Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-08-23
some TYPES 0F WOMEN.
Bah Deals With the COndescending
Species To-Day.
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WHERE NOVELS ARE EL2VATING
MISS VIRGINIA'S APPRECIA-
TON OF SODA WATER-A HUS-
BAND AS a HANDY COMMODITY
COMPARISONS BETW e
ONES WORSE HALF AND A
CHRISTMAS CARD-TOMLIN-
SONS HIDDEN DEVOTION FOR
THE BURIED DEAD
(From our Regular Corespondent)
FLORIDA, Orange Co., n. Y, Aug. 20
We have had Aunt Marias cousin.
Miss Virginia Lingard. to visit us she
is a graduate from one of the colleges
for women, and she is the most super
iOr person l ever met. Her life is one
continual cOndescensiOn. She arises
above every situation, and IS always per
fectly composed She admits ignorance
Of nothing. In fact, it would seem as
if she had imb.bed so much at college
either of dissatisfaction or books.
that she had lost all humanity. After
all, one must be ignorant of something
to be in touch with the rest of the
world. II You offer her a new novel
she coolly and calmly freezes you by
saying:
Thank you, but after all, from an in
tcilectual standpoint, what Will | gain
by IT," OF course, one doesn't like 10
suggest that a certain amount Of amuse-
ment would be the result, for this su-
perior young woman Is above frivolous
things. If she goes out for a walk. it
is because she thinks exercise Is good.
and not TO look at the flowers, see the
village or be interested in anything. /
ask if she would like to go into the drug
shop and have a glass Of soda water
She gave me look Of pity and said, in
the most cOndCsc=nding manner Thank
you. no: but if It will give you any
pleasure, l Will wait while you get it,"
The very idea OF a flesh and blood wo-
man waiting while you drink soda wa
ter!
Then you speak about . mans good
looks. and really, some Of the nice big
ones are good to look at, she has no hes
itation in talking about the average
lack of brains in mankind. and citing
this special one as an evidence Of how
much better it would be if all the utter
ly unintellectual people were gotten rid
of by a painless death. Any human be-
Ing must certainly pray. after week Of
her society, that this may be her own
fate. She scOrns all things at the thea
ire except what she calls really i'm
proving works
WITH HERSELF ABOVE PAR
A bu-lesque a pantomime. ballet. or
ANYTHING at all jolly, is entirely ignored
bv this so-called woman, and she lives
her life dut with an exaggerated idea Of
her own Importance to the world, and a
presumptuous belief that she Is of real
moment. She incites everybody to hate
her. and consequently makes them COM
nit sins.
If she Is so unbearable as a young girl,
what will she be as a wife? | am con-
WINGED that. unless she gets a husband
who will beat her that she will make
him pitiable creature. The world will
regard her with complacency at only
one time. and that IS when she is chief
parsonage In a quiet way az a funeral.
However, country pOlteness Is like
charity. and Aunt Maria, Nanny, and
even I, who have found their virtues
catching. have kOo-tOOed to her while
she has looked at us with dlsdain that
has IN it q little pity.
Mis- TOmlinsOn Is the only person
who has talked to her as she should be
spoken 10. She told her that she must
be mighty sorry that she was not mar
ried. and although her ladyship an
nounced that she found sufficient COM
panionship in her books. and needed no
one to share her intellectual life, Mis-
.Tomllnson simply laughed and said,
ooh. pshaw, girls always say that sort
O. things until they get husbands" And
then she continued. you can't look at
me in that way. that kind O. condescend-
in way. because I am a widow, but my
goodness! woman can't help bein'
widow When you get a man there
amt any insurance company that guar
antees his Twin for ever. II a woman
knew. when she was at the hymeneal
altar. that she was goin' TO be widow,