The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-01-16
BAB,S BRIGHT BABBIE.
l MOoted Question Empfatfeally
Answered.
What Drives Some Women 1nsare.

is. lis it fashionable to be mother?
and IL NAV be most emphatlcaliy |
ansW cred in the affirmative. Inc
smartest of the young fashionable
women of New York are never so
proud as when they are accompanied
in their drives by handsome paoy-
prouder and happier IL they happen
to have twins and the whole lot OF |
rhem were as enViOnS as they could |
he when one of their set presented,
on Christmas day, to her happy nus
band, two of the sweetest girl babies
Won ever saw. And what is more, |
these very fashionable babies are
very simply dressed, but with every |
thought given to their comfort. |
Beautiful fine fabrics are used for
their little frocks, but lace ana em-
broidery are counted as undesirable,
though no end of fine sewing by hand |
is permitted.
MATERNITY NOT OUT OF FASHION.
Pretty Mrs. Burke Roche is seldom
seen in the daytime without her little
group about her, the twin boys and
the demure maiden named Cynthia,
while if you go visiting down where
the hunting set mostly collect, you
will find that in each country house
the nun sery is full, and that the little
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It has only been among vulgar, new
rich set of people that it is limited
that maternity is out OF fashion. That
WOman's life is never quite complete
who Is not wife and a motheri. and,
my friend, when you hear some
Young woman laugh and say she
wouldn't be bothered with baby,
,lon't YOU believe it. God hasn't seen
fit to make her motheri aud the
bravado W tn which she tllks is as
sorrowful as if she had put her grief
into words. Every normal woman
wants to be a mother, and when she
doesn't there is something wrong
about her, something wicked, aud she
can never be either good friend or a
good wife unless she has the desire.
THE WOMAN WITH A HEADACHE.
1 waded through one column of
closely printed matter headed, do
YOU ever have headache? ?" only to
discover when / reached the tail end
of it, that it was all advertisement Tor
Il patent medicine; but it got me to
thinking about headaches, their caus--
es and their effects. | have 90 sym
pathy with q headache that results
from over-eating. and which appears
in the morning at the breakfast table
with q wet bandage tied firmly about
it's forehead, q decidedly cross eX-
preston on its face, and which, by
its peculiarities, causes the entire
family to feel blue. That kind is best
out out by beating with sticks and
iouble dose of charcoal; but there Is
another kind of headache. 1t is the
headache that comes when you have
tried to do your best, when you have
tried to be honorable and cOnsiderate
Of your neighbor, when you have
taken OF the good things that come
unto you and given them to others
gladly, and with a smiling face, and
when all this Ia done there is an UNI
expressed wonderment that you don't
do more and give more.
HEADACHES WHICH KILL WOMEN.
This sort of headache comes, too,
from being found fault with course
| Of martyFdom calculated to make
liar, a thief, and q breaker of every
commandment by the woman who
has to endure it. TO be told that you
weren't cordial enough to Jones, that
you were too cordial to Brown, and
that there was no necessity for you to
freeze RObinsor-tO be told that you
haven't the first instinct of house
wife, else you would know that when
man put paper away in his desk
that he really ought to have taken
down town, and of which you didn't
remind him, for the simple reason
that you didn't know anything at all
about it; to be told that you are cross
when you are so tired that you are
sulky when you don't want to say
anything, and somebody belonging to
you selects this special time to bring
some one in who has been told that
you are a very bright wOman-this is
the sort of heada he, the headache
provoked by all these little Occurren-
ces, that drive women either into the
arms of the devil, or into the insane
ASYLUM. l can't offer any patent
medicine to cure it can only sug-
gest that it is usually ouI own people,
the people we love, and who think
they love us, who give us such head
aches, that they begin the New Year
by an incubation of patience and
consideration.
SOCIAL SETS OF NEW YORK.
Now is the time of year when you
read about the swell set the swagger
set, and the literary set, and the peo-
pie who don't know any of them and
who sigh and wonder how to get into
society. L do so wish that every wO-
man in the world would understand
that she makes q society for herself;
and that it is good, bad or indiffer-
ent as she chooses. She wonders
which is the best set in New York.
1t is like the best set everywhere
else. If it has riches, it does not
blazen them forth. If its blood is
blue, its reputation iswhite., Its
tised in the dailies as professional
beauties, and its sons are not con-
spicuOus among the hOrsey or fast set.
1t is charitable and kind. Its men
are honest and its women are above
reproach. The sets you read about
are rich yesterday, making great
display to-day, Its downfall is chron- |
icled tomorrow, and the people who
formed it are forgotten the day after.
Its women rate everything from a
money standpoint, and the ups and
or decrease of their SO-called friends. |
To get into any of the oft-quOted
sGts is not difficult; good dressing, a |
little money, a skin somewhat thick,
and q tongue somewhat aoFid, with q |
good supply of scRndalOus stOries, |
will gain admission for a woman,
while as for the man, well, usually, |
especially in the literary SET, men are |
in such demand that they are taken |
no matter how or through whom they |
may come. You who are off in some |
this gayety that you read about, really |
can afford to laugh it to scorn, for a
set does not make society. Society is
the gathering together of two or three,
five or six, or as many as you will,
who find much of life about which
they agree, and who like to come to-
gether to exchange a pleasant hour,
and to know that which is really a
pleasure. The other is the basest
imitatiOn-even the people in 1t know
that the gingerbread is not improved
by the gilt, or that it is worth offering
to anybody but the fool who jangles
his cap and bells as if he were proud
of his position.
WHAT WOMEN SHOULD WISH FOR.
While you are wishing, wish for
better than getting into
any of the sets, wherever they may
be.
Wish that you may have a broader
mind and a more charitable tongue.
Wish that you may not see so
quickly wherein is the fault, and that
you may find without any trouble
Just where the virtue is.
Wish that YOU NAV be cOntented-