Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-10-21
OUR WOMAN'S COLUMN

Be happy now. Tomorrow is to-day
only it hasn't got here yet.
The excess of women over men in Ger
many is more than 100000.
Parents of a spoiled child are hardly as
much to be pitied as the child.
Too many women are dissatisfied with
themselves because they are women.
The German affirms that every daugh-
ter of Eve would rather be beautiful than
good.
| Fancy waistcoats with buttons costing
$50 set are to be worn this winter. Does
this mean you?
Charity begins at home, but there is no
law that prohibits it from travelling round
the neighborhood.
Salt water is good for the scalp, the
eyes, the face, nostrils, the whole body.
Use salt properly and plentiful
1t is expensive to frt with any maiden
at Houston, Texas. There is penalty of
500 or stay in the city bastle
When man marries woman for her
money, or the woman marries the man
for his money, neither get their moneys
worth.
Don't forget, either that You can avoid
good deal of the rush by doing your
Christmas shopping now. Less'n three
months off, you know.
What is called "baby Irisll'' is one of
the popular waist laces, which is simply
an imitation Irish lace with an exceed
ingiy diminutive pattern.
1t requires the workmanship of twenty
men and the use of much costly machn-
cry ito make that dainty article of the
household, the tllimbe
4 fashion writer tells in one of the New
| York papers how old dresses can be made
| to look like new. Now we know how
New York manages to put up such a
showy front.
In Provincetown on the top of Cape
| Cod, Mass, was born the first native
white child in New England and here the
Pilgrim mothers established the Monday
morning wash day.
There are women who are smart and in
telligent yet they labor under the deu-
sion that no man can tell them lie and
| look them straight in the eye at the same
time.
'The Irish women never worry" said
woman who has mixed much in the
upper circles Of the little green isle.
Therefore they preserve their youth
better than the women of any other ma
| tion."
Marchioness Q. anna, wife OF the Japan
ese field marshal, is a woman of much
culture and education and has introduced
many American ideas into the household
Of her husband, for Nine. Oyama was edu-
Gated in the United States and is a grad
nate of Nassar College.
If you only read books about things you
already know, only talk about the things
you have talked about before, only meet
| people whose uttermost thought you
sounded long ago. your mind becomes
caked, incapable OF action, quite useless
compared to what human mind should
| be-
John Arbuckle, the millionaire coffee
magnatc, is to establish great institution
to aid girls in securing husbands. The
| home will also provide for crippled old
men and women and will have accommo-
dations for 200. The home is to be
known as "The Colony Building" and will
be located on the Arbuckle farm at New
Platz, New York.
The crowning virtue of the model girl
is charity 1t pervades her whole life
just as the fresh odors OF the trees fill the
air with a thousand sweet scents. 1t
makes the word that she says better, the
deed that she does worthier, and per-
meates every act OF her life, so that to the
world at large she seems an outward signal
of goodness and Kindness.
The Royal University of Ireland has
from its beginning bestowed all its honors
and awards on men and women alike.
At its recent matriculation examinations
l73 women passed.
II write lots OF letters that | never
mail, +" said woman to friend. "What
do | do with them? l tear them up. l
write them simply to get things I want to
say out of my system"
| Churches will sing and sing ''Rescue
the Perishing," but when a member,
young or old, makes misstep and goes
wrong, there is very little attempt to res
cue. The tendency is to push them
deeper down, rather than rescue them.
This is especially true in regard to girls or
women. They sing "rescue," but act
"push down" In the case of men it is a
little better, unless his failure is in his
business. Then instead OF PRAYING for
him all prey on him.