Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-04

APHORISMS OF BEACONSFIELD.
Written tn the Famous NoveiiA:'s
Notebook.
London Letter to New York World
Lord Beaconsfield once publicly declared that
he ruled mankind 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 dis
tinctly shows his habitual tone Of thought than
| the contents of well-thnmbed little MS. note
book, which literary friend of mine has re-
Gently had the good fortune to light upon while
overliauling box of miscellaneous rubbish in a
small shop in the neighborhoOd of Clare Market,
London. This important find" is small oblong
12mo vol. of 100 pages, bound In faded Russia and
somewhat stained by damp. Inside the cover is
Dsraeli's autograph; and ninety-eight of the
pages are closely written over on both sides by
the same hand. 1t is difficult to assign a date
to the MS. but should fancy, from internal
evidence. that the greater portion of 1t must
have been set down about the year 1885. Every
line of 1t is interesting and eminently charac-
terstc of the writer 1t is clear, however
that the contents Of the notebook were not in
tended for publication, at oil events In their
present form, for Disraeli more than once in his
the man who desires to succeed to keep on
good terms with the fairer sex, and 1t is per-
fectly certain that many OF these witty cynicsms
are enough to set every woman in the world in
arms against their author.
/ am permitted by my friend to transcrlbe
some of the more striking of the entries in this
unique commonplace book, and propose In the
present letter to collect those which more par
ticularly and pointedy deal with the ever at
tractve subject of woman. Let me. however
III,
gallant OF the sentiments expressed. / think
that Disraeli has treated the sex abominaby
Still cannot avoid occasionally laughing with
him, for his reflections, though not always just
are generally amusing. Here il 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 another 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
culne? Surely we are justified in regarding
her as feminine, since she is essentially change
able.
"Men are people who make rules; women are
people who make exceptions
1T 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 mould. 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 resem-
BILE a bait without any hook in 1t.
IL believe that there are some women who
wear petticoats simply lest they should be mis-
taken for men.
There is this difference between passion and
1ove-the one breeds headaches. the other breeds
heartaches; but neither would be dangerous If
there were no fools in the world
Love certainly increases the population of
the world. but doubt whether 1t adds much to
that of heaven.
"Of all the women whom have known l
chiefly remember those who forgot themselves.
ut is quite possible for a man to respect a
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 misfortune to lose
his rib
"Awoman is flattered by the love even of
beggar in rags.
Marriage is much like spacious bird-cage
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 q man; bad one
worries him.
at 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.
1.-The word curious means quaint as well as
inquisitve. Woman. in both senses of tho word,
is curious animal.
MAN is a substantive; woman Is an adjective.
addition is the bounden duty of bachelor:
when he has mastered it multiplication will to-
low as matter Of course
"The two most difficult things are to paint a
picture on running water and to convince a
woman who does not wish to be convinced
Man sometimes calls awOman 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 tor the
daughters of men in the antediluvian period
The daughters of God must have been little
too ethereal
at does not speak we'll for the fairer sex that
as rule, he best succeeds among women that
has the lowest opinion OF them.
at is perhaps extraordinary that more mar
riages do not turn out unhappily, since the
woman generally marries to get into the world,
while the man as generally marries to get out
of it.
woman to public positions is her Inability to be
punctual.
ga woman may not have religion, yet she
always has deity.
''Most women feel fiattered when they are
charged with little weaknesses of which they
are not guilty; perhaps because they know
that her faults are 80 often a womans chief
charms.
IA man will return rather to her who has
deceived him than to her whom he has de-
ceved.
at is we'll to remember that q woman's eyes
and ears are not all at the same side of her
head.
"If woman were by nature what she tries to
make herself by art she would be dreadfully dis
cOntented."
Increase of Cancer
From the Popular Science Monthly
If the data of the registrar generals reports
are correct, cancer is steadily increasing in Eng
land, and the rate of increase is augmentlng
Thus, during the ten years 1S50-59 the increase
In the number of deaths from this disease was
2,000 showing an average increase Of about 2Oo
from 1860 to 1869 the number of deaths was
0.049, and the average annual increase AS;and
from 1870 to 1879, Ill 301 deaths occurred. with
an annual increase of 800. DR.. Charles Moore
attempted to show, in a book published In 1865,
that cancer thrives with good living, and that
Its increase was an accompaniment of the i'm
proved economical condition and vitality Of the
British people. 1t abounds where the conditions