Middletown transcript., 1906-05-19
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OUR woMAN'S COLUMN
Q married man has any illusions about

No married man has any illusions about
women.
No man is good enough to govern any
woman without her consent.
Only one couple in over 1f,000 live to
celebrate their diamond wedding.
Self-government is as necessary for the
best development of women as OF men.
A good many female faces are daily re-
touched about as carefully as a photo
graph.
God gave touch of beauty to every
thing in the world and blessed woman
most OF all.
Two things ought to be the object Of
our fears, the envy of friends, and the
hatred OF enemies.
The girl with secret is like boy with
| his first gun. Neither is satisfied until
noise is made.
No, Jessica; because man is henpecked
! doesn't necessarily signify that he is in
the poultry business.
The girl who has no romance or senti-
ment in her makeup is like the pretty
flower which has no perfume.
Until woman is 100 years old she is
justified in doing everything possible to
make herself prettier, sweeter and dain-
tier.
If the seat OF a cane chair has sagged it
may be frightened by washing in hot
soapsuds and placing in the open air to
| dry.
Women, the most interesting volumes
in life's library, whose bindings some
times become monotonous but whose con-
tents never.
! 1t is said that Paderewski can play over
five hundred compositions from memory.
1t is only necessary for him to read or
play over composition twice in order to
memorize it.
The honeymoon is the first month after
marriage and originated from Teutonic
custom of newly married couples drinking
mead, drink from honey, for month
after marriage.
Sarah Grand says that for the most part
American women are more intelligent,
more thorough, better informed, larger
minded and more agreeable to meet than
their English sisters.
Straw hats were first heard OF in Eng
land during the reign OF Queen Elizabeth.
There is a record which shows that dur
ing the reign of James |, Lord William
Howard paid the then large sum of SIS
for two straw hats.
The world is full OF women who can
amuse the ordinary man. Can sing,
dance or recite for him, can paint, write
or decorate in manner most pleasing,
but the poor man often goes begging for a
woman who can sew on buttons or mend
his clothes who can cook his food with
economy and flavor it to his taste.
The word woman" has come to take
the place of ''lady," so that it Is now bet
ter form to say young woman than young
lady. The theatrical people have, ac-
cordingly, dropped leading LADY, and
say ''leading woman" After while
general usage will get back from "wash
lady" to "washer-woman." Then it may
be expected that the usage will change
again.
Long before 1850 the waltz was first
danced in the church as a religious rite ;
so the waltz is an evolution having passed
through many changes before arriving
its present form. In the eleventh century
when the Georgian rite supplanted the
Morrish rite the dance appeared very
quickly in society under tie name of
"carole," word derived from the Latin
"caroler."
| Happiness is a quality of which we
might obtain larger share than usual if
we were determined to discover the pleas
| ing truths.
1t might almost be said that by wo.
mans gloves you can read her character.
Certainly it is easy to tell whether she is
an advocate of neatness. 1t has been said
that the French woman dons her gloves in
her bedroom, that the English woman puts
hers on in the hall and that her Hiber-
nian sister draws her on in the street.
1t is safe to say that the American girl,
being complex and of many whims, fol-
lows all three plans according to circum-
stances. Without question, the place to
put on ones gloves is in the house.
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