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A R : J ; \\u\‘ P | ‘b\fi‘\_; /4"}s’ \\ __ — N @ Tl AN RN / L&l A 2 3 ; 3 \’—q Q' . ‘ s -'-‘ = \é \ A RO =T - e L \N.T B e o \ SR WD ——— e =, p VLA, N e : e NR = N _}% N e T o B 2%\ N e AR v&% - FASHIONS IN BEAUTY. - Is the type of beauty changing? Is delicacy of feature old-fashioned? And is it gradually becoming modish to have rather thick features, a com plexivz so fat as to approach the very reverse of the joy of life? Is dulness like a canker eating into our ‘very tastes and affecting our appre hension of the beautiful? I ask you all these questions because of a visit I paid not long ago tc the studio of a fashionable protrait-paint er. A few faces there were of the mig non type, sweat in expression and neat of nose. But all the most admired of modern women were very different indeed. There was a lady of the lyric stage whose features can be described only by the word flat. She is a Paris celebrity, but enchants music-hall Lon don now and then with her particuiar form of art. There is no denying her charm. The difficulty lies in analyz ing it. What kind of soul looks out from those apparently almost lifeless eyes? The stolidity of expression is almost inconceivable. The lips are like those of the women of ancient Egypt, large, thick, and yet with some vague, if sensuous, charm about them. The chin is solid, firm and masculine. One can imagine men obeying the owner of that chin. One could never picture her obeying any one. A smile would wonderfully transform the face. But it is not easy to imagine it curv ing into a smile. , Is this the coming type? It almost seems so. Such a woman as she whem I have been trying to sketch would never trouble herself to ask “Why?” about anything and her aaswer ,to @very question would be “Because,” a sufficient reason to ‘any one who un derstood her.—lLiondon Truth, TO REMEMBER. Sleep nine hours. : . Rest after luncheon. Don’t bathe when very tired. Don’t bathe soon after eating. If thin, massage the face gently. If too plump, a firm pressure is better. Use some good cold cream with the massage. A thorough cleansing should precede message. Gentie, thorough hair brushing should be indulged in twice a day. If hair brushes be cleansed daily and the scalp massaged the hair and head will keep clean much longer. If in addition to scalp massage we give our hair a soft rubbing with the palms#of our hands it will be much more silky. ' The eating of fruit which is neither green nor over-ripe, combindd with the drinking of plenty of pure water, is a great thing fer aaybody. After disagrseable tasks the hands will not suffer if thoroughly cleanzed (with acids if necessary), and then treated to cold cream and soft gloves. Regularity in the taking of whoie some meals would do much toward beautifying some persons who never ‘have time to conduct their affairs ‘methodically.—Philadeiphia Record. PRINCESSES OF THE RED CROSS. Women in Japan, from the highest to the lcwest ranks, are taking an ac tive hand in the work of the various war-time aid societies that are earing for the Mikado’s soldiers in the field and in hospital. It is an interestiag fact, says William Dinwiddie in Harp er's Weekly, that all the Japaaese princesses of royal blcod are enlisted among the members of the Red Croszs. Mr. Dinwiddie is one of the Weekly's apecial correspondents in the Far East, and he has had special oppor tunities for studying affairs in Japan. Speaking of the work of the royal members of the Red Cross, he tells of seeing, almost any day, a dozen pria cesses at work in the military hospital making bandages and lint. The presi dent of the Ladies’ Patriotic Society is no less a personage than Her Im perial Highness Princess Kanin. - REST FOR WEARY MOTHERS. As the health of a nursing infant depends largely upon the health of the mother, it is very essential, as has been stated before, that no great strain, physical or mental, should be put upon her, and that she should have a certain amount of rest and mental diversion. To this end it is advisable, as early as possible, which means as sooa as the baby is well started and gaining in weight, to give ons bottle feeding of .diluted cow’s milk once in twenty-four hours. It is usually safe to commence this feeding at the end of a month, ?d it is best to give the milk quite diluted for the first two or thres days, say, one part of milk to four parts of water, until the stomach becomes accustomed to the chaage of food.—Harper’s Bazar. GIRLS OF NEW ORLEANS. Poets and lovers of New Orleans will tell you that the girl of the Southern city getls her pale, creamy complexion from the magno’ias that bloom in such profusion; her grace and languid ease of motion from the thousands of wav ing palms; the dusk of her eyes and hair from the wondrous tropical beau ty of the Southsra nights; her voice from the whispering of the zephyrs and the changeful scng of the mock ing bird. Much of her health, says a writer in the National Magazine, is undoubtedly owing to the fruit she eats; oranges like globes of greenish or russet gold into whose flavor has entered the perfume of the most de licious flowers in the fruit world, figs which are flowers, purple without, rosy within, “watermelon” whose cool col ors are as refreshing on a summer day as the draught that comes from its erimson heart. TELLTALE GRAINS OF RICE. Here is a lesson that all persoas who make 'pretensions should take to. heart. A woman who was invited to a fashionable wedding did not think her two spring hats quite good enough to cope with the Paris creations that would prevail. So the undaunted wo man called at a milliner’s and selected a costly affair of lace, which she had charged to her account. Of course her idea was to wear it to the wedding and returned it the next day. Her hat was vastly admired. She glibly s=aid it ccst a mere $50,” and enjoyed the ef fect the price produced on her friends. Unfertunately she got in the way of the shower of rice that was hurled at the happy couple. The next day she returned the ‘“hat-on-credit.”” The day foliowing she was asked to-call on the milliner, and was confronted with the question. “Didn’t you wear this un satisfactory hat at a wedding yester day?’ The unhappy woman denied it, but finally broke down. “How did you know?”’ she gasped. ‘“Well,” the miiliner replied, “we found several grains of rice in the folds of lace.”— New York Press. : FASHION NOTES. The 1830 or French blouse is the latest idea in black taffeta coats. Panama cloth is a well-liked stuff for the separate skirt. While shirrings are very fashionable they are not so effective for wash ma terials as for wool or silk. While pronounced color contrasts are not in favor in this szason’s gowns excellent cffects are produced by just a touch of a centrasting tint. COMPLEXION AND INSANITY. Fewer Blondes Than Brunettes in State Insane Asylums. “Several months ago I happened across a pamphlet published by the government of a southern state in which were some interesting statistics regarding the complexion of the in mates of the State Insane asylum,” Mr. Hobart Langdon said. “Only 3 percent of the total had. light hair and only 2 percent blue eyes. : “It struck me as a rather curious fact that dark haired and dark eyed people should so largely predominate among the insane, but the matter of latitude might play some part in this, I thought; for naturally there were more dark than light haired people in that section. Just as a matter of curiosity, however, I thought I would write to asylum authorities in certain other parts of the country to see what the ratio of light haired inmates was to those who were dark, and expected to find the percentage increase in communities where the total of light haired was larger, but in this I was mistaken; so I am led to infer from the statistics I gathered that there is a greater possibility for insanity among dark haired than among light haired people. ' “My figures were obtained from 68 asylums, located in nearly every state in- the Unicn, and a few in Canada and England. The total number of patients in these institutions was 16, 512, of whom 703 had light hair and only €6 red or auburn locks. In other words, 96 percent of the inmates were brunettes, with either black or brown hair, the latter in varying shades. In one asylum in New England there was not a single inmate that was not a brunette.. Of course, I do not know how to account for this, for I am not a specialist in such matters and only secured the statisties out of pure curi osity, but it certainly looks as though blondes were less liable to insanity than those with darker hair or eyes. “Another peculiar feature about the facts I obtained, however, was that the percentage of those regarded as incurably insane was much greater among the blondes than among the brunettes. The totals show that among the dark haired inmates only 53 per cent were marked hopelessly insane, while among the blondes 81 percent were put in this category, and that only three among the red haired pa tients escaped the same classifica tion.”—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The Land of Paper. The Japanese use pnaver at every moment. The string with which a deft-handed “darling of the gods” does up the articles you buy is made of pa per. The handkerchief (thrown away after use) is paper, the partitions di viding the houses are paper, and the pane through an indiscreet eye looks at you is paper! The pane is certain ly wanting in transparency, but there is a simple remedy.. One finger is passed through the paper—that is all! Afterward a small piece is stuck on tha ovening with a grain of rice. The men’s hats, the cloak of the porter who carries his burden, singing a ca dence, through the rain; the garment of the becatman who conducts you on board, the tobacco pouch, cigar case— all are naner! Those elegant flowers ornamenting the beautiful hair of the Japanecse ladies, and those robe col lars which are taken for crape—paper! Administering Ether. The most common mistake made by beginners in the administration of ether is that of forgetting to lessen the proportion cf the substance when full gnaethesia is established—that is, con tinuing to make their patients respire an atmpsphere as highly charged with its vapors as when getting them under its influence. It is a matter of sur yrise to physicians how very little other will often suffice to keep a pa tient well under the influence toward the clese of an operation, and this small cuantity will always postpone vomiting until the operation is com pleted.—Medical Review. - ‘;“ .:‘Kg“ "“:‘ ! "{»}\ io R, ) 7 CRSEE! 5 % 1."‘.~-'-'l"3,'a";l‘ '~"“)\“, s Xy “\&( IR e S WS AN 00, VS, RS R S ‘M'." Ry %LS @ t e % LA A ‘ S A A o ’&f‘»‘?-,“;: . 's,,L.;'r"\:e"!.._' s SO A Y R N A -.e“,{:‘, RGO Rl | AR ‘ »;.\‘,;\s\f.')-"\~l\ *' w"u"‘f.;‘ \ &"«;, '!;5:»'- o "‘/ ‘;r":l | e . & Lol 381 Miss Gannon, Sec’y Detroit Amateur Art Association, tells young women what to do to avoid pain and suffering caused by female troubles. “DeAR MRs. PINKEHAM :—II can con scientiously recommend Lydia E. Pinkham’'s Vegetable Compound to those of my sisters suffering with female weakness and the troubles which so often befall women. I suf fered for months with general weak ness, and felt so weary that I had hard work to keep up. Ihad shooting pains, and was utterly miserable. In my dis tress I was advised to use Lydia . Pinkham’s Vegetable Com=- pound, and it was a red letter day to me when 1 took the first dose, for at that time my restoration began. In six weeks I was a changed woman, perfeetly well in every respect. I felt so elated and happy that I want all women who suffer to get well as I did.” — Miss GuiLA GANNON, 359 Jones St., Detroit, Mich., Secrctary Amateur Art Association. — 85000 forfeit if original of above letter proving genuineness cannot be produced. When one considers that Miss Gannon’s letter is only one of the countiess hundreds which we are continually publishing in the news papers of this country, the great virtua of Mrs. Pinkham's medicine must be admitted by all. The Vast Power of Victoria Falls. At Niagara the total amount of en ergy running to waste has been reck oned at 7,000,000 horse power, but the corresponding energy of the Vie toria Falls is said to be no less than 35,000,000 horse power. When util ized, it is thought that this energy can be employed for working a large part of the South African Railway, and that it can be transmitted by cable to the gold mines of the Rand, 300 miles and more away. ALL THE SAME TO HIM. : “Let me see,” said the young girl who was reading the society news, “what is the meaning of mesaliiance?” “Marriage,” replicd “Mr. Henpeck, her father.—Philadelphia Press. TOLD IN CALIFORNIA, Helping the kidneys is helping the wiiole body, fer it is the Kidneys that remove the poisons and waste from the body. Learn ing this sim- LRI, ple lesson has (SEPUSEG P made many @'% sick men and N L women well, T e e Judge A. J. Ao ‘f,;* Felter, of 318 /NSt eSt So. B St., San ;fiwv‘f" Rl Callt.. says: ":"*".\.‘j,{";f" e “lor 18 years my kidneys Vi R e k}}\' were not per- AR AN S{@ forming their Fd ity s LI functions properly. There was some backache, and the kidney secretions were profuse; containing also consid erable sediment. Finally the doctors said I had diabetes. Doan’s Kidney Pills wrought a great change in my condition, and now I sleep and feel well again,” A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney medicine which cured Judge lelter will be mailed t. any part of the United States. Address Ifoster-Mil burn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Sold by all dealers; price 50 cents per box. .