Show tr 4 wa f I 1 at first was looked upon as a mild and harmless pastime as indeed most people still imagine it to be eye f foot 0 0 t e elbow 1 b 0 w are looked upon as fictions of the alarmist an ar dent feminine has broken off her en ga gement because the young man would not play and even tried to prevent her from playing it Is a good thing that it was not the young man who broke off the engagement for a like reason or we should find instantly ban dished from society by alarmed main mas gm A young woman well educated and in comfortable circumstances has just completed a five 3 ears experience of general servants work she undertook the task voluntary vol fly because she was interested in the domestic ant problem her conclusion Is that both sides are to blame for the present factory state of aff affairs airs IB in ber her own words I 1 be lieve the servant girl problem bgern can be solved only by a aduca flon the employers and servants must be taught to work together the problem furnishes a splendid field for the energies of our young women they should know something of the expert ances I 1 have had I 1 know several young girls with good educations who work as domestics because they like it these are the kind of girls who stay a long time in one place and have no trouble with their employers wt W al one of the latest invented ways way a of making a livelihood is personally con ducting sketching parties of girl stu dents to all parts ot of england and the conti nent in such centers of concentrated beauty as sark and the other chan channel nel islands br brit it S tany italy and swit aerland these parties may frequently be met the pupils are person ally conducted to the scene of their labors and there grouped in most pie PIC tures quely unstudied clusters seated on portable camp stools their easel easels in front of them and sheltered by large umbrellas they paint each one her view of the subject before her in the winter snow sketching parties un der the tutelage of a woman are ta ken hen to switzerland and elsewhere and there temporary wind screens are erected to shield the painters so sue suc have these conducted art toure tours been that the originator is likely to have many imitators wa a the young man who wishes to be popular with the opposite sex should study this paragraph A young worn en s club has decided on a certain youth as the nicest they know because he Is good all the way through hon hen fv est considerate and kind hearted when he treats the girls he makes them think that they are doing him a favor by accepting his hospitality he is always good tempered and jolly and Is as nice to a homely girl as to a pretty one he isn t or foolish but Is just ai a nice lovely fellow and he has more sense than any young man we know he ile never says or does unkind things and always sticks up for every girl be he knows knows wis A woman s paper in vienna has started a crusade against the shams in woman s dress and in support ot of its position quotes the opinion ot of doctors artists art critics and tailors the artist wishes women to be more sin cere tn in their dress at present they use buttons that do not button clasps that do not clasp bows that are axe not tied sham waistcoats and sleeves that exist only so lar tar as they can be seen and he thinks that it would be a real reform of woman s dress it if everything that is false and sham were swept aside there are now in the united states tor for ty five female lopomo tive engineers and fire men and seven female conductors add to these thir thirty tyone one brake men or should one prefer to say brake women and ten baggage women wi A specialist in nervous diseases says that women should sleep nine hours at night and one hour in the day urn time the many charms of the american Ameri caa girl are undeniable found to assert that her voice was ever soft gentle and low an excellent excelle nf thing in woman teach ers of elocution from europe who settle here are hard P put ut to it to accustom their ears to 4 the loud high and ir ri tating voices of most american women as one of these teach r rs describes them it does not seem to be a physical disability tor for training removes the unpleasantness and Ame american Ican actresses as a class have good voices dm great fun was caused at a recent church bazaar by the introduction of washing competitions open to men only each candidate for a prize was provided with a bowl of water a piece of soap and a dirty duster which was to be washed in three minutes A committee of three married women decided the contest and arid awarded the prizes 0 4 11 A zurich student has forar ld that fin pettous kisses are costly at win tearthur he beheld a pretty girl walk ing home from school and by way of introduction he kissed her lightly on the cheek but Winter hinterthur thur girl ia Is not used to being sud denly kissed by an ab solute stranger and she was taken ill III s if fering so her doctor said from shock to the nervous system the parents sued the student who had to pay a fine of 20 dam ages and costs 30 total tor for one ill advised kiss w A recently two women who had en a train that did not stop at their station realized their mistake as the train passed that station without stopping and made up their minds to jump out of the train at the next station they accordingly did so and fell their full length on the platform to the hor her of the station boffl ceals surprising as it may appear the two women picked themselves up apparently patently ly none the worse and seemed quite pleased that they had managed to leave the train within an easy dis tance of their homes W WA A swiss women have the reputation of having good skins and the following is said to be one of the simple little recipes in vogue for preserving the complexion the juice of melons and cucumbers the petals of lilies of the valley green peas four ounces of pow dered fine white sugar on ounce cam chor one ounce of borax a little wild ehi chi kory hory a few bryony roots the crumbs of three rolls a dash of bur rage a pint of white wine and the stewed flesh of six young pigeons the rhe concoction needs twenty one days to distil at the end of which period you will it if you mixed the ingredients properly possess the true secret of perpetual beauty which is not inappropriately called pigeons milk WA W A the uncommon occurrence Is 1 reported from aus aralia of a woman being ordered by a magistrate to support her bus band the man it seems was an a I 1 d age pen aloner in receipt of 6 shillings a week and as his spouse ow owned tied some land s she he was made to contribute another 6 shill ings a icek towards his maintenance wa VL A woman who has ideas on the niceties of dress and behavior remarks that the essence of all art or attraction is suggestiveness A sug of lace a mere shadow of a ruffle a 0 twinkle of heel an oc cas lonal ional flash of the thousandth part of the ankle that Is attract five elusive fascinating there Is a delightful uncertainty about it and the skirt a cloud of filmy imagination but she thinks the way some young women expose their ankles and petticoats Is vulgar stupid it Is worse it Is inartistic swim ws an old woman the other week had a novel experience she Is a centenarian in humble circumstances in a rural district in new aorl state but in full possession of all her and the use of her limbs A city news paper brought her into town put her up at the waldorf Waldor astoria fAstoria for two nights and a day in a special and magnificent suite of rooms she waa was criven over the city in aa a dashing equipage to view the sights and thereafter returned to her own place hav ing tasted the delights of city life at least once in her lifetime boo |