HOW A WOMAN BEADS A NEWSPAPER.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1102, 20 July 1882, Page 4

HOW A WOMAN BEADS A NEWSPAPER.

Any one who will watch a woman reading a newspaper will get some new idea of the characteristics of the gentle eex. She takes it up hurriedly and beg ins to scan it over rapidly, as though she were hunting for some particular thing; but she is not. She u merely taking in tho obscure paragraphs which she half believes were put in out of the way places for the sole purpose of keeping her from seeing them. As she finishes one her countenance brightens with the comforting reflection that she has outwitted the editor and the whole race of men—for she cherishes a belief that the newspapers are the enemies of her ■ex, and editors its chief oppressors. She never reads the head lines, and the huge telegraph heads she never sees. She is greedy for local news, and devours it with' the keenest relish, Marriages and deaths are always interesting reading to her, and advertisements are exciting and stimulating. She cares but little for printed jokes unless they reflect ridicule upon the men. She pays particular attention to anything closed by quotation marks and considers it rather better authoriiy than anything first handed. The column in which the editor airs his opinions in leading high falutin she rarely reads. Views are of no importance in her estimation, but facts ure everything. She generally reads the poetry. She doesn’t always care for it, but she makes a practice of reading it, because she thinks sho ought to. She reads stories and ■ketches and paragraphs indiscriminately, and believes every word of them. Finally, after she has read all ■he intends, sho lays the paper down ■with an air of disappointment and half contemptuous gesture, which says very plainly that she thinks all newspapers miserable failures, but is certain that if she had a chance she could make the only perfect newspaper the world has ever seen.