Some Types of Women.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVI, Issue II, 12 January 1901, Page 90

Some Types of Women.

THE ERRATIC WOMAN WHOM WE ALI KNOW. lou never know what she is going" to do next; she does not know herself. She may make up her mind to have a busy day, and, that being so, she will, in all probability, have an exeeptionaHy idle one. The erratic woman is always an exceedingly restless one. She cannot settle to anything. Even when discussing an interesting or absorbing subject her thoughts generally fly off to something quite opposite, and she w ill break in with a question relating to a totally different thing. She has no sooner made up her mind to do one thing than she instantly wishes she had decided to do something else, and if she alters her plans and does the other thing she will promptly wish she had kept to the first. She ean never make up her mind to go on a visit or a journey until the very last minute, and will then rush round, WORRYING EVERY ONE to death in order to eatch some particular train. Even if she is able to make up her mind respecting the visit, she cannot make it up about what clothes she shall take. She may come to the conclusion that she will have to take all new dresses, as this is a first visit, and that there will be a house-party with very few people she knows. And. having bought the

clothes and gone to no end of trouble as regards the newest fashions, etc., and having the latest and most becoming hats, she will suddenly decide that, as it is only a house-party and nearly all strangers, it really doesn’t matter what she wears, and so will take her old clothes after all. and leave all the new ours behind her. In a house-party she is specially trying, for she can never say whether she will go on an excursion or joiu a picnic. If she appears unwilling, and asks to be excused, you make take it for granted that just when everything has been arranged and the numl»ers nicely made up. the erratic woman will alter her mind and express a great wish to go, which very often entails a lot of re-arrangement, and sometimes annoyance. She is just as ERRATIC IN HER FRIENDSHIPS and likes and dislikes as she is in her actions. She adores a person one day,

and is cool and absolutely indifferent to her the next. She will be genial and warm-hearted, giving one her confidence. and the next time you meet Ih* placidly friendly and formal. She never knows when she is in love, although. of course, she thinks she does. She cannot make up her mind which man to encourage or which man to accept, and the very fact of having an offer of marriage from one man will make her wish it had been another one. Even when she thinks she is really in love and accepts a man. she is tortured with doubt as to whether she has done right; whether he reallv cares as much for her as he says;'whether, after all, she wouldn’t have been happier with the other one. although she might not care as much for him. And then many people are taken into her confidence. and asked for advice, which she has no more idea of taking than the man in the moon. Only, she likes to hear each one’s opinion about it all. because she cannot tell what to think or what to do for the best. Even when she is married, it is just the same. She is not sure whether she has done right or not. She wonders whether she shall lie able to make him happy after all. and whether he will find her just what he thought she would he. And then she so often does

A FATAL THING bv constantly asking and bothering her husband about it. For nothing tries a man more than this perpetual fidgeting. it makes him feel that in some way or other he has failed to satisfy her. and he is worried to know’ in what way. As a rule, he lavishes attentions upon her for this reason: but, as she gets more and more exacting, he gets tired of it. and leaves it off altogether, simply because he feels that nothing can take away her idea that he is dissatisfied, and it is sueh a strain to keep up. and when once a thing

becomes a strain it soon dies. Very few men understand women, but there is every excuse for a man with an erratic woman. To live with a woman who nexer knows what she is going to do next, and always wishes she has done something else, is enough to make any man miserable. ami this is, perhaps, the reason why so many—or. rather, nearly all—erratic women are such failures as wives. Women who are failures as wives are often failures as mothers, and the erratic woman generally develops into an irritable, peevish, discontented woman, with whom very few have any sympathy or any patience.