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OOK pleasant, says the photog
rapher. You attempt it; you
put on the .smile of a wooden
Image. You have fine teeth,
and perhaps you show them ever so
slightly. It Is dangerous to be pho
tographed showing one's teeth, even In
a V -P r any!, !v ■ \t Pi*--.d< nt
‘ v< It, that is, or ladies of tha
6t.i;;e who know how to do tho act.
Try it. gent la private citizen girl, and
tf you ever had any conceit of your
beauty you will be di: enchanted. In
ninr < out of ten the face looks all
teeth, these seeming large and long
enough for a horse to masticate oats
with. Meanwhile the smile you have
conjured to order for the photograph
er, which you fondly imagine was
caught and fixed in a bright, magnetic
expression just as you sent it vibrat
ing across your countenance, has been
transmuted Instead into aVjxed. awful
grin encircling a chasmlike abyss. I
don't know why this is thus when the
private citizen tries to smile in a
photograph, but such Is the fact.
Then there are the beauty doctors,
who tell you how to smile, at least,
how not to. Some of them say you
must not smile with your mouth, be
cause after you get the habit It pro-
din es wrinkles around the lips and
chin. Smile with your eyes, says this
school of beauty tinkers. Others say.
Don't smile with your eyes—not on
your life—for that m
What Is left? El the
Augusta True
| see a red cheeked old woman, a rude
harness over her shoulders, pulling,
I with a big dog for helper, a heavy curt
| of vegetables three miles from garden
i to market. The cart hclds several bush-
| els of potatoes, carrots and cabbages,
I topped by a great bundle of dew sprin-
! kled roses, and before the woman and
j the dog trudge home with it again ev
erything will have been sold.
I The traveler may come uron two
muscular women transferring a load of
oal from pavement to cellar, shoulder
ing the baskets as easily as men would
do. If he lingers to watch them finish
their task, he will see a girl of sixteen
swing a wooden yoke over her shoul
ders and carry pail after pail of water
from the town pump, two squares away,
for the cleaning of the pavement.
Three women toss bundles of oats up
on a high cart, and themselves drag it
up from the field to the yard where the
grain is to be thrashed and where later
they will build the straw into symmet
rical stacks.
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But there *ro women who can open
their lips In a smile that exhibits tho
teeth and look neither horse toothed
nor yet
The artfully arranged hair and the
frilled, flounced and befurbelowed bon
net add to tho childish effect.
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In fine contrast, observe the smile
of Anna Held. Does It not say in
everything but words to every indivld
ual who beholds it: There a a secret ; can can ver y well do without in i Clirn „ rar . smile-
akes wrinkles. j undemanding between you and me. j her smile< on the stage or off. Laura “ «tre tnv manv
,? r . d °"!Ll mi You Tever Ten’ neve^^'w^hUegrassgrows B “ t,or *?. a very ^dsome girl, and | t , mea . \ shall come as many times as i br ‘ y! Do bi, . n a “ a5n " ® ays , th . e
You never tell, never, wh je grass grows she smi , es to perfection with her thfi Amerlonn ^ company smtle girl. Then she shuts
,a ,. r flo T s ’ _v*I, pretty mouth. But if you cover the
yet. In private life, Mme. Anna Held mouth with your hand and leave the
strings. She would rightly consider i glass. A fairy godmother gave it to I would be! How much younger the
that to be a silly performance. her at birth. And Ellen Terry's acting; down in the mouth ones who enjoy
Ig j is as natural as her smllle. She is the ; brooding over their sorrows would
_ _ | same off the stage as on, always grace- ! look!
Laura Butler, another American fpj, bright, sunny tampered and merry, i » »
stage beauty, has somewhat of the 0n her arrival in America to begin her■ „ , , ir
n j Frenchwoman's smile, without any of! present tour to the newspaper people i There are varlet,es of smires - There -
- • Us suggestiveness. That the Ameri- | who met hcr at the ler she said. wrth ! f or ' ast#n » J ? the company smile a
humoug seen through.at a glance. So
all, or srnllo with your insides.
pays your money and you takes your ] or wind blows or wate
choice.
| is a sedate, irreproachable wife, whose
husband, M. Zlegfeld, Is her manager
and always travels with her.
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like a wooden tobacco sign. | The same sort of suggestive smile—
H>>re arc some of them, whose smiles a trifle less subtle, a bit coarser—is
the picture snapper baa caught. They manifest on the face of Emma Calve,
nil happen to be women of the stage, here shown in the character of that
Two of Un-in aro Fr< nch, Anna Held reckless young savage of a gypsy wo-
nnd .Mine. Emma Calve, tho others, man. Carmen, who says:
Americans. “Free Carmen has been, free she al-
Noto tho difference between thej ways will be.”
American and the Frenchwoman's; yet in private life peither Is Calve
smile. Tho American smile, whllo! anything of a Carmen. Apart from
plainly made up to be snapshotted, is. her magnificent voice she is merely a
more the innocent expression of a j woman even as other women, except
roguish girl, bent on some harmless,
upper part of the face visible you will
find no suggestion of a smile in Laura
Butler's eyes. Make the same experi
ment with the photo of Calve's “Car
men” face and, you will find in the
eyes alone a smile absolutely devilish.
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Another stage star whose smile is
the American people want me to do
so.”
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Those who had the privilege of see
ing lovely, lamented Adelaide NeiJson
will remember that she had the same
kind of magnetic sipile 1 that Ellen
overexertion. The really happy trav
eler is not easy to find, but when found
it will be noticed that her luggage j
never goes astray, that she invariably I
secures a comfortable seat without un- !
due energy being exerted and that she I
reaches the end of her journey cool and i
unruffled, with hat gracefully poised |
i•,,, and veil all that it should be. There'
glad you came. What a pretty littlej has besn no was ted energy about her;
she has labeled her luggage carefully
the door, drops her company smile like
a mask and soys to her own small
brother: “Get out of my way. you
little nuisance! I don't see what
young ones are made for anyway.”
But worst of all is the primpy smile,
the affectedly refined smirk of the
Terry has. natural too. with thfe sweet. prunes, propriety, prisms woman. She
mouth slightly curling up at the cor
ners. Lovable and gentle as those are
one sometimes sees ir. dreams was
teasing mischief. The Frenchwoman’s
smile, on the other hand, suggests an
unditflnable, unfathomable depth of
deviltry. At the same time—odd it is,
but fact—tho Frenchwoman Is really
not a whit wickeder than her Ameri
can slat or, and neither one of them is
guilty of badness to any great extent.
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Note the smiles in the picture. Some
of these ladles smile with mouth and
eyes, too, defying both schools of the
beauty doctors. A wonderfully br’srht,
sweet, chUdllka smile is that of Vlr-
glniu Earle. The noted stage beauty
lieru looks like a little girl who is
playin
stands
that she has a stronger character and
—may she pardon allusion to it—a ' . , ... .
, . . .. .. . , vertisement in person and got at once
hotter temper than the average of her
sex.
notable is Paula Edwardes. It is the j Neilson in private life. So. too, Ellen
expression of good nature and satis- . Terry. No wonder such women need
faction with the world, if not with no smile training!
herself. Paula Edwardes’ professional
experience has been/fortunate. When
quite young she saw in a New York
paper an advertisement that a girl
was wanted by Edward Harrigan for
his company. She answered the ad-
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Pleasant Is the smile, good are the
teeth, of Augusta True, sitting in a
straw pile chewing her hat strings. It
a small part in “Squatter Sovereignty.'’
She is now starring in comic opera.
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It Is said, no doubt truly, that some
of the most fetching stags smiles have
Is a pretty picture, that of Augusta | been painstakingly practiced before a
True, with her smile. No exception mirror. Well, it is better even to
can be taken to the smile. To the pic- smile into a looking glass than never
ture Itself there might be, on the I to smile at all. There is one smile,
ground that no country maiden ever j however, that is not made up and
sits in a straw pile, and if she did sit j never can be imitated. That is the
in a straw pile she would not do it | radiant smile of Ellen Terry. On the
with her best white dress on. She j stage or oft it shines upon the be-
would value her goal clothes too high- j holder with a burst of sweetness and
ink on somebody and 1 ly for that. Then, again, no country i brightness, Ellen Terry never got
I „ J not readily erased. This anxiety must,
smile. On the whole, isn't it a pity I in many cases at least, account for the
there is not a law compelling all wo- j wearied look which clings around holi-
pranK on sonieDony ana : ly tor mm. men, ngam, no country 1 Dngmncss, iiiiien Terry never got men to do the same? How much bet- ! day makers cn their return, and which
iff to sec the effect of her joke, girl would ever chew on her white hat that smile practicing before a looking! ter looking the whole feminine sex I is usually put down to late hours and
There are philosophers who say,
Smile, oh. smile, always, and if you
can’t smile, grin. But I have never
known any of these philosophers who
took his own advice. They are apt to go
about grumpy as anybody when the
weather gets perfectly awful or they
throw a fit of gout. One, a “new
thotter,” who writes tilings and signs
them “The Smiling Philosopher,” or
words to that effect, is-said to in
dulge in long drawn out fiery "smiles”
of quite another kind than those he
recommends to his readers. So it
goes.
Actresses whose faces are part of
their stock in trade are forced to train
themselves to wear a bright, attractive
puckers her mouth to make it look
small and ladylike, then stretches her
upper lip ever so faintly toward her
cheeks. The primpy smile is even
more affected than the other girl's
company giggle. Better the broad
grin.
Finally, my beloved -“sisteren,” we
use precisely the same muscles in
smiling that we do in weeping, but
there's all the difference in the world.
WORRIED WOMEN TRAVELERS.
A woman writes: The observant wo
man will continue to be observant even
when on traveling thoughts intent, and
during my holiday journeyings this
season I have been more than ever
struck by the harassed, almost agonized
look of my feminine fellow travelers.
One cannot help feeling that a hpliday
taken under these conditions must add
at least ten years to a woman’s age,
for such deep and anxious furrows are
and has then left It to porters and fate,
with a.happy consciousness that it will
probably arrive at its destination in due
time and order.
CONFESSIONS.
The craze for the confession album
apparently dies harder than most i
things of its kind, and its latest devel
opment is dedicated to the finger prints
of one's friends. How many people
will become restive under the demand
for finger impressions, which, after all,
are more readily granted than those
written confessions as to what we lilted
and, did not like in vogue some years
ago. Doubtless many persons who con
fided their feelings to the morocco
bound volume which found a niche in
every household, have changed their
opinions many a time since then, and
sometimes people scan their former sen
sations—hoarded up against them by
an accumulative friend—with derision
and disbelief. There is a good deal of
amusement to be found in the con
fession album, but it holds something
of pathos, too, between its covers, when
one recollects how many of those who
laughingly inscribed their opinions
have gone over to the majority.
MRS JOHN G. CARLISLE.
Mrs. Carlisle had much to do with tho
launching of Miss Mary Loiter (Lady
Curzon of Kedleston) into Wash
ington society, while Mrs. Carlisle was
the first to welcome to the presidential
home “the bride of the White House,”
as Miss Frances Folsom was called
when she married Grover Cleveland.
Mrs. Carlisle had always a quaint arid
characteristic way of expressing hcr
own opinions regarding' people and
things. One of the ladies of tho cabi
net tells a story of her shopping in
Washington one day. Site was exami
ning some silk petticoats when a lo
quacious shop walker came up and be
gan a speech, explaining their excel
lent qualities. Mrs. Carlisle stopped
fingering the silk 'and gazed at him
stonily for a second, then sho said:
"Look here, young man, I know tnoro
about this than you do. You never
wore a petticoat in your life!”
BELGIAN WOMEN.
A traveler with good eyes may see in
a single summer day in Belgium enough
to make him wonder what are really
the boundaries of “woman’s sphere.”
At 5 o’clock in the morning he may
KISS THEM GOOD NIGHT.
The talcs are told, the songs are sung.
The evening romp is over.
And up the nursery stairs they climb.
With little buzzing tongues that chime
Like bees among-the clover.
Their busy brains and happy hearts
Are full of crowding fancies;
From song and tale and make believe
A wondrous web of dreams they weave
And airy child romances.
The starry night is fair without.
The new moon rises slowly’.
The nursery, lamp is burning faint.
Each white robed like a little saint
Their prayers they munhiur lowly.
Good night! The tired heads are still.
On pillows soft reposing.
The dim and dizzy mists of sleep
About their thoughts begin to creep;
Their drowsy eyes are closing.
Good night! While through the silent
air
The moonbeams pale are streaming
They drift from daylight’s noisy shore.
Blow out the light and shut the door
And leave them to their dreaming.
Con
the Camaraderie
IV ^ ijc ---n KT
I THINK one of the most pitiful
sights is that of a wife who is
no longer a companion to hcr
husband. One secs that sort of
thing every day and wonders at the
cans
Of course often the husband is to
blame, lie likes to go out with men
friends who are not always ultra re
fined in their tastes and amusements,
and his wife is left to mope at home.
But. you will excuse my saying so, I
think the fault is the woman’s in nine
cases out of ten. While some men are
frunkards and others have bad quali
ties which no marriage on earth could
counteract, tho average man means
well enough and thinks everything his
wife does is perfect and fascinating at
first. That he does not continue to do
so is because any one tires of the same
old tiling over and over again. Most
women care very little for originality.
They ura creatures of routine, endur
ing the same plan of life over and over
again without perhaps desiring a
change for years. Men are different.
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The American man works harder
than a ny other man in th-» world. He
OOtnes home too tired to plan anything
in the nature of amusement, but if aft
er a dull dinner he finds a duller even
ing before him he feels something is
missing which he ought to have, and
he goes out with the halt formed idea
of trying to find it.
The wise woman realizes that it Is
up to her to provide the social ele
ment. By “social'’ I don't mean those
ghastly affairs at which every one is
overdressed and bored to death, but
jolly little evenings where dress suits
ar not necessary and there are plenty
of congenial people, laughter and a
general lack of
formality. It is
up to the woman
to encourage the
right sort of peo
ple to drop in of
an evening? and
to cultivate mar- |
ried couples who
are jolly, clever
and willing
ar
LATEST PICTURE OF MME. MELBA.
Cmvi horn too tired chance
to plan anything. 1”.:n. It is the
wife who keeps
him “shut up" that discovers sudden
ly he doe* not belong to her any
The maiden name of Melba, the greatest living bravura soprano, was Helen
Mitchell. She is a native of Melbourne, Australia. From Melbourne she gets
her stage name. She signs herself “Nellie Melba.” When she was eighteen
the future singer married Captain Charles N. Armstrong, also an Australian,
give a good* time i But tlie wonderful voice she developed was never meant to be choked off in
to their friends ! domestic life. The girl wife put herself under musical training in Europe and
The woman who quickly became one of the world's leading singers. She is said to be very
takes her bus- wea '‘hy- To achieve her career she had to give up home and remain away
band around and * rom ller son - her onl V child- For thirteen years she did not see him. Then
gives hire, a good she I m P Iored his father to let him come to her. The father consented, and
time stands little MeIl5a took the youth to England and gave him a thorough education.
of losing; ; •
comes only too apparent even to him. I millions. In hundreds of plain Amerl-
They are well read, t lever and self! can homes today the tragedy of the
possessed. The woman he married as ! wife who falls behind her husband and
a youth is still exactly where she was J children Is a very grim one.
longer. I feel particularly sorry for then, raw and unformed in mind as 1 If you doubt me read the corre-
the wife who has no time to cultivate well as in person. Her principal gift. I spondenco column of any woman’s
her intellect. It is no unusual sight youth, has departed, ar.d she has not | magazine. Half the contributors are
to behold a man advance with rapid been wise enough to supply herself either very young girls without the
strides (n the world, become
sonage and be Invited to the n
prominent reople. On th> so oi
Nor are these cases confined
mes of
occasions
he meets thi ir wives, and the con
trast be;ween thefti and his own be-
with other attractions in its place.
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proper maternal guidance or middle
aged women who feel hopelessly “out
of it."
“I find myself unable to follow my
find some course open to women of
my age?” writes-one mother who evi
dently realizes her lack of mental at-
tainmrnts.
“I am very awkward and self con
scious,”. writes another unfortunate,
“and as my husband wishes me to go
out a great deal with him, this makes
me very uncomfortable. What shall I
do to overcome this?”
And so forth and so on.
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The woman cf . Jprty-five who has not
opened a book, for years will find it
mighty hard to begin a course of heavy
reading ail at once.
As for the timid woman who is self
conscious, that- is no doubt because she
is not cn intimate terms with her own
seif. She has rot taken herself in hand
from the first week of her married life,
making herself her most severe critic
and counting every week lost that did
not improve her physically and men
tally.
The woman who Is eager and ambi
tious need never fear being awkward or
A fortune teller for cn amusement.
families who rise from obscurity to children in their studies. How shall I
self conscious. She will always be ap
predated and in demand. If I were a
mother (by the way, how do you know
that I am not?), I would give my
daughter on her marriage day this
motto to hang over her dressing table
(I say dressing table for, I fancy, she
would run more chance of seeing it
often there):
"Remember, she who stands still goes
backward!”
If she lived up to that, I shouldn’t
have any worries about her happiness
or anything else about her.
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It is a grand thing to keep well bal
anced in this world, is it not? So now
for something else a trifle more frivo
lous.
Are you In doubt about what to do
after dinner? Have a fortune teller up
to read the palms of your guests.
Stupid? Not a bit of it! The secret
of the charm is that we all love so to
hear things about ourselves that we
consider conversation on that subject
the most interesting in the world. We
don't even mind if our faults are told
to us or death by hanging predicted. It
only makes us more interesting in our
own eyes.
That is tha reason fortune tellers
rarely die poor. People will pay almost
anything for half an hour’s flattery.
I think it is positively a duty for a
woman to "keep up” on card games
and current forms of amusement.
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If there is anything exasperating, it
is to give a dinner and afterward pro
pose bridge (which everybody plays to
the exclusion of everything else) only to
find that one of your women guests
doesn’t play.
Well, why doesn’t she? is the angry
question you ask yourself. The evening
is broken up. No one seems to play
what she plays, and she plays what no
one else docs. So you make up your
mind you just won’t ask her again.
It is not necessary to excel in any
one thing, but it is a great scheme to
be able to h&ld your own at several
forms of amusement or at least to
know the rules. It helps you vastly to
ward being popular.
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The trouble with most married wom
an is that they talk too much about
their children. Next to making the mis
take of being a slave to the nursery
comes the still worse mistake of giving
evidence of it.
People don’t go into society of an
evening to hear about Geraldine’s first
tooth or how much little Tommy weigh
ed when he was six months old.
Anyway, there is no worse congress
of lies (!) than one of these Informal
mothers’ meetings. The children are
made to do everything but walk at
from two to four months, according to
their fond parent’s recital of it.
The subject of children brings me
naturally to that of Teddy bears. Have
you ever seen anything like the vogue
of these little ljeasties, particularly the
polar Teddies?
Even the dolls must have their Ted
dies nowadays, and you see small girls
wheeling fat dollies that clasp lovingly
a tiny bear.
The latest, however, are Teddy bear
fur sets for children made of the same
cream plush ma
terial which con
stitutes the bear’s
skin.
The guimpe
dress is here to
stay, and there is
a reason for it.
It is ideal for
traveling pur
poses and ordi
nary wear, com
bining as it does
the coolness of
the shirt waist
with a much
more dressy ap
pearance.
Then, too, it
does not require
the continual
laundering that a blouse does, for
every one knows a muslin waist can
sometimes only be worn once in warm
weather.
These dresses are not hard to make,
and I advise every one to have a couple
of them this summer. Now is the time.
Get out your sewing materials and a
good pattern.
And be sure you cut your skirt wide
enough. It can’t be too full.
Talk too much about
their children.
lida
New York.
COUNTESS OF YARMOUTH, SISTER OF HARRY THAW.
THE RIGHT ANSWER.
There is a sharp point , of pathos in
this story, which was related at a tem
perance meeting.
A man who had ruined his health by
heavy drinking sat looking sadly at his
wife, to whom he had made • many
promises of reform.
“Jenny,” he said, “you are a clever
woman—a courageous, good v.-oirr.n.
You should have married a better man
than I am.”
She looked at him. prematurely hag
gard and old. “I did. James," she an
swered quietly.
IMPRESSIVE.
"Well, Bertha, I hear you met Mr.
Cooke yesterday. Did you like him?”
“Do you know, dear, he made an im-
The Thaw women are faithful to Harry In his present tragic situation—on
trial for his life for shooting Stanford White. The pretty Countess of Yar
mouth came over from England to sit beside their mother in the courtroom
during the ordeal of the trial. She was Alice Thaw, who was married in Pitts
burg to the young Earl of Yarmouth, who gained celebrity through the story pression upon me that nothing will ob-
that he held up the wedding ceremony and kept his bride. Miss Thaw, waiting literate." “Really! How—what did he
till her mother and brothers had agreed to settle on him personally a generous |Say?” “It wasn’t what he said. It was
income for life and signed a contract to that effect The British nobleman de- what he did. He spilt a cup of tea over
manded the cash and no nonsense. I my new white silk dress!”
MOVEMENTS AMONG THE SO CALLED UNQUIET SEX.
Nothing so wins the respect of others; ten yea:s since we met! And it's so
a- s. if respect ; nice to think that you remembered me
Ft-.ver widows are sought in matri- i after all this time. You have changed.
mony by Englishmen than formerly,
aeri rding lo official statistics. In 1ST0 :
tile percentage was f! 1 per 1.000 mar-i
riages; now ih»- widows led to the;
». r only If.5 per 1.000.
but you knew me at once.” “Oh.” re
sponded Mrs. Jones, with a sweet smile
and an acid tone, "I recognized your
bonnet!”
The world of women composers is not
•'llow delighted I am to see you ; extensively populated, and for that
in. Mrs. Jones” said an elderly lady reason perhaps the triumph gained in
friend. “Why, it must be at least 1 Germany by Miss Ethel Smyth is a
noteworthy achievement. Miss Smyth’s
new opera, “Strandrecht,” was success
fully produced at Leipsic not long
ago, and at the close of the perform
ance the composer received an ovation.
Miss Hannah Isaacs, stone blind, is a
most successful telephone operator in j
the Lebanon hospital. New York city.
Lady Marjorie Sinclair of London is ;
a remarkably Intellectual woman, j
When sho was thirteen she edited aj
magazine for children. She has writ- i
ten much for publication and is an ex- J
cellent platform speaker. She is a I
daughter of the Countess of Aberdeen.
Queen Alexandra's letter to the Royal j
Society For the Protection of Birds has
made the osprey plume unfashion
able.
Three popular actresses In London j
have turned milliners and are prosper- !
ing finely. They are Millicent Pyne;
and Maud and Mabel Sinclair.
Dr. Alice Salomon, a noted student of
economics, has made a careful study of
the wage* of working women in Ger- |
many. She finds these wages are so
distressingly low as to foster an alarm
ing tendency toward immorality and
race deterioration.
Countess of Mlnto, wife of the British
viceroy in India, is a successful hunter
of big game, especially bears, which
she has shot in Kashmir.
Germany has 1,930,000 women wage
earners, and of these 30 per cent are
under twenty years of age.
Dr. Jean Charcot, the Frenchman
who is to explore antarctic seas, will 1
take with him on the trip as far as
Cape Horn his bride, who was Mile.
Meg Clery.
A mass meeting was held in New
York lately to take measures to de
mand of congress a thorough investi
gation of the status of women workers.
To duplicate a fool, argue with him.
Make a sacrifice cheerfully whenever
one must be made.
The women public school teachers of j
New York city are agitating vigorously •
for equal pay with men when they fill I
the same grade. The ladies will keep
up the fight till they get their demand.
They have an assdeiation organized tc
gain their rights.
Susie M. Wolf is cashier of a bank al
Freeburg, Ill.
Melba, queen of bravura sopranos,
says you must face rough weather, nol
fear it and do the same with all dirt'.-
cult tasks.
The plague of the business world to
day is the inaccurate girl, the sloppj
girl.