The record-union., 1897-01-31

good her word, and the consequence is
that my lady gets her summer outing
With all expenses paid, while the outside
world looks on in envy and says, What
a lucky woman!"
There is another type of woman one
meets frequently, and that is the wom-
an with fad. There are various fads
practiced by the feminine gender but the
most popular of them all is the relig-
ious fad. 1t seems to be such a comfort
to some women to make religious fanat-
les out of themeelVeS and worship the
Lord in a sort of fourteenth century
frenzy. People are apt to think that the
woman, especially if she is young
woman, who goes to church twice on
Sundays and every morning of the
week, regardless of the weather, VINO
carries her prayer book and rosary
beads in conspicuous places. has had
disappointment in love and has taken
to religion as a SOlace for her bllgnted
affections. The woman of ascetical ten
denotes is apt to have her disposition
spoiled by the process; she hates her
neighbor cordially and gOssips about
her unchaciuably; by and by her friends
find out that she is not to be trusted
and treat her accordingly.
These are the women it is best to
drop from your calling list, and when
they come to your door with their Ju
das-like smiles to instruct your serv-
ant to say to them. Not at home. 1t
is such swomen as these that make
one doubt the sincerity of all Chris
tianity, and set you wondering if all
women who practice religion with so
much zeal are necessarily like her.
Then there is the giddy young thing
who has been in society so many sea
sons that she has forgotten when she
made her debut. The giddy young
thing looks thirty and acts sixteen. You
have all seen her, my friends. either in
real life or ON the stage, simpering,
silly and on the still hunt for a man;
the giddy young thing on the stage may
be trifie overdrawn, perhaps, but she
is SO like the young person you know
that you wish she We're here, close be-
side you so that she could see herself
as others see her. The giddy young
thing is always good natured always
gushing, always overwhelmingly pat
ronizing. She dotes on every young
man, young fellows who have lately
put ON long trousers and have recently
grown an apology of a nuStache. The
giddy young thing delights to surround
herself with these verdant youths and
listen to their words of wisdom while
she makes herself one of them. She
has a gushing little way with her which
she thinks very fetching. She would
gush at he funeral of even her dearest
friend and say that the corpse looked
lust too sweet for anything" then
would go home and over her luncheon
forget all about it, and at the wedding
Of another of her dearest things in the
afternoon she would be heard to eX
claim. oh do look a the bride; doesn't
she look just too sweet for anything?"
Sometimes the giddy young thing will
meet a man who is candid enough to
tell her Just what a fool she is making
of herself Then the giddy young thing
will open her eyes very wide, laugh
trifie Historically and say, "Oh, now,
Mr.. Blank, how funny, how very funny
vou are,' And after that she will go
on being more gushing and more giddy
than ever
These are a few of the women we
meet every day They are the women
with what 1 call the wrong kind of
push; they will get what they set