Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-08-05
OUR WOMAN'S COLUMN

lngly painful wound.
The Dowager Queen Margherita OF Italy
will visit America next fall.
\ good many women marry because
husband To- S better than poor job.
Cupid little fellow, but he can make
a giant look like plugged nickel.
A small brush, costing five cents, will
prove great help in cleaning vegetables.
Way down in her heart every married
woman feels that she might have done
worse.
1t is not well to think others are not
entitled to some of the worlds good
things.
Equal parts of glycerine and lemon
juice will remove sunburn and summer
freckles.
Say, now, young fellow, never court a
girl unless you are in earnest, or some
day you will be sorry.
When canning peaches boil the pits or
stones in little water and add to the
syrup. This improves the flavor.
A society woman says that men prob
ably quit courting their wives because
other men do it so much more nicely.
So nervous? Try lying down and TAX
ing bit of nap every day just after
dinner 1t will rest you more than you
think.
Jennie Lee of Winona, Minn., heroine
of the famous song Jennie Lee" was
married recently to Walter R. Ebert OF
Chicago.
As a rule widows are very unselfish
creatures. They are never on the look
out for No. L. 1t is No. or No. 3 they
are after
Tact is that nice PERCEPTION which en-
ables us to grasp the situation and to do
and say exactly the right thing at the
right moment.
Mrs. Mcmillan, wife of United States
Senator Mcmillan, of Michigan, has a
pheasant farm at her summer home near
Magnolia, Mass.
"Why don't women read politics ?''
asked the fault-finding man. "For the
same reason," answered the serene wo-
man, "that .nen don't read bargain an
nouncement. It's not their business" y"
The Martha Washington Hotel in New
York is owned and exclusively occupied
by women, and another rigid rule OF the
hotel is that there shall be no liquor
drinking or tobacco smoking on the pre-
misses.
Miss Portia NJ. Washington, daughter
of Booker T. Washington, was one of the
twenty-five young women who were
graduated from Bradford academy at
Haverhill, Mass, at the commencement
exercises last week.
Teach the very little ones to always
say please" and "Thank you" also
Good night and "Good morning."
These are the first lessons in courtesy at
home.
In every day walks of life tact is the
lubricating fluid which causes the social
machinery to run smoothly and renders
pleasant that which would otherwise be
unbearable.
Why do poor people throw away the
pear cores and rinds, when they can make
fine jelly and marmalade of them? II
the juice is too thin, add the juice of an
apple or two.
Lots of men find much fault if the
meals are not right on time; but they
will, themselves, over and over again,
keep dinner waiting fifteen or twenty
minutes, and it is ''all right" But is it,
after all?
bet, encourage rather than discourage
him. Discouragement acts like a wet
blanket, and puts out the fires OF ambi-
tion most effectually in the childish ma.
ture.
Every infant is born with conscience,
and an instinct for God, and desire for
good. We must begin early and strive
to catch hold of that wonderful religious
instinct which is in every heart.
Missouri women must be exceedingly
shy and retiring creatures, since they
deem it necessary to appeal to the courts
for an opinion before exercising their
right to go through their husbands
pockets.
i Let nobody induce you, dear girl, to
think that any work on earth can for an
instant compare in worth with the task oi
managing home, or that any honor is
SO great as that of presiding at ones own
hearth. Other issues dwindle in impor.
tance before this.
Flies settle in numbers on screen doors,
and in passing through the door often,
they will come inside and soon fill a
room. But if the door is thoroughly
rubbed with a solution of kerosene, it is
quite preventive, because they do not
like the odor of kerosene.
"One thing that most persons with
tender feet who insist upon wearing
patent leather shoes in warm weather
don't know" said salesman in shoe
store, sis that a small hole bored on
either side of the shoe, about one inch
from the sole and close to the instep, will
give them more comfort than all the
foot-ease powders ever manufactured.
The holes pump in the air while the