Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-07-31

else by her lack of personal ap-
pearance, style, vivacity, and
happy disposition. The lack of
either will soon cool the warm
est love.
"More than two thirds of the
women who marry let their hus-
bands slip through their fingers
because they are too lazy, too
indifferent or too ignorant to
keep them. A girl wins a hus-
band unconsciously. Ask any of
your friends how they captured
their other half and they will
tell you frankly 4 don't know.
A mans heart is ensnared by a
pretty hand, nice teeth, a round,
low voice, frank eyes, beautiful
hair, by the way a girl walks,
talks, plays, by her gifts, her
smiles, her amiability, good taste,
generosity, or the very manner
in which she greets, fascinates OF
abuses him. She may not know
how she won him, but if she
doesn't know how to keep him
the best thing for her to do is to
find out There are many things
we know by intuition; the rest
have to be learned by experience.
Conscious of her abilities and in
abilities as wife, wise woman
will learn how to keep a husband
just as she learns how to keep
house, and if she does not, some
siren will secure for her a per-
1nanent vacation"
Don't expect too much from
marriage. Marriage is not a
gateway into heaven. Neither
does it put man and woman back
into the garden of Eden. The
angel with flaming sword still
stands guard at Eden gate, aud
though during the honeymoon
you may look over the wall you
will never enter there to keep
house. Every woman knows
that women are not angels, and
the best man is far from angelic:
"Therc are husbands who are pretty,
H. !,
There are husbands who III public are
as smiling as the morn;
There are husbands who are healthy,
There are famous ones and wealthy,
But the real angelic husband-W ell, he's
never yet been born.
Some for strength of love arc noted,
Who are really so devoted
That whenc'er their wives are absent
they are lonesome and fOrlOrn
And while now and then you II find one
Who's a really good and kind one,
Yet the real angelic husband--oh, he's
never yet been born.
So the woman who is mated
TO man who may be rated
AS ,''pretty fair" should cherish him
forever and day,
For the real angelic creature,
Perfect, quite, in every feature,
He has never been discovered, and he
won't be, SO they say
Don't ask your husband always
where he has been or where lie
is going. Give him credit for
being able to take care of him>
self either day or night.
A woman makes a great mis-
take if she yields to her husband
in matters where principle is
involved, as to religion, social
habits, or associations. If you
will just hold your ground, and
your tongue he will come up to
your higher ground.
Don't tell outside people about
your inside skeletons. They
will either laugh at you, or by
false tenders of sympathy lead
you into trouble. Lock the
closetin which your family skel-
eton is and throw the key away.
Don't be disheartened because
you are growing old. Between
80 and As is wonan's most fas,>
period.
FASCINATING, THOUGH NOT PRETTY.
And what is the secret of this
gift? It is certainly not tault1ess |
beauty, for it is a perfectly CONS
prehensive paradox that as a rule
tie women who have been noted |
for the fascination of their beauty |
were not pretty women at all.
Anne Boleyn had many plastic
defeats. The Duchess OF Ber>
gundy, who lit up III the old age
of Louis XIV the court of Yer
sailles aud neutralized the mo-
rose influence Of Nine. dc Main
.enon, had goitrous neck and
aecayed front teeth, yet she was
proclaimed a beauty. Marquee
-ite de Valois, with whom most
IF the prominent Frencllnen of
her day were at some time or
another desperately in love, had
heavy cheeks, too prominent
yes and a thick, hanging under
ip. The last Duchess de Berry
would not have been allowed to
20 much as compete at a beauty
how had she presented herself
ncognito. Sir Walter Scott,
Who was close to her at mass in
he Tuileries Chapel, wrote in his
liary that she was plain, and
hat he eyes were not fellows.