The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-30
IN WOMAN'S WORLD.
A Few Things Of Interest TO The Fair
Sex.


MANY Sources - The Remarkable
ease Of Helen Keller-Some Health
suggestions How Fashions Are
made-A Story From a Long Island
watering Place-other Things Worth
Reading.
Washington, D. c., has just had a visit
f,asR wonderful Helen Keller, who has
been the gust, much petted and loved, of
Prof Graham Bell, The promise of
Uslen's childhood has been abundantly
fulfilled, and now, at the age of thirteen
Cber birthday came on the Goth of juno,
She is a well grown girl, lovely in face
and character, and possessed of such
mental attachments as make it difficult to
believe that she has been totally blind and
deaf from babyhood. Helen converses in
the SIGN language with the greatest ease,
AT the rate of eighty words a minute upon
all possible subjects, and expresses
herself with an elegance and originality
which most adults would envy. She
Is an omnivorous reader, and is con-
stantly drawing upon Tennyson, Holmes,
Whittier and other poets, whom she
ouotes by the page She devotes much
formed in square-shaped style, and up
right, the whole being almost as legible
AS print. Several of her stories have
been published, and their merit may be
inferred from the fact that a publishing
house. which is run strictly on business
principles, recently sent her a check for
$3.50 for single article. Prof. Graham
Bell believes that this girl is des-
tined to make her mark in English litera-
ture.
Within the past two years Helen has
mastered oral language and now speaks
easily and so that any one would under
stand her She is even able herself to
understand what others are saying, if the
speaker will allow her soft fingers to rest
upon his lips. Not content with her pro-
ficiency in English, which is far greater
than that of the ordinary man or woman
who have grown up with both sight and
hearing, Helen has recently taken up
French, and Prof. Bell showed me q let
ter written by her in that language,
which was absolutely free from faults,
This girl at once so afflicted and so happy
seems to possess the towering ambi-
ton and the answering purpose of
a Napoleon She does whatever she sets
out to do and she sets out to do most
things that come within the scope of hui
man powers Her last idea is TO become
a singer Fancy that, girl who has
never heard a sound nor seen a note,
learning to sing. When her teacher tried
to explain to Helen that the gift of song
was something which must always be de-
MED her, the brave child answered in her
strange way:
"GOd wants us to be happy, / think.
He wanted you to teach me to speak be-
cause He knew how much wished to
speak like other people He did not
want His child to be dumb, and when l
go TO Him, He will let His angels teach
me to sing"
The human body, says the Halls Journal
of health is constanstantly underggoin it's
sue change. WORKOUT PARTICLES are cast
aside and eliminated from the system,
while the new are ever being formed,
from the inception of life to its close.
Water has the power Embarrassing these
tissue changes, which multiples the waste
products, but at the same time they are
renewed by its agency, giving rise to in
creased appetite, which in turn provides
fresh nutriment. Persons but little ac-
customed to drinking water are liable TO
have the waste products formed faster
than they are removed. Any obstruction
to the free working of natural laws at
once produces disease, which, if once
4iLlAlJ ScdbGuS IGquAIbS bObu lAlllO anu
money to cure.
People accustomed to rise in the morn
ing weak and languid, will find the cause
III the imperfect secretion of wastes
which many times may be remedied by
drinking a full tumbler of water before
retiring. This very materially assists in
the process during the night, and leaves
the tissues fresh and strong, ready for
the active work of the day.
Hot water Is one of the best remedial
agents.
a hot bath on going to bed, even in the
hot nights of summer, is better reliever
Of insomnia than many drugs.
lntiamed parts will subside under the
continual poulticing of real hot water,
Very hot water, as we all know. is a
prompt checker of bleeding, and besides,
II it is clean, as it should be, it aids in
sterililing wounds.
1t is very illuminati ting to the democratic
American mind to read of the restraints
and ceremonials that surround royalty on
the other side of the water A weekly
Journal in a paper on etiquette Regard
ing Royalty" starts off with a warning
mat 1T is fatal mistake to relax any
etiquette due to them" meaning the
royal personages, and regrets "that this
is sometimes done" The writer then
goes on with the gracious intimation that
"a deterential manner need not be any
barrier to pleasant intercourse propo-
slCOn that it rather nullified by q later
reminder that if presented to any mem
per OF the royal family, or if they shake
hands on meeting any one whom they
KNOW, II is quite wrong to speak unless
some remark is first made,n presumably
oS the royal person, though this fact is
not altogether clear in the reading. How
pleasant intercourse" is going to be
uIou|ht about by such One-sided Condi-
ZION OF affairs is notat once apparent.
turther on in the paper it il pointed
ouJ that If any one is dancing in the cir
GIe where the royal family may be waltz
ing either at court bah or otherwise, it
Is etiquette to stop when they are dane
Jug, so as to avoid the possibility of being
~ ther way. As a rule, one part of the
"a o%1HIoom at buckingham Palace is speci-
any Kept for the royal circle, and the
general company do not dance in it.
FARMERS for any of the voting princes
ses are chosen, and the vice chamberlain
of other officials inform the gentleman
yAIt he is to have the honor of dancing
WIN Princess -. In no case would any
one ask for a dance unless such intima-
ton be given. .
{. An OF which, says the New York Times
- enllghtment that most Americans pre-
set 10 read about than to have con
~ i:9Iin 10, and makes one turn with re-
,i1i TO the simplicity of our white house
0oue OF manners.
here is a piece of history, says the New
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