The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-01-01
DESIGNED FOR THE WOMEN.
Envy never takes a holiday.


The military collar is a favorite.
Happiness is both a generator and a
radiator.
Few women walk gracefully enough to
risk a scant-cut skirt.
And now it is said pompadours are to
be broad and low again.
A train of thought is easily side-track-
ed by light remark.
Ideals are the weapons of the, mind
which defeat even themselves.
Flour belongs in bin or barrel raised
few inches from the floor.
Calico is named for Calicut, town in
India, where it was first printed.
Knitted silk stocking suspenders are the
latest fad for the smart girl.
Shirt waists have a dressy look which
the separate waist can never attain.
Tell babies they are good and women
that they are pretty and they will be.
The errors we individually behold in
others are all ambushed in our own
mind
Economy is learning to do without
those things you don't want and can't
possibly need.
Are unhappy married people more nu
merous than formerly, OF are they talk
ing about it?
About half the troubles of which we
all make plant never hit us at all, but
went skimming by.
Knitting is pretty work. It shows off
white fingers to advantage and handsome
rings; it is also useful.
The reasonable woman usually con-
siders both extremes-and then settles
comfortably on pleasant between
measure.
Divorce is altogether too common, and
the saddest part of this situation is that
the danger is worse in the so-called edu-
cational classes.
When it is choice between being
angry yourself or making the other fell
low angry, be generous and decide in the
favor of the other fellow.
True happiness consists, in the
Forgetting how to fret,
About the many things that we
Are sure we can not get.
When you have made mistake benefit
by the experience, but for heavens sake
don't whine about it: Remorsing, is a
sad and foolish business.
Remember all We lovers who are wor-
shipping at beauty's shrine, that love
that has nothing; but beauty to keep it
alive is very apt to, be short lived.
An unmarried man perhaps may think
that the greatest thing in the world is
love, but the BATTLE SCARED veteran, of
matrimony thinks it is peace.
To keep mice away, scatter SMALL
pieces of camphor in your cupboards- and
drawers. They greatly dislike the SMELL Of
camphor and win go away from ID.
Illinois is among the states which adj
mits women as lawyers. There are now
ninety women lawyers in. the state, most
of them located in Chicago.
Strength comes only through struggle
through struggle and earnest work
never through frantic beating against
the bars-nor through self-pity.
Nowadays we are told sHold out
your chest" and not "Throw back your
shoulders" The shoulders will take care
of themselves if the chest is held well
iup.
This country needs good cooks. Our
present educational system units women
for home life by lowering her ideal of
home, yet it does not fit her for any
thing else.
To remove the grease from coat col
lar lay piece of blotting paper over the
collar and press with warm iron. The
grease will be absorbed by the blotting
paper.
PATHS contract for her farewell tour
in this country provides that she shall
have five rooms in every hotel where
she stops and that the rooms overhead
be vacant.
In Milwaukee the baptism of infants
the past year has fallen so per cent of
the past fourteen years. 1t seems
strange, but the young married couples
these days deem it very smart not to
iihave children.
| White gloves will never become fash
iionable among the women if theory
advanced by Prof. Walter d. Scott OF
Northwestern University is correct. He
says white makes an object look larger
than it really is.
| Women cannot practice law in Eng
LAND The house of lords has just de
lcided that they are debarred by theil
sex, and worldwide interest in the ques
ton of woman's qualifications for the
profession is thus revived.