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THE GEORGIAN’S MAGAZINE PAGE
e e The Making of a Pretty Girl > >
UTHEN a girl is between twelve
/ and sixteen she is said to beat
the ungraceful age.
Personally. I think it the first dan
gerous age. and there are several others,
for a woman does not stop at 40. as
the heroine of a famous story se«ms to
believe.
The impressions gathered by the
child at this ungrateful gge are deep
and not easily effaced
it I* now that she gets her first ideas
of her own future and she begins to
set a standard for herself, according to
the influences which are brought to
bear upon hrr.
Between twelve and sixteen a girl
„ nr, idea if her own good look-,
find she begins tn try and enhance
them Her vanity develops often this
vanity is like a hothouse plant stimu
lated by the constant attention she re
ceives from the members of her family,
who don’t hesitate to sat. "Hon pretty
Dorothy is getting t-> he." right before
her. as if she had no ears to hear, or
brain to grasp the significance of the
remark
So many girls are spoiled at this ag»
that in other families the budding
Charms and beauty of th» voting girl
arr . neve remarked upon, and Isabel Is
frank!'- told that it is quite ugly while,
on the ent) Ty she i« slowly evolving
into a verv pleasine, natural young girl.
I t 1 1’itk it ' «t |u ®f xvroT'jx *• * hHTp j
upon a ciil’- physical shortcomings
during ’his abnormally sensitive period I
~ .♦ . to • ell her that sin is going to
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The Family to Blame.
> an'- a girl who, at fourteen, was
awkward and lanky, and at fifteen de
vetof i a frightful ' top of pimples, has,
been made despot at-'lv unhappy by the
S ar. ism of her famil' 'nd as often ns
not. ■ girl like this "ill develop into a
ran- .mod .■ls , ons< i ‘i: '•■linn wom
an. when. "I'b a little help and encour
agement. sh- could have overcome her
pht-i.al awkwardness and learned to
car<= for h< skin, and become in time a
graceful and attractive woman
The physical readjustment which
goes on in th" young girl between
twelve and sixteen, and which often
lasts till eighteen, is accountable for
the poor complexions and especially for
the pimples and blackheads, which be
gin to show themselves on some sub
jects after the fifteenth year Where a
ehtld is anaemic you can expect black
heads to appear about this time, and
there is no use trying lotions or salves.
The anaemic girl simply has not force
enough In her system to throw off the
Impurities In the skin. Th» blood
doesn’t circulate properly, and it is
useless to expect these spots and
blotches to disappear until the root of
the matter has been remedied.
In our system of education the hard
est part of school life comas just at the
time when a girl needs rest, quiet, and
the most care. No wonder our best
scholars are nervous or anaemic and
break down at examinations
If the pretty girl’s parents want he
to get through her school days without
losing the vitality and strength which
she needs, they should see that she
gets plenty of fresh air, the moat
wholesome and simple kind of food,
enough amusement and healthy recrea
tion. and 1s in bed early every night.
The average American girl of this age
does not get enough sleep She Is al
ways trying tn keep up her end socially,
to go to parties, to entertain, and she
feels the' she Is much abused If she
does not get her share of theatergoing
All this with her school work Is a tre
mandoue strain on her nervous system,
and It Is no wonder .that foreigners who
WIFE’S HEALTH
RESTORED
Husband Declared Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable
Compound Would Re
store Her Health,
And It Did.
Ashland, Ky. “ Four years ago I
teemed to have everything the matter
. .1 with me. I had fe-
maleand kidney troii
hie and was s<> bad off
I could hardly rest
' W T day or night, I doc-
\ ” * X tored with all the
A i-L i best doctors in town
and took many kinds
V* of medicine but noth-;
” T ' ' if K did any good un-
V Wljpj z ! j til I tried your won
' j i . I derful remedy, Lydia
---— 1 jr Pinkham's Vege
table Compound. My husband said it
would restore my health and it has.”
Mrs. May Wyatt, Ashland. Ky.
There are probably hundreds of thou
sands of women in the United States
who have been benefittedby this famous
old remedy, which was produced from
roots and herbs over thirty years ago by
a woman to relieve woman's suffering.
Read What Another W onia n says:
Camden, N. J. —"I had female trou
ble and a serious displacement and was
tired and discouraged and unabletodo my
work. My doctors told me I never could
be cured without an operation, but
thanks to Lydia F.Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound I am cured of that affliction
and have recommended it to more than
one of my friends with the best results. ”
—Mrs. Ella Johnston, 324 Vine St
If yoa want special advice write to
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine t o. (confi
dential) Lynn. Mass, l our letter will
he opened, read and answered by a
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WHEN SHE IS SWEET SIXTEEN.
come to our shores Insist that we have powdered school girl face If Father ob
no young girls tn America, only chll- jected rationally, quietly and with a
dren and women, for ths average high sensible illuminating explanation,
school girl dresses, acts and looks at Rut when he Is not too busy to notice
least five years older than she is. and the makeup at all, he merely rages
at present she affects styles which even As one girl put It to me the other day,
her mother would consider rathe’ ad- "Father just threw a fit when he found
vanced I used makeup. He wild he’d throw
When you realize how small a part nIP nl| t of the house If I ever put pow
the American father plays in the mak- dpr " r rouge 011 my face again. I don't
Ing of our pretty girl, it’s a wonder that spp anything so bad about it; all the
So many of them grow up Into charm-' *’ rl! ‘ use powder, and I'm so pale the
ing and lovely women, making com- rn uge makes me look much nicer Now.
paratlvely few mistakes In a grown-up 1 "ash my face before Father comes
world for which they have in no way hornp ' 80 hp doesn’t catch me at It. I
been fitted don't see why he made such a fuss."
The Father's Duty. Wh * Ha Objected.
To he pretty and well dressed and of ro ' lrße Bh '* didn’t understand, be
have a good time that Is about the cause Father carefully side-stepped the
only ideal that the average male par- real reason that he did nnt want his
’’ h ,s daughter. His son ie daughter to paint and powder, and look
taught from early boyhood that he .
™ , like anything but the sweet and pure
must no something, and to accomplish
his ehare of the world’s work he must g ’ rl rhat * he Hc d,(l not want her
have a high standard of honor, honesty confounded with a class of women of
■«nd Industry The boy gets this whose existence she la entirely un
knocked into him one way or the other, aware, on the other hand, he could not
the daughter Is supposed to imbibe a denv that manv |lf hpr fr>n(ls and tha(
understanding of morals and hpr own , nothrr der occa9ion .
resiHuiKlbility through that famous a]lv
feminine intuition which only begins to 'sweet Sixteen, unfortunately, takes
he understood and appreciated after ex- t 0 powder as a duck to water Oul .
per enee and mistakes have taught her prettv girls „ flPn look likp 11ttlp Ptpr .
their dream’ leawon of caution. . r ,
rots, with their whitened faces and
No matter how sweet and intimate chalky noses They think it is grown
the relationship between mother and U p an d becoming, and they do not real
laughter, therw arn certain thing* \ 7jt » that every vestige of powder and
' hich go toward the making of our makeup takes away the beauty of their
pretty girl that she can learn more youth, the sweet innocence and candor
quickl) and easier from her father, if their faces Powder, except when
he has gained her confidence, and has p if. absolutely necessary, makes any
’one something more tow ard forming face look older.’and it makes the young
her character than paying the school face look hard. As for paint of any
kind. I think the only way to frighten
There would not be one painted or S weet Sixteen out of it is to tell her
- . that the slightest vestige of paint
j ▼ p. • | makes even imperfection In her skin
LJ p-to-Lz cite OKCS show up as if under a magnifying glass.
‘ J ' nse n f thewe artificial aids to
——J beauty will eventually quite ruin the
It was just after spring cleaning. She texture of her skin and make it yellow,
was reading In a low. thrilling voice- For rpallv P n!p ' hppkß ,hprp iF noth
’When the packing begins in earnest lnp 80 ROl ”’* as deep breathing. Then
it stems as though there could be no B sponge bath in the morning, fol-
-pot on the earth’s surface unshaken." 'owed In a brisk rub with a . rash
He roused himself from a somnolent t 0" pl - " brinK natural r, ’ sps ,o thp
! attitude in an easy chair r>on’t drink tea or coffee. If you
"Who wrote that. Marla’’ He’s been are a lil,lp "l”’ l ’’ face," and try and
'through it. whoever he is I wonder S lvp ,anii > and substitute fruits.
whom lie married’/' If there is any way that It can be
‘\\ \ you great stupid." said she. done, arrange to sleep nut of doors, a
j t‘s Xmundscn writing about the ice " sleeping porcli for people who live in
rhe country Is worth the price of the
M> Ketcham How is your boy get- investment in the Improvement to the
ng amg at school” general health of the family, and the
Mi t’bcatem Splendidly splendid- '-xodus of city people to their roofs for
1 just tell you, my obi friend, that ' sleeping purposes has brought out all
' .'oy of min# w 11! make his wax in the I kinds of new bedsteads, swings and
1 x-T’ ■ hn, T xou fear. Thtring the eight [ hammoi’ks at moderate prices.
I • irs 1 • s iuen going to s« hool th» \ Karl> hours, out-of-door sleeping.
’ I h ;lvp h" 5 examinations, and he s simple food and exercise, those are the
' ’ d to dodg* * ve- s oto of 'em. i secrets of good complexion for the girl
! - ;of sixteen. Her complexion troubles
1..H ; >iv( tn student l >dger» Do vm ' are due always to nerves, had circu
know 1 /’earned last night that >nu latfon and indigestion, and it is b\ cur
i.d -> n'li’ .hi owed me” ing these that she can get back th®
Studs ' ' ' - Th--r r;’. kindh ceach’.ikc bioom her cheek® which is
I trouble you for a receipt. | the charm o£ youth and nealth.
Getting On In
Life
By THOMAS TAPPER.
i.
THE novels of Charles Dickens may
be tailed, in one sense, the orig
inal moving picture idea. Dickens
has the faculty of throwing his pictures
on the screen of the reader's mind so
sharply that he needs no other ma
; chine to see and enjoy them.
Os course, the faculty that Dickens
had which enabled 'him to do this as a
writer came from his habit of looking
lat the world about him; of looking at
it ha r d. of seeing it clearly; and then of
making a man in New Zealand, or In
dia. or Labrador see it bv means of a
printed page.
Any one who wants to get on in life
should cultivate this habit of looking at
I the great show that goes on about us
forever an ever; of looking at it hard,
seeing it clearly, and then getting from
it all its particular meaning. It Is a
great habit, and a great help, for it
teaches us to draw conclusions from
what we see. But we should see much
and draw few conclusions until we are
sure of drawing approximately the right
'ones.
It Is Impossible to overestimate the
value of the life about us. as a means
of education. We look down at our
feet too much, and not enough about
us and above us.
The telescope man in Union Square
will never get rich, even though he is
doing business tn a city of some mil
lions of people Why? Because few
of us know what a privilege it is to
look up above our heads and sec what
is there.
F'or a ten-cent piece you can see the
rings of Saturn and its moons, or the
craters and mountains of the moon. It
is true that Saturn itself looks about as
big as a and its eight moons like
pinheads Rut it is a wonderful sight,
nevertheless, one never to be forgot
ten. one that will brace up the mind in
many an odd moment of foolishness or
sorrow.
Anyone who is out after moving pic
tures should not tnlss this one. You
would be surprised to know what can
be «een in the heavens, even with an
opera glass. The moon, through an
■ opera glass, is such a glorious sight
i that you will never again think of it as
t cause of good luck or bad luck, ac-
: cording as you happen to see it.
11.
The fact Is, we do not see what Is
near us. A student of Professor Agas
siz of Harvard tells us that when he
; went to Cambridge to study w'fth that
great scientist his first task was to
look at a dead fish and report what
he saw.
Professor Agassiz left him and came
hack In an hour The young-roan han
dled the dead fish as any pne would
who thinks he sees everything In about
one minute. He reported and was in
formed that he had not even made a
beginning.
Agassiz gave him two hours for the
next report. The fish was becoming
more and more hateful to the young
man. Suddenly, however, he thought
he would begin and draw It on paper.
Then, he said, he really began to see
it. Agassiz came back after a while,
and this time encouraged him a little.
"But you have missed the most impor
tant thing. Look again.”
And so It went on hour after hour,
day after day, until finally the young
man actually began to see what he
was looking at. He afterward said that
one lesson made a man and an ob
server of him.
It convinced him that HE COULD
NOT SEE THE THINGS BEFORE HIS
OWN EYES. Agassiz taught him that
fact, and convinced him of It.
Few people have the ability to state
things exactly as they are. They do
not see them as they are, and. natural
ly, any report they make must be
wrong, or partly wrong, which is Just
as bad.
Any one who can look and see what
he looks at and tell the facts and noth
ing but the facts to some one else, has
learned the one great lesson of getting
on.
So the moving picture show of life
about us is a great opportunity for
training the mind and getting it on
a business basts for facts and exact
ness.
DO YOU KnOW-
German engine-drivers are given a
gold medal and a sum of money for
every ten years service without acci
dent.
Counting both steamships and sail
ing vessels of 100 tons and upward,
their total in the world’s mercantile
marine exceeds 30,000.
Miss Mary Woods, of the Brooklyn
navy yard, cuts the patterns for all the
flags made there. She has been making
flags for the United States government
for more than 30 years. Besides Miss
Woods, there are 29 women employed
in the Brooklyn navy yard making
flags at the rate of 24.000 each year
A modern ship's outfit In the American
navy consists of about 430 flags.
A Japanese doctor never dreams of
asking a poor patient for a fee. When
ever a rich man calls in a doctor he
does not expect that he will receive a
bill for medical services. In fact, no
such thing as a doctor's bill is known In
Japan, although nearly all modern
practices arc in vogue there. The strict
hottest.' of the people does not make it
necessar' for the doctor to ask a fee.
When he has finished his visits to the
patient, a present is made to him, just
as much as the patient can afford. Tbe
doctor »hen smiles b<'w«. th.t”ks his
patient and the transaction is settken
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ADVICE TO THE LOVELORN * ’ By Beatrice Fairfax
RETURN HIS LETTERS.
Dear Miss Fairfax;
I am 23 and have been keeping com
pany with a young gentleman two
years my senior, who has been paying I
considerable attention to me and has i
proposed marriage. This gentleman was '
called to a different part of the country
on business, at which place he has been
stationed permanent, and tn our cor
respondence there was a misunder
standing. which caused considerable
feeling. He asked for the return of all
his correspondence, which I refused on
the grounds that I thought there would
be a little reconciliation, but he has not .
written nor have I heard from him
since. E. W.
Return his letters, asking that he
return yours. If you were in the
wrong in th- misunderstanding a
frank, friendly note to that effect will
not be out of place, and I am sure will
no« be misunderstood. But don’t let it
express any love or anxiety.
LET THIS END IT.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I am seventeen and have been keep
ing company for the past year with a
man one year my senior. For the first
six months everything glided, along <
smoothly, and for the past six months
we have been arguing constantly.
Now he is angry and we have parted,
and for the last two weeks I have not ‘
heard from him. I love him very much
and he told me the same many times,
but of late he has become very cold and
does not seem to care anv more for me.
E. H. P. C.
Arguments before marriage become
fierce quarrels after. You have always
given In. you say. Doesn't this presage ]
a married life of humility and oppres
sion? It seems to me you are well off.
because there has been a "last" quar- I
rel. For you own future peace, see '
that It remains the last. (
THEN WHY NOT YOU?
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I am sixteen and was going with a ■
girl two years younger. One night we j
had a disagreement and have not
spoken since. I know she still loves ,
me. but she does not want to speak ■
first. B C. VV.
You. being the man. are supposed to '
be stronger. Show it by being the first
to surrender your owh way and will.
Tell her you are sorry; take all the ,
blame on yourself and 1 am sure that (
vour spirit of fairness will awaken a
similar spirit in her and all will be will.
WHO IS AT FAULT?
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I was keeping ’company with a. young
fellow whom I love very dearly. About
six months ago we quarreled and part
ed, As I love him very dearly I can
not forget him. ,
If you were the one to offend. t“ll
him so. But if he Is at fault and has
maintained a stubborn silence for six
months, it doesn't seem to me be is the
man to make any girl happy. I beg of
you that when you apologize you will
not be too humble. If you are. you will
find yourself tn the position of always
taking the blame.
TRY ANOTHER PLAN.
Dear Miss Fairfax
1 have been going with a young gen
tleman for nearly three years, and he
gave m° a diamond engagement ring
over a jeai ago. H. is working in the
city and he gets $5 a day. Don’t you
think we ought to get married, as I live
in a lonely town and would like to get
married this June? Don’t you think a
girl has as much right to set the date
as the fellow? I am afraid he takes
other girls to theaters, and I think if
he loved me as he says he does he
would not go with others. He is tell
ing me he would like to save a little
more money; but I think that we can
save more if we get married.
VIOLET.
It is the girl's privilege to sot the date
when the man wants to marry, but
When he favors a delay, as in your case,
such action on her part makes her
appear overly anxious. There is no
doubt you could save more, especially
If he is spending money on other girls,
but no argument to that effect can
convince him. Men are such stubborn
creatures a better argument would be
your absolute indifference. If he
knows you want to tnarry ho will not
be anxious to name the date.
FOR MANY REASONS. NO.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I am sixteen and made the acquain-
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i looks as though the boy does not care
t for me. As 1 like him very much, <
i should 1 keep going with him?
‘ SUSAN.
' If he does not care for you. you are
, wasting your time. If he does care for fl
. you. you are too young to "go" with fl
> any man A girl of sixteen has much
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Dear Miss Fairfax: fl
I am in love with a girl and she says
’ she loves me. The last time we were
out she acted coldly toward me. V
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1 your just due to know how you offended S
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it will not be to your happiness to mar
ry her. Women, and also men, who are
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■ uncomfortable creatures to live w-ith"