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WOMAN’S
WORLD.
The Rev. Dr. William R. Huntington,
rector of Grace Church, delivered a some
what pessimistic sermon on the moral con
dition of the social life of to-day. before
members of the New England Society of
New York in Grace Church last Sunday
afternoon. The Service which preceded
it was especially prepared for Cue pur
pose and was styled "An office of prayer
for the use of the New England Society.”
The church was well filled, many promi
nent members of the society being pres
ent.. The Inauguration of the service,
which will be held annually hereafter war
the result of the suggestion of a number
of the society'* members to Dr. Hun
tington ,and he referred to this In the
beginning of his sermon.
Continuing the preacher said that < Isci
pllne was the dominant characteristic of
Puritan life, a characteristic sadly wjnt
ing in these days. He spoke of the
changes that had come in New England
and continued:
"Invaded from over the sea by Ireland
and from the north by Canada, the old
New England we knew as boys Is no
more. In Massachusetts, Connecticut anJ
Rhode Island we see Puritan Christianity
and Latin Christianity confronting each
other as never since the days of Elizabeth.
The Celts have come to stay and to grow.
For the present the power is still In the
hands of the older element, but It cannot
last much longer. New England's force
has been diffused all over the country.
Here in New York there Is a New Eng
land society. How does it Justify its ex
istence? Has it no obligation except to
hold an annual feast and after the feast
to listen to pleasant things about itself?
Has It not a greater mission? Who can
say but that If the 1.500 members of the
society exerted their organized Influence
along right lines we would have a clean
er and belter city? A Vigilance Com
mittee? You have one at hand.
"When women are discussing In their
clubs what is the limit of allowable lux
uries and are deciding after a vote ttiat
there is none except persona] Inclination,
Is it not lime to call a halt? What are
these stories about uncontrollable game i
of chance? It is possible that the lead
ers of society are countenancing games
•that are contrary to the laws of chance?
It is true that hostesses are found in the
higher walks of society who will let
young man depart Impoverished from
drawing rooips to which they have been
Invited?
“I do not say that this Is true, hut If
true. I cry shame. Is It true that women
of high station are exhibiting Jewelry
bought with the profits of the gaming
table? Is there anything more Infamou,
than this? What avail crusades by com
mittees of five, fifteen of fifty If behind
closed doors such things go on as these?
Is there not need of discipline to save so
ciety? With Sunday losing its sanctity,
with marriage degenerating into a fast
and loose contract, with pleasure obliter
ating the iandwarks of decency, who shall
say there Is no need for discipline? I
draw my illustrations from the lives of
women because they are the custodians of
men's morals. Men are what the women
make them. The more men desert the
churoh for the clubs, the more woman as
the arbiter of morals becomes accentuat
ed. In the life of the Puritan, the ma
tron and the maiden stood out spotless.
The spirit of discipline made them what
they were. We must have that back If
we would have life.”
'•the young girl who had Just made tier
debut in society came home with a puzzled
look from the dinner where, says the New
York Sun, for the first time, she had met
some of the older women in what she and
her mother called their set. It was her
first experience of a more mature society
than that formed by the young girls of her
own age and the youths with whom she
had grown up and met now regularly at
the round of yonng people's dances and
dinners to which she went,
hike most Btrls new to society, she
was very much more flattered by the at
tention of the older men than by the so
ciety of these boys, although the latter
were very much more of her way of think
ing and talking, and naturally much more
congenial. But she had the feeling, shared
by all the girls who had come along with
her from school into the life of society,
that it was rather a failure not to at
tract the notice and favor of the men who
had been for years well-known figures in
the set she moved in.
This dinner, at which she was the only
young unmarried girl, was her first experi
ence in the world which she thought was
so much more enjoyable than her oWn.
There were some young married women at
the dinner with their husbands, wno of
course were placed Judiciously at some
distance from their wives, and there were
two or three of the unmarried men whose
names most girls In her position had
known several years before they are able
to meet them. But when she came home
that night there was not a look of entire
satisfaction on her face. In fact, she
looked rather downcast.
"How was it?” she was asked by an
older sister who came into the room as
■he was undressing. ‘Tell me who was
there and what you all did; and then
■that kind of time you had.”
The young girl named the guests.
"It was all very well,' she added. "The
flowers were beautiful and everything
lovely, but ”
Her sister looked at her closely.
"But what?" she asked. "What rould
there have been that wasn't pleasant
with those people at that house?”
"I dont know what it was." the young
woman said, as her lip quivered, "but
they all talked so dreadfully. I 1 ”
•nd before she could finish what she
started to say the tears came, and she
was sobbing as if something very serious
bad happened to distress her.
Of course there was an explanation af
ter ■the older sister, who had known so
ciety well for some ten yt-ars, had quiet
ed the eighteen-year-old, and the latter
was ready to tell Just what had Interfered
with her enjoyment of the evening.
"I’d never been to a dinner like that be
fore,’ she said, “and I don't believe 1 ever
want to go to another, at least not until I
am prepared for what's coming, and shall
be able to say something myself, some
thing a little bit different from the stupid
things I talked about to-night. I never
bad any Idea that those people would talk
the way they did and I couldn’t have done
it if I'd wanted to.
"I met Mrs. X up In the dressing-room,
and,- although I’d never known her she
kissed me because she said she was a
friend of mother's and she thought she'd
met me for the first time when I was a
baby. That made me feel very much at
home. But the frightened tite lire out of
hie when she said the next minute that
it was so damned cold that anybody was
a food to come out of the house on such a
night.
"Now,l never heard a woman say 'damn'
before In my life, and 1 never knew until
to-night that It was perfectly permissible
for s woman to ta.k that way Just b>
cause she was 40. When we got down
stairs she said Juat the same thing to (lie
hostess, only Instead of saying tltat snt
was octrry that she had come, she explain,
ad that she wouldn't have gone out of
her house to go anywhere else Auer i
b*-d heard the word the second time I was
nearly at composed as the other women
h the room *ho tented to take It •• a
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broken down and kept her waiting fifteen
minutes on Fifth avenue until she could
get another.' That’s another word that I
never thought was used anywhere, much
less at a dinner parly,but two or three of
tiie women repeated It several times dur
ing the dinner. I heard it almost as much
as I did 'damn.' which rattled around tha
table two or three times.
"I didn't think it would go any further
than that; but when the coffee came the
woman, sitting opposite me gulped down
a glass of water and turned to the man
next to her.
“ 'Lcok out for that,’ she said, ‘lt’s hot
ter than hell.’
"That was the first time I really want
ed to crytand I am certain that I couldn t
have felt more mortified If I had said It
myself.
"It was at least a relief when the wo
men got up and entered the drawing
room. It was bad enough to hear those
thjngs said under any circumstances; but
in the presence of a lot of men It was
worse. Yet nobody seemed In the least
surprised but me. Everybody said 'damn'
Just as they said 'very;' but It didn't
make any more difference.
"I got more and more nervous the
Unger I stayed there, and I was delighK
ed when 10 o'clock came. Some of tha
things they said I couldn’t understand it
all; and J was rather glad of It.
"I urujfrstood the Jokes so for as the
words were concerned; but I couldn’t see
the point. I tried to smile, but I know
I must have looked as stupid as ever, be
cause Mrs. Y. looked over at me once
and laughed.
" 'You poor little goose,’ she said, ’you
don't understand any of these things,
and it's a good thing you don’t. There
actually was a time once when I wouldn't
have understood them.’
"When she said this a man at the oth
er end of the table laughed out loud.
" ’Listen to that damned Jackass,' she
said. 'Yet he taught me 'most all that 1
know.'
“Then everybody laughed, even I, al
though I felt very much more like cry
ing.”
This account of a young girl's first ex
perience at a dinner may have been
colored by her lack of experience; but
the growing use of profanity in society
has often impressed many persons not so
susceptible as she. Expressions like
"damn it!” are tossed off as easily as “my
dear" and women who used occasionally
to indulge in a swear ward in private
to relieve their overwrought feelings ere
now Just as willing to speak it before
twenty persons.
It Is regarded as an evidence of eman
cipation, and the woman who doesn't
hesitate to swear nowadays Is thought
to show the contempt for the stupid con
ventionalities of society that proclaim her
a woman of the world.
It is a fact that young women Just out
of childhood are frequently astonished at
the freedom with which women use the
words and phrases not associated In their
minds with good breeding or refinement.
One explanation for the popularity of pro
fanity Just now Is the fact that it Is Eng
lish. according to certain opinions.
Just how long this fashion will prevail
in New York It Is not easy to say, al
though it is growing, but few persons be
lieve anything so opposed to good taste
and gentleness in women can ever become
a permanent defect In America, for the
American woman, although she Is adapt
able and likes to absorb the style of the
day, has a splendid power of recovering
herself when her head once tells her
that what she Is doing Is not creditable
or becoming.
Have you a “matrimonial trunk?” A
collection of buds which bum through
the petals of seclusion into the garden of
society at the beginning of the present
season ,says the Now York Herald, ,s
responsible for starting a fashion which
will naturally fiHVe many followers.
It came about in this way. according to
tho explanation of one of the young wo
men. The marriage of a friend had led
to a revelation in the number and variety
of "pretty things” gathered by the brlJe
in anticipation of the charge In her state.
The young woman who wasn't going to
be married—at least not just then—was
all admiration. When she had told her
friends about the lovely things that Ma
bel had she wondered, somewhat doubt-
Ingly, If she would have as nice things
at her own wedding.
Her own speculation gave her the Idea.
"Why, of course I can have just as line,"
she said suddenly, “and so can all you
girls. I’ll tell you what we'll do. We'll
start to fill a matrimonial trunk.”
“What's a matrimonial trunk?” asked
the others in chorus.
“That's an Invention of the spur of the
moment,” returned the proposer. “This
Is what I suggest—Let each girl set aside
from among her trunks one particular
trunk which is to contain only those
things which are to be part of the trous
seau.”
“What trousseau?” again demanded the
girls. "None of us is engaged."
“Of course uot,” answered the Inven
tor. “But we will be in the course jf
time. Such things have been known to
happen, you know. Well, when we get
married we will not be without finery.
If you don’t want to use a trunk for the
purpose, why, you might lake a box from
a dry goods store, line It with rose-col
ored silk and cover It to match the tint
of your room.
"Into this box or trunk put now and
then a bit of finery. 1 know what I shall
start mine with—that beautiful sandal
wood fan I got for my birthday. Then a
tine lace handkerchief once In a while, a
pair of slippers, or something like that.”
“Yes.” put In another of the buds. "And
I shall put away that eiderdown dressing
saoque mamma gave me the other day. I
haven’t worn It yet, so it will do nicely.”
All the others discovered they had some
thing suitable to the purpose, and so the
fad of the matrimonial trunk was fairly
started. Since the decision was made the
gtrls have been adding to the collections,
and they are now In an advanced stage
of perfection. Every three months It is
the Intention of the young women to hold
a private exhibition, at which each will
be given an opportunity to view the pro
gress ifiade by the others.
The matrimonial trunk Is now a thor
oughly established Institution in certain
quarters. The girls, when they get new
piece of finery, tell each other they have
something more for the ”m. t.," as they
have dubbed the receptacle.
Now that spring is at hand, says the
New York Sun. the trials of the ml liners
are beginning. The leading milliners have
been studying and working all winter anJ
now have a plentiful supply of new crea
tions to offer to their customers. These
their rivals are preparing to copy.
Each milliner, knowing that there are
spies out from all her rivals, |s exceed
ingly careful about who gets a look at
the new hats. If a regular customer goes
Into a store to look at spring hats, she
has no difficulty, bu' It is different with •
stranger. If she Is suspected of being an
agent from a rival house she Is informed
that the spring styles are not ready. If
u caller seems to be all right II would
be bad business policy to refuse to show
her the hats, for It might mean the loss
of many dollars in future sales. There
fore the women who do the selling have
to be very good Judges of their own
sex.
A milliner who has an establishment
on llroadway. and prides herself on I e.
Ing very artistic In her models as well
as vary original, has had more trouble
than ever Ihia year. Only the other <ay
an extremely ewagger-looklug woman
went Into the a'.ore and said she wanted
to look at the spring styles. Hhe looked
at all the lists in the place and llntlly
ordered one.
"Now," aald the customer, "will you
send that up to my hotel? Don’t send
It until after t< o'clock, because I want
to he there to pay for It "
The sale#woman aald that her Ineirtyc
(lons should tor obeyed Tint rutaormr
slopped sa she wee going out.
"A* I'm not sure Just when I shall be
at the liallV dire esui, p*ihttps you had
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It "
Tide was entirely sat sfsrtory to the
milliner and the woman went out. A*
she apt ns I the dour she met a unej wo
man coming In, The latter was an em
ployee of the eelvbllahment who lad
is -a out to luncheon. The ewell customer
did no* recognise her, but the clerk rec
ognised the swell customer, (h straight,
way rushed up la the proprietor of tit#
simp and told her that the customer was
the head mil Iner of her ■ hlef rival.
• Rut aha bought • hat,'' l llarje t .i the
woman who had walled on her.
"l>ld she pay f.r ll?"
"No, ma'am " wus the answer.
"Then ahe won't," and aha didn't. No
telephone mc--aga ever came and tna hat
la still for sale.
Tit's woman was unusually clever In her
acting, for she deceived one of tUa luoat
| experienced saleswomen in the business.
Not many are able to do It so success
fully.
There are other tricks in the trade, how
ever. One of them Is to get Into the goo 1
graces of a regular customer of another
house, either by an out-and-out bribe or a
fine bargain ,and then the milliner accom
panies the customer to the shop and helps
her to pick out a hat.
The customer, being known, has every
thing In the store shown to her. Then
she may really buy a hat and after s.e
gets It home the establishment In whosa
Interest she Is working may take It off
her hands. To the mil.iner the hat Is
cheap at any price, (or she has learned
through It all the secrets of the rival.
The moet beautiful and Impressive cer
emony In the Episcopal Church, says the
Church Economist, Is to have the be
trothal at the chancel steps. This way
rtnders It unnecessary for the bride to
kneel till the benediction, which Is very
desirable, as It is troublesome to do so
In a wedding gown. It also allows the
gentleman who is to give away the bride
a chance to enter the front pew, thus
saving him from having to ascend and
descend from the chancel ar.d also leaves
him out of the recessional.
The prettiest way to arrange this style
of a wedding is for the ushers, brides
maids, flower girls or pages to precede
the couple up the aisle into the chancel,
separating to right and left and then
foiming a group, avoiding straight lines,
and facing the congregation. The maid
of honor then stops on the left of the
chancel step opposite the best man, who
should be there with the groom. The
groom then steps forward and takes the
bride’s hand, who at the same moment
lets go of the arm of the gentleman who
Is to give her away, he remaining directly
back of her. The minister then comes for
ward and commences the betrothal ser
vice.
The other style of wedding Is for the
ushers to precede the party up the aisle
till they reach the front pew; they then
separate and stand on each side of the
aisle two pews apart, allowing brides
maids to pass through into the chancel,
where they form a group.
The present fashion In which the women
hold their skirts off the pavements Is
known as “the twentieth century
and it is described by a masculine ob
server as looking as if the feminines were
afraid their skirts would get away from
them.
This Is not a particularly elegant por
trayal. and yet it, in a manner, conveys
an idea of the frantic clutch at their gar
ments which women now affect. The old
method of lifting the frock by holding
it directly In the middle of the back and
pulling it upward has gone to fashion’s
pastures. Nowadays the folds are gather
ed in the left hand and are drawn close
ly all the way across the back to the left
side, where they are held high. It Is a
thorough enough way. Not an Inch of
material te left to sweep the ground, but
It hampers the movements and is Inartis
tic.
Who, one wonders, sets the fashion for
hloding skirts anyway? And does she
practice in front of a mirror before thrust
ing anew method upon a breathless fem
inine world? In the case of the twentieth
century twist, surely a mirror could not
have been among the furniture, for no
woman, who saw herself as others see
her, would ever patronize this style, it
has (too many disadvantages and too lit
tle to recommend it.
For a space it was believed that with
the spring would vanish all reason for
“dress lifts"—to coin a phrase—of any
sort. But, alas, the spring tailor gowns
are all provided with “dips”—hateful
word—and we are to go through this hot
weather as through last, it seems, bearing
our burden more or less easily as we are
more or less ungraceful and inelegant.
The jewel casket of Queen Alexandra
contains a rare collect on of precious
stones. Pearls and diamonds are most In
evidence, for these are the gems of royal
ty the world over. A souvenir from Queen
Victoria is a parure of opals end diamond
and a beautiful necklace of pearls and
diamonds was one of her husband’s first
gifts. On their wedding day he gave her
a diadem of brilliants and on the twenty
fifth anniversary of their marriage a dia
mond and ruby cross. The diadem con
sists of brilliants arrayed in two rows,
with ten large bralliants at equal dis
tance, surmounted by scroll ornaments,
the latter connected by Greek devices in
brilliants. •
A ruby and diamond necklace from her
sister, the wife of the late czar; a dia
mond and pearl necklace, with earrings
to match, from the corp~ratlon of t.h >
city of London, and a diamond tiara, con
sisting of 365 beautiful stones, are among
the handsomest of her jewelry posses
sions.
The Queen has a large collection of
bracelets, the most interesting being one
that was presented to her on her mania? ■
by her eight bridesmaids. It is of gold,
brilliantly set and divided Into eight com
partments, each containing a minature
portrait of one the bridesmaids. On the
reverse side the Queen’s Initials appear in
diamonds on a ground of enamel in garter
blue tint.
One of the many jeweled crosses in this
royal casket and the most prized of all
Is Queen Dagmar’s cross—an exact replic ■,
of one made for Queen Digmar several
centtiries ago and a cherished heirloom
in the Danish royal family. A diamond
cross on a string of pearls from the ladles
of Liverpool, a diamond and opal brace
let from the ladles of Manchester, and a
diamond studded one from the ladles of
Leeds are other beautiful gifts.
A silver wedd ng present from the grand
lodge of Free Masons was a magnificent
butterfly, consisting of over 200 of the
finest Brazilian diamonds and eyes of
rubles. Some lovely sapphires, com
bined with diamonds, and Indian Jewelry
of the finest wrought and chased gold, se
with pearls, rubies and diamonds, repre
sent other treasures which find a place i.i
the collection of England’s new Queen.
Long nails, says the New York World,
never Indicate such great physical
strength us short, broad ones. Very long
finger-nailed persons are apt to have deli
cate chests and lungs.
Long nails, very wide at the top and
bluish In appearance, denote bad circula
tion. Long-nailed men ond women rr
less critical and more impressionable tJtar
those with short nails.
Lon gnalls indicate ideality and an ar
tistic temperament.
Long-nailed people are apt to be very
visionary and hate to fade disagreeable
facts.
Short-nailed men never give up an ar
gument.
A keen sense of humor accompanies
short nails.
Short-nailed persons make good critics;
they are rhari>er and more logical than
long-nailed people, and usually mors pos
itive In assertion.
Short nails, thin and fiat at the base,
indicate a weak action of the heart.
Short nails, very flat and sunken as It
were into the flesh at the base, are a sign
of diseased nerves.
Short nails, very flat and Inclined to
curve out or lift up at the edges, are the
forerunners of paralysis.
Don't scoff at the Idea that pressing the
ends of the fingers gently will make them
assume the shape of the nails, for It Is a
fact.
Don't use nail bleaches too generously,
and don’t fall to be stingy of rouge and
powder. Let your nails be beautiful with
no visible signs of the manicuring that
keeps thrm pink and lovely,
•'On* of the hopot st marriages I ever
knew.” says the New York Times, “came
about In a strange way and with whnt
most g r's would consider the least senti
ment, and even without proper conslder-
Ht'.oti for tit* conventions. 1 knew both
the man and the woman when I was
young He was a thoroughly good fel
low belonging to a good but ord nary
family. He ws brill ant In a way, but
he waa • men to be liked and respected
bits was as putty a girl as I aver saw,
I and a woman who has grown handsomer
as she has grown older. The man had
| been in love with another girl, proposed
'to her, und was refused. This my gl 1
! heard. Such things do get around, though
| no one ever tells.
“ 'What a shame,’ she said, Indignantly.
1 'He Is a nice fellow. If he should ask me
! I would marry him.’
“This remark also got out without be
ing told, the young man heard It, took
I the girl at her word, asked her If she
meant It, she said she did, and they were
married and lived happy ever after, for
I have known them during all the ’ever
after.’ ” j
They were talking of proposals, says the
New York Times, and discussing wheth
er the proposals In novels were anything
like the proposals of real life. The young
girls said they must be and the matrons
said they were net. Two of the latter con
fessed they had never received proposals
at all from their husbands. That shock
ed the girls, who imagined dreadful things
about leap year proposals. But there was
nothing so romantic as that.
“I don’t know when my hugband first
began tc think of marrying me or when
I thought of marrying him,” said Matron
No. 1. “I had known him for such a
long time that I never seemed to have
thought of anything else. We always
seemed to have known that we should
marry each other. He did ask my father,
but he certainly never asked me.’’
“My husband never proposed to me,”
said Matron No. 2. “We simply knew we
were to be married. There was nothing
strange about it. It would have ben
strange if either of us had thought any
thing else. Other men? Well, other men
than the right ones make a proposal of
marriage as they would any other pro
posal of less romantic kind. Then there
are proposals by letter, but any man who
proposes by letter when he can ask by
word of mouth deserves to lose the girl.
It is a cowardly thing to do. But, then,
tf you cared for the man—oh well, It
makes all the difference In the world.”
The visitor from the South, says the
New York Herald, was disappointed. She
had arrived at a time when her friend
was at the matinee. It was 2 o’clock In
the afternon, and matinees have a habit
of holding on until half-past four or
nearly five, and after the performance,
of course, the New York woman must
walk up a section of Broadway to see
and be seen. So the Southern woman was
reasonably 'certain of not finding com
pany for several hours.
“Oh, I am so sorry,” she complained to
the sympathetic maid, who was all re
gress for the absence of her mistress.
“Are you sure that Mrs, Blank has gone
to the theater? Isn’t it possible she has
just gone down to the florist's and will be
back in a few minutes?”
The maid was apologetic, but firm in
her statement that madam had gone to
the matinee.
“And I haven’t seen her in four years,”
walled the Southern woman. “What's
more, I don’t know a soul here, and It’s
beastly stupid sitting In my rorn at the
hotel with nothing more entertaining
than a time table, and a copy of la t
month’s magazine. Still I can’t br ng
myself to va t here for three or four
hours till Susie comes home.”
Then she Inquired of the maid If she
might write a note. The maid brought
paper and a pen and ink, and the stran
ger in a strange '.and wrete a little letter.
"I am all alone in New York," she
wrote.” Harry”—it may be explained that
Harry is her husband—“has gone out of
town on business, that will keep him a
month at least. We just came to town
yesterday and I don’t know a single
person, so please come to see me right
away. You will be dolt g me the greatest
kindness, dear Susie, if you will come and
cheer me up.” Then she added a refer
ence to their old college days and signed
the note.
Susie did not call the next day, nor
was her card sent up to the lonely room
in the hotel on the day following. There
was no sign of Susie for a week, and tue
feelings of the Southern woman ranged
all the way from m.nd disappointment on
the first day after her unsuccessful call
to outraged pride, when, at the close of
seven days, no attention had been paid
to her plaintive wall. On the next day
they met In the shopping district. They
saw each other at the same time. The
Southern woman was walking sniffingly
away, when Susie caught her, and, cry
hg, "Why, Agnes, I've found you at
lest.”
Agnes' face was a question mark. Fin
ally she asked, still indignantly—
“ Didn’t you get my note?”
“I did, and 1 was so sorry not to have
been in when you called.”
“And after reading of my loneliness
you never came to see me?”
“No, but I had a good reason.”
"What was It?” asked Agnes, still un
convinced. “Death in the family or other
tisb to fry?”
“Neither; you simply forgot to put the
name of your hotel on the note, and I’ve
telephoned or called at every one but
the right one in the effort to find you.”
“Let's go in here and get some choco
late," said the woman from the South,
and the incident was declared closed.
Flattened and Doubled Up—
Stair-climbing, says the Chicago
Chronicle, Is working a serious Injury to
the women of the present day. A doctor
was listening the other day to a pa
tient’s deseripti ti of her fluttering heart
and difficult breathing.
“I don't feed like myself, anyway,” she
said in conclusion. “I’m not even the
same shape that I used to be. My shoul
ders are stooped, my back is crooked and
my chest sunken.”
The doctor smiled. "You climb stairs a
great deal, don't you?” he asked.
"Oh, yes,” said the woman. "We live
on the fifth floor, and no elevator."
Then tho doctor laid down the box of
powders, pushed back his hair and said
a few things about landlords and ten
lints and houses.
“Either the people who build four and
five story flat house must put in eleva
tors or the people who climb stairs must
learn to walk properly," heNsald. “If one
or the other of these refotrrris Is not In
stituted soon there is going to be a
mighty big crop of bent, misshapen peo
ple in this town. Already 1 can s.a.id
on the corner and pick out the profes
sional stair climbers as they pass. The
occupation of mounting heavenward by
means of stairs leaves distinct and indis-
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wish 'to say anything uncomplimentary
to you, madam, 1 must admit that tha
physical infirmities you have Just de
scribed are already becoming apparent to
the casual observer."
The woman flushed half angrily. “Oh,
dear,” she said, “1 didn't know the de
fects were noticeable. I thought perhaps
I Just felt flattened and bent.”
"No,” said the doctor mercilessly, ”y 0 u
are beginning to look that way. And no
wonder. Did ever stop to think how
many miles the average flat dweller or
top-floor boarding-house dweller travel
vertically each year?”
"No,” said the woman weakly, "I
didn't. I never was much of a hand for
figures.”
"Well,” said he, “you don't have to be
an expert mathematician to figure that
out. Counting in the sitairs you climb In
your own home and the homes of your
neighbors and at the elevated stations
you won’t get off with an inch less than
a quarter of a mile a day. If you kept on
going right straight along with no des
cents to terra rlrma you can see‘for your
self where you'd get to after a while.
"But climbing stairs in itself is not
a harmful exercise. It's the way yon
climb that hurts you. You've been told
c.ften enough, of course—everybody has
been told—how to carry yourself when
going upstairs. Walk straight, hold your
head up, keep your shoulders thrown
back and plant your foot firmly on each
step, then you will not experience this
flattening-out, doubling-up process you
have Just complained of."
A secret well worth finding out, but one
which comparatively few have succeeded
li discovering, is the act of being com
panionable. A writer in the Womans
Companion thinks some people ere Dorn
with the happy knack. There Is a spon
taneous gayety that you expect women
to have, just os you expect 'the birds to
sing and the 6un to shine. Many a very
bad> quarter of an hour has been, averted
In the domestic circle by a bright laugh
or a gay rejoinder. The laugh may be
saucy and the rejoinder a bit of verbal
bufTet, but if it is only done good natur
edly it will be all the more effective
It usedi basely to be said of men that
the only way to make them'happy was to
feed them well. That could only have ap
plied to a small and commonplace minor
ity. Of course, no one wants an uninter
rupted round 1 of even the most brilliant
smiles any more than he would wish to
make three meals a day off meringues and
biscuits glaees, but It is safe to say that
countless numbers of willing and delighted
masculine captives may be led by the
lightest chains that gayety and good hu
mor can forge. One resu.t of a great deal
of the imperfect education that is dealt
out by the handful nowadays is that some
women are apt to eel undue value on mere
book-learning and the giffof controversy.
This kind of a person looks upon your lit
tle jokes as beneath her dignity, and she
treats you to a somber harangue on the
necessity of having serious views of life
at the moment when you are striving to
look at things cheerfully in an effort
to forget cares and anxieties. It Is e wo
man’s privilege to lighten the shadows
and be all that Is gracious and bright on
the ornamental side of life. It is a good
plan to let much learning sit as lightly s
possible, and to get into the habit of mak
ing little troubles pass like little ripple*
in a sunny river.
The Sybarite— 1
I don't care for leaving footprints
On the sands of time.
That posterity may praise me
Oft in prose or rhyme.
For the man who leaves a footprint—
He must trudge alone.
I would rather take a carriage,
While I hum a song.
M
Let the future generations
Praise the toller true.
Plodding on and leaving footprints
As we ought to do.
I would rather know wealth's splendor.
While my cares relax.
I would not leave any footprints.
Only carriage tracks.
—Washington Star.
There has been no end of talk in Evans
ton fa pretty Chicago suburb) during the
last week, over the outcome of a rummage
sale, at which two of the town’s promi
nent citizens were unintentionally victim
ized. They are man and wife, and they
have both crossed rummage sales off their
list of diversions, and are taking tonic*
to brace them up to bear the jibes of
their friends.
The wife was the first victim to a love
of bargains. She discovered a Jeweled
comb among the tempting bits of feminine
wearing apparel which were on sale, and
removed a brand-new hat in order to try
its effect in her hair. In the meanwhile
one of the industrious but untrained
saleswomen who had volunteered for the
occasion picked up the hat and sold it to
another feminine enthusiast for 60 cents,
who thought she had such a tremendous
bargain ihat she Immediately I ell the
place and hurried home to show it- When
the first woman was ready to replace her
hat it could not be found, and it *s
not long before the mystery became clear
as crystal, but it did not bring back the
hat.
Meanwhile the woman's husband picked
up a great bargain in the way of a J&O
landscape, for which he paid only H-00.
He tiiuraphantly unwrapped his purchase
upon his return home, and showed it to
his wife. "For heaven’s sake!” she ex
claimed; "you’ve seen that picture every
day for ten years. I took U out of the li
brary and sent it to the *ale. I wanted
to get rid of it.”
Germany, which is slow in reform
movements, is allowing to women Increas
ed educational privileges, and also the
opportunity to apply what they know,
says Harper’s Bazar. Eight leading cities,
now have female overseers
the poor. In Bremen forty
three ere employed, and at Bonn
eighty are at work. In the University ®
Berlin the current semester how* 371 wo
men student*, as compared with 241 l** 4
year. One of these la aged 61, and is tak
ing a course in German philology * n ' l
history. Six ere studying theology-
An Illinois woman I* conducting ■ pod*"
tiy business which yields her *6O a month
besides supplying her large family wl4 “
eggs and chickens. A cleverly d*vl*“
"scratching yard" is a feature of tl * r
hennery, which, compelling the hen* |®
work for their food In winter, seem* w
a.count In part for her marked uee***
A New Tork court has decided that a
w< man is not entitled to a lotchkey. * n< j
fixes 12 o'clock si night as th* lln* 41 n
reasonable hours for her to be on t *
snt
The Imperial government of Austria ■■
Continued on I’sge Seventeen.
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