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e © The Making of a Pretty Girl & §
T X THEN a girl Is between twelve
and sixteen she is said to
the ungrareful age
Personally. I think It the first dan
serous age, and there are e«ve- al others,
for a woman does not stop at 4<l. as
heroine of a famous story seems to
believe
The impressions gathered bv ihe
child at this ungrateful age are deep
and not easily effaced
It is now that she gets her first ideas
of her own future, and stje begins to
set a standard so; herself, according to
the influences which are brought to
bear upon her
Potwwen twelve and sixteen a girl
gets an idea of her own good looks,
and she begins to try and enhan<
them Her vanity develops Often this
vanitt Is like a hothouse plant stimu
lated ht rhe constant attention she re
ceives ft m the members of her family,
who don-' hesitate to say. How pretty
Dorothv is getting to be." right before
her. as if she had no ears to hear, or
brain to grasp the significance of the
remark
go many girls are spoiled at this age
that in other families the budding
eharms and beauty of the young girl
are neve' remarked upon, and Isabel is
frankly told that It is quite ugly while,
on the contrary she is slowly evolving
Into a very pleasing, natural young girl.
I think it is just as wrong to harp
upon a girl’s physical shortcoming, j
during’this abnormally sensitive period I
BP it Is to tell her that she is going to I
be a beauty.
The Family to Blame.
Many a girl who. at fourteen, was
awkward and lanky, and at fifteen de
veinped a frightful crop of pimples, has
been made desperately unhappy by the
garcnsm of her family, and as often ns I
not. a girl like this will develop into a
raw-boned, self-conscious young wom
an. when, with a little help and encour
agement, «he could have overcome her
physical awkwardness and learned to
care for’her skin, and become tn time a
graceful a.nd attractive woman.
The physical readjustment which
goes on in the 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 fa show themselves on some sub
jects after the fifteenth year Where a
child is anaemic you can expect blank
heads to appear about this time, and
there is no tier trying lotions or salves.
The anaemic girl simply has not force
enough In her system to throw off the
impurities In the skin The blood
doesn't circulate properly, and it is
unelens to expect these spots and
blotches to disappear until the root of
the matter has been remedied.
In our svstem of education the hard
est part of school life comeg just at the
time when a girl needs regt, quiet, and
the tnost care No wonder our best
scholars are nervous or anaemic and
break down at examination*.
If ths pretty girl’s parents want he
tr get through her school days without
losing the vitality and strength which
she needs, th«v should see that she
gets plenty of fresh atr, the most
wholesome and simple kind of food,
enough amusement and healthy recrea
tion, and is in bed early every night
The average American girl of this age
does not get enough sleejy She is al
ways trying to keep up her end socially,
to go to parties, to entertain, and she
feels that she is much abused if she
does not get her share of theatergoing
All this with her school work is a tre
mendous strain on her nervous srvstem,
end 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 1
seemed to have everything the matter
■ —■ with me. 1 had fe-
maleand kidney trou
' ble and was so bad off
B I could hardly rest
W 7 day or night. I doc
. A ' * torch with all the
< z : A Jjt. f best doctors in town
and took many kinds
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r >ng did any good un
i'MWi ;■ /i *’l 1 tried your won-
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■ 11 1 E. Pinkham's Vege-
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would restore my health ami it has.”
Mrs. May Wyatt, Ashland, Ky.
There are probably hundreds of thou
sands of women in the United States
who have been benefitted by this famous
old remedy, which was produced from
roots and herbs over thirty years ago by
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Camden, N. J. —"I had female trou
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and have recommended it to more than
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—Mrs. Ella Johnston, 324 Vine St,
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By MARGARET HUBBARD AYER
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WHEN SHE IS SWEET SIXTEEN.
come to our shores Insist that we have
no young girls In America, only chil
dren and women, for the average high
school girl dreaseu, acts and looks at
least five years older than she is. and
at present she affects styles which oven
her mother would consider rather ad
vanced.
When you realize how small a part
the American father plays In the mak
ing of our pretty girl. Its a wonder that
so many of them grow up into charm
ing and lovely women, making com
paratively few mistakes In a grown-up
world for which they have In no way
been fitted.
The Father's Duty.
To be pretty and well dressed and
have s good time—that Is about the
only’ Ideal that the average mala par
ent has for his daughter. His son Is
taught from early boyhood that he
must DO something, and to accomplish
hie share of the world's work he must
have a high standard of honor, honesty
and industry. The boy gets this
knocked Into him one way or the other;
the daughter is supposed to imbibe a
complete understanding of morals and
responsibility through that famous
feminine Intuition which only begins to
be understood and appreciated after ex
perience and mistakes have taught her
their dreary lesson of caution.
No matter how sweet and intimate
the relationship between mother and
daughter, there are certain things
which go toward the making of our
pretty girl that she can learn more
quickly and easier from her father, If
he has gained her confidence and has
done something more toward forming
ber character than paying the school
bills.
There would not he one painted or
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Up-to-Date Jokes
It was just after spring cleaning. She
was reading tn a low, thrilling voice:
When the packing begins In earnest
” s< t >ms as though there could he no
' “!» ' 'ii the earth’s surface unshaken.”
He roused himself from a somnolent
otitude in an easy chair.
‘Who wrote that, Maria’’ He’s been
•'rough it. whoever he Is. 1 wonder
i w oom he married?”
■Why. you great stupid.” said she;
‘ i s Amundsen writing about the ice.”
Mi Keb ham How is jour boy get
ting aiomc at school?
Mr , r.utem Splendidly epiendid
'.' ’ I Just ’.•■ I you. my old friend, that
; of >r. will make his way in tile
■or : ■ ■ you f. ar T»n-Iriu the eight
pears hi s been going school they
I have h i examinations, and he's
I managed to dodge ex erv one of 'em
Landlady <t" student lodger) Do you
know 1 dreamt iv night that you
1 paid up »‘i • 1 • ■ i -.ou owed me”
Student is »». .• la. n p;i kindly
| trouble you fol re.elpt.
powdered school girl face if Father ob.
Jected rationally, quietly and with a
sensible Illuminating explanation.
Rut when he is not too busy to notice
the makeup at all. he merely rages
As one girl put it to me the other day,
"Father Just threw a fit when he found
T used makeup. He said he'd throw
me out of the house If I ever put pow -
der or rouge on my face again. I don't
see anything so had about it; all the
girls use powder, and I’m so pale the
rouge makes me look much nicer. Now,
I wash my face before Father comes
home, so he doesn't catch me at it. I
don't see w hy he made such a fuss ”
Why He Objected.
Os course, she didn't understand, be
cause Father carefully side-stepped the
real reason that he did not want his
daughter to paint and powder, and look
like anything but the sweet and pure
girl that she is. He did not want her
confounded with a class of women of
whose existence sh« is entirely un
aware; on the other hand, he could not
den' that many of her friends and that
her own mother used powder occasion
ally.
Sweet Sixteen, unfortunately, takes
to powder as a duck to water. Our
pretty girls often look like little Pier
rots. with their whitened faces and
chalky noses. The\ think it is grown
up and becoming, and thev do not real
ize that every vestige of powder and
makeup takes away the beauty of their
youth, the sweet innocence and candor
of their faces. Powder, except when
ft is absolutely necessary, makes any
fare look older, and it makes the young
face look hard. As for paint of any
kind. I think the only way to frighten
Sweet Sixteen out of it is to tel] her
that the slightest vestige of paint
makes every imperfection in her skin
show up as if under a magnifying glass,
and the use of these artificial aids to
beauty will eventually quite ruin the
texture of her skin and make it yellow.
For really pile cheeks there Is noth
ing so good as deep breathing. Then
a cold sponge bath in the morning, fol
lowed by a brisk rub with a crash
towel, will bring natural roses to the
face. Don't drink tea or coffee, if you
are a little "pale face.” and try and
give up cand yand substitute fruits.
If there is any way that it can be
done, arrange to sleep out of doors; a
sleeping porch for people who live in
the country is worth the price of the
investment in the Improvement to the
general health of the family, and the
exodus of City people to their roofs for
sleeping purposes has brought out all
kinds of new bedstead- swings and
hammocks at moderate prices.
Earl> hours, out-of-door sleeping,
simple food and exercise, those are the
secrets of good complexion for the girl
of sixteen. Her complexion u-oubles
are due ilways to nerves, bad circu
lation and Indigestion, and it is by cur.
’ng these that sh> an get back the
peachlike b'oon to her cheeks w hich is
j the charm of youth and health.
Getting On In
Life
By THOMAS TAPPER.
i.
THE novel* of Charles Dickens may
be called, 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
i chine to see and enjoy them.
Os course, the faculty that Dickens
i had which enabled him to do this as a
, writer came from his habit of looking
I at the world about him; of looking at
it hard: of seeing it clearly; and then of
making a man tn New Zealand, or In
dia. or Labrador see it by means of a
printed page.
Any one who wants to get on in life
should cultivate this habit of looking at
; 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 I’nlon Square
will never get rich, even though he Is
doing business In 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 see what
is there.
For a ten-cent piece you can see the
ring' 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 pea. and its eight moons like
pinheads. But 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 not miss this one. You
would be surprised to know what can
be seen 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
a cause of good luck or bad luck, ac
ceding 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 w'hen he
. went to Cambridge to study with that
l great scientist his first task was to
I look at a dead fish and report what
he saw.
Professor Agassiz left him and came
back in an hour. The young man han
dled the dead fish as any one 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 s'o 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 rtfake 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 basis 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 are in vogue there. The strict
honesty of the people does not make it
necessary 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. The
I doctor then smiles, bows, thanks his
{ patient and the transaction is settled.
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used over liberty blue satin. It is ,—>— * here effectively trimmed with black S
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ADVICE TO THE LOVELORN ’• By Beatrice Fairfax |
RETURN HIS LETTERS.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
1 am 23 and have been keeping com
pany with a young gentleman two
years my senior, who has been paving
considerable attention to me. and has
proposed marriage. This gentleman was
called to a different part of the country
on business, at w hich place he has been
stationed permanent, and in our cor
respondence there was a misunder
standing. which caused considerable
feeling. He asked for tlie 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 A.ere In the
wrong In the misunderstanding a
frank, friendly note to that effect will
not be out of place, and I am sure will
not be misunderstood. Rut 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
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
had a disagreement and have not
spoken since. 1 know she still loves
me. but she does not want to speak
first. B. C- " ■
You, being the man. are supposed to
be stronger. Show it by being the first
to surrender your own way and will.
Tell her vou are sorry; take all the
blame on yourself, and I am sure that
your 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 1 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, tell
him so. But If he Is at fault and has
maintained a stubborn silence for six
months, it doesn't seem to me he is the
man to make anv girl happy. I beg of
you that when you apologize you will
not be too humble. If you are. you will
find yourself in the position of always
taking the blame.
TRY ANOTHER PLAN.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I have been going with a young gen
tleman for nearly three years, and he
gave me a diamond engagement ring
over a year ago. He is working in the
SOME OF THE LATEST PARIS STYLES IN DRESSES.
city and he gets $5 a day. Don't you
think we ought to get married, as 1 live
In a lonely town and would like to get
married this June? Don't you think a
girl has as much right tn set the date
: as tile 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.
i It is the girl's privilege to set the date
I when the man wants to marry, but
when he favors a delay, as in your case,
such action on Iter part makes her
appear overly anxious. Them is no
doubt you could save more, especially
if he is spending money on ?>ther girls,
but no argument to that effect •an
convince him. Men are such stubborn
creatures a better argument would be
your absolute indifference. If he
knows you want to marry lie 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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lance of a boy two years my senior It ft j
looks as though the boy does not care
for me. As I like him very much,
should I keep going with him?
SUSAN.
Ts he does not care for .you, you are
wasting your time. If he does care for
you, you are too young to “go” with
any man. A girl of sixteen has much
to learn from books before she puts
herself in a position to learn more pain
ful lessons from life.
SEEK THE REASON,
Dear Miss Fairfax:
T am in love with a girl and she says
she loves me. The last time we were
out she acted coldly toward me.
OTTO.
Perhaps she had cause, and It Is only
your just due to know how you offended
so you may explain.
If she acted indifferently for no rea
son than that she is a creature of moods
it w ill not be to your happiness to mar
ry her. Women, and also men. who are
as changeable as the weather are very
uncomfortable creatures to live w-fth.