Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-07-08
OUR WOMAN'S COLUMN

Slacken the pace little these hot days.
Furniture dealers believe in short
courtships.
That woman who never changes her
mind hasn't any.
The more ciphers attached to widows
mite, the more men seem to sigh for it,
A woman who is subject to burning
feet should never wear heelless slippers
about her room.
Plunge the hands and wrists into cool
water when overheated. Wonderful
how refreshing it is.
There is certain proportion of arsenic
in the juice of cucumber that acts on the
skin as whitener
An Englishman claims that the reason
women are better looking than men is
because they are not SO hard-working.
Don't bite the lips 1t is evidence of
nervousness, and will keep your cupid's
bow in very ragged, unlovely condition.
A stout girl must not wear plaids nor
load herself with trimmings and fiounces.
A slender girl, on the other hand, should
avoid stripes that add to her inches
When nails are to be driven into wood
which it is feared they may split, first
lay them in soapy water or drive into
bar of soap and there is no danger.
The board of lady managers of the
worlds fair has called in an expert
accountant (male) to straighten out its
accounts and make up report for Con-
gress.
Bed is not the place for thinking, any
more than it is the place for repenting.
Thinking is guaranteed to keep one wide
awake.
Above all things, the housekeeper who
wishes to tempt dull appetites in hot
weather must make the table look attrac-
tive to the eye.
A Milwaukee girl has been declared to
be the handsomest young woman in
Smith College, and Prince Henry of
England on his visit to this country, said
the prettiest girl he saw in America was
one of Milwaukee's daughters.
Some OF the girls we know have soft,
white hands that we can't help admiring;
but, somehow, We have the notion that
those girls leave mother to do the hardest
of the household tasks.
Miss Ii Bi Gu will graduate from the
Woman's Medical College at PhiladeI.
phia this year, and take high honors.
1t is said that she is the first Chinese girl
to take a degree in medicine in this
country.
Education has taught the woman of
to-day that health is the first essential of
beauty consequently the woman of to-
day cultivates health and knows better
than did her predecessors how to take
proper care of her body.
William Waldorf Astor is making ready
to build the biggest apartment hotel in
the world in New York city. 1t will be
twenty stories above ground and at least
two stories below the surface, and will
cost four million dollars.
Everyone dislikes the wife who bully
rags and henpecks her husband, but
everyone takes off his hat to the clever
dame who wheedles her better half into
doing just as she wishes. Incessant talk
ing will drive man to desperate things.
On the day of Chinese marriage un-
invited friends and neighbors, or even
perfect strangers, are allowed to come in
and see the bride and they may make
any remark about her, or to her, they
please. Sometimes things horribly rude
and disgusting are said.
Marriage is like a funnel-shaped cloud.
1t may set you down as gently as babe
from its mothers arms, or it may slam
YOU ND against a stone wall with a force
that will bring your eyes out. After you
are once sucked into it you have to take
your chances.
All womankind has had a scare. Ru-
mors reached us from Paris of skirts, stiff
to the knee with the heaviest crinoline
that could be bought, and Immediately
we were haunted by visions of the hoop
skirt. The Paris modesto is capable OF
going as far.
Because girl has not married young,
and is approaching the age where, if
single, she will be put into the cold
maid' class, is no proof that she is not
good and nice, but rather is an evidence
that she knows her own worth that she
has good sense and proper appreciation
of life. and will not Glitch up' with just
anybody who might propose.