Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-06-17
OUR WOMAN'S COLUMN

thing.
| The curt answer tnrneth away friends.
| Getting married is as much of gamble
as swapping horses.
Mrs. ]. w. Mackay has Just paid $780,
600 for rope of pearls.
Patent leather shoes are no longer to
be guaranteed by the makers.
Sewing on buttons is not wifely duty
in Japan-there are no buttons
There is fixed rule for doing almost
anything-except making love.
A cup of salt added to your footbath,
using hot water, will prove restful.
The British Isles are said to contain
nearly one million too many women
Any woman can be beautiful who has
small feet and a large bank account.
Place yonr SORROWS in your book of ex-
perence, hut keep them out of your
daily life.
Capt. Richmond Hobson, of New York.
was married recently to Miss Griselda
Hail.
For change, try some strawberries.
sugared, and with orange Juice squeezed
over them.
Nan Patterson will soon be forgotten.
New YORK has on hand breach of
promise case for $250,0OO.
Forty-one men and 1l2 women ont of
| every million persons born reach the age
of one hundred years.
The elbow sleeve will never become
popular in America. Yet it is one of
the most graceful sleeves in the long list.
"Work hard and marry early" says
Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Marry early" is
shorter and makes the other advice un-
necessary.
| Miss Thompson won the women's golf
championship of England last week, de-
feating among others, several American
players.
| White women are scarce in the Ger
man colonies; there are only 254 in East
Africa and 229 in the German islands in
the Pacific Ocean.
Gambling is on the increase among
society women and men in the so-called
''smart set" Bridge whist has broken
many heart and home Too bad
One of Rockefeller's college professors
says women are not good mathematicians.
Yet he will have to admit that women's
figures are generally considered superior
to those of college professors.
| The abandonment of the corset by
fashionable women in Vienna must be a
great blow to literature over there if the
Vienna magazines look anything like the
American magazines in the matter of
illustrations.
| Don't let the baby suck his thumb. 1t
may keep him quiet, but it is apt to dis
| figure the mouth and cause projecting
| teeth. As soon as he begins the habit,
make flannel mitten to cover the whole
hand; put it on and fasten it to his sleeve
with safety pin.
Symptoms OF a fiat chest are often seen
| in girls as young as 9 or 10. Such chill
| dren mustbe trained to increase the actual
size of the lungs, or more properly speak
ing, they should learn to expand the
unused portions When the lungs ex-
pand fully they press the ribs and breast
bone outward
| To get Just that soft cold" look to lace,
| dye it in tea, using about tablespoonful
of green tea to a quart of water to make
an Infusion of the right strength. The
lace will come out a discouraging shade at
| first, but boil it few minutes in water
in which pinch of baking soda has been
dropped and the color will fade to just
the right shade.
II it is mans duty to work hard to
provide the food for his family it is
equally the wife's duty to study how to
prepare and serve such food in the best
possible manner If nine women out OF
ten would devote the time and money
now spent on music, in learning how to
be expert cooks, the world would be
happier and there would be fewer di-
vorces and smaller doctors bills.
Mrs Sarah Platt Decker has this shot
at Cleveland. II know of families who
have starved because the fathers went
| fishing all the time We might just as
well condemn fishing. Fishing is
terrible thing.' 1t is. 1t conduces to
lying, buying strings of fish and swear
ing you caught them; exaggeration in
guessing at the weight Of ones that "get
away" an occasional story telling as to
real purposes OF the trip, etc. Fishing is
certainly bad -sometimes-then again it
is good.