COMMENTS OF AMERICAN WOMEN.

Evening Star, Issue 12871, 21 July 1906, Page 12

COMMENTS OF AMERICAN WOMEN.

To begin ■with, the girl who is a candidate for matrimony should be put into a kindergarten class, where it should be ground into her consciousness that in dealing ■Width a husband there is one great, primal fact that a woman must never lose sight of, and that is that every man has a fixed determination to be the "head of the house. It is a kind of masculine fetn hj that every man worships before. He begins to think about it in the cradle, he amplifies the idea as he grows, and he finally gets married in order to realise it. Women make the mistake of their lives when they do not recognise this harmless mania and gratify it. To do this it is not necessary to be bossed, and it is precisely here that the School for Fiancees should get in its fine work. It is so easy to defer to your bus band outwardly, to ask his opinion, to quote him to visitors, while you do what you like, for it has pleased heaven, for woman’s benefit, to make men of such a sweet simplicity that if you ask their advice they never look out to see if you take it or not.—Dorothy Dix. Children are quick to Icam whom to trust and whom not to trust, and the most stinging rebuke that a mother can receive from her child is its indignant and despairing cry of protest: “But, mamma, 3'ou pro. mised me!’’ when-she has failed to keep her word to it.—Louise Mitchell. The strenuous life has been preached so much to the men of Amenci, and put into such violent practice by the' women, that at times one almost wishes it had never been heard of. What the women of America need is less strenuousness and more serenity. The worried woman is not the one who has trouble, but the one , who is looking for trouble. She meets trouble more than halfway. As a rule, the woman who has real troubles is too busy making the best of things that have happened to worry about things that may happen.—Anon. AH artist has called woman the eternal question. The answer to that question is eternal sacrifice.—Kate Masterman. If we are really loyal to the best we know, and loving to our children, we need not worry about their future. • They will love us and they will turn out well. ! Virion of despair! We certainly cannot be responsible for all the moral qualities even, and rush to stop every’ gap through which one virtue might escape from a child. It would indeed be dreadful to have children if we had to watch them like cakes on a griddle. Honesty, reverence, and loyalty are the necessary qualities on which to found a man or woman.—Marion Sprague.