Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-02-26
DISRAELpS ApHORISMS.
Rough and Ungallant Reflections on To-
man by Lord Eeaconsfield.

Lord Beaeonsield once publically do
eiarad. writes 4 correspondent to the
New York lior}d, that he ruled man.
| kind By desp sing il, and his books, his
| speeches, and his actions combine to
| prove that his cynicism was real and
not merely assumed for occasional use.
Nothing more distinctly shows his
babitual tone OF thought than the con.
tents of a well-thumbed little MS. note
book which a literary friend of mine
has recently had the good fortune tc
| light upon while oyerhauling box oil
miscellaneous rubbish in small shoI
in the neighborhook of Clare Market,
| London. This important find is q
small oblong 12mo volume of -
pages, bound in faded Russia and some.
what stained by damp. Inside Eie
cover is Disraeli's autograph, and nine
ty-eight Of the pages are closely written
over on both sides by the same hand.
II y difficult to assign date to the
+ Ms. but | should fancy from internal
evidence, that the greater portion of 1t
must have been set down about the
year 1855. Every line of it is interest
ing and tminently characteristic OF the
writer. 1t is clear, however, that the
contents of the notebook were not in
tended for publication. at all events in
the L present form, for Disraeli more
tiian once in his books dwells upon the
| necessity that exists for the man that
desires to succeed to keep on good
terms with the fairef sex, and it is per-
4 frly hot yfaf fxr
/ cynicisms are enough to set every wo-
man in the world in arms against their
author.
am permitted by my friend to tran
scribe some OF the more striking en-
tries in this unique and commonplace
book. and propose in the present let
ter TO collect those which more partic-
ularly deal with the ever attractive
| subject of woman. Let me, however,
/ diseiaim sympathy with the more rough
jlnd ungaliant of the sentiments cx-
pressed. | think that Disraeli has
treated the sex abominably. Still
can not avoid occasionally laughing
with him, for his reflections, though
not always just, are generally anus
ing. Here is the first budget of ex-
tracts:
..Goqncttes give their blossoms te
| their lovers and their thorns to theii
| husbands.
when n woman has lost one battle
she rarely wins another against the
same foe.
"a blush often announces the de.
partrc rs we'll as the arrival of shame
why do the Germans make the
moon masculinea Surely we are justi
lied IN regarding her as feminine, since
she is essentially changeablc.
Men are people VINO make rules
women are people who make exeep.
tons.
1T is recorded that God said Lei
us make man in our image, after oul
likeness 1t would, perhaps, have
been impolitic in Moses to hint NOR,
directly that woman was made in {
very different mold. The conclusion
however, is obvious.
There is no marriage in heaven
neither is there any heaven in mar
riage.
"A beauty without wit seems to mt
to resemble bait without any hook il
it.
Il believe that there are some wo
men who wear petticoats simply les
they should be mistaken for men.
'Ihere is this difference between
passion and love the one breeds head
aches, the other breeds heartaches, bu
neither would be dangerous if Their,
were no fools in the world.
Love certainly increases the popu
lation of the world, but / doubt wheth
CT it adds much to that of heaven.
..Of all the women whom | hay,
known chiefly remember those wht
forgot themselves.
1T is quit possible for man to re
spect woman SO much that she shall
despise him.
If man does not take Ills wife tt
church the chances are that, sooner O
later he win be obliged to follow he
thither.
adam in Paradise must have slep
very peacefully he had The mis-
fortune to lose his rib.
"a woman is flattered by the 10y
even of beggar in rags.
Marriage is much like spaciou
bird-cage set in garden on a winte
day. The ms would be ont and th
outs would be in.
Love, lise fire, is liable to be ex
tingnisLed by oyermuch stirring.
1T is often not until a woman feel
that she is too old to be loved by MAJ
that she seeks to be loved by God
The word curious means quaint a
well as inquisitive. Woman, in boil
senses of the word, is curious ami
NAL.
Man is substantive; woman is al
adjective.
Addition is the bounden duty of
bachelor; when he has mastered it mul
duplication will follow as a matter o
course.
/ The two most difficult things are t,
paint picture on running water an,
to convince woman who does no
wish to be convinced.
j s'Man sometimes calls woman
| goddess, but he would not love her i
she were one. This fact, doubtless. ac
counts for the Partially which wa
shown by the sons of God for th,
daughters of men in the antcdiluvial
j period. The daughters of God mus
have been a little too ethereal.
1T does not speak well for the fairel
sex that. as rule, he best succeed
among women that has the loves
opinion of them.
1T is perhaps extraordinary tina
more marriages do not turn out un
happily, since the woman general,
marries to get into the world. Will
the man as generally marlies to ge
| out of it.
The great argument against the ad
mission of woman to public position
IS her inability to be punctual.
"A woman may not have religion
] yet she always has deity.
Most women feel battered whel
they are charged with little weaknesse
of which they are not guilty; perhap
because they know that her faults ar
so often woman's chief charm.
"a man will return rather to he
who has deceived him than to her whom
| he has deceived.
ut is well to remember that wo
mans eyes and ears are not all at th
same side of her head
IF woman were by nature wha
she tries to make herself by art sh,
would be terribly discontinued. !"
The Comte d Herisson, in his re.
Gently published s.Recollections of the
Siege of Paris, relates that Eugene
was compelled to leave the Tuileries in
such haste that she could only carry
away small travelling bag containing
her purse and some pocket handker-