Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-01-05

year to
ENCIRCLE THE ENTIRE ISLAND
Of Manhattan. And somebody else has
started the question of the pins in con-
nection with them, /. e., What becomes
OF all the plain gold rings? Among
the Germans the husband wears we'd
| ding ring, and believe that this custom
| also obtains among some Of the Heb
Jews, but generalizing, It IS the wife
bnly who wears the gold symbol CT mar
riage.
Speaking of marriage, | see that
some woman has been giving as a rea-
son for the existence of the new woman
the fact that, by being a new woman
and earning money, she does not have
to ask man for it. And then she went
on to say: 1.-The horror of asking ones
husband or father for money is evil
dent to all feminine minds, even though
all men are not like him who exclaimed,
What can a woman possibly want with
five dollars" Botheri The average
mother and daughter must be getting
dreadfully below the average if she
finds il difficult to ask her mankind
for money There are no women in
the world who handle as much money
as the American women mean those
women who have to ask their mankind
for it. And this is a constant surprise
to the English or the French women,
who get what they wish and have 1t
charged, but really handle very little
money in absolute cash. | never go to
the theatre on Saturday afternoon tnat
/ don't feel like getting up and cheer
ing for the American man, since
through his generosity the American
woman is having a good time. He
makes it possible for her to invite her
dearest woman friend to go out with
her, 20 present her with box of candy,
TO give her a treat after the perform
ance, and he is satisfied if his special
wOmankind has had a good time. Eng
lish and French husbands are not so
generous. They take the woman out
themselves, and they get all the credit
for spending the money. 1 tell you,
OUR MEN ARE FINE,
but we don't half appreciate them.
Frenchmen make better sons, but
Americans make better husbands The
Frenchman's first thought is of his
mother. He expects his wife to be
subservient to her while the wife finds
her greatest happiness in her sons.
But once an American is married, all
his family are secondary to his wife,
and his mother is not OF very much
account until she becomes "Grandmam-
ma" and then she is appreciated be-
cause she never fOrgets the children. |
A standing newspaper joke is about the
woman who has TO beg and worry her
husband for money. or who has TO steal
it from him while he is asleep. l don't
believe in that woman. ! know a good
many women and a good many men,
and I don't know a single man mean
enough to ask woman what she is go
ing to do with the money he gladly
gives her; and / don't know single
woman who objects to asking her hus-
band for money, for she knows, if he
has it, she is welcome to it as the flow
ers of May. And as for women steal
ing honeywell, | think the average
American woman is sufficiently strong,
Intellectually, to get the better of a
mean man and to enjoy herself by
forcing him to give her the money
against his will. But there are not
very many mean men. OF course. there
is the exception that proves the rule.
but he il seldom a happy man. for the
greatest pressure in life after all is the
giving of whatever we hold best and
most beautiful.
1t is a pleasure to have somebody re-
member you, but that isn't half as pleas
ant as tying up package that is to 90
to somebody else.
There is a new idea ahOat in regard
70 he survival of the fttest It is said
by those learned people who know
everything that, in both England and
America, blondes are disappearing.
This learned person says that where
you find ten blonde women five years
ago. you find one now, and in fifteen
minutes walk on crowded street
where two hundred women were count
ed, Of these thirteen only were blondes
the rest having hair that ranged from
light brown to jet black, and skins and
eyes in harmony. Some famous Eng
lishmen who examined the hair of
thousand young women came to this
conclusion:
u
That the brunette was preferred to
the blonde in matrimony in the ratio of
three to two. That he explains the
growth of the brunette in this wav:
1T is q principle in the law of natural
selection that nature adorns it's nets
the men and women whoS it wishes to
survive and continue the race with
such allurements as will prove attract
i've to the other sex" Now. according
TO this, nature has found that men pre-
Ter brunettes, chooses them for wives.
and then through the hereditary trans
mission of traits, the blonde becomes
extinct This learned gentleman real
~ says is becoming extinct" and
doesn't say they are extinct, otherwise
l couldn't be alive, but do agree with
him that there are fewer natural
blondes. Poets, however, explain it in
another way; they claim that men love
brunettes because they are more affec-
tionate, that blondes make intellectual
and not loving wives. consequently the
blondes are out of fashion. am sorry.
but that is of no use, for feminine grief
against science is as nothing against
the British army, so all l can say to the
blondes is to be as perky as possible
about their wits, and correspondingly
contemptuous of the affectionate bru-
nette. The first combination. mentally
and physically so says a French doc
tor, is the blonde hair. the brunette
eyes, brows and lashes. and the semi
blonde skin. This woman will never
make herself unhappy by her affection.
but she will love discreetly and be suf-
ficiently wise TO be an agreeable COM