The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-28
The Difference.

to it later. Ladies ditto"
The Difference.
However keenly man may appre-
ciate a woman's companionship it will
not fill at his head.
A mans friendship is completely
satisfying to the average woman.
She finds it difficult to grasp the fact
that her friendship is not equally sat
isfying to him.
When she does grasp it the bottom
falls out of her universe at once.
A man, in friendship or out of it.
lives his own life.
He does not. as the woman does.
sink his whole existence in his friend
ships.
He is not always at his best. and he
doesn't want to be.
There are times when his primitive
instinct gets the better of his civiliza-
ton.
But he doesn't want his woman
friends to bark back along with him.
If they insist they infallibly fall
from his esteem
81 WISH" said the natron. that
some way could be devised to give
women vacations. Every summer We
hear walls about the poor men who
have to stay in the city while their
wives flee to seashore and mountain.
But really it is the women who never
get any vacation. The dictinoary de-
fines a vacation as intermission of a
stated employment Now. what inter-
mission of her stated employment does
the mother of family ever get? She
may change her environment but the
same old cares and worries are with
her still. To father the material
cares of country cottage may be
only an interesting diversion. 1t is
positively exhilarating to him to go
walking, or swimming. or fishing with
paratively little during his working
days; but to the mother these things
are merely the same old grind. The
only way for her to secure an inter-
mission of her stated employment is
to get away. from her children, and |
have yet to learn how that can be ac-
complished. But it is not only moth
ers who cannot get any rest. A
woman'S cares. whether she be mar
ried or single, pursue her everywhere.
She can't even get started on her vaca-
ton without whole lot of worry
about clothes, and afterward she has
to wear them. There is no wilderness
so wild as to let woman escape al
together from the cares of the toilet
Neither can she escape, unless she
fees altogether from society, the OBJ
legation to be agreeable and entertain
ing But who expects man to be
agreeable when he is tired?'
".How common it used to be, when a
college girl married, to hear people
exclaim: What a pity they wasted a
college education on herr" mar
ried college woman was saying the
other day. But | haven't heard it
lately so much. and maybe the idea is
slowly dying out. There was a time
when even the college graduate her.
self felt that her home offered little
scope for her requirements in chem
istry, sociology and so on. She knows
better now. Besides. not few mar
ried college women make considerable
money as result of their college
training. Many write. some are en-
gagged as professionals in charity work,
some teach in schools and colleges.
and others assist their husbands in
their professions. But the public and
the college graduate alike seem to
have walked up to the fact that the
domestic career in itself offers wide
scope both for study and action
There is lot of common sense in
in the suggestion of contributor 10
midsummer woman's magazine that
three rests of ten minutes each in the
course of the day are worth great
deal more to woman than one long
nap after luncheon. This is only an
extension of the practice in every
gymnasium, where frequent periods of
relaxation rather than one long rest
are the rule. To get the most refresh
ment out of your ten minutes stretch
out fiat on the floor or bed, all the
muscles relaxed as much as possible,
and the mind switched off so far as
may be from the thought of house
work or study or whatever it is that
has been engaging ones attention
Some women find real recreation in
planning new dress or little outing.
Others get the same relief out of re-
peating a favorte poem. 1t doesn't
matter in the least what it is so long
as it changes the direction of the mind
and relieves the nervous tension.
Grumpy old bachelors may snort and
fussy old maids may deny it, but there
is doubtless much truth in the state
ment made by THE Lancet the au-
thoritative English medical journal,
that most naughty children are sick
children. "A large amount of the So
called naughtiness of children" says
1.-The Lancet" may be accounted for
upon grounds which quite exclude the
desirability of punishment for it's cor
rection." Among these grounds" are
insufficient sleep, excitement, over
flowing animal spirits or actual dis
ease in the form of supersensitive
nerves Further, "The Lancet" adds,
1.-THE faculty of imitation is strongly
developed in some children, and they
may copy unconsciously bad habit
in deed or in word of a parent or a
teacher"
Red hair is at a premium in Iowa
just now, for the county fairs all over
the state have decided to regard au.
burn tresses as an open sesame t.
their precincts. The state fair man.
agement is talking of taking similar
action, so by the time the fairs are
all over it was thought that the mum
Der of red-haired women in the ninety
nine counties will be fairly we'll es
tablished. There is great rivalry be
tween the towns of Monroe and Shen
andooh In tho matter Monroe claim