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Show 1 1 Woman's World I Be a a Woman.. I lie a voman! On to duty! I JJaiPP the world from all that's low. I riare high in the social heaven I Virtue's fair and radiant bow. I L'nd thy influence to each effort. I That shall ratee our nature human; il not fashion's g-ilded lady-Be lady-Be a brave, -whole-souled, true -woman! ' Edward Brooks. REVIVAL OF THE OLD FASHIONED GIRL (Marian Martineau in Chicago Tribune.) Tri-bune.) The old-fashioned girl is in style Hjrain. You will recognize her among J ihp 1S30 type, among the 1860 women And among the girls who lived in be-t be-t ' n these periods. Ti be fashionable you must be old-fashioned. old-fashioned. And happy the girl who'can lrf in the old-fashioned way and band her hair in the old-fashioned manner man-ner and still look pretty. Fortunately for the woman who I would louk old-fashioned the styles of good old days Mere becoming to the jtwrage feminine face, and so the wo- man who is getting herself up as grand-I grand-I iin-ther used to got herself up stands ia good chance of looking pretty. Curls Popular ia Olden Times. urls were in style in the old days f and th old-fashioned girl of today 2 must curl her hair. She can wear it l .all in little corkscrew curls around her I face, after the fashion of Germaino I I Oallojs, who took the French beauty I ! urize. or h ran wear luct i iar. i If curl. The Gallois curls are twelve in I r umber, six on a side. They are J curled tightly in corkscrew fashion J and they hang over the forehead, the I 1. ngth of your little finger and about ihe fame size. The curls are not I combed out, but are left to dance and Jangle around the face. The old-fashioned girl wears the neck curl. Thip must be long enov.gh to come forward and dangle over the shoulder. She also wears a couple of dancing car curls. Or, maybe, if she i can do so, she curls her whole back I hair and lets it hang in ringlets around I her shoulders, jurt as they did in (t- I 1S60 days. This has been revived in , Washington. J Again the old-fashioned Hrl will d J hfr head in the Moral fashion of the J eld days. Instead of binding the hair I with a fillet she will make a wreath of I leaves and pres-p it upon her hair or I she will crown herself with a garland I of flowers. I It is a year of the revival of the old- I fashioned girl, and all who appreciate I their chances will endeavor to have the J old-fashioned look. iBut the old-fashioned girl does not depend upon her curls alone. She will try to dreps her hair so that it will frame her face. She will not be content with topping it with a pompadour to I fall down over her forehead, ,but she will want to dress her hair in such a manner that it encircle? her head, her i forehead, her neck and her ears as I with an aureole. She will puff it and I wave it and curl it and make the most ' of it until her face is framed in a be-j coming frame. Then there is the old-fashioned eye. ! This was the bright, flirtatious eye, j w ith a twinkle in it. There were glos- j sy straight brows, and the old-fash-1 inned girl had shadows under her eyes I which were called violet shadows. 1 Merry Twinkle in Hsr Eye. ' Shadows under the eyes are becom- Ing. But circles are not. And the wo- t man who wants prettj- eyes will not j 1iav them circled with, dark lines. Nor j win she havgreat eye sac under her I On the contrary, the eyes of the pret- f ty girl are of the shining variety, beau tifully clear, and of the kind which can oj'n widely and look you right in the face. To get eyes lik this one must not abuse the eyes. The girl who sews late j at night, the girl who rubs her eyes, f the girl who lets her lids and Iashe? I become neglected, th-ip girl cannot hope to have pretty eyes. - The old-fashioned girl bathed her rye8 in morning dew,' or was supposed I to do so. But more likely she bathed i th'm in soft rain water in which had be'-n added some soothing lotion simi- I lar to our witch hazel or mw water. There are plenty of eye washes which -an be used for the purpose of strengthening the lids. The lids should never have an uneasy feeling, for the la'hes will surely fall out and the eyes 1 will present an appearance like unto I that of peeled onions. I Pretty violet shadows are produced. I not by art, but by nature. If the lashes grow long they will throw their own shadows and the eyes will have I that interesting look which is the poet's inspiration. Large Eyes Due to Slender Face. The old-fashioned girl had large, lan- I guishinj eyes. But this was due to the. shape of her face, which was slender slen-der and oval. The girl of those days I m as not a fat girl. She kept her face I slndr and her eyes were prominent. To make the eyes large do not try to massage around them- But, on the I ontrary, try to diet. Make the face I . thinner and the eyes will soon increase j i:i sizp. As one grows thin the eyes f grr.w bigger. ; f The eyebrows phould not be neglect- , l Hl. The woman who wants nice eye- ! I bruws can heat a little almond oil and I apply it nightly to the brows with a I small brush. In this manner the cye- l brows can be influenced. Often they J are inclined to grow s-traggly. But by painting them with a brush regular". 1 tlv y can be trained into shape. j I The secret of pretty eyes, is found in j th-ir care. The eyes should be bathe! I sifter you have been out -n the dust Tl,. lt method of doing this is to nil k I z. basin with warm water. Into th:s B put a teaspoon of borax. Dash the f vater into the eyes, letting the'water imtrr them. If vou sew or read a great deal trv (to rest the eyes frequently. Close them for five minutes once in a while: It '? is a good plan for the girl who is em- ploytd during the day to make it a f practice to rest the eyes evenings. If y,,u read daytimes or write or sew try to give the eyes' a complete change ttt ttisrht. Ther are certain colors which try a the eyes and the girl who wants pretty I r-v.-s will not work upon them by arti- licial light. Again, the glr' whose eyes i are defective will wear glasses and in every manner endeavor to cherish her I prccious.sighl. j Gets Peachy Complexion by Dieting. The- old fashioned girl mint have a J peachy complexion. This the can get I by dieting. There is a complexion I which is produced by eating fruit, by fating Vegetables, by eating things which do not upset the digestion. Pret- iy soon the skin will begin to clear and I ihe gill who wanted peachy cheeks I will have them. ? There is a complexion which is called ' the vtgetarian complexion. The skin j I dear and lovely. To get this com- I flexion one must eat little meat and one must live upon easily d.gesied foods. Salads without onions, celery, spinach, rooked fruits, warm breads, hoiuy, and such foods will give a ( dear skin.' The old fashioned girl had j j fewer meats and her food.5 were game, . 1 j poultry, fruits-, and home made bread. I To get a nice skin it is almost neces- j ft Si ry to live much in the open air. The girl who sits in a warm room all day will have a stewed look; and ' here, i f again, the old fashioned girl had a f 1 I l chance for herself. Her rooms were cool and there was an absence of the overheated atmosphere of the modern home. Lips As Kipe As Cherries. The old-fashioned girl took care of her "Ps. There were old-time remedies for keeping the mouth ripe looking. Smooth red hps were the property of the pretty pret-ty girl in those days-, and to keep hr Hps nice she rubbed them nightly with camphor ice and daily with lotions of glycerin and rose water. She made he-camphor he-camphor ice from sheep's oil, which "ho scented with camphor and poured into '' empty eggshells. And she made her lin lotions by taking rose water, and adding a few drops of glycerin to it. The dressing table of a belle of those days was a curiosity, for she had upon j inr a" sort1a.I nice. soothing remedies for the skin. A favorite was sweet' clover cream. She had a dailv facial bath of sour milk and. if possible, she bathed her skin in buttermilk Buttermilk was a favorite face beau- 1 tifier of Jhe belles of the oldeft days. SOft' clear "'earn' complexion with cheeks like roses could be traced to the good influence of the daily facial bath of buttermilk. The girl of those davs did not despise de-spise face powder. She had a simple formula for face powder and this she dusted on her skin before she went out. The girl of those days had a pretty neck. But this was due to the fact that she did not do up her throat in tight stocks nor did she choke herself by metallic collars, nor bind her throat in such a way that it was creased remd and round. The old-fashioned girl had a great deal to recommend her, and her picture." pic-ture." show that, from beauty's point of view, she was good to look upon. Marion Martin-au's Answers. Mrs. J. m.: You gave me a complexion complex-ion cream a year ago which was of great assistance to me. it agreed with my skin. Unfortunately I have mislaid It and cannot find its recipe anywhere, t Can you repeat it? j I do not know the one to which you refer. But ycu might try this: To the oil of almonds add pure mutton 1 tallow in equal quantities. Add half the amount of white vaseline. Scent with a good perfume. Beat with an eg? beater beat-er as it is cooling. If too thick add a little almond oil. Jennie H.: I am using glj'cerln and rose water on my face. But it does not bell? it. On the contrary, it gets redder. red-der. Glycerin dos not agree with your 1 skin. Use witch hazel instead. You ! ought to massage a little cream into 1 your skin once a day. The best cream j for you would be a mixture of olive oil and spermaceti, the formula for which i was recently gjven. i G. P.: What is the best way to use ! cucumber juice on the face? I refer '. to the pure juice. Take a cucumber and split it lengthwise length-wise in thick slices. Apply to the face and let it dry. This gives you the juice , direct. j V. T-: My upper lip is covered with superfluous hair. Is there any known remedy except the electric needle? Yes, there are several remedies. Have you tried pulling out the hairs and us-j us-j ing tweezers' afterwards. That is one I way to take hair off the lip. Let the ammonia be weak. The salve stick, ! obtainable at any druggist's, is also a. j good thing. ! Miss Y.: My unper Iid i? now ciuite free from hair, though it is scarred by using the electric battery. Does the battery always leave scars? . No, indeed. It must have been badly administered. The electric needle and the galvanic battery will not leave a scar. The needle is slender and is not pushed into the skin far. t G. F.: Is the electric needle painful? I have understood that it is a serious operation. j It is not serious. The needle does not hurt mora than any pin prick. You f can do it yourself if you buy a needle. A reader asks to what extent she rhall diet. This is difficult to answer. There are people who ought not to diet at all Thpv arp rtrtt Ktmmr nnn?h in thr heart. Fruit must take the place of diet in this instance. Do not eat candy. can-dy. Take honey if you must have sweets. , Blackheads: Is there any way to clear j my complexion? ' After reading your letter carefully it seems as though you were indeed afflicted- You must steam your.face, but you need not blister. Apply cold cream while the skin is hot. Wash off with plenty of hot water and soap, j Y.: Pleas tell me the newest and lat-' lat-' est thing for the imnrovement of the eyes. I am told that they can be steamed. Such is not the case. The eves must not be steamed. They should not be , warned witi. water hot enough to burn ! them. Tiest them and bathe them in boracic acid mad1 according to the directions di-rections of your druggist. Probably a teaspoonful of borax to a pint of warm water. CURIOSITIES OF COURTSHIP N AND MARRIAGE (T. P. O'Connor in Chicago Tribune.) Only the other day an English bride's brother and brother-in-law ,: had to pay $2,000 for the forcible ab- , duction of her from her humble bride-grcom. bride-grcom. The bereaved husband had been her -"-father's --grooms and the. courtship was carried on when he ac- i companicd her in that capacity on , horseback. "When she had been left by i her aunt $20,000 she eloped with her lover. Immediately after the marriage,, 1 though the bride's father wished them ! all happiness, her brother and brother- , in-law, with the help of a detective : who kept the bridegroom in play , carried her off forcibly, and kept her ' in durance till her father could convey ' her to the continent her vague address ad-dress at present. This case- recalls a yet more highhanded high-handed abduction in the days of great Elizabeth, when, however, it was the father who was Imprisoned for his ; contumacy by the noble lover. As this father. Sir John Sper.cer. lord mayor of London, was the richest merchant in Eurone, his daughter's hand was sought by a crowd of suitors of high degree. Among them were Lord Comp-ton Comp-ton and the son of Sir Arthur Hen-ningham, Hen-ningham, the peer being preferred by the daughter and the commoner by her father. Imprison Father For Obstinacy. In those fine old feudal days the p.uthoritj- of a father, even if he were lord mayor of London, weighed lightly light-ly against that of a noble in the eye of the law, and Sir John, therefore, was flung into the Fleet prison for presuming pre-suming to have a say in the disposal of his daughter's hand! John Chamberlain Cham-berlain writes thus of the case on March 15, 1598-9: "Our Sir John Spencer Spen-cer was the last week committed to the Fleet for a contempt and hiding away his daughter, who, they say, is contracted to the Lord Compton; but now Sir John is out again, and by all means seeks to hinder the match, alleging alleg-ing a precontract to Sir Arthur Hen-nlngham's Hen-nlngham's son. But upon Sir John beat-ing beat-ing and misusing her, she was sequestered seques-tered to one Barkers, a proctor, and from thence to Sir Henry BMingsley's. where she yet remains till the matter is tried. If the obstinate and self-WUed fellow should persist in his dogged-ness dogged-ness (as he protests he will) and give her nothing, the poor lord should have a warm catch!" As "the obstinate and self-willed fellow, fel-low, did persist in his doggedness," the nnWe iord found he had made, a poor catch after all. Sir John gave his dis- j etmnt! dauhter nether dowry nor Drn&Ce' and Compton, in all probability, would never have received InfJe, Pny of her father's vast for-tti for-tti were not for the romantic inters in-ters enuon of Queen Elizabeth. Queen Bess Plays a Wily Trick. The- wily queen begged Sir John to stand sponsor with her for the first corn of a young couple, happy in their love, but unhappy in their estrangement estrange-ment from the wife's father. Sir John, extraordinarily flattered, begged to be allowed to adopt the queen's protege, since, as? he had now no daughter, he could here for no worthier heir. The queen graciously consented, and, after the christening, introduced the child's parents to Sir John Lord and Lady Compton! Sir John had, in fact, adopted his own grandson, who ulti- ! mately inherited his prodigious for- ; tune. , T fancy that Lord Compton found I "the obstinacy and self-will" hereditary, heredi-tary, and that his lady held hr own against h'm as she had against her father. Here is an extract from a characteristic letter of hers, written after she had come in for her father's fortune: "My Swacte Life I would, besides the allowance for my apparel, hsve tKo added yearly (quarterly to be paid) for the performance of charitable charit-able works, and those things I would not, neither will be accountable for. Also I will have three horses for my o"wn eaddle, and none shall dare to lend or borrow none lend but I, none borrow but you. Also, T wou'd have two gentlewomen, lest one should be sick, or have some other lett. Also, beiiave me it is an indecent thing for a gentlewoman to stand, mumping alone, when God hath blessed their lord and lady. with a great estate. Also, when I ride a-hunting or hawking, or travel from - one house to another, I will have them attending: so. for either of these said women I must and will have a horse." Then follows a long list of all the : carriages and horses, men servants and maid servants she must and will have, winding up with a claim for the following dresses and jewels which must be provided for her in addition to those she would purchase with her . pin money for herself: "And, for myself my-self (besides my yearly allowance) I would have twenty gowns of apparel; six of them very excellent good ones, eight of them for the country, and six other of them very excellent good ones. Also, I would have 6.000 to buy me Jewels and 4,000 to buy me a pearl chain." Japanese Wives Want to be Old. In contrast with this emancipation after marriage of an English wife of Elizabeth's day may be set the efface-ment efface-ment of a Janpanese wife of today. Here, at least, is Miss Dorothy Menp-is' picture of the "honored interior" of a Japanese home: "With her childhood the happiest years of a Japanese girl have ended. Starting life as a butter-flVt butter-flVt gay and brilliant, she becomes sadder sad-der and sadder with every passing year. The colors fade and become dull, until, by the time she is a full grown i woman, they have sobered down to almost Quaker hues, except here and there where some edging of . color i shows itself. I "Directly she is a wife her one ambition am-bition is to become old; it is almost a craze with her. She shows it in every possible way in the way she ties her obi, the fashion in which she dresses her hair; everything that suggests the advance of the sere and yellow leaf she eagerly adopts. When her husband hus-band gives a party he calls in a geisha; she herself, poor dear! sits URStairs on a mat, and is not allowed to be seen. She is called the 'honored interior and is far too precious and refined to figure in public life." The emblem of conjugal affection in Corea is a goose I am sure I cannot tell why which is carried by the best Vnan before" the bridegroom; while the happiness of ,a Corean marriage is secured again I cannot guess why by the Trappist dumbness prescribed to the wife. First Duty of Korean Wife. , "Silence Is regarded as a wife's first duty. During the whole of the wedding wed-ding day the bride must be as mute as a statue. If she says a word, or even makes a sign, she becomes an ob ject or riaicuie, ana ner suence must remain unbroken, even In her Own room, though her husband may attempt at-tempt to break it by taunts, jeers, or coaxing; for the female servants are all on the qui vive for such a breach of etiquette as speech hanging about the doors and chinks to catch up even i a single utterance, which would cause i her to lose caste forever in her circle. It may be a week or several months before the husband knows the sound i of his wife's voice, and even after that ' for a length of time she opens her , mouth only for necessary speech." I This protracted silence reminds me 'of an amusing case that came some ' time since to my knowledge of a prolonged pro-longed sulk between a childless wife I and husband. For nearly six long . i weeks they had not interchanged a ' word, and all indispensable intercom- ' municatlon was carried on indirectly through the servants. It was, in fact, i a contest of obstinacy as to which ' would be forced to speak first to the other. .The wife won by an elaborate and ingenious stratagem. One Sunday Sun-day evening the husband, unable to stand the frozen silence of his hearth any longer, went to .church, and on his return was enraged to find the i whole house turned inside out and i upside down. In every room every j shelf and drawer, bookcase , and press I "was 'emptied of its contents, which lay j i strewn in wild confusion on . every I i floor.' "What the Is the meaning of this tomfoolery?" shouted the husband hus-band to the-wife, who was in the act of emptying the last article out of the last chest of drawers. Turning to face him. she cried triumphantly: "I was looking for your tongue, which I have lost these six weeks, and now have found!" J When Girls Should Marry. j While the coping stone to a woman's life is marriage, no girl should marry for the sake of a. home. Unless she mnrrlp.q fnr lnv kVip had hfittpr remain a spinster. When two people who have j been reared in two widely .different at-! at-! moepheres come together for weal or j woe it takes a great deal of love on j both sides to keep the matrimonial i wheels running smoothly. The girl who has .married simply to gain a home will find that she wants more than a rooftree to make life happy. Existence will cease to be a joy, and, what is worse, she will lose her own self-respect. Far better that she had ! remained single. The unmarried wo-! wo-! man, though she may never strike the ' keynote of true happiness that, the j happily married woman does, may still lead, an exceedingly contented and use-, ful life. Let no girl think that in order or-der to be happy Bhe must-marry. If she falls-In, love with the right man and he with her, I advise her by all means to marry him. A woman's winning card is cheerfulness. cheerful-ness. She may be capable of countless count-less self-sacriiices, infinite tenderness and endless ; resources of wisdom, but if she cloaks these very brilliant possessions pos-sessions under the garb of melancholy she may almost as well not have them eo far as the ordinary world with which she comes in daily contact is concerned. Tell the average busy man that a blossom blooms away down In the underground cave, and he won't care enough to have time to delve down there and look at It. But let the lovely flower nod its face up In the daylight and o the every-day level that the busy man treads, .and he is certain to see' it and -'pretty eure to look ' at it with .pleasure .too. ' : - ' That is -rhfierfulncTo. . .The root of gladness juay.be in the heart all right, but it has to blossom out into a sunny face Bd pleasant words before men will pay the slightest attention to it. The sunny aspect toward the -world is the only footing upon which social intercourse in-tercourse can be based. Some one has been quoted as saying: "Come, let us gather up violets and make them into balls. Then I will toss them at you and you will toss them at me." Foolish? Fool-ish? Oh, no.' For while we toss figurative fig-urative violets back and forth we are all making each- other's acquaintance and laying the groundwork, over which we may walk up to such cioser relationships rela-tionships as . the fates have destined for us. and meanwhile the air is made fragrant for -everybody. If You Are Well Bred. You will try to make others happy. You will not be shy or self-conscious. You wi!! never indulge In ill-natured gossip. . You will never forget the respect uue to age. You will think of others before you think of yourself. You wilt not swagger or boast of your achievements. You will never measure your civility by peoples' bank accounts. You will be scrupulous in your regard for the rights of others. i In conversation you will not be arsu- j mentative or contradictory. You will not forget engagements, i promises or obligations: of any kind. You will never make fun of the pv ! culiarities or idiosyncrasies of others. You will not bore people by constantly con-stantly talking of yourself and your affairs. You will never under any circumstances circum-stances cause another pain if you can help it. You will not think that "good intentions" inten-tions" compensate for rude or gruff manners. Success. |