The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-04-09
About WOman-Some of the Facts and
Fancies of the Late Lord D1sraeli.

About WOman-Some OF the Facts and
Fancies of the Late Lord D1sraeu.
1 think that DIsraeli, in an old man
uscript, has treated the sex abomina-
bly,. Still 1 can not avoid occasionally
laughing with him, for his reflections,
though not always just, are generally
amusing. Here is first budget of
extracts:
"Coquets give their blossoms to
their lovers and their thorns to their
husbands.
"When 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 masculinep Surely, we are
justified in regarding her as feminine,
since she is essentially changeabla.
Men are people who make rules;
women are people who make eXcep-
lions.
ut 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 a
very different mold. The conclusion,
however, is obvious.
There is no marriage in heaven
neither is there any heaven in mar
rage.
"a beauty without any wit SEEMS
to me to resemble bait without any
hook on it.
81 believe there are some women who
wear petticoats simply lest they should
be mistaken for men.
"rhere is this difference between
passion and love 1.-THE one breeds
headaches, the other breeds heart
aches; but neither would be danger
Gus il there were no fools In the
world.
Love certainly increases the popu,
lation of the world. but L doubt
whether it adds much to that Of
heaven.
"Of all the women whom 1 have
known / chiefly remember those who
forgot themselves.
cit is quite possible for man tC
respect woman 80 much that she
will despise him.
IF man does not take his wife tt
church, the chances that sooner OF
later he will bs obliged to follow hel
thither.
adam in Paradise must have slept
very peacefully-until he had the mis-
fortune to lose rib.
"a woman is hattered by the love
even of beggar In rags.
Marriage is much like a spacious
bird-cage set in garden on winter
day. The ms would be out and The
outs would be in.
"Love, like fire, is liable to bt
extinguished by over-much stirring
"a good woman Wearfes a man; q
bad one worries him.
at is often not until woman feels
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 inquistive. Woman, In
in both senses OF the word, is a curl.
Gus animal.
! "Mansis substantive; woman is an
adjective.
addition Is the bounden duty of a
bachelor. When he has mastered it.
multiplication will follow as matter
of course.
"The two most difficult things are to
paint picture on running water and
to convince. woman who does not
wish to be convinced.
"Man sometimes calls woman a
goddess, but he would not love her ii
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 daughters of God must
have been a little too ethereal.
cit does not speak well for the fairer
sex that, as rule, he best succeeds
among women who has the lowest
opinion of them.
cit 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 generally marrie5 to get out
of it.
"The great argument against the
admission of women to public posi-
tions is her inability to be punctual
"a woman may not have a religion.
yet she always has dfity.
"Most women feel hattered when
they are charged with little weakness
of which they are not guilty-perhaps
they know that her faults are sc
often a women's chief charms.
81 man will return rather to heI
who has deceived him than to her
whom he has deceived.
sit is well to remember that wo-
mans eyes and ears are not all at the
same side of the head.
eff women were By nature what
! she tries to make herself by art she
would be dreadfullv disconnected"