Telegram-herald., 1888-02-26
SOME UGLY HABITS
sseaxY WAYS OF MEN AND ~osss.
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They say sss Always s-@cks Il ous hxs t44s
xbsA Sass t&inzisg =bo1s znyt1ing
TIE young woEasa 10 question sss prone
Ea1lnz Ia s4SE sies of o-4te sElest early o1e
nzcrHing. sstlrsd II . 0swiscsing cossu1os
azd . ps--sys expression, vale the Ep IL Aer
hstls tongue pro-rsaed between tSo lips of
tas description kno~a 20 nsVe.ls-s s. eezeL
YES" sal ca of her fsniEiEe &cqgsiEt-
aness. .sn@ always DIS thzs wien ghoeshtful
or yorriat Ia 01s x thoss t<Eriblo habits
whick w1sa oncs contracted, stick closer
tz2n = nal-lio3 br0tEerS Mss FLANK b~ssn
it sAsa a chlid, aud 40 ons ever took tAs
trouble % break hss 0l L. New, pear
gih, X Eaortlhss EsF terribly - be ted
4boat il, though, Of course, sns Is
ANXIOUS % egHe ksrsslr Bat shsA asafly
svery sfss hzs ssns curious nsts ha.dt wa4ch
be soula - yeFy glad - areas ss csald;
sczos trick mere az las GRglsssant- eaussd AZ
ths 9sst place pssoaoty by azrvoesaesx- We
AZ know tAe Esan wso FsiGs st his nussacbs
AL Eas one wso L. I~s.Tesualy psAlAIg sP bis
cellar Then there Is the giri who : always
rubbing one 0ys "a II Ia search of stray
eyelssb ana tho man VINO can't be quite
happy without some more or lsss fragile ar
tex ~ JsSl- an b~ns sBd tTra sbo1s 4a MS
hnssrs Anything and everything from your
finest lace handkerchief TO your new and
extremely delicate paper cnfter is sacrificed
% the demon Of Nervousness which possesses
him, and yet you can't ind II in your heart
to rob him OF his plaything. He Is quite happy
and at his ease so long as he Is allowed 10
twiri and twist as much az he wants 10, but
bereft OF the temporary objectof ais affection
he would BE- abjectly miserable, and you know
IT, Many man can talk fiuently and well
while winding something-anything ng-about
his Gnger, who, without it. would be con-
strained, awkward, silent.
rHE IycEssANr TATTOO
''Ons OF the most annoying forms OF this
I disease is tho incessant tattoo which some
people keep up On their knees or the table or
whatever happens 10 be most convenient as n
/ keyboard | have noticed that musicians
/ usually indulge this habit, and IL is a very
trying one, though ! don't know that it is
worse than 'twiddling your thumb You
don't know wlE that isf Why, claspipg your
hands with the fingers interlaced and then
moving the thums slowly, very slowly, round
each other. Nearly all old English people
are addicted to this habit, and look upon Il es
refuge from sunui during times of enforced
/ idlness such as that blind saan's holiday
when il IS too dark 70 work or read, and yoi
I not dark enough, according TO English no
| tons, 70 light the gas At Shis time OF day
an old English woman will sit and 'twidGle
her thumbs so many times from right TO left
and then 50 many times from left to right
until one begins 10 think she has dis
covered The secret Of perpetual motion
The habit gains such hold upon men that
they are unable TO sit unoccupied for q
moment without Immediately beginning x
'tYiidle'
"Of course, every one knows people who
bite their nails, and nearly all OF US can re
member soms girl who has destroyed wha
was intended for pretty mouth by sense
less fashion Of biting, or rather gnawing, a
her lip. This is one of the most diflcul
habits to break, and at the sarne time ons o
the comnonest II you want TO see nov
Widespread it is, just so over to ono of tn
State street dry goods establishments sbou
10 O'Clock on any tine morning. Monda,
morning Il best, because Monday is th
fayorite shopping day. Didn't you know
that Oh, yes, it's q fact Any foor walke
viii tel you that moro business is done q
Monday morning than any other time durinl
the week-that Is, in the big shops OF cours.
in tie cheap pnes Saturday is the great day
Why should Monday be populari Oh, SUP
pose 1t is the reaction after Sundays enforce
idleness. On Sunday one can't shop, en-
when one wakes on Monday morning IT is s
delightful to feel that all restricnons are rs
moved, and that there Is nothing TO prevsn
one from shopping all day II inclined TO-
TEE UGLY RESULTS.
q always 60 myself on Monday, and, as
rule, meet nearly all my friends. ard half 6
them, notice, invariably bite their lips whe
considering anything seriously. When
woman asks: Do you think this WI
washF OF DO you really believe this sil
will not cutF OF confdeutially informs Il
counter that she is afraid sixteen yars.s non
be enough she nearly always bites her Ii;
ami very ugly and injurious fsShion It {
IL the lower lip is the one attacked, tse prett
! curve Is In time destroyed and ths fullns
fattened out, while IL the upper lip "a
treated the results are almost worse, for
becomes lengthsned IN a very unbecomln
manner. Theu some women bite the insiC
Of their lips, at The side, Just at the 'gusset'
! the mouth, and this ends in a chronic pou
p am convinced that IL the girls who indul,
in this trick realized fully its III effects the
! would make more serious Efforts % ovcrcoi.
It Il is comparatively easy to do this wh,
one Is young. and it Is quite possible to bres
children Of such habits.
~Thsre are lots Of other curious little wa
peculiar 70 individuslS l know man wh
IL a. L
I, nose with his little finger and girl VINO Is
! given to pushing back her hair behind h
left sar that she has worn a bald spct there