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Show I I Sensitive K suae . .r Necessary Evils Woman a stoic BC Iy LADY VIOLLT GltKVILLE. QDl I"" sensitiveness of woman takes a difft-rent fi)rm from flint of IH Wotnnn'fl whole clinrncler is formed by t lie endurance of LH cCjs7 necessary evils. The mother Fcts aside her happiness for her dafySnl c''rcn s Bn0 w'10 wheedles t ho pnicrfninilias out of the LLfl ffifci2J nm'fisar)' money for hoots and Bocks, hats and ribbons, who H ('rt'sscs '10 6'r'8 the cost of her own toilet, and saves up yTttB 'lc'r I"11 I,1011y ' increase tlio hoy's allowance. If she is sen- iiTr 1 1 sitive, she conceals the fact, imposes violence on her nerves, PH and bears as best she can the noise and uproar that must never disturb father. I have known bravo women, worried and tortured by anxieties or ill-PH ill-PH lionlth, who have composed their faces to n smile, forced their parched throats to a laugh and their voices to gny conversation, lest the man, on his return, should know what they suffered, and the fact depress or pain him. Ho has never known, and has gone to his grave satisfied that his wife was the happiest woman in the world. Was that woman, then, not PH sensitive? Yes, hut of the highest quality of sensitiveness, that which con- (jucrs its own weakness. Tlio sensitiveness of woman displays itself in trilles trifles which to the masculino mind, accustomed to more robust :ind brutal doings, seem too trivial for a thought. Yet the poets, the men who have been real lovers, the men who have been great in the union of strength with tenderness, rccogimo this. The perfect lover remembers trifles even when the quality of his love has waned. The llower, the little present, the fond embrace, the loving loiter, how the woman treasures them, how the passion or ill nature of a moment arc forgotten and swept away in the remembrance of the many little attentions or kindnesses of the past I |