Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1895-03-12
MAN MAY BE SELFISH.
But lie Knows More Than Women About
Keeping I'm Good Health.

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II man is n selfish animal he has his
uses. He shows women by his own IL
lustrious example how to take care Of
her health and her looks. A man and q
woman of the same temperament,
strength and health, of the same age,
living the same life, would in few
months show some new women who de-
ride poor man that he is useful in
showing us how to live, and is superior
to women in at least one thing-the
preservation of. his health, consequent
ly his spirits and his good looks.
The new woman will say this is self
ishness, and she may be right, but
while the writer does not wish to call
women by that crown of faults, she has
a cowardly idea that to make ones self
old before ones time, to lose ones rosy
checks, bright eyes and youthful gay
ETY. of spirits and sweetness of charac-
ter, simply to crafty ones personal am
bitions or careless fancies is selfishness
pure and simple, and most unjust and
ungrateful to the people who love her
and take a just pride in whatever
beauty of face or feature, form or char.
| acter, she may possess.
The woman who stays up late at
night to read the newest books, study,
or write essays is going to sacrifice the
beauty of her eyes and the tint and
texture of her complexion. No man
| would do that, and so when he Is so
| conservative, rosy, and fat and blond
and stupid-as rosy, fat blonds always
are-we say: But he is SO good to
look at" and smile when he mixes
Darwin with Huxley or never mentions
them at all, and never reproach him ii
he chances to let drop that he thought
Sardou wrote ''Ships That Pass in the
Night"
A woman when she is angry pouts,
closes her lips very tight, crimples up
| her forehead into wrinkles, and sub
sides. A man when he gets angry or Is
annoyed by careless trouser creaser
or persistent creditor swears. He
| lets off the superhuous steam which is
heating his hood and making apoplexy
dangerous possibility by giving vent
to his anger in strong language, and
then it is all over till the next out
burst. Not so with woman. She
broods in anger and in sorrow and in
secret. She gets sharp note in her
voice and amazing words in her vo-
cabulary if she scolds, and she gets
| little oldish lines around her mouth
when she keeps her anger and sorrow
locked away in the recesses of her
| heart and mind. And thus she loses
some beauty.
A man does not wear corsets, though
| in this woman does as well not to emu
late him unless she is n Venus or liv-
ing picture. But he does not have to
worry if his waist tells him he must eat
no more starchy food or sweets or wine
| for month. He does not have to keep
| house and train servants and be kept
waiting and watching by disappointing
| dressmakers. But he has his financial
difficulties; he has business cares, and
he usually has love affairs to harass his
dreams by night and enliven his wax
| ing hours But he knows more than
women do about meeting such things.
When he is bothered he sits down
and smokes, drinks big drink, and
probably kicks a chair over. When no
is in love he goes and tells some other
nice girl and she does her best to con-
sole him-and SO tickle Is the nature OF
man that she usually succeeds.
When he is In debt he has interesting
experiences with creditors, which are
afterward put into plays by Richard
Brinsley Sheridan.
When the woman is in debt she
weeps, works herself to death, deprives
herself of everything, and grows old
When she is in love she keeps 1t to her
self and grows melancholy or bitter
one is as good as the other. But she
doesn't swear, drink, smoke, take
things with a debonnair smile and q
gay heart, and so she grows old-does
the average woman.-N. Y. Commercial
Advertiser.