Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — Three Dangerous Women. [ARTICLE]

Three Dangerous Women.

Beware of three women—the one who does not love children, the one who does not love flowers, and she who openly declares she does not like other women, says a writer in an English magazine. There is something wanting in such, and in all probability its place is supplied by some unlovely trait. As Shakspeare says of him who has no soul for music, such a woman is flt for treason, stratagems and spoils, and a woman intent on those is ten thousand times worse than any man could be, for, standing higher, she can fall lower. Men may smile and jest a little over the tenderness lavished on a baby, but, after all, the prattle every womanly woman involuntarily breaks into at the sight of the tiny beings, is very sweet to masculine ears. It was the first language they ever knew, and in spite of the jest or smile, the sweetest on wife’s or sweetheart’s lips. They may laugh too at the little garden tools, which seem like playthings to their strength; but in their hearts they associate, and rightly, purity of character and life with the pursuit of gardening. And, as for the woman who does not care for her own sex and boldly avows it, she, is a coquette pure and simple, and one of the worst and lowest type, too, as a general thing.