Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-02-09
NAN THE WEAKER VESSEL
Bah Believes That With a Crooked
Digestion He Doesn't Love.
Wife and Children.

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ARE LADIES' LUNCHEONS AR
RANGED IN THE INTERESTS OF
LADIES' PHYSICIANS? - MRS.
DASH AND MRS. HEAD-OF-SOCI-
ETY. GIVE THEIR HOME EXPERT
ENCE5 - INQUISITIVE MAIDS
AND HOW THEY REWARDED
THEIR MISTBESSES-IS GRAFT
tube AN UNKNOWN QUANTITY?
WILL MANKIND EVER REAL
IZE THE GREATNESS OF A WO-
MANLY WOMAN?
From Our Special Correspondent.
New York, February 5.-This is es-
senuauy a feminine talk. Men can go
10 the background-they seldom do
much else but form. in their rigid white
and black. a background for the beau
tiful flowers in gay. bright colors that,
stupidity enough, are called women. 1t
seems as if they deserved a better
name. SOmatthing that told OF their
ability 10 suffer and keep quie,; some
thing that told Of their ability TO laugh
with the lips when the eye were burn
ing with unshed tears; something that
told of their ability in whatever posi-
tiOn they may be placed and OF their
superiority TO men. Oh, yes. l like
men. Aud I generally stand up for
them. but I do hat because [ feel that
they are he weaker vessel. There are
times when q woman likes to talk TO a
-yearns for wOman's gossip.
Likes TO hear about the last baby, es-
pCc.Glly if IL is q new one. which, bless
its heart I could squeeze to death for
love Of X, or the new irOCk, or jus, how
Jack is being sweet. or the behavior of
The perfect ladies' who dominate the
kitchen. aud dominating the kitchen,
rule the digestiOns and. consequently,
the entire house A man with a crook
ed digestion doesn't love his wife or his
children, and The woman who has to
preside over a badly cooked dinner
loses faith in everything.
Oh. those kitchen ladies' That clever
writer Herbert Ward, spoke OF them az
"ciphers In society" And then he
Tat % prove that just such q cipher.
because she listened ct the doorway and
construed things 10 suit herself. could
send q young beautiful. and well bred
woman 90 the peniJentary for life on
circumstantial evld nee. She thought
She saw the young lady stick tho paper
Er'fe into her Cousins neck: she knew
they hated each other. and she was GER
tain, in her own mind. that this young
lady had Qu2rrells and Quarrelled BIT
,erly with her cousin And after this
lady had lost her youth. her hope and
her belief. dying burglar told how he
had killed man and used for this pur-
pose the sharp paper knife, which the
lady who ha5 Iuarr5lled with her cous-
ina had played with and then dropped
on the floor
WE WE'RE q LOT OF WOMEN To-
GETHER,
drinking chocolate and eating the usual
stuff Ovdared at q ladies' luncheon. I
do believe ladies' luncheons are arrang-
ed in the interests of ladies physicians.
But We have enough O. the doctors. l
drank cocoa and ate bread and butter,
and listened. Difficult? Oh. no. not al
ways Madame ST. German told of the
old servants she had; those inherited
from her mother who were devoted 10
her In every pain and ache Pretty
Madame Fin de Steele looked az her
with envy. Her servants came from
an intelligence Office. and no matter
how good thair references were, the re-
suits were as nothing. There I am
wrong: they amounted to a great deal.
The little woman. with sigh and an
unhappy lCCk on her face. said: MY
hOUsomaid. to whom l pay enormous
wages. came to me to-day and told me
that @ very expensive cup had parted
in her hands; she insisted that she
hadn't broken it. but il just 'leppd'
apart" She said 1t could be taken out
OF her wages; her wages for six months
would no, pay for IT, Ny cook came 70
me with wonderful references. She
had suited Mrs. Blank and Mrs. Dash
and Mrs Fead-Of-Society 50 we'll that
I wondered they parted with her. but I
soon discovered the reason. She had
weakness. not for cooking badly. but
for drinking extensively. 7 requested
her to leave in a polite way. but,
AS I AN \ CHILD OF THE CEN
TUBY,
I decline to give her a reference. II Is
queer TO me how women will put their
names to references given 70 sevants
discharged for stealing. drinking or alb
solute inability. And the consequence
was-well. what do you think? A let
ter Of six pages came to me. presum-
ably an anonymous letter. but one In
which I was told that II I didn't give
Maria Ann. that being the melOdious
name Of the cook. q reference, that she
would tell every one Of my friends what
she had heard said about them at the