Middletown transcript., 1905-08-12
OUR WOMAN'S COLUMN

The revival of nightcaps is suggeste
as cure for insomnia.
Is an unfaded carpet of more impol
tance than good health? Surely not.
The Britt h Medical Journal asserts
that mems ecks are longer than the,
Used to be.
There is no disinfectant made by mar
that can compare with the suns rays ir
effectiveness.
1t Is mistake to suppose that every
nice, plump girl will be fat old woman
Some of them die.
A Pennsylvania judge has decided that
woman is boss of the kitchen. Why
did he omit the rest of the house?
The stork flies 100 miles an hour, ex.
cepting when carrying twins The added
weight then makes its flight somewhat
slower.
| Miss Minnie Baldwin is president of a
bank in Wister, 1. T., which has a capi-
talization of $4,000, and is manager of
the concern.
1t takes some of the egotism out of a
woman when she runs across an old pho
tograph and sees what she looked like in
fashion of 1S-.
81 know why women laugh in their
Sleeves" said little Elmer. "Why, dear?"
asked the mother. "Because that's where
their funny bone is.''
Marie Burkart OF Mendoza, ILL.,, was re-
Gently appointed assistant comptroller of
the Great Northern Hotel at Chicago.
She is practical manager of the place as
the comptroller is there only an hour
day. She has 1000 employees under her
care.
What do you think of man selling
his wife for a bottle of beer at auction,
and actually endeavored to turn her over
to the purchaser Well, it happened in
Colorado and they had been married Just
three weeks, consequently case for
divorce.
Learn by instinct of that delicate touch
of the way your hat sets, whether it is
straight without asking someone every
time you put it on, 'Is my hat on
straight ?'' Sometimes it embarrasses a
young man and he says "yes' when he
means ''no."
When mothers will teach their sons
that all men are brothers, and that the
only enemy they have is the man who
wants to rule and exploit them, then we
will have the woman the world needs
who will raise sons with a higher man
hood than the world has ever known.
In Chicago. pursuant to the new law
the price of marriage licenses went up
from 81 to $l.50. 1t is strange that dur
ing the present Roosevelt administration
this damper on the marriage industry
should come into effect. However, it
should not be laid up against the presi-
dent as it is state law.
Women who are social leaders of Ross
Valley, CAL, took the war path to-day
and. armed with pots of green paint, pro-
ceeded to blot out the glaring red and
yellow advertising signs which mar the
scenery in that beautiful country district |
Whenever a billboard could be pulled |
down easily it was carried away instead
of being repainted.
Are yon troubled with flies? Twenty
drops of carbolic acid evaporated from a
hot shovel will Danish flies from room
quicker than all the sticky fly paper ever
manufactured. But mercy sakes. be care
full of the carbolic acid and don't let the |
get at it. A small piece of cam
plinr gum held over lamp will do the
work equally as well.
Say, girls, there are lots of things your
brother can do that you cannot. For in
stance, throw ball the way your brother
does. You are not to blame, your broth
er's arm is put OH the shoulder with a
different muscular arrangement. Few
girls can whistle and what job girl
makes when she sharpens lead pencil.
You cannot drive nail, as it should 60.
There are many things woman cannot
do that men can and things men cannot
do that women can. 1t is evident woman
was not intended to lead Roosevetian
existence.
Girls learn domesticity. That is what
a man is looking for when he chooses
his ifemate. If you will notice all our
wives are whole-souled do
mestic home lovers. Mr.. Carnegie speaks
of his wife as the power behind the throne.
She is the instigator of Mr.. Carnegie's
great charity giving which has charmed
;he world. Mrs. Rockefeller's chief OBJ
ect in life is the care and education of
ler children, not a frivolous society
'Aeker. Mrs. Senator Clark says that
society people rarely mean what they
ay, or say what they mean, as for me l
want to say what l think" The art OF
science is a world ruling occupa-
ion. Girls study it thoroughly. II
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