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28 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 SISTER: READ MY FREE OFFER Wise Words to Sufferers From a Woman of Notra Dama, InA 1 j]V I I'.l mail, tree ol an; charge, this Home Treis f' fr“ '4O n, 1 \ mem wnli lull mructlon ~nd the bialrr; ot my got £,'• ,M - IE) wti \ cae to any lady witTerln* (ruin lent ale trouble Yot I, /bid%J &ST' b\l'• C V cu l r J'“* , eell at Uomr without the aid el an* f.ffl I#lE Phyaklan. It will com yon nothing to gi.e tbt ■itfrlT I# ujLtlUltk \ 1 ’I * r rtnirnt a trial, an. II you (Wide to continue It lit _ I ' r- •Cfk " ;\l tl "‘'l ,mt y oml Jo- atwut Incite cents a weak. \ f * *“s!*'' mMnW A i i'W ■ * iMterfrrr with your work or tcrupatiuifc V ftl'tt&JL ' Bilw SWII I L h ? v * ?, 0 . ,hln * V "* l ' Tan Other•uffersnriiS 1- \ T S lh ** ** U * ***' tu r all, young or aid. Vy#* : w7 > |T MVii'iW*f r . A*' II you (art a hearing-down eenutlon, ernae a* V/ —odf ¥ MM Impending eil, pain m (lie bowel., <re trios V WT ' Dfr W taaUiig up the |>ina. a de.oe i.. cry lieoiuemly. Cj V l in' y r ehaa, weariness, lien neat desire lo urinate, nr II yon V , TV/ hae le-^.,.., i.e 'whwaa*. Dl.planaaaau erJoilLm f the Womb, Fr.duae, fcaoir or Painful MB I TumornoT Growths, addraaa MUS. M. KUMMI.Iiv NOTHIC liAMK, Mil.. U. h A., lor Mm Kxri gw-..,.,,. , .. „ . „ Tn*TMgnr and rvu 1h <> m*t i m fMeande I weld so aayeeg ha ea cared than.wires w.ui It. I send it in plain wrapper* J WOTitP.ltA Ol U AIJOH rKRI I will eaplaiu a simple Howie Treatment which enaadily i,4 r -mW.*'** “"Are. (treed -it, ion and I‘umini or /rrtjplar Mrnumalhm in ynuuu ladle*, a raAraaa and rare roar deaftlA Hi bo millet 100 id arpleuilng u VllbiMi luMbMia#} a4 tuoltti foMtii Iron 110 iim * mrn rinS: ’it* VT. “*. , **r /•*}• ** hwown led.ee .4 year ewe state or count, who hwaar a,6 em gladly tctl ear owar that lUm Moats 1 rwatiaeat realty .urea all diseased caaKHii.m.~> one relaxedONee.iasaad UgMMMe whohTTum dm eaajaau. aaa Maaadwwaaa watt. Write to-day. as Uaeoffar wiiiiud I* wade a* eta. diMiaae MRS. M. SUMMERS. uauCuZ. 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 gained health by the use of Lydia E. Pinkliam’sVeffetableCompound. 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 THE XXbi CENTURY SEWING MACHINE 1 iti v)\ jus? id - / agdlwSIMA ? j * qThe highest type of FAMILY SEWING MACHINE—the embodiment of SIMPLICITY and UTILITY—the ACME of CONVENIENCE. q ABSOLUTELY THE LIGHTEST RUNNING LOCK-STITCH SEWING-MACHINE. q It only needs a mere touch of the treadle to start the machine. The use of ball-bearings, the superior design and mechanical excellence of construction throughout, all combine to make its continuous oper ation a pleasure—it runs so smoothly. SoW Only by SINGER STORES 150 Whitaker Street, SAVANNAH, - - GEORGIA. 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. 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"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’ (Continued on Opposite Page.) New Light on in old Subject” it the title of ■ booklet which it leading thousands of RHEUMATISM And Gout patients to the uae of MULLER’S 00,384 which cures to a finish all cims of seeeal os longstanding. Has a record since the war. Contains neither irritating drugs nor opurtaa Fotitiveif harmless. At Druggists, 71c. Botda WHt* fit Buuklrt, mu. U mvum. Duress*/ Claes, gKWTOUA.