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• V A 5m i ling Women And Ttiejr. Bright UnaSfc. ^ ir® © Dri SMPdl ©mum @rr° 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. X X 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. X X 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. X X 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. X X Another stage star whose smile is the American people want me to do so.” X X 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. X X 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- X X 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. X X 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. X X 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. X X 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. x X 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. X X 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. X X 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. X X 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.