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Show flH)IlllftlS I MONUMENTAL HA1RDRESSING. Women have always delighted to dress and decorate their heads. Although Al-though Holy Writ does not tell how Eve wore her hair, It Is quite certain that Eve's near descendants, the women wo-men of Babylon, Nlnevah and ancient Egypt, were never happier than when their heads 'were stu mounted by towering tow-ering pyramids of stiff little curls. When these formidable architectural structures blazed with gold and Jewels Jew-els they must have presented a strik ing appearance. The Egyptians were a highly civilized race, with a taste for hall-dressing as monumental us their taste in architecture, .fid on many an obelisk and slab there aro carvll'gs to show a later generation the degree of fussy skill which the.x had attained In this direction. 'Exeti their wigs have survived the wreck ot empires, and the boxes lu which they kept them little toilet accessories accessor-ies with which that Phuorah's daughter daugh-ter who fished little Moses out of the bulrushes was perfectly funilllar In all probability. An Egyi thin wig In the British Museum contains no fewer than aoo little braided pigtails. A COLLEGE GIRL'S "SPREAD." Every popular college girl has her excluslvo little salon, be It only nine by twelve, where she Is the centre of scliitllatlng sallies and spontaneous merrymaking. Possessing a genuine love ot fun and a wholesome craving for the ulluieiits essential to good living, liv-ing, despite all charges ot animalism in oilier respects, the college gill hns from her first freshman days revcicd lu "larks" and "spreads" nnd "sprees." Larks and spreads mid sprees three luscious words, the true Inwardness (take It literally It ou like) of whose inclining only the Initiated can appro-1 elate. Spread? The wot Id at large repeats the word with an Indifferent, rising Intlectlon and with almost as great a luck of comprehension us was displayed on the dismayed countenance counten-ance of a German housem id In a college col-lege dormitory when all unwittingly she stumbled Into the nililst ot u midnight mid-night frolic or nt least 'twas at an hour supposed to bo sacred to n school i-Ii-I'h hcniitv sleeu. "A bpret (spread)?" quled Babetta. "Lut, moreover, I tot a spret was GonieL'Ing i on put on a bet." "It Is," roared the gills In chorus; "that's Just what It is-somejhlng you put on a liedl" And there you bnve tbo definition In n nutshell, for a table of any size Is unknown In thu den of the average college girl. Chairs ihere are a few, a window sent, of course, the Hoo always, al-ways, 'tis truebut the bed, thnt Is tlie deus ex machliia, althout.'li It may be wholly unable to perform any marvelous mar-velous mechanical metamorphosis, such as changing Into mi upright piano pia-no at one minute's notice and Into an old-fashioned clock the next. In Its primitive and absolutely uneducated state this article of fiirnl'ure can. however, serve remarkably varied purposes, from mere sitting accommodations accommo-dations to n refrigerator or hulTot substitute. sub-stitute. It will hold seven or, .eight guests comfortably, besides all the dishes, cracker boxes, olive bottles, Jelly Jel-ly Jars, paper bags and other banqueting banquet-ing (or, more appropriately speaking, spreading) paraphernalia Incident to a well ordered and properly conducted feust Woman's Home Companion. . WOMAN'S WINNING CARD. fc A woman's winning card Is cheerfulness. cheer-fulness. She may be capable of countless self-sncrlllces, Infinite tenderness, nnd endless resources of wisdom, but If .he cloaks theso very excellent possessions pos-sessions under a garl of melancholy she may almost as well not liavo them, so far as tho ordinary world with which she comes lu dally contact Is concerned. Tell the average, busy iniiii that a bright lovely Hower blooms away down In an underground enve. and he won't care enough or have time enough to delve down there to look at It, But let the (lower nod Its lovely face up In the daylight, on the every day leiel the busy man treads, and he Is certain to see It and pretty sure to look at It with pleasure, too. That Is cheerfulness. The root ot glndnes may be In the heart all right, but It lias to blossom out lulu a suniiy fuee and pleasant words before men will pay the slightest attention to It. This sunny aspect toward the world Is tlie only footing upon which social Intercourse can be baspd. Some one has quoted society as saying- ."Come, let us gather up violets and make them Into balls. Then l will j toss them at you and ou will toss them at me." Foolish? Oh.no. For while wo toss figurative violets back nnd forth we nre all making each other's acquaintance acquaint-ance and laying the groundwork over which we may walk up to such closer j relationships as the fates has destined des-tined for us. aud meanwhile the a Ills Il-ls inndo fragrant for everybody. Whereas, if we sit with sour face, scorning to toss violets, why, then, we are Just left out of the game and all Its consequences, when It Is too late. You can't walk up to a man and straightway ask him his circumstances, circum-stances, his family, his opinion, or, what is more to the point, his ills- position and aspect toward the world. H But you discover these things lucl- H dentally wlhle you play society's pretty H pastime of slinging violets. ,-JH You have to be cheerful to piny thnt '.iiiiH game. People won't play with you If ,'H you're not. You dmply have to give M the world that thoroughfare by which H to approach you, or bo left a hermit H Cheerfulness does for a woman t ililH heart what broad piazzas, pleasant fl windows nnd wide doors do for a liiiiiB house. They give promise of pleasant H ness within mid offer access thereto. Piiiiifl While the heart of a cold, over-re- SiiiiiiiiH served or melancholy wouiiin Is like a H grim, forbidding fortress without il doors or windows to give a man a lH foothold. Whatever marvelous treus- liiiifl tires It conceals he has no knowledge fH ot anything there to compensnto him H for the danger mid trouble of sealing H Its Jt To drop nil similes, men like n cheer- H ful woman. She attracts them every H time. Aud they don't like und never H will llko n woman with a long face ,H nnd moping, melancholy ways. This H sort never gets on socially, seldom hat H iK.ich lnllueucc, and Is pretty suro to H be uuhappey nil her days as she makes jH -other il |