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WOMANS
WORLD.
A unique talisman that has made a
ft Old of "portentous charm” and "fatal
r has drifted into the possession of
- Emma Griffith Lutnm of Chicago.
This calamitous token, says the Times
aid of that city, is a chain of tiny
ember beads woven into n tveh of finest
threads, with a circuit measuring a yard
m ,i a third and one-third of an inch wide.
On this yellow strand, done in beads of a
darker tint, is an inscription which is im
bued with the cruel cause of a curse,
which, according to the story told of
this thing of omen,” is cradled in a fol
lowing cipher. The inscription is:
•'Yet. so thou base deserted!—go, and if
some happier dame has kindled in thy
heart the glow of love, deceitful flame!
This burst of righteous Indignation ab
ruptly concludes in three double clusters
of beads in the darker tint over a line
made of thirteen beads in a still darker
hue; the figures 1873, two single clusters
of beads over a line of thirteen, all of a
deeper tint, finishing with a Greek cross
in a lighter shade.
The interpretation of the cipher devel
opes in the story. I
Many years ago, 1821, a beautiful and
sweet tempered Kentucky maiden and o
handsome, brilliant young man of the
same state were betrothed. Both fami
lies belonged to the most aristocratic
class of the blue grass region, and the
prospective topic for the smart sets of
half a dozen counties. But alas! for
the plighted trust of the beautiful young
woman. A lovely girl come down from
the North, and her fair charms fascinated
the young man. Anguished and humil
laied the Kentucky maid went into seclu
sion To ease the bitterness in her heart
she wove the amber chain, each tiny
bead representing a tear. She traced
her dismissal of the traitor in the darker
beads, and added his retribution and the
visitation of hie sin and its absolution in
the cipher.
One morning the recreant lover found a
little box on his dressing table. He never
knew how it came there. That he lifted
the lid and discovered the "evil charm"
Is quite clear in the fact that each em
blematic tear was reflected in his life.
It would seem that to destroy the telltale
strand would have been ids first Impulse.
Put the talisman held him in thrall, ap
parently, for his bride of the North dis
covered it among his bachelor relics, and
was Instantly enamored of the yellow
bauble. She wore it, glittering like a slen
der, shining snake in the folds of her
tiodice drapery, twisted in the coils of
hpr fair hair, wound round her neck and
arms. Within a year she faded, weaken
ed and died. The bereft husband mourn
ed bitterly, lost interest in life, became
restless and troubled. The story has it
that however far he wandered and how
ever often he gave way or lost the fate
ful strand, always it returned to him in
a startling way. Each year added anew
grief to his misery. Three times, with
spaces of thirteen years between, 1834.
IM7, 1860, all his hopes went into ashes
and he stood alone in life "suffering
enormously.” At the finish of the next
significant count, 1873, he died, "nearly
fourscore, and death his only blessing."
With a few souvenirs the talisman went
to distant relatives and carried misfor
tune to them. In 1886 and last year, de
struction and death were visited upon its
hapless possessors.
So, to Miss Lumm, the year 1900 Is pe
culiarly significant, inasmuch as she es
capes the span of the curse. She is a
very distant relative of the immediate
preceding owner and never met him. She
wonders why the “thing of evil came to
her But since its course was thus des
tined she regrets that It did not arrive
inst year or earlier, so that she might
have made a study of its black art.” She
had heard the story while visiting in
Kentucky a few years ago, but had for
gotten it until the yellow mesh revived
the recollection. A Persian vinaigrette is
attached to the chain, and this, it is
raid, was added by a former owner while
visiting in Europe.
A solitaire diamond ring will no longer
be the proper ic-ken of plighted froth. The
* - igemenf ring of the future is to be an
tn'in-ly different affair. If a man has
pi'-ked up an odd and ancient circlet with
a history and a peculiar significance in
som*> out-of-the-way nook of the earth, so
much the better. If his travels have not
' ilo n him in the way of such things he
may be able to lind one in the houses that
Import curios. Few of these rings have
the ordinary finish of gold, many of them
l> ok as if they had ben buried for years.
Nevertheless, they are the proper things
this year for engagement rings.
A signet ring of quaint workmanship Is
popular, and the Japanese dragon is an
exceedingly effective design. Some of the
fr**ml-precious stones set in the Egyptian
manner are attractive. Others have the
oriental richness of Turkish manufacture.
I or those who do not fear the baleful cf
f sof the opal there are some exquisite
s iks set deep in massive, curiously cat v
* gold, end to make the effect more un
-1 al some of the opals contain tne quails
"h.cn is embedded in them when they are
b'k#n from the ground, and which oidl
-1 liy is removed before the stone is poi
idu and and set.
Home of these strange, mysterious look
b'g rings are really old; some of them
' v look so. A few of them have an
interesting history; they all look as if they
°ngbt to have.
Ti>e history ran be made, however, by
the wearer, and undoubtedly these massive
with their rich, dull stones, have
H f iHcination that the gleaming solitaire
does not possess. Moreover, they are less
expensive. A good-looking ring, without
h. ni's or merely small ones for dragon's
ran be bought for from $l5 to £lO,
** n J a really beautiful one, with an uncorn
na>n~iooking gem, can be bought for from
to $5O. Every man who has had to
• diamond 1 for his sweetheart knows
* hat $.7.* does not buy much of a sparkler.
Many women, says the Chicago Times-
T f‘ 1 •‘, have been stimulated to s* lfsc
" by the example of Florence Night-
Xo greater disciple has she ever
" 1 than beautiful, piquant, self-wiled,
' *ble Dorothy Faltison, who would
a\- heme to be a nurse, even against
•• f r fathers will, and wh se tender h art
* afterward reproached her. only to
m.ik, her throw h rself with greater en
into ler work, however. On the
1 '■ fs of the gr at coal and Iron di-tret
®‘ '• h Staffordshire, in the neigh bor
n 1 of in m'ngham, is the town of Wal
* 1 With its 35 COO inhabitants, its nurn
' s furnaces, snorting engines, clang-
; ntf * whizzing and whirling machinery—a
' , ' l ‘ g! aming at n'ght like the city of
' ith iho firm if furnaces. Here fur
1 T n yearn, as Sister Dora, she nursed
( ; ' h mutil and and and scald and men bark
' Ith, car. and fer their wives and their
"nd alone with the aid fan old
| ’ l ' 1 •' n roner, t ok charge of an e idem
■dal with twenty-eight nati nts in
b n mall-pox raged throughou* th •
11 rv . ’d no no could be found cour
( O' <1 skillful rn ugh io help In tha
Her story Is unique In *lhe annals
y 1 " lf-?urr floe, for In r dally life ran
one of wl ir-h would suffice a
r ~,f' for an ordinary mo'dal. Her death
? 1 from cancer, long b rne and 'ong
j ‘ ' 'd She v, 1 hed r o <>no to know of
'h’ * 1 so, an I her physicians respected
' wjsh. “T have bed a one let me die
'' ' Were her lust wi rds. and h-r at
j' iin oUf y, and and left her, albeit w ith
k l, g hearts.
A \ rownstone building In upper New
Qrk was in flames ths other day, when
a woman, manifestly laboring under in
tense excitement and distress, rushed up
to the fire lines and cried out:
“Save them! Oh, please, mister, save
them! They’ll be burned up sure if you
don’t them out!”
She began to weep and lament in heart
breaking fashion.
“Where are your children, madam?”
eaid one of the firemen. “What floor are
they on and in what room?”
“They’re in the dentist’s office on the
second floor.” sobbed the woman, “and
they’ll surely be burned—boo-hoo-boo
and I was to have ’em for to-morrow—
boo-hoo-boo—to vfear ’em to church and
to a dinner at a friend's.”
The firemen stood amazed and for a
moment forgot that there was a fire.
“Wear ’em to church and to dinner?”
gasped one. “Your children?”
‘\\ ho said children?” demanded the
weeping Niobe. “They ain’t children
they’re teeth; they’re the act of false
teeth the dentist promised to have repair
ed for me by to-morrow, and . I must
have them. Oh, please save them before
they’re burned up.”
W’hal the firemen said would not look
well in print.
A man who denies that he is prejudiced,
but claims that he is a good judge of fem
inine beauty, declares that there is scarce
ly a beautiful foot to be found among the
women of to-day. The high heels, the ex
aggerated curve at the ball of the foot,
the heel stays and the pointed toes,
he declares, have distorted the foot in a
painful and ugly manner.
The ankles are misshapen. In some
rases the bones are enlarged until they
bulge out so that ever bone is perceptible.
The weight of the body thrown upon the
toes has caused them to spread out.
Crowded into pointed /toes, they stick up
in clusters of knotty corns.
The foot should be as shapely as the
hand, footwear should fit us a glove tits
the hand. The perfect foot is slender,
with an arched instep and toes that lie
smoothly and easily.
The first step toward acquiring a pretty
foot is to wear shoes that tit it comforta
bly. The next is to take exercises that
will render the toes strong and supple.
Begin by spreading out the toes to the ut
most extent; then hold four toes still and
attempt to move the remaining one. Ev
ery toe should be distinct and able to move
separately. Every nail should keep Its
shape, just as fingernails do. The big toe
should be straighter and shorter than the
next one and the arch should be shapely
and pliant.
The reminine foot of to-day renders a
graceful carriage an impossibility. And
all because Dame Fashion has deoreed
that a short, high-heeled, pointed-toe shoe
is the correct thing in dressy footgear,
forgetting that there never was a human
foot built that way.
In Nemaha county, Kansas. Fay’s the Chi
cago Chronicle, Miss Millie Dhniels, who
is de.-crlbed as unusually handsome, has
adopted a novel means of rewarding the
faithful and well behaved among her pu
pils, and her plan has been approved by
ih© board of trusties, who have just en
gaged her for another year. Miss Daniels
whenever a student attends school one
whole week without being tardy or ab
rent, kieses that student, whether ma e
or female. If the student is tardy only
once or absent once she allows that stu
dent to k ss her. All students who disobey
this standard are ruled out of the kissing
match. The kisses are given and taken
every Friday afternoon. Needless to say
the young men do net piay' “hooky” on
that day.
There are sixty-five pupils at the Wilson
district school. Four y ars ago Miss Dan
iels went there from Illinois. She was a
good teacher, but the students, mostly’
boys were hopeless victims of the “hooky”
habit. Try as she would the pret
ty’ school ma’am could not keep them in
school regularly. She arranged a lit of
prizes to those who attend and regu’arlv,
but they held no attractions for the eoun
iry boys.
Then she consulted with the school
board on the kissing question. They were
willing if she cared to experiment that
way’. Some of (he school board said among
themselves if she did adopt the plan they’
believed they would start to school again.
So two years ago she adopted the scheme
and it has worked well ever s nee. Speak
ing of her unique experience Miss Daniels
said:
“I do not think I am doing anything
wrong in allowing my young men stud
ents to kiss me as prizes for obedience.
Indeed, I think it is a great reform or I
should not practice it. My pupils all re
spect me. I have a good attendance. The
patrons of the district like me, for hav
en’t I just been given another two years'
job? I do not mind criticism from outsid
ers; my thoughts are about my school.”
A young woman of Birmingham, Eng
land, became betrothed last summer to a
young solicitor, preliminaries were ar
ranged. and the fond couple only awaited
the arrival home of the bridegroom’s
father from a lengthy sojourn in America
to be made one. In due course he came,
but when the bride beheld one who, while
he would have easily qualified for “fat
man” at a fair, asserted that in his son
he once again beheld himself irryouth, she
refused to fulfill her promise, and now
seeks a lover to whom the future does
not threaten such ample proportions.
Some years since a lady was engaged to
a gentleman who bore the name and was
a relation of a certain gallant soldier,
who, a month previous to the date ap
pointed for the ceremony, while on service
abroad had the misfortune to meet with
a severe reverse. No sooner did the
news come to hand than the lady, a mem
ber of whose family had been wounded in
the disastrous action, declined, unless he
should promise to change his name, to
become his wife. To this caprice the gen
tlemen refused to submit, so the match
fell through.
The woman In the seat behind was tell
ing her day’s experience In the store and
dwelt eloquently on the hargalns she had
seen without discussing especially what
she had bought. Her voice was nasal
and penetrated the suffocating air of the
train, ller face, says the New York Sun,
was flushed with the heat and she had
a handkerchief tucked Into the collar of
her shirtwaist. Her persistent talk never
ceased. Occasionally her neighbors turn
ed and looked at her. but her voice con
tinued to sound stridently throughout the
car. One woman silting in front of her
turned to her companion and remarked
that she would like to have that voice
under cultivation for a while.
“A voice like that?” asked her friend
in astonishment. “Why nobody In the
world could make that sound like any
thing but the vulgar, strident, nasal tone
that It Is. I should like to see you or
anybody else able to change It."
"1 would be willing td wager any
reasonable sum,” answered the first wom
an, "that I could change entirely the
Have You Tried
Mother’s Friend?
If you have, you know it ia I
one of the great scientific ilia
coveries of the age. If you I
have not tried it, why don’t
you? It cannot hurt you— UB
common sense will tell -rMwf
you that—for it is to be f /y/
used externally. It is Rim- f
ply to be rubbed into tho y
muscles which are to bear
the strain. That is all. Hut
it makes labor short and
painless,prevents all prey
nancy Hickness, preserves
the mother’syirllsh figure, I I
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THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JULY 15, 1000.
qualities of that voice within three
months. Of course. 1 should need the
cooperation of the womfcn herself. Noth
ing could be done without that. But if
she would promise to follow my instruc
tions and really wanted to rid herself of
such a voice, I could very easily train
her to speak in such a way that she
would not be recognizable by the tone
of her voice at the end of a few months.
I have taken worse cases than here end
made them talk at the end of a certain
number of lessons with refinement and
breeding.
“If singing can be taught in a way that
changes almost entirely the quality of the
natural voice, there is no reason in the
world why the same thing should not be
done with speech. I have taken women
whose T’s’ burred like a buzz saw and
succeeded in ridding them almost entirely
of it. I say almost, because there have
been certain cases when all traces of that
dreadful *r’ would not gc\ try as I might
to get rid of it. All drawling, whiny,
twangv women can be taught to talk prop
erly, if they are willing to take the trouble
to follow instructions and devote some
time to correcting natural defects. The
most difficult thing is to convince a wo
man that she does not talk as well-bred
women who speak good English should.
She never hears her own crudities and
provincialisms of speech, and is naturally
not Impressed with the necessity of im
proving them.
”1 began to teach women to use their
sp aking voices properly after I realized
how much more necessary that was than
the teaching of singing is. and how much
less overcrowded the field of my work
is. I have practically ihe monopoly of this
kind of teaching. I began it while I was
teaching singing in a fashionable school
here. There was no great demand for
that, but I was very much Impressed by
the fearful accents of some of the West
ern pupils. I spoke to the principal about
it and she told me that the question of
improving the speech of many of her
scholars had often troubled her. She re
ceived large sums for finishing them in
New' York, took them about to theaters
and the opera, and was expected to give
them a veneer of metropolitan life for the
large sums paid by wealthy parents in the
West. She very truthfully said that she
never sent them home again carrying
along their same Western accents, with
out feiing that a very important part of
their New York finishing had been neg
lected.
“I told her I thought I could remedy
that defect, and she offered to pay me
twice as much as I was making by try
ing to teach how to sing a few girls who
had very little voice and w'ere quite in
different to cultivating what they had. I
started in, applied what principles I used
in tfaching singing, and began to have
successful results in a short time. The
girls with a decided nasal twang had their
voices W’orked out of their noses, just as
they would have been had they intended
to sing instead of talk. Whining girls w ere
taught by exercises that I had used in
singing to speak with precision and
promptness. The position of tfacher to
co r rect their faults of speech gave me ihe
right to criticise their way of speaking,
and that was in itself a great incentive to
them to try to improve, chiefly because
their at ention was attracted for the first
time to their own peculiarities. That often
accomplished wonders.
“I found no defect that could not be
remedied by principles that I had used
always in e nging. Some voices, of course,
were more agreeable than others, but it
would astonish you to learn how much
ran be accomplished merely teaching a
woman to use only a certain volume of
voice In speaking, instead of talking with
all her might and main, as most of them
do. Restraint in her tone and her manner
of using her voice need only be contrasted
with the effect created by an untrained,
abrupt ami uncontrolled use of the voice,
ruch as this nuisance behind us is now
indulging in, to show how much can be
done In the way of improvement by very
little work.
”1 have since had all sorts of pupils. 'I
had one Western heiress who was called
Birdie by her family and she pronounced
it as if it were stalled with twenty r’s.
I have had actresses and one singer in
ocmic opera, who wanted to go to Eng
land and had very wisely decided to rid
herself of her most objectionable Western
isms of accent. I succeeded in imparting
to both her and the heiress a very well
bred, agreeable tone, w’hich. like the best
kind of language and speech in all coun
ttles, was without accent of any kind.
That is my effort in all the pupils I take.
Over the whole English-speaking w’orld,
one manner of talking is in accord with
the usages of the best breeding. That is
without marked peculiarities of any kind.
It is the manner of speech that I try to
impart, and I have yet to see the woman
whose voice, . however, disagreeable in
quality it might be, could not be very
much improved by instruction and study.
I should like nothing better than to have
this woman behind me as a pupil, just to
show what my system will do.”
The girl, says the New York Tribune,
who has rot hot weather arms need not
be discouraged. Dame Fashion has had
her in mind and there are pretty styles
for her. The hot weather arm Is that arm
which Is Just plump enough and not too
plump to look well under thin sleeves. A
year or two ago It was a shocking vulgar
ity to appear on the street with a sugges
tion of flesh showing through a thin dress
sleeve and every shop was filled with long
sleeved underwaists, white, plnk.and blue,
to wear with different gowns, and no mat
ter what kind of an arm a girl had she
tucked it away under these nice little
long-sleeved waists. But there was more
warmth in them than the average woman
thinks she can bear in her summer frocks,
and that fashion lasted exactly one sea
son. The next season every mother's
daughter blossomed out in thin sleeves
and thin yoked gowns a little thinner and
a little more sheer than she had ever worn
before, and she has not worn a long
underwaist since. That Is, with the ex
ception of the girl who hasn’t the hot
weather arm. and she Bometimes will
wear a long sleeve because she thinks it
looks better. But she can have her gowns
made now In a style which will give the
cool suggestion of bare flesh and still not
make the arm look painfully thin. The
skin-tight sleeve Is not the thing now.
and the undersleeve fashion has brought
with It puffed sleeves. What Joy to the
slender girl to have a pretty muslin gown
made with four or five puffs going around
the upper part of the sleeve, with a large
one at the elbow, while the lower part is
plain to the wrist. Faffs are rather sat
isfactory. They will iron well for one
thing, and then they do not distort a
pretty pattern of flowers Into some kind
of botanical fright as tucking does. A
plain large sleeve Is no relief with the
girl who has not plump arms. A big sleeve
always gives the Impression of the arm
inside having wasted away: It is altogeth
er worse for the slender girl than the snug
one.
"Ye!i, we are all down for Ihe summer.”
said the house mistress, to a New
York Tribune reporter, “and, n usual,
we started In with an accident. We In
variably have some excitement on ottr
arrival. Last year ihe house got on fire,
the year before Jack broke his leg tum
bling off the roof of the stable before
wo had been half an hour on the place,
and we Inaugurated this season with a
runaway, anew pair that we depended
upon for the summer taking flight nt
something and returning home cross
country. It would have been a delight
ful sight (If they had not belonged to
us and carried behind them the remnant
of our carriage) to see them iake the
fences neck by neck and land finally on
our lawn. There they immediately be
gan to graze as If nothing h.wl happened.
They were beautiful animalr, and the
coachman, who hud not been with them
when the runaway occurred (Jack, who
was driving them, having left Ihrm for
a second when he went inlo a shop), said
that with careful handling he was sure
they would be all right, and begged us
to keep them. For a day or two the re
sult seemed to Justify his prediction, for
hs drove Ahem the next time without trou
ble, and after several trials invited my
old nurse to take a drive. As soon as
she got into the wagon, however, the
horses made a sudden bolt, and before
the man could get them under control
they were tearing madly across the lawn.
" ‘I think, William.’ said old nurse, pla
cidly, ‘that when you are ready to stop
I will get out.* Before they got to the
gate William succeeded in bringing them
to a standstill.
“ ‘Were you not frightened?’ I asked
nurse, when I reached her, quite out of
breath with terror and hurry. ‘No.
ma’am,’ she answ’ered. ‘I thought the
horses went on the grass because they
liked it better than the gravel.’ ”
Elopements, says the New York Journal,
are never heard of in Germany, and yet
there is no such thing as getting married
there without the consent of the parents.
Certain prescribed forms must bo gone
through, or the marriage is null and void.
When a girl haa arrived at what is con
sidered a marriageable age, her parents
make a point of inviting young men to the
house, and usually two or three are in
vited at the same time, so that the at
tention may not tseem too pointed. •
No young man, however, is ever invited
to the house until after he has ctailed at
least once, and thus signified hIS wish to
have social intercourse with the family.
If he takes to calling on several occasions
in rather close succession., it is taken for
granted that he has “intentions,” and he
may be questioned concerning them.
In Germany the man must be at least
eighteen years of age before he can make
a proposal, but when it is made and ac
cepted, the proposal is speedily followed
by the betrothal. This generally takes
place privately, shortly after which the
father of the bride, ns he is then called,
gives a dinner or supper to the moat in
timate friends on both aides when the fact
declared, and naturally afterward be
comes a matter of public knowledge. Some
times the announcements are made by
means of the newspapers, and formal an
nouncements on cards, which are circu
lated among friends and acquaintances.
The man supplies a plain gold band ring
for each. This is worn during the engage
ment on the ring finger of the left hand.
From this time the contracting parties are
bride and bridegroom. Among conservative
people the affianced couple Is scarcely al
lowed to be alone, a chaperon being pro
vided whenever the young people go out.
If the young man is not in a position to
settle in life at once, the betrothal may
last for a number of years, but most fre
quently the marriage soon takes place.
The banns are only called twice at the
church, and in cases when the time is
short, twice on the same day.
What is known as the “pay wedding” Is
popular in Germany. The bride receives
the guests with a basin set before her, and
into this each visitor entering the recep
tion room drops either some jewelry, a
silver spoon, or a piece of money.
In some parts of the country the ex
penses of the marriage feast are met by
each guest paying for what he or she may
eat or drink. It would strike an American
family as a very curious reception, but
the visitors pay high prices, and the hap
py couple make a handsome profit out of
their wedding, as many as 300 visitors
often being present at such a festivity.
Among the middle class people all the
girls are curiously alike, and invariably
give themselves up to housekeeping, knot
ting, sewing and cookery. Their sober,
brown gowns are as much like one an
other as are eo many peas, and the ma
jority of them are home made. The Ger
man girl cannot bo said to be ambitious,
and in quite content to spend the whole
of her life in one groove. She knows and
gets the full value of every kreutzer she
spends, and is always an adept at making
coffee and cakes.
Heroism, courage and fortitude, says
Dr. F. T. Bryan in the New York World,
are human qualities belonging to the en
tire human race at large, and are not con
fined to any age, sex or condition.
Nature is kind, and when the time
comes almost every one is ready to die.
Yet the period of life at which death ar
rives, the form It takes, the time for
preparation, the circumstances, the tem
perament of the person about to die, all
have an Influence and Increase or de
crease natural bravery,
"Execute this man first,” said the great
Mme. Roland, pointing to a friend, "for
iie has not courage sufficient to see me
die.” Her wish was gratified, and when
her or\n head fell into the basket the
executioner relates that streams of bicod
gushed up like fountains from the large
arteries in her neck, something that sel
dom happens, for terror slows the circu
lation and numbs the heart.
Mme. Roland died as she had lived—
bravely. Her’s was sublime fortitude, a
radiant courage in face of disaster. The
time, the circumstances, the act of saving
another pain and anguish, together with
the strength of her mind and body, her
temperament, made it possible for her lo
meet death as calmly as if it were a sleep
of hours instead of ages.
Women generally have a firmer faith In
orthodox religion than men, and its
teachings in regard to a future life nat
urally for them mitigate the sting of
death to a great degree. The rewards that
the upright expect to receive in heaven
make the transition as easy as stepping
through an open door into another house.
One such woman allowed fortitude to a
remaikable degree. Suffering severe pain
Intermittently for years—pain due to an
aggravated heart trouble—the time came
when all her forces tended to extinction,
when "death came a-knocklng at the
door.” In turn each member of tho fam
ily was called to listen to a brief fare
well—the little children, husband, father,
brothers and sisters—and to receive a lov
ing message for the absent. Then, turn
ing to a nurse, she said quietly; "There
Is nothing more that can be said now, so
I shall not speak again.” And turning
her face to the wall she rested with clos
ed eyelids for nearly an hour, when
"sweet, amiable death," as Shakespeare
calls it, stilled forever (he tired heart.
For many women it does not require
much courage to die—Just to stop breath
ing and be at rest—so hard for Ihem is
the strife and turmoil, the strain and
struggle of dally living. “Why bother
about dying?” said one auch humble
philosopher. “Either you’ve reached
home or you’re nr where. And both way
are better than this.”
The plight of being alive presses heav
ily upon women who have survived their
loved ones and who have outlived their
social jtosltloi].
Off the west coast of Africa a ship sud
denly struck n rock anrl began filling
with water. An officer walked through
the bright moonlight telling each passen
ger that the vessel was going down; that
rescue would be Impossible.
Some of the men fainted at the thought
of those dependent upon them, their busi
ness liabilities and matters of personal
honor. A bright American suddenly be
thought her that now she would never
be obliged to give all her money to a
poor little Englishwoman whose husband
was dying of African fever—a kind deed
she had originally planned—and was
greatly consoled with the Idea that her
purse need not now he emptied. An Eng
lishwoman who had traveler! all over the
world lamented In anger that her life
must end off the wretched west coast of
Africa, the last place In the world to die
In. An opera singer began a little sere
nade.
A mother sat In a stateroom with two
sleeping children. “Will It be long before
we go down?” she asked, quietly. “No;
only a short time,” the officer answered.
“Then I'll not wake the children,” sho
said, and with a calm smile she awaited
what seemed to be the inevitable. Hap
pily. nil were rescued.
“Listen! I want to speak to you,” said
a woman a few days ngo, standing nt an
open porthole penned In amid the fiamrs
of the Saale. The face was so sw'ollen
in Its horror of agony that rough men
turned away from the lurid spectacle.
“Listen! I have a message. Remember
It! It is too late to save me! J am dy
ing! It will soon be over! Send a mes
sage to my mother!" She gave the name
and residence.
“Tell her that my kaM thought was of
her. Tell her to take all my money from
the bank; it is hers. God save us all!”
A burst of flame and the face disap
peared. So died this steadfast daughter.
A stevedore was equally brave, penned
In the hold, gaining a porthole for a!r.
He was quite calm, but aware that he
was to die. His resignation as he dis
cussed his terrible surroundings was an
extraordinary exhibition of fortitude, and
the men who heard him wept at Ihe hor
ror.
Which are bravest in face of death
men or women? Who can tell? Human
ity is brave.
I have never known but two persons alv
solutcly unwilling to die when the sum
mons came. One was a young girl, who
lamented bitterly ns long as breath last
ed the Injustice of her departure from
the world before tasting all Its joys and
pleasures.
The other was a beautiful young wo
man, the mother of four sweet little chil
dren, the youngest but a few days old. It
required all the fortitude of a faithful
heart, all the discipline of a well-trained
mind, to enable this lovely creature to
retain her composure with a steadfast
front She kept repeating reassuring
verses from the Bible and from the poes.
“Death once dead, there’s no more dy
ing then,” was quickly followed by this:
“Though I walk through the valley of
the shadow of death, I w ill fear no evil.”
The question of bravery depends upon
the age of the person and the manner
of dying. Those who ore for a time ill
in bed, with lowered vitality and all the
processes of life tending toward extinc
tion, gradually become willing to go and
die bravely. When well. strong and walk
ing about it is rot so easy.
As to w’hich sex is braver when fac
ing sudden and unwelcome death, our de
cision must always remain in doubt.
There is no eex in courage.
People with “feelings,” says the New
York Tribune, are a misery to themselves
and to their friends, while to the world nt
large they' are voted great bores—and
treated accordingly. The Irish maid, who
complains constantly to her mistress that
the other servants are “insultin’ of her” is
not more foolish in her generation than
the society girl wljo is constantly imag
ining slights and brooding over fancied
neglets. Hypersensitiveness is a great
mistake in modern social life. No one
should feel offended or aggrieved because
he or she is left out of even large func
tions, or not included in wedding parties,
while In the case of email dinners, dances
and drawing room concerts it is obvious
ly’ impossible for a hostess to invite more
than her rooms (generally’ of a moderate
size) can comfortably accommodate. This
should be remembered by her friends and
if they' are not included in her invitations,
they should not on that account feel that
they' are slighted intentionally, but have
sufficient self-respect and dignity to give
the affair no further thought.
“I always dread to meet Mrs. A..” com
mented an acquaintance, because she al
ways is aggrieved about something. Ixist
time it was because I had not returned
her visit—the time before because my sis
ter had not asked her daughter to her
email dance. Last year I forgot to her
to be patroness of our charity bazar,
and she did not rocover from that for
months. If she could only realize what a
bore she Is with her string of grievances,
I think she might learn to keep her sen
sitive feeling** under better control, and
make herself more agreeable to her asso
ciates.”
There are, says the Pittsburg Press,
three types of girls recognized Just now.
the girl who Is pretty, the girl who is
stylish, and the girl who Is picturesque.
Of course there are types of the intellect
ual and the studious, but when they are
these they eeaaa to be called girls, and
are given the more dignified title of wo
men, so the girls may readily be con
fined with’n the. limits of the three; types
first mentioned. The girl who is pretty
seems to have an invincible weapon 111
her hands She Is taught from her Infan
cy that she Is favored above other girls,
and. a’as, by the law of nature's compen
sation. ehe generally grows up without
an idea in her fluffy pate, beyond (he best
pose for that same pate, and the best
becoming piece of millinery with which
to adorn it.
She may be of the dashing vivid style
of beauty, In which case she is often bold
and forward, or she may be of the sweet
clinging style, in which case she Is al
most always envefghed, and she
may be neither, but merely pret
ty, with a good complexion, pret
ty eyes and pretty hair. At first
glance one might suppose the pretty girls
to have the best of the race, but exper
ience proves otherwise.
The stylish girl Is the one whose clothes
seem made for her and her alone. She will
take the commonplace hat of her pretty
sister and, placing it on her modish head
give it a pat or two which will transform
It until her ne ghbors will swear It is Im
ported. Her gowns may be plain and
cheap but they are worn with an Indefin
able air, which makes them better look
ing than the satins and velvets which the
other woman wrars with an ill grace.
Everything belonging to her partakes of
her individuality, until even the every
day sailor or rough straw Is dlstinguishe 1
as It hangs on the hall rack, and the fuz
zy brown cape which she dons In wet
weather looks more perky and self-satis
fied than Its neighbor, the sealskin, which
<oes not belong to the stylish girl. It Is
some vague power within her which ena
ble* her to se ect out of the thousand and
one hats at the mll'inery op-ntng the very
bit of headgear which will make her the
cynosure of all eyes.
She may Ire a millionaire’s daughter, In
which case she Is invariably the belle of
the season, and makes the very best
match, or she may be a shopgirl \yho sells
ribbons and laces by the yard, in which
ense her coll of hair is the smoothest and
best groomed looking in the days of
smooth hair, and her curled bang the
fluffiest and most ethereal looking In the
days of puffed curls. She has an air
which her envious fellow women would
give half tfielr lives to possess, and which
attracts the admiring eye of all the men
on the street when she appears.
Now the picturesque girl does not strike
one at first sight so favorably, but she is
the one who grows on us until she seems
the nicest thing In the rooms, and the
best bit of beauty within sight. Her
gowns always have a dreamy fall to them,
as If some of her soft, poetical nature had
animated their folds. There are. grace
ful curves where another woman would
have commonplace drapery. Her hair has
also a soft silken wave which suggests
beauty, poetry, art, all sorts of delightful
visions, and her hands and feet—well,
these are her strong points ,and If she Is
a wise, picturesque girl, she knows it and
makes the best of them.
Standing beside a fluted pillar, with one
round arm above her head and a far
away look on her face, she Is a subject for
a dream, an*J seated in a garden, always
with some roses tumbling out of her
hands, she looks like the fairest bit of
nature's handiwork the enraptured on
looker has ever gazed on. She Is always
delightful, for she Is continually a con
trast to the women about her. because
there Is generally only one of her In a
community. Of course, she has Imitators,
hut they are always recognized as such,
for their graceful falling draperies are
always untidy, but the red, first-dais
bona-fide, picturesque girl is a tblug of
beauty and a Joy forevtr. find her path Is
generally one ot roses and sunshine all
her life through.
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This means disaster and d< nth when ap
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ly serious when It refers to people whose
blood Is disordered and who consequent
ly have pimples und sores, had stomachs,
deranged kidneys, weak nerves and that
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the wheels hack on Ihe track by making
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bles.
Constipation la cured by Hood'a Pills..
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GUSTAVE EGKSTEIN & GO.
Gray Goose Tales.
The Grity Goo.e Gander Telia Abont
the Obstinate Bull-Frog.
Three or four years ago, when our pond
was quite full of water, and the ducks
and geese were taking lots of comfort,
there came to u from some other pond
a strange bull-frog. He was a whop
ping big fellow, who made all our frogs
hustle around, and he had a voice on him
which could be heard a full mile on a quiet
night. There was room enough for the
stranger, and we made him welcome, hut
on the very first night of his stay he kept
us all awake and made no end of trouble,
Almost ns goon as It was dark h took
his seat on n log in the middle of the pond
and cried out;
"How! How'! How! Oh-h-h-h! How!
How! How!”
The noise woke up every fowl on the
place, inoluding the peacock, who was
HE TOOK HIS SE AT ON A LOO.
almost deaf with old age, but the frog
had no care for our rights. He had slept
all day, and now wanted to croek ail
night. As he was a stranger, nothing was
said to him that night, but next day, ns
he came out of the water to get his sun
bath I sworn out to the log and said to
him:
“I/ast night you kept us all awake with
your croaking, and I want to know If
you are going to <k> the same to-night?”
“I am going to do aw I please about it,”
he replied, ns ho swelled up and tried to
look as big cis a barrel.
“Hut we must have our sleep," I said.
“We shall not find fault If you croak
softly now nnd then, but to bellow as
loud and an long ns you do Is more than
w* onn put up with."
“I’d like to we you help yourselves!"
ho shouted In anger. “My voice is my
own, and I shall use *lt all I want to! If
you don't like things you'd better go
away."
“But this Is our pond."
"Oh, it is! Well, I’ll show you that a
bull frog can take up his quarters in any
pond he wishes to. Granddaddy Gander,
you go back and tell the fowls that I shall
croak all night for tho next ten nights to
come."
“If you do, you'll get Into trouble,” I
said.
“Bring on your trouble,” he sneered, as
he kicked his hind lege at me.
The and geese were for driving
him aWay at once, and the hens said it
was a shame for n frog to <bine to a
strange pond and be so Impudent, but I
said to th**in:
"We will do nothing yet. We will wall
three or four nights more, and then if he
Is not more reasonable we will glvo him
a surprise party..”
It was the same on the second night as
on the first. He kept calling out: "How!
How!’ as loud a* he could bellow and
now and then we heard blra chuckling to
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Men’s Cool Gauze Shirts at l&o
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think he was keeping us awke. It was tlie
same on the third night. That is, the frog
started in soon, after dark to make the
night hideous again, and some of the ducks
unit geese were for driving him out at
once, when I saw one of the farmer’s son*
come skulking down to the pond. He stood
for a minute until ha made out the frog
on the log, and then he drew back ills
arm ami hurled a stone. His aim was true
and the frog fell into the water as dead as
a nail. Then the boy turned to go back
to tlie house and we heard him say:
"Oh, ho, old frog! You wanted to know
'How! How!’ it was, and I’ve altown yotif
You kept me awake two nights, but I
guess you won’t do any more croaking
this summer!”
MATCH HOYS.
Disappear From Trn.le Reenn.a
SinoUrrs l>t IV'ot Hay Matches.
From the New York Times.
“What has become of the matoh boy?**
is the question asked especially by smok
ers, for the lads who used to be numeroufl
on the streets, and who used to invnd*
offices and stores selling: matches, are n
longer to be seen in the lower part of tha
city, and a match is a hard thing to buy.
These lads have not been driven out ot
business by the Match Trust, for the in
crease in price of penny boxes of matches
has been only two cents a grosa. These
in.itchea can be bought at fiO cents a gross,
giving a profit of 94 cents on each pack
age.
Nor can it be the license fee, which is 13
a year, or only two-thirds of a cent for
each business day, the license allowing
its holder to sell anything that he can car
ry.
At the city marshal’s office the opinion
in that the disappearance of the match
boy la duo to the lack of demand for hki
wares.
"No one buys Thatches now,” said tha
city marshul, “except the cigar dealer, tha
restaurant keeper and the housekeeper.
The wrrfbker fills his pocket with matches
when he leaves home. Ho buys a cigar and
puts n couple of matches in his pocket,
or if he buys half a dozen clgnra the clerk
hands him h small box of matches. At
noon the business man goes into a restau
rant for his luncheon, and when he lights
his cigar lie lays in another supply of
matches, drawing upon the match box on
tlie table. On his way home the tabac
conist supplies him again.
“It is the same way with toothpicks.
Who buys toothpicks nowadays? The res
taurants supply them. Pockets are filled
at the luncheon hour, and consequently vo
one finds any business selling thoere bits
of wood, and the # wooden article has driv
en out the quill almost entirely."
Not only has the match peddler disap
peared, but few of the men who have
stands for the sale of small articles carry
either matches or toothpicks.
M Morphine and Whiskey hab
its treated without pair or
confinement. Cure guaran
teed or no pay. B. H. VRAL*
Man’gr Lithia Bprings San
itarium. U. Austell, Go*
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