Middletown transcript., 1906-03-24
OUR WoMAN-s COLUMN

1 There are 100000 more men in Egypi
than women.
| A ruffie on the bottom Of work apron
well starched will prevent spots on the
skirt below.
Some people are even piggy about theil
troubles. They won't give up the old
and are always looking for the new.
There are said to be 20, 900 less women
than men in the state Of Iowa, and the
stale is also short Of school teachers.
| When a widow succeeds in getting a
bachelor segregated and pushed off into a
corner he may as well throw up his
hands.
A Chinaman always buys his wife, and
if he has not the money to buy the one
he wants lie must buy cheaper one.
How mach pleasanter it is to talk abont
Uhe great work We intend to do than to
buckle down and do it. After all, talk
ing is fascinating pastime.
There are said to be l 900 women law
yers in the country, not including those
who lay down the law to you when you
are twenty minutes behind meal time.
The old-fashioned tight-fitting corset
covers were not to be tolerated for an in
| slant, so clever wits set to work to en-
volve something that would fulfill the re-
qnirements and yet retain the beauty
and the grace OF the prettiest Of the other
styles.
Sarah Bernhardt was once interviewed
by reporter on the topic, "If there
were an eleventh commandment, what
should it be ?" The tragedienne ex-
claimed: "Say to your editor that there
must never be another commandment.
1t is hard enough to keep the ten we
have"
Housewives should know that paper
bags are made of compound of rags,
lime, glue and other substances mixed
with chemicals and acids. When dry
these can do no harm, but damp paper
bag is not fit to touch any sort of food.
This being the case, no food of damp or
juicy nature ought ever to be kept in
paper bag.
The best way to keep the love of your
husband is to make him hustle to keep
your love. By this it is not meant to
worry or try him, but instead to make
yourself SO charming, SO fascinating, so
interesting and really superior and low
able that you have all the other women
beat to finish.
"Alice Roosevelt weddings" are the
latest Residents at Foster Hall, one of
the girls dormitories of the University
of Chicago, are planning to hold mock
wedding in imitation of the Longworth-
Roosevelt ceremony. 1t is planned to
copy the recent wedding at the white
house as far as possible. One Of the fea-
lures will be marine orchestra dressed
in white in which feminine musicians OF
the hall will be the players.
The brand new coming girl, the girl
who is to be created this Lent, and who
will emerge from her retirement to startle
the world, will have big throat and will
be extremely wide in the chest. There
might be poem written to the wide
chested girl. She is SO much pictured,
SO immensely popular, SO beautiful and SO
statuesque. What is to become Of the
thin chested girls? No one knows. But
they will drop of the earth in some mys-
tterious way and be seen no more. Chests
that we're fiat and narrow will grow full
and broad, and there will be no more
weak lungs. All the women will swell as
to the chest.
The latest petitioner in bankruptcy at
Peoria, ILL.,, is hired girl. And although
her calling is thus humble, che appears
to have been something Of a Napoleoness
OF faance in a small way, as she managed
to accumulate some fifteen hundred dol
lars of Indebtedness on salary of four
dollars week. 1t seems surprising that
any young lady could accomplish such
feat in finance but this is the day of
strange things in business methods.
After all this young lady didn't over cap
italize her resources to a greater extent
than many supposedly good business men
have done.
At recent meeting Of the Mothers
club at Muscatine, Ia, the question of
race suicide came up and the discussion
waxed fast and furious. One of the wo-
men, who is social leader, declared that
a mother could raise two children, boy
and a girl preferred, successfully and
provide for them in a proper manner,
while raising any more would hinder her
and prevent her doing her full duty with |
all. Then this aroused mother, who
was a mother OF ten children and she
was strong in her arguments favoring
large families.