The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-04-23


There are Il lot of feminine fQbles over
| which Il man can poke fun at Il girl and
she will admit the soft Impeachment and
! like him all the better for it. When back
of the badinage turks Il compliment to
her charms or Il really chivalrous tribute
to her helplessness she never fails to ap-
preciate the situation.
, For instance, she doesn't mind it bit
| when he tells her that her whistle is only
Il woman's whistle, and, therefore, a
! failure.
She Knows perfectly well that while
he watches ner make that failure, his
eyes betray the admiration he feels when
he sees the lips SO temptingly parsed.
She won't care a rap when he informs
her that "she can't sharpen lead pen
| Gil. No woman ever could
She knows that she doesn't put Il
scientific point on pencil and she would
much prefer to have some one whose
stronger fingers never falter as he pulls
the blade across the lead do that for her.
| Nor will she object when he laughs at
her for the little hysterical shrieks that
mouse never fails to elicit
She does that if little matter docs
so disconcert her, nevertheless there is a
time when she is far Drawer than the
man who is laughing. She can endure
pain with hardly murmur, and no man,
of course, can be sick for day without
calling upon the whole coterie Of his
feminine relatives to sympathize with his
distress.
But there is a matter upon whi:h a
woman doesn't like to be TESTED. She
will bristle with resentment if she is
told that she is always and forever be-
hind time. 1t is the plain, unyarniShed
truth, and it is probably because t is the
truth that it stings. Not that men often
accuse their women friends of this fail
ing. They don't. They just suffer en- in
silence without mentioning it. But Il
fellow always tells his sister of it. It's
a way brothers have Of speaking their
minds without taking thought or care as
to whether they are going to incur the
way that women come to know that
they have, or that people think they
have, this weakness.
1t is fact that really has to be ad-
| mltted that the average woman can never
or does never square herself with the
clock. The lack of punctuality is as
plainly feminine characteristic as the
deed, it is just possible that the situation
was devised in order to inculcate in man
that missing virtue. If so, however, it
has failed of success, for no young man
who twirled on the piano stool an hour
many times as he waited for the dearest
girl in the world to array herself for the
opera, was ever sufficiently educated by
this trial of his patience so that in later
years he could read his newspaper and
at the same time calmly answer tire
less volley of questions from their young
est hopeful
However much women may resent the
charge, it cannot be successfully dis
puted that the majority of the sex are
eternally late. 1t is always so when
they are going out for the evening. Wit
| ness the Interruptions that occur at the
opera or theater by late arrivals. Tt is
so at their clubs, in the most of which
meeting rarely ever begins earlier than
fifteen minutes after the appointed time.
1t is so in the appointments which
they make with each other. A pretty
woman in a very evidently new gown
hustled up to another pretty woman in
one of the large dry goods stores in town
the other day with the remark: ooh,
you dear girl, how long have you been
waiting? | know l said I'd meet you
at 10, and it is nearly II now. But l
really couldn't help it. had to hunt all
them, you know, with this suit
And when the first pretty woman
! stopped talking long enough to give the
second pretty woman a chance, the lat
ter answered: ooh, no, dear; don't wor-
~: Why. l only just got here myself
l knew you wouldn't be here at TO- and,
anyway, couldn't have been, for it took
me so long to do my hair this morning. ~
There is just one kind Of woman who
is learning to be on time in keeping her
engagements. She is not the society
woman, nor the club woman, nor the
home woman, nor any one of the va
rieties of women known in the past cen
turtles. She belongs to the class who
sometimes are labeled ''the new woman
whatever that may signify. She is the
business and the professional woman,
and she has come to know the value of
time by personal experience. If she is
woman lawyer she knows that the
court will not wait for her case, while
she sews on just discovered missing
glove button. If she is woman physi-
clan she realizes that matter of life
and death is of more importance than
the becoming arrangement of her back
hair. And if she is newspaper woman
she knows that her copy must be in at
certain hour, whether or not she eats
| or sleeps between times.-Boston Herald