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Show J Specially Prepared for;Our Feminine Headers. "1 I ; Lost Ideals. ' Have we not ail, amid life's petty strife, 1 ome pure ideal of noble life that once seemed possible? Did we not , hear ' i The flutter of its wings, and feel it near, 4-iid just within our reach? It was, I And yet, j iVe lost it in this daily ar and fret, And now we live in a vague regret: , t tut si-!l our place is kept, and it will wait, Beady for us to fill it, soon or kite; No star is ever lost we once have seen, ' We always may be what we might have been, Eince God. though only thought, has life and breath. Cod's life can always' be redeemed from death, t A.nd even, in Its ; nature, "Is decay. And ;in hour can , blot it all away; The hopes that lost in some far distance ." -m ' .... May be the truer life, and this the dream. Adelaide A. Proctor. The Light-Bringer. ; Before earn soul, that eastward looks, there flies A. Shining- Presence, swift as God's own thought; And who beholds her sees her kings are while. And that 'tis always morning where she ', stands. Before het face dawns kindly out of dark And daybreak walks far kingdoms. Evermore Ever-more Her wings are bent to sunrise, and her voice Calls back to men and leads them over 1 tracts . And chasms of storm, and blinding cata-. cata-. racts, .' Enamored of its sweetness. "Who so see"s Lifrht sown beyond black-smoking tliun-dor-iirifts thai! kneel with her before the feet. of God. Phe is the shaiier of His far off Day ! The builder of great empires fashioner Of deathUss Morning in the souls of men; ' And mightiest nations, following her voice, - Press forward with their foreheads set to dawn, ' And only pause within Eternal morn. Hearing the bugles blown before His I Face. 1 Daughter of Gnd. and enemy of hell, 1 Her hand uplifts the daybreak like a . sword And strikes the' darkness from about , each soul That hath her shining seal! Her name is 1 Faith, j And f-he bears light from God down unto mrn. ; Charles J. O'MalU y in New York World. i Putting the Muscles, to Sleep. I (From Chicago Tribune.) j 1 The girl vho understands repose is 1 the girl ho wins out. It is called put- j ting the muscles to sleep. Lady Henry Somerset once said that the most attractive thing about Miss ; Frances Willaru was her poise, i "Poise," said Lady Henry, "is a qual- i ity by which one preserves one's equi- I librium even under the most trying cir- i cumstanc.es." She meant that poise is a quality which keeps a woman from getting - . upset or "rattled." If you have per-i per-i feet self-poise you can never get nus- ! lered. You do not get out of breath or ; nervous, nor do you lose that. precious - j possession known as your temper. Repose is supposed to be a sign of I pood breeding. The southern women have a wonderful amount of it. They j are thoroughbreds, and they are taught , from the cradle a certain manner J which makes them always appear rest- pd. The southern woman can sit with I her hands in her lap, with her eyes . looking straight at you, and with her J body at ease. She does not pull her i handkerchief with her fingers, she do?s I I not taP v''ith her foot, nor does she make motions with her mouth.. She understands the art of bodily repose.' But renose embraces a great deal I , more than this, and, in the case of the I ; southern woman it takes in a perfect I ! , ' etiquette of manner. The southern wo- I . ! man never gets out of patience; or if I , t-he does, she does not show it. - She I r never raises her voice above a conver- I ! sational tone. She never pulls at arti- I ' ties in her impatience: she never laughs 1 , above a polite note. I J If you know southern women you will j ' ! , have observed that when out of temper 1 they merely give up the field. They do I not argue and get red in the face. If I ' standing, they walk away: and if seat- I f t d they lapse into a difinified and lady- 1 like silence. I ! It is said that the southern woman I 1 is taught this and that it comes to her 1 from her grandmother and her mother, ' and perhaps from more generations ! back than this. . Repose of manner is something which 1 should be learned by a girl not from a society standpoint alone but because of its beneficial effects upon the health. ! The girl who has learned repose of 1 countenance is one who does not twitch - her face; when she speaks she does not : scowl or make grimaces; her hands ! have the art of lying in her lap idly; ! and there is no nerve leakage, as the : physiculturists say. 1 The matter of nerve leakage is one 1 which should not escape a woman's at-1 at-1 tention. If you will try to keep your f hands still for a day you will under- t stand what is meant by resting the ' nerves. Your hands, if you only knew i it, contain thousands of nerves, small ) and delicate. 1 If you are in the habit of picking at 1 your gown or playing with your jew- 1 elry, or toying with your handkerchief, 1 or of otherwise using the hands in countless little ways, so that you play 1 . -with your clothing all of the time, you i are all the while, unconsciously but j fearfully, using up your nerve power. If you will keep your hands still, ly-. ly-. , ing in your, lap without motions of any ; kind, you will escape this fearful rav age upon the nerves and will let your nerves rest. It is a hard thing to learn, - if you have the habit of twitching ' '. your fingers, but begin now, this day, , and cultivate the art of doing nothing. - ; Let your hands lay idly in your lap, j I ' and. though you may be talking or thinking, do not toy with articles. ;- in the art of repose there lies a knowledge of correct posture. Do you I know how to hold your head so that it I 5s really resting upon your shoulders? Do not let it hang forward, for this prives you a headache. Do not toss it at either side, for this may contract for you a stiff neck. Do not throw your ! head back, for you will get in the habit cf keeping your mouth open, which is never pretty. Instead of this you must learn "! how to poise your head, hold it upright. and study what is called opposition of motion. Let your head be balanced, slightly turning turn-ing it this way or that, according as your shoulders are poised If you will learn how to hold your head you will find that you will be much less fatigued at night than if you held it incorrectly all day! I t The nerve bath Is something you should also take every day; this is called by various names, but it is after aft-er all only a nerve bath. It consists in thoroughly resting every nerve in the body. In a sanitarium they often characterize a nerve bath as a "sun bath," and the patient' is sent into a sun parlor while the rays of Old Sol play upon her. She must, while in rnis position, be perfectly motionless, and she must sit so half an hour. If the patient who desires to take a n"rve bath will loosen her clothing and Iwill seat herself in an easy chair, with her head thrown back, she will find that fihe can enjoy the utmost repose: Let hf r extend one arm upon the arm of the chair so that it is rested, "and let her lay the other arm across her chest. If she is seated correctly there will not be the slightest tenstion; she I ' will be absolutely at. ease in every way. j Let her tit this way for-fifteen min-, . l i utes and at the end of that time she I i v, 1 will find that she is in perfect condition condi-tion to dress herself. After a hard day's shopping one comes home greatly fatigued. If. while in this state, a woman will drink a cup of hot avpple tea and will loosen her clothing while she is sipping her tea, dashing cold water on her face and arms, and neck; and if she will now seat herself so 'that she is per fectly at ease for fifteen minutes, she will find herself thoroughly rested and ready, for the duties of the evening, no matter how ardous they may be. Have you ever seen people who do not understand the art of the repose of the eyes? The eyeBareshift3 and, when you look such 7a person right in the eyes; the lids will blink and .the eyes will; droop. '.. Often such people are thought to be untrustworthy and full of treason. stratagem and spoils, all because of an unhappy mannerism of the eyes. Let a person so afflicted learn how to look i steadily at you. Let such a one learn ! and practice the art of opening the lids and looking steadily at an object;.; do not stare, but merely rest the gaze;' winking when necessary, but all the while keeping the eyelids beautifull raised. This will teacji a certain repose re-pose of the eyes. Repose of manner is a difficult thing! for a tired woman to acquire, even if she has learned it she will find that, she soon loses it when a day's hard work comes lupon her. She should se-. cure for herelf a great deal of . sleep.! It is said that business women must sleep eight hours a night, while the woman of idleness, she who is growing stout and indolent, can restrict her hours of slumber to seven. ; The business yoman who is going to keep her nerve, her temper, her youth and her resistence must retire early-and early-and sleep ten hours. If she gets to. bed late at night, as will sometimes happen, she should sleep late in the morning. It does not matter when yon sleep, just so long as you get ten hours of good, refreshing slumber. You can tell the nerve rested woman at sight. She has bright eyes and there are-few: wrinkles;. in her face..'.' She is cheerful' and her manner shows;, that she is not moving along at high tension;' she is not quick' or jerky inner in-ner motions. She is more likely to be' self-noised than the woman who is worn out for lack of slumber, and she is as good looking as it is possible for her to be. Society women are practicing renose; they find that it is an attractive trait.-Mrs. trait.-Mrs. Gladstone is not a pretty woman.-but woman.-but Gladstone said that she made his. home a temple of peace. Probably she knew how to rest, for resting is an art which may be classed among the" fine arts. ' Another factor in repose and repose" is something which embraces a great-many great-many things is that of correct eating. eat-ing. If you have indigestion or are-uneasy are-uneasy in your stomach, whether from' hunger or thirst, you cannot be re- posetui; you win turn ana twist with, the stomach always seeking a more j comfortable position. ; : The stomach lies in folds, and unless, it is comfortably filled it will feel uneasy. un-easy. If it is tightly laced it will be. still more uncomfortable, and so the stomach must be carefully watched in' one's study for perfect rest. So in repose there may be enumerated enumer-ated these factors: That of correct eating, a proper amount of sleeping! the ability to rest the hands and so to, avoid nerve leakage, a knowledge of how to sit, the trick of resting the eyes, apd, aboye all, daily exercise in'-sitting in'-sitting perfectly quiet. " |