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WOMAN’S WORLD
ARE WOMAN STINGY?
An Fnglish paper ha? recently been
devoting much space to a discussion
of the question whether woman is
stingy or not. and unfortunately, the
general conoenstis of opinion seems to
be that whatever her other and mani
fest virtues, when it comes to money
matters she is decidedly close ar.d
mean. Various things were brought
forth in support of this theory—wom
an's passion for the bargain courte-.
her inability to buy anything without
first trying to beat down the price, j
tbe Adamantine and unshakable atti- ;
•tide she takes towards the giving of 1
tips, and so on.
Every woman who reads this will
feel like entering a vigorous protest
against such an unjust accusation, and
will deny the charge in toto. We are
not stingy, and if. as a sex. we are less
free with our money, and more given
to a cheeseparing policy than men. it
is for the very sufficient reason that
we have less money to spend. Man.
as a genera! thing, is the money earn
er. He carries the pocketbook, and
may do as he pleases with his own,
without giving an account to anyone.
Woman seldom has any money of
which she has ahsoiute control. What
Is given her for housekeeping. for
clothes and necessary expenses is the
very least with which the desired and
expected results can be accomplished,
and she must needs look well to every
cent and see that she gets the worth
of her money. It is this necessity that
makes her the victim of the bargain
counter, and the trading stamp, and
the fakirs who sell make-believe goods,
where you get something for nothing.
Bhe has literally nothing to "blow in"
on things that are a mere temporary
gratification of the moment.
Asa matter of fact, women are not
expected to spend much on purely per
sonal indulgences, and so it seems dou
bly hard for them to be accused of
stinginess. A man thinks nothing of
ordering a lunch that will cost a dol
lar or two. His wife may be just as
hungry, and would enjoy it just as
much as he does, but she hesitates
before she treats herself to a glass of
6-cent soda. No intelligent female
stomach hankers for cream puffs and
pile, as many seem to suppose. Women
tdmply order them because they are
satisfying and cheap, and that not be
cause of stinginess, but because it was
all they felt they could afford. If any
woman spent as much money on the
gratification of a purely Individual
taste a man does on cigars she
would be held up as a warning to
young men about to commit matri
mony. Nobody would speak of her as
a liberal woman. They would say she
was recklessly, ruinously extravagant.
It cannot be denied that men and
women look at money from different
points of view, and that men do spend
more freely than women. Take the
matter of treating, for Instance. A
man feels that he must treat his
friends, and set up the drinks, or the
cigars, even though he Is behind with
his rent and owes the butcher, and
baker, and candle-stick maker. He
must do It to maintain his character
of liberality, and so It often happens
that he is generous before he Is Just
or honest. He will give though he will
never pay. A woman reverses the pro
cess. Bhc will pay, even If she never
gives. Col. Bluster always heads the
published subscription list of all the
Boorlboola Oha charities in town: he Is
a liberal man and he throws a 15 bill
down on the bar and invites all the
loafers present to come up and take a
drink; he contributes to the campaign
fund, and spends money like water to
elect his candidate from the 'Steenth
ward, even if his family have to go
on short rations, and inch and pinch to
pay for it. Mrs. Col. Bluster Is ac
counted a close woman. She takes no
stock In any such liberality. An un
paid bill is to her like a nightmare;
Mrs. Jones might go without soda wa
ter forever if she waited for her to
treat her while 'Mary needed anew
frock or Johnny lacked shoes, and if
a candidate's election to office in a
woman's club depended on her friends
putting up money for it, she would
never get into the president's chair in
the world.
The truth of the matter is that
whether liberality is a crime or a vir
tue depends altogether on circumstan
ces. How often do we celebrate
the generosity of this or that young
man? He never asks the price of
things, he never neglects to send flow
ers to his hostess or bonbons to the
debutantes, and he Insists on paying
everybody's way on an excursion. How
parsimonious beside him appears his
sister, who counts every penny, and
washes her handkerchiefs in her room
and dries them on the mirror, and who
lets her friend pay her own street car
fare! But then some day we hear that
in his expansive way of doing things
the open-hearted young man has em
braced the contents of his employer's
cash drawer, and Is a fugitive from
Justice, and then we wonder if there
are not times when honesty is as good
ns liberality. <
When it comes to real generosity—
the generosity that means self-dental
and self-sacrifice—the very finest flow
er of it may be found among women.
A woman may insist on having the
worth of her money, she may refuse to
treat or pay the way of those who are
perfectly able to pay for themselves,
but when It comes to a question of
real want her hand is the first and
quickest to give. It 18 the mites that
women save by scrimping here and
pinching there that build the churches
and sustain the charities and send mis
sionaries to the heathen.
Among the women against whom this
Charge Is oftenest brought up is the
woman who keeps a boarding house.
Mrs. Klimdiet's stinginess has been the
subject of the cheap wits for genera
tions. who have rung the changes on
ancient butter and the centipede legs
of the boarding house chicken ad
nauseam. We have seen her pathetic
striving held up to ridicule, her eco
nomies made mean and sordid, but
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no one has said anything about the
other side of the question—of the
hundred, and hundred of times when
she has given shelter and home to
' poor girls out of work, and of the weeks
and months she has let a board bill
rur along for some young fellow who
has ios: a job. and who but for her
would have neither food nor shelter.
No one whose fate has not taken them
among such people has any idea of
the extent of the generosity—the gen
erosity that does not even meet the
poor reward of a thank —that such
women bestow. It Is given out of pov
erty, and hard work, and bitter striv
ing. and one girl so kept off of‘ the
street, one man saved from tramping
or desperation is more real generosity
and worth more than a line of col
leges and charitable institutions built
from here to the Canadian line.
Behind the apparent stinginess of
many a woman lies a pathetic little
story that the world never knows.
Sometimes she is a well-to-do wom
an. who is cloaking her husband's
miserliness to her. Sometimes we see
her niggardly, and the servants tell
us tales of pinching and scrimping,
and we cannot know that she is heroi
cally standing, like a lonely and de
serted sentinel, over wretched and
ruined fortunes, trying to keep up
appearances until the girls are mar
ried or the boys In business. It is to
his mother's so-called stinginess that
many a poor boy owes his college edu
cation, and his career In life. His
father hadn't the courage not to be
liberal, because he couldn’t afford it.
He must belong to lodges, and pay
his part for expensive floral designs,
when Pat Doolan died, and contribute
to the ban 1 when some idiot suggest
ed presenting a medal to the leader.
He was esteemed the soul of gene
rosity. and the neighborhood pitied him
for having a stingy wife. "They do
say she can make five pies out of three
blackberries." they whispered and tit
tered behind her back. But she went
unmoved on her way. She stinted the
coffee here and saved on the sugar
there, and practiced a thousand heait
breaklng economies, but she gave her
boy an education and a start in life.
Stingy? No! It is an unfounded
charge. Women are careful of money;
they are Just with it. and when there
is need, they are liberal.
Dorothy Dix.
AN APRIL GRANDMOTHER.
A woman need not be old as soon
as she is a grandmother, says the
Brooklyn Eagle. Yet there Is some
thing in the term, a certain aging,
and too often this feeling of age be
gins to manifest Itself in the appear
ance. A woman grows neglectful of
her looks. She does not carry herself
with the same Bmart air. She grows
slouchy In her looks and careless In
her manner.
A certain woman told the writer
that, after her first grandchild came,
she stopped curling her hair. It was
gray upon the temples and she let it
gradually whiten Instead of keeping
it restored to Its old pretty black
luster. She said that her complex
ion, which was once very pink and
pretty, soon grew yellow; and, as for
her dress, it became shamefully slack.
In five years everybody spoke of her
as "old Mrs. Smith.”
"I realized,” said she, “that 1 be
longed to the third generation, and
I resolved to look as pretty as I
could.
“So I went to a hair dresser and
had my hair done up anew way. I
had its color restored. It was a
little streaked and I had it mas
saged and made all of one color,
which was a glossy brown. Then I
had it dressed In the new pompa
dour, which rolls back from the face
in the most fetching manner.
“Two days later, after my family
had duly admired me, I sought out a
wrinkle specialist. and had him
smooth out my wrinkles. I had him
work on my forehead until my frown
was gone. I found I had been scowl
ing wickedly and as soon as he
touched the wrinkles, I saw that they
would be removed—that they were not
necessary wrinkles. Three days of
massage took them out. But, of
course, I realized that they would
return unless I kept them messaged
away.
“But the greatest Improvement was
wrought in my teeth. They were
full of gold, and I saw, every time
I looked In the glass, how ugly they
looked. By gaslight they had the ap
pearance of being decayed. 8o I
visited a dentist and had the gold
taken out. The dentist whs what
Is known as a cosmetic dentist. He
bleached my teeth and restored them
so that they looked like new.
"Then,” continued this woman, "I
went still further in my work of
improvement. I had read that there
were such things as April grand
mothers and I determined to be one.
‘‘l made a critical study of my
daughter-in-law and myself. Even
from a back view—not showing my
face —I looked older than she. And
I realized that the difference lay In
our weights. My shoulders were
wide and fat and my neck was heavy
and my waist large, while her figure
was slight. She looked 20 and I
looked 50, seen from any view.
*'So I began to diet. You may talk
about exercise. It Is all right. But
you must diet also. I limited my cof
fee to one cup for breakfast, and my
tea to one cup. I drank nothing be
tween meals. When I felt thirsty I
took a mouthful of fruit. I kept a
peach, a pear of an orange near at
hand, and when my mouth felt
parched I took a h.te of fruit. You
see 1 had been a great water drinker
before my reformation.
“Then, as I did not decrease In
weight fast enough. I asked the ad
vice of a friend. She was a popular
actress and she gained considerable
fame by reducing her weight nearly
sixty pounds in a season. I walked,
instead of riding.' she said, 'and, of
course. 1 dieted.'
“Well, I followed her advice. I left
the horses in the stable and I walked.
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. DECEMBER 11. 1901.
!Mrs. Hughson, of Chicago,*
whose letter follows, is another
woman in high position whoowes
her health to the use of Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.
"Dear Mrs. Ptxkham:— I suffered
for several years with general weak ness
and bearing-down pains, caused by
womb trouble. My appetite was poor,
and I would lie awake for hours, and
could not sleep, until I seemed more
weary in the morning than when I re
tired- After reading one of your adver
tisements I decided to try the merits
of Lydia E. Pinkham’g Vegetable
Compound, and I am so glad I did.
No one can describe the good it did me.
I took three bottles faithfully, and be
sides building up my general health,
it drove all disease and poison out of
my body, and made me feel as spry and
active as a young girl. Mrs. Pinkham’s
medicines are certainly all they are
claimed to be.” Mrs. M. E. Hughson,
347 East Ohio St., Chicago, 111. tsooo
forfeit If original of about latter proving genuine
ness cannot bo produced.
More than a million women have re
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if the slightest trouble appears
which you do not understand
write to Mrs. Pink ham, at Lynn,
Mass., for her advice, and a few
timely words from her will show
you the right thing to do. This
advice costs you nothing, but it
may mean life or happiness or
both.
Each morning, at the first tinkle of
my alarm clock. I arose and dressed
hastily. I then went out for a walk.
I would walk an hour, come back and
make a leisurely toilet and be ready
for the day.
“Of candy, nuts and pastry, I ate
very little. Just a mouthful now and
then, as the old craving for sweets
came over me. I took no after-dinner
coffee, and I ate nothing distinctly
fattening, such as macaroni, cheese
and ice cream. But I did eat corn, po
tatoes and other vegetables of this
nature.
“But I found that I was still a long
way behind, when it came to a com
parison with my daughter-in-law, so
I const Itea her as to the cause.
" T wa it to be young,’ I said, mak
ing a clean breast of it. ‘And I want
to be attractive. Can you tell me the
secret of youth ?’
“ ‘Dress more youthfully,' said she.
And then, being a good-hearted girl,
she advised me. And her advice was
good. I followed her hints. Within
a week I was wearing the dip belt,
the seml-high heel, the neat little
shirt waist with linen collar and a
pretty skirt of sweep length. I wore
a natty eton and I wore my hair
low. The metamorphosis was com
plete. I had grown ten years younger.
“But I was still far from being
an April grandmother. My hands were
old. The veins had come up on the
back of them and my nails were
brittle and my skin was yellow. So
I treated my hands.
"I had a good null emollient and
rubbed It Into my nails every night
until they were no longer brittle. I
bleached the backs of my hands, tak
ing all the yellowness out of my skin.
And I massaged them until the veins
went down. Inside of two weeks my
hands looked like different hands.
They were the hands of a young
girl.
“I am now what you would call
an April grandmother. I look almost
as young as I did twenty-five years
ago, and am considered attractive.
"If I were giving the grandmother
a few words of advice I would say:
"Be an April grandmother.
"Keep your hands young; observant
people soon notice them.
“Have your teeth put in order and
keep them so.
"Don't let your waist spread.
“Don’t let your hair get out of
style.
“Don’t think Just because you are a
grandmother that you can be care
less In your eating and drinking—
and grow fat.
“Diet and exercise.
“Keep your voice young by modu
lating It a little.
“Don't croak. Don't complain. Be
fresh.
“And never forget that an April
grandmother is as young as she
looks."
CRUSTLESS BREAD.
While there are very many persons
who really like the crust of bread,
there is a larger percentage who re
gard it as refuse and very carefully
reject it. For this reason it is quite
a common practice followed In a num
ber of the better class cafes In the
making of sandwiches to carefully cut
off the crust before serving It to the
customer. Whether this waste, says
the Philadelphia Record, is entirely
warranted or not is a question, but it
certainly is a fact that a sandwich de
livered in this shape Is exceedingly at
tractive in its appearance, which the
restaurant keeper argues has much to
do with the patron's subsequent en
joyment of the morsel.
A process has been worked out by
a baker of Jersey City, N. J., who has
been awarded a patent covering the
method, by which he makes a louf of
bread without any crust whatever.
Several features of his scheme have
heretofore been followed In the many
different processes of bread-making,
but he claims that never before have
they been combined with the idea of
producing crust less bread. The first
essential in the new method Is that the
lonvee should be baked in Individual
boxes, each one having a lid. When
the oven is filled and charged for a
baking these boxes are arranged In
tiers In aueh close proximity that the
lids of the boxes In one tier are pre
vented from being displaced by Iho
rising action of the bread by the tier
above, Before these boxes are placed
In the oven It is necessary that they
should be partially filled with dough.
The oven being properly filled, the
doors are secured by screw clumps, and
ihe Interior subjected to steam of a
pressure of about three pounds. This
Is continued for a while until the baker
is satisfied that the rising dough has
filled Ihe pans and then the preaaura
Is Increased to from fen to twenty
pounds which hrata Ihe pans suffi
ciently lo make the loaves.
The bread thua prepared Is said to
b# without the least semblance of
crust. When ismovrd from tbs pans
It will be found to have a very thin,
paperltke exterior coating, which Is
bsrfsctly while when while ftoui bee
been used. Another feature which
recommends the system of baking is
the fact that the oven doe* not require
•he careful attention a* when the bak
ing is proceeding In the usual manner,
and the bread may be left in the oven
almost indefinitely without any dan
ger of burning. This permit* the cut
ting down of the force of men re
quired around a large bakery.
THE SMART WOMAN
IN ENGLAND.
Who is the smartest American woman
of tIUe?
That is the question which has roused
all London to a state of feverish dis
cussion. A newspaper started it, the
fairs and bazaars took it up and all
London is now discussing it.
At a voting contest held at the Irish
fair the Marchioness of Ava received
the greatest number of votes. Her
husband, who was Lord Terence Black
wood, is Irish by descent. The March
ioness was Miss Flora Davis of New
York. She was voted “the prettiest,
the nicest and the smartest.”
At a voting contest held at a bazaar
given for the benefit of the French
sisters, the popular prize was awarded
to the Countess of Essex, whose hus
band is the Earl of Essex. The Coun
tess was Adele Grant, of New York.
She was called the “smartest” lady
present.
Lady Curzon has been given count
less awards and prizes, all of them
the equivalent of beauty prizes, for
her brightness, beauty and gener
osity. It is, indeed, hard to tell who
is the smartest woman in London. And
no wonder that London pauses appalled
at having to decide.
But, first. It would be well to know
the English definition of smart. Smart,
in London parlance, means a great
deal that is desirable In woman. It
is the highest praise that can be be
stowed upon a woman. It stands for
all virtues, all beauty, all generosity
and a great deal besides.
To be a smart woman in London
means:
That you must be well dressed.
That you must be handsome in face
and stylish in carriage.
It means chic.
It means wit.
It means social success.
It means popularity.
It means accomplishments and edu
cation.
A smart woman must be vivacious,
rich, elegant, full of talent and en
dowed with beauty. She must have
an establishment, a husband and a
position in society.
And if she be a titled woman she
must have the approval of the King,
without this last element no titled
American woman can be a success
in London.
Now, with these qualities given,
the question arises, who is the
smartest woman in London? Lon
don is divided into cliques and in
the innermost cliques are the Ameri
cans who, by virtue of beauty and
wealth, have married into the no
bility of England.
A WOMAN^KALENDAR.
The Chicago Woman’s Club has
adopted a calendar, spelled with a K,
for the coming year. It is an artis
tic thing, compiled by Mrs. Elizabeth
P. Hall. Quotations, bits of poetry,
aphorisms and rules of conduct adorn
each page. Some of the quotations
follow:
“My dear, whenever you feel that it
would relieve your mind to say some
thing, don’t say it.”
‘‘Deliver us also from the woman
who is fussy over her shiny floors, her
rugs, window curtains and draperies.”
"The world doesn’t like a man who
sulks in his tent, neither does it ap
prove of the one who sulks In public.
The popular way is not to sulk.”
“The average man Is tolerant to
anybody but a bore; and is not so
particular in inquiring into antece
dents.”
“An ill natured man is like a tal
low candle. He always sputters and
smokes when he is put out.”
“When you want to convey the sub
tlest and most delicate flattery to a
man ask him for advice. It isn't nec
essary to follow It.”
“What men see in women or women
in men to admire Is generall ya puzzle
to those who know the men and wom
en in question.”
"Deliver us from the women to
whom 'things’ are of more importance
than comfort.”
A PRETTY WORK BAG.
Such a pretty workbag has come
Into fashion. A long piece of silk of
the heavier kind is folded once and
gathered from the bottom up to with
in four Inches of the top. This
makes a pouched bag shirred on
either side. The ends of the bag are
turned over small embroidery hoops,
which have been wound with ribbon
to match the prevailing color of the
silk. They form the handles of the
bag, and also serve to hold it open
when desired.
DEL I C I OlJs CHOC 0 LATE.
A quick way of making delicious
chocolate is as follows: Mix a heap
ing teasponoful of cocoa with a little
more than the quantity of condensed
milk, allowing this proportion to
each cup. When this had been well
mixed, pour in boiling water and set
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on the stove to boil for five minute*.
As the milk is sweetened, the choco
late will not require sugar.
WOMEN AND BRIDGE.
“How did Mrs. A.'s bridge party go
off last night?” repeated her brother in
answer to her inquiry at the breakfast
table, says a writer in the New York
Tribune. "Oh, it was that funny, con
versational, fenjinine bridge, that wom
en seem to enjoy so much, and that
men detest. I can stand sheer stupidi
ty better than that. Why,” he ex
claimed. with uncomplimentary frank
ness. "I would rather play “bumble
puppy' bridge with you than sit at a
table with Mrs. A. or Mrs. 8., al
though they are hot-* good payers, for
they will talk about all sorts or things
during the Interval of play, distracting
the attention of the rest, although they
themselves are net In the affected
by it. They keep it up straight through
the game, and it grates on my nerves,
though the women who play do not
seem to mind it. 'Why, there is Milly
B.' Mrs. A. will call out. “Milly, dear,
there is something I must tell you,'
and she will jump up, saying, 'Call
me when the cards are dealt.’ Then,
coming back, she will continue to talk
about something 'Milly' has told her,
while arranging her cards. For a
minute after she will be silent, and
play very good bridge, but as soon as
the hand is finished she will begin
' Di<l you hear that Bobby
white's engagement to Miss R. is on
again? I heard that he has taken the
Keely cure and that she has forgiven
all his sins,’ and so on, the other wom
en joining in and keeping it up until
their partners insist upon their paying
attention to the game. I went home
resolving, as I have resolved before,
never again to attend a mixed card
party.”
At a house party recently where the
tables had been arranged for bridge
after dinner, and the men were anxious
*°w ‘V gin ’ the women began to argue
whether a certain piece of gossip was
true or not. The discussion ran high,
and the card players waited impa
tiently. finally the host appeared on
the scene. “Knowing that there would
be no intelligent bridge played until
this important matter was settled ” he
announced, sarcastically, "I went to
the telephone and called up Mrs. X.
(the heroine of the story), and ex
plalned to her the situation, asking
hei if she would not settle the ques
allow ou f game to proceed,
ta She Ve f y kindl y did ' The facts
are thus and so.” “Jim, you never
V* ad have done a thing like that!"
exdalmed his wife. “I did, though,”
he answered, “and as the matter is
now settied, I hope we can have ou
bridge in peace.”
SOME POINTS ABOUT BEAUTY.
In France, says the Chicago Record-
Herald, they will tell you about the
wonderful schools of beauty in Amer
ica where, for the sum of SIOO and the
investment of a few weeks’ time, the
ugliest woman is made adorable. Here
in our dear America we drink In fa
bles concerning the wonderful beauty
shops of Paris where youth, beauty
and Titian locks are to be had for the
asking and the price, and where enam
elcd faces are the proper caper.
1 he truth is no such marvelous, mi
raculous evolutions from ugliness to
loveliness ever take place. One’s
thought dome covering can be dyed,
v.V 1 . does not bring general beauty.
Wrinkles can be rubbed away and the
skin freshened, facial blemishes can be
removed to a large extent, and cutane
ous irritations cured, but when you
start out to make of yourself a truly
beautiful woman you have the task
of years before you. It means that
you must take care of your health,
"hich is the foundation and structure
of good looks. It means that you must
chase away from the habit of "saying
things” when you feel out of sorts.
It means that you must take the
straps and buckles of prejudice and
pretty opinions off your heart and your
brain, and that you must be great and
big of soul, loving humanity, appre
ciating life, enjoying, studying, work
ing, achieving, dreaming and making
each day better. The word beauty
covers a multitude of goodnesses, fine
qualities, sympathies, affections and
honesty. It is not merely a matter
of bombarding complexion ills, wearing
a dip belt and growing a pompadour
as big as a Hubbard squash. It is
by creating a definite goal of perfec
tion toward which every good impulse
will help you. In the majority of cases
a complete change in one’s appearance
means an entire reform in habits,
bringing the daily regimen Into con
formity with hygienic laws. Cleanli
ness, fresh air, good, substantial food
and cheerfulness are the greatest of
all cosmetics.
Concerning the beauty of the neck,
arms and shoulders there is much to
be said. This is a triumphal hour of
physical culture and there Is no need
of an all-bony condition or the too-fat
product. The arms of a Sandow. con
sisting of great knots of muscles, are
not to be desired, for that style of
loveliness should be monopolized by
the sterner sex. We are not profes
sional athletes.
What woman should seek is strength
and flexibility, combined with lithe,
soft, effeminate loveliness. A beauti
ful arm is round, smooth, white and
plump—nqt fat or thin. There should
be a delicate wrist with an adorable
curve. Many pretty arms can be made
from scant material If the beauty
candidate is persistent and does not
overexercise or forget.
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WOMEN WHO “INVESTIGATE.”
When the woman in the brown walk
ing suit had left the room, says the
New York Press, the man at the desk
by the window called out:
"Bright appearing woman, that. I
hope you hired her.”
“Well, I didn't," said his partner.
"Why not?”
"Because she didn’t want to be
hired."
"Then what did she answer our ad
vertisement for?”
"You tell me and I'll tell you,” was
the enigmatic reply. “Why do any of
those people that don’t really want a
job go around looking for one? A
lot of them do. I suppose that the
different women who make a fad of
answering advertisements found in the
help wanted column are actuated by
different motives. Possibly some of
them really think they would like a
situation, hut when they get inside a
business oiiice and gain some idea of
the amount of work to he done they
back out.
“Then there is another class of in
sincere investigators. They drive a
hard worked business man clear up
to the brink of strong drink and some
times right over it. They are the
women who belong to freak societies
organized for the purpose of improv
ing mankind. Usually they begin on
the man who has advertised for a
clerk or a stenographer. They think
he is a bad lot, and in order to find
out just how infamous he can be they
answer his advertisement. In that way
they find out what wages he pays and
the degree of respect accorded to the
prospective employe. Afterward they
scorch him in a club paper. I have
furnished copy three times, and I ex
pect I’ll be written up again. I think
that woman who just went out was
looking for material.”
The man at the desk by the window
was clearly perplexed.
"What a queer fad,” he said.
HOW TOSET A TABLE.
"The prettiest dinner tables have
the least upon them,” says an author
ity on table decoration. “Tables are
set now in snow white, and are
dressed with as little color as pos
sible. Warm reds and rich yellows
are about the best tones to have.
"Here are some of the things which
I invariably demand before I set a
table: First, that the table he large
enough. No crowding. There must
be elbow room for each plate.
“Second, that the linen be fine and
white and big enough for the table
I will not not lap nor piece a cloth. It
must be big enough to cover the
table and fall down almost to the
floor on every side.
“My third requisite is that the
table napkins be very large and very
square. When folded they must make
a square almost the size of the din
ner plates. They must be embroidered,
voo, with a big initial upon the up
per side of the square, so that it will
show when folded. The bigger the bet
ter.
"My next requirement is plenty of
silver. The woman who skims her
silver makes a mistake. I must have
two forks to go on the left side
of each plate. On the right side
I must have two knives, a soup spoon
and an oyster fork. Without these
for each plate 1 will not set the
table.
“My fifth requirement is that tbsre
shall be individual buter and bread
plates. One does not serve butter
with a taste dinner, but all the same
there is the piece of bread and there
are the olive pits aAd the small de
bris of the dinner. And there must
be a handsome little plate in front
of each person to be used for this
particular purpose. This tiny plate
sets the table off and makes it look
handsomer.
"My sixth requisite Is so very nec
essary that it need hardly be men
tioned. It consists of a sufficient
number of plates for each person.
There is an unwritten law that no
guest shall ever sit without a plate
in front of him, and as fast as one
plate is taken up another plate must
be put down.
"In setting the table there must
be a plate at each plate. Then there
must be a sufficient number of each
course, and for between courses.
The guest must never for one min
utes sit in front of the empty table
cloth. The plate is lifted by the
servant and another, plate put down.
“About the glasses there is a dif
ference of opinion. In certain fam
ilies there are served Thanksgiving
dinner wines, home-made for the
most part, and water and cider. These
call for three glasses of different
sizes. But at other dinners there is
a greater number. It all depends
upon the wishes of the host and
hostess, and the opinion of the
guests. I adapt myself to Individual
t ** ,e *- Of course, a table aet with
glaas is immeasurably handsomer
than oris set without glasses. I
like to place five at each plate, of
different sizes, shapes and colors. But
this is so much a matter of taate
than one cannot advise.
Individual salts are absolutely
Imperative for the success of the
dinner, end, wherever, possible I
advise the little glittering salt cuds
or the sliver ones. A ihengrln set
* w “" very pretty, consist
in of s stiver swan, each swan
ffiied with salt. These belong to a
New York society women, who Is
to ftl4
"I try always In getting g üble
to consider the decorations of the
loom Hut this is not slways pos
sible. in some esses make ymtl
tsMe as sharp a contrast sa Lv
siule to (be iset of u, wow."
THE VALUE OF A SUNNY SOUL.
The world is too full of sadness and
sorrow, misery and sickness; it needs
more sunshine; it needs cheerful smiles
which radiate gladness; it needs en
couragers who will lift and not bear
down, who will encourage, not dis
courage.
Who can estimate the value of a
sunny soul who scatters gladness and
good cheer wherever he goes, instead
of gloom and sadness? Everybody is
attracted to these cheerful faces and
sunny lives, but repelled by the gloomy,
the morose and the sad. We envy
people who radiate cheer wherever they
go and fling out gladness from every
pore. Money, houses and lands look
contemptible beside such a disposition.
The ability to radiate sunshine is a
greater power than beauty, or than
mere mental accomplishments.
THE EXACT IMAGE.
"That boy,” observed the proud par
ent, waving his hand in the direction
of an adjoining room where a group
of women were bending over a fluffy
little thing In white and laces, "is an
exact image of his father.”
.The men nodded approval and again,
unhesitatingly, permitted their glasses
to be filled in honor of their genial
host’s heir.
“You stupid, simple, insignificant lit
tle thing,” breathed one of the dainty
creatures, as she hugged the helpless
mite.
These words penetrated into the
very center of that other group, and
the deep flush on one man’s face could
not be wholly credited to the meri
torious quality of his exhilarating wine.
CLIMATE AND OLD AGE.
Statistics show that a greater num
ber of people live to be centenarians
in warm climates than in the higher
latitudes. The German Empire, with
65,000,000 inhabitants, has 778 centenar
ians; France, with 40,000,000, has 213-
England has only 146; Scotland, 46-
Sweden, 10; Norway, 23; Belgium, 5;
Denmark, 2; Spain, 401, and Switzer
land, none. SeiTla, with a population
°f2.250,000’ has 576 people over 100 years
HIS AWAKENINO.
“Oo’s a toosey-wootssy sing, *oO
He turned over. In vain, says the
New York Press.
"An’ ’oose "oor mama's baby, ess
’oo.is. Isn’t ’oo?”
In gently undulating waves this
baby talk gurgled out of the bath
room window in the flat across the
narrow shaft and rolled in the top of
the confirmed bachelor’s bedroom
window.
An’ 'oo isn't doin’ to det howwld
soap in 'oo eyes, no ’oo isn’t, ’oo’s ’oo
mamma’s dood ltta boy, ess ’oo Is.
Pheet sing!”
This ended in a long kiss.
The C. B. rubbed his eyes and reach
ed for a cigarette. After all, why
should a dissipated bachelor like him,
who had spent Saturday night in care
less carousal, expect orderly, domes
tic people who keep the peace and go
to bed with the chickens to consider
him and his comforts on Sunday
morning?
Why hadn't he married, anyhow?
he reflected. A good woman could
have done worlds with him, and a
baby
“Aw, did um mama hurt ’em, did
her? Well, it was a s’ame, ess it was.
No s’e won’t, s’e won’t do it any more.
There now ” floated in in sweetly
feminine tones.
And, by the way, -what a wonderful
baby that was across the way. Not
a sound.when It was hurt. He hadn't
heard it whimper yet. But he could
see it Just the same, with Its chubby,
rosy little face, its strong baby limbs
splashing round In the water and Its
fists beating a tatto on the tub sides.
Yes. babies all looked alike to him,
and he had seen his dear little sister’s
Eugene get his morning bath many a
time In the good old days gone by.
And then the mother. There she
was. He could see her through his
smoke rings, stooping tenderly over
"the only baby in the world,” her
brown plaits and her pink kimono,
her fair, soft hands and her lovelit
eye*. The picture was complete In his
mental vision.
“Now urn all foo, isn’t umT An’
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