Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1894 — Woman’s Taste. [ARTICLE]

Woman’s Taste.

A cultivated taste marks a woman or elegance and relinement as decidedly as a knowledge of classical literature does a gentleman: and there is nothing in which female vulgarity is more clearly shown than in want of taste. This is an axiom that we think will not admit of dispute; but it is a question how far taste is natural, and how far it may be acquired. A delicate taste must, to a certain extent, depend upon the organization of the individual; and it is impossible for any rules to be laid down which will impart taste to persons entirely devoid of it. But this is very seldom the case with women, as it is one of the few points in which women naturally excel men. Men may be, and probably are, superior to women in all that requires profound thought and general knowledge; but in the arrangement of a house, and the introduction of orna-mental-furniture and articles of bijouterie, there can be no doubt of the innate superiority of woman. Every one must have remarked the difference in the furnishing of a bachelor's house and one where a lady presides: the thousand little elegancies of the latter, though nothing in themselves, adding, like ciphers, prodigiously to the value of the solid, articles they are appended to.