Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-07-27
WHY WOMAN LOOK COOL.
How q Woman Keeps Her Temper
ature Down On Hot Days.

''What a wonderful thing a woman isl"
unused man in a window as the afternoon
procession swept along the avenue in the
scorching sun, the men heated, flushed
and perspiring, the woman serene and un-
ruf1ed. ''She can't pick up her own hand
kerchief or carry her fan, she is so frail
sometimes, but she can row boat like an
athlete, climb mountains that phase me
and run down slopes in the descent that
make me dizzy to look at.
eff a fellow happens to be tired and hot
and hungry, and snaps out thing or two
at her that he doesn't half mean, it makes
her sick with grieving, but when the baby
dies, or your down on your luck, and she
has to sell her jewelry to pay the rent, she
does it without aword. She will tease and
tantalize and torment you with her wiles,
but let some one else go back on you, or
even let you do some disgraceful thing that
gets found out and she will promptly endow
you with more virtues than a canonized
saint, and the best of it is she will actually
believe that you have every one of them
and are ripe for glory.
"But there's one thing she can do that 1
really would like to have explained. You
know on 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 woman look like
that, or anything else but fresh rose in q
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 appearances Why doesn't her nose
shine like a flash lightl 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 degrees in the shadef'
"That's just what was asking my wife
| the other day." answered his friend, land
| she said the difference was not SO much
/ a matter of temperature as of common
| sense. You see,' she argued, woman en-
dure any kind of sustained discomfort bet
ter than men. I 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 tn6 Way-IlSnt snOeS OF upsy nusDanOs,
| death in the family or unbecoming bon
nets and dresses that don't ft-anything
and everything, including the heat. Now,
| if woman fumed and fretted about the
heat as man dose 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,
Int 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.
"'A man isn't so fond of giving out his
soul in sympathy as a woman is, and is
more comfortable with the woman who
isn't eternally 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 q
hot day such an awful lot of things.
"'What do you get a glimpse of when q
woman gets down from a coach or gets q
spill of any kind! Nothing but ruf1es.
"sAnd of what are the ruffles madei
Lace; and how much warmth is there in
lace2 Instead of starched rough bands
and collars, nothing but smooth, soft sur
faces and frills. How much do you sup
pose it all weighs, anyways One day we
were agitating the question of the weight
of women's clothes in comparison with
those worn by men.
"eEvery dud had on weighed Just two
pounds and twelve ounces, while your
things tipped the scale at seven pounds.
Some day when you want to be really cool
put on a pair of fine Nainsook trousers
or muslin dress skirt, and see if you don't
feel as if you were dressed in cloud film
or cobwebs.
Every actress who wears mems clothes
will tell you how warm and heavy they
seem, how close and confning 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 reveis in
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 frei
Still, some Of the light fluttering 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 fidget and twist and wriggle in
them as man would, and would not If she
were in mans ATTIRE"