Middletown transcript., 1906-11-24
OUR W0MANS COLUMN

4 Almost 5000 women work abont the
mines n ttle German empire.
Dryness af the skin aud general erup-
tons al for more frniI to be eaten.
Small kininesses make hundred
friends where great talents make but one.
The Boston teachers are to be pension
ed after a certain age with half pay.
Some men find the best get rich.quick
scheme 70 be marrying a wealthy widow.
A,bachelor is forced to wear shirts in
Korea and cannot don trousers until lie
marries.
Skirts fit suugly over the lips. even
though laid in tncks aud plaits, but they
flare very much over the feet.
Marrying girl against the wishes OF
her parents is, next to murder. the most
severely punishable crime in Lapland.
A good corn remedy consists of equal
partsof sweet oil and iodine shaken TO-.
gether. Apply at night until relieved.
Education oft right sort is great
aid to personal charm. Read good bnoks,
study, try to make asuccess of your
mental efforts.
Mrs. ] E. Greenwood of Perry,0. T.,
is grand mother at 36 and Mrs. J. f.
Smith, greatgrandnother of the new
conner, was a grandmother at 32.
Chinese women are giving up the prac-
tice Of cramping their feet, but the habit
seems to be too firmly fastened upon
American women to ever be abandoned.
The self.conscious woman is seldom
attractive. The popular girl is the one
who is CHEEKY, pleasant, delightful aud
sincere. She speaks out her prettiest
and wittiest thoughts.
In rural England girl is not allowed
to see her engagement ring until after
the wedding ceremony. You would
never see a American girl take such long
chances as that
Breathing exercises, vocal culture, cal
isthenics and cold salt water sponge baths
will develop full, high chest. They
must be practiced with regularity, how
ever, to be of benefit.
Fourteen thousands babies comprise
the annual crop of the biggest baby farm
in the world. 1t is located at Moscow
and has branch in ST. Petersburg that
produces 5000 babies year.
Activity is the law of life. Idleness
is more wearing than work, and, inonot-
ony kills more quickly than the health
ful excitement of busy life. One must
be doing and there is much to be done.
After having been barred for 157 years,
women are henceforth to be admitted to
the University of Pennsylvania in the
same category as men, with right to
take up the same studies and earn the
same degrees
Mrs. John Jacob Astor, ST., is dee
scribed as the social queen Of America,
and her sway has been undisputed for
thirty years. Her income is put down
at $2,500.000 year, but her resources
are practically unlimited.
In Russia there are several oman may
ors, and they were elected not out of gal
lantry, but simply because they were
considered to be better fitted than any
one else to be intrusted with the interests
of the community.
DR.. Lorenz, the Viennese surgeon, who
recently passed some time in the United
States, says that he has found women in
ferior in physique in all others countries
save in the United States, where their
is so superb as to make that of
their counirymen seem insignificant in
1t is said that the way woman takes
a compliment stamps her place in society.
A blush denotes the debutant; a giggle
the silly or unsophistlcated; hTusque
protest, the sensible but unpublished; but
the quiet unelated smile, with a quieter
'thank YOU" if reply be necessary, un-
mistakaby, denotes the woman of social
training, the one accustomed to compli.
ments.
The business girl, in theory at least.
should make the best wife. She knows
the worries that beset man in business.
She understands the value of money,
having had to work for it her self. She
has probably learned to dress neatly and
without extravaganza. She
knows by experience the workers need
of restful home at the days end, She
has learned in her business career the
of system in all work. She
knows the unfairness of loading the busi-
ness person down with household errands.
She knows how easily it is to be detain-
ed at the office; therefore won't fuss if
dinner is kept waiting. She knows that
there are bigger things IN the universe
than the trifing little personal things
that happen to her each day.
Excellent machine oil One part melted
lard, five parts kerosene oil. Mix and
bottle. This does not gum machine, is
suitable for all household purposes where
machine oil is required. and the material
$ always at hand with which to make it.
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