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■HBIVn. who was one of ’h" wnit. i',
bul.uio-s, ■ iny ||< :«r ...I-!, »"•'
SEgfe/ffiß-> how you are going to conduct
campaign?’’
B.mi I going to . ondii ’t my sum-
Rnf.-iign? ' Hiie r«-J >«.•♦•■• I ,-iio-r i ;l <n
’■z<m<nt, pays Dorotny lux in the
Picayune.
’’ -Balook of weariness and pain swept
his face. “There,” he said, de-
“it’s just as I suspected. Here
■you are about to plunge into a red-hot
campaign without a particle of prepara
r tion. You don’t even know what line you
arc going to fight it out on. That's the
most distressing thing about women. They
never think until a thing is over, and
I then it is too late. I don’t want to die
courage you, but you had just as well
make up your mind beofrehand that the
Bummer resorts this season are going
to be well nigh Adamless Edens, and the
girl who has any partner at the hops
; or invitations to moonlight strolls is going
to need to know all the pointe in the game
she Is going to play.
“Now, there are all sorts of girls, and
they have got all sorts of chances, but
you want to sort of classify yourself end
isee In. which type you will be most
effective. It is nothing but superhuman
vanity that makce a woman think she
can be everything, and do everything. In
Bone role she is effective. In another she is
■absurd. You can’t imagine Julia Marlowe
a coon song, can you, or Della Fox
' thrilling you as Lady Macbeth? There
never was a more misleading fallacy than
the old theory that woman made herself
fascinating by being a creature of whims
and moods, one thing one time, and some
thing else the next. Nobody in these days
has got the time, or is going to take the
trouble to be always chasing around after
a lively conundrum.
“Now, being the daughter of a business
you have doubtless heard It said that
succeeds like a success. Nowhere
,he world 18 that truer tha “ 1,1
- jf you want to be a belle, and
act like one. I have known
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what it is. but you will observe
HVliHt in every ballroom there are invjiria
■Kly a hnlf dozen men falling over each
||Mther to dance with one girl, while an
|Bther, jnat as pretty, just as desirable,
as good a dancer, sits neglected by
the wall.
“Never dance with another girl. It is a
public announcement that you were over
looked by the men present, and another
piX'ferred Ix'fora you, and so far is an
of failure. You may not dance
■ because you aro tired, or the weather is
■ ho*, or for any other excuse that appears
■ reasonably plausible, and still retire from
■the ballroom floor with honor, and the
of a victor, but to dance with another
■girl is a mortifying confession of defeat.
■This doe* not apply to long walks and
■talks with other girls. The woman who is
■ not beloved by her own sex, who does
B not have girl friends, and like girls’ so-
■ clety, ti» always regarded with suspicion
■by men. Cultivate the society of other
■ Kiris. He nice to them, and generous with
■ them. Many a homely girl has got nice
■ brothers, so shall tho angel food you cast
■upon the waterw return to you after many
■days.
:■ “Another thing, don’t to too hard to
■please. Kicking is a distinctly masculine
Bl>erogatlve. A disgruntled, dissatisfied,
woman Is something that strikes
■■terror to the boldest heart, and the hc-
Kera have all gone off to the war this
I ■mmer. Don't always Imj drawing <«>rn
■■Trlsons. If, with infinite trouble, some
man manages to hire the solitary
or the dilapidated carry-all of
■lie summer hotel don't enliven the occa-
reminiscences of the time when
were on somel»ody'a four-ln-hand and
such a love of a time. If somebody
■jLs up n sandwich and beer supper and
■ itve you don't turn up your nose and
■s|B > ou ,u ’y ,hl "k |,llt birds and
There it Mln f feminine
in equal to adaptability. Ihe gill who
do anything, who la re.ids for .my
■Hßg. who Is Hilling t<> be pl. .Is.‘d with
■jlßy I hul cone-, along. . m . iv. im
laatify odds ill the game and beat
•y'Uff every time. She is the one who is
left out when the hay rides and
fishing excursions and tenpin parties are
made up.
Every thing Is fair In love and war, and
ut summer resorts, has long tx*cn a fav
orite motto with the girl who thinks it
knowing to try to monopolixe every man
who comes along. She takes him off for
long solitary walks, lnv«>lgles him into
teteya-tsies, and wild horses couldn’t drag
her into introducing him to another girl.
]t is u fatal mistake. He sets her down
««a selfish and jealous, and, worse than
all,, she bort's him to death. My dear
| child, no one person ta the whole show in
I life. Two strangers can hdva little to
e »y to each other, wltenas the introduc-
■ tion of others into the conversation mu ken
everything smooth sailing. It is better to
r be uno of a charming group than n solitary
B bore. Never keep a man with you after he
B txMiina to get tired, ties tired yourself
H flrat. Anticipate the being tior.sl feeling.
B «iul send him off. and the chances are
w tu will hunt you up the next opportunity
| |x-.ause hv will not be afraid of getting
caught and having to stay.
■ “Ih'n’l hint. The |»oor summer resort
man is seldom a disguised mi'.tion-
He is only un imt>ecuntous wretch
has «>ll he can do to buy a few pair«
white duck troi's. rs and a handful of
and give himself a couple of
off aomewhere. lx urn to pass the
active suds water counter without a
W yearning glance. Cultivate a distaste for
f jee ervatn. and <ton*t Imitate those young
womtn <>f dlatMXk'vl ingenuity whi> spend
th,’ summar getting up something that
1 cOSCa money fur the heat ben. Charity be
h gins ut home tn not fiseclng tho poor.
B tfowivtrodeo young men who do their hum-
B brat In dancing at partloa all w inter
blrsaed is site who IS not gel time Up
souvenir wllretkm of anv kind what-
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and sUck p*r.s, god belt buckles
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b.u finish'd gotting her
at this tx mark If he J«« •» he only
faahiua as to the color of the huit
with the urvdomuiant cotar *>.'
into • fowr owr the unsatisfae-
Mm* color of twr infant . hair in thia day
ge*n ratta<i Ari • too tar ahead of r «
Mrr <u hi a huie thm* ~.a , ~c uUt
one. When the said Infant with the unsat
isfactory hair reaches woman hood she can
have hair of a color of her own choosing,
from jet black to a sickly green, accord
ing to her luck in getting hold of a first
rate dye and'bleach.
Blue in every imaginable shade and gray
from a delicate pearl tint to a real Cincin
nati soft coal-smoke color are the fashion
able shades in dress this season, and as Ti
tian hair goes best with both, that is the
swell tint for woman’s manufactured
crown of glory.
It is frequently.asserted, says the New
York Sun, that women do not change the
color of their hair as they did formerly.
That Is not true. More women dye their
hair to-day than ever before, but the art
has reached a stage when It is very hard
to tell the real from the unreal when it
comes to color. It is a fact, however, that
far fewer women bleach their hair to a
Broadway blonde shade than in years gone
by. There are good reasons for this In the
first place, this shade (everybody knows
it) is in bad repute, and then it is produced
by the use of powerful chemicals, which
not only rot the hair at once, but, further
more, in the end cause it to turn to some
outlandish color, such as a bilious green.
Bleached hair of this kind is one thing and
dyed hair of the fashionable Titian tint
quite another.
There are several shades of Titan hair,
and all are worn. A woman studies her
eyes, complexion, the shape of her face,
her costumes, and then selects the shade
which will suit her best. The tint most
to be desired is the pure Titian—a rich,
warm red; but few women can afford to
frame their faces in this. Nine out of ten
have to vary it in one way or another.
Some require lighter locks and others
darker, and so it goes, but all are striv
ing after the Titan effect. Indeed, this is
absolutely necessary, for blue and gray
are both cold colors, and unless a woman
has some warmth in the color of ; ter hair
they are exceedingly trying.
When asked about the fashionable col
ors in hair at the moment, a young wo
man in an establishment famed for keep
ing woman’s half up to date in the mat
ter of color said:
* l ßed is the prevailing color again this
spring and summer, just as it was during
the winter. Titian, people like to call it,
but. it is no other than the pure old-time
rich dark red such as we all hated when
I was a little girl. It costs a woman just
S3O to have her hair dyed, and it can be
done in a morning. The process is simple,
but a little tedious, and no sano woman
should attempt to dye her own hair. A
brick mason might just as well attempt
to paint a frieze. In the first place hair
should be dyed in such away as to defy
detection. There's no sin in it then, pro
vided a harmless vegetable dye ie used;
the crime is in being found out. The hair
is thoroughly shampooed first ao that not
one particle of natural oil remains in it.
When it is perfectly dry the artist takes
it strand by strand and colors it by means
of a fine toothbrush saturated with the
dye, being careful not to touch the scalp.
That ie the process, and once thoroughly
dyed not even soap and water will take
the color out or fade it. It is necessary
occasionally to have it touched up a hit.
“Now, about colors. The fashionable
a lor ia dictated each season by the fash
lable color in dress. Any one with any
artlstio taste can readily see why Titian
shades are worn now. Drab hair, black,
and colorless blonde shades simply swear
at the bright blues and beautiful but try
ing whades of gray so much in vogue for
gowns and hats. They harmonize about
as well as a Puritanical preacher and a
worldly congregation. Hair must have
some life, some brightness in 4* color to
look well when, blue or gray prevails in a
woman’s dress. There are lots of shades
of Titian, and women are guided by their
eyes and complexions in selecting what is
most becoming. For example, a woman
with a florid complexion does not choose
the dark shade, but the very lightest,
while a girl with a white skin and no
color seizes on the pure Titian. It is for
tunate that hair which has been dyed be
fore takes the red shades beautifully.
There is no reason why any women who
can afford to pay the price should be be
hind the times in the color of her hair,
and few really fashionable ones are.”
There are many new styles of dressing
the hair, but very high or very low coif
fures prevail for house and evening wear.
Ono thing is required, whether the coif
fure Is high or low, and that is that the
hair must be arranged around the face in
the Marlborough puff, from ear to ear.
The pert in woman’s hair has gone, the
beautiful part, so distinctively feminine
and ao much admired by man. None but
an old lady parts her hair nowadays, un
less it l» a young woman who wears her
hair in that fashion because the one she
loves the best of all wishes it. Even then
she puffs the sides out. The Marlborough
coiffure is the thing for Btreet wear. The
hair is parted from ear to ear across the
top of the head, so that almost as much
can be combed down over the face aa is
left in the back. This is carefully waved,
and the back hair growing around the
•ara and neck is waved too. The next
thing to do ia to tie it securely with a
string, being careful to pull the waved
part out in a full puff all around behind.
The front is combed out until very fluffy
and puffed back, when the hair is twisted
or braided into the shape of the figure 8.
The rat which was born under thy front
pompadour all winter is hopelessly out of
style. Why? Because it is too stiff-looking
and warm for summer use and looks al
most ludicrous with shirt waists. tl\in
gowns,and sailor hats. Indeed, tho inclina
/tion Ia to wear the hair rut her flat in
front and very much puffed out at the
’sides. Two or three very small love curls
may hang down if the hair is coik'd, but
nre not used when it Is braided. These can
be bought, and they are an investment that
saves a deal of trouble. They come at
tached to hairpins warranted not to loosen,
and they ar«' lucked in wherever they pro
duce the most becoming effect. Unless a
woman baa very regular features she
should be careful to make her hair lie flat
on her head when dressed in thia way. and
If lhe forehead is not strikingly beautiful
let her by all means arrange a tew care
fully careice* curls over her temples.
The "coquette’s coiffure" is very beauti
ful ami becoming, but calculated to try the
wearer’s temper in warm weather unless
she is blessed with naturally curly hair. It
is adapted Io almost all faces. To fashion
it the hair must be well shttmitooed. which
should be done at least twice a month if
the hair is very oily and only once if nat
urally dry. At the front, sides, and back,
where it bordcrii on the neck, the hair La
In the middle of the back of the head. It is
twisted upward and rolled into three putts,
projecting slightly above the crown of the
head. The whole hair lies In ripples and
has the look of a mast of curls.
Matrons with a great deal of gray or
whit«' hair wear it waved back from th«
forehead in front and braided close to the
| end in the hack in a long, narrow coiffure.
Cut jet ornaments are used.
If women could only be made to believe
it, they make « great miatake in following
the fashion in hair blittdb. Take the pom-
IMdour, for instance. It la unbecoming to
nine women out of ten, and yat fully that
| proportion of wonun have adopted it. True
| the softness that is given to tt by curling
rvniters It possible for the majority of wo
men to drew their ha?r but they would
I tank bettor if they dnassed it in some atm
l ph r way. Tbe port in the hair gives a face
A ik*oiC of IHo often
troy*. TM woman shows her charae*
ter ut her way of wearing her hair. or. at
pi\>%her v. If she
come* her. womm may say that she looks
but men wUI declare that
I’HE WEEKLY NEWS CTWO-TIMES-A-WEEK): MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1898,'
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For years I was trou-
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ovarian tumor,
each year gr ow
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til at last I
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to consult with
a physician.
He said
nothing could'
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In speaking with a friend of mine
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The great and unvarying success of
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com
pound in relieving every derangement
of the female organs, demonstrates
it to be the modern safeguard of wo
man's happiness and bodily strength.
More than a million women have been
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Every woman who needs advice
about her health is invited to write to
Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass.
A pretty and stylish coiffure for the
summer girl who spends most of her time
golfitng, wheeling, boating, or indulging in
other sports, is made by parting the hair
and waving it on both sides close to the
head. It puffs down from the parting well
over the ears and reinforces the black
hair, which is (Led low on the neck, braid
ed, doubled over, not under, add tied with
a bow of black silk or velvet ribbon, which
should always be perfectly fresh. The hair
dressed in this fashion is not only becom
ing and girlish-looking, but also stays in
place and looks neat after several hours
of hard exercise.
All sorts of ornaments are used In the
hair nowadays and the bigger and more
fanciful they are the better. Immense
plain shell and amber combs are worn, not
at the top of the coiffure, but at the
bottom to hold the back puff in place.
Pompadour and side combs are jewelled
with mock and real gems, and Tsince wo
man has become belligerent even in dress,
she is wearing gold and silver daggers and
swords thrust through her hair. Escap
ing curls, at the nape of the neck, are pin
ned up with a fancy brooch. For evening
wear the aigrette still holds Its own as
the favorite ornament. It is frequently
combined with a spider bow of tulle or a
fluffy rosette. Colored plumes and aig
rettes are considered very bad form. Nat
ural flowers are really the most appro
priate ornaments for the hair in summer,
even If they do fade quickly, and nothing
looks so fascinating in very dark hair
as a single crimson rose. Women with
blonde hair generally make the mistake of
wearing light-colored pins and ornaments.
Those who have made a study of artistic
hair dressing say that they should bv all
meank wear ornaments of a dark color,
bo us to accentuate the gold tint. White
aigrettes should always be fastened in
blonde hair with a few loops of balck vel
vet ribbon, and in black hair with white
ribbon . Contrasts in this matter are effec
tive. Very dark hair can stand little
curling and waving. The curling Irons
have & tendency to make it look kinky,
which is a state not to be desired, as every
woman knows.
The eagerness of women to be of real
use at such a time as the present one
in the country's history, says the New
York Tribune, and their difficulty >n find
ing anything that it Is possible for them
to dp are almost pathetic.
“I would give worlds to go to the front
as a soldier,” exclaimed a high-spirited
young woman, "and as the next best thing
1 joined an ‘auxiliary,’ and what do you
think was the work they gave me to do.
Making ridiculous little bags they called
‘‘housewives,’ to hold sewing things! Why,
mother has often told me how, even
when their hearts ached, they used to
scrape lint and knit impossibly shaped
stockings for lhe soldiers in her day. and
the only difference now teems to be that
we have learned that lint is unhealthy
for wounds, and that woven stockings
are more comfortable than knit ones. But
as far as women are concerned they ere
as unnecessary as ever. It takes war to
show us what supernumeraries we really
are in ahy really great movement. Our
day can only come when brute force
becomes an extinct factor in national dis
putes, and all questions are settled by
arbitration. If there is any talking to
be done we can hold our own with any
one. It was the United States Sanitary
Commission In mother’s day. and it is the
Red Cross now. that offers the only outlet
for our energies. Pray Heaven that the
innumerable societies that are being or-
Kanixed all over the country may not
have the training that developed the crude
Iwginnings of ’6l into a blessing to the
country!
“•You may laugh at your housewife,
my dear.’ said un old lady to me the other
day when I made fun of the work we
were doing, 'but thank God on your knees
If It is all you are given to do!’ “
The latest oiwning for a woman In con
nection with the war is a “mother" to a
regiment, but as the incumbent of the po
sition must be old. ugly, and able to stand
any amount of fatigue, it is not likely that
there will be many applicants for the post.
The “mother" will wash. mend, nurse.
If need be. and look after her hundreds of
boys with as much individual attention
as possible. It will easily be seen what
a comfort such an addition to a regiment
would be. and there will doubtless be num
berless openings in this direction for pa
triotic women.
"1 wish 1 could help." said a small child,
wistfully, as she listened to n discussion
between her mother and some of her
frauds about needs and supplies in the
early sixties. The mother understood the
childish longing, and that evening she
rigged up for the delighted little maid a
toy express wagon, with a white tent cov
er. on which she printed the once fami
oar letters—U. 8. S. C.—United States
Sanitary t'.xnm c.rsl sent the child
out tl»e next morning on an expedition
to suevor maimed or suffering creatures.
It wna wonderful, with her senses aroused
to obaervattou, how many things the lit
tle one found, and lhe good work
ttpread among her pla.- mates, until the
United States Sanitary Commission wag
ons multiplied into a goodly number. All
the children who. played this real piay
phxiged them selves to rescue and nurse
suftering life, from the tiny insects to mis
used cats and dogs, and who knows
whether It was not from just such small
beginnings that the societies which pro
tect our animals started in the first place?
Somehow it Is the idea of the hour to
take especial note o< children. Not only
iuuv^vu,
are their sayings chronicled, magazine art
icles written about them and methods of
correction discussed at great length, but
fashion is allotting to them much more
than their usual allowance of novelties in
dress. The latest is the little girl’s sun
bonnet, says the New York Herald, and it
is a conservative assertion to make that
every miniature woman of society will
have when she goes away for the summer,
at least three or four of these snugly
away.
A theory of hygiene Is behind these sun
bonnets. The average child loses her hat
or wears it on the back of her neck when
playing out of doors in summer continu
ally. She thinks very little about the
sun, and does not mind its glare—not half
so much as her mother would—but for all
that (scientists end doctors now say) she
Is injuring her eyes materially by this very
exposure.
Now, the sunbonnet cannot fall off. It
is tied on tightly—“for keeps”—and only in
the case of a very disobedient child or an
accident will it be anywhere after a morn
ing’s play than the precise spot it was
placed on. Thus, whatever she may do,
the child’s eyes are kept beautifully shad
ed. And, besides this, the sunbonnet has
a value from the point of view of economy.
It washes excellently, and the youngster
always has headgear that is spick and
span.
These facts have brought sunbonnets for
children into fashion: Literally, hundreds
of them will be worn this summer. They
will be somewhat of the Kate Greenway
style, and will make the small person look
very picturesque and very much like her
grandmother at the age of six years. They
are to be made with many tucks, and as
prettily as you please. A piece of narrow
ribbon fastens each under the chin. The
materials most popular are gingham,
pique and duck, and they must match the
little frocks they are intended to be worn
with. The favorite colors will be pink,
blue, white and dark blue.
The chemise for summer wear, says the
Philadelphia Times, is made with a very
deep decollete and without sleeves. It is
perhaps a trifle shorter than in forner
years, and is made sufficiently full* around
the bottom to form an underskirt. In this
case the drawers are worn under the chem
ise. The lower edge may be trimmed with
a small flounce “en forme” of medium
amplitude.
If not fond of laces, one may adopt by
way of trimming the ever popular flat
plaits. These are applied in a series of
three or five, ranged very much after the
manner of an insertion just above the
flounce.
The chemise is made quite close-fitting
over the bust, being so closely moulded
to the figure as to preclude the possibility
of any wrinkling or unevenness under the
corset. The chemise must be perfectly
plain in the back and made with a simple
single seam.
The drawers are made with unusual
amplitude, and are very short. They are
finished in a flounce or trimming harmon
izing with the trimming of the chemise.
In place of the old time band they are
gathered with a fine draw string. Thus the
amplitude of each leg of the drawers may
be altered to suit individual taste. Many
fashionable women, however, dispense en
tirely with the draw string, and allow
the garment to assume its full size, un
restrained by even the suspicion of a
gathering.
As regards the small underskirt, it dif
fers not a whit in form from the garment
for winter wear.
Quite the latest novelty in the way of
summer lingerie is the “combination,” of
batiste, in which two garments are com
bined in one. There are many ways of
forming the combination, such as chem
ise and drawers or drawers and skirt.
This is a matter to be decided by personal
preference.
The chemie’-drawers is eimply a corset
cover to which the drawers have "been
added. This garment has many attract
ions for those who do much bicycle rid
ing. • ’
Misa Reichemberg of the Comedie Fran
caise is a great favorite, not only in Paris,
but wherever her wit and her good acting
are known. She Is a delightful woman, of
course, but she has certain peculiarities
which serve as a foil to her charms, the
best known being her unrelenting dispo
sition in making fun at her best friends’
expanse, her enthusiastic economy and
her love for the good things of the table.
Those who wish to remain on good terms
with her know how to please her, and
nearly every morning fish, poultry, superb
fruit, etc., come to her cook, who at once
rings the bell for her mistress—rather a
topsy-turvy arrangement, but Miss Retch
emberg does nothing like other people—
and as soon as she hears the bell she trots
down to the basement. There the two pick
and choose, setting apart what is to be
served on the table upstairs and what is
to be sold to the man w'ho comes every'
day from the central market to bargain
with them and take away the goods that
will not keep.
One day recently the actress was partic
ularly busy and could not answer the bell
or go downstairs, not even when she
heard that a superb sterlet had arrived
from the shores of the Volga on a bed of
ice, and hurriedly she called to the cook
to take it herself to a fishmonger and
get a stiff price for it. She pocketed a
good round sum over the deal, but had for
gotten all about the lish, when a friend
of hers, a Russian Prince, being at lunch
at her house, asked her suddenly:
“How did you like the sterlet?”
"Oh," said Reichemberg, "it was sim
ply delicious and fresh in spite of its long
journey, as fresh as if it had been caught
an hour before.”
"The gills were ns fed as your lovely
lips, w’ere not they? 4 ’
“More so, I can tell you. for, you know.
I am a gourmande. and always see about
these things myself."
"But is that all?"
“AU! Pray, what do you mean?"
“I mean.” said the prince, turning pur
ple, "that the grand duke, who sent the
sterlet to my house, with other things,
wrote and asked me to brjng it myself to
you. for he had put in each gill an emer
ald earring, which. I believe, he had prom
ised you. But I knew you always super
intended these things in person, and I
thought I would let you have a little'sur
prise."
Miss Relchemberg dropped her knife and
fork and rushed down to the cook. But
she never saw the beautiful emeralds. The
fish merchant had forgotten to whom the
sterlet had been sold, and the grand duke’s
present is most likely somewhere in the
hands of a dishonest chef.
Every mother of a pretty girl, says the
Atchison Globe, is a board of strategy.
A woman never becomes so rich that she
can resist the temptation to wear calico
shirt waists.
When the women pray “Lead us not in
to temptation.” they mean dry goods
stores.
A woman never knows what it is to love
until she has a daughter over 15 years old.
When a widow begins to leave off mourn
ing. the person whose opinion she fears
worst is her mother-in-law.
An Atchison man claims that his wife
belongs to the Red Cross Society because
she often get red with anger and is then
cross for weeks.
Farmers Break the Itaagy 'lonopoly.
Il is claimed that for years buggy manufac
turers nave secured exorbitant prices for their
K-ods : ut recently, through the combined as
sMance of th” farmers of lowa. Illinois and
other states Sbaks. Kokbkcx & Co.. O s Chi
cago. have got the price of open buggies down
to fie.v; Top Buggies. s-2.7.’; Top Sutries.
>13.75 an.l upwards, and they are shipping
them in immense numbers d:rect to farmers in
every state Tbev send an immense BuegX
Catalogue free, postpaid, to any one who asks
for it. This certainly is a big victory for the
fdrmcr. but as* vere blow to th*? carriage
manufacturers ami dealers.
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With the coming of the shirt waists the
uneasy look on a girl’s face, as if some
thing might be coming off, has made its
reappearance.
Along about 9 o’clock every night the
girls look up at the clock, remark that it
is probably too late for any one to come,
and take off their stiff shirt waist collars.
The rudeness of young society men, says
the New York and their independ
ence of their hostess and her guests, is
spoken of too often not to have some foun
dation of truth. At social functions a
woman is absolutely helpless without a
man. She cannot dance unless she is
asked. She cannot move from her seat
without an escort, and the hostess cannot,
with the best intentions; properly entertain
her women guests without the aid of the
men. And they are usually in the minor
ity. Their sphere of amusement is so
much wider than that of the women that
they are not as dependent upon social
functions; consequently the young man
grows to feel his weight, and he abuses
the hospitality offered. This is a frequent
complaint. He accepts hie hostess’ hospi
tality just so far as pleases him, and no
further. He is pleased to be courteous to
her guests If they please him, otherwise he
ignores them. He ignores his hostess like
wise if it pleases him. The wrathful tale
told of the young man who was invited to
the opera and appeared in his hostess’ box
at the beginning of the evening, sind then
left it to make calls upon other friends,
and not to return until the end of the
evening, is true, and stories come from
other towns, not so large as New York,
but having a strong social element, where
young men forget to pay party and dinner
calls altogether. There is one ower true
tale of a wrathful maiden, and she was
not an unattractive maiden, either, who
at a large party given in her honor was
found at the supper hour without an es
cort. Every man had gone off with an
other damsel and forgotten the one for
whom the occasion was. But she dined in
state in an apartment by herself with
other left-over maidens, and they en
joyed themselves thoroughly. And the
men, it was said afterwards, when they
heard of the matter, considered it a huge
joke, which it was, in away. But they
have better ways of doing things in other
countries, or they have better manners
where there is more ceremony. A stranger
in Germany is introduced to every man in
the room at affairs which are held in pri
vate houses. Each man considers it his
duty to ask for an introduction as a mat
ter of courtesy to his hostess,
A phlle-.ophic bachelor, says the New
Orleans Picayune, lounging in his club,
heard some young fellows expressing sur
prise .that many women who please im
mensely at first sight and for a short time
are regarded as charming in the extreme,
grow tiresome before long. The philoso
pher was appealed to for an "opinion on
the weighty subject and thus delivered
himself:
“Yes, it’s true that these brilliant, at
tractive women seldom wear well. It has
always seemed to me that in a short time
they either feel well enough acquainted
to cense trying to-be agreeable as at first
or they have in reality talked themselves
out. Perhaps they are vain and others
do not see fit to pander to such evident
self-love. Be that as it may, when the
reaction comes the admirers and adorers
of the first day or two will discover that
the wit was not spontaneous, the grace
ful manner natural or the Interest in their
affairs genuine, and they drop the flash
ing, brilliant meteor and look about for
the steady glowing star that sheds its
mild radiance on all about in a quiet, un
obtrusive manner, yet with a beauty all
its own that is wonderfully taking.
“The woman who wears well is rarely
a beauty. If she were, perhaps she would
consider her personal perfections so great
that she would deem it unnecessary to
cultivate the graces of the heart and
mind that prove so attractive to those
about her. She is usually possessed of
intelligence, which lights up her counte
nance as no mere beauty could ever do,
and a desire to please, which an unselfish
disposition naturally helps her to accom
plish. She keeps a sunny face turned to
ward the world with her own troubles
pushed far away out of sight, while she
does her best to assuage those of others.
She is always the same, yet never monot
onous, as her originality is one of her
chief charms. If she marries she will love
her husband with all her heart and to
him she will seem a treasure far above
the brilliant but changeable beauties who
take a man’s heart by storm.”
The philosopher lounged out of the
smoking room, and one of the young fel
lows said:
"I wonder why he never married?"
“Wasted his affections on one of those
who don't ‘wear well,’ I suppose,” said
another.
"I am looking,” says the New York
Times woman, “to see a new club started,
th.- 'Daughters of Sapphlra.’ There is
only one thing needed to have one formed
forthwith, and that is to fiave the men
start a club, the ‘Sons of Ananias.’ And.
really, one would be quite as appropriate
as the other. I saw a squib the other day
about the ghosts of Ananias and Sa&hira,
which, taking a midnight walk, purchased
a yellow journal and felt themselves out
done by the false statements of war news
to be found there. But they need not have
waited for yellow journals or false war
news. Am .1 only now becoming observant
or is there an increased number of follow
er of the Father of Lies? I know women
who positively cannot tell the truth when
It is to their advantage to do so. The tru
ert thing George Eliot ever said was that
the p. nu *y of un ruth is untruth.”
"A society of the ‘Sons of Ananias*
could well be started," said the man.
thoughtfully, “an 1 I could make a good
many proposals for membership. I have
one business man in mind. He has the
weakness many of us have of telling the
same story twice and never twice alike.
And that is not in minor details, but in
the essential tacts. I have had him for
get and within an hour tell a story in two
absolutely different ways. I am never
sure of anything he says. There is one
thing that I think can be said about men
that does not apply to women so much,
and that is that men make stories out of
whole cloth. Perhaps that is one reason
why they make good after-dinner speak
ers.
”1 know another man who Is a remarka
ble romancer, though I must say for him
that his stories, once developed, he sticks
to. As an instance of this, I was with an
other friend one day when we saw him
coming in * decided to give him as big a
yarn as peeUbie, each of us to bear out
all the other’s stories. For one thing-, I
told him about an experience in a canoe,
when, with a rubber brought up from the
sides tight around my throat and fast
ened securely around my wrists, I had ca
noed over dangerous falls, under water
half the time, but always paddling, and
finally coming to the surface not. a bit the
worse for it. The son of Ananias listened
without a word. But he didn’t miss a de
tail, and the only thing he forgot was
where he heard it, and the next time I
saw him he related it to me almost word
for word—better than I could have re
peated it myself—as an experience of his
own. e
“Yes,” said the woman, "I think women
are apt to merely cast a roseate color over
things, though I have heard some elabo
rate romances about lovers in w’hich I was
certain there was much fiction. But the
daughters of Sapphira I have meet seem
to have a habit of believing the things
they wish to believe; they tell them as
they would like them to be, not as they
are, and with perfect sincerity, as I be
lieve most liars—pardon the word—do. I
remember a relative we had visiting us
at one time, a sweet woman, but with ab
solutely no regard for the truth. We had
an invalid in the family to whom her pres
ence was a great annoyance, and we were
anxious, when the time came for her visit
to end, to have her go. But she was en
joying herself and did not care to. So
following me up stairs one day, she ask
ed me confidentially what I thought she
had better do. Anxious as I was for her
to go, I could only say that she must do
as she thought best. But imagine my
amazement at hearing her remark before
the entire family, myself included, that day
and with an air of great satisfaction, that
Alice—myself—thought she had better pro
long her visit, and so she would. Did you
ever happen to remark in any company
of the prevalance of this class of people
that every one in the room did not know
at least one intimately.
The girl of the moment, says the New
York Herald, an athletic maid two short
months ago, has changed with the times
and become military. The men
she goes with hardly knows
her. Even her clothes, her
skirts, her hats and her waists have the
spirit of the army—or the navy—in them
these days, and her walk is modeled upon
marching, and her vocabulary of slang and
topical expression has been revised until
two sentences out of three hang upon mar
tial terms.
In fact, to be army-like is the fad of the
moment, and the girl of the sets has taken
up this new idea with immense enthusi
asm. She carries it out surprisingly well,
too. Very nearly everything she does has
a military twist to it, and she has the
cleverness to put just a little of her own
personality into each movement or speech
so that the effect is piquant, graceful and
odd.
Thus, with a bound the military girl has
sprung into fashion. One of her ways is
the temporary abolition of the kiss—so far
as other girls are concerned. Meeting her
dearest friend, she salutes in a true army
way. She does not grab her or remark
“You dear thing!” The arms of both girls
are raised promptly to their hats, and
then shoved out with a quick movement.
Then they are dropped to their sides and
stay there.
The walk of the military girl is marked
by a firm step forward, a rather longer
step than usual, and the shoulders are held
weil back, the head steadily up, with the
chest is thrown well out. This new type
of girl, when she turns, swings around
cleanly on her heels, for all the world like
a genuine army man.
The new military conversation, or rather
the host of military phrases, heard these
days is exceedingly interesting. A girl re
turns from some shopping expedition. Be
fore the war was started she would have
said very simply: “I’ll go up and tell moth
er about it.” Now her phrase is: “I’ll go.
and give the countersign to mother.” Or,
telling a sister to say such and such to
her father, she will say: “Report to head
quarters.”
“Advance into the other room,” is the
proper way to put it now, and, instead of
speaking of going up or down stairs, you
should say, if you would be really in form
nowadays, “I’m going aloft,” or “I’m go
ing below.”
Betaking one’s self to one’s downy couch
is expressed by the words, “I’m going to
turn in,” and on the street, when two,
three or four girls are walking together,
there are often to be heard these words
of command: “Right about face!” and
’’forward, march!”
Such are a few of the military expres
sions of the hour amonjr girls—those that
nre, ]>erhaps, the most common. There
are scores of others, and with her visits
to the camps near New York and her con
stant study of war mutters this military
vocabulary of girldom is being added to
at a rapid rate weekly. The girl who has
naval associations adds to these a bunch
of terms of the sea and the battleships
that give her conversation even more pic
turesqueness and novelty.
Yet walk and talk a la militaire are, af
ter all, but two sides of the new military
girl. All her costume this summer will
have a flavor of the army and the navy.
The shops are Rolling now, for the par
ticular benefit of this girt, what is known
as "aArrny and navy” cloth. It is aiight
er shade of blue than has hitherto been
the fashion—a thin material much like a
serge and supposed to be just the color of
the army and navy uniforms. This
promises to be the dress material of drees
materials this summer, and is already
much sought after.
caps and army service hats are
the bead gear that is held in greater af
fection than any other, and a girl who
really enters into the spirit of the day and
the hour wears white cord about her neck
with the accompanying whistle. This is
considered a very smart and effective final
touch.
There are army and navy umbrellas for
these military girls as well. These um
brellas have handles made in precise imi
tation of a small sword handle. An even
smarter thing is to have an umbrella han
dle of a real sword. Not many girls are
as fortunate as that, however.
My doctor says that it Isn’t what we do
during the day, but the way we sleep nt
night, that makes us round shouldered, a
New York Herald reporter heard a tail,
stunning looking girl say to her compan
ion, as they rested after the dumbbell drill
at the gymnasium. “You know how dread
fully I stooped when It left school a year
ago,” she went on. “I just thought I would
go crazy with the home folks flaying,
Maud, dear, sit up straight!’ and Jack said
I looked about as frisky as grandpa Burke,
who is nearly a hundred. I went to my
doctor one day and I just sat down in his
great big chair and cried like a baby. I
looked a fright and I knew it. but I felt
sure they would put me into a plaster cast
or something equally as awful. He didn’t
though, but just asked the queerest lot of
questions alx>ut how 1 slept.
“How you-slept?” exclaimed the slender
girl, showing a deal of interest. /
“Yes. he wanted to know If I slept on a
downy bed and with a big pillow under my
head. Os course I did, and when I told him
so he nodded his head and said he knew
it. Then he went on to say that 1 would lie
with my arms up over my head, or else,
when on my side, they would be in front
of me. with the shoulders thrown forward,
that I often would curve myself up in a
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little roll and go to sleep. These were the
common mistakes, he said, which most
persons made in sleeping.”
“Well, how on earth are we to sleep,and
on what sort of beds,” her companion ask
ed, with very wide open eyes.
“On a hard bed, the narrower the better.
He said to lie on my left side and put my
arm behind me, which naturally would
throw the shoulders back. I did it, and just
see how straight I am!” she added, stand
ing up and showing her superb neck and
shoulders.
“It wasn’t so very hard, either,” she
continued, “but I was determined to mas
ter the art of Bleeping correctly, and I
have.”
This was all I heard of their interesting
chat, but it gave me so great a curiosity to
learn more about the theory that I
straight for the office of a physician wlioso®
opinion seems very near being the law in
this country to-day. s/'j?
“It is quite true,” he said, “half the fl
world is in total ignorance of the laws gov- ®|||
erning healthful sleep. People lie on beds fl
that are soft and pile so many covers over
them that the body gains no ventilation
whatever. High pillows throw the head fl
forward and interfere with healthful J
breathing, while all sorts of positions are
taken with only regard to getting easy.
“A hard bed makes the flesh firm. I
have known patients to apparently reduce
their weight twenty or thirty pounds af
ter sleeping so for several months, but on
being weighed they would find that na
flesh had been lost; it had simply harden
ed and lost its flabbiness.
“■Sleeping on the back is not healthful,
it results in a gravitation of blood to the
spinal cord and the lower part of the
brain. Persons who dream much and have
the nightmare usually sleep this way, an-1
besides, it throws the palate back in
a ix>sition as to cause mouth breathing
and its accompanying snore. A ‘ deal of
throat trouble is caused by this, as the
air reaches the lungs without being puri
fied and moistened by passing through the
nose.
“Lying on the left Bide, with the arnt
thrown behind, is the best position botli'f
for giving a fine figure and in promoting
health. All animals sleep on the chest,
as nearly as possible, with the back up,
and they know pretty well what is the
right thing to do. It will be found that in
taking the position I have just advised
the throwing the arm behind one brings
the body nearly over on the chest.
“As for sleeping on high pillows,” the j
doctor continued, “it is the easiest thing ,-J|
in the world to grow dependent upon fl
them, as they favor cerebral anaemia,
w’hich induces sleep, but If one wishes to
have a finely expanded chest she must fl >
dispense with even the smallest pillow. .
“A soft tied is enervating; it emluacesJg| .. ‘
the body an I makes its tissues flabbyfltA/|
which, together with heavy covering, inflflfl
terferes with the circulation and prevents fl
the body from throwing off impurities. ■
One should have the air temperate and 1
the room so ventilated as to dispense with 1
any but light covering. ;
“It Is not‘generally known, but to sleep |
on the back makes one very liable to take |
cold, which is easily understood, as tho
chest and throat are exposed, and I have
found the majority of persons with weak
lungs and sensitive’throats to be addicted!
to this position in sleeping.”
A newly married young Washington
man, says the Star of that city, took his
wife to church last Sunday. The sermon
was just about well under way when ho
noticed the little woman at his side start. i
Then she turned red, looked around ner- |
vously, and hesitating for half a minute,
rose hurriedly from her seat and left the
church. The young husband, feeling cer
tain that his wife was ill, wanted to fol
low her out, but he is a bashful man, and
the thought of the long center aisle that
he would have to traverse in the face of
the whole congregation kept him rooted to
his eeat. He was pretty glad when the
services were over, however, and he mado
his way almost at a lope for his 1 itCrT*x<n -yak
age. He found his wife cheerfully busying
herself about the kitchen.
“Weren’t you ill?” he inquired, breath
lessly.
“Why, dearie, me, you know I am never
ill,” was her reply.
“Well, why then, did you leave the pcW
so suddenly?”
“I suddenly recollected. Jack, that I for- j
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