The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-04-19
WOMAN'S HARD LOT.
Their Trials and Tribulations in
Their Life Journey.

Women have a very hard time, no
matter how you look at it.
How would a military man like to
be on dress parade from the cradle to
the grave? That's what a woman has
to be.
A mar can luxuriate in mental dress
ing gown and slippers half of his life,
and stretch his arms and put his feet
up and take fate easily, but a woman
can't shake the harness off and have a
good fling in any direction whatever
for one moment without paying for 1T
for a year.
If a man has ten minutes in which
to keep an appointment he IAN Jump
into his clothes anyhow, run after a
car, get there on time and EVE turn
a hair. A woman's hooks won't hook,
her buttons won't button. she
loses one glove, her hair comes out
of crimp. and she can't even swear at
the conductor who wouldn't pull the
bell rope till after she had walked a
quarter of a block and partly dis
located her arm that brandished her
umbrella. She is fifteen minutes late
and the men all speak maledictions
under their breath at the woman who
never can be on time,n while the
fellow who took a fancy to her on a
former occasion discovers that shes
a guy with her face flushed and her
collar awry and never looks at her
again.
When things go wrong with a man
he can neglect his barber for a day
or two and forget the brilliantine of
his mustache, and grow black and
hollow around the optics. and ten to
one he will simply seem in female
eyes $50 Byronic and interesting, you
know" But a ON may have a
thousand knawing devils at her heart
strings, and she's obliged to put on
lust so much poudre de riz, and to
pull out the gray hairs on her temple,
and pinch the wrinkles out between
her eyes all the same, or she's handed
over to the world by her hundred
most intimate friends as ''such a
wreck, my dear and the jury on the
case. even her lawyer, begin to find
excuses for the husband.
Ii a man has weary nerves and a
humping headache nothing prevents
his coming home and tying a towel
about his brows like a Turk, and be-
ing as grumpy as one the rest of the
evening. But q woman in the same
case can only look longingly at her
old wrapper, and then go and pain
fully build up her PSYCHE knot and
an agreeable smile at exactly the right
angle, else she will hear that Hang
I'll It's enough TO drive a fellow TO
his club to have an untidy wife lying
about on the sofasl" and that the
deuce knows why a woman always
manages to look pretty before mar
rage, and never after.
1t is generally supposed that il a
woman can only sit down and have a
good cry that is panacea for all her
woes. But when she finds out that
the indulgence makes her nose red
and swells it she has to give up that
satisfaction along with the others. A
man may exhibit fearlessly, upon oc-
casions, a carmine proboscis produced
by causes far less confessable, but a
wife is pronounced not half a wife and
woman if she shrinks from him on
that account.
In fact, being a woma at all is q
snare and a delusion.
1t sounds very, very nice, but it's
awful. A woman isn't even allowed
to grow old in peace. Going the
course of all nature is just the worst
crime she can commit. If she isn't
| married her brothers don't forgive her
for it, and if she is married her hus-
band wont.
So there it is; a bore any way you
look at it.--&. Louis Star Sayings.