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WOMAN’S WORLD
THE EFFECT OF
ABSENCE ON LOVE.
In these parlous matrimonial times,
When it is equally difficult to catch a
husband and to keep him after you
get him, no question is of more real
heart interest to woman than the
effect that absence has upon love. Is
a woman most sure of being- in a man's
thoughts when she is so directly under
his eyes that it is a physically impos
sible feat to forget her, or does he
think most tenderly of her when she
Is far away, and her very remoteness
makes a transfiguring haze that con
ceals all her faults, and magnifies her
charms? In other words, should the
woman who desires to retain the affec
tions of a man give him her society In
allophatic or homeopathic doses?
This is a problem concerning which
there is a great diversity of opinion in
feminine circles both as regards be
fore and after marriage, some contend
ing that man is but a creature of habit,
imperfectly domesticated at best, and
that it is never safe to let him quit
eating out of your hand, while others
hold that more love is bored to death
than is killed in any other way. And
both of these opposite theories have
right on their side to a certain degree.
There is no doubt that proximity is
a great matchmaker. The real an
swer to why ninety-nine people out of
a hundred married the particular In
dividual that they did is because
chance threw them together and near
ness did the rest. They had no real
attraction for each other. There was
no special congeniality between them,
but just because he happened to be the
man in evidence, and she the woman,
and nobody stepped in to prevent
them, they fancied themselves in love,
and so they were married.
There are certain psychological mo
ments in all of our lives when we can
honestly think ourselves in love with
anybody. The genial glow engendered
fcy a good dinner has led many a man
to propose matrimony to a woman he
never thought of an hour before. A
sudden wave of pity, of sympathy, of
tenderness, or of loneliness, has made
a woman say “yes” at last to the suit
or she has refused a dozen times. It
Is a plain case of the time arriving
when you must love someone, and to
the person nearest is handed out the
prize package of sentiment.
All of this makes an enormously
strong argument in favor of a woman
staying at home and looking after her
fences, and this Is especially impor
tant before marriage. Indeed, a wom
en who removes herself to a distance
during the days of courtship may al
most be said to have thrown down her
best weapon. She is firing at long
range, instead of short range, and the
successful feminine conquerors all
know that a man will present arms
to the woman who follows the revolu
tionary warriors’ advice and waits un
til she Is close enough to see the
Xvhites of his eyes and then—shoots.
Nothing appeals to a man like the
Sight of a woman in love with him, and
to remove this spectacle from his range
Of vision is to clip Cupid’s wings. It
Is the spectacle of her flattering pref
erence for him that first attracts
many a man’s notice to some particular
iwoman. It is the knowledge of how
pleased she will be that tempts many
a man into making love to a woman
when he really doesn’t mean it, and it
Is because he simply hasn’t the nerve
to break an engagement and hurt the
Woman who adores him that sends
many a secretly unwilling bridegroom
to the altar. Of course, the value of
devotion is just as great, intrinsically,
far as near, but its effects upon a man
is not so great. It is the difference be
tween kissing a photograph and the
original—'the difference between saying
things in a letter and by word of
mouth, and so absence is no friend to
the woman who is trying to win a
man’s love. She needs to be Sally-on
the-spot.
In a -way, a love affair is like a busi
ness deal—you have to keep the inter
est worked up in it if you pull it off
successfully. This is why the best
method yet devised by diplomacy for
breaking oft unsuitable matches is to
separate the couple and fill their lives
with new interests. It is true that this
plan does not always work, for there
are a few faithful souls, the ardor of
whose affections neither time nor dis
tance can cool, but in the majority
of cases absence gently, and painless
ly, but effectually, drugs love to death.
Unless we happen to live in the same
community few of us marry our first
love. The young man who bids -his
weeping sweetheart good-bye as he
starts out into the world to seek his
fortune, swears to her that when he
becomes rich and famous that he will
return to claim her for his own. He
does. Indeed, return in after years, but
not to lead ihis faithful love to the al
tar, for she has been happily married
to the grocer this many a year, and
be has an interesting family of his
own, so effective has absence been.
If propinquity is so valuable in
courtship it would seem that it ought
to be equally valuable in matrimony.
SAFELY THROUGH
MOTHERHOOD
WITHOUT PAIN.
What a wonderful message of hope and I
•scape teem suffering these words carry to I
that woman who it dreading the hour that I
ahall proclaim her Moth-rhood. Perhaps for |
her it is the first time God Itai blessed her; I
with what swe and mystery and fear she con* I
templates the coming event which even now I
ia casting its shadow before in the wav of I
many painful diecom/orta' The hope held ■
out in these words simply means that child- ■
birth hat Item turned intnan event of thanks- I
giving and )oy, stripped of its agomes and I
dangers because of the learned skill of man. H
MOTHER’S I
FRIEND
U Ih# name of the remedy whkh mean* *o r
moth lo the cx (intent mother , the ran apt>l)r fa
It haraelf and leal an Improvement at once “
which bat foretell* the pain and Buttering I
which it *aete when childbirth ukr* place. I
The tMtimony of Mother* who have u*ed It
ecMCßAetully will convince you ; their word* ft*
I of praUe *r* found in our hook, “ Mother*
I hood." bend ter it, |Bj
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If a man falls in love with a woman
because she is the one in sight, it looks
as if the only logical and safe thing
for her to do is to keep herself always
on view, and many wives subscribe to
this faith. There are women who
never leave their husbands for a sin
gle day, and who Insist upon sharing
all of their spouses’ work anjl pleas
ure. They drag around the country
with their Johns when John goes off
on a business trip; they learn to play
golf because John likes it, though they
hate it; they pretend an enthusiasm
for fishing, though they loathe it, in
order that their husbands may never
be out of their sight. Theirs Is the
matrimonial trust spirit—to establish
such a monopoly on a man that it will
head off all competition.
It cannot be denied that there Is
much to be said in support of this
view of the situation. There is noth
ing for keeping a man at home of
evenings like knowing he has to ren
der an account of himself if he is ab
sent, and the fear of his wife is the
beginning of virtue with more hus
bands than we wot of. It’s an old
proverb that when the wife's away
the husband will play, and without
doubt the man who is insistently and
consistently chaperoned by his wife is
a model of discretion. Besides this,
unsentimental as it is, after the first
romantic affection has burned itself
out, domestic love is mainly a good
habit, and so long as nothing occurs
to break up the custom of thinking his
Marla the most beautiful, and attrac
tive, and fascinating woman in the
world, a man is liable to jog along
without finding out any better. There
is no disputing that there Is much
wisdom in a woman keeping so close to
her husband that he never gets a per
spective on her, and sees her as she
really it.
But the great tragedy of absence,
especially between married people,
when it stretches over any consider
able period of time, are the inevitable
changes that are continually taking
place in every human character. One
either goes forward or backward In
development, and It rarely happens
that two people who are apart and in
different environments keep the same
step. If they had remained together
they would not have noticed the lit
tle changes in each other because they
would have come so gradually, but
when they meet again after a separa
tion of a year or so they cannot fail
but notice the difference in each other.
The man may have little vulgarities
of speech and manner that the wom
an never observed before, or he may
wonder that he never saw how nar
row and provincial she was. Life lias
no bitterer moment than that which
reunites many a couple after a long
absence, and in which they realise
that they never can be one again.
Not all of the arguments, however,
are on the side of those who contend
that love must always be a personally
conducted campaign, for if love can
die of loneliness in the absence of Its
beloved, It is equally susceptible to the
blighting influence of ennui, and prob
ably the deadest dead love in the world
is that which has yawned itself into
the grave. The proof of a good gen
eral in love, as well as war, is the
knowing when to beat a masterly re
treat, and many a girl has owed a
good husband to discreetly withdrawing
herself at the proper moment from
the scene of action. Great an aid as
proximity is to marriage, there is al
ways the danger of its being overdone
and leading to common-place satiety.
Many a man h'as failed to marry the
woman he ought to have married be
cause he knew her too well, and has
married the woman he should not have
married because he did not know her
well enough. In courtship absence can
become an allurement of Itself.
In married life there can be no gain
saying the fact that the majority of
people quarrel because they see too
much of each other. If most couples
were married only three days a week,
instead of seven, there would be few
er divorces. Any two people who stay
together continually, see the same peo
ple, read the same books, and hear
the same stories, are bound to bore
each other in time, and the chances
are that the average family row be
gins in a frantic and unconscious ef
fort to infuse a little excitement and
interest into domestic life. Not with
out reason is the annual Summer he
gira of wives away from their hus
bands, and the nightly stampede of
husbands to the club away from their
wives. Except for these safety valves
the whole institution of domesticity
would be blown up.
The truth is that in absence, like
everything else, safety lies in the gold
en mean. A little absence makes the
heart grow fonder, but too much of
it is fatal to love. Absence should be
taken intermittently, and in small and
broken doses. Dorothy Dix.
SINGLE LIVES.
However noble and beneficent single
lives may be, says a writer in the
New York Evening Post, we cannot
fail to realize that men and women
were created to make each other hap
py with a pure and Joyous partnership
In which the whole requirements of
our hearts ‘are satisfied. When, alone,
men and women live exalted lives in
the name of humanity, or science, or
devotion to some great purpose, we
may rejoice that they have been en
dowed with power to so bless the
world, yet what we hope for In our
children is that they shall marry hap
pily and create other centers of pure
Joy. We want them to make good
wives and husbands, yet we let them
grow up greedy of pleasure, selfish In
securing what they want, and self
centered In everything.
When we oan produce a generation
of young men and women, content to
love each other and work for their
homes with brain and hands; when we
send forth our sons and daughters edu
cated to show their mutual love in for
bearance and forgiveness, then we shall
need no more legislation against di
vorce. When each home Is a school
in which Is taught the Joy of sacrifice,
the delight of spending one’s self for
the carrying out what makes the
charm of life to husband or wife. When
truth is the basis of love and fidelity
to every promise the necessity of even
a child’s life, then may we look for
a cessation of these terrible traves
ties of marriage in which men and
women bind and loose their flimsy
bonds as If they were cobwebs.
At their mother’s knee must children
learn what can alone enable them to
bear with human Infirmity In love and
make each home a reflex of Paradise.
COOKING BY CURRENT.
If our great-grandmothers could
glance at a modern kitchen fitted with
electric cooking utensils great would
be their wonder, says the Philadelphia
Record.
Restaurants and cafes were the first
to take to electricity. The beauty of
tho thing Is that It is Instantly avail
able for use and that thers are neither
matches, dirt nor fumea. Large bak
ing establishments, hotels, transatlan
tic steamers und uuwrtinentt houses
cams next. Wa have only seen tha
itvgiinlng of tha apartment house
tnovsmetlt In Philadelphia. It Is pre
dicted that tha day la not far distant
whan tha Phllsdelphla flat will maks
Its appearance und when it dues ar
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rive we may expeot it to embody every
up-to-date idea, electric cooking in
cluded. In the meantime the use of
electricity for illumination in dwelling
continues to grow, and here and there
the service is enlarged by the addi
tion of electric pressing irons for small
pieces of laundry or an experimental
electric stove.
They take up scarcely any room,
these electric stoves, for the smallest
are no larger than a medium-sized
plate. They range from 5 to 15 inches
In diameter and stand on a base of
slate or upon three porcelain legs,
according to the type. The largest are
used for griddle irons. There is a spe
cial size made for traveling. It con
sists of a nickel pot about as large
as a tincun, with folding handles, and
in the utensil may be slipped the lit
tle disc stove with its wire attachment;
the lid is placed over all. In a hotel,
on a steamship or in an electric-lighted
Pullman the tourist can make the elec
tric connection in a jiffy and have
hot water in five minutes. Men who
are on the road constantly have taken
eagerly to these portable stoves—they
are an unspeakable luxury when hot
water is needed in a hurry for shav
ing. Women who are touring can
make a cup of tea. boil eggs or pre
pare toast in this fashion without in
convenience.
In one’s own home the contrivances
for electric cooking are seen at their
best. There are hot water urns, plate
warmers, baking ovens, teapots, fry
ing kettles, waffle irons, broilers, chaf
ing dishes and in short every utensil
that is used over a coal fire or gas
range. For kitchen use the various
apparatus are substantially built, but
when intended for the table beauty of
design as well is not lost sight of.
The hostess who would serve tea with
eclat has an electric teapot at her right
hand and by the mere turning of a
switch she is heating the water, while
conversation with her guests goes on
uninterruptedly—ever so much better
than those awkward pauses which oc
cur during the refilling of a refrac
tory alcohol lamp.
The electric chafing dish makes the
serving of a welsh rarebit at a chafing
dish evening a real pleasure. The men
do not have to jump up and strike
matches and there is no flame to be
blown by every draught of air. The
degree of heat, too, can be regulated
to a nicety not only under the chafing
dish but with every electric cooking
utensil. Food once cooked may be
safely left to simmer without fear of
burning, or it can be reheated slowly
while other food is in process of pre
paration.
By some it is claimed that eleCtrical
ly-cooked food is hygienic in the ex
treme. We have all heard more or less
of the controversy about fried foods.
In the electric frying pan an attempt
has been made, by consulting with au
thorities on cooking, to determine pre
cisely how hot the lard or fat should
be kept in order that the article cook
ed shall retain all Its wholesomeness.
THOSE VANDERBILT HORSES.
The Vanderbilt horses have nighties,
The automobile dogs wear glasses,
And the millionaires’ cats now wear
cute little hats
And travel in Pullmans on passes.
The lapdogs in Paris wear rubbers.
Pet monkeys have appendicitis,
But the pick of the lot is this latest—
Great Scott!
The Vanderbilt horses wear nighties!
11.
The Vanderbilt horses wear nighties,
(The girl-horses do, but the males.
To be told from their mammas; have
silken pajamas
With cute little holes for their tails).
In fact all the things that the 400 have
They give to their blue-ribbon horses.
And I guess the next thing we shall
hear of, by .Ting!
They will furnish ’em all with di
vorces!
—Cleveland Leader.
THE GIRL BEAUTIFUL
"If girls In private life only knew
how easily we manage to keep our
complexion fresfh and smooth and deli
cate, they would not be envying, but
emulating us," said to the New York
Press, a little actress who Is noted for
her peoches-and-oream skin.
"Of course, an actress who takes care
of herself is bound to keep youthful
looking longer than the woman with
domestic cares, because her thoughts
are young and she is always in the
midst of life and excitement. The mere
fact of keeping on the qul vlve and
of constantly thinking how one looks
will keep any woman buoyant and
charming. But the secret of the the
atrical woman’s smooth, clear skin Is,
after all. In the brand of her cold
cream.
“I should say that the average ac
tress uses pounds and pounds of cold
meant during Uffe year. She Is never
without It. She oils up her complex
ion Just as the maehlnst oils up his
machine to make It work smoothly.
The small harm done by the make-up
she must put on every night Is more
BETTER THAN SPANKING.
Spanking does not cure children of
urine difficulties. If It did there would
bn few children that would do It.
There Is n constitutional cause for
this. Mrs. M. Summers, Box 404, Notre
Dame, Ind., will send her homo treat
ment to any mother. She ask* no
money. Write her to-day If your
children (rouble you in this way.
Don’t blame (he child. The chances
are R can’t help it,. |
than counteracted by the vigorous rub
bing in of handfuls of cold cream
which is used in taking that make-up
off after the performance
“First of all, tho actress chooses her
cream with the utmost care. She never
pays less than 50 or 60 cents for a
small box and $2 for a large box of
it, and she considers the money well
spent. A cheap cream merely roughens
and injures the skin, while a smooth,
fine cream feeds the pores. Some of
the delicate yellow creams are better
than the white ones. A standard make
is always better than an unknown
quantity. Once she has discovered
what cream she likes the best she
sticks to that alone, and ceases trying
new concoctions on her delicate face.
“She is no more sparing in the feed
ing of her face, than she would be in
feeding a pet house cat. She never
goes out without rubbing it with a
touch of cold cream before dusting on
the powder. In summer this prevents
tan and in winter it prevents chapping.
She always rubs the cream in thor
oughly, then wipes it off with a very
soft cloth and dusts on a fine, well
made powder. If it is a windy day
she ties a chiffon veil over her face,
and if the sun is hot she always car
ries her parasol. She drinks plenty of
water, too, and not so much tea as
the society woman, and she seldom
bothers with the beauty specialists.
Most women reverse the order of
things. They take too much water on
the outside and too little internally.
It is by doing things the other way
about that every actress, from chorus
girl to star, can almost invariably
boast of a good complexion.
“Another thing that few girls in pri
vate life understand is how to put on
a corset properly. You can take a fig
ure 1 and a 39-cent corset and make
it look like a figure 8 in made-to-oTder
stays by putting the corset on proper
ly. In the first place the corset should
always be two sizes too small. The
shop girl will invariably tell you to
get a corset the exact number of your
waist measure. Asa matter of fact if
you have a twenty-inch waist you
should buy an eighteen-inch corset.
Pull it in as tightly as you oan en
dure it at the waist line and let it
spread out fan-shape above. Be sure
to give your lungs and chest plenty
of .room, and you can do the most
cruel things to your waist without in
juring or inconveniencing yourself.
The too-small corset allows you plenty
of scope for this, and by putting it on
properly you attain that curve under
the arm to the waistline which consti
tutes a good figure.
"Still another point which the nice
home girl does not understand, al
though she seems to be learning some
thing about it of late, is the value of
the veil. You seldom see an actress
in public without a veil of some kind
over her face. It Is always perfectly
fresh; for she buys veiling by the
piece, not the yard, and she would
as soon go with a soiled face as a
soiled veil. Nothing is so unbecoming
to a woman as a veil just a wee bit
mussed and dingy.
"The actress studies herself, too, and
discovers first what sort of face veil
ing is most suitable to her complexion.
If she has sparkling black eyes and
rosy cheeks she knows that she can
wear a black veil, heavily dotted, and
that the dots will 'bring out the bril
liancy of her coloring. But if she is
pale or dingy she chooses chiffon or
plain tulle veiling of pure white. This
freshens her skin and softens it. What
ever her coloring, her veil always en
hances the beauty of it and gives it an
illusive brilliancy.”
SHE RAN INTO TROUBLE
The pretty little school teacher, says
the New York Press, burst into the
room, her cheeks aflame, and flung
herself down on the couch, burying
her head among the cushions. “Oh,
girls, girls, I’ve done the most awful
thing, she moaned, to the amazement
of the other young women who had
gathered together for their dally in
formal cup of lea. When she had re
gained composure she explained;
"You know Dr. Clark, who shows
such an interest In his little boy’s pro
gress in school? Well, he comes in
so often that I feel as If I know him
quite well. I’ve often wondered why
Mrs. Clark did not visit the school,
but I came to the conclusion that she
was one of the women who was will
ing to leave the matter of her son’s
education to her husband.
"I pass his home every night on my
Way up here, and to-day. Just before
I reached there, I felt my petticoat
slipping off. It was sliding so fast
that I knew it would be down around
my feet before I had gone another
block. So I decided on a bold move.
I marched up to his door and rang the
bell, meaning to ask for Mrs. Clark,
explain my predicament to her and get
some pins to fix my petticoat. But
Dr. Clark himself came to the door,
and. grinning like a Cheshire pat, I
said:
" ’How do you do? I came to call on
your wife.’
“His smile changed to a stony stare.
’Madame,’ he said, ‘my wife Has been
In her grave three years.’
“I just tumbled down those steps
and onto a car, and here I am. I don’t
know yet whether I dropped my petti
coat on the way or still had sense
enough left to hang on to It. And It
doesn't make ’any difference. What's
the loss of a pettleoat or two In com
parison with making that man think
1 am ernsy or Hist I was simply try
ing to find out whether he was a
widower or notP*
TRAINING OF A PRINCESS.
The Czarina of Russia, a grand
daughter of Queen Victoria, says the
New York Times, was brought up most
simply, as. indeed, was necessary, her
father’s income being barely sufficient
to cover the cost of living necessary to
one in his position. She had no maid,
lut dressed herself and was taught to
take the best possible care of her sim
ple frocks, many of which were made
by her mother, the Princess Alice. Her
nurse and governess were English, and
many were the visits she made her
grandmother, the English Queen, at
Balmoral and Osborne. Her sister had
married the Grand Duke Serge, and
it was while visiting her that the Prin
cess Alix met the Czarewitch. The
Russian Alexander was at first, it is
said, opposed to the match, and it wa3
only the earnest and continued en
treaties of his eon that induced him
to consent. The Princess Alix herself,
however, when she found she must em
brace the tenets of the Orthodox Rus
sian Church, made many objections to
the match. She had been trained in
the Evangelical faith and it was some
months before she consented to re
nounce it. and this was largely owing
to the* direct advice of the German
Kaiser, who advised her that it would
be much better for her country, that
she gave her consent. The change
from the simple life previously hers
to the grandeur and elaboration of the
Russian Court was a tremendous one
for the little princess, but she has re
tained her simplicity and to this day
dislikes gorgeous clothes and the wear
ing of many jewels. Of these, of
course, she has unlimited quantities of
the most beautiful as well as costly,
but never wears them except at court
functions, and then she selects those
that are artistically beautiful rather
than costly.
The Empress of Russia is the mis
tress of twelve palaces, of which her
favorite is the Alexander palace, one
of the smallest of the twelve, at Tsar
koe Selo. The ground about this
mansion is rather flat and overlooks
stretches of greensward lengthening to
meet distant woods, and there are
many conses of silver birch. Here, a
dozen miles from St. Petersburg, the
Emperor and Empress spend most of
the summer months.
The winter palace in St. Petersburg,
on the River Neva, is about 500 feet
square, and everything about it. save
the private rooms of the rulers, is mag
nificent and colossal. The apartments
of the Czar and Czarina, however, are
simply furnished in English walnut
and covered with cretonne; much of it
was bought in England.
The Emperor is a devout churchman,
and every day he and the Empress at
tend church services in the chapel of
the winter palace, a lofty, gilded af
fair. In this is a picture which tra
dition says was painted by the Apostle
St. Luke: it portrays the head of
Christ, but now is so dark that the
face can scarcely be discerned. Placed
under this old painting or ikon, and
contained in a jeweled box are two
embalmed hands, and here tradition
again enters with the story that they
are those of St. Mary Magdalene and
St. John the Baptist, respectively.
TRICKS WIfITwOMEN’S EYES.
"Do you want a pair of pretty eyes?”
asked, says the New York Sun, a
beauty specialist of a customer whose
eyes were not her best feature. "If
so, listen to my words.
"They are changing the color of the
eyes nowadays and I t*an tint yours this
shade or that shade and alter them
expressly to suit your face. But you
must assist me.
“It is all a question of light and
shadow. You can make your eyes
deep In tone or you dan make them
faded.
“For my part I like deep toned eyes
and faded eyes arc disagreeable to me
Deep eyes do not always go with a
sympathetic nature, but they have a
sympathetic look.
"If your eyes look like the limpid
wells you may be sure that you will
get sympathy, whether you deserve it
or not. But if they look faded or
washed out no one will like you.
That is strange, but It is pretty near
to being the truth.
"The prettiest eyes belong to wom
en who cry a great deal. Tears cleanse
the eyes; they rinse out the tear duct;
they carry with them the dust and
the accumulations of the eyelids and
they leave the eyes bright and pretty,
even though a trifle swollen.
"Many a woman can cry without
making the lids swell and these women
are fortunate indeed. At the slight
est trouble, or sign of trouble, off they
go into a state of hysterical weeping
which relieves the feelings and leaves
the woman bright and active again.
"After this spell of tear shedding the
eyes shine bright as day, and the wom
an who was pretty before becomes ab
solutely irresistible.
“The mental effect of tear shedding
is tremendous. The woman who dan
throw herself into paroxysms of weep
ing really goes into a state of coma.
"While crying violently she can feel
no pain or grief. There is a convul
sive and hysterical excitement which
kills grief or deadens it.
"From this state of crying the wom
an emerges rested in mind and beauti
ful in face. The slightly swollen ap
pearance quickly subsides, and then she
is prettier than ever. So cry if you
want to look pretty.
"But for the woman who does not
want to cry there are other ways of
making the eyes attractive, and one of
these is by keeping the lids and lashes
in good order.
"Do not cut the lashes and do not
apply ointments to them. Oils will
make the eyes smart, even though they
may make the lashes grow a trifle
longer. Better keep the lids in good
oondition, and then the lashes will
grow of their own accord.
"The real cause of short, poor lashes
is an inflammation of the eyelids. They
become Injured by dust, and the wom
'an rubs them. Then the lids redden,
a slight inflammation sets in and the
lashes fall out.
"Don't rub the eyes, but if they feel
Inflamed, as though something were in
them, take a little boraclc acid and
bathe them. Buy 5 cents’ worth of
borax powder. Put in a Saucer of
water a teaspoon of the borax powder,
cover it with warm water, let stand
two or three minutes until it is clear,
and then bathe the eyes.
"Opening the eyes under water is a
A Good RUB
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And often does relieve
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good w*ay to rinse them out and to
ease the lids. But be careful. It is
easy to hurt the eyes.
“To make the eyes deep and ex
pressive, women are resorting to a very
little pencilling. But, unfortunately,
this is apt to show. The slightest
marks of the pencil are apparent a
long way off, and the woman who tries
this should thoroughly understand the
art of shading the eyes.
“As to the good taste of the pencil,
here opinions vary. In France it is
universal to shade the eyes, and the
women of Spain would not think of
dressing without putting a finishing
touch of languor to the eyelids and
corners of the eyes.
“In London it is less prevalent,
though last season many English wom
en did touch up the eyes and were
guilty of a considerable degree of mak
ing up.
“In these days of necessary cosmetics
and of fine toilet preparations it is
difficult to draw the line between what
should be used and what should not,
and the woman of good taste must de
cide these points for herself.
“But in this regard it may be stated
that a very little of what is known
as make-up is not bad form and that
the woman who uses hairpins and
side combs, who dresses conventional
ly and uses all the little arts of civili
zation to make herself pretty, need not
hesitate to dip Into the rouge pot and
the make-up box. But she must do
It in good taste and scientifically.
“‘I tint my finger nails; why may
I not tint my lips?’ demanded a wom
an. And tint her lips she did. but so
slightly as not to be noticeable. '
"If the lashes are darkened, let them
be deepened by touching them ever so
lightly with a dark pencil one of the
cosmetic sticks which come for this
purpose. And if the brows are too
light, let them be deepened in the
same manner. But work carefully. Do
not let it be noticeable.
“But by far the best way to deepen
the eyes is by making the lashes heav
ier, by keeping the lids in good order
and by attending to wh%t may be
termed the hygiene of the eye. The
eye must be carefully kept or it will
show neglect.
"Here are some rules for the wom
an who wants nice eyes:
“Never read facing the light.
“Do not read with the head lower
ed. Hold the book on a level with
the eyes.
“Don’t read on a moving train.
“Do not read while you rock.
"Don’t tax your eyes when you are
tired or hungry.
“Don’t try to read Just one minute
more in the dusk.
“Don’t use your eyes when they
smart. Smarting means that it is
time to give them a rest.
“Don’t look at the bright sunshine.
Don’t face the wind without glasses;
don’t walk out on a dusty day without
goggles.
"Don’t squint, for it weakens the
lids of the eyes; don’t wink with one
eye only. It forms a habit and pretty
soon the eyes will begin to wink un
consciously to you. Don’t twitch and
don’t form nervous habits with the
eyes. These are things that are en
tirely within your control.
“But, about changing the color of
the eyes. Here you have something
which is interesting. It is a fear
which is being performed every day,
and women who are trying to enhance
their good looks are sure to learn It
sooner or later.
“There is a woman in London who
is very beautiful. Her eyas are a pale
gray. But she understands how to
change their color, and this is the way
she manages:
‘‘The eye. it may be remarked, is
capable of reflecting tones as well as
lights, and this woman works upon
this theory.
“Recently, wishing to have her eyes
look a deep violet, she hung a violet
curtain hack of her. She placed vio
lets in her corsage and she tied a vio
let stock around her throat. In her
deep brown hair there was a violet
knot.
“Seen by electric light, with all the
rays playing upon her, the woman's
eyes looked a pure, deep violet. They
were lovely as the violets themselves,
and oallers that day remarked that
they had never seen her looking half
so well.
“On another day this woman, wish
ing to make her eyes a china blue, or
dered all things blue.
"In front of her she placed a dish of
blue flowers. In her hair she tied a
blue knot, and around her neck there
was a blue satin ribbon. Seen In the
shadows of the room, her eyes were
as deeply, truly blue as any one could
wish.
“Dressing does play am important
part In the coloring of the eyes, and
you can make them prettier and bring
out their bones In almost any way you
please.
“But there are other ways of chang
ing the apparent color of the orbs.
Here are some rules as given by a man
who has studied the subject:
"Going to bed early will make the
eyes deeper In hue. The women who
wants her light brown eyes to appear
black will go to bed an hour sooner.
She will sleep facing a dark curtain
and will waken gradually In the morn
ing.
"Eating fruit and vegetables, and es
pecially apples, will make the eyes
brighter. Light blue eyes will look like
delft and the faded gray eyes will seem
like a clean blue. Diet has a great
deal tp do with the color of the eyes.
"Emotion, and particularly happiness,
makes the eyes heavier and deeper In
color. A woman who is deeply excited
will have glowing eyes, while she who
is restless will have faded eyes. The
deeper the emotion the deeper the tone
of the eyes. The pigment which col
ors the eyes comes and goes, and, like
tears, it can disappear from the eyes,
then come again with a rush.
"Healthy women have brighter eyes
than sick women, and women whsn en
thusiastic have orbs three shades light
er than whsn not rousi-d to enthusi
asm. The pigments of the eye rush
Into the color sons at the first show
of enlhuslssm.
"Bui 4t is tb women who take cars
of thslr eyes who have the really beau
tiful eyes. Care, after all, is the whole
Iking. ,
BERNHARDT’S ACTIVITY.
Mme. Bernhardt Is one of the most
satisfactory examples of women who
“never grow old” and one who proves
that It Is not those whose lives are
beds of roses who retain youth; in
deed, It may be said that many wom
en never know what real youth Is. a
life of Incessant activity and varied in
terests, or, in other words, hard work
but variety in It, would seem to be
the real fountain of youth to those
who take reasonable care of their
health. Every one knows that Bern
hardt paints and sculptors with no
small skill; that she is a good sports
man, and that she dictates many arti
cles for magazines and papers. Aside
from all these, however, she designs
her gowns, embroiders and engages in
animal breeding, being very fond of
dumb beasts and well acquainted with
their habits, and is also an enthusias
tic student of plant life. No matter
what is on the tapis, she never misses
her morning hour with her fencing
master. When one considers that the
great French actress is over 60 years
of age, and that in addition to all
these fads and interests she works la
boriously as an actress before audi
ences which expect the highest art pos
sible on the stage, one sees what can
be accomplished in many lines by
women blessed with brains and health.
THE WOMaTwHODROPS IN.
One nuisance, says the New York
Sun, that modern customs have done
away with and that promises to be
come extinct in cities is the person,
man or woman, who makes a habit of
dropping in to call on a friend of an
•acquaintance at all sort of hours, with
out regard for the engagements or
duties of the one visited.
In villages and In towns, where life
is not so filled up with the duties im
posed on persons socially active in New
York, it is perhaps possible that per
sons may welcome the occasional drop
per-in, but in this city it argues a
fine and well developed selfishness in
the woman who, because she may have
an hour or two to kill, at once argues
that some nearby acquaintance must
necessarily' welcome a visit from her.
People who dwell in houses are, of
course, protected by their servants
from these unexpected visits. Flat
dwellers are the principal victims •(
the bore who assumes that she must
be welcome at whatever hour she may
happen to have the leisure to present
herself.
So pronounced has this form of
friendly intrusion become, that in most
of the well managed apartment houses
visitors are not permitted to ascend
the elevators unless their names are
first sent up. A receiving day- indi
cated on a card means that on that
day the presence of friends is expect
ed and provided for, but the indiscrim
inate caller, who takes chances of dis
turbing a dinner party, or perhaps a
family quarrel, presumes on friend
ship.
Such people are aften heard lament
ing the inhospitality of cities, but the
fact is they mark themselves at once
as undesirable acquaintances when
they choose their hours for visiting
with reference only to their own con
venience and pleasure.
TROLLEY HONEYMOONS.
Near-Chicago towns, says the Chi
cago Tribune, have broken all records
in the matter of marriages during this
much of the year, 1904. In Rockford
during the ten months up to Nov. 1,
there had been 631 marriages. In the
same period in 1903 there were 564, and
in 1902, 490.
The electric railways are in a meas
ure responsible for the increase of this
class of business. There are now three
interurban lines centering in the town.
They bring in hundreds of couples from
other towns and from across the state
line in Wisconsin.
The same increase is noticeable in
other electric railway centers. Aurora,
although it is not a county seat, get3
a great deal of business of this class.
The town is now connected with Chi
cago, Joliet, and all of the Fox river
towns, the third rail system gridironing
the most prosperous sections of the
near-Chicago territory.
The court officers are performing
most of the out of town marriages.
Now and then a minister is hunted up
and the ceremony said in the parson
age. A Rockford minister relates that
recently a Wisconsin young man gave
up his last dime to be married in his
parlor. He had saved enough to carry
himself and bride back home on the
trolley line. But 10 cents of his store
of cash remained. He apologized to the
minister for his not being able to of
fer more, and when the parson found
that he was giving up his last cent
he refused to accept it, telling the
blushing groom that he was quite wel
come to his services and insisting that
he keep his money. But the young
Badger refused to do any such thing;
he laid it within the reach of the good
pastor and went off with his bride
as happy as if he was carrying with
him a pocketfull of coin.
DIVORCE AND OCCUPATION.
There has always been a lower per
centage of divorces among men en
gaged in agricultural pursuits, says the
Baltimore American, than in any other
calling, not excepting the clergy. Sol
diers, sailors and marines, on the oth
er extreme, show the highest average
of marriage infelicity. Next among
the high averages come the hostlers,
the actors, agricultural laborers, bar
tenders, servants and waiters, musi
cians and teachers of music, photog
raphers, paper hangers, barbers, lum
bermen, and so on. diminishing In ra
tio until the lowest average is reached,
as before stated, among the farmers.
WOMEN AND THE RACE TRACK.
One day at Aqueduct racetrack, says
the New York Sun, recently an old
woman attracted attention by failing
into a state of collapse when Pirate
Polly, a favorite, was beaten. It
turned out tbat she had wagered her
last %2 on the Ally and was penniless.
She had been a dally visitor at the
racetracks all the season, betting mod
erately at times, and then heavily, but
misfortune had followed her relentless
ly, and she finally was beaten. A de
tective who helped to revive the wom
an, whom he had known for years, told
this story of her career:
"She was once the wife of a mer
chant in Brooklyn.” said he. "They
were rich, and their children were
well educated,
•The woman went to the races one
day with a party ot friends, and got
the fever. She went again the next
day, and waa soon a regular.
"Her bets were so large that they
became the subject of much gossip. It
was not long before she was a heavy
loser, but she kept on, and before
the season was over she had recovered
her losses and was IlftOOO ahead of
the game.
"When the following season rolled
around the woman had Interested her
husband In the horseractng game, and
he, too. was a regular at the track.
The fever got such a Arm hold on him
that ha wse toon making lI.OW wagers
on each race.
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