Middletown transcript., 1905-02-11
woMAN's COLUMN
Married life on an average lasts twenty
eight years.

A woman can't make monkey ot
, every man she meets; sometimes SHE is toe
/ late.
When woman's skirts do a good
stunt of frou frouing, of course everybody
rubbers.
At a wedding all expense except the
clergyman's fee are borne by the family
of the bride.
Tight sleeves, snug corsets and choak-
ing collars will cause the nose to become
much too rosy.
The increase in women who are doing
mems work has been 40 per cent. in the
last ten years.
Physicians are beginning to recognize
worry as disease, to be prescribed for
like any other malady.
If the Lord made anything prettier
than pretty girl, there's heap of fellers
that don't know what it is.
The farmers wife is to the farm what
the handspring is to the watch. If you
let her run down you will see.
ADAM was very much surprised
when I first saw you.
Eve-What woman did you expect?
Sit down in disgrunted idleness and the
world is hovel. Get up and sing and
work and you will find it palace.
Employment of girls in banks is no new
experiment. The Bank of France took
women into its employment as long ago as
1852.
Every man and woman should make it
habit to go twice year to a good dem
tist and have the teeth thoroughly
cleansed and looked over.
We have seen some pretty girls who
were both pretty and ignorant, but as a
rule they were never ignorant that they
were pretty.
The first question asked in every home
by every member of the family returning
from an absence on the streets is,
"Where's mother?'
There are 100000 women in the
United States who find it necessary to
work, of whom 100000 are employed in
factories and mills.
In Lapland the crime which is pun
ished most severely, next to murder, is
the marrying of a girl against the express
wish of her parents.
In every 1000 marriages in Great
Britain twenty-one are between first
cousins. Among the nobility the rate is
much higher, amounting to forty-tive in
900.
baby was born to Mrs. Jos. Novak |
of Collinsville, Conn.,, that weighed % |
pounds. 1t was two feet in height An
operation was necessary and the baby |
died.
Suppose that everyone was called upon
for proof of every statement that was |
made rejecting upon the character of
other people, it would put the gossips out |
Of business.
A woman was one of the competitors |
in blowing contest lately held in Derby
shire, England.
The bachelor girl in her boasted inde- |
pendence is not the whole works, as she |
will find out to her bitter disappoint-
ment, for it is the women who marry and |
have children-sturdy boys and hand
some girls-who control the future.
If the seventy people who made up the
population of Chicago in 1880 had been
married into thirty-fve couples and re-
luired to furnish Chicago with its present
each mother would have mad
to raise about 81 600 children.
. little girl in much excitement rushed
into the parlor, which was full of COM
pany, and exclaimed: Mamma, just
think of it." Think of what, darling?"
"Onr cat has whole lot of twins and l |
didn't even know she was married"
In Italy there are many matrimonial
brokers and it is a paying business. In
Heed they keep correct list of all mar
riageable girls or women in the district
and endeavor to make matches the
,he same as a real estate broker sells
and.
A man in neighboring town who Sc
cured his wife through matrimonial
lgency is trying to secure divorce.
lust another instance of finding that mail
rider bargains are not just as represented
md that much better grade of the same
rticle could have been obtained at home.
food enough for him; he ought to patro-
lize home industry. The home grown
rticle is usually the best.
eff nervous people would only drink
nore water they wonld not be so ner-
ous," remarked trained nurse the
ther day. Nearly every physician will
woman who is suffering
rom nervous prostration or nervous ex-
austion to drink lots of water between
meals, but many women who do not
ome under Doctors care would feel I
etter and look better if they would
rink say quart of water in the course
1 the day."
Mrs. Villa A. Leonard has been an ex-
ert money counter for the United States
'reasury Department since 1862. For
many years she has been the fastest note I
ounter in the department. She has
ounted more money than would pay off
he national debt. Years ago when she
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