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Show j the writer and the reader of these lines I think themselves quite sane on every ' point there is some Haw in their mental ! armor that their friends could probably ' dilate upon for hours. WOMEN'S rnu. One or Them Is a Mania for Hiding TliliiK9 from Burglara. Lverv woman is possessed of some is of as pronounced a type, though less aggressive, as that ' which has sent many a poor mortal to the insane asylum. asy-lum. The NeV York Commercial Advertiser Ad-vertiser ciaims that this i$ no rash statement, but merely a study from actual life. T ake in your own family, for instance: Do you' not say: "Jessie or belle or Susie is absolutely crazy on such and such a subject?" And though the topics vary with the women the de-tn-.-ntm is not lessened one whit therc-O',-. Look at the number of feminine care-takers who have a passion for hiding hid-ing away their possessions, and so carefully care-fully do they put them out of sight that they themselves forget where the place is when it comes time to find tnem. Those people would indignantly resent any insinuation as to their sanity, san-ity, but docs it seem possible that well-balanced well-balanced minds will stow away a gold thimble or a roll of bills in a pair of rolled-up stockings, or put jewelry or cash in the scrap basket or the grate, and then, in, less than twent3-four hours, give the stockings away to a blind beggar, sell the contents of the basket to the ragman and light a cozy are m the grate right on top of the most cherished possessions? Yet this 1-. done every day, if the papers speak ;.ie truth; and who would have the 1 ss t i d bt the statements of the lh,ai arain there are women so ii d in nd of robbers that it be-.---;'.sa mania with them, and every :" a search begins under beds and ' " il''lv closets, which, if successful in ..s ob)c t. would turn their hair gray n i .e.. nieht. When bedtime comes ihe load themselves down with the ''""'J si.vi-r, which they carry up to heii sleeping iUiai'tments; every win-i. win-i. u is not only bolted, but tin pans are l at such angles that a burglar's ou-ath would knock them over and thus inio.v the liiiud creatures upstairs into indent hysterics, instead of putting them on guard ugainst the intruders, as is tne intention of the wobbly kitchen at-ns,i. s,onie women have a mania for bargains and own yards and yards remnants m lengths and colors" that arc simply useless, yet which, because "t their craze, thev could not possib'y resi.-t buying. These are but a few iii-Lunees. iii-Lunees. but hundreds of others could jV cited, and certain it is that jhtuurh |