The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1894-06-14
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ssme 81 she Clever Things men
Have said Absas the Fair sex.
He that hath fair wife never wants
trouble.
woman's fame Is the tomb Of her hap
piness.
No woman is too silly not to have .
genius for spite.
Love thy wife a. thy soul; shake her
like . plum tree. says the Russian pro-
verb.
Most women are better out Of their
houses than In them.
A woman 10 always grateful to ycu-for
having thrown you over board.
Women distrust men too much In gen
eral and not enough in particular.
A woman Is like your shadow; follow
her she flies; fly from her, she follows.
Women are apt to see chiefly the defects
Of q man Of. talent and the merits Of .
fool.
An opinion formed by woman is in
flexible, the fact is not half 80 stub.
born.
Twice Is q woman dear; when she
comes TO the house and when she leaves
It.
The only way to get the upper hand Of
q woman is not to be more woman than
she is herself.
The most dreadful thing against women
il the character Of the men that praise
them.
Women swallow at one mouthful the
lie that fiatters and drink drop by drop
the truth that is bitter.
A woman is seldom tenderer to q man
than Immediately after she has deceived
him.
Vanity acts like Q woman--they both
think they lose something when love or
praise il accorded to another.
To say "every one is talking about
him" il eulogy; but to say 'every one
is talking about her" is an elegy.
The reason why so few marriages are
happy is because young ladies spend their
time making nets, not in making cages.
Before going to war say prayer; be-
fore going to sea say two prayers; before
marriage say three prayers.
In anger against a rival all women,
even duchesses, employ invective. Then
they make use Of every thing as wea-
pom.
Discretion is more necessary to women
than eloquence, because they have less
trouble to speak well than to speak little.
During their youth women wish to be
treated as divinities; they adore the
ideal; they cannot bear the idea OF be-
ing what nature wishes them to be.
When woman has explicitly condem-
ned given action, says W. ID. Howells,
she apparently gathers courage for its
commission under little different condi-
ton.
1t is women's way. They always love
color better than form, rhetoric better
than logic, priestcratt better than philos-
ophy and flourishes better than figures.
There is one thing admirable in women,
wrote the cynical Balzac. They never
reason about their blameworthy action.
Even IN their dissimulation there is an
element Of sincerity.
Women have no fear OF marriage, be-
cause they are SO occupied in imagining
the happiness it may bring them that
they never think Of the possible misery il
includes.
The man who, after studying hum
dred women, thought he knew the sex
thoroughly. admitted on intimate acquain-
tances with the hundred and FIRST that he
was densely ignorant Of the nature Of any
one oil them
Virtues beautiful thing in women,
said Douglas Jerrold, when they don't &c
about 1t like child with drum, max.
ing all sorts OF noises with it. There are
some women who think virtue was given
them as claws we're given to cats-to do
nothing but scratch with.