Semi=weekly graphic., 1898-11-09
FASHIONS IN TEARS.
Grange as IL May Seem, There Are Modes
 Oven In Meening,

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 Even In Weeping,
 Fashions change even in spiritual matters, and it has been deoreed that it is no longer a subject of pathetic inter. est for women to weep
 Those tender lines of Kingsley,
 For men must work
 And women must w0aP,
 And there's little to do
 But many to keep
 Though tbe harbor har be moaning, are still true enough when applied 60 the men who go down to the sea in ships and to the wives, daughters ana sweethearts who wait and watch for them. But to tho women in town and country the ediot has gone forth, Weep no more. Tho day has passed when the big, sad eyes, ready to send forth food of tears on the slightest proyoca- tion, can prove an effective weapon against refractory man. He knows too much about it. It is useful to il woman as q relief to her nervous system-any physician can tell her that 1t has it's physiological benefits-but masoulinity cannot be subdaed by these moist meth. ods. When she begins to show the old fashioned signs Of distress, man. cruelty intorferes: Now, don't cry. It makes your nose red and your eyes ugly. It won t change me. Or if he is especial. Iy coarse he will shout: For heaveEs sake, stop that crying gamo unless you want to get rid Of mel won't stand it.
 1 woman enjoys crying. The wiss man is aware of this and is never hears. less enough to attempt stopping 8 souree of pleasure. But it is one more reason why he is not affected by her tears. fl they arise from bodily pain or intense mental suffering, he IS all sympathy, but the hysterieal overflow that can be produced on all instant's notice, that seems to bo on tap-because her dress doesn t fit in one particular OF she lacks dime to complete one especial pur- chase-does not now excite his interest
 When 0 man cries, 1t is from tho diaphragm, and the sobs give him ac- tual physical pain. His sex fellows know this and can sympathize with him. But women cry from the chest or throat without tho slightest effort, and men know that too. Tho old German l proyerb, Nothing dries sooner than a tear, " must have been written by a man | who had had experience with tho wiles of weeping women. There is a quaint old English poem that gives 9 list of the various evil spirits that infest this world and intliet injury upon more or 9ess undeserying mortals, and concludes with tho startling statement that a weeping woman with two black eyes is the wickedest devil of them all. !"
 The principal point for the eonsidora- tion of woman is that when she must have her good, comfortable ery'' she should take her consolation privately. When not in the presence of unsympa. thizing man, she may even forget to cry, and if she remembers there is a possibility that she will forget the cause of her laohrymose desires, and smiles may soon chase away the tears as they did in childish years. If the sex has re- l formed in this respect, man need not claim the credit. It is q busy, bustling age, in the cities at least, and there wo- men have learned to be wise, earnest and strong, as factors in the daily life Of world that demands the best efforts from them. They arc responding brayas ly and intelligenaly, and there is no time left for crying. .- Philadelphia Times.