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WOMAN’S WORLD
THE VALUE OF BEAUTY.
What is a woman's beauty worth?
Asthetically, of course, it is a pleas
ure forever, and the woman who can
really enjoy contemplating her reflec
tion in the mirror must find life a
perpetual picnic for which there can be
no money equivalent. Neither is the
solid inward satisfaction one derives
from being gazed at wherever one
Igoes by admiring eyes to be estimated
In dollars and cants, but apart from the
gratification to her own vanity what is
a woman's beauty worth in cold, hard
cash?
A Chicago working woman, employ
ed In a factory, whose face was cut by
an exploding bottle so that it required
five stitches from a surgeon to sew up
the wound, has sued her employer for
910,040 for alleged damages to her good
looks.
Is this amount excessive, or Is it
only a fair recompense for the loss the
lady has sustained?
This is a matter of vital moment to
women, for in deciding this important
question the jury before whom the case
is tried, will not only have to take in
to consideration this individual wom
an's appearanoe before the accident
and afterwards, and estimate the loss
that she sustained in an impaired com
plexion, or a damaged profile. They
will, in a way, pass upon the value
that beauty Is to the entire feminine
sex, and this raises a most interesting
problem—how much does a woman’s
looks, really, and actually, affect her
success in life?
Beauty has always been considered a
more valuable asset with women than
with men, and the girl who, like the
milkmaid can say "my face is my
fortune,” has ever been considered to
have sufficient dowry. This is particu
larly true in America, where, instead
of saving up their money to provide
their daughter with a dot in order to
marry her off, parents of modern
means Invariably spend their income in
dressing the girl so as to enhance her
beauty, and the girl's looks are de
pended upon to do the rest and pro
vide for her in live. Thus crudely do we
express the conviction that beauty is
all the working capital a woman needs.
Presupposing—what is quite true—
that matrimony is the career that ap
peals most strongly to women and
that almost all of them would follow it
given a suitable opportunity, the first
question that presents itself In con
sidering this subject is how much does
a girl's chance of making a good
match depend upon her looks? One is
inclined to say, offhand, entirely, for
beauty draws men by a single hair
whether it is false or natural, peroxld
ed or not. When a man hears of a
woman for the first time he does not
ask "Is she intelligent? Is she amiable?
Is she good?” But “Is she pretty?”
That is enough. She may be as dull
as a meat ax. He can listen en
tranced for houis to platitudes if the
lips that utter them are the shape of
a Cupid’s bow. She may be a spiteful
little cat and as sordidly selfish and
gieedy as they make them. No man
ever suspects a woman with a pink
and white complexion of being any
thing but an angel. With men, beau
ty in women is a satisfactory substi
tute for brains and heart, and the
girl who has a perfect profile has a
hundred times as much chance to
catch a good husband as the girl who
is a perfect model of all the virtues.
It is true that men do fall in love
with ugly women, and marry them,
but this is only when the homely
woman had all the odds in her favor,
and got about a mile the start of the
good looker. In anything like an even
race for a man's affections the pretty
woman always wins out.
Nor are men alone hypnotized by
beauty. Women are slaves to It In
their own sex, and the woman who
wants the backing and support of oth
er women can have no such valuable
quality as good looks. This Is strange
and illogical, but true. By what pro
cess of involuntary selection do we
women choose proteges? By their ap
pearance solely. It is the pretty girl
to whom some rich woman gives
frocks and frills. It is the pretty girl
who wants to study music for whom
we get up concerts to which we force
our friends to contribute and buy
tickets. It is the pretty girl in need
of work for whom we bestir ourselves
to secure a situation. None of ua
ever know how really sympathetic
we are until we behold beauty in dis
tress, and it is an actual fact that
when we see a pretty woman crying
we all. whether we are men or women,
have an Impulse to ask her to weep
upon our breast, while we tell an ugly
woman not to make a fool of herself.
There Is, naturally, no more reason
why a pretty woman should be helped
than an ugly one—only we do It. There
Is an instinctive feeling In us that the
homely sister can scuffle for herself,
and we let her do It while we strew
the path with roses for a probably
less deserving woman for no reason
on earth except that heaven has
blessed her with peachy cheeks, and
golden hair, and large lustrous eyes.
In this way good looks have a tangi
ble, practical value, that really
amounts to what politicians call “a
pull” with society.
In business a woman’s looks are a
most Important factor in her sunress.
Leaving out of the discussion profes
sions like the stage where beauty is
a requisite even above talent, or call
ings like that of the cloak and dress
model, where a twenty-inch waist and
a thirty-six inch bust measure and
a general air of style are imperatively
demanded by the advertisements, it is
true that in a Just ordinary, every day
avocation, a pretty face is a wom
an's best letter of reoommendatlnn
when she applies for a Job. Mon deny
that they are influenced by a woman’s
looks in employing her, but neverthe
less It is almost impossible for an el
derly ugly woman, no matter how
oompetent she la, to get a situation In
an office or store. It Is doubtless a co
incidence, as married men are always
explaining to their wives, that stenog-
Advloo to Young Husbands. |
t If rou are a husband, and as such soon expect ff
— 1 to Decome a father, take heed. Before you can \
r \ realize your fondest dreams it is necessary that
RSt 1 i v great suffering be home by her whom you love
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I IW affMMlCTHtakßßk " Mudwtlwod," it Ira. n all
raphera are always young, and pretty,
and graoeful, but It Is a coincidence
that happens with such marvelous fre
quency that it has put the elderly
and hard featured woman out of bus
iness.
Every woman in commercial or pro
fessional life soon learns that it pays
to put on her best bib and tucker, and
make herself look as well as Providence
permits, when she has to deal with
men In a business way. This is lot
bemuse men are flirtatious, for the
American businessman is very seld >m
that or sentimental in office houis, but
he unconsciously adopts a diffeient at
titude towards a pretty, well-gowned
woman, from that which he displays
towards an ugly woman in dowdy
clothes. Unconsciously, he succumbs
to the softening influence of youth,
and be’auty. and grace. To one he is
all suavity and complaisance. She
can sell him the life of somebody he
never heard of in seventeen volumes,
or get him to repaper the house she
has rented and put in exposed plumb
ing, or do any other thing within the
bounds of reason and gallantry, where
•as he instinctively treats the other
woman whose appearance grates upon
his aesthetic sense with the brusque
directness he would show to another
man—and a man who got upon his
nerves, to boot.
The place, however, where a wom
an’s good looks bring her in the heav
iest dividends is just in the common
courtesies of life. Nobody ever looks
at a pretty woman like they do at an
ugly one, or adopts the same manner
towards her. The ugly woman has to
fight for her rights, if she gets them
at all. The pretty woman has all the
perquisites of existence handed to her
on a silver salver. If a nfan gets up
and gives his seat on a crowded street
car to a homely woman, he does it
with the air of an early Christian mar
tyr, and looks as if he thought he ought
to have a medal for doing his duty,
but the minute a pretty girl enters
a car a dozen men are on their feet,
and she might have half the car if
she chose. And it's the same way
throughout life. It's the pretty girl
in the family who gets the good clothes,
and reigns a little queen, while the ugly
sister is a foreordained Cinderella for
all eternity. No man married to a
pretty wife treats her as the man does
the homely woman he has espoused,
for none of us handle Sevres china like
we do Delft. Back of all reason is
the feeling that the proper place for
bric-a-brac is In the parlor while the
kitchen is good enough for the article
that has no pretense to beauty, but
whose Justification Is its useful house
hold character. “And there.” as Mr.
Henry James would say, "you are.”
All of these things good looks mean
to a woman and it is no wonder she
assesses the loss of her beauty high.
Beauty is a free pass through life,
and while the most of us manage to
get along without it, nobody can deny
that we have to work our passage.
Dorothy Dix.
MEN MUSTN’T WORK.
Some remarkable figures published
by the United States Census Bureau
prove that women are now crowding
men hard in numerous fields of indus
trial activity. Many women. It is stat
ed, are employed as carpenters, masons,
painters, etc.—Westminster Gazette.
'TiB the voice of the Workman. I hear
him complain.
“Here is Woman, confound her! she’s
gone it again!
So long as she stuck to the learned
professions,
I didn't care much for her frequent ag
gressions.
Asa lawyer or doctor I said ‘Let her
be!'
She could not, as a dentist, much harm
do to me;
But now things are looking more risky,
I vow.
Right into the Workshop she’s followed
me now!
"She Jibes at a brush, and she shies at
a basin;
She won't be a cook, but she will be a
mason!
A housemaid? Not she! Mops, she
fancies, would taint her.
But she's ready enough to become a
house-pointer.
The thought of a parlor maid's place
makes her blench.
But she's found her way up to the oar
penter's bench;
And clearly—for who, pray, can limit
her tricks? —
She will soon run me hard aa a layer
of bricks!
"How, then, will it end? At this rate,
without doubt.
We poor Workmen ere long shall bs
wholly squeezed out.
Must we. then, be content to go loaf
ing around.
Whilst the Women pervading our
Workshops are found?
Or shall we—whilst they hang their
hats on our hooks —
Taka their places as housemaids, and
nurses, and cooks?
And meekly allow, to our Infinite cost.
That as 'Lords' of Creation our titles
we’ve lost!"
—London Truth.
SIGNS THAT TELL THE GIRL.
Much of a girl’s nature Is betrayed
by the little act of brushing & speck
off a man's coat If she picks off the
thread, or imaginary bit of lint, very
carefully between the thumb and fore
finger, it is an indisputable sign that
she is a woman of a very practical and
executive character, says the Chicago
Journal.
On the other hand, if a girl should
brush the coat lapel of her fiance very
softly and tenderly with the second and
third finger of her hand In her en
deavor to remove an Invisible speck, It
is a sure sign that she is more senti
mental than practical. The man who
marries her will live in a continual
ntmosphere of romance and bad house
keeping.
There ia still another type of a girl,
I who will brush the speck oft a man's
| coat with a broad sweep of the hand,
in which ail the fingers and thumb
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play a part. She Is in all probability
at athletic girl, who excels at tennis,
golf and the links, and who will prove
a high-spiritod. strong-minded woman
after marriage.
Then again, the girl who puts a
flower in a man's coat with her hand
held Jauntily upturned from the wrist,
and the flower held in the tips of her
Angers, is sure to be something of a
coquette, while the maid who gives
you only the tips of her fingers when
she greets you In the drawing-room
or public street is probably an ambi
tious girl.
WOMAN'S "SECRET OF YOUTH.
Tou have heard stories of old wom
en who became young again. They
learned how to take out wrinkles and
restore youthful bloom, says the New
York Sun.
But this Is a tale of a young woman
who became old from too much de
votion to social enjoyments. She went
to the opera too much; she danced
too long; she sat at dinner too many
hours; she lunched; she called; she
gossiped, until her good looks began
to flee.
The first intimation she had that
her youth had departed was not from
her mirror. Far from it. That tell
tale has never been known to tell a
woman the exact truth.
Seen In a mirror a woman always
finds her face pretty. The expression
is good; she holds her head archly;
she arranges her neck and her hat
just so. She is the pink of perfection
before her own mirror, and the looking
glass tells her so.
Seen by her friends this woman is
quite different. She has lost her arch
look. She is bored or tired or she is
off guard. She no longer looks so
spick and span. And her friends say:
"She Is falling off in her good looks.”
This is the history of every beauty
who enters society and goes the pace.
She loses her good looks gradually and
falls off In her appearance slowly. Her
friends and the public know it, but
the mirror gives no intimation of the
fact.
But to return to the beauty of this
story who danced and went out nights,
read by daylight and knitted by elec
tric light, and did all of the thousand
and one fashionable things without
knowing that they would Injur* her
beauty.
One day this woman, who was still
very young, received a circular. It was
from a wrinkle-effacing concern and it
advised her how and where she could
obtain a full supply of wrinkle reme
dies. A few days later she received
another of the same kind. And, in
side of a few weeks, her daily mail was
crowded with advice to beauty seekers
and with specifics and formulas of all
kinds.
Then the truth began to dawn upon
her. She w r as losing her good looks,
and, being a great beauty, the public
and her friends had noticed It. One
day she asked one of her friends to tell
her the truth.
"Well, my dear,” said the friend,
“I have noticed your wrinkles and that
your eyes are growing baggy and your
waist stout.”
“Let me hear no more,” said the
frightened young woman. "By the
time I am 3(1 I shall be a fright.” And
without saying another word, she rush
ed away home to begin her beauty
treatments.
And this Is what she did; She first
of all took up the obesity remedy
which Is now most followed In Eu
rope. She began to diet and for two
meals a day Bhe ate toasted bread and
stewed fruits. A small cup of tea went
with each meal, but nothing else..
There Is no limit to the fruit and no
limit to the bread. The only rule is
that only one cup of tea or coffee shall
be taken with the meal.
She learned to go without butter.
She salted her toast, but did not but
ter It, and she ate it dry with her
stewed fruit and her soft boiled eggs.
It was not an appetising nor Inspiring
breakfast, but It was nourishing, and it
did the work of reducing.
Next came, the facial treatment
Though less than 80 she had begun to
look like 40. She tried cosmetics, but
they made the matter worse.
A little face powder and a touch of
vegetable rouge Is advised by all
means. But It should not be used to
hide the ravages of time. It Is more
as a toilet preparation than as a time
antidote that it should be applied.
This beauty made, under the direc
tion of a Parisian specialist, a very
soft oold cream. She made it by tak
ing an ounce of cold cream and melt
ing it. To this she added half a tea
spoonful of glycerine, ten drops of oil
of rose and an ounce of sweet almond
oil. This she beat to a cream, and
nightly she applied It to her face In a
massage.
Her trouble lay at the corners of
her mouth. Many women have trou
ble with the corners of ths mouth.
They droop and sag and hang down
and look sad and unpleasant when
they should be attractive.
Massage the cheeks upward to cor
rect these drooping corners. Wet the
Angers In cold cream and rub the
cheeks upward toward the eyes. Do
not rub too vigorously, but gently and
persistently. Stroke the face upwurd,
using plenty of the cream.
Hollow cheeks are another blemish
that cornee early. The woman whose
cheeks sink in will look 40 before she
Is SO. Dissipation hollows the cheeks.
Too many games of bridge, too many
late suppers, a dunce too king will
make the chreke hollow.
'She beauty whose cheeks have lost
their dimples should have her teeth
examined If tbs teeth are all right
M is simply a ease of thin • hecks.
Xkiu thesha art caused by lwe
things: The flesh may have dropped
away, or the muscles of the face may
have become weak, causing the cheeks
to sag. The remedy is the same in
either case.
Take the cold cream —for one must
never work upon the face without a
massage cream—and work it into the
cheeks. Pinch them to wake them up
and set the muscles to working again.
Weak muscles are caused by lack of
exercise. Exercise the muscles of the
cheeks and they will grow strong
again.
Pinching the cheeks vigorously but
not hard enough to bruise them w'ill
strengthen the muscles. You will soon
feel the muscles respond.
Lifting the flesh of the cheeks and
rubbing upward, using plenty of cold
cream, will also stimulate the muscles.
To fatten the cheeks there is a differ
ent course. The cream must be thick
er and heavier and it must be plump
ed into the face.
Heat the face by filling the hollows
of your hands with hot water and
holding them against the cheeks. Then
cover it with thick cold cream and
spat it Into the skin.
Spat with the palm of the hand,
beating the hands now and then, un
til all the cream is spatted in. Heating
the palms of the hand is very Impor
tant, for it assists the cream to work
into the face. There is no need of
trying to plump out the skin unless
one uses heat.
Dimples are supposed to be a legacy
of childhood. But in these days—wom
en are wearing them also. Women who
have lost their dimples are getting
them back. And it is not a difficult
job.
There is a specialist In London who
is putting dimples into the cheeks
of her patrons by a triple process.
She plumps out the cheeks. She
teaches her women to smile. Then,
when the smile is at Its fulness, she
takes her finger tips and presses them
Into the cheeks, selecting the dimple
spot. After a few weeks of this treat
ment the dimples begin to come.
People who massage away the wrin
kle usually use a cream far too stiff.
Dump the contents of your cold cream
pot into a bowl. Set the bowl In a
basin of boiling water, and add enough
almond oil to make the cream very
thin. You will find that it acts much
better upon the face.
Have you ever tried to cultivate a
pleasing expression of the mouth? It
is hard at first, but it soon becomes
second habit. The woman who is al
ways whining will have a thin face,
with flabby cheeks and drooping mouth.
And she will look old.
But the cheerful young woman will
have round, hard cheeks, and a mouth
that is a Cupid’s bow. She will have
a mouth that lifts at the corners and
smiles of its own accord.
And in each cheek she will have a
dimple.
This is a state of affairs that is not
at all hard to cultivate, and one which
every woman—whether she is the
mother of a grown up family or not—
can easily obtain.
AN UNHAPPY
WOMAN’S ADVICE.
A woman, says the Baltimore Sun,
who has had a very unhappy married
life gives this advice to young wom
en:
Don’t marry a man to reform him.
It can’t be done unless he is under
twenty-two.
The woman who permits her heart
to rule her head makes a sad mistake.
If a girl loves a man. no matter how
dissipated or selfish he may be, she
plunges into m'atrlmony with her eyes
closed.
No woman should ever depend en
tirely on her husband for happiness.
It is folly and leads always to heart
ache. A married woman should have
a life apart from her husband.
Let her keep sweet anl true and lov
able, but beyond a certain point sh*
should not venture, lest she lose her
individuality In her husband's with the
result that he will Impose upon her.
Beware of a man with an ungovern
able temper, and almost all men are
endowed with this quality.
Shun the man who drinks to excess,
#6r it is a habit that leads to wretch
edness.
Avoid also the man who is selfish,
the man who considers always his own
interests before those of hl wife.
All men are fickle, 'and It depends
on the wife's power to hold them.
WITH AN EYE ON THE PUBLIC.
A young woman who lives in the sub
urbs and who often has a half hour
or so to spare while waiting for her
train says she finds a great deal of
entertainment by going ito a place
whore she knows there will be 'a cer
tain number of people, and simply
watching them, says the Now Tork
Tribune. ,
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“It is as good as a play,” she says,
“If you only look at It in that way.
The waiting room in the Grand Cen
tral Station is a very good plane, only
I always prefer to go where I can hear
conversations. That makes it so much
more amusing. The ladles' parlors in
the- big hotels are the best places.
Yesterday I had to wait about thirty
minutes, so I went into a very fash
ionable hotel and sat down in the re
ception room not far from a solemn
group of people who looked interest
ing, from the fact that they seemed so
ill at ease. A pompous and prosperous
looking old man, evidently a Westerner,
and his wife, a nervous, fragile, home
ly little body, were receiving New
York callers—a man with his wife and
daughter.
"The men originally must h'ave come
from the same place. The labored
conversation was full of local allusions,
while the efforts of the New York wom
en to seem politely ln-terested In the
reminiscenses and the deprecatory and
explanatory Interpolations of the lit
tle old lady were all very ‘amusing.
This was Scene No. I—like the continu
ous performance at a vaudeville thea
ter. However, I had a variety to
choose from. Such a pretty woman
came into the room, dressed in the
hight of fashion. It was a pleasure
merely to study her clothes. She
sauntered over to one corner and pull
ed out two chairs, which she placed
side by side, but facing opposite ways.
I wondered why she did that, but soon
saw the reason. She sat gracefully
down in one facing the door through
which came a moment after, preceded
by a bell boy, the evidently expected
caller. She rose, received him cor
dially, and then Ingeniously stepped
around, ‘and, taking the chair facing
the wall, left him no alternative but to
take the other facing the door. This
clever little arrangement brought them
very close together in a face to face
tete-a-tete, while practically hiding her
from general observation, for her tfack
was turned to the genera! public, while
the man’s figure was interposed be
tween her and the other inmates of the
room on the other side. ‘Aha! my
lady,’ I said to myself, ‘you have evi
dently arranged flirtations ,tn hotel
parlors before.’ Unfortunately, Just at
that moment I was obliged to leave to
catch my train, but I felt that my half
hour had not been altogether profitless.
That chair arrangement was not a
Wad idea!”
WHAT TO AVOID.
The girl, says the Philadelphia
Ledger, who would be attractive
must—
Avoid slang—it may sound amus
ing, but it is anything but ladylike,
and other people know it.
Avoid making faces when she talks
and cultivate repose of countenance
and manner.
Avoid a blase air, and appear bright
and interested in what other people
are saying.
Avoid making unkind remarks about
a person not present, as other people
will consider whether she says such
nasty things about them when they
are also out of the way.
Avoid ostentatious dressing or
clothes evidently too elegant for • her
station or means.
And, above all, have a chereful face,
although she must avoid the attribute
of the “Cheshire Cat” in “Alice in
IWondartand" —the cat who was all
smile.
DRINK PLENTY OF WATER.
Drink a glass of water when you
get out of bed in the morning, says
the Chicago Chronicle. Never mind the
size of the glass. Let the water be
cold if you will. Some people pre
scribe hot water, but that isn’t neces
sary. You may have washed your
face already and relished the experi
ence. You may have taken a cold
plunge into the tub and delighted in
the shock and its reaction. The brisk
use of the toothbrush has left your
mouth clean and the breath sweet.
But you are dirty still.
Drlng a glass of cold water and en
joy the sensation of being clean In
side. All that is luxurious in the cold
bath cleansing the outside is artificial.
That which should prompt the glass
of water after sleeping is natural.
Drink a glass of cold water In the
name of cleanliness. It becomes one
of the shortest and easiest of toilet
duties. It Is swallowed In a second,
and in five minutes Its has passed
from the stomach, taking with it the
clogging secretions of the alimentary
tracts. It has left behind the stim
ulus that goes with cold water, and,
by filling the arterial system to the
normal, It puts a spur to the circula
tion that ha* grown sluggish in the
night.
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that he buried it, but it was discov
ered in 1874 and five years later was
placed on exhibition in Australia.
CHARITY ANFBEAUTY.
“It Just goes to show how terrible life
in a great city Is for a lonely girl,” said
the minister's wife, according to the
New York Press, "when a young wom
an is so hungry and weary that ehe
will steal a diamond ring in order to
obtain a night's lodging and a meal In
a nice, drv jail. Did you read about
the Sarah Smith who did that?”
“No, I didn’t,” said the widow. ‘‘Tell
me about It, dear.”
"Well, her case was so pathetic that
the probation officer sympathised with
her openly and told her she need not
feel so badly about it after all; and
the magistrate discharged her on the
spot; and the Jeweler said he would
withdraw the charge and let her have
the ring If she would pay for It at her
own convenience; ana the Correction
Commissioner said hs would get her
a nice position in the Manhattan State
Hospital as assistant nurse. What do
you th'nk of it all?"
"I think,” said the widow, with an
Inscrutable smile, "that this world Is
a nice, charitable place, full of good
hearted people after all—or else that
girl must have had big melting blue
uvce. a retrousse nosa, cheeks like
damask velvet and hair like morning
sunbeams.”
A COMPLEXION BEAUTIFIER.
"You didn't know that tea wax a
complexion benuttller?" axked a young
woman, say* the New York Sun, noted
among her frlenda for har brilliant
coloring and fair akin, to a friend re
cently. “Well, it's a fact. I owe any
good look* I may have to Its use.
“I Warn<id to drink It the winter I
spent In Canada Everyone drinks it
there two or three t linos a day, and
you know what beautiful complexions
the Canadians have.
"It's Just so with the English girts,
the Russians. Norwegian* xnd even
ths women of India those of the better
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“None of your old-fashioned notions
for me. I’m for tea all the time.”
QUEEN TR7MSHEROWN HATS.
Perhaps the most perfectly gowned
royal lady in Europe is Queen Alex
andra. Her Majesty inherited the talent
from her mother, the late Queen of
Denmark, and her early training taught
her to understand what is becoming.
Not only is her Majesty unerring in her
good taste when choosing what is suit
able, but she is also able to trim her
own hats and bonnets, and often makes
some subtle change in the headgear
sent to her. This gives it an origi
nality not seen in the work of a paid
milliner.
CHOOSING BABY’S NAME.
If parents would realize the wrath
called down upon their heads in years
to come by their offspring who have
been blessed when too young to resent
it with the most hideous and incongru
ous names imaginable, those parents
would, indeed, hesitate, or perhaps
even wait until the child is old enough
to choose for itself.
Occasionally, says the Philadelphia
Ledger, an unusual name seems to suit
Its owner, and often a quaint, old
fashioned little maid will be found to
be a Patty, or a Hephzibah, or a Ma
tilda, and you never In the world would
have supposed her to be called any
thing else. This calls forth the fancy
that people, more or less unconsciously,
live ud to their appellations. This Is
beyond doubt true in the choice of nick
names—the Harrys and Teds and Jacks
are all Jolly fellows, while the Johns,
Henrys and Edwards prove plainly
that they were either too dignified or
too reticent to make many intimate
friends.
But names In general certainly In
fluence outsiders, whether the subject
Is personally affected or not. A plain,
ordinary name, such as Thomas or
Henry, sounds much more businesslike
than Cyril or Marmaduke or Constan
tine. Just why It Is hard to state, un
less it Is because a man is supposed
to taka after his mother, and. if his
mother was so foolish as to give him
such a name, it reflects inevitably upon
his own wits.
Just so a girl who spells her name
“Mae” instead of "May,” or "Mayme”
instead of “Mamie,” is branded at
once. If the name is ugly, at least
never alter the spelling—nickname or
change it by act of Legrislature, but
never writs it in a silly manner. At
least the victim cannot be blamed for
an ugly name; it is the parents who
receive censure, and the only sensible
way to do is to bear it. But read the
lesson and If It ever comes to pass that
the possessor has an opportunity to
name a child take pity on Its inno
cence and insist upon a euphonious
cognomen.
The Swiss government has actually
taken official steps In the matter of
names, and Just recently refused to
saction the baptism of two children
whose fond parents wished them called
“May I” and "Rlbello," which in Eng
lish means “Little Rebel.”
There Is in England a family which
has become famous from the names
applied to Its members. The father,
the late Rev. Ralph William Lionel
Tollemache, had a mania for startling
combinations, and of all his eight chil
dren none had fewer than nine names!
One daughter. Just recently married,
was noted In the banns as Lyonetla
Fredegunda Cuthberga Ethelswytha
Ideth Yyeabel Grace Monica de Oral
lana Plantagent Tollemache— The
oldest son of this man was known as
Lyonel Felix Carteret Eugene, and the
rest of the family covered nearly all
the names given in the back of the dic
tionary.
THE GIRL AND THE ALMOND.
A Mt. Airy girl, says the Philadelphia
Record, who is fond of a change of de
coration in the way of plants for the
centre of the table, conceived the idea
of planting seeds to see how young
trees would look. Among others she
planted an almond, and -watched with
Interest for the Arst sign of life. Not
many days passed before a crevice in
the soft earth disclosed a pretty sight.
The shell had gone from the almond;
the skin had disappeared. Peeping
through the dark ground a "blanched*’
almond came dally more and more in
to view. Then a lovely shell-pink
tinted the Ivory white, and a pale
sprout shot up. This sprout grew
with amazing rapidly and soon the
cotyledons appeared. Like the seed,
these cotyledons were Ivory white,
with a blush of pink.
Tho young tree shot up, frail and
white, but to Its owner’s surprise some
thing else seemed coming out at the
root. After a few days of patient mat
ing she discovered a second tree grow
ing from the same spot in the Jar. Her
friends declared she must have plant
ed two almonds; hut she insisted that
she had only put tn one. The second
tree grew up stronger and stralghter
than Us brother, and still ths mystery
remained unsolved. Those who were In
terested still declared she must have
"struck In” two by mistake, until Anal
ly It dawned on her that the almond
she planted -was a “phllopena”—the
trees In the Jar were twins!
“MAMA” OUT OF FASHION*
It Is no longer proper, says the New
York Pres*, to tench your baby to
call you "Mama." It Is not even smart
to let him say "Mamma." or to allow
him to uaa the dtgniAed title "Mother."
It may he hard to ellmtrfsie the sweet
est word from the English language,
but if you want to keep up with the
(pace of young matrons who never In
tend to grow old or even matronly
you ujuet relegate that word to the
shelf where now rest such old fashioned
terms as “Ma,” “Mammy" and “Gran
ny.”
The other day every passenger In
a certain Madison avenue car craned
his neck to see from whence a wee
small voice issued.
“Dearest,” said the silvery little
voice. “Dearest, may I kneel up and
look out of the window?*’
And then they all caught a glimpse
of a curly-locked girl and her equally
curly-locked mother.
“Yes, dearest,” replied the mother
sweetly; for she knew that she had the
attention of the entire car.
Another and more original mother
who scorns to copy the hero of “Little
Lord Fauntleroy,” has taught her baby
boy to call her "Darling.” Still an
other fashionable mother is known to
her children as "Mama Marjory ”
“Sweetheart,” “Motherkin” and
“Sweet" are some other endearing
terms that one hears every day in
the fashionable household.
It may detract from your dignity to
allow the little ones to address you
in this familiar way, but it certainly
makes you feel dozens of years young
er 'and establishes a sort of bon cam
araderie between you and your baby
that makes him or her seem even more
interesting. If this side of the matter
doesn’t, appeal to you, the electrical ef
fect which such words, lisped by a baby
mouth, have upon other people may
tempt you to go out of the beaten rut.
FOR THE STOUT.
The other day, says a writer in the
New- York Press, I saw & nice girl mak
ing awful faces at herself in the mirror
and pulling at her corset strings un
til I thought the garment would give
way in front.
“I wish,” she sighed, "that I hated
bonbons and could not eat eggs, and
didn’t believe in meat, and could live
on love and poetry. It isn’t graceful,
and it isn’t comfortable, and it isn't
fair to be fat," and she gave the cor
set string a final tug that brought
it into place and tied it In a hangufan’s
knot about her waist.
"If you could fall in love," I suggest
ed .
”1 did onoe,” she replied, “and I
weighed ten pounds more afterward
than before. I may have lost during
the fray, but I got over It, and began
to pick up beautifully the moment I
felt better."
“Well, If it’s slender, willowy hips
you are longing for why don’t you taka
to yokes? Eveiy stout woman ought
to have yokes on all her skirts, her
short petticoat, her silk petticoat and
the skirt to her frock. No woman
could look really badly or pudgy with
her underskirts fitting tight about the
hips on a slender silk yoke. The girl
with a figure like a calling card, on
the other hand, can wear the new gath
ered skirt, and side by /ide the two
of you would appear to measure exactly
the same.”
WHY PRETTY GIRLS ARE
NOT BEST WIVES.
That there is a vast difference, says
the New York Amerioan. between the
general temperament of plain and
pretty girls is exemplified by thousands
of cases.
A pretty girl, no matter what good
fortune is hers in married life, seldom,
if ever, thinks her lot might have been
worse. Her usual conviction is that
it could easily have been better.
Then, perhaps, sl-e sets to thinking
of Jack This or Tom So-and-So and
sighs dejectedly. With so many lov
ers to attend her court, what wonder
is it that comparisons between her
present position and the might-have
beens are somewhat invidious?
Now, a plain girl gives her mind to
something better. Her husband mar
ried her, not for the looks she might
possess, but for her disposition. Some
thing in her manner, or perhaps it
was her very naturalness, attracted
him with a passion that no pretty faoe
could give.
He sees in her his ideal, and he wor
ships her for her little peculiarities
and tenderness. He doesn't return
home from business to find a magnifi
cent damsel and a chaotic ice box.
In ninety-nine cases out of a hun
dred the care of a home to a pretty
girl is an irritating trial.
It takes her some considerable time
to grasp the fact that her husiband
married her, not for the sake of pos
sessing a nonenity and paying dearly
for it, but to have a partner who will
be the Jewel of his household and the
love of his life. He wants her to be.
not needlessly extravagant, hut to
give some thought to the responsibili
ties of married life.
But what does the average pretty
woman think of extravagance? It is
seldom she thinks twice of the conse
quences before buying that upon
whioh her 'heart la set, however un
necessary it is.
She always had what she required
before she was married, she will say,
so why go without now? Quite so.
She was never denied before mar
riage, but It is poor logic to suppose
that what was necessary then la neces
sary now.
A pretty gtrl Invariably 'has every
wish gratified, almost without stint.
If she cannot supply that want her
self, she will speedily discover those
who will. When, therefore, she is set
to control a home, extravagance is to
her anew word, and a bitter one to
master. It is an unquestioned fact
that pretty wlvea ore muoh more ex
pensive than those who are plain.
A plain girl’s view of life is much
more moderate. Her thoughts are not
distracted by singling out a number
of her admirers and weighing one
against the other in the balance.
It may be said that this is because
a plain girl has not so many admir
ers, but this is a mistake. A pretty
girl’s admirers are not always lovers;
but thoss of a plain girt are invariably
SO.
—“Madam, your dog Just bit my
boy. I wish you would lack him un
and see if hs develops hydrophobia.
"What! do you think the little boy is
'mad'?"—Judge.
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