The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-08
ITEMS FOR THk LADIES.
The Men Will Read Them, But That
Doesn't Matter.

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mental of the species; at least, this is
what an eminent physiognomist says.
They are peculiarly susceptible to the
influence of the opposite sex, melt un-
der the warmth of one ardent glance,
have emotional, mercurial affections,
and are found by the coquettes to be
easier game to bag than to hold
American Woman.
wOMAN's BUMP OF DISORDER.
ut is generally supposed that men
are much more untidy than women"
said a book seller yesterday. "But /
can say as far as my experience in the
business goes, that a woman is utterly
devoid Of the n Of order. Do you
see that jumbled pile of booksG Well,
they were all stacked up in piles, alpha
betically arranged, a few minutes ago.
There are some 1,489 books that we are
selling for 5 cents each, and we place
them in piles for the convenience of
buyers. A short time ago a man came
in and spent five or ten minutes look
ing Over the books, during which time
he selected five, for which he paid me.
You would not have known that the
books had been disturbed, for they
were left standing just as they were
when the man came in. When he left
that lady you see going out of the door
came in. She spent five or ten minutes
knocking the piles over and making
chaos out of the order in which we try
to keep the books. After she had COM
pleted her work of thoroughly mixing
the books, she turned to me and said:
I can't find what I want. I'll come to-
morrow when I've got my glasses with
me- Woman-like, she had been look
ing for something she couldn't see.
Common occurrence9 should say so.
This is no novelty. It is novel, how
ever, when a woman leaves the bargain
counter in any sort of order. Excuse
me while I arrange these books again"
-PittsbWrg Dispatch.
LOOK FOR THE BRIGHT BOYS.
A woman with a happy disposition
is far more to a man as a wife than the
woman with great fortune for riches
take wing. Worldly prosperity has a
way of altering, and if once money
vanishes the gloomy individual does
naught but sit down and weep, having
no word of encouragement for the hus-
band, on whom the blow falls most
heavily. The happy dispositioned wife
will see a way out of the difficulty or
will accept matters as they are in a
sweet spirit of cheerfulness that en-
dows her husband with new zeal and
causes him to look upon her as the
guiding star of his existence. If God
has not given you such q disposition,
cultivate it as far as possible. 1t does
no good to brood over ones troubles.
It doesn't help matters out a bit. Be
on the lookout for bright rays and you
will certainly find them.
''wIFE."
Ruskin, whose voice is that Of q
prophet, recalling men and women to
those domestic ways in which pleasant
ness and peace are found, thus writes
of the beautiful word wife"
1t is the great word In which the
English and Latin languages conquered
the French and Greek. I hope the
French will some day get a word for it
instead Of femme.
But what do you think it comesfromI
The great value Of the Saxon words is
that they mean something. Wife means
weaver"
You must either be housewife or
householder; remember that. In the
deep sense you must either weave mems
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upon and bring them to decay.
Wherever a true wife comes home is
always around her.
The stars may be overhead, the glow
worm in the nights cool grass may be
the fire at her feet, but home is where
she is and for a noble woman it stretches
far around her, better than houses
ceiled with cedar or painted with YER
Misunderstanding it's quiet for those
who else are homeless.
This, 1 believe, is the woman's true
place and power.
NOTES FOR WOMEN.
A Washington oma supports her
self by shopping for other women on
commission.
There are 288 cities in Kansas In
which women have municipal suffrage
on equal terms with men.
A coating of brown shellac diluted
with alcohol is recommended by the
American Agricultural for the resto-
ration Of the color in brown leather
satchels and shoes. This treatment
should be followed by a rubbing with
vaseline.
Some one has said that there will be
compensation abundant for the head
of the household, for vexations of the
spirit and WEAKNESS of the flesh, so
long as the daily walk and conversa-
ton of the family are found turning to-
ward the paths of virtue and correct
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