Capacities of Woman*

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 71, 11 October 1884, Page 4

Capacities of Woman*

The capacities of woman is a question that is attracting a|great deal of attention on the other side of the Atlantic. One critic says :—: — 1 ' There are lots of tilings of a woman can do that a man cannot. A woman can hold more clothespins in her mouth and talk through a knot hole in the fence at the same time than a man can." A woman can arrive at a conclusion without the slightest trouble of reasoning on it, and no sane man can do that. Six of them can talk all at once and get along first-rate, and no two men can do that. She can safely stick fifty pins in her dress while he is getting one under his thumbnail. She can put on her shoes standing up, with both feet on the floor ; but he can't. She is as cool as a cucumber in half-a-dozen tight dresses and skirts, while a man will sweat and fume and growl in one loose shirt. She can talk as sweet as peaches and cream to the woman she hates worst, while two men would be punching each other's heads before they had exchanged ten words. She can throw a stone with a curve that would be a fortune to a baseball pitcher ; and finally, she can drive a man crazy for twenty -four hours and then bring him back to paradise in two seconds by simply tickling him under the chin, and there does not live that mortal son of Adam's misery who can do it.