Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-07


"Oh. now, Dorothy, you know I wouldn't
bite them if 1 could help it, demonstrated
Rose-in- Bloom, tearfully. Il just hate to
see ugly nails. but the minute that l get
bothered 1 bite mine and don't know it
till they are broken back to the quick
Just then the girls came bustlng in.
wonder if there is anything in the world
as pure and pretty as a girl just blushing
into womanhood? OF course, there are girls
and girls but l mean the real "girly" girls
who can be prim and precise as prunes and
prisms If it is necessary, but who are yet
children enough to like to cuddle down at
your knee in the twilight before the CRATE
and tell you of the days triumphs and trials.
Girls with womanly ways. but the hearts
of children, and an abiding faith in every
thing human. Girls to whom life has not
been an Eden Musee exposition from the
high chair up, and who know that there are
things in life that they do not know, and
yet are not DESTROYS of drinking at the
fountain of knowledge. My girls are like
that, and that is why they are such charm
ing company, and for the same reason
everybody else likes them. They are
little artful, perhaps. They know how
much to know and when not to know too
much" and that is considerably more than
Z
an old-fashioned woman in my ideas about
girls. like them to know books-good ones,
of course-and be accomplished as their
talents will permit and they ought to know
how to sew and to cook and keep house,
but there is a whole wide world of knowl-
edge that they would be happier if they did
not acquire until their dimples turn to
wrinkles, and their heads begin to silver.
she is so worldly wise is not the incest
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Grapes without the bloom show too much
handling; when the down is brushed from
the peach II begins to decay. While / was
mCralizing the girls were disposing them
selves for an hours visit before the matt
nee.
Nice to SmuEgle Down.
What in the world is the matter, Rose
in-bloom,' called Nora from among the
cushions. / make fad of cushions. I will
have lots of pillows my touches; that is
one of the pretty features OF Mrs. Hoke
Smiths parlors. The wide seat around the
bay window in her back parlor is positively
the most delightful place in the whole house
because of the invitingness of the cushions
strung around it; they are of all sizes and
shapes and colors, and they are all soft. You
can make yourself SO comfortable when you
come in tired from rOul l Of calls If you
can slip into a house gown and snuggle
down among the pillows on couch, with
under your shoulders and a third at the
small of your back, and-well, is isn't bad
to have one under your neeS If no one is
around to comment unfavorably on it, and
some way there is a great deal of comfort
in putting ones feet up sometimes Men
think SO, certainly, else there would be
fewer desks in the House and Senate dec
GRATED with unvarnished boots during the
tireSome debates. When Nora spoke Rose
iH-bloom held her hands up with rueful
Srimace which spoke volumes.
Has Elaine been at it again?' asked
Louise, with a laughing challenge in her
direction.
Hammer and tongsr' Rose-in-bloom said
plantvey.
well, you have plenty of company" re-
turned Louise as she held up her own
plump hands Just look at them, will you?
If l had been breaking stone they could
hardly look worse. What shall 1 do for
them, Elaine?'
You might take some care of. them, to
begin with was the suggestion That young
lady serenely made. as she readjusted the
flowers on her hat
why, l do take care of them," asserted
Louise, little Indignantly. Il go to a man
icura once a month. and"
And then you do not touch them till you
go again.
well, why should 1? 1 trim them with
the SciSSorS-when | don't bite them off
and that ought to keep them in shape. but
1t doesn't / have a manicure set-every-
body has one of the useless things, l think
but 1t is too much trouble to bother with
all that machinery. l don't care, or
wouldn't, rather, if my nails didn't break
and hurt me, for all the other girls, nearly
have the same trouble"
That is rue" said Elaine as she laid
the hat aside. II noticed the hands of the
wife of the government official whose tea
we attended last week. If she laun Tered
her own clothes, her hands could look no
rougher, and against the light fabric of her
gown they were painfully contrasted with
those of the little foreign lady whose tiny
hands are remarkably we'll kept. think
the men are more particular about their
handS mere than the women are"
Mems Finger Nails.
"Dick says that he would rather go with
his shoes unvarnished than his nails I'M
trimmed and in mourning as some Of the
men do" observed Dorothy.
Il have been surprised to see that though
some of the members Of Congress are any,
thing but neat in their dress, they are as
general thing, varr careful of their hands
and have well-kept rails. even those men
who pose as horn -harded farmers have
hands that a 1ady's man might envy"
said Elaine
"Oh. it is not for love of the beautiful
that they groom their har d." interjected
Nora. 1t is a last refuge from the prosy
speeches that sets them to manicuring
their nails, just like a street loafer whites
stick. They can't wh!ttle sticks, SO they
do the next best thing. Don't you know I
Just for all the world like a woman too
After they have trim med their nails to the
limit they go back to the cloak room and
stand before the mirror in full view of the
occupants of the members gallery and brush
at their hair to get it over the bald spot till
/ should think their heads would be Bills
tered. Then they pull at their ties and
twist them into strings, trying different eff
fects"
II like to see a nice hand on man as
well as on a woman" said Louise, ref1ec-
lively. Now, there is Mr.. Reed, he has
good hands,"
Good bigs ones. do you mean?" suggest
ed Jennie
Dear me- no." He has small hand
for a man as big as he is, and it is white
and we'll kept. He never wears a ring
either; but he ties strings around his fin
gers to make him remember things. He
had red yarn string around the little fin
ger of his right hand the day he got Mr.
Crisp so ratified that he forgot and de-
clined to entertain dilatory motions, just as
Mr.. Reed used to. 1t pleased Mr.. Reed, of
course. and he kept twisting the red string
around his finger when he was laughing
over 1t. Papa says that democrat can't be
a consistent Christian and serve in the
same House with Mr.. Reed. l wonder
why?"
They Cut Friendship.
ASK US something easy, Louise" sug-
gested Elaine I'VE have tabooed politics.
you know. There are two objects that
friends who differ upon should never dis
cuss; they are politics and religion. Life
long ruptures are often caused by them