The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1896-01-21
WOMAN AND HER WOES.
Here Are Just n Few Of the Handicaps Of
the Sex.

the Sex.
First. --Excepting on the sly, she is
inhumanly barred from using a cigarette
case.
Second. She is not allowed to make
love, but merely to receive the manufac-
tured article.
Third. When she bets with any mem.
Der of the other sex, she rarely has the
privilege of paying it if she loses.
Fourth. She is unable to go unat.
tended to the theater.
Fifth.-She cannot even dance more
than three times in succession with a
partner whom she likes without being
suspected of a tendency to flirt.
Sixth. No matter how put out-by
her maid or her milliner-she is not
permitted the use Of stronger language
than Dear mel" or How tiresome!'
Sevepth.-She may no chaff the
waiter At a foreign table d'hote, al
though she knows his language perfect
ly and longs to take advantage Of the
chance Of showing that she knows it.
Eighth.-By a masculine assumption
she is deemed unable to play cricket or
football and is doomed to less violent
games, like croGaot and tennis, with
mild young men.
Ninth.-Though over head and ears
in love, she may never make an offer,
except, perhaps, in leap year, and for
this it would be hard for her to quote
an actual precedent.
Tenth.-She is expected to be able to
make use of Il needle and is thus dis
abled from competing with men liz
works of idleness.
Eleventh. Her ears are stepped in
slang when her brothers come home
from school. and yet she is obliged, as
far as possible, to keep her lips from
using it.
Twelfth. If there be a baby in the
house where she is visiting, she is pre-
sumed to be unable to talk Sensibly
about it.
Thirteenth. when her married sister
makes a call, she is always pounced up
on to entertain the children.
Fourteenth. However humorous hel
temperament may naturally be, she can
not crack a joke or sing a comic sons
without being thought eccentric.
Fiftcpnth.-She must not practices
boxing, exc pit ~ regards the ears q
her >lu.ll bru,ners.
SlXueeGth.- ;>he Is not allowed t.,
privilege =. u latchkev
A Bible Courtship.
l A young gentleman at church con
ceived a most sudden and violent pas
sion for q young lady in the nex new,
] and felt DESTROYS of entering into
? courtship Oh the spot, but the place LOT
' suiting a formal declaration the exigen
cy suggested the following plan: HI
politely handed his fair neighbor a Bi
. BILE, open, with a pin stuck in the fol
! lowing text-second epistle of John
verse 5: And now l beseech thee
, lady, not as though l wrote a new com
l mandment unto thee, but that which
we had from the beginning, that w
love one another" She returned it witt
the following-second chapter of Ruth
verse 10: "Then she fell on her fac
, and bowed herself to the ground, an
. said INTO him, why have l found grac
I in thine eyes, that thou shouldst tax
. notice of me, seeing l am a stranger?
J. He returned the book, pointing t
J. verse 10 of the third epistle of John
u Having many things to write unit
u You, I would not write with paper all
! ink, but l trust to come unto you an
1 speak face to face" From the above II
terview the marriage took place tn
coming waek.-Scottish American.