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the sunny south.
Well, later will su i t me eTen bett th
"ow I have just begun a visiting , OU r that
will last until summer has passed. Meantime
my home is within sixty miles of this city’
and it can become yours at any moment that
you choose to make it so. *»
Linda thanked her warmly and pretty soon
Mrs. Rushton rose to go. J
This little interview, that gave a glimpse
of human interest and sympathy, was a source
of consolation to the isolated girl True
she recognized that it was a secondary and
rather remote claim—for her father’s sake—
but it seemed a trifle better than no anchor at
all. While she had little expectation ,ha!
Mrs. Rushton’s generous offer was anything
more than the promptings of kindly im
pulses, that would soon be forgotten, it served
as an agreeable topic for thought in her leis
ure moments.
But, her leisure moments were not very
numerous. Each hour was filled with an ap
pointed task, the cheerful performance of
which was rewarded at the end of the month
by a continuation of contract only. No
word of well earned commendation, no in
crease of the pittance, dignified by the term,
salary, was the result of labor so conscien
tiously performed. No Roman matron ever
enjoyed cruelty and power with a greater
zest than did Mrs. Landauer. With high
art she covered a mean inward nature with
an outward array of Christian character,
whose glittering husk of generous attributes
shone most conspicuously in the large
amounts that she gave to benevolent purposes
in full view of the public’s eye.
What she could save from Linda Heath’s
rightful dues would help to swell these loud
speaking amounts. They represented her re
ligion, to the world, at least, and the verdict
as to whether or not she was consistent can
be safely rendered when the drop curtain
shall fall upon the events narrated in these
pages.
TO BE CONTINUED.
13
Free Cure For Men.
A MICHIGAN MAN OFFERS TO SEND HIS
DISCOVERY FREE.
He Claims to be a Benefactor to Weakened
Mankind.
A citizen of Kalamazoo, Mich., believes
he has problem as to JL’hether life
particular
case, tlTere is no doubt but what he is glad to
be alive, and the secret of it he agrees to send
UNDER FALSE^COLORS.
Bab Tells How Charming Woman Ill-treats
Her Complexion—The Bride’s Mask and
its Effect on an Unhappy Groom.
Rouging the Ears—Opinion of
an Expert on Paint and
Powder.
A LETTER from town the
other day told of a clubman
whose first assertion of mar
ital rights was to wash his
wife’s face. During his
. courtship he had been con
tinually annoyed by the amount of powder
and rouge that the young lady favored, but
he forgave her the use of it, considered her
innocence, and always determined, if she be
came his wife, to make her understand the
charm of a clean face. Every now and then
fashion writers come out and say that women
in good society do not use powder and rouge.
How is it then that fortunes are made on
these two undesirable articles, and how is it
that thousands upon thousands of boxes of
fine face powder are manufactured every
year? Certainly it is not done that they may
be thrown into the river. I speak of powder
and rouge as objectionable. They are in a
way, but times come when a greasy-looking
face is improved by some fine powder and a
pale skin is made to look healthy, for even
ing wear, by the clever addition of a little
rouge. But both powder and rouge must,
if ever, be used artistically.
The question on the lips of the average girl
in the country, as well as in the city, seems
to be about her complexion and a woman
will make herself look like the mischief and
undergo all sorts of torments for the sake of
improving her skin.
I heard of a bride who was sufficiently
self-possessed to say to the bride-groom of a
few hours : “Well, my dear boy, my com
plexion, which looks so nice, would be
wretched if I did not cover it every night with
mixture that has an egg beaten in it; over
this, to prevent soiling the pillow, and to
keep the air out, I tie a quilted mask, with
openings made for my eyes, nose and mouth,
and I can not think of stopping it now. You
would have to know it a little later on, and
you might just as well get used to it in the
beginning.” She told me this herself, and
added that men were so very ridiculous, fbr
this bridegroom made a great row about this
complexion mask, and preferred to sleep on
free to any man who will take the trouble to
write for it. From his statement, it seems
that for many years he suffered with extreme
nervousness brought on by circumstances that
happened before reaching an age when men
are supposed to know what they are doing
and to measure the consequence thereof.
Like many others, he tried the various rem
edies offered by specialists for the treatment
of weakness peculiar to men and it was this
experience that drove him to a little study
and research for his own benefit. He asserts
that his twenty years’ suffering, both mental
and physical, was turned to unbounded joy in
a single night through a rare combination of
medicines that literally made him young
again. It is the prescription of this discov
ery that his enthusiasm leads him to offer free
to any man, young or old, who feels that his
animation or the fire of ambition has left
him and needs something that will not only
brace him up and enable him to be prepared
for any undertaking which may present itself,
but will restore the parts to their original
size and vigor. There is no question but
what, in his individual case, the results were
just as described and it seems quite probable
that almost any man who believes himself to
be weak, may profit by sending for this free
prescription. Many people wonder how he
can afford to send this prescription free, but
it costs him but little to do so and he feels a
philanthropic interest in giving weak men an
opportunity to cure themselves. A request
to H. C. Olds, Box 1131, Kalamazoo, Mich.,
for his free prescription will be promptly and
privately complied with.
The boy who “stood on the burning deck”
has been outdone by a hen who sat upon her
nest of eggs from whence all but her had
fled. This hen was owned by Mr. J. D. Ken
nedy, of Oak Park, 111. On the 4th of July
last, a fire occurred in a barn adjoining Mr.
Kennedy's hennery, destroying the barn and
nearly burning up the hennery—at least the
roof and one side of it were burned off and
the balance, including the now famous hen,
was covered with wishes, smoke, water and
debris. When these had been removed the
hen was found calmly sitting on her charge
and carefully guarding her post of duty. She
was singed and wet with dirty water, etc.,
but she stood the fiery ordeal with a determi*
nation known only to her sex. This hen
story is * amply vouched for by several who
saw the whole transaction. She is a sala
mander and deserves a medal.
the lounge. Care for the complexion is
really becoming a fad, to which the French
slang “infect” is very apropos. Womankind
walks, eats, bathes, perfumes, powders,
rouges, dresses all with thought of some
special style. This would be all very well if
women would keep quiet about it, but get a
lot of them together and certain as fate they
begin to discuss and spread their knowledge.
Some woman will tell about something
that will brighten the eyes or make them look
larger; another will give a recipe for making
the flesh firm, or announce a system by
which it can be increased or decreased. A
professor, a feminine one, of the art of roug
ing, said that “dark-eyed women should put
a touch of rouge immediately under the
eyes; this will tend to make them look
larger, deepen their color and cause them to
flash. But a dash of rouge does not mean all
that is in the box. Instead, it means a care
ful shading, with a bit of soft linen and the
following exactly the shape of the eye and
the cheek. Women talk about rouging the
ears—that is nonsense. Whenever rouge is
used the lobe of the ear and the tip of the
chin should be touched with it because if you
notice you will see that when women flush
these parts grow a little rosy.” Continuing,
this artist in makeup announced that, for eye
brows a little tincture of cantharides rubbed
on once a week with the tip of the finger, and
then some vaseline applied in the same
way, would increase their growth. She added
that rubbing the eyes tends to destroy their
beauty. Olive oil she counts as a great
assistant in the art of becoming beautiful.
A little is to be rubbed on when the face is
rough. It is used in connection with mas
sage to increase the size of the bust, and it
is also chosen to make the skin of the hands
delicate and white, but then it must be
diluted with rose water. For a fevered breath,
a few drops in a glass of water is used as a
gargle, while if this professor discovers that
her nose is getting a little red she traces it
usually to a determination to make her waist
small, or to wearing tight shoes. Then she
applies camphor to it, loosens her stays and
finds the color reduced after a little while.
No woman who wants to be beautiful
should get up early. She should sleep and
sleep well, Not too much on one side, for
that will cause wrinkles about the eyes, and
make one entire side of the figure less round
than the other. In sleeping the mouth must
be closed, and no matter how soft the cover
lid is, it must never be drawn over the head.
Most important of all to the woman who
wishes to become beautiful is it to eat well.
She must not eat so much, but a great deal
of discrimination must be used about the
food. By the bye, I hate that word “food,”
it always sounds so gross. Game of all
kinds, salads, fruit, cutlets, roasts, eggs, are
all good for a woman’s beauty, and as it
deserves, everything fried and everything
greasy must be treated with disgust. Cocoa,
chocolate, and all sweet wines are good for
the beauty-seekers.
The Southern women attribute their rather
delicate beauty to their fondness for chicken,
and I am sure that there is some truth in
this.
The woman who is too stout must give up
all sweets, all starchy foods, and she must
refuse gravies as if they were poison. A
double chin can usually be traced to gravy,
while an offensively large bust is due not
only to improper food, but to improper stays.
When flesh comes it has to go to some place.
Now, the woman who wants a slender waist
imagines that by having her maid pull the
strings of her stays as tight as they can be
drawn she is downing the flesh. She is not.
She is simply getting rid of it at the waist
line and forcing it above and below, so that,
in time, she becomes a most offensive shape.
Women who want to increase their flesh
should drive, not walk, should eat rice, drink
milk, adore smooth gravies, long for bread
and butter, indulge in cocoa, eat as much
chicken as possible, love soup and joy over
sweets, nuts and bonbons. They should let
sour wines alone and drink good burgundy
and champagne whenever it can be gotten.
And if anybody is brave enough to drink
three quarts of milk a day, eat grapes,
oranges, apples, rice and bread and butter,
she will fatten like a Strasburg goose.
But nobody will be beautiful who has not
a good digestion. That is the secret of every
thing beautiful. Clear eyes, white skin,
good, firm flesh, a sweet breath, white
hands, rosy nails, and good hair cease to exist
when the digestion is out of order. If you
doubt this, look at a dyspeptic. Her eyes are
dull with dark lines under them ; her flesh
is flabby, her skin is either pale or yellow,
her nails are white, her hands are dry look
ing and her hair is crisp, inclined to break,
shows differerent colors and lacks all gloss.
Therefore, the first secret of beauty is good
health. The next is cleanliness, and after
that a woman needs to be wise enough to
look after her diet, and to have on her toilet
table the simple concoctions that are to be
for simple complaints. Once anything
of importance is the matter with you, do not
try to cure yourself if you wish to keep beau
tiful. Start off to the best doctor you know
and pay him a good fee to make you well.
Not to just cure the ailment, but to find
what caused it, and to force that to disappear.
Foolish women, once in a while, announce
that to keep beautiful woman should plunge
into a cold bath. Now, to the average Ameri
can woman, a cold bath is a terrible shock,
and a shock is followed by nervousness, and
nervousness means loss of beauty. The best
bath is a tepid one. This should be taken in
the morning, and if it is followed by a good
rubbing, one can go out, even in the coldest
weather, without fear of catching cold. An
occasional extremely hot bath should be taken
at night. This is a purely cleansing bath,
since it forces the skin to open its pores and
throw out every particle of dust that they
have managed to accumulate, and to which
they hold with a tightness that is wonderful.
While I am preaching, I might as well tell
what is an absolute truth. One-half the
women are not as particular about their linen
as they should be. They wear clothes that
look clean, but that are really not pure from
the standpoint of good health. Be as extrava
gant as you like with three people and you
will be beautiful. These are your laundress,
your cook and your doctor. Then give a
great deal of thought to the way your table
appears, because you must tempt your own
appetite.
A good story translated from the French is
going the rounds of the English press, but it
may not have reached you yet. It is this :
Baudelaire remarked to a friend: “I have
just seen an adorable woman. She has the
most beautiful eyebrows in the world—which
she draws with the point of a crayon; the
most beautiful eyes—produced by cosmetic
laden lashes; the most perfect mouth—fash
ioned out of carmine, and, in addition, not a
hair that she can call her own.”
The friend answered: “She must be a
monster.”
“No,” said Baudelaire, “she is a great
artist.” I do not tell this story to encourage
girls to use cosmetics, but I tel] it to encour
age my listeners, who happen to be Aunt
Maria, Nanny and the girl from next door,
to use every thing that is right to make them
look more beautiful. Men should be hand
some in the sense of being well made, well
knit together and strong. Women should be
beautiful, not necessarily through having
perfect features, but with white skins, with
soft, expressive eyes; with tender band; with
beautiful hair, beautiful in its gloss, in its
quantity, in its color and in its arrangement,
and then they should move around in
the quiet way so essential in a woman
and speak in the soft, low voice that a
woman must cultivate before she can even
be pretty. A woman who talks through her
nose, who speaks loudly, who uses bad gram
mar is not a beautiful woman. A woman who
trots, a woman who gallops, a woman who
srides, is not only not a beautiful woman, but
she makes one wonder whether she is a
woman at all. It is as easy to learn to walk
well as it is to speak well, to laugh well and
to be happy.
Being happy is a necessity if one wishes to
be beautiful, and being happy really means
being hopeful. It means forgetting the sor
row of to-day and looking forward to the hap
piness of to-morrow. It means forgetting
the worries of life and thinking of its joys.
It is so easy to be happy if one will
only make up one’s mind to it. Find pleas
ure in everything and if you can laugh
merrily at everything that comes into your
life,and laugh properly, you will be pretty
even if you are not beautiful, for your mouth
will shape itself well.
By the bye, speaking of the mouth, unless
you have beautiful teeth learn to hold your
lips close together.
Get over the bad habit of permitting your
gums to be seen. But you ought to have
beautiful teeth. The dentist of to-day is a
magician, and tooth brushes are cheap, and
if you have nothing better, soap is a good
dentifrice. Pearls in the shape of lovely teeh
should be in the mouth of every woman,
while diamonds in the shape of interesting
words should fall from her lips whenever
she opens them. Women are always gener
ous ; that is, the normal woman. It is the ab
normal woman who is a miser. And when a
woman grows greedy, or too fond of money,
she grows ugly. She draws her lips too
closely together, her jawbone seems to fall
down and become square rather than curved,
her eyes, in their desire to see everything,
become small, and with her loss of generosity
comes the loss of good looks. No woman
need be a spendthrift, but every woman can
be generous and share her good gifts with
those who need. It becomes a woman to be
kindly and to think of those who, in this
world, have less than she.
It makes one love a woman to think that
she remembers what you would like to pos
sess and longs to give it to you. Once a
woman grows stingy she loses friends and
lovers. Oftentimes in her greed for wealth
she does not care about this. She is rapidly
becoming less of a woman and more of a
machine. In time she becomes that most
disgusting of all creatures, a woman of busi
ness. That woman who measures the hours
of the day by their value, who counts life as
worth nothing since it is not bought or sold.
She is the trader, and not the woman. She
may be desirable back of the desk, but she is
a monster beside a sick bed or where death
has come. She will try to haggle with death
when he demands that she shall follow him,
and then, and then only, will she find that
gold is worth but little, that it buys no
future, and that she can not take it with her.
Fancy her deathbed! Thank goodness, her
number is few.
Aunt Maria looks frightened, Nanny and
the girl next door are wondering what I am
talking about, and when the preacher has
reached that part of his sermon it is time for
him to pronounce the benediction, take up
the collection and go home. The benedic
tion is said, there is no basket in which to
take up the collection, and nothing is left for
us but to go home. You make the start,
your neighbor will follow, and, last of all,
having donned her bonnet, will come
BAB.
What it Means.
Germany appears to be not only looking
backward, but is actually going backward. A
recent traveler states that that eighty per cent
of the persons he saw cultivating the fields
of Germany the past summer were women.
The men were for the most part in the army,
and splendid soldiers they make, according
tp this traveler. “If red-headed William
ever lets his war-dogs slip at the hosts of
France there won’t be anything left of the
latter,” says our traveler. But here are
othrs who think differently after looking at
the French troops. This incident shows what
political complications and unrest are doing
for Europe. Large standing armies are neces
sary in every government in Europe, and to
fill up these armies it is necessary to take the
men from their usual avocations, and the
women have to cultivate the crops which are
necessary for the sustenance of the families
of the men who are in the army, just as the
Indian women of this country had to do when
their lords were out in the chase or upon the
warpath- What is true of Germany is likely
true, to some extent at least, of other
European governments, where distrust of
neighboring powers is the prevailing senti
ment, and large armies are necessary to
watch each other.