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WOMAN’S
WORLD.
.pi ; ,, question of getting into society in
v, IV Vork is one that ts often discussed.
1S presented in an interesting way in
tlu . gun of that city. "The Innocent,"
£ .v- the Sun, turned her attetukm
1., -.x-ietv. and her eyes were wandering
,lown a list of names with the interest
thl( strangers so often show in the ac
>t,nls they read of the great doings of
som ,. New Yorkers. Her expression be
traycd familiarity with them although it
n.i.a only the names and not their owners
that she knew. After a moment she
pau-ed. “But these people,” she said,
mentioning a name, “I see they were at
the Joneses' dinner. How in the world
did they get In?” She paused for an an
j.,r and the Man-of-the-World felt that
he had to say something.
Hotv did they get in?” he repeated aft
er her. “How does anybody get in?”
That is what I do not know,” she an
swered.
"H it you understand what I mean?
When a person has a great deal of money
and omes of an old family or brings le -
ter- of introduction from other cities it Is
easy enough to see that? he should be in
vjted all about and be among the most
conspicuous people in society. But these
people are perfectly ordinary. I saw her
once at the theater and she was not even
beautiful. I know it was she because a
woman sitting behind me said that it was.
and called her by her first name. She
said, too, that it was astonishing how that
woman was getting on in New York. She
is probably attractive and bright in some
~e. and doubtless contrived to make
herself entertaining. So long as she does
that people will be glad to enjoy her so
ciety"
"What an awful lot of struggling and
pushing and wire puiling it must take.”
persisted the Innocent,, “for a woman like
that to come here a stranger and manage
to make herself popular in such a set. I
don't believe it is worth the while even if
it is nice to be around all the time with
just the people that are in the public eye
and are always talked about and written
about and seem at the top of everything.
With all its struggling there must be some
compensation for it after while.”
The Man-of-the-World turned and look
ed seriously at the Innocent. He seemed
on the point of taking an important step.
She was still absorbed in reading the list
of names. Twice he started to speak and
restrained himself, but at the third time
his voice was solemn. “Do you feel like
hearing a lecture?” he asked.
"A lecture on just the subject which we
were talking about? Yes,” putting the
paper down, “it it is interesting.”
"It is not for me to say whether or not
it is interesting.” he told tier. “You must
decide that. But I know enough about
your information on certain subjects to
realize that it is bound to be instructive
to you, so I think I will begin now with
out passing on the subject of its interest.
1 gave it once several years ago to a wo
man who sent to ask me some questions
about an article she had just written.
New York society was the subject her pa
per dealt with, and she ought to have
known better than to write what she did.
It was filled with the customary accounts
of the heart-burnings and bitterness ex
perienced by persons struggling, to get
into the particular set on which they had
er: their hearts. It dwelt on the amount
of money demanded, on the length and au
thenticity of the pedigree, one had to
possess and on the tremendous artificial
ity, demoralization and heart lesaness of the
lif- that women in society, or those strug
c ing to get into what they considered so
rictx are compelled to lead. She read me
the article and asked me what I thought
of it I was the authority she had select
ed. because a long experience had made
me familiar with what New York society
b made up of. I had seen it grow from
a -mall body, in which every member
knew the other and took his pleasures
simply and modestly, up to the great, lux
urious, wealthy, elaborate body that it is
to-day. After she had read her article
In me I could feel the expression in my
idee showed that I disagreed with it.
"Asa specialist I suppose?” asked the
Innocent with a touch of sarcasm in her
voice. ¥
"Exactly,” went on the Man-of-the
''orl.l, "as a specialist brought in to give
me advice on a subject I was supposed to
know fully-. I told her that society above
all things wanted to be pleased. It can
be best amused by something quite unlike
"hat it has known before. For that rea
f° n it is always satisfied to take up any
body who can supply this hash of novelty
and amusement. Constant succession of
dances and dinners, of luncheons and aft
ernoon teas throw the same people to
gether so frequently that they are likely
to become familiar with one another's
finalities. They become an old story to
one another after they have been acquain
ted for several years. A great many of
I ■' m have been friends from childhood.
A woman who is attractive, bright or
’ "tiful is a very welcome change to the
cu-inmary number of faces they are cer
tain to meet at all times. The women are
lik.’v to greet her with as much enthusi
a-m as the men. She will he welcome as
f entertains them. There is no trace of
l!! ' pushing, struggling and p otting com
monly supposed to be the most important
L B ' ,or in the game of getting into society.
1,1 ■ introduced under the proper circum
ftam <*s a man or woman who can afford
I- 1 ' Pleasure society is seeking is going to
ae lopular.
it may be that a mon or n wo
rn .u has wealth to entertain with
n 'ary that is interesting because it is
f” "usual, but a pretty woman who can
‘ "nuslng has just as good a chance of
p ij'b accepted as a man with millions.
II a short time ago- a woman told me
F '"ought it was outrageous that acer-
! a "' singer with a very shady reputation
been asked to a most exclusive prl
bouse. ‘How could she do it?' she
*'* 1 a iid Mrs. X. who pretend* to be so
funicular., The woman she had there is
ii" l nous from one end of Europe to the
r| ' r and she must know it.’ Of course,
" • knew it, but it amused her fancy to
invite nils woman to her house, and it
invised her guests to come there and meet
r It made no difference to them that
in i r own life she had been very much
- 1 I'd ahout under circumstances that
m-'-l- her seem more than the mere victim
, gossip of her profession. I told
'"At only a few months before a guest
‘‘ ' ls house had been a woman who made
ic "tense to decency. Bhe was entertain
' 1 'here tinder very formal circumstances,
“'"I i do not believe that she ever In her
before sat down to a table with per
"f such a high standard of mora's
'' 1 'nduct, but they- were all very much
ni c . ,1 by her, and It did not occur to one
' "• women there to leave the house on
" "it of her presence."
1 " she was there as a professional,"
•ed the Innocent.
U i “* l ’" reeumed the Man of the
" ' "she waa asked there merely on
■in of her own personal qualities. I
dwaya observed that the people of
tl likely to be taken up by aoelet y
' '""ally those whose records in pri
me j .•commend them least to this
distinction. But so long ss their
’ 'ldles are interesting and (hey help
it, " y l, ‘* ordinary course of affairs
at* welcomed, doclety will bu ex
acting only in one particular. If it take*
up a person, be it man or woman be
cause it wants to be entertained, the thing
must be done in the best fashion. Any
disappoiniment in the person will result
n humiliating rejection. If the woman
or f’ rett Y when men think she
and if the man is not willing to speri
hiai millions in a way to attract friends,
noth of them are. certain to fall out of
Si ? ht after they have once bad a trial.
1 saw this attitude toward new comers
tfidT 8 ?* ver V interestingly at a dinner to
alch I went about three* years ago. A
m . an °f great wealth and good family mov
ed to New York from a neighboring state,
te was known by name to nearly all the
persons with whom he desired to tysso
ciate, but they had no personal acquaint
ance with him. It was necessary for him
to be launched here under the proper aus
pices. A friend of his, influential in so
•t.elsi vo ' u nteered to do this, and invited
the desired guest to a dinner given by this
man at his beautiful new house. I never
saw a more brilliant party gathered about
a dinner table than tile eighteen there,
..verything looked promising for a tri
umphal entry into just the social set this
man wanted to move in. The oysters
were warm, the soup came up cold, so was
the fish and the champagne was tepid.
It was plain that some crisis must have
happened in the kitchen. The dinner was
bad beyond description. The guests look
ed at one another significantly and said
nothing. They left as soon as possible af
ter the dinner. The evening had been an
indescribable fiasco. It was afterward
learned that the French cook had gotten
drunk; that the dishes served upstairs
were brought up as it were over his body,
for some of the servants held him down
while others brought up the meal. But
that made no difference; the millionaire
had lost his chance and shown his unfit
ness to entertain a collection of New
Aorks most distinguished people, and the
explanation of an intemperate cook could
not atone for that failure. He was never
admitted, although his birth and millions
entitled him to a place in Society. But
he did not succeed in amusing it or en
tertaining it as he should have. That Is the
one thing which society would not forgive,
and its indulgence and favor toward the
people who do entertain it are proportion
ately great.”
It is hard to define precisely what comes
under the designation of "false shame.”
A proper regard for appearance, says the
New York Tribune, is not only necessary
for our social status, but also for our self
respect. A man or Korean who loses the
reticence that makes him or her conceal
family afTairs from the world forfeits at
the same time a certain portion of dignity
which belongs naturally to civilization and
refinement of character. While, on the
other hand, the instinct of concealment
which causes us to be ashamed of our
condition or the class to which we belong,
and to place ourselves in a state of sub
servience to the opinions of those who
are better placed socially, is a sentiment
which we feel to lie unworthy of us, even
while we acknowledge to ourselves its ex
istence.
Young people are especially afflicted with
false shame; they are naturally mistrust
ful oi themselves and of their surround
ings, especially if their circumstances em
phasize a contrast to those of their asso
ciates. They dread having the latter no
tice or become aware of their supposed
inferiority. That such a feeling is un
worthy goes without saying; that it is nat
ural. however, cannot be denied. The
millionaire who had the second rate por
traits that some artist had painted of his
plebian father and mother dressed up by
a first class portrait painter in the most
fashionable costume of their day (even
having the dear old mother’s hair dressed
ala mode), really showed perhaps the
right spirit. He certainly was not asham
ed of them individually, although he tried
to improve their surroundings.
From time immemorial women have been
told—by women as well as men, thougti
naturally more often by the latter—that
worry digs wrinkles in their faces and
sprinkles gray among their tresses. These
warnings do little good. The fair crea
tures go on worrying and will probably
continue to do so until the millennium
comes. The Detroit Free Press asks why
this is so, and then proceeds to answer Its
own question in this way. The question
of worry with women seems to be simply
this; Women are so hedged about by the
littlenesses of their protected lives—for
It is the protected woman who does the
most worrying—that it is hard to see be
yond and above sometimes, and matters
in this way get wholly out of focus. If
women had the capacity with men of get
ting up ajid doing battle with things wor
ry would slip off their shoulders as easily
as from off those of the average mascu
line. Man doesn’t worry about debt, be
cause he feels that he has it within him
(since money making is his business) to
make sufficient money to pay his debts—
some time. Women look at it more prac
tically and consider the now.
Man doesn’t generally worry about his
health, because he really has not the time.
Let him become ill, though, and have to
stop his work, and how is it with him?
Man doesn't worry about the future—he
is so madly interested in the present; nor
obout his clothes, for the tailor stands
between him and that; nor about home
matters—they, from bis point of view, are
too trival—until, he comes home to a bad
ly cooked dinner, and then in his broad
outlook there is no excuse for this state of
things, for in business circles if an em
ployer does not do his work properly his
employer gets someone who can, a meth
od that will ypt come to be a powerful
lever in the leveling of woman's worries.
"Never had a case like it before "
laughed one of Detroit's lawyers, who is
in the prime of life and enjoys a valuable
practice. “Don't suppose I'll ever have
another one. It bothered me more than
1 can tell, too.
“1 knew them both well, for she and I
grew up together, and I liked him. She
came tome one day with a request that I
get her a divorce. I was never so shocked
or surprised, but she was insistent. I told
her how absolutely free he Was from bad
habits, how his life one day was like that
of another, and that there was not a more
exemplary husband In the city of Detroit.
He was a man to be proud of and to
ding to.
"But I was only going over the very
grounds of her complaint. He made life
dead level, a dreary monotony for her. Ir.
her girlhood she had been full of life and
vivacity. Her whole family had been fond
of amusements and at home there was a
continual round of merriment. Now there
was a dull, unchanging routine and she
was determined to ecsape it. I asked a
day or two to prepare her case, and then
hunted up her husband.
"After a long talk I Induced him to take
my advice. He did not drink a drop, but
he was worked up sufficiently to make an
excellent actor. At la. rq. his wife, pale
and wondering, let him in while he was
yelling for her to throw him a latch key.
He was a wreck. His hat was crushed
down to his ears, his necktie hung to the
rear cellar button, his eyes blazed and his
tongue was thick. He had heard of the
divorce proceedings. Her love must have
gone back to one of her old flames. 'He’s
doomed.' roared the unusually gentle hus
band as he flourished an empty revolver.
'Life is nothing to me without your love;
I'll finish him? Who is he? Where ls he?
Don't try to* keep me from him.’ as she
clur.g about his heck ami looked anew
joy. I* It that ap-heailed Jones out In
California, or that poor little Brown who
has gone to Colored©?'
“By 6 he was listening to reason. When
| went to the office at V she was there and
ordered me to drop that foolish proceeding.
Bhe had Ihe beet husband on earth."
Tlwt marriage license Clerk In the large
cities occasionally bears of romances In
real lif* that appear stranger than thoae
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24, 189a
narrated in the pages of fiction. In St.
Louis the other day a man apparently
about 40 years old. accompanied by a wo
man three or four years his junior, walked
in to the marriage license office. It was
hard to tell which appeared the happier.
The man eagerly asked the marriage li
cense clerk if he had found the right office
In which to secure a marriage license.
Then he gave his name as Louis Schwen
geler of Granite City, 111. AYhen the clerk
turned to the woman for her name she
shook her head and the man spoke for her.
He said that she could not speak English,
but that her name was Franclka Oberfoell
of Baden, Germany.
Then the man told his story. He in the
simplest way possible acknowledged that
he had been looking forward to this event
for seventeen years. The lime had not
been idly spent, and the hope that some
day he would be joined to the sweetheart
in the fatherland had kept his spirits up.
He had left Baden when he was 22 years
old and had eorae to this country to find
his fortune. It was a long time coming.
He was bnoyed up by the knowledge that
he had a well-wisher In the old country,
and did not falter. Success and the frui
tion of hie hopes did not come until about
six months ago. At that time his savings
had amounted to enough to send his
sweetheart money sufficient for a ward
robe and passage across the ocean. Then
letters came and the date of her arrival
was fixed at yesterday morning. He came
over to Union station from Granite City
and waited patiently for the train to ar
rive. Sure enough, his hopes were not
disappointed, end, despite the lapse of al
most a score of years, he readily recogniz
ed her In the crowd.
Of course it was a joyful meeting, and
after the lirst salutations were over they
went to the court house and secured the
license. From there they hastened to
Justice Robert Walker’s office, where they
were married. Then they went across the
river to Granite City to the little cottage
which he had fitted up for her. It is
close to the plant of the Niedritighaus Iron
Works, where he is employed.
“It will only be necessary for you to drop
about half a traspoonfulof the mixture in
to his cup of coffee each morning," the
circular said, "and the taste for tobacco
will gradually depart from him. He may
.not cease the use of tobacco immediately,
but within a week he wlil begin to abhor
tobacco if the mixture is given lo him
faithfully every morning."
And so the young wife sent her little $?
on and got a flagon of the tobacco cure,
says the Bangor Commercial.
"Pretty bum coffee this morning," he
remarked dryly the first time she dropped
the half-teaspconful of the mixture into
Ihe cup.
"It s the same as we've been using right
along." she replied, craftily.
Now, lo and behold! he was a pretty
smooth proposition himself, and he had.
unbeknownst to her, seen the package
holding the flagon of agin tobacco mix
ture when it was delivered.
So after dinner that ev.ening he pro
duced a large bulky package of fine-out
tobacco from his pocket and took there
from a plenteous chew of tobacco. It was
the first chew- he had ever taken in her
presence, and she marvelled greatly there
at, but she determined to persist with the
“treatment."
"Dead rank chicory again this morning,
isn't it?" he inquired at breakfast the
next morning.
"I'm sure it tastes the same to me." she
replied.
That evening after dinner he produced
a short, black clay pipe and a package of
anew kind of tobacco that was as black
as the ground work of a Jolly Roger.
“Thought I’d bring this old dudeen up
from the office,” he exp’ained cheerfully.
"It’s as sweet as a nut.”
Whereupon he filled the house with the
aroma of punk that was strong enough to
break rock.
“This grocery person who gets all of
my wages is certainly doing us on the
coffee game,” he remarked when he tast
ed his cup next morning.
“Really," she said, gazing Innocently at
the ten-cent bunch of asiers in the middle
of the table, "I can t detect any differ
ence.”
"And yet there are low foreheads who
don't believe that all women are actiesses,”
said he to himself on the way to his of
fice that morning.
That evening he brought home a box of
auction stogies, and after he had smoked
one of them after dinner all of the people
In the neighboring flats stuffed cotton in
the hall door keyholes and closed the hall
transoms.
“I must persist, though,” thought his
baffled little wife, gloomily.
“Coffee tastes like slewed gunnysack
again this morning.” he remarked at the
next breakfast. She felt a hit sorry f,.r
him, but she was determined to use up
that flagon of “agin-tobacco” if she had
to chloroform him and pour It down his
throat. *
That evening, however, her resolution
deserted her. After dinner, for the first
time to her knowledge, he pulled out a
package of cigarettes, lit one and began to
smoke it. •'.*,
went * upstairs, poured out the re
maining portion of her $2 worth of agin
tobacco and carefully hid the bottle.
“Coffee’s all right this morning,” said
he at breakfast the next day.
“Yes?” she inquired. absent^.
When he had finished his dinner that
evening he lighted one of his usual bran 1
of good cigars.
“Men are mysterious to me,” she
thought, regarding him out of the tail of
her eye.
"Women only think they're foxy," he
thought, blowing smoke rings Into the
Swiss curtains.
"I think it is the greatest’ pity," re
marked a sensible young woman recently,
to,the Ne(V York Tribune reporter, "ihat
girls and men cannot be good friends and
comrades without the meddlesome world
assuming that either on one side or the
other there must necessarily be a feeling
of sentiment. If a man and a girl are
seen together more than twice all of the
Grundys say immediately, 'So and So is
desperately in love with Mary Jones,’ or
'Mary Jones is erazy about So and So!'
It goes without saying that no sensitive
person cares for such Imputations, and
the consequence is that many a pleasant
incipient friendship is destroyed by simi
lar remarks.
"For instance, not long ago I was intro
duced to a man at a dinner whom 1 found
very agreeable. Our tastes appeared to
bo similar, and we got on capitally. He
asked permission to call, and not long
afterwards Joined me in the street, and
we went together for a walk. I liked him
very much; we seemed mutually congenial,
and I congratulated myself upon having
secured anew and desirable friend, when
suddenly there fell upon me, metaphorical
ly speaking, a posse of gossips. 'I hear
Jack 8. i.s perfectly devoted to you,’ say*
one. 'What a sly flirt you are, Mary.’ says
another. ‘The way you are encouraging
that poor fellow is simply dreadful.’
“Of course, these absurd rumors soon
reached the ears of Mr. S., and doubtless
he thought I was responsible for them,
for he never again came near me, a polite
bqt|v at a distance being the only further
recognition on his part. In case he did
hear of such absurd interpretation of a
little friendly attention, what a fool he
must have thought me, and how very un
pleasant it Is for me to suffer under such
imputation*, and yet It is a esse where
an explanation would be Impossible, (hu
acquaintanceship being too slight to war
rant It. No wonder that sometimes one
prays to be delivered from admiring, well
meaning friends.”
This happened to ihe wife of a well
known merchant who la rather conspicu
ous for his devotion to the church, ills
spouse, dressing one Sunday morning, got
into a waist Ihat mote than put Joseph's
coat in the shade. Mm waa conscious of
the color scheme, but decided to aak her
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husband sand her father's opinions before
wearing the garment to church. They
agreed, poor men, that tfhe was delight
fully dressed and that the waist could
hardily be improved upon.
So they worn co church, the wife with
secret misgivings, which, as the case
turned out, werf* well enough founded, for
they were no sooner seated in Grace Epis
copal Church, (hail the Rev. Dr. Worth
ington K ive out the text. "We will read,”
the reverend rector said, "from the Roepel
oj: St. Matthew, the sixteenth chapter and
eighth verse. ‘To what punwee is this
waste?’ "
The good woman collapsed in her pew
and never raised her head during the re
maining portion of the service.
The curtain had Just gone down, says the
Philadelphia Times.
"Those people in front of us must he
married,” said the young woman to the
chaperone. “She dor s not talk to him. but
just sits and looks over the house, and on
ly speaks once in a great while.”
"Quite different from the pair back of
us,” said the chaperone. "That woman
has discussed the play, the cast and the
gowns over and before the footlights.
She has touched up literature, music and
art. She has discussed golf. She has
pointed out persons in Ihe audience and
bored the man by trying to direct his at
tention to the right person, and if she
thinks she is entertaining him she is mis
raken. No doubt he likes her and would
be delighted lo enjoy the music and be
content with merely her presence, but, like
most foolish girls, she longs for a reputa
tion for being entertaining.
"She is floundering terribly now, and Ls
reduced to a joke on the programme. If
she only realized it, the poor man ls tired
out, and she insists on draining to the
dregs what little vitality his day’s work
has left him. Any one with half an eye
ought to see it. I noticed when I turned
to thank him for calling the water boy
for me that his eyes were drooped with
the heaviness that is the result of ‘brain
fag.' as they say in England.
“Doubtless she breakfasted at'half post
9 and perhaps took a nap before dinner,
and she cannot understand what it is to
want perfect quiet and rest. Bhe want*
an endless round of gayety until it is time
for him to go to work again.
“Only a business woman has enough
sense of Justice and proportion to) under
stand these things. I heard a very busy
woman say the other day that for the first
time she could understand what had puz
zled her before she went out Into the
world, and that is why very noted and
brilliant men marry women who are noth
ing more than mechanical dolls. One can
forget to wind them, and they never re
member more than to be pretty, wlneome
and restful to the eye.
“A clever woman who would expect a
man to entertain her would be very try
ing after a rushing day at the office."
"Weil. I think that often a girl feels that
entertaining is a etern duty, and no mat
ter how tired ahe is herself, she talks.”
said the young woman.
"A sensitive woman knows when to keep
still,” said the chaperone.
“I don’t see how you make the ends of
your theory meet," said the young wo
man, with more subtlety than U popularly
supposed to belong to youth. "Now this
young woman back of us could not be
called clever, yet she Is tiring her man
fearfully, according to your observation."
"Any theory can be stupidly applied."
said the chaperone with dignity. "And the
curtain has gone up. my dear."
“I see Tommy Tuftbunler Is dead.” re
marked a family and club man who, while
eating his breakfast, waa reading the
morning paper In coin forte tee , fashion,
says the New York Tribune.
"Not really!” exclaimed Mr#. Tiptop, ble
fashionable but kindly heaned helpmate.
”1 rememrber now, I have not seer Mfn
for some tlmr. Mu. u a useful Mills nan.
too; always ready to fIU up a place at
dinner taWe at the last minute, or
dance with a woman of our set who was
left out at a ball. At house parties, too,
he was always so valuable in getting up
theatricals or in taking a hand at whist,
or in playing for the dancers—really, he
was_ quite inestimable in his way."
"Yes, poor Tommy w f a always ready to
pick up the crumbs that fell' from the
smart women s tables," laughed her hip
hand somewhat unfeelingly. How Sol
ly would hold together without such con
venient stopgaps I do not see. By the way,
who were his people?"
Had he a father or hail he a mother.
Or had hi' a sister or had he a brother.
"Who do you sup; >oeo there will lie to
mourn the poor little chap or attend hts
funeral?"
"I shall go for one.” declared his better
half, struck with sudden pity for the real
loneliness of the poor little life, with Its
small ambitions and futile strivings. "I
made use of him many a time, anil 1 will
give him that little satisfaction at the end;
that is, 1 am sure it would be a source of
gratification If he knew about it."
"Not a soul here that I know." solilo
quized Mrs. Tiptop the next day as, clad
in conventional black anil prayer liook In
hand, she walked Into tile church and
took her seat In one of ihe center pews
"And what a handful of people! l dure sly
Tommy knew personally all of the I’. ur
Hundred, and yet 1 am the only one who
has remembered him enough io attend Ills
funeral. 1 suppose those queer looking
IS'Ople are his relatives. No wonder he
never spoke of them. lam sure they are
very good nmured to come, for he n ve'
cultivated them when he was alive I w su
they wouldn t keep that front door open
much longer; it's enough to give one pneu
monia.”
A little commotion—the organ stepped
playing, and, lining the Maced ulilke
with sonorous accents came the voice if
the priest as In his white robes of office
he prei-eiied the solemn black coffin ioi
taining the mortal remains of Tommy
Tufthunter.
" 'I am the Resurrection and the Life,’ ”
recited the clergyman as the handful of
people rose to their feet, and Mrs. Tip
top went on with her soliloquy.
w dreadfully (>oor Tommy would
have frit to be the host, as It were, of
such a shabby lot of people. On the
whoe I am rather glad ihai his fine friends
stayed away. Becky Sharp and her lot
would have said no end of nasty things
about It; as for me It Is different. I’oor
Tommy, if he knows, fee.'s, 1 am sure that
he can trust me. and he Is glad that I
came."
The Sweetness of Forgiving.—
And if the husband or the wife
In home's strong light discovers
Such slight defaults as failed to meet
The Winded eyes of lovers.
Why need we care lo ask? Who dreams
Without tliclr thorns of roses?
Or wonder that the truest steel
The readiest spark discloses?
For still In mutual sufferance lies
The secret of true living;
Love scarce is love (hat never knows
The sweetness of forgiving.
—Whittier.
"No wonder that Stella M. Is beautiful
and dainly and aristocratic looking to her
linger tips!" exclaimed one of her Inti
mates ruiher enviously, to the New York
Tribune. "1 was reading the other day
about the elaborate care the Roman wo
men bestowed upon their persons, and It
reminded me of Stella. Not that she fusses
about herself; she does not prink, as we
call it, half so much as I, who have to do
everything myself. It is her money that
docs It.
Take, for instance, her hair. Every one
says how lovely it is. of course, It Is nice
hair, to begin with. It is soft, Inclined
to be wavy if helped a little, and of a
pretty, bright brown, but any number of
us have as good hair. The superiority of
hers lies in the beautiful care that Is be
stowed upon it. Once a week a specialist
cames to 'make it beautiful.’ All Stella
has to do is to take a hook and read while
he works at it. Ho washes It, puts some
mysterious something into the water that
enhances its brilliancy without changing
Its color, perfumes It with ever so slight
an odor of violets and makes It naturally
curly by some process of his own. Then
he dresses It in the most becoming man
ner, which her maid has leurned to do us
well as the hair specialist.
"For this she pays $lO a week, but the
consequence Is that her hair Is always
exquisitely neat and at the same time per
fectly natural looking, this, of course, be
ing the highest art. In the mean time
she sits there, as I say, and cultivates her
mind by reading. No wonder that she
looks so sweet, and unconscious, when she
knows that everything is In beautiful or
der. and most becoming.
“With her complexion It Is the name
thing A woman skin specialist takes
care of her face, neck and arms. I won
der how long she would keep that rose
leaf bloom of hers If it were not brought
to the surface by skilful manipulations
and the stimulating essence which is a se
cret for which Mme, X. gets a fabulous
price. Her hands nnd her feet are also
especially attended to, her figure Is helped
by the most perfectly made corsets that
can be Invented, and, to cap the climax,
she Is gowned by the la st'sartorial artists
In the world. Small wonder that the
world calls her lovely! Of course. If she
were not good looking to begin with all
this care could not make her beautiful,
but It eertalnjy enhances her natural ad
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Mr. P. Lee Phillips, a scion of one of
the oldest and most aristocratic families
of Washington. D. C.. says the New York
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It seems there are some women nurses
on the American hospital ship Maine,
whleh Is bound for the Transvaal. Th 1
Tsondon correspondent of the New York
Mail and Express accompanied them on a
visit to Queen Victoria. She says:
The little ,>arly started from Paddington
Station by the 1 :t>s train. The doctors—
Surgeon Major Cabell, 11. 8. A.; Dr. Hol
man. Dr. Weber of Philadelphia, I>r.
Hastings and Dr. Dodge—wore the usual
tali hats and frock coats of ordinary Eng
lish ceremony, while the nurses—ML* Me-
Vean. Miss Macpherson, Miss Ludeklns
nnd Miss Manly—all worse their whl e
uniform with neatly filling box-pleated
bodices, stiff white collars and cuffs, white
gloves and gray felt hat*. With Ihls they
wore huge cloaks of army blue serge, with
capes anil little brass buttons. Miss Hlb
lard. who Is the head nurse, was dressed
most charmingly In a white serge gown
having a short coat, with trimmings of
gold braid, opening In front io show a
white satin waistcoat. She, ilkr iwo or
three of the other nurse*, wore the Cu
ban war medal, as well a* the badge of
the American hospital ship, while on
their left arms was to be seen the red
crous of Geneva.
The little party of eleven, Including
Mi's. Hopkins and myself, embarked on
the (rain, and arrived at Windsor at
about 1:36, where we found royal carriages
waiting for us at the station, the servants
In long drab coats with the crown on
their brass buttons. The drive to the cas
tle up Ihe steep hill, through the town
that clusters about the gray wall*, is a
very short one, and wu passed through
saluting sentries lo what Is called the
equerries' entrance of the castle, a low
arched doorway just opposite the royal en
trance. litre we were met by the master
of the household, Col. Lord Edward Pi 1-
ham-Cilnton. K. C. 8.. uncle of the Duke
of Newcastle, and the groom-ln-waitlng.
Hon. Alexander Grantham Yorke, brother
of the Bari Hardwlcke.
It was odd to see Just the slightest symp
tom of perturbation In Lord Edwarl'g
face when he found that through s me
mistake there were two more people In
the party than he had counted upon. He
feared that the two extra places ne ei
sary at the luncheon table woud uncom
fortably crowd the party, and his charm
ingly expressed and courteous r.-grei at
what seemed to him to be an Insur
mountable difficulty, occasioned a m ill
amount of embarrassment among our
party. Nothing, however, rood have ex
ceeded the charm and delightful hospital
ity of Igtrd Edward's manner as he re
ceived each oqe of us, welcoming us to
"Windsor, and taking Ihe greitest ptlna to
let us know that we were one and all hon
ored guests. Then he led the way, with
Mrs. Hopkins and Miss Hibbard, through
stone corridors with groined cel Ings,
framed In with long glass cases extending
front floor to roof, filled with trophies of
a thousand British victories, as wel as
gifts from Her Majesty’s lieges In every
quarter of the globe.
'■'Seems to me II is about time, they had
something different to represent time,”
said the oculist, to the New York Times.
“Now why don't they have kt place of the
old skeleton hour glass and cythe a figure
holding out a pair of spectacles and a wo
man with an expression of anguish upon
her face pushing them away? Women, as
a rule, have such a horror of glasses, and
yet they are so careless about their eyes
that they have to put them on much
sooner than they need. For Instance, Just
now my busine.-a is dull. Women are too
busy to have their eyes doctored, but after
Christmas I shall have a harvest. I know
It by years of experience. Fine fancy
work for Christmas presents will have
worked the mischief. You sympathize with
people who are obliged to misuse their
eyes to support themselves, but when they j
use them up over unnecessary needlework
It Is another thing. If the oculists and
opticians ever need to work up their bus
iness all they will have to do will be to
open up a fancy work competition and
offer prizes for different kinds of fancy
work, and by the time the affair is closed
they will have paid expenses and reaped a
big harvest.”
"Dear me." said the woman at the the
ater the other night, as *he studied her
programme. "If I was n first-class actress
I should Just hate lo have them say that
Smith A Cos. oc—A B. C. Brown made my
gowns. I should be afraid that people
would think I got 'em cheap for using
the name. 1 never did think much of one
of those shops anyway They needn't say
the gowns came from there. They look It.'
Going up to Cans I street In an Esplanade
car just before theater time the oth*.
evening, says the Times-Democrat of New
Orleans, a couple entered and seated them
selves opposite Eve. so that she could not
help hearing a part of their conversation.
The woman was drawing on anew pair of
No. f. gloves over a No. 7 hand, and the
performance ev.ilently Irritated her lord.
He glanced about Ihe car ut the other
women who were en tenure, and remarked
lo his wife: "Why don't you finish dresa
ihg at home? I’d as soon see a woman
putting on her stockings In a street car at
her gloves!"
"Most men wou and," the woman'murmur
ed demurely. And the aliashml husband
said never a word more.
"Yon ean never make me believe that
animals have not a large share of intelli
gence," says a woman who Is fond of
them, to the New York Times. “I have a
very lazy little fox ierrler which I have
photographed several times, and he seems
to know what 1 am doing, and enjoys It
thoroughly. He will sit up for any length
of time and harly wink, he is so pleased.
Ordinarily he ilocs not care to come when
he Is called, but let me call him
from the top of the house and tell him
lo come and hnvo his picture taken, and
he bound up dhi ill aa fast as Ids
>■ 1 ''ll'' Cun an.l t.ik< am |wltion
I put him in.
"Then 1 have a cat which Is very fond
of being petted. My sister will talk
to him hy ihe hour and call him 'Pretty
cal, beau-tl-ful animal,’ mid he purrs, look*
ns happy and pleased as possible, and evl
ilently cares more for her than for any one
else in ilic family. But the other night
lie was cross fur some reason or other,
and he did not want to lie pelted. Noth
ing sultcil him Bui my sister called him,
as usually. ’Ootn-m-e here, pret-ly fel
low.' Ho did go to her, but only to lift
one of his front pawt and give her a hate
ful little slap and then walk off. It was
absolutely human, and I never realized
lie fore why sonic women are called cat
tish.
"There Is our horse, too. Hr lz a high
spirited animal, and we feel that It is as
much as one's life is worth to touch him
with the whip. He Is a splendid horse,
but he. does not nisM the whip, and ha
will not have it. But the other day, when
he was standing at the door little Dick
got out and In some way climbed up Into
the carriage, and when wo looked out ha
was standing up with the whip In both
hands and laying It over the horse’s back.
Even a little boy has good deal of
Strength in his small hands, and every
blow of the whip must have hurt, phut
ihe horse did not move, if he had. tSlck
would have been thrown out and killed.
Animals reason, and they have better
qualities as foundation' for their reason
ing than a good many human beings.
I have been n-kisl, says a writer In the
Philadelphia Times, several questions In
I elation to the celebration of a silver wed
ding and am glad of the orasdon to ghe
you ihe lait hints in this matter. The mo<t
general celebration Is an aitcrr.iMp recep
ilon, which may or may not he followed
by a dinner party. Sometimes the celebra
tion logins with i dinner party m aon
slsts only of that. The number of gitfsrt,
Is a matter of choice.
Invitations to any of these gatherings
ought to bo Issued thtee weeks ahead, on
cards printed In s'lvir, In the name of hus
band and wife. If for a dinner the Invita
tion should say so, for a dance the hour
of the celebration should tie stated, and
iho word "dancing" placed, at the left
hand lower corner of the card. Every In
vited guest Is expected to send a gift suit
ed to Ihe occasion, but not necessarily
cosily, whether the Invitation Is aceepied
or not. The gifts and iards of donors arc
usually exhibited during the celebrathu'
and is the means ottenilrnes of leading
one Into extravagance. We are such slaves
to appearances.
Husband and wife receive together at
both dance and Invitation. When It Impos
sible to have the attendance of best 1 man ’
and bridesmaids of the marriage cere
mony ibote Is added lustre given to the oc
casion. They assist In receiving. At a din
ner parly on such an occasion the host
takes his wife Into dinner and places her
at his right hand, im he did at the wed
ding breakfast twenty-five years before.
They usually piecede the gucß:. The tab e
decorations shou.d be white and silver,
and wlicn the ho-litss can afford it a while
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