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Show I THE WORLD OF WOMEN. AMUSING AND INSTRUCTIVE READING FOR THE WOMEN. A Quiet Life To Make Hair Curl-Warning Curl-Warning to the Fat--Unoleasant Women to Meet. Business Worries. Miss Mary F. Seymour, the editor of the Business Woman's Journal, proposes soon to organize a woman's business college in the United States. She says it will bo the outcome of tho 1'nion School of Stenography and Typewriting, which she has so successfully suc-cessfully conducted for ten years. Probably this venture will be somewhat some-what similar to the college which is now being launched by a lady at Ben Uhydding in Yorkshire. About Kissing. On the question as to whether kissing kiss-ing ought to be abolished, in deference defer-ence to tho opinion of the physicians that dangerous diseases are ikely to beauty entitle them to all of 'In earth and a good share of the planets. Wbpien who lug dogs around in theirikms when there are millions of niothera-rs, homeless children ia thf world. ' Warning to tno Fat. Four women lietweon the ages of ." and 00, who considered their figures too stout for beauty, resolved two years ago to try one of the "systems for reducing fat" given in a newspaper. They were in erfect nealth at the time. They gave up at once and w holly the use of certain kinds of food to which they had been accustomed since childhood. They took each day excessive and unaccustomed exercise, ex-ercise, and overstrained ther muscles by lifting heavy weights. All this was done without the knowledge of a physician. phy-sician. The result was unexpectedly successful. success-ful. During the first fortnight they lost weight rapidly The decrease in weight was accompanied accom-panied with a sense of prostration and pains in the limbs, but theso things mattered little to them compared with their joy in the more narrow waists and delicacy of feature. They persevered perse-vered with the experiment. One is now a victim of nervous prostration; pros-tration; a second contracted typhoid fever, and after a struggle of weeks for life died; the two others have suffered suf-fered with rheumatic gout. Iu each case the physician stated that the weakening of the tissues by the sudden and complete change of diet, had rendered the patient unable to resist disease. Do not tamper with that moat wonderful won-derful complex of all machines, ycur body. When you attempt to change its workings, unless under the direction of a skillful physician, you lay your ignorant hand upon the mainspring of life. . - be communicated through the contact of the lips a symposihum of eminent non-professienal authorities is unanimous unani-mous in the opinion that the kiss deserves de-serves to survive. Such a distinguished distin-guished man as Gen. Tecumseh Sherman, Sher-man, for instance, is in favor of kissing, kiss-ing, barring only the kiss of two people peo-ple before a third party when the third party isn't in it. That is Te-cumseh's Te-cumseh's opinion, is quite too aggravating. aggra-vating. She Was Not a Connoisseur. One of the green clerks iu Buffalo's largest crockery store sold a plate before Christmas to a woman customer. custom-er. The plate was marked $125, and the clerk charged the customer $1.23 for it. The one hundred and twenty, five dollar mark meant that the plates are worth that much a dozen. (Jreat w.w the dismay of the clerk when the mistake was discovering. But all's well that ends well. Theday afterthe mistake occurred in cnine the customer custom-er with theten dollarplate. Shedidn't like the plate didn't think it was quite good enough. She wanted something some-thing better. She was accommodated with a two dollar plate. -Buffalo Ex-oress. Ex-oress. Spotted gells. Even the most charming complexion is justilied in rebelling against being barred off by the freakish veiling of tho moment, says a writer in the Philadelphia Phila-delphia Inquirer. Tho so-called "beauty spots," which are supposed to lend a piquant charm to the face, become ludicrous in the extreme when allowed to settle in eccentric fashion over tho eye or upon the tip of the nose. A becoming way of arranging these "mouches" is yet to bo discovered- At present they are parodies. The cross meshed veiling, behind which half of the prettiest eyes and daintiest complexions in the city are hidden, becomes be-comes even more trying to a woman's prettiness than its patch rivals in tulle. Countess Tolstoi. . The Countess Tolstoi has lately visited London as a delegate to the Liberal Woman's Federation. She is a, beautiful and accomplished woman and unlike her husband, is extremely fond of society. She gives up her pref-srence, pref-srence, however, and is tho novclfst's private secretary, making type-written copies of his prohibited stories and circulating them through the mails whenever possible. There are nine shildren, of whom the eldest, a very attractive girl of eighteen is her father's fa-ther's most enthusiastic disciple, denying deny-ing herself all indulgences, wearing the cheapest clothing, and attempting in all things to live as did the primitive Christians. All the family speak English, Eng-lish, French and Russian, and most of them are mnsicians. A Quiet Life. Next to beauty, or the attractiveness that passes for beauty, or both, the object of the sensible woman's desire is a quiet life. There is on record a tale of a young woman who had been reared in a roaring and turbulent city. Her health was impaired, and it was decided that she must pass a year in strict retirement at her husband's country place, "far from the maddening madden-ing crowd." At the end of six months, however, sho returned to town, declaring de-claring that so quiet a life was more than she could endure. It appears thatduringthat time sho had thirty-seven different servants, one of whom was discharged for an attempt at-tempt to 6et tho house on tire while intoxicated, and one for an attempt to rob the plate-closet, while half a dozen more were sent away for violent quarrels in the part of the establishment. establish-ment. Her mother-in-law had been thrown from a carriage at tho foot of tho lawn and injured fatally; her sister-in-law had come to make a visit and had improved the opportunity to run away with a man whom she had been forbidden to marry. The time had further been broken in upon by visits from tho six bridesmaids of the hostess, who invited them in pairs for two weeks each, and then asked a few men to meet them, lest it should be dull. A gale had blown down an oak so near the house that its branches branch-es dashed in the drawing-room windows, win-dows, and the stables had been struck by lightning and burned totheground. "And such a quiet life," tho lady said, conluding her account, "was too much for me." To Make the Hair Curl. Coiffeurs have been rivaling with each other in inventions which will give the most natural wave and stay the longest. One of the designers, Mar-tel, Mar-tel, is now called tho Koch of hair dressers, because he alone has discovered dis-covered a way of waving the hair that looks so natural and lasts so long that the society women now look as if they were all born with curly hair. In vain do the other manipulators of the brush and comb cudgel their brains to find out his way. They are all oblidged to confess their inability to discover it. This fortunate hair dresser's salons are so crowded with women that they are obliged to wait hours for their turn. He believes in making money out of inventions, and complacently acquiesces in a means which tho impatient have taken to obtain precedence. When the attendant attend-ant opens the door to cry "Next!" women whoso turns will not take jilace for somehours bid as at an auction auc-tion to break tho ranks. The coiffeur's coif-feur's price is $2 a wave, and one woman will exclaim, "I'll pay $3 to go in now." Another offers $4; the attendant at-tendant waits until the highest bidder has shouted her price, and then introduces intro-duces her into his master's prosence. This coiffeur is said to make two and three hundred dollars a day at the business. The other morning an Englishwoman Eng-lishwoman called to make an appointment appoint-ment for the coiffeur to wave her hair at home. "What is your price?" she asked. "Four dollars when I go to the house; but it is useless to tell you, for my time is taken up, and women in vain have offered me double and triple the price for precedence." "Oh, well, money is no object. I am willing to pay you any price. I'll give you $40 if you will come at my convenience." "For that money I shall make the others wait," Baid the practical hairdresser. hair-dresser. Paris cor. Brooklyn Eaglw A Proof of Gallantry, 'Those vinegary persons who think politeness is a lost science because they sometimes see ladies standing in the cars while tired men are seated can see the refinement of gallantry and every day in tho General post-office. post-office. There is never an hour while the long line of men tails away from the retail stamp window that some woman does not insist upon taking her place at the head of the line instead in-stead of the foot, to buy a stamp or get a package weighed. Time is precious pre-cious to most of the men in the fine, but no one has ever known to object to the peculiarly feminine irregularity, whereas if a man tries to do the same thing oaths and violence are sometimes some-times used to right the injustice New York Sun. Unpleasant Women to Meet. Women who wear diamonds with calico cresses. Sneering women, who snap at your clothes, your family and your friends. Women who talk baby talk to each other and kiss each other on all oc-:asions. oc-:asions. Women who gossip, and who never fail to tell you disagreeable things said of you. j Simpering, babyish women, who haven't brains enc ugh to know when: tJicv're hungry. Vvomen who wear rainbow gowns on the street and a whole millinery store on their heads. Women with voices as sweet as a turtle dove's coo in society and like a buzz saw in the family. Hysterical women, who burst into floods of tears if you cross them in the slightest particular. Beautiful women, who think their |