, 1904-03-23

~ among her acquaintance for
~ being a terrific talker. Not
one moment of her waking
hours is that clacking tongue still.
1t is certain that she talks to herself
when she is alone, for she has been
overheard many a time. 1t Is also
probable that she talks in her sleep.
Well, this lady went for a days jour-
ney with another IN When she
returned she assured her family she
had had mot a bit good time" because
the other woma had talked her nearly
to death. She did not get a lance to
put q word in edgeways, she said, n
| she was just worn out with that in
| cessant CAB. Whereupon the family
| smiled, and one niece slid off by her.
self in q corner and roared. 1.-THE idea
of anything but a photograph being
able to talk Aunt Harriet DOWN.! said
she. And, speaking of incessant CAB
blers, did it ever occur to you that
| many persons employ quite four times
as much talk as is really required to
| express themselves and to impress
| themselves on others? The great talker
| is invariably a shallow, Eighty person.
| Her memory is poor. She forgets what
| she ought to remember, she gets tan
gled in her statements, and no wonder.
She does not still her tongue long
| enough to digest any thought in her
| mind or to wholly TAX In any fact.
Wherever she sees two or more people
| together, or hears others talking, up h
| comes, pushes herself in and shoots of
her opinions, right or wrong. The 81
| lent person is the one that wins. She
| conserves her thought and manifests
q fine, dignified reserve concerning the
| private affairs of herself and others.
She does not waste her nerve sub
| stance in vocal froth. When she does
open her mouth to speak, two words OF
hers are more effective than half a
days gable of the talking woman.
Women are in general far too bidda-
BILE. Let each develop for herselr
thinking power and will and be an in
diyidual. l sometimes doubt whether
a woman who never thinks, reasons or
wills for herself, but is the mere echo
of others, has any immortal soul.
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Professor Margaret E. Maltby is SO
learned that she is professor of physics
in Columbia university, New York. Yet
women students are not allowed in her
classes; only men. The girl students
must stick to the instructors appointed
for them in Barnard college, the wom-
ems annex of the university. The SUI
perstitions of the sex question cause
mankind to cut strange capers.
A lady l know has started a club OF
one. 1t is the Speak No Evil club; its
object, to SAY no word condemnatory of
any human being. When she says any
thing at all of an acquaintance it is
something favorable. She looks for
the good in everybody and always finds
1t, on the principle that we find what
| we look for. You have no idea how
popular this woman is.
1t is selfish to dress always in for
lorn, terrible black. Those who do 1t
forget about its depressing effect on
| the nerves and spirits of others, es-
pecially those who live in the same
house with them. Even in mourning
apparel it is possible to tighten up the
melancholy, dreary effect by touches
of white here and there. Dead black
garments constantly worn inevitably
lower both the mental and physical
tone not only of the wearers them
selves, but of those who daily see them.
They may not know it, but the fact is
undeniable. There is enough of gloom
in this life that we cannot get away
from without gratuitously adding to it.
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Sometimes q oma has a little bit
of an income, enough to half feed and
clothe herself on. All over this land,
wen in Alaska and in Canada, are
openings for such women to earn a
generous living and something more.
They are in the country, and they are
to be found in the vast u~ndeveloped
industrial fields of farming, fruit and
flower culture, bee keeping, chicken
raising and dairying. Toe much can
hardly be said in this direction. The
population of the Union is increasing so
fast that home production will soon be
unable to keep up with home consump-
ton. There are country towns where
eggs are 80 cents a dozen this minute,
and the supply is short.
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The present is a time of outrageous
overdressing among ONE Never
since the American nation began have
its women been so ~extravagant in their
costuming. 1t is mostly the tradespeo-
pie and the men dressmakers who have
forced this era of extravaganza. There
will have to come a reaction from it