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Show I Woman's World. 2ZZ .A I Specially Prepared for Onr Feminine Headers 1 ' : ' . I The Merciful Woman. She had a lender, loving hart iThat often throbbed with woe Because of cruel treatment men Forced brutes to undergo. And on her fair expanse of brow Were lines of deepest care Because men shot in wanton sport The birds that fly the air. At last determined she to write A tender, strong address. And have it printed with slug heads In all the public press. I She wrote in strong, yet tender vein, I . 'She covered sheets a score, I Then took it to the editor i And this is what she wore: ! A robin redbreast on her hat. ! A mink's skin 'round her throat; i A mother Eeal gave up her life To make my lady's coat. 1 Two otter tails of silken sheen Adorned each beaver cuff; Four muskrats yielded up their lives That she might have a muff. ,, She drove a pair of speedy nags Whose coats had just been clipped. I And which, hard hit by frosty winds, I In anguish pranced and skipped. And while she to the editor Just talked, and talked, and talked. The shiv'ring coachman held two steeds j Whose tails had just been docked. Will M. Maupin in The Commoner. (By Marian Martineau, in Chicago Tribune.) Do you want to get the straight front? The majority of women, the women who want to be pretty and fashionable, now crave the straight front line. This is the line which extends ex-tends from the bust to the abdomen, and to be in accord with the new style of beauty it must extend downward and inward, measured from the bust. 1 The figure must be full at the bust line, 1 but perfectly flat at the abdomen, thus fcixuiK ine Kuaigiii une ironi. This line used to' be called the busk not bust line, and at one time it va? th" most fashionable line that a woman could possess. Hut in those days the busk not bust, line was straight up and down; and to make herself flat front a woman wore a wide, thin board which was Sf-wed in her stays. No bust was permissible, per-missible, and well developed women endured en-dured tortures to make themselves flat in front. Now, after many years, the straight front has returned, but it is a well developed de-veloped front, and the straight line extends ex-tends fnpm the tip of the bust to the I abdomen, sloping inward all the time, for the abdomen must be flat. To get the straight front, and this flat abdomen with the full chest is the aim of every woman who would look as she should look. And, what is more, it Is the aim of every woman to be able to keep this figure, whether laced in her stays or dressed for the house in negligee. POSSIBLE FOiTeVERY WOMAN. This is possible for every woman. In fact, a great many women are correctly shaped, but they do not not know it; and a great many are of the right figure, fig-ure, but they do not know how to dress: Mill more are nearly the correct shape, but they lack one or two small qualifications qualifi-cations which, if obtained, will at once make them as they should be. The straight front depends upon the following conditions, actual deformities aside; The first s the correct way of standing. stand-ing. Second, the '?r carriage of the shoulders and "i;, j. Third, the rilu siy'e of dress. Fourth, the ricY: manner of wearing the right mannt.i rr jress. J Fifth, the way oit breathe. I Sixth, and last, the exercise you take I fr development of the figure. Taking the requirements in their or-order, or-order, you will see that the correct way nf standing comes first. To stand correctly, cor-rectly, and to knov that you are doing Fof put on your shoes and take a side position in front of the mirror where you can see yourself from tip to toe. This is supposing that you are dressed. Take a cord and attach a weight to it. Fasten the cord to your bust and 1 t the line drop until the weight just touches the floor. Throw yourself forward for-ward on the balls of your feet, throw back your shoulders, take a long breath until your abdomen is drawn in. Touch the cord with your fingers until the weight swings. If you are stanuini correctly it will swing clear of the ab-. domen by several inches, while the bust iHnd tiit' tips of the toes are on a FUViight line. To carry the shoulders properly is one of me essentials. Lift the chin "as high s you ,an. Do not shove it forward, I but merely tip-tilt it. Throw back the j t-htr.ilders. Walk around the room thus. , I k.cjiinp tho abdomen drawn in and I throwing the weight on the balls of the j . 1 f,r'U This will give you the right car- j I tV'lgo. j 1 Probably you have been in the habit I of sinking back on your heels and b:t- I ting your shou'ders sag. This will bring I I your stomacn up high and make your j bust sem small. Your figure will be I ruin, a jf you have this way of stand- I : 'fig. and unless you break yourself of it I there is no hope for you in the matter I r s,y'"- I To be sure, you may not want "style," I and you may be one of those women I who will let beauty of character and j manifold virtues take the place of a 1 sol d face and a good figure. If that be I the case, then this article is not fori j you. nut if you want to look nice, then j I h . is 1 he way to do it. Third comes the right' style of dress; and, in this connection, one must mention men-tion ihe new corsets that give one a I&ooj. fi'.mt line. There ae plenty of 'iicni. and if you fit your figure you have taken the first step. PUTTING ON YOUR CLOTHES, in putting on the corset, hook the l'"Jitom hooks first, then the top hooks, then unhook the bottom hooks and hook the corset in the usual way. Leave the corset loose at the top and loose :;t the bottom. But take the strings at the waist line and give them a good tharp pull. Tie them, wriggle around a few times to be sure you are comfortable, com-fortable, and then put on your other, clothing. I A corset hook is a convenient thing, j fastened on the front, for its holds the j .skirts in place as well as keeps them ! down and then when you have adjusted j your clothing, fastening all upon the hook in front, you will find that you are perilously near to having the fashionable fash-ionable long-waisted front. If you are larger in the abdomen than in the bust, you must equalize the figure by adjusting a heart-shaped pad to the bust. A still prettier method is ' to fasten a large pink satin bow con-1 listing of four wide loops to the front of the bust pad. Let it be thick, so as to take the place of the bust pad. This bow can show through the transparent summer waists and look pretty. This equalizing of the figure is most important impor-tant and is as essential as anything els; !in the scheme of beauty. If the bust be flat the figure is spoiled. Much depends on the way you breathe, and in this respect there is nothing to be advised except that plan of breathing breath-ing with all of the lungs, drawing in breaths that go to their very depths. , This is called abdominal breathing be-I be-I cause the breathing is felt right down I into the abdomen. Abdominal breath- I ir.g develops the lungs and broaden? the chest, and so helps out with the -i TUde figure. You could scarcely form the habit of correct breathing' without developing the lungs and the bust. Developing the Figure. The last requirement, but an important impor-tant one, is that of exercise for the development of the figure. Women do not exercise enough. Aside from using a few of the muscles, they do not exercise ex-ercise at all. Their waists and abdominal abdom-inal muscles are too securely laced in and boned to admit of freedom, and the neck is tied so tightly that the head will not turn. Even the arms are restricted, re-stricted, for the new shoulders iro low so that the upper arm cannot he moved; and the wrists are tightly incased. in-cased. With the majority of women all exercise ex-ercise is taken with the muscles of the Jcr;ee, with the feet, and with a few of the body muscles. But the great muscles mus-cles of the upper part of the body ar ieft unused. To get the straight front you must banish the flabby muscles from the arms and shoulders and get a good, deep chest inspiration. You must be able to lift your body with your arms, to hang suspended by your hands, to swing by your finger tips, and to support sup-port the body by its upper muscles as well as by its lower ones. A child of a month will hang by its hands to a lead pencil. But few full grown people can support the weight for an instant by the hands. Yet unless un-less one be well developed above the waist line one cannot hope to have a pretty figure. The best exercise is obtained by hard work. Get into the habit of lifting your chair for yourself, of waiting upon yourself, of moving yotl' arms over your head, of reaching upon shelves for articles, of exercising your muscles upon all occasions possible. And then take a few well planned exercises for the development of the shoulders. So shall you come into the possession of a perfect figure. Answers to Correspondents. Miss P. For superfluous hair on the arms take peroxide of hydrogen, pure, and add a few drops of ammonia to it. Apply to the arms. This will bleach the hair so that it will not be so conspicuous. con-spicuous. Gradually the ammonia will kill the roots. Q. Kindly tell what to do for hair on the upper lip. I have a distressing growth. DISFIGURED. A. Pull the hair out with the tweezers. tweez-ers. Apply ammonia to kill the roots. If the hair grows again, pull it out and apply again. Q. Will you please insert the wrinkle formula in the paper? MISS A. A. For old age wrinkles take pure almond oil: for premature wrinkles use the skin food frequently given; for wrinkles caused by laughing there is nothing better than warm milk, gently massaged into the spots that show the lines: and for other wrinkles there are other remedies. State your trouble. Q. In a recent issue you say of one of your appreciated family: "Am so glad you reduced your weight by the treatment." Now, will you please tell me what the treatment was? MRS. H. A. The treatment consisted in dieting. diet-ing. "Adipose" took raw eggs for breakfast and for supper. At noon she ate toast and vegetables and one small slice of meat. She drank one cup of coffee three times a day. This is severe se-vere and perhaps you would like something some-thing less strenuous. Miss B. You must not apply lemon juice to the face every day. It will surely Injure it. Apply not oftener than once a week, and then only in a diluted form. Perhaps your skin can stand pure lemon juice. But you must remove it with soap and water and apply ap-ply cold cream afterward. Q. My nose is covered with little yellow yel-low spots. They are deep in the skin and have been so for years. It also gets greasy. Please tell me what to do tor it, A. B. A. Take a quart of hot water, add half a teaspoonful of powdered borax. Wash your face well in this, using a good soap. Now rinse several times in water with a little borax sprinkled in, but without the soap. Q. My ears stand out from my head. How can I make them lie down? Please tell me also how to remove freckles with lemon juice. Will then return? SWEET SIXTEEN. A. If they are summer fpeckles they will certainly return. You might try lemon juice cautiously on a few . of them. If the lemon injures your skin you must dilute it with water. About the ears, I would not advise you to wear an ear cap until you have experimented ex-perimented with your cars a little. You are probably thin. Whfn you ratten up they will not be so conspicuous. Try also curling the hair around the ears to make little love locks. These hide the ears. Q- My hair is very thick and of a much admired golden color, but near the roots it is several shades darker than at the ends. Will you Kindly advise ad-vise me how I can lighten it so it will all be one shade? MARY ANN. A. You might try washing your hair in hot water and brown soap from the kitchen. To this you could add a pinch of soda. Rinse in clear water and dry in the sun. j To Letter Writer: For thin, wrin-1 kled hands soak the fingers in warm olive oil every night for a week. Remove Re-move and rub the oil well into the hands. Sleep in loose gloves. You will be surprised at the change in your hands in three days' time. Questioner: To use the electric needle consult a specialist. But if there is none in your town, please write to the beauty column. Full directions for removing re-moving the hair on your face will be sent you. To Poor Complexion: Write describing describ-ing your facial wrinkles and the spots, if you have any. and a wrinkle cream as well as a spot remover will be prescribed pre-scribed for von ' To Pallor: Kindly write, stating for how long a time you have been pale, and whether naturally pale and white -skinned, or if your pallor comes from a poor state of health. To Gray Hair: Please state how gray hair is, whether half gray or perfectly white. Also tell what you havt done for it, so that no harm will result from a mixture of drugs. To Obesity: Where arc you fattest? Is it in the chin, the bust or the abdomen? abdo-men? Or is your fat evenly distributed? Certainly it is possible to reduce you, but sufferers from fat must give the particulars as to the location of the flesh. To Blackheads: Please tell how long you have had them, also what you have done for them. They can be taken away with about two weeks' treatment. But you know the same treatment will not do for everybody. White me a letter. To Willing: There is no charge for answering questions in this column. All advice is given entirely free, if you wiil write a letter telling your trouble. A girl cannot be too careful about her character, for like a snowy lily, the least blemish tarnishes its beauty. Some girls do not really mean any harm, but they seem to lack a delicate sense of propriety, and frequently invite criticism criti-cism of an unkind nature. They laugh loudly, make acquaintances too freely, and consider reticence a requisite best suited for our grandmother's day. The girl who is slow to make acquaintances is, general!y speaking, the best sort of a girl. When 30U get to know her vou feel her worthy and place her- on the list of your friends with a feeling of j plea5ure. A little dignity is an excel-I excel-I lent thing. It checks the familiarity of i "'",""J" ' """"" '" others and affords a superior attitude of mind. The girl who is truly up-to-date in her ideas follows the dictates of good form. Thus she proves herself to be well bred and smart, shielding herself her-self from the unpleasantness that is sure to come from a careless, free and easy manner. Our Modern Public Schools. Ram it in, cram it in,. Children's heads are hollow; Slam it in, jam it in. Still there's more to follow; Hygiene and history. Astronomy, mystery. Algebra, histology, Latin, etymology, Botany, geometry, Greek and trigonometry; Ram it in, cram it in. Children's heads are hollow. Rap it in, tap it in: What are teachers paid for? Bang it in, slam it in, What are children made for? Ancient archaeology, Aryan philology. Prosody, zoology. Physics, climatology. Calculus and mathematics, Rhetoric and hydrostatics; Hoax it in, coax it in. Children's heads are hollow. Scold it in. mould it in, All that they can swallow; Fold it in, hold it in. Still there's more to follow. Faces pinched, sad and pale. Tell the same unvarying tale, Tell of moments robbed from sleep, Meals untasted, studies deep; Those whov've passed the furnace through With aching brow will tell to you How the teacher crammed it in, Rammed it in, jammed it in. Crunched it in. punched it in, Rubbed it in, clubbed it in, Pressed and caressed it in. Rapped it in and slopped it in, When their heads were hollow. Arthur's New Home Magazine. Paris Fashion Gossip. As the season advances hats are becoming be-coming flatter and flatter, resting upon the head like immense platters. Anything Any-thing as flat as the latest creation from the rue de la Paix would be difficult to find. A little earlier in the season thick, . flat hats were "en regie;" now the brims are thinner and the circumference circumfer-ence larger. Beneath such ehapeanx a woman hardly needs a parasol; indeed, some of the new hats would hardly fit under the latest creations in the parasol par-asol line, for the latter, unlike the hats, are rather smaller than larger. One of the most striking of the new modes I have seen is an immense flat straw capeline, sitting well over the face. On each side are two large loops of chiffon, drawn through the brim and standing out from it like two wings. It would be difficult to imagine anything simpler, or anything smarter,' in fact, to quote the "premiere" whose "oeuvre" it is, "it bristled with chic." Think of a hat "bristling with chic," but to the Parisian modiste a hat is not only an "oeuvre" but a "chef d'oeuvre," a work of art, and in its apogee when it reflects the "chic" so dear to every woman's heart. Other hats I saw roll like waves upon the head down on the right side, up in front, scattered in small undulations on the left side, for the wonderful straws of this year can be twisted into the most exquisite shapes. Naturally, the trimming follows the hat in its broken lines, which makes an effective combination. However, such a hat imperatively demands an artistic coiffure, such as the French woman loves to arrange. Without it one might as well leave the hat in its delicately flowered hat box, for it would be absurd ab-surd perched upon the plain, straight hair of a woman who neglects her coiffure. coif-fure. And, speaking of hat boxes reminds re-minds me that the new Paris hat boxes are exquisite ' affairs, rivaling bonbon boxes in fancy forms and decorations. dec-orations. Some of them, in Louis XV and Louis XVI designs, are beyond criticism crit-icism and might well be used for ornamental orna-mental purposes. There is. despite the size of the new hats, a little exaggerated, one might in justice claim, a marked tendency towards to-wards simpler trimming, both in quantity quan-tity and kind. There is less of the massing of flowers and chiffons and more discretion in the selections. Plumes continue in vogue, but a great stand has been taken against the massacre mas-sacre of small birds, which means that bird wings are to be strictly tabooed ta-booed by fashionable women, for it is the fashionable women of Paris who have formed the "anti-destruction bird league of France." Humane, people have often before raised' the question of bird massacre, but have been quite powerless to overcome the fashion for wings and other bird ornamentation. Now that the idea has taken hold of women who are leaders in everything pertaining, to dress, something may be done in an effective manner to diminish the slaughter of small birds of every kind. One must confess that few wings are noticed upon the new hats. Is it a direct effect of the new league or a mere coincidence due to a freak of fashion? The question is posed and time alone will answer it. While the wide, flat hats are the vogue, the new toque like capelines must not be forgotten almost completely com-pletely without trimming in front and turning up in the back, with three bows, which hold a mass of fruit or flowers in place. Grace Corneau, in Chicago Tribune. A Dream cf Life, Two cooing, helpless, loving babes. Two chattering toddlers small, Two playmates 'neath the cooling shades Of oak trees grim and tall. Two pupils of the self-same school; A youth and maiden fair; Naught know they of the dreary rule Of life, so full of care. 1 Two lovers in the eventide; Two lives, now blent in one; Two graves u;ion the hillside; And thus the dream is done. Kathleen Sullivan in Donahue's Magazine. Mag-azine. x The Power of Personality. There is an indescribable something in certain personalities which is greater than mere physical beauty and more powerful than learning. This charm- of personality is a divine gift that often sways the strongest characters, char-acters, and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations. We are unconsciously influenced by people who possess this magnetic power. The moment we come into their presence we have a sense of enlargement, en-largement, of expansion in every direction. di-rection. They seem to unlock within us possibilities of which we previous ' ' had no conception. Our horizon broadens; broad-ens; we feel a new power stirring I through all our being; we experience a sense of relief, as if a great weight which long had pressed upon us had been removed. We can converse with such people in a way that astonishes us. although meeting them, perhaps, for the first time. We express ourselves more clearly and eloquently than we believed be-lieved we could. They draw out the best that is in us: they introduce us. as it were, to our larger, better selves. With their presence, impulses nd longings come thronging to our minds which never stirred us before. All at once life takes on a higher and nobler meaning and we are fired wiM a desire to do more than we have ever done before, and to be more thin w have been in the past. A few minutes before, perhaps, we were sad and discouraged, when Vyd-denly. Vyd-denly. the flashlight of a potent personality per-sonality of this kind has opened a rif in our lives and revealed to us hidden capabilities. Sadness gives place to 1 joy, despair to hope, and dishearten-rment dishearten-rment to encouragement. We have I been toned to finer issues: we have caught a glimpse of higher ideals, j and, for the moment, at least, .have 1 been transformed. The old commonplace common-place life, with its absence of purpose ana endeavor, has dropped out of sight, and we resolve, with better l.v'ail and newer hope, to struggle to make peimanently ours the forces and potentialities that have been revealed to us. a momentary contact with a character of this kind seems to double our mental and soul powers, as two great diamonds double the current which nasses over the wire, and we are loath to leave the magical presence lest we lose our new-born power. On the other hand, we frequently meet people who make us shrivel and shrink into ourselves. The moment thev come near us we experience a cold chill, as if a blast of winter had struck us in midsummer. A blighting, narrowing nar-rowing sensation, which seems to make us suddenly smaller, passes over us. We feej a decided loss of power, of possibility. We could no more smile in their presence thtin we could laugh .t a funeral. Their gloomy, miasmatic atmosphere chills all our natural impulses. im-pulses. Jn their presence there is no i'OL'sibility of expansion for us. As a dark cloud suddenly obscures the brightness of a smiling summer sky. their shadows are cast upon us and fill us with vague, undefinable uneasiness. We instinctively feel that such people peo-ple have no sympathy with our aspirations, aspira-tions, and our natural prompting is to guard closely any expression of our hopes and ambitions. When they are near us our laudable purposes and desires de-sires shrink into ins'gnificanee and mere foolishness: -e charm of sentiment senti-ment vanishes and life seems to lose color and zest. The effect of their i presence is paralyzing, and we hasten from it as soon as possible. If we study these two types of personality per-sonality we shall find that the chief difference between them is that tha first loves his kind and the latter does r.ot. Of course, that rare charm of manner .which captivates all those who come within the sphere of its, influence, and that strong personal magnetism which inclines all hearts toward its fortunate" possessor, are largely natural nat-ural gifts. But we shall find that the man who practices unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow creature a kindness even though polished manners man-ners and a gracious presence may be conspicuous by their absence will be an elevating influence wherever ha goes. He will bring encouragement to and uplift every life that touches his. He will be trusted and loved by all who come in contact with him. This type of personality we may all cultivate culti-vate if we will. Success. The Devil. -Men don't believe in a Devil now, as their fathers used to do, They have forced the door of various creeds to let His Majesty through. There Isn't a print of his cloven foot, or a fiery dart from his bow To be found in earth or air today for the world has voted so. r' But who is mixing the fatal draught that palsies heart and brain, And loads the bier of each passing year with ten. hundred thousand slain? Wrho blights the bloom of the land today to-day with the fiery breath of hell. If the Devil isn't and never was? Won't somebody rise and tell? t' Who dogs the steps of the toiling saint, and digs the pit for his feet? Who sows the tares in the field of time wherever God sows wheat? The Devil is voted not to be, and of course the thing is true; But who just now is doing the work the Devil alone should do? 1 We are told he does not o about like a roaring lion now; : But whom shall we hold responsible for . the ; everlasting row ; To be heard in home, in church and state , to the earth's remotest bound. ... If the Deyil by a unanimous vote is j nowhere to be found? Won't somebody step to the front , forthwith, and make their bow and show ' How the frauds and the crimes of a single day spring up? We want to know. ' The Devil was fairly voted out, and of , course the Devil's gone; But simple people would like to know who carries his business on. Australian Exchange. |
