Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-10
MAN MAY BE SELFISH.

Keeping In Good Health.
 If man is a selfish animal he has his uses. He shows women by bis own u- lustrious example how to take care of her health and her looks. A man and a 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 cowardly idea that to make one's 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 gratify ones personal an- bitions or careless fancies is selfshness pure and simple, and most unjust and ungrateful to the people who love her and take Q just pride in whatever beauty of face or feature, form or char acCer, 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 1t 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 a persistent creditor swears. He lets off the superfuous 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 a 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 walk 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 chair over When he is in love he goes and tells some other nice girl and she does her best to con- sole him--and so 6clle 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 it to her self and grows melancholy or bitter one is as good as the other. BuG she doesn't swear, drink, smoke, take things with debonnair smile and gay heart, and so she grows old-does the average wonan.-N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
 Growth of the Human Hair.