Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-09-12
WOMAN.
Charles Reade's Notes About Her.

Charles Reade's Notes About Her.
From the Pail Mall Gazette
OF all the private note books Of the late Mr.
Charles Reade to which we have had access
| few are more entertaining than the Ms. volume
labelled "Fpmina, Mat Yera," for the year
1859 and 1860. A glance at this book ID al
that Is necessary to comprehend the methoe
| adopted by the novelist in collecting and ar
ranging his facts and his reflections thereon
and in preparing his gold mines Of observation
which he would work in after years when
building up one of his remarkable studies o.
| women. Every kind of literary material finds
q place here. Extracts from books, from his
tory, from police reports, pithy sayings traits
of character, memoranda of books to be read
passing comments, and other references bear
ing upon the subject follow each other In sor
of methodicai confusion, and form in the aggre
gate valuable commonplace book of feminine
arts and wiles and eccentricities. In the belief
that selection of these entries, taken more OF
less at random, would be of wide interest, we
here string some of them together without an
adopted in the original note book. They I ne e
cessarily appear disjOiDted, being evidently
jotted down as they occurred to the writer.
Characteristic Speech, mulieris, answer: 81
said he must be villain, and hoped he would
marry her." 1Milliner: ''It took three young
ladies to put on Mrs. Schroder's gown" Note
how every class applies polite terms to its own
people. Note also the exuberance of crinol.ne
mere revealed.-M,tiier de 7guliere (shrewd),
lie weakness Ol ner uODeIle1 being manifested
by the frequency with which she denied the
existence of a God" Rusee ct Bette Leoni Che.
reau (the girl of seventeen who stole Judge
Hua's child-her whole defence): "Je demande
pardon de Monsieur ct Madame Hua du maj
que je leur al fait." Acquitted! Women's de-
ienslve genius is wonderful ,-Delicote Organs
matter, lover 81 know there is a rose in the
ROOM" One found at a lady's girdle and ban.
lshed!-A bereaved mother reads a case of in.
gush Cod to give Child to a ae
that hated it. and to me nothing bur a little
crave Real Simptictu: II wonder what my
brother Jack sees in the lasses that he likes
tneIn sac well; for my part, wadna gle the COM
pany o ae lad for tDenty tdsses Sections wife Ito
nav .. ducks, my good man? How can
buy them when my husband hasn't buried a
sOul these three months" Richmond march
ing on Richard lay one night at his friends,
David LlWyd's, reputed seer. "Shall / sue
coed or fail?' In SO weighty matter the seer
asked for time. His wife found him grave and
perpiexed, and asked the reason. he told her.
him he will succeed gloriOusly. If he does, you
Will receive honorS and rewards; If he fails, you
VIII never see him again." Query: Which OF
these was the superior mind? The husband
probably. Truth or falsehoOd was nothing to
the woman. Consider this! lThen, in different
max exdey wrtts5 a, late later Perqd The
n woman sitting working was told by another
woman in course of conversation that the man
She betrayed no emotion; but her feet and
hands turned cold; she stitched on-the other
lady went. She sat and worked on for two
hours unconscious of the flight of time. Fact,
communicated by Mrs. Seymour. / think 1
know the woman.-Hopley thrashes his pupil,
MASTER Cancelior, for two hours, and kills him.
Mrs. Hopey, fetat twenty-tOur, aids him to con-
ceal the murder; long stockings, white gloves,
dodges originating with her. Hence one who
conlounds her sex with ours would infer she is
vile woman. / hear she is a sweet woman.
But in matters where those they love are con-
cerned they feel all on one sde-the side of their
affections, and cannot reason at all Men,
a WOnan'S OniniOp -
Inclination of women toward great male GRIM
inalS
Nan and Woman Mrs. Lee knitting stock
1ngs; her husband, curate, looked on and in
vented the stOcking-loom. Woman executive
man Infinitely more inventive. Il man might
use Uondn inceHectuotty on a grand scale; their
executive skill and inventive barrenness would
cooperate. Chdste OOmen more economical
IMAM average of men, trail women less so.
Gnaste women often economical, frail seldom,
The learned Oughtred's wife "was penurious
woman and would not allow him to burn can
dies after supper; by which means many a good
notion Is lost and many problem unsOlved.' -
DIR. Elizabeth Blackwell and her sister. Try
and know doctress. See whether it unsexes
her. An American dOctress cowhided a male
practitioner for casting a doubt on her skill.-
HGtter de mutiere. Martineaus reason for al
lowing female doctors. You can't help them
OF their own sex qualified by real study to tell
them science is difficult and life not to be trifled
with by quacks. n. B.-Much better worded
by Martineau in Once q Week.
Many are the memoranda made by the writer
to possess himself OF books dealing with the sub
Ject In hand, and remarks on them when read
thus: Lib. Notes on Nursing: What 1t Is and
What 1t Is Not" by Florence Nightingale Gen
ius here and revelations of character Lib,
thoughts on Women by a Woman Miss Mu-
loch. N.B.-Study this lady's novels: she has
noticed many things and absorbed others un-
consciously. She Is full of female traits ia re-
mark which Is repealed further on Most i'm
portant Got certain French works; man judged
by woman and woman judged by man. Such
J E,t balanced might lead to truth. NIB
Think of this. Error. To fancy that each man
has his own character, but woman only shares
In Joint-stock character. At that for quot
hOD'ines tot sententiP we ought to read quot uiri
tot sententi9; Ell? All sheep seem alike till we
study sheep. The Indians say one Sahib is SO
like another; vice versa. To us it appears ridi-
cuiOus to say HE is a thorough man, vet the
women say so.
Female trait They are so deceitful, they throw
a hyperbole. 1t transpires that when they 60
TO be photographed they paint their faces and I'LL
up every wrinkle; thus science, if it but touch a
woman, turns To fiction. The sun, if it but kiss
one OF EN-, becomes liar; SO drat the fades!
lNdme dm Burri: Thanks to the education you
men folk give us, We learn to cheat you when
ever we choose and the greatest fool of US all can
make you believe black Is white" Then fol-
lows the manifesto 81, Charles Reade, warn
all my sex against any woman who puts on a
nlIniny pimlny voice in high key. That
woman Is certainly an actress, probably q liar:
likely enough a thief. II she lowers her voice in
speaking 10 a man without altering her natural
key that proves nothing either way. Nature
inclines each sex to speak more gently to the
other sex. Never take a servant maid who
speaks out of her true key-if she speaks to Won
in five sharps and you hear her in three flats
fiction by musical composer.) Women are
petty sensualists-fiowers, scents, pictures,
tarts, ices, dress-and prefer opera to play as
more sensuOus and less intellectual. Their pas
siOns and their affections are both wasted the
former ON gowns and bonnets, the latter on
men.IC.R."