Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-09-02
OUR WOMAN'S COLUMN

Helen Keller's book has been trans
lated into twelve foreign languages.
kettle with smoky bottom will tax
as long again to boil as clean one.
woman should not be afraid to sa
the pleaSan ings that rise to her lips.
Lady Marcus Beresford, who founded
the English Cat club, has about 15'
felines.
Marion Martneau says you can make
your arms plump by rubbing olive OF
into them.
Four hundred and fifty millions O
heather women who must be reached
and saved by women.
Before naming baby girl, pause Ions
enough to wonder how it will SOUND
when she is sixty.
A New York girl who after being Tilted
vowed that she would find a, husband
within month, got him in fifteen days
The distinction of being the only wo-
man city clerk in the state of Iowa be.
longs to Miss Estella Gordon of Center.
vile.
The will of Mrs. Almira Karme oil
Kalamazoo, Mich, provides for a trust
fund of $4,000 to be used to feed tramps.
Clicago's superintendent of compul.
sorry education declares that women is
destined to be the ruling sex in CONNER
cialism
1t has been discovered that the girl who
misspells her name to make it Clancy"
never helps her mother with the house.
work.
II do not know which is the worse, a
visitor with pronounced opinion, or one
who has no views at all, said charm
ingmatron.
When sitting, don't sag. This is an
ungraceful habit and one that is easily ac-
qnired It's habit Of laziness, too-and
| damage to the lungs.
There are various causes for the circles
under the eyes. Loss of sleep, worry,
constitutional troubles, ETC. Try to dis
cover the cause and treat the cause.
Mrs. j. Ii. Rhodes, the first woman in
Missouri to secure hunters license, is
an expert rifle and wing shot, excelling
her husband, Missouri's game warden.
Mrs. Freda Ehrmann of Oroville, CAL,
has an exhibit OF olive oil at the Lewis
and Clark Exposition. She is said
to control the olive trade of nothern Cali
fornia.
In Persia women "marry out" on con-
tract, returnable to their parents in
good order and condition" when the
contract is up. The purchase price is,
like your room rent, payable in advance.
But Persia is not the only country where
wives are bought.
One of the most successful young busi-
ness women in the country is Mrs. w. S.
Pratt of Atlanta, Ga, who is said to be
the only woman south of Chicago in the
lumber trade.
japanese women now have, under the
new civil code, property rights and privi-
leges of divorce, which put them nearly
on par with women in England or the
United States in those respects.
The arbiters of fashion in the French
capital have decided that the elbow
sleeve is no longer "good form" and must
be abandoned This means the long
glove, too, must go to the great delight of
girls whose arms do not fill out these
coverings.
1t has been necessary to employ extra
guards at the New Jersey penitentiary to
keep women from flirting with the con-
victs. 1t will be safe, however, to con-
tinue to believe that the world would
soon 60 to the bad if there were no wo-
men in it.
Never enter sickroom in state of
perspiration Ito remain for any time) for
when the body becomes cold it is in a
state likely to absorb the infection. Nor
visit sick person-if the complaint be
of contagious nature-with an empty
stomach. In attending sick person, do
not stand between the sick person and
any fire that may be in the room, as the
heat of the fire will draw the infectious
vapor i'm that direction.
To tell the truth, however much wo-
men may inveigh against marital author
ity, all women more or less enjoy being
governed, not tyrannized over but looked
out for, and relieved of responsibility by
some one whom love and who they loves
them.~ There is not woman living who
does not, in her heart of hearts, delight in
being governed, provided the rule is tender
and just, and is exercised by the man to
whom she has given her heart. Only a
hopelessly weak and foolish woman ever
rebels.-Helen Olfeld.
A specialist in corsets says that the fig
ure of this year is higher than that Of
last year. And the indications show that
next years figure will be higher busted
still. This, however, does not infer that
the corset Of that shape pushes the figure
out of place or brings the woman who
has just begun to feel her freedom into
trammels again. 1t merely means that a
woman must learn to stretch her body
and stiffen her muscles. As the chest is
raised and the muscles grow tense you
will have all the requirements for high
| corset.
"Women are responsible for much OF
the drunkenness that exists in America,
was the statement made by that well
known club woman, Mrs. Maria G.
Weed, recently at meeting of the
Frances z. Willard union in New York.
Her paper on "The Psychology of Dip
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