FEMININE CONTRADICTIONS.
Feminine contradictions are duscueeed by the Philadelphia. "Bulletin," which cays that a woman will sit in a draught in a low-necked- gown with her arms and shoulders bare. But she will go out on the hottest afternoon with her head; and neck tied up in a thick chiffon; veil. She will forget to pay a bill of five dollars for months But she will make herself oonlypicuoms in a street car squabbling to pay for her friend a five-cent piece which she doesn't owe. She will wear a skirt about »ix inches longer than it ought to be for walkijig. . But she will hold it up about cix inches higher than any walking ikrrt that ever was made. She is up in arms when ehe sees a horse wliipped. But she •will drag a poor little dog on a shopping bout that would enfeeble a good-sized man. She has a will that no power on earth can bend. Yet ehe would rather the world should come to an end than that she should be caught doing differently from her neighbours. v
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 12015, 17 October 1904, Page 7
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