Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1891 — Three Dangerous Women [ARTICLE]

Three Dangerous Women

St.Douis Globe-Democrat. 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. There is something wanting in such, and in all probability its place is supplied by some unlovely trait. As Shakespeare says ot him who has no soul for music, such a woman is fit for treason, strategy and spoils, and a woman intent on these 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 wee creature, it 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 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. 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.