Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1903 — Comets and Women. [ARTICLE]

Comets and Women.

The analogy between comets and women once formed the subject of the following peroration from an evening contemporary: “Comets doubtless answer some wise and good purpose in the creation; so do wemen. Comets are incomprehensible, beautiful and eccentric; so are women. Comets shine with peculiar splendor, but at night are most brilliant; so are women. Comets are enveloped with a lucid nebula through which their forms are visible; so are those of women In their light and elegant attire. Comets confound the most learned when they attempt to ascertain their nature; so do women. Comets equally excite the admiratiou of the philosopher and of the clod of the valley; so do women. Comets and women are therefore closely analogous, but, the nature of each being inscrutable, all that remains for us to do Is to view with admiration the one and to lore the other to adoration.”—Golden Penny.