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REGARDING MEN AND WOMEN
According to a Woman Writer Ken
Are Loyal and “Easy to Get
Along With.”
Various apt, incisive comment* made
by Gail Hamilton almost half a century
ago on “Men and Women" are in most
respects equally full of force to-day,
with all the vaunted progress woman
has made, says the New York Tribune.
“Men are strong; they do things, and
don’t mind it,” admits this vigorous
woman writer. “They can open doors
in the dampest weather. They can un
strap trunks without breaking a blood
vessel, turn keys in a moment which
women have lost their tempers and
lamed their fingers over for half an
hour; look down precipices and not be
dizzy. . . . You may strike them
with all your might on the chest, and it
doesn’t hurt them in the least (I mean
if you are a woman.) They never grow
nervous and cry. They go upstair*
three at a time. They put one hand
on a four-rail fence and leap it without
touching. In short, they do everything
easily which women try to do and can
not
“Moreover,” continues this commen
tator, “men are so ‘easy to get along
with.’ They are conveniently blind and
benevolent. Women criticise you, not
unjustly, perhaps, but relentlessly.
They Judge you in detail, men only lb
the whole. If your dress is neat, well
fitting and well toned, men will not no
tice it, except a few man-milliners and
a few others who ought to be. If you
will only sit still, hold up your head
and speak when you are spoken to, you
can be very comfortable. I do not mean
that men cannot and do not appreciate
female brilliancy, but if your are a good
listener and in the right receptive mood
you can spend an hour very pleasantly
without it.
“But a woman finds out in the first
three minutes that the fringe on your
dress is not a match. In four she has
discovered that the silk of your sleeves
Is frayed at the edge. In five that the
binding of the heel of your boot Is
worn out. By the sixth she has satis
factorily ascertained what she suspected
the first moment she ‘set eyes on you,’
that you trimmed your bonnet your
self. The seventh assures her that your
collar is only ‘imitation;’ and when you
part, at the end of ten minutes, she has
calculated with tolerable accuracy the
cost of your dress, has leveled her men
tal glasses at all your innocent little
subterfuges and knows to a dead cer
tainty your past history, present cir
cumstances and future prospects. Well,
what harm if she does? None in par
ticular. It is only being stretched on
the rack a little while. You have no rear
son to be ashamed. Your boots are only
beginning to be shabby, and we all know
the transitory nature of galloon. Your
fringe is too dark, but you ransacked
the city and did your best, ‘angels could
do no more.’ You trimmed your bonnet
yourself and saved two dollars, which
was just what you intended to do. Your
lace is not real, according to the cant ol
the shopkeepers, but it is real—real
cotton, real linen, real silk, or what
ever the material may be, and you
never pretended it was Honilon or
point. . . .
“But if men, in their strength and
courage and independence, are enviable,
men in their gentleness are irresistible,”
concluded the writer. “You expect gen
tleness in women. It is their attribute
and characteristic. You do not admire
its presence so much as you deplore or
condemn its absence. But manly ten
derness has a peculiar charm . . .
and you meet it everywhere—in the
house and by the wayside in
city and country, under broad
cloth and homespun. You may
travel from one end of the country to
the other, and meet not only civility,
but the most cordial and considerate
kindness. You may be as ugly as it is
possible for virtue to be, and tired and
travel-stained and stupid, and your
neighbor of a day will show you all the
little attentions you could claim from a
father or brother or husband. . . .
Women *”ould better improve the
rights they have before going mad after
others they know not of. If men will be
bo good as to do the law making, and
stock jobbing, and bribing, and quarrel
ing and stump speaking, I shall be great
ly obliged to them. . . . Am I en- j
thusiastic over this involuntary out
gushing of the stream of kindness which
flows so continually from men to us
ward? I have a right to be. A nation
of men loyal, not to grace, beauty, mag
nificence, but to womanhood, to the
highest impulses of human nature, to the
love element of the universe, is a thing
to be enthusiastic about.”
The Picture Hat.
“I witnessed an amusing incident at
one of the local theaters the other
evening,” remarked the theater-goer.
“A woman, wearing a large picture
hat, was seated directly in front of an
elderly man, who was straining his
neck in an endeavor to see what was
happening on the stage, and, of course,
it was only possible for him to see but
one-third of the performance.
“The second act had begun, and 1
could plainly see that his anger was
Increasing. At last, when he could
stand it no longer, he lightly tapped
the woman on the shoulder, and, in as
gentle tone as he possibly could mus
ter, said:
“ ‘Madam, pardon me, but I paid two
dollars for this seat, and your hat—'
“‘My hat cost $25, sir-r-r!’ came the
haughty reply.
“The conversation was at an end.*
—Philadelphia Press.
A Busy Family.
“Whar’s Bill?”
"Huntin’ rabbits."
"An’ Dick?”
“Haulin’ firewood to cook ’em.*
“An’ the old man?”
“Tradin’ a bale o’ cotton fer a box
I matches!”—Atlanta Constitution.
ODD FANCIES ABOUT BEES.
Old-Time Belief That Honey Was of
Celestial Origin and Other
Queer Notions.
In these days of scientific bee cul
ture, when bees are trained to pack
their honey in pound boxes ready for
market, and are as much under the
control of the beemaster as sheep are
of their shepherd, it is difficult to
realize what quaint delusions prevailed
only a few centuries back in every
thing relating to the hive and its in
habitants, says the Chicago Daily
News. The sources and composition
of honey were subjects for many in
genious speculations. One old writer
affirms it to be “made of the ayre.
most of all at the rising of the starrea,
chiefly the dogge shining out early in
the morning,” although he admits him
self in doubt as to “whether it be the
sweate of the heavens or a certains
spittle of the starres or a juyce that the
ayre purgeth from himselfe.” This be
lief in the celestial origin of honey
runs through all the old treatises on
apiculture, from the time of Virgil
downward. It was supposed to be a
kind of manna from heaven, and its
quality depended greatly on the favor
able or unfavorable juxtaposition of the
stars at the time of its descent
Although the existence in each hive
of one bee much larger than all the
others was generally recognized in old
en times, this was believed to be mere
ly a ruler or king over the rest. That
the large bee was actually the mother
of the whole colony never seems, to
have occurred to anyone until recent
times. This Jtiug_J>e>e ^s^very fancl
fully described aSnaving^Vlolty pace
and countenance expressing majesty,
and a white spot in his forejie%d glia*,
tening like a diadem.” In each hive,
Slso, there were “subordinate govern
ors and leaders and captains and
colonels, marked by crests, tufts or tas
sels on their heads, some yellow, some
Amrmo' voHmia othor HnHoa
It was the king’s part to go out each
evening in search of any bees that had
not returned to the hive by sunset, and
to show them the way home.
From the earliest times honey ap
pears to have been held in extraor
dinary favor as a universal specific for
human ills. As a hair restorer it was
largely recommended, rubbed in plen
tifully night and morning, and if dead
bees were dried, pounded and worked
up into a thick paste with the honey,
its hair-producing capabilities were
much enhanced. This mess had to be
plastered on the bald places of the head
ever night, with infallible results in
the morning, if one may credit a cer
tain fifteenth century writer. For
weak eyes the same authority says to
take a handful of the heads of bees,
burn them, and mingle the ashes with
honey gathered in the dog days. The
eyes were then anointed liberally with
the mixture, and clearness of vision
was the invariable reward.
In the old days the situation of a
beehive was a matter of prime impor
tance. It was to be placed always on
the south side of a stream of water,
and never in a place where there were
echoes, as an echo was very injurious
to bees. A little gravel was to be pul
down in the neighborhood of the hives,
as in windy weather the bees needed
small stones to carry about in their
flight as counterpoises. The beekeeper
was recommended to shave and keep
his head close-cropped, long hair on
head or face being extremely offensive
to his charges, and in attire he was to
avoid anything of a red color, as this
was detrimental to the bees.
CURIOUS WORMS OF NORWAY
They Gather in Great Numbers Form*
ing a Serpent-Like Mass
When Migrating.
i ne aciaras, oi me genus 1 ipiux, a uny
wormlike creature which is found in
the forests of Norway and Hungary dur
ing the month of July or early in August
gather in huge numbers preparatory to
migrating in search of food or for a
Change of conditions. When setting out
on this journey, says Nature, they stick
themselves together by means of some
glutinous matter, and form a huge ser
pentlike mass, often reaching a length
of between 40 and 50 feet and several
inches in thickness. As the scaria is
only on an average of about three-thir
ty-seconds of an inch in length, with no
appreciable breadth whatever, the num
ber required to form a continuous line
of the size above mentioned is incal
culable.
Their pace is, of course, very slow,
and upon meeting an obstacle, such as
a stick or stone, they either writhe over
or around it, sometimes breaking into
two bodies for the purpose. A celebrated
French naturalist says that if the rear
portion of this snakelike procession be
brought into contact with the front part
the- insects will keep moving round in
that circle for hours, never seeming to
realize that they are getting no further !
en their Journey. If the portions be
broken in two the procession will unit* |
in a short time. When the peasant meets ■
one of these processions he will lay some
obstacle in front of it. If it passes over
it it Is a good omen.
The Leopard of the Snows.
When we look at the leopards in a
menagerie our minds instinctively turn
to pictures of the hot tropics and the tor
rid lands of the equator. But there are
leopards that love the snow, and never
willingly descend below the levels
where snowstorms occur in summer as
well as in winter. The New York Zoo
logical park possesses, at present, a
beautiful specimen of the “snow leop
ard," whose home is among the lofty
mountains about Thibet. Thousands of
tanned skins of the snow leopard are
carried to Shanghai for sale, but the liv
ing animal is rarely seen away from his
cool mountain home.—Youth's Compan
ion.
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LIFE ON A TORPEDO BOAT.
The Men Have to Take Their Sleep
and Food in “Catch as Catch
Can” Fashion.
A man on a torpedo boat has to catch
his sleep “on the fly,” and he become*
exceedingly expert, being young and
adaptable, at making up the required
amount of slumber in little mosaics of
an hour now, half an hour then and ten
minutes later on. He becomes accus
tomed to drop into a doze whenever a
favorable minute arrives and he is not
on duty, and to stay in that condition
until a sudden lurch of the boat shakes
it out of him. Never at sea does he ex
pect to be able to turn in for a full
night’s sleep, says a writer in the Boston
Globe.
This difficulty of sleeping on a torpedo
boat at sea is one of the principal rea
sons why the fleet of destroyers sent to
Manila had an itinerary arranged for It
which provided for 90 days spent in port
and only 70 at sea. This 90 days of rest
against 70 of active seagoing is calculat
ed to be about the limit of endurance of
a picked crew on a torpedo boat. A de
stroyer, it must me remembered, is only
a torpedo boat of a larger growth, and
not so much larger as to make any mate
rial difference in the amount of discom
fort and strain put upon the crew, espe
cially where the theater of action is the
open ocean.
A man who has had much service on a
torpedo boat said to the writer:
i “It is not only sleep with which you
have to play catch as catch can on board
a torpedo boat, but you have to play tag
with your food as well. If there was
anything like a sea on, we never used to
think of sitting down to table, but took
such food as we could get in one hand
and ate it while we held on with the
©tner.
“A great part of the time cooking wa*
next to Impossible, and cold canned
stuff, or what was left over of the stuff
which had been cooked in port, had to
suffice us, and we grabbed that as we
could and when we could.
"The cook always, or almost always,
used to make coffee for us, though how
he managed it was a mystery, for,
though he used to lash the coffee pot
to the top of the stove and toe down
the lid, the pitching and the rolling of
the boat In a heavy seaway would spill
a large portion of the contents of the pot
cut through the spout.
“Then cookey would put a cork in
the mouth of the spout, and when the
boiling coffee generated steam enough
the lid would blow off, or the cork would
fly out. Altogether, it was only by the
exercise of indefatigable energy and
skill of the sort which ought to have
been recognized in general orders that
finally enough coffee would be manufac
tured to give each man a cup.”
THE SYRIAN BARBER BOWL.
A Novelty in Tonsorial Utensils That
Is Popular with Some New
Yorkers.
"1 have quite a number of novelties
from my country,” said the Syrian bar
ber in Washington street, relates the
New York Times, “but I keep them for
my American customers. The Syrians
want the latest Yankee notions. Of
course, once in awhile an old mountain
eer happens in who longs for the ancient
customs, but he is only a bird of pas
sage—a maker of laces or a peddler of
Baddlebags—going through the metrop
olis to some other city.
“The Syrian bowl seems to please New
Yorkers most. A number of artists com*
to my shop just to have it used on them.
Here it is. Quite ornate, isn’t it They’re
not all alike, but I keep this one because
my customers admire the inlaid work on
it, and while I’m shaving them I enter
tain them with the story of it or the In
dustries of the villagers who produce thii
kind of merchandise. The shape is the
egg-basin. The semicircular brim fits
the neck of the customer, and if he likes
he can use silver wire clasps about the
ears. In Syria the lather is made right
in the bowl with the hand and applied
by the hand to the face of the customer,
but New Yorkers won’t have that, they
like the brush dipped in. The native
brush is unique, made of soft split grass,
but only my people stand for it; the
smooth, tender skin of Yankees can’t
stand its harshness of fiber.
My people like plenty of perfume put in
the bowl, but perfumes and scented
soaps make Anglo-Saxons mad. We use
moistened, scented clay after shaving
as a sort of powder for the face. It is
splendid for the skin and acts as a disin
fectant, but though I import quite a lot
of it from the mountain country, I have
a hard time to get rid of it among my for
eign clients. Lately some ladies have
been buying It to use In their cosmetics.
They are finding out its medicinal quali
ties. and they don’t have the prejudice
against it that the men seem to have.
A society woman happened into my shop
a day or two ago and bought a Syrian
barber bowl and an ear razor for shav
ing the inside of the ear. These razors
are fine things, and all the nobility use
them at home. I showed her how to
handle the blade and told her to be care
ful and always employ the tiny ear-mir
ror with it.
"She thanked me, but replied: "Oh,
4ear me, I wouldn’t use that beautiful
thing for any horrid purpose like that.
I want it for an ornament; a sort of book
leaf cutter.’ ”
Tempting Sandwiches.
At an afternoon tea some particular
ly attractive open sandwiches were
Berved. Rounds of bread were spread
with a mixture of cream cheese and
finely chopped olives. Around the
•dge of each larger pieces of olives
formed a sort of wreath and directly in
the center was a piece of olive. Brown
bread sandwiches made of cream
cheese and chopped olives are particu
larly delicious. Chopped green peppers
may alsd be mixed with them.—Da zoil
Free Press.
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