The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-19

orleans Picayune, says:
If a man thinks of marrying a wo-
man the first thing he should take into
consideration is her mouth-and he
shouldn't limit his observation, either,
N the fact as to whether it is a Gu
nid's bow or not. If it is a straight.
thin-lipped mouth, he should know she
is a woman of strong character. intelli-
eence, determination, and ability, and
then he should go into an executive
session to try to ascertain if he has
smiabiIity enough for two. If he has,
if he is easy-going, and doesn't mind
curtain lectures and is willing to be
bossed. the clipped woman makes
4 good wife. But he may depend upon
il that she has a pretty temper of her
own. and a double actioned tongue
hung on the middle. On the other
hand, her virtues are many. for she is
nearly always nervously industrious,
good manager and a notable house
wife.
If the thin-hpped woman's mouth
drops at the corners. beware her, for
she is the woman with smouldering
temper, who nurses her wrath to keep
it warm, and who will stick pins in
herself to keep awake in order to tell a
man at a.. m. precisely what she
thinks of him. This type of woman is
the constitutional nagger, and better
is that a man should die of blighted
love than to marry her. With age she
drops into a state of hypochondriacal
ouerulousness. The pictures of all the
female martyrs have this kind of a
mouth and while theoretically We all
admire and reverence them, most of us
prefer not to live in the house with a
saint.
If the thin-lipped woman's mouth has
a. little bunch of fine wrinkles that run
up to the corner of her nose, fee for
your life to place of safety for she
is a sarcastic, and her words are
scourges that fay you without pity.
She is a woman who holds her hus-
bands faults up to ridicule and makes
MIN look like a fool in the eyes of
strangers. in order that she may show
off her wit. A woman without sense of
humor may be a BORE but a sarcastic
cally funny one is one whose tongue
raises a blister wherever 1T touches.
Only two types of men should ven
ture on matrimony with the woman
with overfull red lips-the man who Is
as placid and as Unconditional as a bowl
of bread and milk, and the man who is
brute enough to control her even if he
has to break her neck to do it. Such
woman is irresistibly fascinating and
correspondingly dangerous. She loves
passionately and is willing to die for
her husband, but the one thing that Is
totally beyond her is to live for him
in such way as to make him happy.
Her temper is hung on hair-trigger
nd " n nXnlnda at minute.
She "flies off, and says things that
wound and hurt and that she expects
you to excuse because you knew she
was angry and didn't mean it. The
thin-lipped woman will cherish a
grudge, and sulk over it for twenty
years. The full-lipped woman some
times kills. in Jealous fury, the thing
she loves, and then weeps passionate
tears of devotion over it.
The choice between them is a mat
ter of taste. The preferred risk is the
woman whose mouth may defy every
line of classic beauty, but that is
wreathed about with smiles. She is
the woman whose even nerves are not
Jared by every turn of the wheel of
fate, whose calm and equable tempera-
ment will adjust itself to every con-
dition. who sees good in her fellow
nan, beauty in the world, love in her
home, and who will make the sunshine
of her husbands life.
Another thing is that no matter how
much men may write and talk of wo-
men being angels, every man looks for
ward to finding helpful business part
ner in his wife. He wants some one
who will spend the money he makes
judiciously, who will keep a clean and
well-ordered home, and be a conf
dante to whom he can go with his
financial worries, secure of getting
comprehension, and sympathy, and
wise counsel. Every man who fails
to get this-who finds that his wife is
a brainless doll, merely to be petted
and dressed up, or a spendthrift who
wastes his substance-realizes he has
made a terrible mistake in the choice
of wife, and curses his luck in draw
ing a blank instead of a prize in the
matrimonial lottery.
He should blame his own lack of dis
cernment, instead for the signs of what
sort of a wife a girl Will make are so
plain that a blind man might see them
and know. Cuvier. it is said. could
construct a whole animal from a single
bone, and every man ought to be able
TO estimate from a woman's pin just
exactly what sort of housekeeper and
wife she will be.
The girl who is never ready to see
callers, will make a curl paper and
wrapper woman who wears down-at-
the-heel slippers and never sweeps I'M
der the bed. She isn't intrinsically
neat. The woman whose skirt says
down in the back under her belt, and
whose skirt waists always bag in the
rear, is a slap dash woman who never
takes time to do anything properly.
Her table may be we'll supplied, but
the dishes will be hit or miss, and
nothing will be done orderly or in time
in her house.
Any girl who wears dirty finery lacks
refinement. One whose clothes are
pinned where they ought to be sewed
Is sloven, and wasteful to boot. The
poor girl who dresses beyond her
means will keep her husbands nose to
the grindstone the longest day he lives.
The girl who wears shoes two sizes
too small for her has mental corns as
well as physical ones. The girl who
dresses daintily, tastefully, appropri-
ately, and in accordance with her
means, who is spotlessly clean and
neat. is generally a well-balanced wo-
man, who will make a good house
keeper and preserve the harmony of
life.
Unfortunately, you cannot always
Judge a girl by her conversation, for
not every woman is as big a fool IS
she appears Girls think it attractive
to men to pretend to be timid, ana
clinging. and helpless, whereas they
are perfectly able to look after them
selves. A man, however, does we'll
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