The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-05-18

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ideal, the perfect physical woman is
five feet and five inches in height and
weighs 1873 pounds. The most perfect
specimen of a woman, physically, in
the United States, according to the
physical examiners of Smith College
is girl 16 years of age, who weighs
III pounds, is five feet and six inch
es in height, SO bust measure, waist
rs, hips SO with most perfect poise
in walking and standing and sitting
She may be of any age. The
novelist, j. NJ. Barries ideal woman
is 40 and "bittock"-bittock mean
ing little more. O. w. Holmes
says: "a good woman is said to re-
semble Cremona fiddle, age but in
tones.' Ursula March and Milly
anhood in fiction.
The ideal woman is not always
dressed in the latest fashions, but
she is always we'll groomed and we'll
dressed, which means, her clothes
may be inexpensive, but show taste
in their selection, and she knows how
are suited to the place where they
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home or elsewhere. The beauty of
dress depends upon line and color,
and it's fitness upon the occasion.
She is clever, as the world express
es it; modest but not prudish. THE
best woman has always somewhat of
a mans strength, and the noblest
man, of woman's gentleness.
She openeth her mouth with
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kindness. To know how to use
knowledge rightly is one definition of
wisdom. The worlds definition is
common sense in an uncommon de-
gree. To know thyself is said to be
the sum of all wisdom-to be able to
see your own faults and follies to
correct them.
Everyone goes around initiating all
| wise enough to stop and ask him or
herself-Is all this myself? Is it
really what l think or want? Is it
| really what anyone honestly wants or
thinks? If a woman once finds her.
self she is a force in the world. what
she thinks means something, and
when she does something it stands
as her contribution to the world. She
learn something from others.
She has the true vision, the power
of forecasting the right and best
things that should and can be done.
! Many can see things they would like
to have done, but it is only the few
who can see the best things that can
be done. Woman has a natural in
tuition peculiar to her sex for under
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humanitarian problems and they
touch nearly every other important
problem before the world to be solv
ed
She can see and fill her own prop
err niche in life.
She has strong convictions and
the executive ability to put into &C
ton the better things of life.
"The heart of a loving woman is
golden sanctuary where often there
reigns an idol of clay Woman's
life is usually history of affections.
The avearge woman too often reasons
from the heart, hence two-thirds her
mistakes and troubles. Her sorrows
so often spring from her faith in the
good and her confidence in the true,
therefore the ideal woman is not only
serpent" that she be not deceived by
the world.
The ideal woman has the power Of
expressing herself in an intelligent
and interesting way, both in private
conversation and before public aud
fence, yet is better listener. Wom-
ans tongue has been the butt of
many a pun to fill the comic columns
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zine, but the world would be sorry
place to live in if it were not for
the common prattle of women.
"Talkativeness is the hall mark of
feminimity'' "A silent woman may
be admirable but she stirs uneasi-
ness" The woman who has time to
talk and it is the spontaneous giving
on ones self to lift the heavy bur-
dens from the shoulders Of others, or
to teach and develope Little child,
is declared by one writer, to be do
ing more important literary service
than the writing of poems or philos-
ophies.
She will hear the opinions of 9TH
ers and weigh them carefully, and
then have the courage to stana up for
what she thinks is right and best in
kindly, tactful way-always mod
est. Our wisest and greatest men
are always the most modest. To i'm
press themselves on the great Ameri-
can public women or men must be
broadminded, and ground their ap-
peal in wide sympathy, lofty aim, and
moral soundness.
The moral woman also knows how
to be silent at times when in the
daily grind of life when the ordinary
woman would give way to petty tenn
per or passing irritation, usually
spoken of as nagging or scolding,
which causes so much unhappiness
oftenest to those she loves best as
they are the ones nearest her. l
was speaking to another once of
what fine woman l thought GER
tain friend was, and how much | low
ed and respected her, when the other
answered, Yes, she is fine woman,
but in her own home she seems so
unkind to her own family with her
tongue" knowing her as l did, /
knew her so-called unlzindness for
them was not in the heart, but simply
a giving Way with the tongue to the