Middletown transcript., 1896-01-18

" ER. IL ways crv a. ~,
w: ZtI>-s same time, bu
~---:>..1z "a she never looks
cross or speaks hastily, and she always
sees that dinner is ready at the proper
moment. The children may have
mumps, chicken-pox and measles, and
the plumbers may have stoppe the
Croton water because they are fixing
the main pipe; the baker, butcher and
miikman may present their little bills
with exasperating frequency, and with
reproachful remarks appended; and the
iceman may have struck" but when
husband comes shealways smiles beauti-
fully and has something nice and cool
all ready in the refrigerator or steam
ing hot on the table, as the season may
suggest.
She never mentions disagreeable bills
to the partner Of her soul, and never
asks for money; but she is always NICE
ly dressed in cool, futed muslins, or
good, rich cashmere, or something like
that. No dowdy calico wrappers on her.
She makes everything herself-out Of
nothing-elegantly.
She is charming; all the men envy
him; but she never firts. She is always
SO glad to have his ma live with them,
and to take her advice in everything.
But, most of all, when he comes home
at O'Clock in the morning, walking
very feebly and with exceedingly weak
knees, she never casts doubt upon his
statement that ''they've been taking
stock done at our place." whatever may
be the season of the year, and she al
ways pities him for having to work SO
hard.
*x*
Talking abor husbands reminds me
Of judgement which was pronounced
the other day at Volisso, in the Island
of Scio. Two people brought actions
for damages against local railway
company for losses sustained by COL
lisiOn;a man bad lost his arm, woman
her husband. The judge awarded g.
boo piastres to the man and only 1000
TO the woman. There were loud MUIR
nurs in court at this remarkable deci-
ZION, but the judge soon justified him.
'elf. 1.-THE arm," he said, twas price,
ess, nothing could restore it But yOu."
le continued turning to the woman
ARE still you and pretty; you have now
ome money; you will easily find anoth-
II husband who possibly may be as good
perhaps better-than your dead lord.
That is my verdict, my people," A
wise judgel
~
There was time when woman
rho had the temerity to cross her legs
a public was considered as quite too
old to be within the pale of good So
iety. Fashions kinks have taken an
ther twist now, and the woman who
In good society shows it by crossing
er legs addibly. That is, she not on
crosses them in the privacy Of her
wn room, and when she seats herself
her favorite wide, low chair in her
ception room, but she crosses them in
70 street cars and the sherdics, in the
ilway stations and in church,! She
'es, indeedl
Possibly there is nothing actually
iminal in the habit, though our
andmothers thought so. nor is it in
cent, as our mothers thought, ard
,uld like to think yet if they were
t bewildered by the awful over turn
given to their previously conceived
sas of what is right and proper, but
is certainly inelegant outside of
e's boudior, where the froufou of
70 ruffies and silk plaitings, she am
tude of SIX irts and abundant drap-
es cover all crude outlines, the cross
of the legs is not exactly ungrace-
Then, too, it gives opportunity
the display of wellshod foot, q
ntly turned ankle, half displayed,
concealed by the bottom Of their
It's, and quite suits the abandon of
exquisite tea gowns and the hour.S.
-
lress reform is more popular in the
sery than it is anywhere else, and
young inhabitants thereof are to be
graduated upon the change. The
y of to-day is freed from the irrita-
flannel band pinned tight about its
1t, the long flannel shirts, other
t dress and little sacques that con-
lted its toilet few years ago. poor
Q thingsl Undoubtedly half this
cry they indured wss caused by the
dded-up" condition of their CLOTH
Fancy yourself swaddled in bands
bands-ofttimes too tightly pin
or altogether too loose-fest rolled
nnumerable thicknesses of fam
then the unnecessary strain on
hips of the long skirts-it is high
|. in deed. for the accomplishment
ch reform-curious neighbors willno
Or have an opportunity to look at
lear liitl-'t'e, Tor lie express pur-
Of examining the texture Of the
el, which is a right good thing,
in its short clothes, viii grow
y and hardy with the hours.
--latest u. S. Govt Report