Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-01-28

How 70 Keep Well and Live Long BY
NOT Doing Things.

h0W 70 Keep Well and Live Long BY
Not Doing Things.
From Dr.. Foote'sHealth Monthly.
Don't sleep in draught.
Don't go to bed with cold feet.
Don't stand over hot-air registerA
Don't eat what yo do not need just to save it.
Don't try to get eool too quickly after exer-
cising.
Don't sleep with insecure false teeth IN your
mouth.
Don't start the days wsrk without good
breakfast.
Don't sleep in q room without ventilation Of
Don't stuff cold lest You be next obliged to
starve fever.
Don, Don't try to get along without flannel under
Don't use your, voice for loud speaking or
Don't try to get along with less than eight Or
nine hours Sleep.
Don't sleep in the same undergarment you
wear during the day.
Don't toast your feet by the fire, bat try sun
light friction instead,
Don't neglect to have at least one movement
of the bowels each day..
Don't try to keep up on coffee and alcohol
when YOU ought togo to bed.
Don't drink ice water by the glass take it in
eNdltOW DIT Il liQlG,
Don't eat snow to Quench thirst; it brings on
inflammation of the throat
Don't strain your eyes BY reading OF working
with insufficient or, Pickering light.
Don't use the eyes for reading or fine work In
the twilight OF evening or early morn.
Don't try to lengthen your days by cutting
short your nights rest; it is poor economy.
Don't wear close, heavy fur or rubber caps or
hats If your hair is thin or falls out easily.
Don't eat anything between meals excepting
fruits or glass of hot milk if you feel faint.
Don't take some other persons medicine be-
cause you are troubled somewhat as they were.
How He Reported the Wedding.
From the Brooklyn Eagle
cay! said the police reporter, tipping his
hat over his eyes and scratching the back OF his
head, II don't know whether this is right
Don't know whether what is right - de-
manded the managing editor.
This wedding. 1 went there last night and
they gave me heap of rot about their flocka.
but don't know whether it comes out straight
or not. Now here Is Mrs. Isaac Belding I've
got her In paDnier silk. trimmed q Ia gros
grain. with black point lace underskirt and box
plated hair. Does that sound natural?' 90
WHO sent you to a wedding?" asked the
managing editor contemptuously. "Don't you
know that grOs grain is color That was a
gr0s grain, bOx-plaited dress. trimmed la black
point lace, and her hair was cOmbed en- pan,sie,-
You ought to know better than to get things
mixed that way. Who else did you get !? How
was the bride dressed ?"
I've got her all light" replied the police
reporter She wore n white tOuftta with
Princess of Thule veil; the undefskirt cut de-
coAete around the bottom, and trimmed with a
basque at the Sides
encouragingly. "That sounds something like.
How was her hair?"
''Her hair was shirred replied the police re-
porter. ''Shirred at the sides and corsaged on
top"
Il don't believe that's right obs erved the
managing editor. Read that again.
cit was cOrsaged at the side and SHRED on
top" said the police reporter, referring to his
notes.
'.Of course" smiled the managing editor. at
makes all the difference in the world. You
never saw woman with her hair corsag ed on
top in your life. Who else have you got?"
Here's the brides mother. She pranced
around in an iridescent bead cut low necked
and hoisted up on the side with some kind of a
plant: I've forgotten the name of it,
Il know that style" said the managing edi-
tor. resting his elbows on his desk and his chin
on his hands. ut had a big rip down the back.
didn't it?"
That's It. like " and tied up with a green
shoestring
"Of counsel" grinned the managin" editor.
that 1t was a-what color did you say the shoe
string was! Grcenf Then the frock must have
been red!
mo, it was the color of clam" said the no.
lice reporter
oh yes! Yes, veg. know. You want to
say that it was gorgeous, deep sea pearl col
ofed business, trimmed with a gore e., f,ouf and
caught at the side with delicate floral design.
which was especially rich in its artistic effect.
Did you get her hair!".s
ba;r
bat don't find it,, 1t was either French or Span-
ism. and forget which,
. You ought to be careful about such things.
but well call it la Pyrenees and she can take
her pick as to the side Of the mountains she be-
longs to. Who else was there?"
Miss Jennie Smith was the bridesmaid. She
wore silk socks, with streak of yellow tapestry
up the side Her hair was bumped
How do you mean?' demanded the man
aging editor
T." 1t was plastered down in front and stuck up
behind. like hen'A tall
Banged! you mean. How was her dress
cut?,
well, it was an even stretch from the back
OF her neck half way up the front stairs That
was one piece. Then she had on q petticoat
that showed the whole front and was trimmed
with some cloudy stuff that had dropped down
at one end: That back part was the energy.
though. and she called it train, with some
kind OF law term in front of it,
was 1t revised statutes:" asked the editor
mo, that wasn't it,
Ibid it have anything to do with almony and
the custody of the children!'
THAT wasn't it, 1t was train with some
thing legal in front of it. | tried to remember
because they have it in the City Hail.
Couldn't have been anything about con-
tempt of court, could it!''
That's i'll" exclaimed the police reporter:
court train, and up around the lower part of the
top part OF the-of where it hooked on to the
body part, you knOw!''
1.-THE bustle?''
Eyes she had it tied up with broad. white
tape and the darndest big bow knot you ever
saw"
Certainly: that's right" said the managing
editor. ''YOu want to say that she had a court
train Topped back with delicate tape so AS to
show the contour of the petticoat which was
deliberately finished with loops of linen''
II see. replied the police reporter, making
a memorandum. Her cousin was Miss Mears'
of Quogue. only got her hair. 1t was poached
on top with r'ecers, and had big pair of silver
tongs stuck through the hind part. Better say
anything about that!"
Certainly. You've got it right. Did they
have a big SUPERB
''They had bOned head cheese and candy and
lobster and some shaky stuff. Lots of wine''
''Eh!"