COMMENTS OF AMERICAN WOMEN.

Evening Star, Issue 12870, 20 July 1906, Page 8

COMMENTS OF AMERICAN WOMEN.

Men begin having a better time than women almost in their cradles. Boys, except the few unfortunates, who have Little Lord Fauntleroy mothers, eiscape the awful torture of having their stringy-locks pulled and hauled.and twisted, and contorted into long, flowing curls, such as poor, persecuted little girl martyrs are forced to wear. Neither are little boys required to refrain from everything they want to do in order to keep from mnssing their lace-trimmed and embroidered white frocks, as is expected of little girls. Every child's birthright Is freedom and dirt, but the unhappy little girl of respectable parents never comes into her inheritance.—Dorothy Dix. Lots of wise men have said that you cannot be judged by your associates' The way to change your circle of acquaintances is to change yourself first. Make yourself over to fit the mental and spiritual standard of those whom you want to call friends.—M. Hubbard Ayer. Tell me how a woman cleans house, and I will tell you what kind of a woman she is. If she cleans house only once a year, she may have many virtues, but she isn't neat. If she cleans house at no stated time, but whenever she feels like it, and the house is no longer endurable m its uncleaned state, she is criminally unsystematic. Household machinery should run with the regularity r e a clock. If a woman has the house in a turmoil and her family in a state i. insurrection and desertion, she may b< a well-meaning woman, but has no forr sight. House-cleaning need not be a time to try the souls of men, an entering wedge of the divorce evil, if a womai plans her house ordering, carefully ste] by step, as a skilled general plans hi; campaign. In housekeeping system i; what law and order are to city govern iii-nt—indispensable.—May Irwin.

The trouble with the average American woman and her housework is that she spends add her time trying to scheme up some way to get out of doing her own work, instead of using that time to plan ways of doing easily and well.—Winifred Black Don't marry a weak man, who is simply charming in intellect, refinement of manner and speech, poetic in mind, reverent of women, talented—but lacking that moral stamina which, if it is called upon, will fail. True, such a one is not altogether undesirable. He is almost invariably good-tempered, for one thing. Nothing will stir him while your gown is becoming and the cook is not disappointing. He dismisses everything wittily with an epigram, and this is charming in a play, but in one's husband it is annoyevents call for decision, comprehension, action.—Anon.