The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-07-11

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WomaIl's devotion is undylng. but an
unreliable sstatistican estimates that a
period Of 20 months will cover the; av-'
lerage Of widowhood Of women under
,thlrty-flve
When Miss Title Ashley, the cham
plon3 oarswomans OF Connecticut. wears
her boating costume she still has some
q modest man from blushlng when he
looks at her.
8 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.
e era but ills true that they will suffer
the torments of Gehcnna for months be-
tore they VIII have front tooth pulled.
According to a syndicate writer in
Western paper beautiful hands are
rare" This merely shows that syndi-
cate writer's have SO little acquaintance
with ladies. that the only hands they
hold are at poker.
Many women use pomades, cold
creams, etc.. for identifying the hands
but 1t Is nevertheless fact that the
most beautiful hands Of those Of a wo-
man who has used them to raise
half dozen children for lives Of honesty
and fearnestness..
According to a fashionable writer, it
Is fashionable for a mother to announce
the birth OF q baby by, sending her card,
with the bhby's card attached, to all Of
her acquaintance This may do well
enough for the first, and even for the
second time, hut who would do it for
the fourth or fifth-not to mention the
seventh or eighth?
When the husband, q woman thinks
| anything OF, is sick, her one idea is that
| If 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 un-
| IN nI1l lie fha 1rE.
| Olive Schreiner, who wrote Dreams"
has farm In South Africa, where, 1t is
| said, she makes the choicest brand Of
butter. Almost anyone can make books
these days, but only women with the
true celestial af1latus 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 1862 and when
a pretty girl on an evening promenade
down Broadway happened to be caught
| in breeze q scene was presented that
| was pleasant thing to see.
! Queen Ranavalon, of Madagascar Is
q we'll educated woman OF thirtyscven,
! who spends her time chiefly In gosSping,
| chewing betel and playing drauEhts in
her palace at Antananarivo 1t is
thought by some that she Is as useless
| as II she belonged to the Four Hundred.
1t is said that Mrs. Amelia jerks
| Bloomer, of Seneca Falls. who introduce
| ed the breeches that bear her name,
was very ladylike woman" but she
| certainly had no sense Of the grotesque
and no horror of the hideous.
Miss Minnie Brandt Of Baltimore,
who was once a decided Baltimore belle,
| Is now actively engaged In the real es-
tate business and has made some Of the
largest sales Of property that have talk
en- place in Baltimore for ten years.
How thankful all husbands who be If
| their wives could feel like Socrates who,
| as he walked the streets OF Athens
saw $50 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 husling, she would know
| that the income Of the family is very
apt to be determined by the number of
| children.
| It is hoped that when women bring
on the millennium, good taste will in
| crease to such an extent that no one
will ever think Of posting his grounds
with threats to take the law on those
who Go 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
| 4 woman who would understand his
stomach than one who would smypa-
| thiZe With his soul.