Middletown transcript., 1906-10-13
OUR W0MAN's COLUMN
Taffy is better than epitaphr.

4 Taffyis better than epitapby.
Dounto Others as il You wereshe other.
i isn't the cIouded day that casts the
gloom; it is the cIouded mind.
3 A few drops OF tarpentine on a woolen
cloth with clean tan shoes very nicely.
! The leaf Of the begonia furnishes most
Of the patterns which adorn cashmere
shawls.
/ Girls leave home because nine young
women out of ten are victims OF the
career craze
The iudicious adjustment of physical to
mental training doubles the ability to do
brain work.
Better 10 make your vile and children
happy at home than charm strangers or
amuse friends.
/ Women sell newspapers on the streets
OF the cities ofSpain, there being no news
boys in that country.
Mrs. Esther S. Damon OF Plymouth,
VT, is the only living widow of any rev.
olutionary soldier. She is 90 years old.
It must be rather humilating to
chorus girl TO have to admit that she has
never been married to millionaire.
Half lemon dipped in salt will do the
work Of oxalic acid in cleaning copper
boilers, brass kettles and other such
utensils.
Let us be stylish or die" seems to be
the modern motto, and the wonder is
that SO many escape the latter aReFpa-
tive.
Don't reserve your social charms and
your good stories for companions abroad
and keep your dullness for home con-
sumption.
Various reports have been heard in
Washington that Miss Flora Wilson,
daughter of Secretary Wilson, intended
to go upon the stage.
The newest Importation in dress goods
is known as "tiger skin" Rather fierce
covering for our peerless American
angels, isn't it?
If a bedstead creaks at each move of
the sleeper remove the Stats and wrap
the ends Of each in old newspapers
This will prove complete silencer.
1t has been decreed by the school board
of Wabash, Ind. that plain sewing. must
be taught in the public schools tserey
and that boys must sew as well as girls.
again there is a tidal wave of popular
ity for the wasp waist 1t will be fashions
model in the fall and winter. For ten
years the wasp waist has been in retire
ment.
There are whole lot of people who act
as ii they were afraid that their neighbors
and associates would not find out no y nice
they are ifthey did not keep telling them.
Many husbands and fathers who are
the life of every company which they
enter are silent in their own homes. and
are uninteresting to their wives and
among their children.
Belva Lockwood says it is just as nec-
essary for women to study law as to learn
to cook. A good many other women
seem to take the same view of the case,
and they are not studying law either.
A whole cemetery of monumental
epitaphs will not do wife SO much good
as the sentence which Hood wrote to his
living wife:--
Il never was anything, dearest, until
knew you"
Many wife is lettering around home
fooling her time away toying with the
wash tub, or cutting wood while her
poor husband is hard at work in the back
room of saloon worrying his brain trying
to keep the other fellow from shutting
out his double six.
Princess gowns-the kind that fit very,
very close and make men turn around to
look-are no longer "a la mode," SO de-
clare the dressnakers Of Chicago. It is
now the empire, or preferably the semi
empire-yery msidenly and ingenue fap-
pearance with high loose girdles-which
is the favorite.
A small red birthmark has been sue
cessfully removed by treating with milk
weed. The stem was broken off and the
milky sap rubbed over the red scar.
This blistered the spot which, when :.
healed was much lighter. Repeated ap-
allowing the spot to heal after
each treatment, soon effaced the scar.
Home, sweet home, whether it is a
father's home or husbands home, is no
longer the goal of girs's ambition 1t
does not even appeal to her. cynical
man once declared that home was
place to go to when one couldn't 60 any
where else. and the modern Maiden looks
1t it pretty much from that point of view.
Home is nice place in which to stay if
Vou haven't enough talent or intelligence
% make living outside of it. She con-
'iders the making OF a home an occupa-
ions unworthy of women ofintelligence
ind she regards the domestic woman with
certain plying contempt. This isn't
What she wants of life. What she yearns
or is career. The women she enyies
ire actresses, singers, lecturers, popular
,eople who are always standing in the
ull glare of publicity. The idea that
Feman finds more lucrative field for
leBactivities, more happiness or a wide
cope for her missionary efforts outside o
home is the most mischievons theory
d the world