Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1884 — Thoughts. [ARTICLE]

Thoughts.

When by chance a woman speaks of her age (without acknowledging it, however), it is always with the hope that some one will exclaim: “How young she looks !” Is it in order to believe themselves always young that women give up old friendships ? - (jsigsarew Women treat those who pretend to know them as impertinents, and those who do not know them as stupid beings. The first love of a woman is a hope; the last is a long regret. Women do not esteem each other because they know each other too well. The avarice of certain women ia so repugnant that it would .almost make a virtue of the foolish dissipation and luxury of certain others. A woman is always disposed to take as admiration the curiosity or the desire that she inspires. A woman’s heart resembles a cathedral: God’s altar is in the chancel, but how many chapels there are in the aisles! f It is evident that woman was designed by nature to obey. The proof of this is that when she is placed in a state of absolute independence contrary to her nature she attaches herself to no matter what man, by whom she lets herself be directed and dominated, because she needs a master. If she is young she takes a husband; if old, a confessor.— From the French. .