The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-03-05
DISRAELPS APHORISMS.
Rough and Ungallant Reflections on Wo-
man by Lord Beaconsfield.

Lord Beaconsfield once publically de-
clapd, writes a correspondent to the
New York World. that he ruled man
kind by despising it, 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
hahtual tone of thought than the con-
tens of a well-thumbed little Ms. note
book which literary friend of mine
has recently had the good fortune to
light upon while overhauling a box of
miscellaneous rubbish in a small shop
in tie neighborhook of Clare Market,
Lordon. This important find is a
small oblong 12mo volume of 120
pages, bound in faded Russia and some
what stained by damp. Inside the
cover is Disraeli's autograph, and nine
ty-aght of the pages are closely written
over on both sides by the same hand.
1t is difficult to assign date to the
Ms, but | should fancy from internal
evidence, that the greater portion of it
must have been set down about the
year 1896. Every line of it is interest
ing and eminently characteristic OF the
wrler. 1t is clear, however, that the
con.ents of the notebook were not in
tended for publication, at all events in
their present form, for Disraeli more
than once in his books dwells upon the
necessity that exists for the man that
desires to succeed to keep On good
terms with the fairer sex, and t is per-
fecty certain that many of these witty
cynrisms are enough to set every wo-
mar in the world III arms against their
author.
| sm 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 tC collect those which more partic-
ulary deal with the ever attractive
subject of woman. Let me, however,
disdaim sympathy with the more rough
and ungallant of the sentiments ex-
pressed. | think that Disraeli has
treated the sex abominably. Still |
cannot avoid occasionally laughing
with him, for his reflections, though
notalways just, are generally anus
ing. Here is the first budget of ex-
tracts:
'.Coquettes give their blossoms to
their lovers and their thorns to their
husbands
when a woman has lost one battle
she rarely wins another against the
same foe.
"A blush often announces the de-
parture as well as the arrival of shame.
why do the Germans make the
moon masculine? Surely we are justi-
fled in regarding her as feminine, since
she is essentially changeable.
Men are people who make rules,
women are people who make excep-
tions.
1t is recorded that God said: Let
us make man IL our image, after our
likeness. 1t would, perhaps, have
been jmpolitic in Moses to hint more
directly that woman was made in a
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 me
to resemble bait without any hook in
it.
Il believe that there are some wo-
men who wear petticoats simply lest
they should be mistaken for men.
There is this difference between
passion and love-the one breeds head
aches, the other breeds heartaches, but
neither would be dangerous if there
were no fools in the world.
Love certainly increases the popu-
lation of the world, but / doubt wheth-
er it adds much to that of heaven.
'Of all the women whom | have
known | chiefly remember those who
forgot themselves.
ut is quit possible for man to re-
spect woman SO much that she shall
despise him.
If 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 mis-
fortune to lose his rib.
"A woman is fiattered by the love
even of beggar in rags.
Marriage is much like a spacious
bird-cage set in a garden on a winter
day. The ms would be out and the
outs would be in.
Love. liNe fire, is liable to be ex-
tinguished by overmuch stirring.
1t is often not until a woman feels
that she is too old to be loved by man
that she seeks to be loved by God.
The word curious means quaint as
well as inquisitive. Woman, in both
senses of the word, is Curious ami
mai.
Man is a substantive; woman is an
adjective.
Addition is the bounden duty of a
bachelor; when he has mastered it null
tiplication will follow as a matter of
course
The two most difficult things are to
paint picture on running water and
to convince a woman who does not
wish to be convinced.
Man sometimes calls woman a
goddess, bat he would not love her if
she were one. This fact, doubtless, ac-
counts for the partiality which was
shown by the sons of God for the
daughters of men in the antediluvian
period. The daughters of God must
have been a little too ethereal.
1t 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 marriages do not turn out I'M
happily, since the woman generally
marries to get into the world, while
the man as generally marries to get
out of it.
The great argument against the ad-
MISSION of woman to public positions
Is her inability to be punctual.
"a woman may not have religion,
get she always has a deity.
Most women feel tiattered when
they are charged with little weaknesses
(which they are not guilty; perhaps
because they know that her faults are
so often woman's chief charm.
"A man will return rather to her
wlo has deceived him than to her whom
be has deceived.
''lt is well to remember that a wo-
nin's eyes and ears are not all at the
same side of her head.