Middletown transcript., 1906-11-17
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and lplegraIii service IL London; 1857
are aunen.
Tae ideal existence is that Of lie home
maker. the devoted wife and elldearingi
npther.
rto many girls are Wiling to marry
ths. first man Vim is candidate Tor mat
tinmny.
Mrs. Sage has presented $1,000 in cash
/ to her euachnian, and she is going TO
bai d a $4,000 cottage for him.
Cultivate the habit Of making allow
| anees FOR the opinions and feelings of
others, AZ we'll as their prpiudices.
Whtn We lave moved heaven and
earth IL get q thing, isn't it amazing to
disc ner how little We really do want it.
| 4 laei, lie may not be deliriously
charming, but it is great improvement
| ui. All nitIlarps married existence.
Tile old maxim says be sure you are
right and then go hi ad, = is good advice
for people contemplating matrimong
a San Francisco woman has sold her
husband for 25,0oO Thousands of her
sisters would be glad to make a similar
d. al if they could find purchasers.
Accurd ng to some OF the scientists
womrn are growing taller. II this would
keep them growing stouter after they
reached middle age it lent likely that
many Of them would worry much over
their Increasing length.
An American girl il blamed for causing
the trouble between the Duke and Dach-
ess Of Marlborough Perhaps this home
wrecker feels that owing TO the scarcity
OF Dukes, each Of them ought to be en-
abled to have at least two American
duchesses.
Women lawyers declared recently that
as a matter of fact, married women do
not own their clothes, even the garments,
mentionabIe and otherwise, which they
bring to their new home in their trousseau
in about one-third of the states that COM
pose the land of the free.
! Ii tile women OF Chicago's four hum
dred were gathered together in any Of
the bathrooms of the world they could be
be distinguished from the women of
other cities BY their pearls. This remark
was made the other day by Jeweler,
who declared that the pearl is the Chica-
go woman's favorite jewel.
| Bridge whist is gambling and the socie-
ty Homan who gives bridge whist party
with prize for the winner of the most
games may be arrested and fined as a
common gambler. That is what the
court decided in Beaver Falls, Pa when
Mrs. j., L. Harsha, wife Of prominent
iron manufacturer, pleaded guilty and
paid her fine after arraignment in court.
/ False hair is being shipped all over the
world by the carload, because to be in
the fashion woman must above all things
| have her head padded out, pulled up and
hung with false hair. In Paris they have
gone so far as to have what is called 1.-THE
transformation, which is a sort of . wig
that can be donned at moments notice,
so that the hair may match the gown to
be worn.
Few international titled marriages have
proved successful. Out OF ia American
heiresses of more or less note who have
brought foreign husbands 1921 200, 900 in
dowries there are less than twenty from
whom reports of unhappiness have not
come to America. Perhaps 5000, ,000, 900
has been scattered among foreign hus-
bands who have mistreated and humiliat-
ed the women who trusted them.
In Turkey there are 800 schools in
which girls received education. There are
forty secondary schools having 5000 girls
on their rolls. The learning Of koran is
compulsory and arithmetic, geography
and elementaryscience are taught. Teach
ing has now become respectable pro-
fession and young women, after passing
the normal examinations, elect to become
tutoresses in distant parts of the empire.
i The city Of Chicago employs the only
woman detective sergeant in the world.
And, strange as it viii seem to some. she
| will be entitled 10 pension from the
city Of Chicago within comparatively
short time. For fifteen years Mrs. Owens
| has been doing police work for that city,
and in all that time there never has been
+ the slightest necessity to assail her record.
The trial board is a thing absolutely for
| eign TO her.
Il can always tell when I am getting
into New York by the way the blondes
begin TO tiicken," said travelling man.
"When am away out in the country dis
| tncts visiting the small towns the sight Of
real blonde is rare. The hair of the
majority OF the country maids is dark,
though | pass an occasional light
colored or red head on the streets.
Their hair is often arranged becomingly,
but never with Marcel wave. Their
complexion never have the steamed
appearance Of the city belle but are fresh
and wholesome.