth, Of Dunkard's Creek,
y Pennsylvania, in hand-to-hand
4 in a doorway, IN which two white
were killed, slew three Indians wit
axe.