The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-01-15
A RARE TYPE OF WOMAN.
The One That Docs Not yrlzz Her Hair
OF Wear Ban,

The One That Docs Not Srizz Her Hair
OF Wear Ban
Occasionally there y, to be met
woman with fair, fresh omplexion, IN
a neat but unobtrusive gNlwn, faultless-
ly booted and gloved. Wherever she
NAV be she has look as if dust would
never cling to her garments nor SCOT
settle down in greasy smudge upon
her nose. Her movements are gentle
and deliberate. She is not nervous or
fussy and never catches her apron
strings in chairs or door knobs, but
goes her way imparting peace to the
restless and courage to the weak. The
most striking thing about her, and the
most beautiful, is that she has never
banged her hair, and she does not
frizz. Her smooth, white forehead is
not shaded by a shaggy name which
stands out like that of the subject un-
der the galvanic battery, or falls In
stringy locks on damp days. She does
not have to hunt through the milllners
stock for Just that sort OF hat that
will hide her crimps in the cocoon
stage, or carry about in her pockets an
assortment of walls to wear when 1t
rains or when there is a fog.
When she makes her toilet she does
not keep the family waiting while she
heats the curling iron. smuggling and
searching her hair in her haste to finish
the unpleasant job She saves in omit
ting the frizzing nuisance, less than
half an hour daily. and half an hour In
three hundred and sixty-five days
amounts to time enough for the begin.
ming and completion of some work thai
would be worth doing 1a-
But these are merely incidental con
siderations The woman who does not
frizz is. a type of herself-aud one, Of
the best She may not be very skillfn
at progressive euchre, or interest
! ing in such chit chat as is dis
| pensed with five o'clock tea Bu
she is very apt to have idea
and executive ability which giye'
her ideas a practical value, and
when in society, as she frequently is
exerts an influence markedoand pecu
i liarly her own.
The woman who does not frizz is
capable person. She is largely repre-
sented in the territories, where she ha
pre-empted a quarter section and oh
! tanned a clear title to it by conforming
| SO~~@~
times takes the reins into her owl
hands, after the husband dies or is dis
abled and makes farming pay. He
crops are put in promptly and harvest
ed without delay, and she has knae
of always getting for her wheat tn
highest market price.
Frequently she marries the minister
and then she teaches Bible class an
can talk intelligently about the Hol
Land, speaks when necessary in pray
er-meeting, presides over the aid 81
ciety, and maps out all the missio
work.
Or she teaches school, and when sh
does this she is apt to be principal,
a high school teacher, or to have tn
model kindergarten, and all the chi
dren like her and all the other teacher
look up to her for counsel and exam
pie.
She is also interested in reforms
all kinds, and sits on the platform, we
: to,the front. in national conventions {
charities, or prison reform, or human
society conventions, and presents res
buttons and submits reports that a.
: unanimously approved She goes abo1
privately upon charitable work of n
ovn-in the performance of good deet
f Of which the world is never informe
But sick children in city tenemel
houses know her, and outcast womt
whom she helps to better life, the po
and the unfortunate whom she pitt
l without patronizing and assists witho
= estentation. She belongs in the list
many lovely, old-fashioned things tn
will never lose their sweetness al
. beauty-clove pinks, huRdred-le
J., roses, Irish melodies and lovers song
d She makes an ideal friend, satisfs
+ tory wife, and an indispensable gran
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