The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-07-10
WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING.

Woman s devotion is undying, but an
unreliable statistician estimates that n
period of twenty months will cover the
average widowhood of women under
thirty.five
When Miss Tillie Ashley, the cham.
pion .oarswoman of Connecticut, wears
her boating Costume she still has some
clothes on, but not too many to prevent
modest man blushing when he looks at
her.
According to Mrs. Jenness Miller the
average woman in society cares more for
he~ looks than for her SOULS salvation.
That Is not true of women in general,
but 1t IS true that they will suffer the
tormenrs of Gehenna for months before
they will have front tooth pulled.
According to syndicate writer in
Western paper, beautiful hands are
rare" This merely shows that syndicate
writer's have 81 little acquaintance with
ia"les, that the only hands they hold are
at poker.
Many women use pomades, cold ca cam.
etc, for identifying hands, but it is new
ertheless the fact that the most beautiful
hands are those of the women who have
used them to raise IL dozen children for
lives of honesty and earnestness.
According to II fashion writer it is
proper TOR mother to announce the
birth of baby by sending her card with
the baby's card attached to all her nc
quaintances. This may do we'll enough
for the first. and even for the second
time, but who would do it for the fourth
or iifth-not to mention the seventh or
eighth!
When the husband woman thinks
anything of is sick her one idea is that
if she can get him to eat Il great deal of
1.a xuil
well. 1t is IL beautiful iiea, but it I'M.
doubtedly fills the graveyards.
Olive SchTeiner, who wrote "Dreams. -
has farm in South Africa, where. IT is
said, she makes, the choicests brand of
butter. Almost ANY one can make
books these days. but only women with
true celestial affiatus can make the hest
brand of butter.
Queen Ranavalon of Madagascar is n
well educJed woman of thirty seven, who
spends her time chiefly gossiping, chew
ing betel and playing draughts in her
place Mt Antannarivo. 1t is thought by
some that she ~ almost as useless as if
she belonged to the -Four Hundred.
IL is said that Mrs. Amelia jerks
}loomer,o of Seneca Falls, who introduced
the breeches that bear her name. wns n
very lady-like woman" but She Ger.
tainly has nonsense of the grotesoue and
no horror of The hideous.
Miss Minnie Brandt. of Baltimore, who
was once decided Baltimore belle. is
now actively engaged in the real estate
business and has made some of the largest
sales OF property that have taken place in
Baltimore for ten Years W
How thankful all the husbands would
be II their wives would feel like Socrates,
who' rs he walked the streets of Athens,
saw so many beautiful things he did not
want
a very brilliant English woman holds
that the number of children should be
determined by the income of the family.
If this very brilliant, though immoral,
person, knew anything about the sort of
human nature that keeps the father of
the family hustling she would know that
the income Of the family is very apt to bo
determined by the number of children.
The reason Goethe married his cook
was that, like nearly all great men. he
was more anxious to have in the house
woman who would understand his
stomach than one who would sv,apathize
with his soul.