Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-12
FROM A WOMAN'S POINT OF VIEW

tho. whether it is done voluntarily for
cessity.
W. saw a timely article recently, on
the subject of profanity among wo-
men. Its plea to the ranks of human
ity was "let the woman who has fool
ishly permitted herself to fall into
doubtful language adopt this prayer of
Socrates: oh God, make me beau
tiful within And let her re1nem-
Der his saying: A oath from a
woman's lips is like a bullet from a
rosebud" However, unpleasant 1T may
be to face. we cannot escape the fact
that physical beauty is a shell II not
supplemented by the true beauty with
in. thai of character and disposition.
This endures long after the former
has faded. Profanity is not the trade
mark of good breeding n it's practice
must be condemned most of all for
women. altho there are those in the
best social circles. who. thru thought
l~essness, or to keep up with the mis-
taken idea of smartness. use doubtful
language. One thing so often put down
as a bad mark against some types of
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the FREQUENT slang which character
ICES her conversation. 1t is SO easy ov
the habitual use of slang in giving vent
to our feelings, to kill n other n
better form expressive OF the ehlotiois'
Another thing which gets monotonous
is the using of some pet expression o.
speech, differing in different persons.
on all occasions, whether 1T happens TO
fit, mean anything, or not.
Neither can any stretch OF
ton conceive of women continuing 10
be attractive to themselves or TO men,
If they adopt the rough usages anu
coarsen themselves, say for instance.
by smoking. And yet, frequently we
hear that New York women are really
going to smoke cigarettes, as a com-
| mon thing and quite as a matter OF
| course. We may be thankful 1t stlli
can be said they are going to," not
that they do, as a rule. Ihose calieo
respectable and ever Wo-
| men smoke in London and Berlln ana
Paris, they smoke a great deal IN Rus-
STA and in the best society In Aus
tria they even adjourn to the smok-
ing room after dinner. but they smoke
| cigars. And tho New York is becom-
ing more and more continental year by
year, it's conservatism sometimes ap-
proaches the provincial. 1t is to be
hoped that it will continue to be pro-
vincial on this question, and that the
American woman, however much she
welcomes the growing independence
and freedom Of her sex, may continue
to balk at this unwomanly Indulgence.
Is it not, after all, the grandest part
of woman's work in the world, to
plorify the common offices of life? A
sunny temper and the happy faculty
of looking always on the bright side
of things are indispensable in per-
Forming this work successfully. Com
~paratively few have the talents which
mark out for them a path above the
ordinary routine of life's duties, but all
can, in their modest way, make the
\ best of their circumstances. One soon
tires of the woman who always greet5
you with a detailed account of her
own particular grievances, but we are
always glad 10 see the CHEEKY woman
who fits in everywhere and can detect
something bright in the darkest
trouble.
It is a good rule which tells us to
trust to absolute neatness and lack of
cheap trimmings to make ones ward
robe dtgnifed and becoming. Then
again, there are some people whose
perfect breeding and self possession
enable them to look well in anything.
Such a. one, especially, nay appear as
we'll in simple muslin, made up taste
fully, as others do in rich silks. There
is a certain beauty in pure simplicity
that successfully rivals the magnifi-
cence of rich apparel. Nowadays, es-
pecially, it is foolish to deny oneself a
pleasant outing because of the lack Of
a great variety Of clothes.
LORRAINE.