The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1899-01-12
FOR THE BETTER -HALF.

| FOR THE BETIER-HAlF.
| One gets into the unpleasant habit o
always drawing comparisons in these days OF
muitiludes of statistics and OF women S
clubs lighting for equal pay and franchise.
| There is daily wE.nglng in onr land over
masculine versus feminine virtues. aud fail
| in ys, and general lining up of mascuilnlty
and femininily.q One man, after measuring
hundreds of men, women, and children,
draws the conclusions that women are more
sensitive to pain than,men that in the public
| schools the girls are umOre sensitive TO pam
| than the boys: that OF women the daughters
nf the rich are more sensitive than any OF
their poorer SISTERS their luxurious and
sheltered lives having reduced their hardi-
ness to minaium. Or other women, sell
| edurated women CONG next, then University
women, while women who earn their bread
by heavy toll are the least sensitive. just
what effect these facts have on suffrage,
school l-ieathers salaries, s,cal purity, tenn
pe rance, or any of the other questions agl-
| tating us now and calling forth comparison,
one can say; but We have it in black and
white figures that woman is more sensitive
than man.
Professor Koch. who has been studying
the malaria of Africa and India. finds that
women rarely fall victims to it. while during
an epidemic men of all sorts die of it. Men
who have just come to new climate, men
who have had 10 years of it, clerks who work
within shelter and laborers exposed to the
weather, night-wJrkers and day-wOrkers-all
come down with the maiariai lever. but the
women, with rare exceptions, remain unhurt.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton bewails that while
she is nearly tour times as old as a man
needs to he to have discretion enough to vote,
she is deprived OF the right to put her finger
in the pie of Government.
The Empress of Germany has been worried
by her increasing avOirdupois and. has re-
sorted to the heroic properties of the extract
ofthe thyroid gland to reduce her weight. The
extract is obtained from the glands of the
sheep, and is said to surely accomplish its
puri ose; but it brings about general loss of
health, besides nervousness and heart trouble
in particular. so the Emperor has persuaded
hi. wife to abandon the thyroid extract.
An actress arrested in st. Louis for steal
ing small articles from the hotel has been
sent from prison to Il sanitarium when it was
discovered that her brain was simply tired to
an intense degree. and that she was not re-
sponsible for ner misdoings She had beel
playing a new role every week, and conse-
qnently was under the strain OF studying
and rehearsing one role during the days and
playing another at nights. This is pace
that few actors can stand.
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A woman writing on how to live on $780,
600 year gives some valuable suggestions
to others struggling with a like problem. 1t
seems she finds that 81 800 is absolutely the
least which she can spend on church affairs
and keep in coed form; $500 goes TO her
church and 81 900 to a charity. 1t costs this
much to he patroness, and one must be a
patIoness to be fashionable Then, with
herself and three daughters and four seasons
and hats at SlOD apiece any reasonable per-
son can see how the pennies run away. She
finds her city house at S6. 900 year neces-
sity, with IA servants to dwell and squander
and gossip therein. Then, she finds seaside
cottage, an Adirondack lodge, box in a
warm place, aud q villa in a cold place neces-
sary. With mutfs at 800 there is anoth
little river of expense that goes to make up
the necessary flood of, 100000,
IN xlx Il
Corals are again in fashion, and are very
pretty in the long chains, in the several rows
clasped tight around The throat, and in rims
and pins. Long ropes of heads and jewels
like those of our grliidmothers' day are in
fashion, and are hot Used to swing watch or
purse or lorgnette, hit just dangle, and are
pretty.
Il HI4
: Some skirts n1owadays button down the
hack or side from the BELT to the hem Some
times they really button, sometimes only APP
parently.
The tight-shOuldered effects seen in the
latest French models are hope!essly ugly
Three turks or ruflles or braids are run across
bodice that fits tightly enough to suggest a
drum head, and are continued around the
equally-tight and unlovely sleeves The
sleeves are set in absolutely plain, with no
gathers or soitness.
Nowadays. when one can have such pretty
wallpapers and cretonnes to mateh 1t is a
pretty idea to paper a room up to the frieze
with q plain, delicate color, have irieze
OF flowery paper, and then to have over
draperies at the windows the courh-cOvering
and cllair-cushions OF cretOnne lowered like
the frieze. The window should have fresh
curtains of muslin or swiss