Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-10-28
OUR W0MAN'S COLUMN

| SiONOG VIII OC III sly ie IOr evening
and street wear this season.
1t is definitely announced that there
are to be touches of velvet in the fall and
winter costumes
The wives of English workmen, un-
employed, will appeal to the king to re-
lieye them of their sufferings.
Mrs. Peary, during the several Arctic
expeditions, whereon she accompanied
her husband, became an expert and fear
less warus hunter.
Mrs. +. J. Way, of South Africa, has
been winning honors in England in shoot
ing tournament. She recently made 81
out of possible 80, at 200 yards.
Miss Jessie Alderman, a missionary,
recently put on divers suit in Ceylon
and brought up from the paars, or pearl
oyster beds, seven valuable pearls.
When woman goes away on vaca-
ton and finds her husband thinner upon
her return, she regards every pound he
lost as pound of testimonial OF her cook
ing.
Maria Mitchell, scientist, and Mary
Lyon and Emma Willard, educators, were
chosen as the first women whose names
will grace the tablets in the hall of fame
at New York.
Now every state university admits
women as do most OF the endowed in
stitutions. OF 4S0 colleges for men $50
admit women and OF those that do not
eighty are Catholic institutions
The wing hat is still in fashion. GAY
colored wings form the only trimming to
many Of the new fall models. Double
wing effects are used on the under brims
of the hats Which show the very narrow
front brim in order to lengthen the side
line
The charge OF a speaker at recent w
c. T. L. convention that the drink habit
is increasing among women is not sup
ported by investigation in Chicago at
least, which shows that the number of
women in that city who drink is visibly
decreasing.
American men very generally accord
womankind all the virtues of the race.
They say women are endowed with a
keener perception of right and wrong,
quicker intuition of justice, greater re-
gard for truth and call attention to the
fact that the larger per cent. of high
school graduates year after year are girls.
Miss Grace Wetherbee of New York,
daughter of one of the proprietors of the
Manhattan Hotel, beautiful and gifted
girl, who had all the advantages OF edu-
catien and society that money brings, is
now living on the Shoshone Indian reser-
walton, the wife of full-blooded Indian.
She has adopted Indian customs and
seems very happy.
One does not have to be very old to
remember when there was not woman's
club in the United States, now there are
apout four thousand, with a total men,
bership of $4,000. Every state has its
federation, including from fifteen to
twenty clubs to three hundred, and the
state federation represents from one to
thirty thousand women each.
The following from the Kansas City
Journal is worth repubIishing several
times with the hope that some of the
pointed truths may penetrate the rhinoc-
erous hides of some of the loafers that
infest this section. "a loafer OH the
street, whose wife was probably at home
getting out neighbor's washing to make
money to buy the children shoes, asked
busy man the other day if he ever saw
baldheaded woman. "No, | never
did," replied the busy man. "And |
never saw woman watzing around
town in her shirt sleeves with cigar in
her teeth and running into every saloon
she saw. Neither did ever see woman
sitting all day at the street corner on
dry goods box telling people how the
secretary of the treasury should run the
national finances. l have never seen a
woman go fishing with a bottle in her
pocket, sit on the bank all day and go
home drunk at night. Nor have l ever
seen woman yank off her coat and say
she could lick any man in town"