Middletown transcript., 1906-04-07
OUR WOMAN'S COLUMN

The women are going to vote in Italy.
I If.away from home in distant city, do
not forget to write often to father and
mother.
Hand bags to match summer gowns
are now shown, covered with aIlover
white embroidery, pink, blue or green
, tir.t beneath.
The pleasante-t things in the world are
pleasant thoughts and the greatest art in
life is to have as many of them as posi-
Bile.
She was indignant when her husband
! called her an expert loafer, but she for
gave him when lie explained that he
meant a good bread baker
A woman who has the cares OF large
household on her hands has invented a
'grumble book" in which the family are
requested to enter their complaints.
During cold weather il clothes must be
hung out of doors to dry, add handful
of salt to the last rinsing water. The
clothes can then I've hung on the line be-
fore freezing and there is less danger OF
tears.
The season Of the year is approaching
when the mother and daughter go forth
to shop for new wall paper. The chances
are that the daughter makes the selection
for the parlor while the mother is allowed
to pick out the pattern for the kitchen.
Those who love the scent of violets
should place ground or pounded orris
root, made into sachets, among their
linen. Florenteen orris is the best and
it may be used among the sheets in the
linen cupboard, as well as in the bed
rooms.
When the bachelor girl finds her
chances OF marriage have gone and she is
apparently doomed to 60 through life an
old maid, che begins to get active preach
ing on the pleasures of single blessedness
and the beauties of feminine indepen-
dence.
Tie Froebel society OF Berlin has classes
once week for mothers, where they are
taught to interest their children by kin
dergarten methods. The classes are he'd
from to in the evening and among
other things they are taught to cut sill
houettes and draw amusing pictures.
Lady Jane Grey was the most learned
child of which history has any record.
Before she was 8 years old she wrote a
beautiful hand and was able to play on
many different instruments She could
speak several languages, both ancient and
modern, besides being well grounded in
philosophy.
In one respect only are women per-
United to serve the pope and that is in
the care of his wardrobe. As he always
appears in white, even few hours wear
takes away the freshness from the robes.
Men attendants are not considered suit
able for the work and it is entirely in
charge OF women.
To own rosary blessed by the pope is
the aim OF society girls Just now, whether
catholic or protestant. With the non-
catholics it is the difficulty attending
the securing Of the prize that makes it e.
peeially attractive. Nearly every steamer
that brings back travellers bears also these
precious strings of beads.
Tile woman who made the first hooks
and eyes in this country recently cele-
brated her SD birthday. With a piece
Of wire she copied the hooks and eyes on
ball dress imported from France. Her
employer then began to manufacture
them and she was placed in charge of the
work at the large sum of 81 week.
Rev. Madison Peters says that too
many society women of New York both
drink and smoke, and some OF them get
qnite drunk. 1t is to be feared that these
perniciuus habits are growing in our big
cities. A woman with her breath tainted
with tobacco is bad enough, but woman
drunk is something awful to contemplate.
The individual woman, taken separ-
ately, may be capable and useful MEM
Der of society, says writer, but to find
seven or eight who will act intelligentIy
in concert seems well.nigh impossible.
and the masculine verdict that woman's
committee generally resolves itself into
talk, temper, tears, and tea, although
brutal, lie not. after all, so very vide Of
tile mark.
To the woman who wishes to make her
path through life an easy and agreeable
one, the science of smiling is most nec-
essary study. Like acting, or art, or en-
gineering, it is thing in which only
practice can make one perfect. A little
theory may go a, long way, but it is
enough to remember these two rules ::
First, the honey OF a smile catches more
hearts than the vinegar of frown, or the