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6 Worth Womans While A Domestic Problem Solved. The servant question which is engaging the at tention of the entire country, and which has at last penetrated and permeated the South, is one of deeper significance than appears on the surface. If the good domestic servant is to become as rare an acquisition as present indications would seem to justify, the home life of America is threatened. An example of this was clearly shown in San Fran cisco before the earthquake. There, it was al most impossible to engage a seiwant other than a Celestial, all of whom were exceedingly expensive. The result was that San Francisco was a city al most without homes, as the small “family” hotel had superseded the household arrangement. New York is fast tending in the same direction, and the South must, preforce, follow suit unless condi tions are changed. It has been said that this lack of homes was accountable for many of the social evils which existed in San Francisco, and it is entirely possible that this is, in a great measure, true. At any rate, even the most gregarious man or woman in the world must desire his own “vine and fig tree” at some time, and we believe the normal man or woman does desire a home so ar dently that all will be interested in the recent plan of Mr. Charles R. Lamb, President of the Municipal Art Society of New York. Mr. Lamb states that his plan is merely to found a co-operative kitchen for every city block. This kitchen shall serve meals to families at the regular times, but in so improved a fashion that all the horror of the “sent in” meal is removed and all the comfort of the home-cooked and home-served table is had, but with a minimum of discomfort. It is further claimed that the expense, too, is much less than could be had by individual families serving the same meals at home. The advantage of buying in larger lots, of using less fuel, of re quiring almost no domestic service, are all set forth in this plan, and it would not be a surprise to many if the experiment were made within the near future. The plan would not entail essen tially different management than is now found in ordinary large hotels, save that the profits would be divided equally by the subscribers, should the monthly balances show an excess of the expenses at any time. A Japanese Beauty Recipe. In every normal woman’s heart there lies a de sire to possess physical beauty, and every woman who has it not, be she ever so brilliant mentally, regrets the lack of physical charm. Yet this is an elusive 'gift, after all, and does not consist of mere regularity of feature nor of harmonious col oring, and the requisites of feminine beauty differ in various countries almost as widely as do the types of beauty themselves. For instance, we of America have always considered our women more beautiful than any others on earth, yet recent ut terances of famous foreigners, especially of Orien tals, disagree with this estimate. An instance of this is to be found in the published statements of Mme. Fugi-Ko, the noted Japanese beauty, who re cently arrived in America. Mme. Fugi-Ko may not be considered an authority as to feminine loveli ness, though she is a woman of intelligence and is herself a famous beauty, but her theory of the causes of beauty may well be given careful heed by the women of America. Madame Fugi-Ko con demns corsets and cosmetics and attributes real beauty to much higher and nobler aids. In a re cent interview this fair Oriental expressed the fol lowing sentiments which would do credit to ad vanced philosophy here or elsewhere: “There is no beauty which is not a reflection of nature, or nature itself. Japanese women lead natural lives, they are simple in their tastes, their minds never dwell on anything that is not good and beautiful, and the long centuries back of them The Golden Age for October 11, 1906. have made their lasting impression upon their physical beings. “The women of my country have beautiful bod ies because they have beautiful thoughts. American women must not scoff at that statement, for if they would only believe it they, too, might make future generations of perfectly formed women. “It will not make a woman’s figure beautiful, however, for her to sit down and try to think about beautiful things. It will take longer than a day’s endeavor before the lasting impressions of such beautiful thinking could have a definite ef fect. “What has thought to do with it? Everything. If a woman is continually brooding over unpleasant and ugly thoughts it affects her face first of all. If you will not admit the material subtle effects, as I understand them, that continued ugly thoughts have in bodily expression, perhaps you will admit that a discontented, worrying state of mind affects the digestive organs. Will not this have its effect on the body? That is a gross explanation, if you must have tangible expressions, but it does not bring out the effect of thoughts over body in the full sense I mean it. I believe that beautiful thoughts express themselves materially. “The American woman is always talking about her troubles. If she is in pain she wants every one to know it. The Japanese woman has be hind her centuries of reserve, which have schooled her in the knowledge of the fact that the more you give voice to an ill the more you suffer. “Discontent is the maker of wrinkles, and high living and fast living wears out the body. I mean by fast living just the instinctive nervousness and lack of repose that strikes one the moment the ship sails into New York harbor. “Os course, there are beautiful women in Ameri ca, but they spoil their beauty by trying to accen tuate it. The Japanese woman is content to obey natural laws. The American woman must improve on nature. She wears the abominable corset, and what is the result ? She soon needs it. “The Japanese woman is as firm as a child, her flesh is never flabby, and her body, which is ex quisitely proportioned, needs no artificial braces like the corset. “The conscious pride in every curve with which the American woman walks along the street is a striking contrast to the woman of Japan, whose beautiful figure it is her one aim to veil from the public eye. “Now, please do not think I am criticising Amer ican women,” protested Mme. Fuji-Ko. “They are capable, attractive and well built from the stand ards of modern development. They are merely the expressions of what their dominant thought has made them. You cannot expect them to he artistic when their thoughts are far away from beauty.” The Little Mother’s Hands. The world is so prone to judge from appearances. We so seldom look under the surface of things. We have so little time we form our opinions by what catches our eye and pass judgment on that basis. If we see a man or woman going to church, if we hear prayers uttered in loud tones, if one cries out from the housetops his good deeds we give him all credit and say to ourselves: So-and-So is a good Christian; he sets us an example which it would be well for us to follow.” And we humbly cry “Mea culpa” and resolve to mend our ways. A little story told by Dr. Dawson, a famous London evangelist, rather puts to shame Pharisaic criticisms, and in its beauty and simplicity teaches a lesson which it would be well to take to heart. “In the course of my ministrations,” said the Doctor, “through the slums of London, I came upon a sad case, that of a woman, the mother of five children, the eldest of whom was a girl of nine or ten. “The mother at the time the family first came under my notice was dying of consumption. The father, a hard working man, was barely able to earn sufficient to supply the meagre wants of the family, and they were often in dire straits. “The bulk of the work devolved on the oldest girl, Mary by name. Never have I seen the title of ‘Little Mother’ more appropriately earned. She not only had the invalid to care for, but the young er children as well, and Mary was often a very tired little girl. “Mary’s duties soon were lightened to a certain extent by her mother’s death, but made heavier in another by the added responsibility of the little family. “The burden of the children and the house was very heavy after the mother had gone. While she lived, Mary had always felt there was some one to direct and guide her, but now she was forced to rely upon herself entirely. “Mary’s health, none too strong at any time, soon began to fail under the great responsibility which had fallen on her shoulders. The care of the children, the cooking, the washing and iron ing, the sweeping and bedmaking were too much for the little woman’s strength. Day by day she failed, fewer and fewer became the outings which the lusty baby enjoyed. The little fellow soon be came too heavy for the thin, weak arms of the ‘lit tle mother,’ and it was but seldom that she could muster courage and energy enough to carry him down the steep stairs and out into the unprepos sessing streets, which were his only breathing ground. “The day came when even the slightest exer tion was impossible for poor Mary and she was forced to depend upon the services of kind neigh bors, as poor as she was herself. Mary failed rapidly. She was soon confined to her bed, and then I procured the services of one of my ‘help ers,’ who took up Mary’s work where the ‘little mother,’ in sheer helplessness, had laid it down. “On one of my daily visits, as I stood in the doorway, unannounced, I heard the murmur or childish voices. A little friend of Mary’s was sit ting with her and had been laboriously spelling out some verses of the Bible. ‘ ‘ Oh, Maggie! ’ I heard Mary say, ‘ whatever will I say to Jesus When I meet Him and He asks me why I did not go to church and why I did not pray? You know I was so tired, Maggie, so tired, I just couldn’t.’ “ ‘Never you mind, Mary,’ the other child re plied. ‘When you see Jesus just show Him your hands, Mary, and He will understand.’ ” Mrs. Helen E. Troy of Auburn, N. Y., has mas tered the language of the Onondaga and Mohawk tribes of Indians, a language of more than 20,000 words, and has compiled an Indian dictionary and several other volumes relating to these tribes. A magnificent hospital, to be known as the Mo Min Ling, has just been opened by the Governor of Hong Kong. It was built at the expense of Mme. Wu Ting Fang, wife of the late Chinese min ister to the United States. Miss Elizabeth E. Boit of Wakefield, Mass., who was once a mill girl, started a factory on a small scale, and now employs over 400 men and women, who turn out about 600 dozen pairs of stockings daily. A unique occupation for women is that of street cleaner, yet even this field is being occupied by the fair sex! In Bavaria, there are three female street cleaneis, which fact is worthy of comment even in a country which lays claim to having women brick layers, women rag pickers, wood carriers, etc., etc. Aet street cleaning does seem just a step beyond a woman’s realm I