St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-17
WOMEN'S WAYS.

| going to call your attention to some of
thenl,a and, just for fun. watch and see
| if it isn't true, says writer in the Bos-
| ton Globe.
A woman seldom gets up from her
chair when she has been sewing or darn
| ing without letting pair of scissors
! drop from her lap to the floor. Nine out
of every ten will do it. 1t would almost
| seem that the bother and effort of hav-
ing to stoop and pick them up would be
sufficient to break them of the habit,
but it does not, and she keeps STOPPING
for those scissors all her life.
One would suppose that Monday
would be the most busy day of the week
at home for farmers wives, and that
| what little time they had to spare would
be gladly used in sitting down and rest
ing. Yet of all the days in the
week, there is none that suits
the woman so well to ''go some
where" as washing day. There is a
somwhere that day. Perhaps they do 1t
forest themSelves.andp perhaps theywish
to let other women see they are through
washing.
1t is simply one of their ways.
Did you ever notice woman who is
leaving friends, when she is about to
get on or leave horse car? She does
not say her ''gOodbys" until the car has
stopped, and then all sorts of requests,
messages, kisses and ''good-bys," until
everybody is out of patience and the
car ready to start One would think she
could do all this beforehand, but she
never dOes-and that is all there is to it.
Did you ever hear or know of two or
more women being together for any
length of time. that the conversation
did not turn to the matter of dress,
sooner or later?
Did you ever observe how woman
throws a stone or anything? Or how
she drives nail? This can't be de-
scribed). Or how she ''shoos' the chick
ems with her skirts, apron and sort of
conGiomeratlon between courtesy,
tWitch and StoOp.
Did you ever notice how they cry at
all sorts OF prOvOcatlOnS and all sorts of
reasons? If they are in sorrow they cry,
and II they are joyful they cry. They
cry when they are scolded, and they cry
when they are petteG.
IheSe different cries must emanate
from different sources of feelings, but
how is one to know which IL which?
Did you ever notice when two OF the
female sex meet OIL the street, how very
sure they are to look back at each other
after passing? What do they do it for?
How do they gauge just the proper time
to look back and not catch each other
looking?
Did you ever see woman try to use
shovel? OF course there is no need of
her doing SO, but she does sometimes,
and the sight is painful.
Did any OF you married men ever no.
tlce that your wives never get corsets
the size they really ought to have? They
always buy them from three to six sizes
smaller and then let them way out. l
have often thought about it, and have
concluded that as they don't ever see
them behind when OH they make them
selves believe that that is their proper
size, and it is a sort of satisfaction to
them to say they wear so small num-
Der.
Did you ever know women to follow
exactly any particular receipt. table or
rule for mixing and cooking anything?
No, you never did; they never do. They
guess at everything, and. while they hit
it in many cases, when they don't they
explain the failure by saying they guess
they did not get in quite enough of this
or that, or else the stove did not work
right.
They hate rules or anything that calls
upon them to do EXACTLY so'-and
they much rather guess at ''cupful,n
''teaspoonfur' or quarter of a bound
than to measure it.
These are only few peculiarities.
and they are not presented in critical
sense, but only as an observation. No
doubt we fellows have an equal number
of queer ways.