Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1892 — Femininities. [ARTICLE]

Femininities.

There are now about 200 American ladies who practice law in the courts or manage legal publications. First small boy—What does your ma do when you lie to her? Second small boy—She tells pop I take after him. r It is reported that a woman in the South Mountains, North Carolina, “recently gave birth to a child on her 70th birthday. If a man is selfish, getting married will not cure him of it. The same will not always hold true in regard to a woman. If a young man is always talking about himself, it will save you a great deal of trouble to let some other woman marry him. A reaction against the subdued lights for dinner table has ‘ set in. Shaded - candles and lamps are again giving place to a blaze of gaslight or electric light. It is unaccountable that a man should take mustard suppers, drink beer, smoke rank cigars, tell strong anecdotes, and then imagine some nice little woman likes to kiss him. The Nicaraguan Government is making the most liberal offers to intending coffee growers. It gives to a married man 240 acres, and to a single man 120 acres of good coffee ground. “I would not be a woman, for then I could not love her,” says Montaigne. Lady M. W. Montagu says, “The only objection I have to a man is that I should then have to marry a woman. ” Seeing a runaway horse dragging a little boy by the feet along a road, a nervy Hastings (Neb.) girl took a hasty aim with a rifle she had with her and killed the horse, thus saving the boy’s life.