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WOMAN’S
WORLD.
It seems likely that women always over
valued the effectiveness of tears. Tears
Were supposed to always be an unanswer
able argument so far as men were con
cerned. Unfortunately, few' women dan
weep effectively. In poetry a pearly drop,
that makes a blue eye look like a violet
drowned in dew, gathers slowly and rolls
greatly down the alabaster cheek, and the
man goes down before It. In everyday
life the woman who weeps gets red-eyed,
end her nose swells, end she looks purple
end apopleptic, and the man gels up,
slams the door behind him and goes down
town until the waterspout is over. In
these prosaic and common-sense days
weeping has played out as a fascination,
end tears are a failure. No man wants
to be salted down in brine as if he were
a dried herring.
Tears were always a coward’s weapon.
It was playing upon the best and tender
est in other people for your own selfish
ends. 1 heard a woman say not long ago,
Bays Dorothy Dix in the New Orleans
Picayune, that she always got her w r ay in
the family by crying. "When I want a
thing.” she said, “I just go to bed and
have hysterics until 1 get it.” One un
derstands, of course, how a man gives in
to that kind of a woman—hla very man
hood makes him powerless to deal with
her as she deserves, but w hat a withering
end blighting contempt he must have for
her. How he must despise the little soul
that trade* on his pity, his c'hivairy, his
Very reverence for womanhood.
In an humble rank of society I have
Been that kind of a woman permanently
and instantaneously cured by a sound
thrashing, and when I have observed
other hysterical and unreasonable women
til a more exalted station of life, it has
occurred to me that perhaps we are un
duly prejudiced against wife-beating, and
that there may' be times and occasions
when it makes for peace and righteous
ness.
The trouble with women’s tears in the
past has been that they wept too much,
and in the wrong way. A tear as a tear is
as ineffective as any other drop of salt
water, yet people make the mistake of
reverencing it as if weeping over a thing
was going to perform some kind of a
miracle. You might Veep over a starv
ing family until you shed an ode an of
tears, yet it wouldn’t keep them from
perishing of hunger. It Is only when
you begin to sob with your poeketbook
that you do any good. It isn’t the peo
ple who come to weep with us when we
are unfortunate and poor and downcast
who help us. It Is those who have learned
to sympathize with their bank hook and
personal interest and assistance. Noth
ing else on earth is so plentiful and cheap
and useless as tears, but until they are
backed up with good deeds and money
nobody’ has a right to attempt to sustain
n reputation for charity on them. Plenty
enf people do. I have seen women sit up
in a fashionable church and sniffle into a
point lace handkerchief all through a
charity sermon, and then drop a plugged
r.irkle Into the contribution plate.
Then there’s poverty. If all the tears
women have shed over being poor had
been brought to account it would make
a water power that would turn the wheels
of the machinery of the world. Ad it’s
all been wasted. Tears toll hack no van
ished dollars. Nobody ever heard of a
woman lamenting herself into a fortune,
yet they go on making themselves perfect
Niobes over their spilt milk. I had a
frieryd once who lost her money, and who
thereafter did nothing but weep. "What
shall 1 do?" she demanded. "I shail
starve.” “If you would put in as much
time and energy mopping a floor as you
do in mopping your eyes yon could make
a. fortune as a charwoman,” I answered,
brutally. She never forgave me. People
never do when you tell them the truth,
but it is a fact, nevertheless, that the
only' tears that can conjure back pros
perity are the tears we weep with our
hands at shine good, honest labor. •
Sometimes I amuse myself by speculat
ing on what the state of affairs would be
If mothers wept less over their wayward
children, and spanked more. Every wo
man speaks of her children, when they
turn out badly, as a mysterious dispensa
tion of Providence. It’s a sneaky way of
trying to get out of her responsibility.
She has been too weak, or too selfish
or too lazy to raise them right. Then the
day comes when she discovers that the
girl Is meeting fast young men on the
sly, or the boy comes home staggering
drunk. It Is one of the tragedies of life
when the young lives are dearer than
her own, and the young souls that she
would give her own to save hang trem
bling in the balance, and the mother can
meet the situation with nothing but im
potent tears. *
Sentimentalists have embalmed a moth
er's tears in song and story, and made
them sacred, but I tell you the tears a
mother sheds over an ill-raised son or
daughter are shameful. There should be
no cause for them, and there would be no
cause for them once in a million times
if she had done her duty. When I hear
of a heart-lwoken mother trying to float
her non out of the penitentiary on a
stream of tears, I don't pity her half so
much as I pity him for having his life
wrecked by an injudicious mother. In
strict justice, the mother ought to be
indicted as an accomplice l>efore the
crime. Weep with strict authority, moth
ers, sdb with a switch while your chil
dren are little, and when they are grown
you will not have to shed salt and bitter
tears over sons and daughters who have
brought shame upon you.
The genuinely tactful married woman
of the present day, says the Washington
Post, doesn't portray her husband's short
comings to him in a direct manner. She
tells it all to the baby, when he is sitting
tn the same room. The way this scheme
works was illustrated hi a happy little
122.50 per month home on Capitol hill the
other evening. The man and his wife had
had a fetv words. He was sitting by the
front window reading, the paper, and she
was goo-goo-ing to the baby In her lap.
"Tes," she rrooned to the baby, "its
father is a nasty, ill-tempered brute, Isn’t
he, tum-tums, and he’s always snarling
and growling around the house, isn't he,
tnania s ltty oopsy-woopsy?"
Then she gtaneed at the husband and
father out of the corner of her eye, in %r
--der to ascertain if she had succeeded in
getting a rise out of him. He only crack
led the* paper nervously,, however, and
went on reading.
"And lie’s getting to be as stingy as a
tnlwr, too, isn’t he. mama's oylsty-boy
btry?" she w<-ni on, dandling the haby up
and down "And he makes a big row
over every penny I spend for the house,
down i he. mama s pet, and ti knows
that l've made over the dresses I had
when I married him over and over again
until they're nothing but russet, do* n't
la-, mama s ltty tipay-wlpsy T‘
Again she giarwed over at him to ere
if she has had him going, but he went
right on reading th a* ins I ins of tii#
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I at this point, throwing down his paper,
I "that’s a durned pretty way for you to
talk to me, Isn't it?"
She looked up at him with an expres
sion of intense surprise.
"I haven’t said a word to you,” ehe said
in a W’rongfully accused tone. "I waa
only talking to baby, I suppose you will
permit me to talk to my own baby, won't
you?”
Why, of course, a woman has a right
to talk to her own baby, hasn’t she? This
system of hammering him on his weak
spots, involving, as it does, much les
danger of a tierce and noisy comeback
than if he is addressed in direct fashion,
is worthy of the highest recommendation.
A woman residing on one of the Boule
vards, says the Chicago Chronicle, has a
new colored maid of all work who is not
the brightest of her sex. The other day
she served at iunch clad in a shabby
black skirt and a faded pink waist. After
the meal the mistress approached her.
"Haven't you a black waist you can
wear in the dining room. Frances?” she
asked. "You don’t look at all tidy that
way. Please wear a black waist this
evening."
Frances smiled, showing all her white
teeth. "Yessum," she said. "Yessum,
suht’nly I will; suht’nly."
There was guests for dinner that night
and so ihe soup had been served before
the hostess had a chance to look at the
maid. Her attention was attracted then
by a choking sound from, her eldest son.
She looked at that young man and found
him convulsed with laughter, his eyes
Ruled to the form of the waitress Then
she looked at Frances, who was at this
moment handing a plate to the master of
the house. The maid was remarkably
neat in her dark clothes, and her mistress
was just congratulating herself on the
metamorphosis she had accomplished,
when something in the waist part of the
costume struck her as familiar.
She looked again. Then she caught her
son's eye, and both became red with sup
pressed mirth,for Frances was wearing the
top piece of the young man’s pajamas for
a bodice. How she had come to select so
unique a garment fdr her own wardrobe
she was never asked to explain. The next
day she was sent away, originality and all,
and so the Interpretation of her singular
choice Is lot to the world.
In modern times no princess has receiv
ed as much or as valuable Jewelry on her
wedding as did Princess Louise of Wales
when she married the Duke of Fife. The
total value of these gifts was estimated
at $750,000. She bad a ruby horseshoe pin
from her brothers, a diamond bracelet
from 112 girl friends and seven diamond
stars from n number of men friends.
When the Duke of York married Prin
cesß May, who had been engaged to his
brother, the Duke of Clarence, who died
before the wedding, it seemed that the
people of Great Britain vied in pouring
Jewels at her feet. The Queen gave a
necklace and tiara of diamonds, the wo
men of England a diamond and pearl
necklace, while the girls of Ireland and
England gave a suiierb diamond and
pearl tiara. Innumerable smaller, but no
lees lovely gems were included in the list
Princess Beatrice on her marriage was
the recipient of various pieces of hand
some jewelry from her own family. As
the Queen's favorite daughter she had
many friends. No English princess ever
had so mafiy books given her or so many
email artistics presents. She has always
been interested in tho artists on the Isle
of Wight, and they sent her a white mo
rocco-bound album containing a water
color sketch from each. The women of
Bristol gave her an elaborately carved
linen chest, says Cassell’s Magazine.
When Princess Louise was married to
the Marquis of Lome, now the 'Duke of
Argyll, she received some curious pres
onts. The Queen gave her the custom
ary set of opals and diamond# bestowed
on English royal brides and also a couple
of emerald and diamond centers for brace
let or necklace. The bridegroom's parents
gave an emerald and diamond tiara.
Clan Campbell sent as a gift to the wife
ol their future chief a lovely diamond
and pearl necklace, with n pari and sap
phire locket, while a most curious brace
let of barbaric appearance came from the
tenantry and peasants of the Loch of
Mull, mode of pieces of the odd green ser
pentine of lona mounted on a gold band.
Time and thought and money are all
well expended on surf going and still
water lvathlng costumes, so various and
charming are the colors and the cut of
the newest models. For a half a dozen
seasons back pure mohair has been the
material preferred for the salt water
dresses, and flannel, the standby of other
days, has been curiously absent from the
beaches. This year a mohair flanrfPl has
been put forward, and, as It possesses
the virtues of both true flannel and true
mohair, it is probably destined, like Bri
tannia. to rule the wave for many sum
mers to come.
Mohair flannel, says the Pittsburg Dis
patch, in many attractive colors, is made
up in designs so graceful and fanciful
lhat many women, who have no liking at
ail for salty dips, and look upon buffet
ing waves with terror, have enthuslasti
cally purchased bathing dresses, along
with all the paraphernalia that nowadays
is considered necessary for the smart
beach toilet.
A distinctly charming gown, of the
newest mode yet seen, is a white mohair
flannel, relieved with touches of green.
The green is prettily adapted in lines of
zigzag braid, edging skirt and sleeve
puffs and pointed collar. With this is
worn a white silk head handkerchief di
versified with big green polka dots.
To all the ladles now on land it la as
well to suggest that on the fashionable
beaches It will be considered necessary
for a bathing suit to tit with all the ele
gant preciseness of a calling coetume.
At Newport, Narragansett, etc., the
bathers last summer began to adopt the
French fashion of carrying down to the
• bathhouse every’ morning a pretty white
wicker hand satchel, containing all the
small etceteras that serve tn the grace
ful completion of a swimming gown.
The handbag is itself a special feature,
and it holds a becoming silk mackintosh
cap. salt proof; silk hose, white linen
bathing boots and a pair of linen bath-
CURES EZEMA
THROUGH
THE BLOOD.
ITOHINO SKIN HI MOK9, JMROFIX.%,
UOIL4S, SCAB® AND SC A LBS, ETC.
COSTS NOTHING TO TRY.
Doe* your frkln itch and burn? Do
Beak)* anti *cal* form on your . kin. hair
or scalp? It then a conaUnt desire to
nctatch? Bczf'fnt*? Hkin tor** and t< k#d?
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. THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. APRIL 28. 1901.
ing corsets. These last are all-important
articles, for the mohair flannel suits are
now so cut and fitted that they cannot
be properly or presents bly worn without
stout, short and very flexible stays, that
lace up and have not a bit of metal about
them.
Though it Is perfectly safe to predict
that white bathing dresses wdll outnumber
all others, none the less will many col
ored ones be worn. Startling bright red
and Yale blue, black and orange, scarlet
and white are some of the flamingo and
parrot-like studies in color that the fair
amphibians will patronize, and there is
a very marked inclination toward the in
troduction of vivid Roman stripes and
bold Scotch plaids in the more showy
gowns. Roman are prominent in
the majority of the flannel and Turkish
toweling bath wraps, without which no
well equipped bather pretends to con
sider her sea-going toilet complete.
Professor Caesare Lombroeo, a distin
guished Italian scientist, Is probably n
trusty old bachelor. At any rate, he has
undertaken to rob the youth of the world
of their most blissful enjoyment—that of
kissing—by undertaking to prove that the
practice Is of heathen origin and Is mewt
ln vogue among savage peoples. Accord
ing to the professor, the kiss, as a token
of affection, was unknown to the old
Greeks, and neither In Homer nor in He
rod do we find any mention of it. Hector
did not kiss his Andromache when he
bade her farewell, neither did Paris press
his lips to those of the beautiful Helen,
anil Ulysesses, who was more cosmopoli
tan than any man of his day,never dream
ed of kissing the enchanting Circe, and
when, after long wanderings, he returned
home to his spouse, Penelope, he satisfied
himself by putting one of his stalwart
arms around her waist and. drawing ’her
to him.
The people of Tierra del Fuego, says
Lombroso, have taught civilized nations
the origin of the delightful art of kissing.
Drinking vessels are unknown In that
country, and the people, when they are
thirsty, simply lie down beside brooks and
drink the water as It flows by them. It
Is evident, however, that infants could
not satisfy their thirst in this primitive
fashion, and therefore their mothers have
for ages supplied them with water by
filling their own mouths first and then
letting it pass through their iipn Into the'
expectant mouths of their little ones. In
some places the banks of the brooks and
rivers are so high that water cannot be
obtained in the usual manner, and the
mothers in such places draw it up
through long reeds.
Birds feed their young ones In a simi
lar manner. They first fill their own
mouths with water and then transfer It to
the wide-open mouths of the little ones.
This very ancient maternal practice is,
acording to Lombroso, the only source to
which the modern practice of kissing can
be traced. The custom of pressing one
mouth to another originated with the wo
men |i* Tierra del Fuego, who could only
supply their infants with drink in this
manner, and it is presumable that they
learned the lesson from the birds. Fin
ally, we are told that kissing Is an evi
dence of atavism and a memorial of that
early stage of our development "during
which the wife had not yet triumphed
over the mother nor love over maternity."
“I know two girls of nineteen,” remark
ed a woman, who had been discussing so
cial ethics with a representative of the
New York Tribune. "Both are good look
ing and healthy, and have presumably the
same desire for youthful pleasures, one
is as cheerful as the day Is long. She goes
about the house with a face like a sun?
beam. She Is always neat and attractive
looking, and apparently never gets out of
temper. The other girl, who lives in the
same house, is by no means happy. She
is continually finding fault with the condi
tions of her life, and, although her natural
love of excitement and change keeps her
ever seeking for pleasure and distraction,
she indulges constantly in what she calls
fits of the blues, but what are really only
the outcome of selfishness and egotism.
One of these girls has all that seems nec
essary to make life pleasant—kind parents
a charming home, money enough to grati
fy all reasonable desires, and plenty of
recreation and gayety in the way of so
ciety. The other Is separated from her
family by the broad Atlantic. She is very
poor. She works hard, whether she is
feeling well or ill, from morning until
nignt. Her future is precarious, her pres
ent a round of monotonous duties, and she
seldom if ever sees a friend. Which ot
these girls is the happy one? Naturally,
one would suppose the former, who is sur
rounded by all the conditions of an en
joyable existence, rather than the latter,
whose lonely position and life of toll cer
tainly do not seem conducive to good spir
its, but, oddly enough. It Is the one who
has least who seems to N enjoy existence
the most—the little Swedish servant, who
has nothing, not the young woman of the
house, who has so much, to make her hap
py. 1 was visiting at the house recently,
and I could not help being struck by the
contrast. The little maid brought me my
breakfast every morning on a tray, and it
was a pleasure to see her pretty, smiling
countenance and trim little figure in Us
neat, fresh cotton frock. Between 9 and
10 o’clock the other girl would saunter
Into the dining room In a dressing gown,
generally in one of her ‘moods,’ as the
family called them, which consisted of an
unpleasant display of snappiness and irri
tability, and full of her own plans and
requirements for the day. Which of the
two would you call the higher type of
womanhood and which fills the best place
in the world's economy—the mistress or
the maid"? Although the former attends
service every Sunday, and is charitable in
her way, 1 think old Bishop Hober, who
tells u that sweeping a room can be made
’an action fine' it done with cheerful con
scientiousness, would not take long to de
cide.”
The sharp nosed man, says the New
York Herald, looked dubiously after the
retreating figure of the stenographer. “I
am In a quandary what to do with that
girl,” he said. "I don't know whether to
fire her or raise her salary. I don't know
what to make of her. She Is the quintes
sence of either Innocence or deceit, I can't
figure out which. Anyway, she's got me
into a pretty pickle. About two months
ago some misguided member of a certain
benevolent society sent me two tickets
for a charity ball to be given at a well
known hall in Harlem. I was surprised
to get these tickets, for I supposed that
everybody who knew me knew my senti
ments in regard to charity.
”1 don't believe in It. I don't believe In
giving things away. I have to work for
every cent I have and I expect other |>eo
ple to do the same thing. To my mind
these folks that dance for charity and
sing for charity and cut ail sorts of di
does for benevolent purposes are only de
grading the masses they air sup|>osed to.
benefit. 1 had expressed thin opinion so
often that I was amazed that anybody
should a*k me to countenance a benevo
lent scheme by buying tickets for s bull.
Naturally, f hastened to send the the
tickets back. I put them Into on envel
ope and handed them to the stenographer.
“ 'Here, Miss Drew,' I said, ’you know
whsl to do with these.’ ’’
“ Yes, sir,’ she said, 'Thank you.’
"It struck me then that there was no
eras ion for her to thank me for request
ing her to |>erform tier regular itsiMp* of i
dull* s. but I didn't give the matter a sec- I
olid thought until Hirer weeks iater when
a le|sr>-*ent stive of the benevolent so. tety j
■ ailed to collect $!0 for the l<all tickets
" Hot I didn't use the tbketi ' I said.
"I don't believe In charity.’
" ’Pardon me/ be raid 'they were used |
H<<e are tisr numbers sent you at. I here
■re tbe tickets l#esi mg the same number
r ji|i stir <ak> u In at lit d**n If you
rtlda t ward li*ew you ought lu l ive re* j
turned 11*era to us at ore e SS t q'Uo4set
tn our >4sssis -oafwo ta you ’
lin J did return liisrs' t argued
ll.n. | ..Ic!4 in the oofrsgbet Mies
plea/ | Mtld. dutu t I give you two tot I
Ivluu eoMc MSS t# returned td
Wbr So# stye eotd ' tW gave me tbe .
$1 Mb, but f* s dedtt t say •njioibfJ
about returning them. You said I knew
what to do with them.’
“ ‘And what did you do?’ I asked.
"‘I went to the • ball,’ said she. *1
thought that was w'hat you meant.’
"I was furious, but I saw the benevo
lent society had the drop on me and I
paid them the $lO. Hie worst of it is,
the girl seemed so sweet and Innocent
and sorry that I haven't had the courage
either to discharge her Of deduct the
money from hef salary. I can’t make up
my mind to this day whether she really
thought I meant to make her a present
or whether she notified the society to send
me the tickets and then deliberately work
ed me for a good time. But, whatever her
motive, there is one charitable organiza
tion In town that Is now growing fat off
$lO of my hard earned money.”
All right-minded persons, says the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch, must be shocked at
the news that young girls have been so
foolish as to commit suicide for fear they
may become old maids.
Being an old maid is by no means a sad
lot. No one but an old maid can get the
fuM enjoyment nature lntenned us to get
from keeping pets such as dogs, cats, par
rots and canaries.
Now, this may seem a little strange,
and yet we know that many persons In
captivity have gladJy made pets of rats
and spiders. So the old maid, with lib
erty and the opportunity to keep a dozen
pets, is highly blessed.
The old maid does not have to get up a
dozen times in the night to administer
paregoric or rub liniment on n child’s
bumps. She Is in no danger of losing the
sight of on eye as a mother did a few
days ago from being poked by a baby’s
finger.
Old maids are spared the misery of help
ing to fill the number of the 23,472 divorce
cases that are granted in the United
States in a year.
Consider what opportunities an oM maid
has for joining clubs, for growing flowers,
for reading, for traveling and for gossip.
Max O'Rell has discovered only two
countries where men are In leading
strings—bis own and the United States.
The French woman, he affirmed, in a
recent lecture In London, is supreme In
the politics of matrimony. She knows it is
a question of remaining, not beautiful,
but Interesting; hence her little bustling
ways and her varied manner of doing her
hair. In this ‘coutnry, he said, marriage
was looked upon as the end of love-mak
ing, but in France, after marrying your
wife, you bad to win her—a process very
pleasant. If so many kisses were not in
dulged in before marriage in this country,
there would be more afterward. In France
not more than one man In every 500 be
longed to a club. As for momen's club—
ugh!
American girls Mr. O’Rell praised with
out stint. The animation of their features,
the brilliance of their conversation, their
freedom from affection, the picturesque
ness of their language—oh, they were glo
rious and unique, he avowed. The Amer
ican girl of 17 or 18 was allowed almost
every liberty, and she took the others.
In conclusion, Mr. O’Rell enthusiastic
ally remarked that if he could be born
anew, selecting his sex and country, he
would say, "Please make me an Ameri
ican woman.”
The wife of a Gordon Highlander, says
Tit-Bits, received some time ago an in
vitation to visit him at the barracks in
Scotland. She did so, taking with her
their little 6-year-old girl. When they
arrived, as it happened, t-he husband was
engaged on sentry duty, and so they
could not approach him.
The child eyed her "daddy” with a sor
rowful but amazed expression, as he
paced up and down the square shoulder
ing his rifle and wearing a kilt. She had
never before beheld him thus arrayed,
and for a few minutes the spectacle seem
ed to be quite beyond her; but for no
longer could she keep silent.
"Mamma,” she said, in a voice that be
trayed a trace of childish covetousness,
"If daddy finds the man what stole 'ees
trousers will he gimme dat little frock?”
The following Interviews with a distin
guished writer and observer appeared in
the New York World:
"Dp you think that, in addition to bring
ing a taller, stronger average of women,
the new century will produce women with
better complexions?”
"No; most decidedly not. There are
many women now whose complexions It
would be impossible to improve upon.
But I think that the average will be
higher.
"That all women will Improve I believe,
but above all am I confident that our
American women will continue to lead the
world, as they do r.ow. Say what you
will about Old World culture, the Ameri
can woman is the highest type known,
both physically and Intellectually. That
she Is the latter one can read In the splen
did forehead, whiah practically every
American girl has.”
In one respect, the American type Is
different from all that have distinguished
past times. It is democratic.
Foreign observers In New York or Chi
cago often remark upon the aristocratic
bearing of women who would be slow to
claim the adjective for themselves. It is
a product of the American spirit. What
will It bring forth in a century—not In se
lected specimens, but In the average—the
type?
The latest undergarment designed for
fair women, says the New York Journal,
seems really all things in one. It’s the
most surprising bit of underwear Imagin
able.
It is silk petticoat, corset, short under
skirt and drawers, all in one.
At first glance to the casual feminine
observer it looks like a Princess silk petti
coat. But. on further Investigation, it
proves to be a silk petticoat and corset
combined, and If It were not for the bones
of the corset It would be Impossible to tell
where the corset ended and the skirt be
gan. It forms a perfect foundation over
which to fit a gown, and, of course, does
away entirely with that almost obsolete
onee-upon-a-time dress necessity—a skirt
band.
Bui the novelty of the garment does not
stop in making corset and skirt in one
piece. To the lining at the bottom of the
corset, by means of buttons and button
holes, a filmy short underskirt and pair of
drawers In sheer nainsook are fastened.
In this way the modern woman of fash
ion may put on all her underclothes at
one and the same time.
But this little luxury must be denied
her unless she has a well-tilled purse at
her command, for this combination gar
ment costs anywhere from SBS to S2OO, ad
cording to the way It Is trimmed.
Lingerie was never more luxurious than
at present. The nightgowns, with their
appljqu<s of lino lace, hand embroidery
and la-autlful ribbons, are very lovely.
Many of the newest are a mass of tine
lucks and lace insertion. Those cut dee
ollcte and with short or elbow sleeves
are much the fashion. The newest chem
ise Is shaped prettily to the figure and
has lace straps over the shoulders, which
fasten by means of a button and button
hole. Accordeon pleated chemises are
among the lingerie novelties, and all the
latest mndelH are trimmed with lade.
Although white satin |s thn traditional
fabric for brides, crepe ds china Is In
high fasjilnnatile favor, and many of the
wedding gowns of proapeut |ve brides will
be of this lovely material, which readily
adapt* Uself to Ihe graceful, clinging
nodes lhat now prevail,
Folloalog the lead of I’arls and London,
malty of the alH'tiig brides will wear rohes 1
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bunch of orange blossoms on the wedding
slippers.
The shops are showing lovely designs
in bridal stockings of white silk in open
work and embroidered effects.
Lace veils are worn, and they are un
deniably handsome, and, if family heir
looms, there is a touch of sentiment at
tached to their use; many brides, how
ever, prefer the tulle veil, either plain or
with a lace border, which is always sure
to be becoming.
A pretty idea ds to attach one of the
jeweled gifts received by the bride, the
present of the bridegroom it may be if
suitable in form, to the big. fluffy bows
of tulle which ties the wedding bouquet.
Glace kid gloves are the smartest, al
though the suede gloves are worn.
The Game That is Worth the Candle—
There was never a rose without a thorn,
Never a cake that we ate and had,
The cow had ever a crumpled horn
To toss the maiden all forlorn
Until she was yet more sad.
The apples over the farmer's wall
Were probably grafted from Eden's tree,
But when we had eaten them after all,
Trespassing somewhere about nightfall.
They commonly failed to agree.
And love, my Phyllida, love, the rose.
Love, the apple that tempted Eve?—
Because of the thorn that about it grows,
Because of the greenness that nothing
shows,
Apple and rose shall we leave?
No, my Phyllida, come what may.
Bleeding fingers or broken hearts;
Live and love for our little day.
Tear off armor and cast away
Shields against Cupid’s darts!
—Westminster Gazette.
Perhaps the recent discovery of a well
known physician, says the New York
Tribune, will bring even more Influence
to bear against bridge whist than the
openly expressed disapproval of the clergy.
The former aflirmw that Its effects are
distinctly aging: that those who are ad
dicted to constant play acquire new lines
and wrinkles in an Incredibly short space
of time; that there is a painful contract
ion of the brow that permanently mars
the smoothness, and a set look about the
mouth that is not becoming, and effects
the expression afterword. If the fair de
votees of the game once realize this truth
they will probably hesitate about spending
six afternoons a week over their card ta
bles, as mqny of them have done this
winter. But this is not all. It not only
affects your beauty, mesdumes, but it is
also, they say, very bud for your health.
One of the best whist players of her set
has been positively forbidden by her doc
tor to play any more, the constant strain
having proven 100 much for her nerves.
It is easy to believe both assertions If
one watches a partle carree over the ab
sorbing game of the hour. The interest
seems to be Just as Intense whether a
money stake Is played or not. The lines
of t>erptexed thought on tho face and the
nervous manner proves that the doctors
are right, and bridge whist played us it
often Is now—to excess—might easily be
detrimental to lmth looks ami health.
"And It’s only ’bumhlepuppy’ whist that
the women iiiay, anyway.” laughingly
said a clubman. ”1 will tell you a futtn/
Incident apropos of their play. You know
Mrs. ’/. ami Mrs. A. ore lmth very touch
stuck on the game. Well, the other even
ing I was dining at the ll.’s, and after din
ner, when we went up to Ihe drawing
room, we found four of the women (th
above mentioned among them) playing
‘bridge.’ Under preiensa of shuffling for
tin in, I abet!anu*l four cards, one Of
them a king, another a Jack, With two
smaller tales, all of different suits, of
■ sense, that made Ihe deal ■■Hue rigid,]
Ho ihey cut, <*• alt and played without die- |
covering tin* different* One or two oilier I
Ite'ii who cane Up to watch dts<,v,-ied j
tlte shortage at ome, ond when I showed
• lot,, Hie <ails up in* s’aev# acre hugely j
■#nu* I Hut tie MNIISU Wei l oil |,la>ihg>
In iUseful ignorance until they had tin-I
tailed tbet, rubber.’ Then l tool them,
and ii t *i i<lota tea* angry they were! I
I sin slisMMnt / ail u,ei forgite me
f. eto gave a barge dmr Up- o . , da> j
and yulMelh left M* OHM,
A MODEL CHINA CLOSET.
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CORRECT ARRANGEMENT FOR CHINA.
The china closet In nt least half the
houses is built Into tho wall. This dis
poses of location. Homemakers have to
accept the goods and the ills the landlords
provide, but wherever located It is im
perative to have good shelves and plenty
of them. Very many built-in closets have
shelves much, too far apart. But it is
sometimes possible to make Ihe high
shelves answer by putting screw hooks all
over the under sides and hanging there
cups and mugs, little pitches, etc. Hang
the saucers against tho wall buck of the
cups by means of flat wire china raoks.
There may be a double or even a treble
row of the racks. In filling them study
colors us much as possible. With saucers
of various sizes, put the biggest at the ]
bottom, unless such placing ruins the .
closet color scheme.
Well arranged and full of handsome
Wares, a china closet Is among (lie best
ornaments of a dining room, 'lint the
walla to match the general lone of the
room, or else cover them with a very j
thin, hardwood veneer, accurately fitted 1
and lacked in place with the smallest
size braids. Varnish the veueer, and keep
clean by weekly wipings with a soft cloth
wrung veiy dry out of tepid water.
10-avn the shelf surfaces plain and cover
tilMll with linen, ■ ill to lit, and ornament
with a line of drawn work. Heavy bui> U
erg' linen la heat, though the soft toned
art linen* may be effectively used HH i
one shelf apart for glasses, preferably the |
upper one. Out Urn linen for It twice the j
shelf width. Item It aH ground, then |
double 11, Tliu* then, la a llrhl pa I all
over the. atiHf. 11 can la kept a* fresh
as the single covers, and will safeguard
expctislvo glass. Klg pieces of cut glass,
esp** lufly punch an 4 saia4 bow la, may
brisk under tht jar of oe,.iug down
Ufwnt a lc>4 surfs,* M>e than thst,
t,uy l,g v e been known to la,ok ' I IMS VI *
fits>ion dug tu heavy ,p■ er traffic ciosO
about the house. Jarring; of any kind Hb
deed may induce a fracture. The linen
pads stop all this. It Is moreover a fit
and dainty base for flue crystal. Never
set anything; inside a piece of cut glass.
To do so is to invite calamity.
With a crowded glass shelf, put down
small pieces first, Inverting them, then
turn bigger pieces over tihem, taking care
that they do not touch. But before risk
ing a big bowl thus upon Its own margin,
it is well to test it, and see if it presses
equally nil around. The slightest inequal
ity may mean destruction.
Pressed glass and colored glass may h*
Piled together with comparative impunity.
But if when the idle is jarred any piec#
in It gives out n harsh rattle, it is wish
to recast It. The rattle portends break
age, since it shows that something presses
unevenly! Blender-stemmed wine glasses
look pretty tied in clusters of three, ths
stems crossing and suspended by bright
ribbons from screw hooks In the top
They need not hang low enough to men
ace other things, t'laret Jugs can •’*
likewise hung and other fiat thingw may
go in racks across the back. In that
case itie back needa a padded Until, Ilka
the shelf proper. Test hanging things
by setting them swinging. *o as to maka
certain they wtil not strike anything el* 1 ’
Keep plates carefully sorted, and piled
slse and pattern together. Give big plet
terg room uiton the lowermost shelf ••
It i not properly grooved, tack strips of
lath along It, and cut lb* linen for It wide
enough to go In misl out. Stand me pi n
levs i;n edge, lh biggest nest the wsl
graduating them toward tha front "''b
a very high gtielf s|*are they look pert
tier on end, ths highest hi the niiddl'
and gelling lower toward ths ends. Hand
some < over ad dtshes ft best sat it* • r<> *
In flout of In* dst ones. I'se JoJgmeni
glut all eys for teOtf 40 lit pladfllfe. I
slush, > tear >•!has tat again*-' s • *
g> mind ol -lull blue, lllu'iiii'ao oterythisi
• mmiml lit