The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-08-10

II al men We're lovers there would be
no new woman movement, no socio-
logical studies of woman in business
no ponderous analysis of 1.-The Industrial
condition of women in weighty journals
Still more than man. a woman needs a
home, though it be but the tiniest room.
A woman may be mystery to a man
and to herself but never to another wo-
man. There is no concealment which is
effectuai when other feminine ewes are
fixed upon ones small and harmless
schemes.
Woman has three weapons, fattery,
food and filtration and only the last of
these is ever denied her by time. III
with the second to his heart which is
suspected to lie at the end Of the oeso-
phagus. rather than over among lungs
and ribs. and with the third to the natural
rivalry of his fellows.
There are three things man IS destined
never TO soiNe-perpetual motion. the
square of the circle and the heart of a
woman. Yet he may go little way
into the babvrinth with the thread of
love and find that the dim chambers are
through the winolng passages memory
has strewn rue and lavender, love and
longing, sweet spilenard and Instructive
belief Some day when the heart aches
she Will brew content from these.
If Alexander had been a woman, he
would not have sighed for more worlds
to conquer; woman asks but one. If his
world had been a clever woman he wou.u
have had no time for allen planets. be-
cause a man will never lose his interest
in a woman while his conquest is in
complete.
Woman keeps alive the old Ideals.
King Arthnr's Court is said to be
myth and Launcelot and Guenevere were
only dreams, but the knightly spirit still
lives in mans love for woman. Elaine
still dies for love of Launcelot Isolde
urges Tristram to new proofs OF devotion
and Guenevere, the beautiful, still shares
King Arthur's throne For chivalry is
not dead. it only sleeps and the noble
ness and valor Of that far-off time are
ever at the. service of her who has found
After the door OF a woman's heart has
once swung on its silent hinges. man
and go away and leave it. A storm is
apt to displace the brick, however, and
there is heavy spring on the door. Woe
to the masculine finger that is in the
way.
THE milk of human kindness seldom
produces cream, but there is only one
way by which lows may be won or kept
Perfection means continual shifting of
standards and must ever be unattain-
DIV Div lovabie viii be Wholly taken ak into into
others hearts-faults and all
A woman never really writes to the
man she loves. She simply records her
fleeing moods. her caprice, her tender
pess and her dreams Because of this,
she is often misunderstood If the let
ter OF to-day is different from that of
yesterday. her lover in his heart at least
accuses her Of fio&,eness.
Whether a woman be gifted with the
accident of beauty or not. she should
have been moulded in the rosa-red clay
of love before the breath of life made
q moving mortal OF her. Love is SPAR
ingly soluble in the words of men; there
fore, they speak much Of it, but one
syllable of woman's speech can dissolve
more Of 1t than mans heart can hold
The difference between mans and a
woman's reading is akin to the different
ways in which they go about to dust a
library. The man flaps around with
bunch of feathers, the woman works
softly with cloth. She does not raise
halt the dust but she goes into all the