Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-01-20
woMAN's WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
The Most Selfish Woman In the World.
DO You Know Her?

DO You Know Her?
II is the woman who is devoted to her
family. In her narrow little eyes her
children, her mother and father, her
brothers and sisters come before every
body else. She will make any sacrifice
for them herself and will not hesitate To
make other people make any sacrifice
also She will hide their faults; she Will
refuse to see anything wrong in any
thing they do. no matter what. She will
break promise or tell lie without the
least hesit ton for them, and set at
naught all principles of honor and com
mon honesty and pet herself for it be
cause of her womanly devotion. She
is so blind and silly that she believes
her own kin are wiser, handsomer
and better than all the rest Of the
world. If one Of her children should
commit a crime this wicked, selfish
woman would permit another to go to
prison for it to shield her own, and she
would think she was thereby showing
her womanly love- There is No real love
no womanliness in such spirit. 1t is
merely prodigious feeding Of her own
idiotic van ". There is no genuine love
to comprehend the larger. sweeter. real
mother love which can take in the whole
human rae and do justice to the Jones
children even at the expense of her own
This little fool and the woman who be
ieves all she is taught are the greatest
impediments to the progress of humanity
today.
Do not believe all that you are told
BY persons who think they know more
than you do. Think, do think for your
self.
The executive committee Of the ma
tional council of women recommends
that ladies visiting the Worlds fair wear
dresses of short walking length.
have read carefully the dinner
speeches OF some of the most famous
orators In America recently, speeches
made at banquets where women are not
admitted. have this to say: In Nil the
speeches put together that ever heard
from women there have not been 80
many stale old jokes perpetrated or SO
many gray old chestnuts Of stories fireti
off at the audiences as | have noted Ia
the orations of these distinguished gen
tlemen this winter.
Girls. don't choose your sweethearts in
the Offices where you are employed
Don't let your outside sweethearts hang
around the Offices where you are EN-
ployed either.
In trying to estimate the woman OF
today the average man should consider
that he is still saturated with the tradi-
tons and superstitions of the ages.
Have You noticed how much the later
portraits of Julia Ward Howe resem Die
those Of Queen victoria' Only our
American queen is far more helpful To
the race than the English sovereign Is
When q merchant in large eastern
city went all TO smash some time since
and did not seem to have spirit enough
left in him to pull himself together again.
his pretty and accomplished wife showed
that she was made Of stronger stuff. She
her skill IN making bread. pie and dough.
nuts. She was New England girl.
After her husband failed she quistly
bought out little bakery and began
business. She furnished such delicious
pies. such sweet light bread, baked sll
through. and such crisp. tender dough.
nuts, that in short time her success was
assured She needed before long de-
livery wagon for her goods. then another
and another. She is supporting the fam.
lily handsomely and laying mp some
thing besides. She carries on her baking
business under an assumed name, how
ever. Why an assumed names What
she has done il something to be proud of
Mrs. Catherine Stearns was born in
Maine tn 1900. bat she has lived 10 vote
for members Of the Boston school board.
Women are weak and cowarily and
men are strong and brave. Yes. but
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