Morning journal and courier., 1892-03-21
Peculiar Women.

Written for the JopRN1L AND CornIERI
We have many peculiar characteristics
and idiosyncrscies; but what of that II
only helps to make a variety. If we should
all think, speak or act alike, how intensely
dull and commonplace we would be. We
have as many types among us as We have
a diversity of faces and forms
Fret there is the talking woman. Her
tongue runs from the time she arises until
she goes to sleep at night. If she is do
mestic she talks of her kitchen and goes
into every detail from the washing Of her
breakfast dishes to the making of biscuits
for tea She interlards her one-sided con-
versation with many ''ssys rs" and ''ssys
hes" and Il tell um's" and '.you knows, I"
etc, etc. She is not necessarily q gossip
OF a mischief maker. She talks simply
because she cannot help 1t. 1t is as nstu-
raj to her as the air she bresthes. No
matter If she tells the same thing over and
over again, with the utmost artlessness
she repeats and re-rspeats it, prefscine
each repetition, however, with 'tas I said
before" She expects no answer; in fact
she does not give one an opportunity to
reply, but Is content If only she has O lis
tener. Her tongue, like q swiftly flowing
river, is tumultuous and noisy.
Query. Does she ever talk in her sleepi
Then there is the woman with gossiping
proclivities. She knows the latest news
of the day. She il the first to hear of 8
ms M n
death. She can talk by the hour of her
neighbors' affairs, which she impsrts to
her friends under promise of great secrecy.
Not that there is always anything of an
especially private nature TO communicate,
but she wants to be the first tn carry the
tidiugs to others. Her disappointment is
great If her news reaches its destination
in advance of her. 1t does not follow that
she is viciously inclined; on the contrary,
she may be just the reverse. She 10 as
full of information column of "per-
sonals" in q local paper in midsummer.
Happy indeed is she, if connected with a
Ladies' Sewing society; for there. where
tongues run faster than the shining nee
dles, she is in her element.
Then the delicate woman. She is q con-
firmed valetudinarian and really enjoys
poor health. Why she dates events from
the time of her last sickness OF her latest
cold. 1t is unsafe to greet her with q
''how do you do" if one meets her on the
street, for instantly you are overwhelmed
with a catalogue Of her many ailments.
1t is also unsafe to tell her tina. she is look
ing very we'll, for she will resent it as an
| insult. 1t is her pride as well as her pleas
ure to look pale and fragile. She there
| fore minces at the table, afraid to eat as ii
she was hungry, when, poor woman, she
| ought to know that ruddy countensnce
| a healthy appetite and perfect health are
4 among the greatest of Gods blessings tc
! us.
Next comes the silly womsn. Of cours,
| she is vain; that goes without saying
I She spends hours out of every day befor'
her mirror. sdmiring her face and profl,
| from every point of view. Indeed, sh'
\ cannot pass one without casting a self sat
i isfied glanca at her own reflection. If sh,
l was poor in her girihood, and has i'm
Il proved her circumstances by marriage, sh
i assumes the most foolish airs in conse
ouence. She even forgets the names o
| her old friends-friends of long standing
tried and true-and makes no attempt u
disguise a polite yawn while receivini
their calls. She fatters her acquaintance
and she is fond of being fiattered herself
and will entrap one into fulsome praise :
| satisfy her oyeFweening vanity. She
i usually a great kisser. She kisses he
friends on the street, in church or publi
| hall, whenever and wherever she happen
| TO meet them. She also betrays their cor
fdences, Judas-like. with kiss Ii is dii
ficult to meet her without submitting 70 a
osculatury embrace
| The laughing woman must not be ovel
looked. She laughs when her friend
marry, she laughs when they die. She
| SO accustomed TO laugh that she conclude
her sentences with an insne giggle. Sh
is usually plump. fair and good-nAture(
but decidedly uninteresting.
The managing woman is seen ever
| where. she rules her husband, her chi
| dren, her servants and her friends 81
| prides herself on making good bargain
and may often be found at the MOTTO
counter of a dry-goods store on "nAikir
down" days. If she is pugnaciously Ii
clined she finds fault with her bills Il
household expenses, disputing the smal
st item, and If she is successful in eau
ing a discount to be made thereon-ho,
. ever small il may be-she plumes herse
, ON her exceeding sharpness.
i have neither space nor time to enum
, rate our countless pecnliarities; but is
not fortunate we are so unlike one snot
; eri We pose unconsciously as models Il
, | the novelist and the actress. Perhaps '
may be convulsed with laughter or move
to tears while reading q graphic charsct,
sketch, or by seeing IL enacted on Il
stage, never dreaming that we, looking
, it were through = glass. behold our ov
magnifed selves. RACHEL RoGKRs.