Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1892 — Men and Women. [ARTICLE]

Men and Women.

Uncle Sam boasts two negro women lawyers. To do so no more is the truest repentance. People who have to live alone never find out who they are. Salvation Army women have been forbidden to wear ear-rings. The man who lives only for himself is engaged in very small Business. The woman with the prettiest face is net always the most beautiful woman. , If you want to make a boy work without knowing it, get him a safety bicycle. The first woman to pass examination as a lawyer in Connecticut is Miss Mary Hill. Two ounces of attar of roses represent the refined product of a ton of rosebuds. There are nearly 1,700 lawyers iD Bost: n, with scarcely enough business for 200. When men are the most sure and arr gant they are commonly the most mistaken. “How do you like school, Tommy?” “Pretty well, mother; but it’s such a waste of my playtime. ” The only woman delegate sent to the International Labor Congress at Brussels was from Poland.

Parents tell others a great deal about themselves by the names they give their children. The man who leaves a woman best pleased with herself is the one she will soonest wish to see. Miss Philippa Fawcett has been elected to the Marion Kennedy studentship of Newnham College. A Boise (Idaho) man has discovered, it is said, that good paper can be manufactured from sage brush. A Beckwith (Nevada) man kicked his horse so vigorously and earnestly that he broke his leg in the work. “Officer, there’s a big row going on around the corner.” “Don’t yez think I kin hear it, ye chump? • Move on!” The Grand Duchess Sergius of Russia is so strikingly beautiful that she is known as “The Crowned Ophelia.” Club life is not in the future to be a male monopoly. A new London club has already some SOO lady members.

Mrs. Eider Haggard, the wife of the novelist, is credited with having won three prizes in a recent golfing match. Mrs. J. C. Aver has made a gift of thirty thousand dollars to the Home for Young Women and Children in Lowell; Mbs. H. M. Stanley is urging her husband, it is said, to write a b.ography and to offer himself for a seat in Parliament. The woman who wears diamonds lavishly always seems a vulgar creature to the woman who hasn't any diamonds to wear. Because a Fresno (Cal.) woman was in the habit of mixing dough without first washing her hands, her husband sought for a divorce. In the city of Buenos Ayres it is said there are sixteen men for every woman, and that any decently good-looking woman that goes there can have her pick out of fifty eager suitors, Tiie Standard Oil Company is not going to be a trust any more. It is just going to be a little association of gentlemen who propose to sell every gallon of oil that’s sold in this country if *they have to break some one else’s leg to do it. A lot of modern philosophers are having a great deal to say about a new. science whkth they’ call “thought transmission.”' What is the matter with the newspapers? They are thought transmitters, and there's nothing new in the science, either.