WOMAN'S CAPABILITIES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 142, 4 October 1876, Page 2

WOMAN'S CAPABILITIES.

In answer to the conundrum, "What can a weak woman do'?" the Boston Commercial Advertiser says : She can sit at the open window of a railway carriage, with a stiff north-east wind blowing in that chills everybody in the vicinity to the. marrow, for two hours, in a thin muslin dress, without flinching. She can dance or waltz down the captain of a marching regiment, and at the eleven o'clock supper, put away lobster salad, ice cream, champagne, cake, and coffee, and without flinching, sufficient for a week's nightmare for a strong man. She can comb her hair all back so as to leave the roots of it to the full play of a December breeze, and wear a bonnet on top of a chignon, leaving the e.ars and head exposed with impunity, with the thermometer ten degrees below zero. I She can pull over a thousand dollars uiy g'-ods for the investment of . -1 fifty cents. - f She can study music for ten years sufficient to enable her to perform excellently when not in the presence of those who desire to hear her. ! She can balance herself on the ball of her great toe and shoe heel the size of a dime all day in the public streets without falling. She can occupy three seats in a horsecar, and be utterly oblivious that any of her own sex are standing up. She shows unusual strength and firmness in the holding of real estate, solitaire diamonds,•' and other valuable property which her husband places in her hands previous to his compromising "with his j creditors for 20 cents on a dollar. J