Middletown transcript., 1906-05-12
OUR woMAN's COLUMN
They now pare potatoes and wash
dishes by electricity.

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men worked for wages. Now the ratio
is four to one.
Remember, you can train yourself to
throw off worry, in the same way that
you acquired the habit.
Let your brain bs burying ground
for other peoples secrets. It's good
place for your own, too.
Wireless telegraph may be .compara-
lively new, but the kick under the table
is as old as marriage.
The queen Of Siam has the smallest foot
Of any titled person in the world. She
wears No. I-2 shoe.
If you bake the soil in which fine flower
seeds are to be planted, you will not be
troubled 80 much with weeds.
Half a lemon dipped in salt will be
found quite at serviceable as oxaiic acid
in cleaning articles Of copper and brass.
In Austria a man and woman are sup
posed to be capable of conducting a home
OF their own from the age of fourteen.
In the German colonies white women
are scarce, there being only 254 in East
Africa and 239 in the Pacific Ocean.
One OF the best known New York ac-
tresses, Miss Blanche Bates, has turned
farmer, as a relief from the nervous strain
of theatrical work.
In Bavaria the women clean the streets.
1t is only few years back, when trains
were Ill fashion, that women performed
the same work here.
The only woman firearm agent i'll the
world is pretty Nellie Bennett OF Denver,
who sells powder and shot-guns and rep
resents the Outdoor Life Magazine.
A man in Pennsylvania sold his wife
for So and then spent the money for a BAN
quet to the purchaser. Some women
would sell their husbands for less.
An Indian woman succeeded in lay ing
in a stock of fourteen husbands before
the authorities deemed it best 10 inter-
fere and clip the wings OF her monopolistic
spirit.
Straw and corn color are leading shades
for summer millinery. Pale green often
makes harmonious alliance with straw
color, the meeting being that of old
friends.
The man who breaks off an engagement
without an explanation, should be waited
upon by the girls father or brother and
an explanation demanded. This will be
merely for satisfaction.
In England man can take out all in
sulance policy against twins.
A person suffering from all ordinary
case of consumption throws off daily seven
billion germs. One of these germs prop
erly lodged in your body will eventually
kill ) ou unless you kill him.
Almost everything radically new in the
neglgee line has gone over bodily to EN-
pire styles, getting that short wasted ef
feet in ways that rob it of its ''wrappery'
look and transform it to model of grace
n Randolph Milbourne, the Washington
| n N NIL Xrnmnn'S
clothes, has got around legal objections
by wearing large silver badge bearing
the inscription. Randolph Milbourne
l am Man."
To shut out an Objectionable view from
side or rear windows mix little mastlG
yarnish and white lead in equal quantities
and apply to the inside of the panes with
an old paint brush. 1t will be a good imi
tation of ground glass and will wear q
long time.
A Chicago professor recently predicted
that the industry OF the twenty-first cen
tury would be ontrolled by women and
| Supreme Court Justice David A. Brewer
in an address before Vassar, suggested
that ''the next half-century may extend
full suffrage throughout the union"
Itis said that medical men are loud il
! their criticisms of the wearing by womer
of the long gloves which has become fac
! and in connection with the wearing o
the sleeve baugh or bracelet to keep then
! from wrinkling. 1t is claimed that vari
cose veins will be the result. HoWeve
Dame Fashion is not liable to change tht
; prevailing fashion on account Of the med
icaI profession's opinions.
! The following time table should b.
preserved by every mother, as it is ofteI
source Of the greatest anxiety to know
! whether or not child will develop dis
! ease after having been exposed to it
Chickenpox, symptoms usually appear OIL
the fourteenth day /; diphtheria, secont
s day measels, fourteenth day; mumps
nineteenth day scarlet fever, fourth day
small pox, twelfth day {; typhoid fever
Y twenty-first day whooping cough, four
teenth day.
We must not be too hard upon Adam
that, OIL such brief acquaintance, h
should have been preiudiced and suspic
) ious as woman, and that he cast tin
blame Of their mutual sin upon Eve, say
ing, 1T was the woman Thou caves
! me |" Time has changed all that. Sh
is now bis most intimate friend, his alte
y ego, his complement, his soul-upifter
! and il he we're asked to-day who it wa
that persuaded him to eat of the fruit 0
J the tree Of holiness, he would answer
even as before, Tut this time without th
Y stain and shame of cowardly equiyocation
4 set truthiullY add ioyously, sit was th
oman Thou gavest me r.
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