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WOMAN’
WORLD.
The reason that so many women gp
bankrupt in happiness is not that they
have so much real sorrow, but because
they persist in borrowing trouble at
usurious rates of interest. It used to
be thought that ill health and deli
cacy in women were a hall mark of
feminine refinement and delicacy, and
for a woman to have owned a hearty
appetite would have been esteemed al
most unladylike. Thank heaven, we
have outgrown that piece of idiocy, but
women have not yet gotten beyond a
kind of sentimental feeling that melan
choly is an Indication that they are
serious minded and take soulful views
of life.
Perhaps no one will exactly admit to
that charge, but a woman who is
bright and lively, who enjoys a good
dinner frankly and a good laugh, and
who finds life amusing and diverting,
especially one who doesn't go into
spasms of anxiety every time one of
her children stubs hie toe for fear he
will have blood poisoning, and whom
doesn't walk the floor in anxiety every
time her able-bodied husband doesn't
get home at the minute she expects
him, is sure to be looked upon askance
by other women, and to be regarded
as frivolous.
This faculty for suffering from im
aginary ills, says Dorothy Dix in the
New Orleans Picayune, fills the sani
tariums of the land, and makes hun
dreds of thousands of cures for every
possible sort of fake religion. Half the
time when a woman is sick she needs
to have her imagination doctored In
stead of her body, ad anything that
can arouse her out of her dismal
brooding on herself will cure her. All
of us have known women who had been
invalids for years, who have been
cured by a sudden necessity. Some
times the kind, patient husband dies,
and a houseful of little children must
be fed and clothed, and the invalid
forgets herself and gets up and goes
to work, a well woman. I knew one
woman who was cured by a couple of
new dresses. Her poor “nerves” had
gotten into such a state that they re
quired her to stay In a darkened room
and everybody In the house to go by
on tiptoe. A celebrated neurologist
was at last called In. He examined
the sufferer carefully, and then wrote
a prescription calling for a swell silk
lined tailor-made frock, and a silk ev
ening gown. In the interest of getting
the clothes and wearing them to show
them off, the woman forgot all about
being sick, and was permanently cub
ed. Still another case I was personal
ly acquainted with was that of a wo
man who, after the death -of a child,
went into a state of melancholia that
culminated In nervous prostration, and
slouchy wrappers, and untidy hair and
a sofa. One day she accidentally
overheard a gossiping friend say that
she—the wife—was not going to live
long, that tha tit would be a good
thing for the husband, as he was too
young and handsome to be tied to an
Invalid for life, and that remark cured
the wife All the jealousy in her na
ture flamed up, and he rose up and
got her some good clothes, and was a
well woman from that day on.
Another of the imaginary ills from
■which women suffer is the fear of
poverty. No one believes in prudence
In money matters more than I do. but
there is reason In all things, and there
gre so ruany women who never Indulge
themselves in a luxury in thie present
for fear that some time in the far
distant future they may want it. They
can't enjoy a good dinner to-day,
dreading that twenty years on they
may be hungry. There are plenty of
women In comfortable circumstances
who might have, in moderation, the
things that make life worth living—
a pretty home, a comfortable table,
good clothes, travel, books, amuse
ments, yet who deny themselves ev
erything and exist because their im
agination has conjured up the poor
house as a possible destination for
them. They don’t seem to make any
distinction between prodigality and
prudenee. and because of the bugbear
of possible poverty they do without
everything they might have as well as
not. Yet it is the irony of fate that
those who have what they want and
enjoy themselves as they go along
seem to escape the almshouse Just as
often as anybody else.
I know women who get a good gown
and hang it up in the armolr, because
it is 'too good to wear, until it is out
of fashion. Igo to houses where the
parlor is kept shut up, except when
a chance guest arrives, and where the
best bedroom is kept for company and
not used once a year. Every bit of
pretty furniture is kept shrouded ip
linen. Mosquito netting is over the
pictures and the bric-a-brac, every
thing is being saved for—what? I
don’t know. I have asked myself that
question a thousand times, but some
where in the back of the head of the
mistress is a bogle of dread of some
imaginary 111. Perhaps she thinks
that the time may come when she
won’t have enough clothes, or a chair
to sit on, or a picture to look at. Per
haps she doesn’t know herself why she
does it, but, none the less, she is do
ing a wrong and wicked thing to cheat
herself and her family out of the com
fort and good they could get out of
their possessions to-day. Be sure that
when we come to the end of life it is
rot the things we have enjoyed we
shall regret. It is the pleasures we
have missed. There is a world of phil
osophy in the exclamation of the glut
tonous old king: “Let fate do her
worst. I have dined.”
What women suffer in discounting
the misfortunes that might happen to
their families has made the world a
good understudy of purgatory for
many a wife and mother. As soon as
a woman loves a man she seems to
regard him as an Imbecile who is not
capable of walking downtown without
getting run over by the street cars.
He may have taken perfectly good care
of himself for forty years before she
ever saw him, but the minute she mar
ries him she begins worrying about
his getting his feet wet, or eating
something that doesn’t agree with him,
and if he Is detained downtown at
night, she goes into hysterics while
she pictures him being set upon by
murderers And thieves.
It Is a common Impression, says the
Chicago Chronicle, that all women are
cowards in the presence of mice and
snakes. But, however much a mouse
may inspire terror in the feminine
breast, all members of the sex are
not dismayed in the presence of a wrig
gling, venomous serpent, as the fol
lowing instances will testify:
As Miss CasSie Yost of Carlton. N.
Y., was driving home from Utica, ac
companied by Miss Mary Wood of
Canal and Miss Ethel Wallace of
Utica, they saw lying across the road
a large blacksnake. Two of the girls
managed to kill the snake, while the
other one held the horse. They put
the snake in the back of the buggy
and took it to Mr. Yost’s, where it was
measured, and was six feet two laches
in length.
Several w-omen of Fermanagh town
ship. Pa., while out on a ridge in the
Sllna valley section, ran onto a large
blacksnake of the “racer family,“and at
once tried to kill It. The snak* showed
fight and fiercely attacked the fore
most woman, striking her on the dress
and held to the garment. She was
unable to shake it ofT and one of her
companions came to her relief and
killed the snake. It was described as
an unusually large one for that local
ity. about six feet long and nine inches
around the thickest part.
Mrs. Hiram Stiles of near Westport,
N. Y., has been missing her young
chickens for some time. Attracted to
the orchards the other day by a com
] motion among the chickens, Mr*. Stiles
saw a large blacksnake endeavoring
( to capture one of the fowls. Mrs. Stiles
attacked the reptile with a hoe, when
his snakeship made his way through
the grass for a tree, up which he be
gan to crawl. Mrs. Stiles struck the
snake on the back, which caused the
reptile to fall to the ground, where it
was soon killed. The snake was six
and a half feet long.
Mrs. J. T. Sembower and Mrs. Doran
of Unlontown, Pa., who are along w’ith
a camping party along Cheat river,
above Morgantown, showed their hero
ism a few days ago while out driving
along the Morgantown road. Just af
ter they had crossed the bridge over
the Cheat they came across a copper
head snake along the roadsid’. Un
like the vast majority of th* ir ie.t when
confronc *d with a serpen*, they did
not try to get away, but set about to
kill the rt ptile. The tas.t was accom
plished after a severe battle and when
the ladies arrived in camp with their
trophy they were cheered vociferously
by the men.
"Do you know, many people nowa
days look upon your saying you're at
home when they call in the light of a
personal grievance," remarked a so
cially inclined woman plaintively, to
a representative of the Now York
Tribune. “Now, I am very fond of see
ing my friends," she continued, “and,
if I am not really out, like to have the
servant let them in; but I cannot help
feeling all the time with some people
that if I receive them they must have
exclaimed. ‘What a nuisance it is Mrs.
Smith is at home!’ and after leaving,
‘Now, we have lost all that time at
Mrs. Smith's, and eannot make half
cur visit.’
“So, what am I to do? I cannot dis
criminate, and I must either deny my
self the pleasure of seeing visitors al
together or risk these comments, I do
think, however, when people happen
to get In against their wishes they
ought to make the best of It, and not
to shew obviously that they are in a
hurry to get away as soon as they ar
rive. I always feel like asking them
why they came at all, why they did
not get out of their dilemma like Mrs.
Smart the other day. I was passing
through the hall, and I distinctly heard
my man say, 'Yes. ma’am. Mrs. Smith
is at home.’ 'Out, you say?' she an
swered with great rapidity. ‘So sorry.
See that she gets my card, please,’ and
before James co.uld explain, she tripped
down the steps and entered the hired
carriage which she had taken by the
hour She is a thrifty soul and cannot
afford to find people at home. I under
stood It all with her and did not mind
it in the least, but I must say I re
sented It when Mrs. Tiptop and her
daughter looked bored to death whan
they were unexpectedly admitted the
other day, and stayed Just two min
utes.”
“The pros and cons of the up-to-date
question of women riding astride, says
the New York Tribune, were freely
discussed recently at a luncheon of
prominent matrons at which I was
present,” said a young married woman
the other day, “and I was greatly sur
prised to find that nearly all were in
favor of the innovation. When the sub
ject was introduced I expected there
would be a regular chorus of disappro
bation on every side, for I knew a
number of the women present were de
cidedly straitlaced in their ideas, but,
to my astonishment, even Mrs. Prude,
who I knew was, if anything, too par
ticular in her notions, pronounced her
self as being decidedly in favor of the
new departure. ‘As the fashion is now,'
said Mrs. P., waxing quite warm in her
advocacy, 'men ride the horse, while
women ride the saddle.' I thought It
a very good description of the situation,
for certainly a woman has no grip of
the horse itself, sitting askew as she
does on one side, and if her saddle be
er s loose she is bound to fall with it.
-ou know,’ said another member
of the party, 'it all came through
Queen Elizabeth, who insisted that all
the ladies of her court should sit side
ways, a fashion which has continued
until now, when it is to be hoped com
mon sense will come to the rescue, and
women will ride as their safety and
health dictate.’
“ ‘I agree with you, as far as safety
is concerned,' answered the mother of
a fashionable and well known cross
country rider. ‘I have advised Elsie
to adopt the new seat for hunting, and
have even forbidden her to play polo
on the side saddle; but I must say for
ordinary riding I prefer the old style,
which certainly is much more graceful
and feminine looking.’
“As for me.” continued the narrator
of the foregoing conversation, “I agree
with Mrs. S. When it is for safety's
sake, let a woman ride astride by all
means, but I should be sorry indeed to
have the graceful, attractive-looking
equestrienne that we have always ad
mired become merely a memory.”
Young women in Japan have adopted
European Ideas and now frequently ad
vertise for husbands, and, as a rule,
their advertisements are well ' worth
reading. Here is one from the latest
Issue of the Aanazawa-Shembum Jour
nal, published in Tokio:
“i am a handsome girl, with hair
that is abundant and as wavy as the
clouds; my face has the brilliance and
the satin-like gloss of flowers, and my
figure is as flexible as a willow tree.
I have enough money to support me
during life, but I desire to pass my
years in the company of some loved
one, whose hand will ever be clasped
in mine. If I can meet a gentleman
who is polite, intelligent, educated and
a man of good taste, I will join myself
to him for life and I will share with
MUSCULAR PASTOR.
Muscles Built Up by Common Sense
Mubit.
"For years I have not been able to
drink coffee, as It made me very nerv
ous and Rave me a headache. No one
loved coffee more than l and It was a
severe trial to abandon Its use. Nearly
three years ago I saw Postum Cereal
Coffee advertised and concluded to try
It.
"I have been so well pleased with It
and Its healthful effects that I have
used it ever since. I carry packages
with me when 1 visit other places.
• When I began to drink Postum my
muscles were flabby, as my habits are
sedentary, but for the past two years
my muscles have been hard and I never
felt stronger in my life than I do now
at 60 years of age, and 1 attribute my
strength of muscle to constant use of
Postum. I drink it three times a day.
I fee! so enthusiastic about Postum
that I cannot recommend it too highly
wherever 1 go. Wishing you great suc
cess. your truly, Rev. A. P Moore. 474
Rhode Island street. Buffalo. N. Y.”
The reason Postum build* up the hu
man body to a prime condition of
health. Is that when coffee Is left off,
the drug effects of the poison disap-
I pear and the elements In Postum unite
with albumen of the food to make
J gray matter and refill the delicate
nerve centers all over the body and
in the brain. This sets up a perfect
condition of nerve health, and the re
| suit Is that the entire body feels the
I effect of It, i
THE HOHNING NEWS: SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 8,190 L
LIEBIG
COMPANY’S EXTRACT
of Beef simplifies sick room
cookery. A cup of rich beef
tea in a minute, before the
invalid’s fancy for food has
passed away,
The penoine always
bears tins aigaalute Xa ™ A- 9
in blue:
him the pleasure of being after some
years buried in a tomb of rose-colored
marble.”
It is said that advertisements of this
seductive nature appeal very strongly
to the hearts of young Japanese gen
tlemen and that several desirable mar
riages have already been contracted by
this mean.
It is said the Baroness Burdett-
Coutts is much “broken up” over the
financial troubles of her American
brother-in-law, Sir Ellis Ashmead-
Bartlett, and the disturbance in CBn
nection with the hospitals in South
Africa. For a time, says the New York
Press, there was no better known wo
man in the world than the Baroness
Burdett-Coutts, but when she married
an American husband thirty years her
junior she Incurred the displeasure of
Queen Victoria, and after the hubbub
about her marriage was over she grad
ually ceased to occupy the large share
of public attention which she had at
tracted as a benevolent spinster and a
Lady Bountiful for all the world. The
Baroness has been ailing of late and
her doctor has ordered that she shall
have complete rest and not be bothered
any more by hospital scap'dals or
bankrupt brothers-in-law.
When one realizes that Angela Bur
dett-Coutts was born before the battle
of Waterloo it does not appear sur
prising that she has lost some of her
former elasticity and strength. The
enormous wealth from which Lady
Bui dett-Coutts has given so abundant
ly cam* to her in her twenty-third
year. When she was born the chances
of her ever coming into the possession
of the great fortune of her grandfa
ther, Thomas Coutts, the banker, were
exceedingly small. The banker had
married for his second wife Harriet
Mellon, the actress, and left her every
penny of his wealth upon his death.
After Mr. Coutts' death the expec
tations of his children, such as they
were, were still further reduced by
his widow contracting a second mar
riage with the Duke of St. Alban s. J'lie
piobafcilities were that the canker's
money would go to patch up the rather
out-at-the-elbow dukedom. But the
Duchess, having no children of her own,
justly thought that as the money had
come from her first husband It should
revert to his descendants. She there
fore chose the youngest daughter of
Mr. Coutts’ youngest daughter, Angela
Burdett, and to her she willed the vast
wealth of her grandfather, making only
one small condition, which was that the
girl should take the name and arms of
Coutts. This was in 1537.
The young lady at once became the
great matrimonial prize of the day,
but she sent all suitors about their
business and settled down to a life of
celibacy and munificent charity. For
her great benefactions she was made
a peeress in 1871. When the Bartlett
boys. William and Ellis, came into a
little property and went to England to
seek their fortunes William secured,
after a while ,a position as secretary
to the aged baroness. He became well
known as the almoner of Lady Coutts,
and was regarded as a rising young
man in London, when one day the
world was astonished by the announce
ment of his marriage to his
noble patron and employer. This
was in 1881, and the bride was of
the mature age of 67. while the bride
groom was 37. The Queen was shock
ed and inexpressibly grieved, and never
forgave the Baroness or her husband.
When William Bartlett came into his
first windfall by interitance from his
mother's family he took the name of
Ashmead in addition to his own, and
after his marriage with the Baroness
Burdett-Coutts he tacked on her two
names to his. so that his card now
reads "Mr. William Ashmead-Bartlett-
Burdett-Coutts’’-*-three hyphens, which
Is doing pretty well for a poor Yankee
boy.
Why do women dislike w omen? asks
the Denver Times.
"It isn't jealousy,” said one of tne
sex, who Is a newspaper reporter, “be
cause the dislike is not confined to
homely and unsuccessful women, and
the objects are not always pretty and
successful ones. It may be because wo
men are not so easily ‘done.' From a
reporter's point of view, it is distinct
ly humiliating to feel that you are tol
erated in your professional capacity
Just because you are a woman, that
you are given time and attention that
would not be shown a man simply be
cause it is not customary to show a
woman out the door.
“And yet all women in business do
take advantage of these little courte
sies, shameful as the admission may
seem. But it is not really indefensible.
A woman works under so many handi
caps that do not touch a man that an
occasional advantage must be eagerly
stixed to make chances anything like
even. She is denied the inestimable help
of bullying, and her smiles and glances
are just another form of 'bluff,' but
then it is the only form left her and
makes Just so much for success.
“It is not because women are women
that they are disliked by their own
sex in business. It is because the aver
age 'home woman’ doesn’t understand.
Usually she is monarch in her home,
absolutely the most important person
in it, and she loses the true apprecia
tion of the importance of other people
outside it. A man in business is con
stantly brought in contact with men
who are his equals or superiors, who
have equal rights with him, whereas a
woman may spend two hours a day
visiting with aallers of her own grade
of intelligence, as against sixteen spent
with the children and the servants.
When she does meet men it is either in
the capacity of grocery boys or clerks
whose business it is to defer to her
opinions, however illogical, or in a so
cial way when it isn’t worth while to
combat her ideas if they happen to be
erratic.
“So that unless she makes a very
great effort she becomes positive and
dogmatic, and when she meets other
women where there is a clash of in
terests, she expects the same
deference from them that she
receives in her daily surround
ings from men. and this is in
a great measure the reason why wo
men's discussion, when it strays out
side the realms of dress and babies, is
not always as peaceful as is desirable.
“Their daily habit of acting as sole
dictator sometimes discounts the opin
ions of others, and leads each woman
to expect of every other woman the
deference to her little peculiarities she
is In the habit of receiving and gives
occasion for the misanthropic advice
in ‘Peg Woffington': ‘Do let the dear
ladies be natural, let them hate each
other.’ *’
Mr. W. C. Whitney's house party in
Scotland last month, says the New
York Herald, was perhaps the most
original. The host, as is known, stayed
in this country, hut his guests were re
quested to continue on their Journey
without him. They had the best possi
ble accommodation on the steamer and
a special train to convey them to the
i shooting box, where they were enter-
taiired right royally: And in the face
of this regal entertaining, is there not
something delightfully soothing in the
thought that if one has a house in the
suburbs, one can also entertain, as do
the smart set, by having a week end
house party with comparatively little
trouble or expense?
At Parting.—
With tears and kisses let me go,
Love not too deep fi
To kiss snd weep,
That love have many, many.
But one love, Oh,
It dotn not fo!
Pale 'ips it has, and tearless eyes;
Broken, motionless it lies,
A flower amid death's mysteries,
A rose that dies.
With tears and kisses let me go;
Such love have many, many
Thot other love my heivt would I now,
Or know not any.
—John Vance Cheney, .n September
Critic.
Vogue declares that the prophecy
that the emancipation of women from
the restricted circle of home duties
would result In connubial misery has
not been borne out by facts any more
than divers other dire predictions in
regard to the girls and women who
have struck out new paths for them
selves. A newspaper writer having ven
tured the statement that the notorious
ly happy married life of Mrs. Mary
Livermore and her husband, which ex ■
tended over a period of fifty years, was
an exception to the lives of most
“emancipated” ones, he was promptly
confronted with facts which convicted
him of a reckless disregard of truth. It
was pointed out that Lucy Stone lived
an ideal life with her husband for
thirty-five years, and that Lucretia
Mott and her husband, James, had a
long married life, the latter taking the
greatest pleasure in the homage paid
to hls-w-ife's eloquence. Mrs. Elizabeth
Cady Stanton lived with her husband
for forty years. Likewise did Mrs. Ju
lia Ward Howe live with Dr. Howe,
although the lady was so much eman
cipated as to serve as President of the
New England Woman Suffrage Asso
ciation thirty-three years ago, when 'to
advocate such a cause was to court so
cial ostracism. Other cases were noted,
and the paper clqsed with the state
ment that scandalous divorces do not
take place among those interested in
philanthropy and reform.
r —— ——
No women in all the world, says the
New York Herald, present so strange
an appearance as the gentler sex of a
comparatively unknown race in the in
terior of one of the Philippine Islands.
The history of dress contains no fash
ion plate that is the equal in oddity of
that which characterizes the Tiruray
women of Southern Mindanao.
Not only are their ornaments and de
tails of adornment most peculiar, but
the richest among them are weighted
down by such a quantity of virgin gold
that they might aptly be termed walk
ing mines of the precious metal.
The characteristics of these strange
people are peculiar to no other known
race.
Various parts of the country inhabit
ed by the Tiruray have never felt the
presence of a white fbot nor been scan
ned by the eye of any man save the
members of this mountain tribe. The
home of the Tiruray is in as beautiful
a country as can be found In the magi
cal islands of the Southern seas.
In appearance the Tiruray bear but
slight resemblance to the people of the
other Mindanao tribes.
They are small In stature In compari
son with Americans, but larger than
the Filipinos of Luzon.
Although the men are universally
dark-skinned from constant exposure
to wind and sun, the children of the
Tiruray and many of their women are
far from black.
m facial characteristic the Tiruray
are more fortunate than most races to
be found in the Philippines. Their
noses are much less flat than those of
the other Island peoples, and their eyes
are placed nearer together, giving them
the appearance of possessing a much
higher order of intelligence than their
neighbors.
Among the Tiruray the hair is worn
long by the men as well as by the wo
men, and in both sexes it is as coarse
and black as that of the American In
dian.
The men clothe themselves In what
ever they can procure, which is in most
cases little enough. Indeed, no man
loses caste in the land of the Tiruray
If necessity compels ■ him to discard
elothing altogether.
The Tiruray women, many of whom
are very handsome, make up in' curios
ity of dress and barbaric beauty of
adornment for all of that In which the
men fall short.
A Tiruray woman In her daily garb
Is an oddity; when clothed In her gala
dress she becomes an absolute curio,
and at all times the richness of her out
fit is enough to dazzle the eye.
Her garments consist of a tight-fit
ting bodice and a couple of skirts wrap
ped closely about her hips and reach
ing to the knee or a little below it. The
cloth from which they are made con
tains none but the brightest colors, and
in such clothing alone the Tiruray wo
man looks like a brilliantly plumaged
bird of the forest. But the garments
are the least beautiful portion of her
trousseau.
From her wrists to her elbows her
bare brown arms, well rounded and
strong, are covered with half a hun
dred rings or braoeleta, and a similar
ornamentation covers her lower limbs
from her ankles to her knees.
The poorest girls in the tribe are
thus bedecked, and the rings on her
limbs are made of brass. The rich
elass among the Tiruray women, how
ever, wear the same manner of rings,
with the exception that they are made
of pure, soft, virgin gold,
Even this array of trinkets does not
complete the outfit of the well-dressed
Tiruray woman. About her neck hangs
a necklace composed of alternate pieces
of bright-colored glass and bits of yel
low gold. A girdle of from six to
eight inches in width encircles her
waist. This, too, is made from the pre
cious metal.
Large holes in each of her ears are
filled with a gold button, and from one
of these to the other, under her chin,
runs a string of beads from which
dangles a hundred little teeth of
mother-of-pearl. In addition to the chin
strap of this ear ornament long strings
of brilliantly colored beads fail from
her ears to her shoulders.
No one needs warning of the ap
proach of the Tiruray maiden, for her
bracelets and anklets keep up a con
stant jingling when she walks. The
anklets are large enough to enable her
to remove them at will, but her brace
lets are forged on her arm so closely
aa to show the curves of her delloate
wrist.
All Tiruray women wear these orna
ments, as one hundred of such trinkets
as those described are given as a “dot”
to every girl upon the occasion of her
marriage.
In matters matrimonial the Tiruray
are quite peculiar. Although their cus
toms allow a man two wives, but one in
a thousand among them Is married to
more than one woman. Children axe
given in marriage at an extremely ear
ly age, often becoming wives before
they are eight years old. When mar
lied so young, however, the bride is
permitted to live with her parents until
th*y see flt to allow her to enter her
husband’s household.
The beautiful teeth of the Tiruray
damsels are seldom discolored by the
juice of the betel nut, which uni
versally used by the neighboring tribes
in Mindanao. The Tiruray girls are. as
a rule, healthy, wholesome maidens of
upright carriage, shapely limbs and
well-formed bodies. These girls are the
first of their sex ever seen outside of
civilization who give more attention to 4
attractiveness of form than merely to t
pose their bodies in attractive positions j
or court erectness of posture.
The broad belts of bits of gold strung j
on tiny fibres as strong as steel wire j
are tightly drawn about their waists in
much the same manner as their more
enlightened sisters of other climes
tighten their corsets. The belt is worn
by the Tiruray women as an article of
dress whereby the wearer may display
the slender charms of her form rather
than as an ornament worn for the sake
of its own beauty or richness.
When questioned as to the source
from which comes the gold of which
the ornaments worn by the Tiruray
women are made the stranger within
their gates not only fails to obtain any
answer whatsoever, but therefrom is
looked upon by the mountain people as
an object of suspicion and distrust.
From what secluded spot comes the
gold of the Tiruray bids fair to long
remain one of the mysteries of Minda
nao.
Mrs. Francis A. Leggett, writing in
the New York World about various
matters in Europe, says: The differ
ence between the customs of English
and American society? They are the
same—that is to say, all good society
has the same customs.
It is difficult, sometimes impossible,
to detect the nationality of those who
represent the best socially—men or
women.
I find Russians. English, Americans,
Austrians and even French—the fair
type especially—look wonderfully alike.
The English women are beautiful, the
most beautiful, I think. Yes, there
are Individual American girls lovelier,
but I am speaking of the English as
a race.
They have a peculiar style of dress
ing, It is true, and I admire it, and I
quite agree that it suits them. Amer
icans and French dress more alike;
French styles prevail little In Eng
land. A woman in a French gown is
in their eyes “sweet;” In an English
gown "lovely.” They affect any style
that lengthens them, and Worth is
the favorite for extravagant gowns.
When people talked to me in Eng
land about the beauty of Gainsborough
portraits I often said: "I see Gains
boroughs every day. At the operas,
in the shops, in the parks and from
every carriage a Gainsborough smiles
■good morning’ with a charm peculiar
to a pretty woman, who, In England,
knows that sweet expression is half
the battle.”
The distinctive feature of English
society? It is country life—the charm
of the country house. It is their best
tradition. I doubt if we have anything
to correspond to it here. I have, never
seen it. But then there are so many
great houses within from one to four
hours of London that everybody goes
for a week-end visit to the country
during the season. Sunday in town Is
quite dead.
This practice is very restful to the
overworked hostess.
I have heard transatlantic criticisms
of the English fashion of sending ser
vants only to meet friends at the sta
tion—but a hospitality that welcomes
and speeds guests coming and going to
several trains a day for every month
in the year would give hosts and hos
tesses an amusing role to play!
The difference between American and
English speaking? I think it is merely
a matter of a few colloquialisms.
Do the English women like Ameri
cans? Why not? They are mutually
sympathetic. A cultivated American
girl is like her British cousin, with a
little, sometimes a good deal, of vivac
ity added; and the American girl is
so accustomed to attention that she
surprises by the generosity with which
she shares her honors. I have heard
that quality extolled in the warmest
terms by her British admirers. Every
man she knows must prove his devo
tion to her by talking or dancir ~ with
her girl friends.
Yes, some of the Lady Provincials
object to our “perennial quest” of the
“eldest son,” but these are usually the
mothers of several girls, and rarely the
mothers of the heirs.
One hears too often also, that Amer
ican Influence is responsible for the
hotel life and restaurant dinners, so
much in fashion in London, but one
cculd answer to these accusations that
if America has introduced the hotels
and restaurants, the English fill them.
During all the time I stayed in Lon
don I dined once at a restaurant. We
were constantly invited to yarious res
taurants, to luncheon, with the inva
riable answer, "No, come to me in
stead” —and they did.
Some people, says the Chicago Chron
icle, take a malicious delight in spoil
ing the pretty romances of the season.
Perhaps, in the interest of the strict
est truth, they are to be commended,
but it is sometimes better to allow cer
tain exposures to remain unexposed.
That is the opinion of the pretty sten
ographer who makes pothooks io a law
yer's office in Washington street. She
had been given a week’s vacation and
returned to the office the other day, full
of the good times she had had at Lake
Geneva. Her appearance seemed to
bear her out, for she was as brown as
a nut. There is very little love lost
between her and the office boy, a pre
cocious youngster who lives in her
neighborhood—in fact, in the street im
mediately In the rear of her residence.
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her recital for awhile and then blurt
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I'm onto you!” “Why, James, what
do you mean?” she demanded, paling
slightly even under her coat of tan.
‘“Why didn’t you buy it at de drug
store?” Sneered James. “You kiii git
it in bottles.” “I can't imagine what
you are talking about,” said tit.? sten
ographer. “Oh, yes, you kin,” retoited
James. “You never got dat sunburned
at Lake Geneva.”
Then came the horrible disclosure. It
Feems that for the sake of economy
the young woman had determined to
spend her vacation at home. Every
day she donned a. bathing suit and sat
out in the sun in her back yard and
there James had watched her acquir
ing that lovely brown complexion.
When it all came out she wanted lo
resign, but her employer refused to ac
cept her resignation and now there is
nothing for her to do but livi down
her disgrace, but there :s war to the
knife between her and James.
The Candid Friend has this to say
concerning Miss May Bentinck and her
mother, Mrs. George Cavendish Ben
tinck; Miss May Bentinck is the elder
daughter of Mrs. George Cavendish
Bentinck, the head of the collateral
branch of the house of Portland. Her
mother was a Miss Livingston, who
represented one of the oldest aristo
cratic or Knickerbocker families of the
state of New York. The Livingston
family possess a charter from Charles
11, giving them the possession of a
property on the Hudson river called
gtaatsburg, which property is still in
their family, and is now held by Mrs.
Ogden Mills, the twin sister of Mrs.
Cavendish Bentinck. Miss Bentinck
is a very pretty girl, and is both clever
and we!! educated; her conversation is
neither vapid nor tedious, and she is,
perhaps, the best-dressed girl in Lon
don. Her mother, who is very pretty
and has a delightful little foreign
manner especially her own, is one of
the best-known London hostesses, and,
in her beautiful houses in Whitehall,
exercises almost unlimited hospitality
for many months in the year. Mr.
and Mrs. Bentinck have just taken
Buxbridge, near Godaiming, the prop
erty of Miss Monckton, for a term of
years, and they have been entertain
ing a large and very youthful party
therefor Goodwood. Mr. Bentinck
appeared at Goodwood races last week
as sole chaperon to some fifteen voung
people of both sexes, the eldest of
whom was not four-and-twenty years
of age.
Heartsease.—
If you take the time to comfort.
While you live the busy day,
You will find your own path brighter
As you light another’s "way.
Maybe someone's life is weary.
And your touch, like healing balm,
Soothes at times the trouble spirit,
Bringing nedeed rest and calm.
If you plan for future pleasure
It may prove too late for some;
In the sunshine of the present
Store the joy for days to come.
Stop to speak the cheering message,
Doing all that you can do,
And the great “God of all comfort”
Will His peace give unto you.
—A. V. 0., in New York Tribune.
It was Balzac, says the London
Daily Graphic, who discovered that the
woman of 30 is more fascinating than
the girl of 20. Now the Lady’s Pic
torial puts the zenith of feminine
charm a decade later, declaring that
the apple of discord is due to the wo
man of 40. It is an interesting pro
fession of faitH, and one wonders
whether the general acceptance of it
by mankind has anything to do with
that increasing tendency to defer mar
riage till late In life which modern
philosophers have often noticed and
sometimes deplored. If the woman of
40 is really the most charming woman
it is only natural that bachelors should
wish to remain bachelors until they
are fit helpmates for ner. There is,
however, one reflection that should
give them pause. However much more
charming than the girl of 20 the wo
man of 40 may be. there remains a
strong probability that she may not
keep her charms so long. That fact,
also, should cei lainly be borne in mind
by Coelebs in search of a wife.
There is no lesson that mothers
should strive more earnestly to teach
their children, says the Philadelphia
Record, than that of self-restraint. It
la from Us antithesis, self-indulgence,
that all the troubles and sorrows of
life are sure to spring. It is also a les
son tha fathers and mothers would do
well to practice at the same time they
are instilling it into the minds of their
little ones. It is what is seen and heard
in their home that takes root and bears
flowers or weeds, as the case may be,
rather than what you simply tell your
child he must or must not do. The first
lessons in self-restraint must be
teught very early in life; in fact, with
in a very few hours of the birth of
your child. If you indulge your child
In all his litle whims and fancies you
are giving him his first lessons in self
indulgence, and from these lessons will
spring all the faults and even crimes
of late years. If the boy or girl Is not
indulged in every whim he is learning
a lesson that will aid him to avoid in
dulgence in after life that would be
imprudent and harmful, and his char
acter will be all the nobler for the self
restraint that will become more and
more easy for him to practice as years
pass by. While you are teaching this
lesson to your child you axe strength
ening your own character, if you are
wise and just, and you will learn to
conquer many faults that have
become great through indulgence, for
the sake of the little one whom you so
dearly love. Do not let your love and
sympathy for your little child lead
you into indulgences that will in later
years prove his undoing, but learn to
restrain him for his own good- It is
an old saying that “an unselfish moth
er maks a selfish child." There is a
great deal of truth in this, and it Is
wiser for the mother “to conquer her
own unselfishness than to give way
to him when through laziness or in
terest *n some play he refuses to run
the errand or do the Uttle piece of
work that will save his mother's steps.
' Let every child have some certain
work to do. and let him distinctly un
derstand that such work Is to be done
without a word of remonstrance. Do
not allow the habit of j*ocr4sti na * ioQ
to creep in for this is one form
self-indulgence that will surely under
mine the character of the most at
tractive child. Let yes mean y es
no mean no, and you will prove ot
greatest value to him during his whou
life. Obedience, truthfulness and self
restraint will be most valuable to th.
child in afterlife, and If taught e ar iv
in life will form a character that will
strengthen as the years go by.
A would-be funny person in Law
rence, Kan., decided recently that a
certain widow was “fair game,” and
inserted an advertisement for a hus
band in the local newspaper, signing
her name to It. The indignant woman
called on the editor next day, and the
next issue of the newspaper contained
this denial, dictated by the widow
which would seem to indicate a sus’
plcion on her part that the joker was
a woman: WAS
“This may have been considered a
Joke by the saphead who put it in the
paper, but it was no Joke to me i
want to say right here that while not
averse to getting married the second
time, I am not so hard pressed that I
■will take up with any old skinflint
who may desire a soft job managing
my property. I may some time re
marry, but it will not be upon such
short notice that I cannot at least have
a fair guess at the character of the
naan I am marrying. I have seen so
many unhappy marriages that the next
time I try the experiment it will not
be with closed eyes. Matrimony may
be a leap in the dark with most peo
ple, but it is not going to be with me
if I can help it. I want to serve notice
here and now on the busybodies of
Lawrence to let me and my affairs
alone. I never stole any of your hus
bands and do not want any of the crit
ters. I simply want to do my own
courting and selecting. No doubt
younger girls can manage such things
better, or rather can be content to let
others manage for them, but as for
me, I am not so gentle that I will
walk up and eat out of the hand of any
of these old scarecrows.”
WOMEN OFFICEHOLDERS.
Does Privilege ot Voting Secure Of.
Sees—Facts Prove the Contrary.
Hold More Oiiices in States Where
They Have Not the Ballot.
Those who object to woman suffrage
insist that if women axe granted the
ballet they will immediately flock into
the offices, now reserved as political
plums for the masculine sex. Asa
matter of fact, In states where women
already enjoy full suffrage they do not
in any large degree hold offices, white
in those where they have no political
rights or very limited ones they really
fill a large number of state and mu
nicipal offices.
Miss Mamie Morris has recently been
appointed colonel of the military staff
by Gov. Candler of' Georgia. Her du
ties are the reviewing of regiments,
making speeches and attending *.l
military affairs. She is said to
been appointed for services rendeicd,
and to fill the office creditably, appear
ing well in uniform, sword and regalia.
The Illinois Senate recently confirmed
the reappointment of Miss Bartelme
of Chicago a* public guardian of Cook
county. The press declares that her
reappointment is a cause of public re
joicing.
Mrs. Mary Kincaid has been made
chairman of the San Francisco School
Board, a very important salaried of
fice. Women are eligible as school
trustees in over half of the states and
as members of boards for state insti
tutions in fifteen states.
In Kansas twenty-five women were
elected last spring to the office of coun
ty school superintendent in as many
counties, and a large number as coun
ty treasurers. Most of the suffrage
states elected women as treasurers of
city and county.
For thirteen years Miss Mary Meyer
of Boston has served in the Demo
cratic headquarters. She is nominally
'executive clerk, but is credited with
being acting secretary and assistant
treasurer, as well as an authority upon
candidates, nominations, parliamen
tary law, etc. Essentially feminine
in appearance and tastes, she has been
able to remain on duty forty-eight
hours at a time during a campaign.
Nebraska’s first woman auditor is
Miss Mamie Muldoon. She is only 21.
ar,d receives SI,BOO salary.
Chicago has for a long time employ
ed woman factory inspectors.
Miss Edith Hill of Greenwich, Mass.,
is one of numerous letter carriers m
the United States.
The city clerk of Holton, Kansas, is
Mrs. Mary Walker, who was indorsed
by three political parties and elected
by a large majority.
The first woman trustee of the
library of Lowell, Mass., is Mrs. Row
ena Palmer, who was elected by the
City Council.
Miss Kate Maher has just been re
elected as clerk of the South Caxolipa
board of pensions.
In Wyandotte county, Kansas, the
innovation has been introduced of hav
ing women as judges and clerks at the
primary election. The Republican Cen
tral Committee invited the women's
clubs to furnish lists of names fiom
which judge and clerk for each voting
place might be selected.
Miss Harding has been re-elected
secretary to the Omaha (Neb.) 3oard
of Trade. In this state there is a wo
man coroner. Dr. Ella Somers of
Franklin county.
Miss Margaret Ziliox of Hamilton.
Ohio, has for seven years been deputy
probate judge of her county. Her pow
er to administer oaths is curious, con
sidering that in Ohio a woman can not
hold any state office or be a notary
public. She has served under three
judges.
In Topeka, Kan., this summer, a girl.
Hattie Seitz, was made first deputy
sheriff, for bravery, having traveled
thirty miles on horseback, arrested
three men charged with murder, and
landed them in Jail-
Scores of instances might be record
ed showing that women are already In
office, not only in states where they
have the full suffrage, but In those
where they have none at all. In Wyo
ming, where they have voted over thir
ty years, superintendent of public In
struction Is the only state office ever
filled by a woman, and women are not
as much In official evidence as In
neighboring western states, where they
can not vote.
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