The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-01-31
What Women Can Do.

things that woman can do bette I
than men. They may be small
matters, but they exist, and a wo-
man can readily beat man doing
them, and she should have the
credit of it.
In the first place, she can wear
a petticoat, and not take it up on
heels when she walks, and we
doubt if the wisest man living can
accomplish that little feat even af-
ter a good many times trying.
She can lock as sweet as sugar
when she feels cross enough to be-
head somebody Sscanasffii'''>-}l
excellent friends with rival, and
help do up her black hair, when
she hates her so that she would be
glad if she caught the smallpox
and got her face carved into the
semblance of a Chinese cabinet.
She can scold better than any
man living. She can think of more
aggravating things to say in one
hour than man, no matter how
many colleges he has graduated
from, and how many dictionaries
he has digested, can think of in
six months.
She can cry, when she can not
gain her point any other way, and
it is pretty tough work for the
average man to cry, and not make
a mess of it.
She can spank a baby better
than man, She feels that it is
her right to do it, and man al
ways goes about it as if he was
ashamed of it, and as if he didn't
know exactly where to begin, or
where to leave off.
She can drive hens out of the
garden in half the time it will take |
man to do it. 1t is no use to
swear at hens. They do not un-
derstand profanity, but the swish
of skirt, and the flourish of a |
sunbonDet are argument they can
not Withstand.
A woman can find something to
talk about when man would be
dead broke for topic.
She can manage to keep you
waiting when she gets ready to go
somewhere longer than five men
could, unless they were youths in
the clutches of frst-love, and had
to struggle with refractory neck
ties. /
Awoman can get more bundles
together in half a days shopping
than a man can carry, and she can
buy goods ten per cent cheaper
than he can, because in the first
place, she always asks everybody
what they paid for everything, and
is thoroughly posted on prices;
and, in the second place, she has
the infinite patience to stand and
talk to the clerks, and wheedle,
and coax, and bargain, until in the
sheer desperation of utter soul
WEAKNESS they take off two cents
a yard, and think themselves lucky
to escape so well.
A woman can be patient when
the fire doesn't burn; she can look
serene when the coffee wont settle;
she can refrain from mentioning
the Evil One when the bread is
heavy; she can control herself, aud
not go into spasms, if her collar is
not ironed to suit her.
She doesn't go to Europe or
take to drink, when Tom "goes
back" on her. She does a more
thing. She accepts Dick,
and shows Tom that she didn't
care a fig for him.
Women are the best part of Gre
alton. We all know that. The
other sex may ridicule them all
they please, but they wouldn't
have women abolished for the
world. There would be nobody !
to sew on buttons; nobody to find
fault with; nobody to raise nous
taches for; nobody to feel an inter
est in your cold, and to put catnip I
poultices on you when you had
the toothache; nobody to buy ice |
cream for; nobody to love; nobody {
to hug: nobody to kiss, for it is !
a spectacle to make angels weep to ,
see one man kiss another. 9
And so, spite of the fact that
women are the weaker sex, let us =
have woman right along, because t
here are things that they can do l
better than men.-New York Her |
lld. 7
A man who didn't care two d