The record-union., 1894-06-30
WOMEN Who RULE.
How They Govern Their Husbands
and Children.
The Kind of Girls the Nineteenth
Century Men Want for W1ves-They
Like Domestic women-work of the
Maneuvering Mammas.

Especial Correspondence of RECORD UNIoN.l
Some women are born Generals. They
take the lead, not in pushing
ward-to-get -there-any- fashion, but
gracefully ana instinctively. The women
who are born leaders are married usually;
that they rule their household is fore
gone conclusion. She rules her husband,
too, but she has ruled him so long that
he has long since ceased to consider him.
self hem pecked, if, indeed. he ever
considered himself in that state at ali.
His wife's leadership comes so easily and
naturally that he hasn't any desire to re-
sent it. Then, too. the woman who rules
has pretty little way of listening at
tentively to other peoples suggestions
and while she doesn't say in so many
words that she will follow your advice.
yet her manner gives every encourage
ment, and when in the emu she winds up
by doing her own way, which IS just what
she intended all along, you don't mind
it in the least. and before you know 1t
you find yourself unconscious.y con-
verted TO her way of thinking.
Besides managing her husband she
rules her children as well. But it's when
these children have grown up. and are
launched upon the sea OF life that her
diplomatic maneuvers show themselves
in all their brilliancy. The maneuyerlng
mamma has been studying society as It
is. while her children were in the school
room, consequently she knows all its lit
tie peculiarities, and she can carry her
daughters through the seasons vlcissl-
tudes with flying colors, and II her
daughters don't land the very biggest
fish at the end OF the season 1t isn't the
fault of the maneuvering mamma, Tor she
has done everything III her power TO
bring matters to q climax.
When the young man is discovered,
and he don't stay in the background very
| long if he is found to be an eligible party.
| the first thing is to get at his financial po-
sition. and the maneuyering mamma can
do this to perfection. Ii the purse is tried
and not found wanting, then the young
man will have comparatively smooth
sailing. If the maiden is coy. his future
mamna-to-b tells him it's only her
dariing's maiden modesty. You see the
maneuyering mamma has found out that
the girl of the period is apt to be little
bit too progressive TO suit the nineteenth
century man, so she drills her daughters
in the opposite virtue And II the
daughter doesn't take heed OF the laud-
able example her maternal relative sets
before her then sne's very WllAiu1 gAil
indeed.
The managing mamma finds out that
the man of the period likes timid,
shrinking, little creature with trust1ul,
Welding disposition; one who implicitly
believes in all that he says and does with
out asking the why and the wherefore OF
it. one who would scream at slgnt OF
mouse, would faint upon the spot II she
saw a COW who wasn't tied, and, above
all. would forever rhapsodize over all her
husbands doings and sayings.
That's the kind OF girl the modern
man wants, and the more brilliant he Is
himself the more apt he is to marry some
little, insipid nonentity. with only one
idea in her little head, and that begins
and ends with her husband.
The maneuvering mamma teaches her
daughter all of these things. and many
more besides. She is thoroughly mis-