Middletown transcript., 1906-04-21
OUR wOMAN'S COLUMN

Ifa girl wants to get old real quick lie
her marry.
He who blackens others does not whittier
himself.
By saving her old clothes any woman
can be in style once in lifetime.
Tomatoes rouse torpid liver and do th,
work ordinarily of Doctors prescrip
tion.
A mother is justified in locking up hel
daughter when Miss Foolish is headstrons
and crazy.
II there were no old maids in the world
there would be nobody for the married
women to envy.
Manufacturers of gloves say they make
a No. 6 woman's glove larger than they
did five years ago.
Sarah Bernhardt is again making q
farewell tour" OF America, having begun
it in Chicago a few days ago.
More women are holding office in Kan.
sas, in proportion to population, than in
any other state in the union.
The fact that love is blind does not
lessen the further fact that those who are
in love often make sights Of themselves.
If good sense and good behavior will
not admit your family into society, it may
be as well that they stay without.
There's many girl who would have
been saved from tine horrors of an un-
happy marriage had she listened to rea-
son.
A woman will compliment her best
friends taste in the selection of bonnet
by buying one just as different as posi-
BILE.
If you can't think of bright things to
say, then read what clever people have
written, and, after time, you'll catch
the habit.
Get card at the public library and
start in Oh a course OF reading, familiarize
yourself with the humorists and the phil
osophers.
A girl who expects some man to come
along and propose to her after the.manner
of the hero in novel, is bound to be dis
appointed.
In every thousand women there are
sixty-three by the name of Mary, which is
the most commonly used of any feminine
name in the world.
In 1900 there were in the United States
431 ,l74 women in the professions. Most
of these, or 391 ,453, were employed as
teachers, musicians and artists.
The census in 1880 discovered bnt 72
women architects and designers, 165
clergymen, 81 dentists, no electricians or
civil engineers, 28S journalists and IS law
yeis.
1t isn't always safe for girl to assume
that she is going to have plenty Of money
to spend after marriage because her beau
is liberal with it while he is counting her.
The girl who can sit at home in a be-
coming wrap, under colored lamp shade
and do fancy embroidery isn't always the
one who can roll up her sleeves and make
good, plain bread.
The incest life is the sweet, protected
home one. This chasing ont to the thea
ters and dinners and suppers with any
young man who chances TO appear is often
a dangerous pastime.
The Osler theory does not seem to ap-
ply to women. We hear that Susan B.
Anthony in her IS, ear WAS "ff-re.i Slt 0
4 night for lectures. Miss Serepta Pratt
IS 85 years old and travelling sales
woman of East Brook, Delaware county,
Y. Y.
A young girl cannot be too careful of |
Ter conduct. The tattlers are ever busy,
md it's just as well to give them no ma
erial for conversation. You will do we'll |
o follow the advice of your mother, even
{ it does seem prudish and old-timey.
Tn 1900 there were 400 women electric
ans, l,042 architects, designers and
l,0l0 lawyers, 3.4O5 clerg.
nen, 2, 1913 journalists, 1899 physicians
nd surgeons aud sos denti>ts. Those en-
aged in literature and scientific pursuits
numbered 1859.
The man and woman who try to make
heir home tie most interesting spot on
arth for each other, and for their friends
nd those who are near and dear to them,
ave but occasional use for The club. 1t
; to them, like the theatre, a pleasant
lace to enter now and then but not spot
D dwell in.
1t seems that wealth claims it's priri-
eges the world over. In that mysterious,
ar away hermit country Thibet, a
'ealthy girl, need not have but one hus-
and If so minded, and she may change
I'M for another as often as she pIeases.
IN the other hand, poor girl must take
g many husbands as the lama, the local
riest is pleased to assign to her, and she
as no word in the choice of them.
A bill has been introduced in the House
I Representatives appropriating s., 900
90 to provide for die systematic investi-
alton and study ofthe industry of women
nd children. The New York Times saws:
There are few state reports, but they
re scattered over different periods, have
o common standard or methods, and are
ecessarily very limited in scope. The
Itional census does little but reveal the
eed Of more thorough inquiry: 1t is as
ertained that there are over 5,OOO,O
'omen engaged in occupations that take
lem away from home, and this class is |
lcreasing relatively more rapidly than .
le like class of men,"