Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1892 — Women of the World. [ARTICLE]

Women of the World.

When one says, “She is a woman of the world." the phrase does not imply in the least that she is a worldly woman, says the Philadelphia Times. Such a one enjoys only those delights that are essentially" of the earth earthy. Pleasure is her aim and fashion her god, but a “woman of the world" is an entiVely different tvpo altogether. She is, to give a precise dcflnttion, one who possesses a rare knowledge of the world, gained by a wide ancjfvaried personal experience. A wotfan of the world is wise and cau sit & judgment on men and affairs, beefuse t/bo knows whereof she speakgf while a worldly woman in many cises hasn’t a single sensible idea Jn her frivolous head. A woman es the world.is to be trusted. She isj as a rule, cool und calculating, wnh adiscri urination worthy of a dipjrtmate. She never reveals the seem of another or tells any of her She does more thinking than tailing, and what she says always nfvuns something. She rarely condemns, for from her vast experience rshe knows that there is good in everyone. and that the motive for many a seefningly ill advised action mav bo of tho purest, though the tiling itself seems grossly unconventional, The worldly woman, on the other hand, looks no deeper than tho surface one is influenced entirely by what society would soy. Therefore, for leniency look to the one who reads men a* the other reads novels, and from her knowledge sees more to praise than censure.