The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-07-15
odd Hsits About Women.

Womans devotion is undying. hut an
unreliable Statistican estimates that a
period of 20 months will cover The ay-
erage OF widowhood OF women under
thirty-iivc
When Miss Tillie Ashley, the cham
pion oarswonlan Of Connecticut, wears
her boating costume she still has some
ciothes on, but not too many to prevent
q modest man from blushing when he
looks at her.
According to Mrs. Jenness Miller, the
average woman In society cares more
Tor her looks than for her souls saliva
ton. That is not true of women in gen
eral, but 1t is true that they will suffer
the tormentS Of Gehcnna for months be-
lore they will have front tooth pulled.
according to syndicate writer in a
Western paper. beautiful hands are
rare This merely shows that syndi-
cate writer's have so little acquaintance
Win ladies, that the only hands they
hold are ut poker.
Many women use pomadeS cold
creams, etc, for identifying the hands.
put II IS nevertheless Il fact that the
most beautiful hands Of those of a wo-
man who has used them TO raise a
half dozen children for lives OF honesty,
ana carneStneSS.
according to fashionable writer, IT
is 1aShionable for II mother to announce
the Dlrth or Il baby by sending her card,
win The baby'S card attached, TO all OF
her acQuaintnnces. This may do we'll
enough Tor The first. and even for the
second time, but who would do 1t for
the fourth or flfth-not to mention the
seventh or eighth?
Nnen the husband, n woman thinks
anything OF. is sick her one idea is that
II she can get him to eat a great deal of
her own cooking he will certainly get
well. 1t is q beautiful idea but It I'M
No
Olive Schreiner. who wrote Dreams. i"
| mas q farm In South Africa, where, it Is
SAID, she makes the choicest brand or
butter. Almost anyone can make books
these days. but only women with the
| true celestial atllatuS can make the best
| brand of butter.
| The writer well remembers the com
ment and amusement often induced by
the fitting hoops and short walking
dresses, worn In 1865 and 1869, and when
n pretty girl on an evening promenade
down broadway happened to be caught
III Il breeze 4 scene was presented that
| was pleasant thing TO see.
Queen Ranavalon, of Madagascar, Is
n well educated woman of thirty-seyen
VINO SPENDS her time chiefly IN gossiping.
| chewing bctcl and playing draughts in
| her palace at Antananarivo. IT is
thought by some that she is as useless
| as If she belonged to the -Four Hundred,
| II is said that Mrs. Amelia jerks
| Hloomcr Of Seneca Falls, who introduc-
| ed the brooches that bear her name.
| was very )adylike woman" but she
| certainly had no sense OF the grot csu,c
| and no horror Of the hidcous
| Miss Minnie Brandt. of Ratlmore.
! who was once Il decided Baltimore belle.
! is now actively engaged in the real cs-
| tate business and has made some Of the
| largest sales of property that have talk
| cN place III Baltimore for ten years
| HOW thankful ali husbands who be If
! their wives could feel like Socrates, who
| as he walked the streets Of Athens.
| saw so many beautiful things he did
| not want"
| y very brilliant English woman holds
| that the number of children should be
| determined by the income OF the family.
IL this very brilliant though immoral
person knew anything about the sort
of human nature that keeps The father
Of The family husinS, she would know
that the income OF the family is very
apt 10 be determined by the number of
children.
! is hoped that when women bring.
on the millennium, good taste will in
crease 10 such an extent that no one
Will ever think OF posting his grounds
with threats TO take the law on those
who do not keep out OF them.
The reason Goethe married his cook
was that, like nearly all great men. he
was more anxious to have in his house
Il woman who would understand his
stomach than one who would Smyna-
thze with his soul.
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