Middletown transcript., 1905-11-25
OUR WOMAN'S COLUMN

A Hindoo bride is annointed from head
to foot with grease and saffron.
The song of sympathy never comes
until the singer has been to the school of
sorrow.
In New Holland scars, made carefully,
with shells, form elaborate patterns on the
ladies' faces.
The simplest mother is wiser than the
brightest childless woman, because ex-
perience is the only sort of wisdom worth
having.
Chicago club women are to establish a
theatre where no light-footed damsel in
daring negligee costume will glide into the
glare of the foot-lights.
Egypt is the only country in the world
where there are more men than women.
The male sex in the dominion of the
khedive exceeds the female by 100000.
Mime. Schumann-Heink, who claims
that through her marriage to an American
she has lost her rich estate in Germany,
has applied to the state department for
aid.
The girls OF Logansport, Ind, have Or
ganized club not to allow lovers to stay
after ten o'clock. It's all right until the
right man comes along and then-the
club can go.
How many know that 25-cent can of
stovepipe enamel will make an old range
or cook stove look like new? One can
will paint a small range and several joints
OF pipe twice.
Mrs. A. R. Mcfarland, now of Okla
homa, is said to have been the first Amer
ican missionary to Alaska, or, indeed, the
first American woman to 60 there in any
capacity. That was more than thirty
years ago.
European clothes are appreciated by
fashionable New Workers. Some two
hundred women cross the Atlantic twice
a year to replenish their wardrobes, and
the number OF men who do the same is
much higher.
Mr. Witte, who represent Russia in the
peace negotiations, married Jewish
peasant girl of obscure birth but of many
personal charms She was recently re-
cognized by the empress great satisfac-
ton to her husband.
Women Of Irondale, ILL.,, a town OF
5000 people, are raising popular sub
scription to deport the towns only idle
man. They propose to send him just as
far as the money they collect will pay
fare, and there will be no return ticket.
May their fund grow enormously! An
idle man is poisonous sore that pollutes
whole community.
Mrs. Caroline NJ. Severence, organizer
OF the first woman's club in the United
States, lives in Los Angeles, CAL, at the
age of eighty-five. In 1860 she organized
the New England club of Boston and was
president for three years.
How many men would vote for univer-
sity trustees and nothing else if they we're
obliged to register in ladies' hair dress
ing establishment or manicuring parlor
in oder to exercise that tiny shred OF suf-
frage? In Chicago women were expected
to 20 to barber shops or livery barns to
register if they desired to vote"
Six detectives were detained to guard
the wedding presents showered upon Miss
E-tella Wade, daughter of Festus ].
Wade, president of st. Louis trust COM
pahy. She was married couple of days
ago and the gifts which came from al
most every country in the world, were
valued at over $25o,OOO.
Mothers are often very ready to save
their daughters trouble. No matter how
tired the mother may be she says nothing
about it. Herr deft hands make the
dainty frocks her daughters wear, her
willing hands often iron the shirtwaists
and the stocks, and even mend the
gloves and sew the buttons on the shoes
of the young girls who go out looking SO
trim and fower-like in their sweetness
and their beauty. Let me tell you, girls,
there may come day when you will
sadly miss all the mother love and the 4
mother petting, when you will wish, per-
haps too late, that you had been more
considerate and less self-absorbed,