HUMOUR IN WOMEN.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 3130, 9 December 1899, Page 2 (Supplement)

HUMOUR IN WOMEN.

Humuur, .say.< a writer m a woman's I magazine, is a Lite endowment of women. They have only lately learned to make a. joke, and but very lately, indeed, learned to take one. But we have learned. That's the reason we are so much nicer than we were. We -have changed. The woman of to-day doesn't fall on her husband's neck j and cry, " Never mind, John, you still have me and the children !" when thar is jubt the trouble. She sees the point nowadays. I asked a friend of mine, who is the happiest woman I know — that is to -say, whose husband is the happiest man I know— how she managed it, and she said, " Good looks, good dressing and flirting !" And when I inquired about the flirting, she explained, " A woman may or may not flirt with her husband before she marries him. That is as >he chooses. But to flirt with her husband after she marries him is one sacred duty of every woman." A scientific demonstration which caused some amusement is described m n recent number of the "Criterion." "A certajh physician hud a large ' Toepler-jHoltz machine, which gave ;f spark lite a young' .-treak of lightning. His wife was mueii interested- m it, and watched the doctor manipulate it, until fhe fancied herself master of the apparatus. One day a party of friends called when the doctor was out, and the good wife Seized -the opportunity of paralysir.ar tr?m with her knowledge of science. She was a very dignified woman. of portly presence, and, after leading them into the office, she began her explanation with all the impressiveness of a lecturer. She spoke briefly of the preliminary manipulation of the machine. ' And then,' she ■aid, laving her hand upon one connection, 'the electricity goes from here to here,' whereupon an angry white spark leaped out from the brass ball indicated with a report like a'horse-pistol, and smote her upon the extended finger, causing her to sit upon the floor with a violence that s'libo~k the window panes. The guests stood around m expectant attitudes, looking at their fallen hostess m pardonable -urprue. Only for n moment did that capable woman leave them m doubt. 'There,' said she, m the most mntter-of-fact mannpr, as though events had simnlv followed the usual eourt-e. ' you see how it works. Now let's go into tl<e narrlen and look at the chrysanthemums.' "