Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-08-26
OUR WOMAN'S COLUMN


bank in Wister, I. T.
Some men would pop the question
several months sooner if they were mint
readers.
No improvement has been made on the
kiss old Adam invented in the garden O
Eden.
When Cupid goes on strike the courts
are busy with breach of promise and
divorce cases.
There are lots of henpecked men but
we. believe more wives are mistreated
than husbands.
1t is stated that not one bride was over
% years old in the 346, 800 marriages last
year.
Mrs. Anna White resigns all the ward.
robe of the animal performers of the Bar.
mum & Bailey circus.
1t used to be that women were content
to look pretty, but now they want to be
strong as well as beautiful.
The best posted man on gasoline in this
country will not allow any gasoline in
his residence for any purpose.
An English professor who has been
lecturing at the Univerity of Chicago
says teachers ought to wear bright colors.
An Illinois lady finds on careful CON-
putation that two quilts which she has
Just made contain about 1884, 199
stitches.
If smart baby had chance to pick
its parents, the chances are that it would
not be born at all.
There are 100, ,227 professional beggars
in Spain, whom l,94s are women.
In some of the cities beggars are licensed
to caray on their trade.
1t is impossible for a girl to whistle
when the righ kind of man is around.
As soon as she puckes her lips to begin
something else happens.
Since women got the idea that ath-
letics are not owned and controlled by
the masculine swarms fainting has just
about gone out of fashion.
A certain Methodist minister once said,
conversely, that after God made man he
was dissatisfied with his work and as an
improvement made woman.
Keep your head clear, your conscience
fair, your heart pure, young woman and
60 out into the world and make life for
yourself. 1t is your right as well as your
duty.
"Well, dern the luck !" muttered
Samson through his close-cropped beared
after Deliah and her Philistines had
finished with him. ''Bunkoed and by
one O. them lady BARRIERS, too !''
Among the graduates of Drexe Institu-
tion this summer was Honoria Acosta, of
the PHILIPPINES. She was one of the first
group of PHILIPPINE girls brought to this
country for education.
Life's way is long and dreay and the
music spells are few; someone is waiting
even now to hear song form you, so
sing the song, raise up some head that
sorrow seeks to bow, and wait till the
the lines grow cold, but sing it-sing in
now
A Philadelphia paper has gathered
statistics which show that woman IS
chances to marry between the ages of 25
and 30 are only is per cent. while be
tween 20 and rs the chances in her favor
are 50 per cent. Apparently it is rather
dangerous to say no to the first man.
The corsetieres are again making wo-
man over, sacrificing the straight front"
to the tapering waist and the narrower
back. The smaller waist is an effort to
be more feminine, the purpose being to
make the sex more attractive to men since
the advent of the atheletic girl.
A man thus expresses his opinion of
the fashions in dress. "The aim of dress
markers is to make money, and they find |
this easy, as they have to deal with silly |
people. Each year they alter the fashion |
and take care to do this in way that the |
dresses of one year cannot be apapted to
that of the next year."
There are twenty-five superintendents |
~ p,hl;o information -, Eo,ao, ~. -.
women.
"All wives" says a woman physician,
"should become hypnotists and but their
husbands under the influence"
Thomas Shevlin, of Minneapolis, has
given $4,000 for the erection of a wo-
mans building at the University of
Minnesota.
Princes Ena, niece OF King Edward of |
England. it is said in Europe, is being
sought after as bride by the king of |
Spain.
In one day recently 100 wives applied
at the New York police courts for war
rants, charging desertion on the part of
their husbands.
Have any of the ladies ever tried wear
ing mems socks this hot weather? They
say they are very comfortable, much
more SO than the regular long ones.
Modesty is charming trait in woman.
and yet she certainly shows more of her.
self on the street, when in full dress,
than her night gown permits to be yisi.
BILE.
There are two varites of married wo.
men that can be surely depended upon
to be unhappy. The first marries man
for his money the second for his good
looks.
The richest baby in the word, accord
ing to late report, is the little son of the
late Harold Brown, of Providence, R. I.
He is worth between $40,OOO,00O and
$50, 100000.