Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-07-28
Feninine Notes.

A BOSTON philosopher explains that
the reason the men in that city never
give their car seats to ladies is that
the ladies are so quiet and diffident
that they do not make the men
uncomfortable. st. Paul Globe.
In the Interstate oratorical con-
test at Minneapolis the hOnors were
carried off by woman. This is the
SECOND time that this has happened.
Even Chauncey Depew will soon have
to look to his hOnoTs. Illinois State
Journal
DON'T let your daughter teach in
Chinese SundaY-schOol if you are
opposed to having Chinaman for
son-in-law. We have recently been
treated to q number of cases which
have led US TO the conclusion that the
destinations of the Chinese are such
as to make it unwise to see too much
of them. John Chinaman is no fool.
st. Joseph Herald.
A NEW YORK woman has invented
a cushion headrest for church pews to
enable those who bow their heads
upon pew backs to do so with COM
fort. The cOntriYance can be set at
any angle and can be clamped to any
pew. The fair inventor of Gotham
should now get up a knee-pad for
those who choose to kneel at their
devotiors. Milwaukee Wisconsin.
THE University girls at Madison
who bravely rescued two labOrers
from ditch filed with gas while
they were returning from church,
deserve the honor Of formal recog-
milton of their act, and the people of
Madison should not fail to award due
praise. Milwaukee is proud of her
representative in the trio Of rescuers.
! Milwaukee Wisconsin.
WOMAN is less sensitive to pain
than is man, is the latest and rather
startling conclusion of Professor Lam
| brosa in a recent issue of the Fort
nightly. The Professor has resorted
to tests of various kinds and has con-
suited many surgeons and dentists
before coming to this conclusion. He
thinks that woman does not feel pain
with anything like the acuteness ex-
| perienced by man. CONNER
cial.
THE mother who raises her. daugh-
ter ignorant of ordinary housekeep
ing, under the idea that the daughter
need not do the hard work the mother
has to do. is making a mistake. Nc
matter if the daughter is never to dc
such things, she knows how to direct
household work only when she know!
how to do it. 1t does not hurt AM
girl to know how to cook
sew. wash dishes and do all otheI
household work.-St. Joseph Herald
WoMAN's influence is and always
has been a precious and cOgent fac
tor in the world, because it, in Z
great measure, directed and con
troIled mans influence in purely ar
fectionaI and advisory way. MAJ
cannot and does not desir
to escape from it But there will al
ways be women whose ambition is U
usurp the functions of the other sex
and in doing so they abrogat
their own superiority YOrl
Commercial Advertiser.
APRoPos of the current discussion
OF the subject of dress reform 70
women is the subject of more careful
physical training for girls and women
! Indeed, it is reasonable to believ
that with the latter the fOrme
: would become a necessity-since OF
, yiously proper physical trainin
would compel the discarding of tn
+ corset, the narroW-toed and high
heeled shoe and other absurd and VI
: natural articles of modern feminin
o eouipment.-Mi Times.