Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-06-10
OUR WOMAN'S COLUMN
Even mems ties are shown in the ney
"Alice" blue.

Even mems ties are shown in the new
"Alice' blue.
Wrinkles are POLITICALLY termed by the
japanese "waves of old age"
Nursed troubles grow rapidly; left to
shift for themselves they soon disappear.
A good cement for mending glass is
made by boiling isinglass in spirits OF
wine.
A half-hour's sleep after dinner is, to
many women, worth two hours sleep in
the morning.
Pieces of sponge packed into mouse
hole will induce the rodents to perman-
emily vacate the house.
White women are scarce in the German
colonies there are only 254 in East Africa
and 229 in the German islands in the
Pacific ocean.
Brighten up the little things about the
house with few touches of paint, stain
or enamel. It's surprising how this cheers
mp home.
In Iceland men and women are in
every respect political equals. The ma
tion, which numbers over 10000 people,
is governed by representatives elected by
both men and women.
The daughters of Capt. John Mullan,
U. S. A., are running laundry in Wash
ington, and are making success of the
venture though some of their relatives
are very indignant.
If you are annoyed by an endless sue
cession of pimples take out of your daily
bill of fare pork and veal, all fried foods
and rich pastry, hot breads and sweets
and make a point of eating salads and
''greens."
According to the government statisti-
clan of New South Wales, when woman
marries at the age of 20 she may expect
to have five children, at the age of 2S
three children, at the age of 80 two chill
dren, and at the age of 81 one child.
In the city of Honolulu there is
female policeman. Moreover, she is
woman of means who undertakes the
duty for the fun of the thing and refuses
to accept payment. She is Miss Helen
Wilder, and her father is wealthy sugar
planter.
There are no old maids in Japan, said
the japanese Consul General Uchidda at
a banquet of the Wells College alumnae
recently, because men are more numerous
than women. Furthermore, japanese
women marry between the ages of Is and
%, and single woman is rarity. The
education of women has for its primary
object fitting them for wives and mothers.
He says that their minds are as broad,
their hearts as pure and their under
standing as elevated as those of the |
women of any other nation in the world. |
In New Guinea parents send their
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top of tree every night and when the |
girls have gone up the ladder is removed,
so that there is no coming down till the |
parents allow it. Elopements under
these circumstances must be difficult and !
parents no doubt sleep the sounder for
knowing that their girls are unable to
take their walks abroad until their elders
see fit for them to do so.
The gospel of happiness is one that
every woman should lay to heart. What
it means to man to come home at night |
to cheerful wife no one but he who has
had to fight the hard battle of life knows.
Ii he is prosperous it is an added Joy
but it is in misfortune that it shines like
a star in the darkness. A complaining
wife can kill the last bit of hope and
courage in sorely troubled heart, while
a cheerful one gives new courage to begin
The fight over again.
The sweetest earthly name, there is no
earthly name half so sweet and endear-
ing, as that of mother How I pity the
woman who goes through this life and
no one to call her mother. How proud
it makes woman feel to have young
man step up to her in company and call
her mother. Young man or young
if you have mother living. love
her. One little rose to her while she is
living is worth vastly more to her than
all the flowers you can pile on her coffin
after she is dead. One little kind word
s worth more to her than all the money
you can expend at her funeral. Your
mother may be growing old; if SO, love
her, be kind to her. She loves you and
will do more for you than any other per-
son living, SO take her as the best friend
you have or ever will have.