The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-10
THE WAYS OF WOMEN.

They Are Decidedly Contradictory II
These Statements Are True.
The average woman stays in the house
on pleasant days and visits TWEEN ty-three
stores in an afternoon when the winds
speed has to be taken with lightning
rod
She will rail for twenty-five years
against the barbarous fashion of boring
the ears, and then she will punch holes
in her ear lobes with darning needle
if there is a ghost of chance of getting
a pair of diamond earrings.
She will take two hours to dress and
run back into the house three times if
she is going over to Minnie's to spend
the afternoons; and the next day, when
she has a sudden chance to go to San.
Francisco she will pack a tooth brush
and her purse in her pocket, button her
cloak and gloves on the street-car, and
be at the station three-quarters OF an
hour ahead of the train.
She spills coffee on the clean table
cloth and smiles sweetly-when there is
company; and then she glares like
healthy demon if William Henry lays
the carving knife on the table when
they are alone.
She carefully mends rent quarter
of an inch long in her gloves, and goes
for days with tear two feet long in her
petticoat.
She will put sealskin buttons on
plush sacque, and expects the whole
world to believe that it is real fur.
She can hold fortyseven pins in her
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boy that will fill the market baskets
and milk pail.
She laughs because the Smith girls
wear old-fashioned bonnets, and cri,
because she knows of some poor boy
who can't afford winter overcoat.
She will arrange silk scarf over
picture frame until a mans eye will
bulge out with admiration, but she can't
tie q plain, ordinary necktie to save her
life.
She will walk up street in the rain to
save street-car fare, and then she will
give quarter of dollar to the first
beggar she meets.
She will 60 over every carpet in the
house with damp cloth and brush,
and then go down town with a black
spot on her nose.
She will give good course of lectures
upon the history, general appearance
and people of the Roman empire, and
then she would get lost if she tried to
90 from Buffalo to Attica without an es.
cort.
. She will read an essay on ourinhuman
treatment of Che red man, and then she
locks the door If she sees a sassafras
vender coming in at the side gate.
She will fry beefsteak and expect the
man of her choice to eat it.
She is altogether a lovable creature
and she knows it.-Buffalo Express.
Silk and Wool Mourning Dresses.
For mourning dresses this season are
new silk and wool fabrics in light quail
tiles initiating China grapes, and a ser.
viceable silk called Antoinette surah Is
for light mourning. This fabric shows
heavy diagonal lines in the weaving.
Bordered, plaided and striped surahs in
black and white India silks with black
grounds, widely or narrowly striped in
white, and white grounds with all-ovcr
arabesque designs, large polka dots, and
floral and geometrical patterns, areafso
exhibited for the spring and summer.
White, black, and gray ginghams follow
the block and check patterns recently
noted in new colored cottons. Fine
white batistes, French lawns, and sheer
organdies delicately hem-stitched and
finished on the skirts with verj deep
hens will be worn all summer by those
in mourning; also those of india masiin
dresses finished with black or white
| rier,stitching. Y. Pest