The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-17
v 0 NJ ANS WORLD.
A Few Things Of Interest to the Fair
Sex.

People New Ways of Making
Money Curious Idioms of the
Fashionable World - Under What
Condition May Woman Beg Money
For Charities-A Sensible Oceupa-
ton For a Woman-Other Matters
Well Worth Reading.
There has got to be a reform in re-
forms, said woman sententiously to the
New York Times the other day, finishing
a discussion with companion of the zeal
with which persons nowadays pursue
every new course of health treatment
they hear or read of, unmindful of the ne
cessity to know whether it is what is
needed or not. AS the woman was ply
sician, her concluding remark was author
itative, and some of her prefacing sen
fences are not without value
Lately lady came TO me complaining
of a spinal soreness that was painful to
her and battling to me for a while. ] saw
her two or three times, and questioned
her closely, asking if she had taken any
severe exercise or had fallen or suffered
any especial strain that she could recall
and finally casual remark proved of
value l followed it up and discovered
that she had been undertaking a daily
exercise of hip walking for number of
weeks, ever since, in fact, she had read
somewhere that women did not walk
properly, using d knee movement instead
of hip movement for locomotion. Wish
ing to cultivate the elegance which the
paragraph prescribed, my patient had
set about it vigorously, and, as a result,
had strained some muscles of the spine
brought INTO too sudden and too active
play. 1t has produced tedious trouble
Another patient found herself feeling
Ill from no apparent cause, and, hap
pening to read paper by cold-water
enthusiast, advocating exercise and cold
plungeS as a panacea for all ills, forth
with diagnosed her condition as needing
these remedies. She walked FIVE miles a
day, took cold baths, and in a month had
used up her waning vitality and nerve
force, and came to me with a finely de-
veloped case of nervous prostration, from
which there was much more than a
chance to save her had her stock of re-
serve strength been slightly augmented.
But that, of course, had all gone in the
course of treatment she had prescribed
for herself"
To these instances may be added that
of another physician, who cites the case
of a young mother who brought her
3-year-old child to him, suffering with
general debility. He found after awhile
that the little fellow was being bathed to
death. A warm bath every morning and
a sponge bath every night was simply
washing away his strength. No other
regimen than reducing the number of his
baths about rs per cent. was undertaken,
and his complete restoration TO health
followed.
The reaction to this wide swing of the
pendulum should, however, be equally
guarded against. 1t is not asserted or to
be inferred that bathing and exercise are
injurious, only that they may be under
some circumstances. 1t is asserted, how
ever, that there is nothing better to mix
with every action in life than discretion
and common sense, and it is a pity these
are not to be had at so much per ounce.
She had little of earthly beauty,
She had less OF earthly lore;
She climbed by path so narrow,
Such wearisome burdens borel
And she came with heart attending
To the warder at Heavens door.
And said There were hearts of heroes"
She said, There were hands of might:
Ihad only my little children,
That call to me day and night;
lcould only soothe their sorrows,
Their childish hearts make light"
And she bowed her head in silence
ana she hid her face in shame
When, out from blaze OF glory,
\ form majestic came;
And sweeter than all heavens music
Lo, some one called her name!
Christian Herald
A womans figure, says the New York
World, is anything she wishes to make it.
IL IS merely question of corsets. De-
tormities, as for example girlish chest
measure and giant hip measure, or a
good front and hollow back excepted, a
woman can be any shape she fancies in
the hands of staymaker her form
molds like wax.
The average woman is short-waisted,
but the fashionable woman is long
wasted, and the credit belongs not to the
dressmaker but to the corset-maker. If
the styles of Napoleon's court are revived
next fall-and there is more than a SuS-
piclous possibility that they will be
every woman in the land will be as short
wasted and as long-skirted as a
baby. Staymakers never lose sight of
the dressmakers. Corset firms have ar
lists in Paris, Vienna and London all the
year round, and every innovation in house
bodices, riding habits and walking Jack
cts Is sketched, described and immedi-
ately dispatched to manufacturers, so
that by the time the model dresses are
distributed the required corsets are in
stock. The best dressed women in the
world have special corset for each
bodice, or, in other words, new dresses
are fitted over new corsets. 1t is an
error in judgment to save a corset, be-
cause new style bodice cannot be fitted
properly on an old style corset.
Helen, aged eight, had been lunching,
says the New York Times, at the house
OF a friend. At dinner at home she
looked up suddenly. Mrs. Blank is not
at all like you, mamma"
Isn't she, Helen2 Why" asked
mamma, seeming possible compliment.
"Oh, she gives much bigger servings of
Ice cream" and, HeleniS mother knew
that she had been weighed in the balance
and found wanting.
Helen's sister, aged six, waited IN the
house of a playmate for her to finish
meal. Her big, black eyes. more keen
IMAM polite, saw all that was on the table,
and later made use of the observation.
Mamma, at Kittie's they have choco-
late cake and cookies, custard pie and
cream cake Tor lunch. Why don't WEI"
And an older brother promptly answered,
with a satire that was either uncon-
sclous or beyond his years: They're
good, you know, and we have wholesome
thingsn
These are some of the peas in the shoes
which make painful the walking of the
conscientious mother who tries TO provide
her family with the food that, to the best
OF her knowledge, is good for them. She