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Show THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE SILLY, WOMAN. Did you ever " stop to think what a regular besom of destruction, the sidy woman is. and always has been in this world? The bad woman has no doubt been a terrible success in her chosen field of deliberate evil-doing, but, as she is comparatively scarce, her influence is pro portlonately feeble when compared with the Influence of women in general. But what, wrecks strew the path of the silly woman in her progress through this ! world. How sadly are all good movements move-ments impeded, or brought to a complete standstill because of her! With what misgivings mis-givings must the pastor, the teacher the reformer always take account of the'silly woman in considering the outcome of their efforts. Take her, for example, where she is most plainly In evidence In society. All the extremes that make society what it is ' ' v are to be laid at the door of the sllly woman, whose distinguishing characteristics character-istics are a great lack of the sense of proportion, pro-portion, and of the fitness of things. She is always recognized a t. first sight, You will meet her. shopping, in the morning. 1 attired in- silk and lace, over-dressed on. informal occasions, while she goes gaily tea-jjowned on the least provocation, and In the most unexpected places as in the hotel dining room for instance. She gives big receptions in a small house, and sumptuous dinners in a shabby, dining room. She is never original, but is always al-ways trying- to be some one else. ,She is herself only in being extreme. Very often, by some prank of fortune, the silly woman finds her way into the business world, and the result of her presence pres-ence there is that the entire sex is viewed with suspicion, not to say horror by business bus-iness men. , But it is in the home that the silly woman wom-an is at liberty to work destruction most freely. Too often, by some mysterious process, she rears the knavish son, or the I adventurous daughter. Her husband esteems es-teems the whole sex foolish, and despises women because he gauges all by his wife. Sometimes the silly woman takes to piety, and the result is that her husband and sons learn to despise even piety. At other times, she takes to reform and immediately immediate-ly reform seems to assume the aspect of the ludicrous and harmful. . Also she joins clubs (lecause oyter women do), and she makes the club meetings' a bore with her Inanities, or else she takes it Into her head to run things, and grows mulish, whereupon the club goes to pieces in short order. Heaven defend us from the works of the silly woman, and' send as few of her among us as may be. |