Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-08-07
WHY WOMEN LOOK COOL
HOW A5WoMAN KEEPS HER TEMPER
AZURE DOWN ON HOT DAYS.

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Her Clothing Is Lighter Than Mans, and
Then Sac Doesn't Care About Every
One Knowing That She's Warm While
a Man Does-Praise for the Wife.
"What q wonderful thing a woman isl"
unused a man in a window as the afternoon
procession swept along the avenue in the
scorching sun, the men heated, flushed
and perspiring, the women serene n un-
rufled. "She can't pick up her own hand
kerchief or carry her fan, she is so frail
sometimes, but she can row a boat Ike an
athlete, climb mountains that phase me
and run down slopes in the descent that
make me dizzy to look at.
IF a fellow happens to be tired and hot
and hungry, and snaps out a thing or two
at her that he doesn't half mean, it makes
her sick with grieving, but when the baby
dies, or you're down on YOU luck, and she
has to sell her jewelry to pay the rent, she
does it without a word. She will tease and
tantalize and torment you with her wiles,
but let some one selse go back on you, or
even let you do sonIedisgraceful thing that
gets found out, and she will promptly endow
| you with more virtues than a c%anonized
saint, and the best of it is she will actually
believe that you lave every one Of them
and are ripe for glory.
But there's one thing she can do that I
really would like to lave explained. You
know on a hot, scorching day how a man,
the handsomest and best of us, looks hot,
red, shiny, disreputable, wilted and villain
GUS. Did you ever see a woman look like
that, or anything else but a fresh rose in a
refrigerator or a white marble Venus in a
fountain spray, no matter if the mercury
has climbed to kiss the boiling point and
old Humidity is on hand with all his famed
moist troops.
"Now the thing I'd like to know is
whether she is as cool as she looks, and, if
she isn't, how she manages to keep up that
frappe appearance? Why doesn't her nose
shine like a flash light? Why doesn't she
ever get mussed or cross or disagreeable or
dirty at the end of the trip, instead of look
ing as if she just come out Of the top
drawer? Why doesn't she grow blowsy
and common and 'ornary' looking as we do
when it is 100 dogs. in the shade?"
"That's just what was asking my wife
the other day." answered his friend, land
she said the difference was not so much
u matter of temperature as Of common
sense. You see,' she ar: ued, women en-
dure any kind of sustained discomfort bet
ter than men. | suppose it's having to
bear with men all these years that trains
them.
"'Mothers hand down this gift of en-
durance to daughters, and unconsciously
they apply it to whatever annoyance comes
in the way-tight shoes or tipsy husbands,
death in the family or unbecoming bon
nets and dresses that don't f~t-anything
Il everything, including the heat. Now,
if a womaI fumed and fretted about the
heat as a MAJ does she would look like a
fresh boiled lobster, too, because to the
warmth Of the atmosphere would be added
the heat of agitated nerves, which increases
the action of the heart and quickens the
circulation.
"'Besides, if you men do feel and look
warm you want every one to know it and
to feel it and be warm too. If a woman
gets heated she keeps still, partly because
she knows she doesn't look pretty and
doesn't wish to call attention to the fact,
but more because she understands by wise,
womanly instincts that the man she wants
to please is not at all entertained by hear
ing of her discomfort, and will give her
precious little sympathy If she complains
and fuses.
ga man isn't so fond of giving out his
soul in sympathy as a is, n is
more comfortable with the woman who
isn't e%ternally sick or sad or tired or dis
gruntled about something, whether it's
heat or religion. But that isn't ALL she
continued. "A woman doesn't wear on a
hot day such an awful lot of things.
what do you get a glimpse of when a
woman gets down from u coach or gets a
spill of any kind? Nothing but rufles.
"'And Of what are the rufles made?
Lace; and how much warmth is there in
lace? Instead Of starched rough bands
and collars, nothing but smooth, soft sur
faces and frills. How much do you sup
pose it all weighs, anyway? One day we
were agitating the question of the weight
Of women's clothes in comparison with
those worn by men.
."'Every dud l had on weighed just two
pounds and twelve ounces, while Jour
things tipped the scale at seven pounds.
Some day when you want to be really cool
put on a pair of fine Nainsook trousers
under a cambria petticoat and India silk
or mus lin dress skirt, and see if you don't
feel as if you were dressed in a cloud film
or cobwebs.
Every actress who wears mems clothes
will tell you how warm n heavy they
seem, how close and combining they are
about the legs, how hot and choking it is
to be boxed up in a starched linen collar
and cuffs. Woman's most uncomfortable
garment is of course her corset, but only
stout women are obliged to wear heavy or
tight corsets. The slight woman revels in
a bit of boned lace which she wears very
loose or dispenses with altogether under
her lovely girdled summer gowns and
blouses, and besides, if the corset is tight
and the gloves and shoes are close as well,
doesn't it all impede the circulation and
keep the woman's blood from rushing
through her veins in rivers of fires
"'Stil, some of the light futtering dress
lawns, ginghams and gauzes, are not such
cool gowns as they appear. for they are
|, often close in fit and lined with firm, warm
silk, but the woman who wears them
doesn't idget and twist and wriggle in
them as q man would. and would not If she
were in mans attire New York Sun.
Women Not Angels.
It is evident that women as we now find
them are very far from being perfect and