The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-08
ABOUT WOMAN.
Some of the Facts and Fancies of the Late
Lord Disraeli.


Lord Disraeli.
London Letter in New York World.
1 think that Disraeli, in an old manuscript, has
treated the sex abominably. Still / cannot
avoid occasionally laughing with him. for his
reflections, though not always just, are gener
ally amusing Here is first budget of extracts
'Coquettes give their blossoms to their lovers
and their thorns to their husbands.
when a woman has lost one battle she rarely
wins ahotheP against the same foe.
"A blush often announces the departure as
well as the arrival of shame.
"Why do the Germans make the moon mas
culine! Surely we are justified IN regarding he1
as feminine, since she is essentially changeable
Men are people. who make rules; women
are people who make exceptions.
at is recorded that God said, Let us make
man in our image, after our likeness 1t would
perhaps have been impolitic in Moses to hint
more directly that woman was made in q
very different mold The conclusion, however
is obvious
There is no marriage in heaven; neither is
there any heaven in marriage
"a beauty without wit seems to me to re-
semble bait without any hook in it.
II believe there are some women who wear
petticoats simply lest they should be mistaken
for men.
There is this difference between passion and
love-the one breeds headaches. the other breeds
heartaches; but neither would be dangerous II
there were no fools in the world.
'Love certainly increases the population OF
the world, but doubt whether it adds much &c
that of heaven.
s'Of all the women whom I have known
chiefly remember those who forgot themselves.
ut is quite possible for man to respect .
woman so much that she shall despise him.
''1f a man does not take his wife to church the
chances are that, sooner or later, he will be
obliged to follow her thither.
Adam IN Paradise must have slept very
peacefully-until he had the misfortune to lose
his rib
"A woman is fatsered by the love even Of q
beggar in rags
set in garden on a winter day. The ms would
be out and the outs would be in.
Love, like fire, is liable to be extinguished
by overmuch stirring
"A good woman wearies man; a bad one
worries him.
ut is often not until woman feels that she il
too old to be loved by man that she seeks to be
loved by God
1.-THE word curious means quaint as well as
inquisitive. Woman in both SELL VI The word,
is q curious animal.
Addition is the bounden duty of a bachelor.
When he has mastered it, multiplication viii
follow as matter of course.
''fhe two most difficult things are to paint q
picture on running water and to convince a
woman who does not wish to be convinced.
Man sometimes calls woman goddess, but
he would not love her if she were one This
fact doubtless, accounts for the partiality which
was shown by the sons of God for the daughters
of men in the antediluvian period. The daugh
tiers of God must have been a little too ethereal
'It does not speak well for the fairer sex that
as rule, he best succeeds among women that
has the lowest opinion of them.
1T is perhaps extraordinary that more mar
riages do not turn out unhappily. since the WON
an generally marries to get into the world,
while the man as generally marries to get out OF
it.
''The great argument against the admission Of
women to public positions is her inability to be
punctual
"A woman may not have religion, yet she al
ways has deity.
Most women feel flattered when they are
charged with little weaknesses ofwhieh they are
not gulty-perhaps because they know that hel
faults are so often womans chief charms.
"A man will return rather to her who has de
ceived him than to her whom he has deceived.
ut is we'll to remember that a womans eyes
and ears are not all at the same side of her head
IF woman were by nature what she tries te
make herself by art she would be dreadfully dis
contented."