The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-13
Facts of Interest
To Women Readers.
!, Symposium of Information, Partly Grave,
Partly Gossipy and Partly Gay.

She's tail land she's slim, she belongs TO
n .eym,''c cA9 ~ a.'f
I And she learning to box. I'm afraid.
The end of the Century Maid! The people
! of pothingselse prate;
| How she reads and she talks, how she
rides and she walks. "a
DIT in boomers. I'm sorry to state.
The end of the Century Maid! The gush
i. of the weird "Woman's Page"
The twaddle. of teas, talks on chalk
and on. cheese. !. s.A.h --e
Her Importance in art, on the stage.
The end of the Century Maid! She has
put all the men in the shade.
Till sometimes, fear. we wish we could
The end Of the Century Maid! PUCK.
Here are several facts about women
which some dligent dry-as-dust has
compiled for the. newspapers: Great
Britain has S,766000 women. Belgium
has I, ,340, 900 women above 15. Roum-
ania has ], 100000 women over IS. Switz-
erlapd has $50 900 women above Is. Nor
way has $4,000 women more than 16.
ITALY has 6.S50O,000 women of marriage
able age. New York has q. female bar
bers. Spain has 100000 women over
the age of Is. All the good Roman En-
perors had very bad wives. Sweden
has LILO, 900 women over Is years of age.
Greece has 1000 women over 20 years
OF age. One New England factory EN-
ploys 1900 women. There are S,7SG, 900
grown women in France. Austria has
9,6S0,000 women above the age of Is.
The little kingdom of Denmark has 49O,-
90 women. The United States has 3o.-
554, $40 female population Portugal has
1850, 600 women more than II years old.
In Great Britain there are 1,Oi1 women
to. 1000 men. In North America there
are $40 women to 1000 men. The Ger
man Empire has 1093O0OO women over
the age of 16. Women are naturally
more prone to insanity than are men.
Holland, though small in size, has 1,O7O,-
900 women, young and old. There are
said to be over a hundred female pulpit
orators in this country. No woman
has ever written an epic poem that be-
came known to the world. The average
weight of 1000 women in Paris is ITO
pounds; in Russia, 122. In France the
sexes are almost exactly balanced,
there being 1904 women to 1000 men.
LEARNED TO COOK:
We used to have old-fashioned things, like
hominy and greens.
We used to have just common soup, made
out of pork and beans;
But now it's -bouillon, consomme, and
things made from book,
And Pot au Feu and Julenne, since my
daughters learned to cook.
We used to have a piece of beef-just or
Z dinary meat,
And picked pigs feet, spareribs, too, and
other things to eat;
While now it's fillet and ragout, and leg
of mutton braised,
And maearoni au gratin, and Sleeps head
Hollandaised: .st .,.
Escsilops a Ia Versailles-a la this and a la
that,
And sweetbreada Ia Dieppofse-its enough
ITO xiii cats-------'-' r-'-'---''-s -..s
But while l suffer deeply, I invariably
- look
AS If / were delighted cause my daugh-
ter's learned to cook.
We have lot of salad things, with dress
ing mayonnaise,
In place of oysters, Blue Points fricas-
seed a dozen ways.
And orange Roley Policy, float, and peach
meringue, alas,
Enough to wreck a stomach that is made
of plated brass!
The good old things have passed away, in
silent, sad retreat;
We've lots of highfalutin things, but moth
ing much to eat.
And while l never say word, and always
pleasant lcok,
You bet I've had dyspepsia since my
daughters learned to cook.
." Good Housekeeping.
1t is only among people of modern
civilization that the supremacy of wo-
man is regarded as "a novelty. In
Rome under the empire there was a
singular institution where a tribunal
of women was established to decide
questions regarding luxury and eti-
quette. The Emperor Heliogabalus
consulted this assembly frequently.
They decided questions of precedence,
the number and state of females at
court, upon the style of carriage the
emperor should ride in, whether sedan
chairs should be ornamented with sill
Yer or ivory, and contested the rights
of man with an intelligence worthy of
the present time. 1t was a veritable
senate of fashion, was approved of by
wiser men than Heliogabalus and was
re-established and maintained by his
successors. There occurred in the reign
of Henry villa curious case of wo-
man who acted as a Judge She was
Lady Anne Berkeley, of Gloucester
Shire, who appealed to the king to pun
ish party of rioters who had entered
her park. killed her deer and burned
her hayracks. His majesty granted her
a special commission to try the Offend
ers and; being armed with this author.
fty, she appeared in court, heard the
charge, and, on verdict of guilty, pro.
nounced the sentence In several yil.
Iages or Finland the woman has au.
thority, for religious sect exists there
whose disciples are forced when about
to marry to take. a vow to submit to the
woman for their governing head. who's,
duty 1t is to see that the men behave
themselves, and TO punish them If the,
transgress. Similar areithe purificant.
OF Liberia. who also recognize the su
premacy of women.
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MODERN EDUCATION:
We teach the children Danish,
Trigonometry and Spanish;
FIJI their heads with old-time notions,
q And the secrets of the oceans.
And the cuneforrn inscriptions
From the land of the Egyptians;
Learn the date of every battle
Know the habits OF the cattle,
Know the date of every crowning,
Read the poetry of Browning.
Make them show a preference
For each musty branch of science:
Tell the acreage'of Sweden 49,. -
And the serpent's wi]es in Eden: