The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-07
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4 Few Things Of Interest 10 the Fair
Sex.

tions Respecting a Doctor-Points
About Physical Oulture-How Corn
is Eaten by Those Who Have the
Courage of Their Convictions-other
Matters of Special Interest.
They were not written in letters Of
gold, but they deserved to be. They
were her New Years resolutions, and
they ran as follows, says the New York
World
I hereby register my resolution never
again to make scene in horse car
about paying the fare. Polly and the
girls may put it down to meanness II they
like, but can't help that. l shan't go
through the old rigmarole Of mo, let me,
have the change" ever again.
I resolve not to take hold Of the rail on
the blackboard of the horse car and to
face towards the rear while getting of.
Polly may call me strong minded if she
likes. but will always face in the same
direction that the car is moving. Sol
shall not ever again carry my UNI
brella under my arm as 1 climb the Ella
waited station stairs. A man swore at me
the other day for doing it, and, although
he made me very angry, / shan't do it
again.
Nothing under heaven shall induce me
to act as treasurer for any club or any
bazar, or anything this year. was
treasurer Of one last year and had to
give S24 of my own money to get things
to balance
I'm not going to pretend to keep ac-
counts. Polly pretends to be very accu-
rate. but I've tried and / know it's all
farce 1t tends to make one deceitful,
the constant trying TO find dignif1ed
rames for undignified things, like having
your fortune told and buying marsh
mallows.
am not going to take part in any
private theatricals, because want to
keep few friends
I'm not going TO say that / won't tip
walters in the future because l always
do and don't dare not to.
I'm not going to be extravagant, be-
cause so many people are in real want
l shan't have any more cards engraved
or letter-paper monogrammed, especially
II get married at Easter.
I'm going to stop trying to improve my
mind this year and see what will happen
If / just lot it grow. Besides, the dues
TO the English Study and the Norwegian
Dialect clubs are too expensive.
am going to stop doing everything
and my health.
/ shall not let big holes come in my
stockings any more. have found place
where they keep them mended for you
free of charge.
i am going to stop drinking ice cream
soda, giving presents to people l don't
care for, wearing tight shoes, presenting
checks after the paying tellers have gone
home, talking baby talk, and trying to
hang nictuFes STRAIGHT
And l shall try not to deceive the gov
eminent again by sending long letters in
books at merchandise rates, and all that;
at any rate until next Christmas.
Physical culture, Delsarte exercise and
ballet steps, says the New York Tribune,
are now combined with the ordinary
dancing lessons in private classes, and
quite as much attention is paid to the
movement OF the body and arms as to
those of the lower extremities. II is a
great improvement, of course, on the old
fashion of simply teaching dancing steps
and rhythmic motions Premieres dan
seuses from the corps de ballet are fire.
quently employed to teach the graceful
art Of high kicking to the children Of So
ciety, for the modern maiden must be
light on her feet, sound in her body and
cultivated in her mind; and young girl
who is being formed according to mod
ern standards of physical culture has her
gymnasium lessons from professional
athlete, riding lessons in the haute eeole,
dancing lessons from a famous ci-deVant
danseuSe, fencing lessons from Prof -,
of the Ri club, and singing lessons in
a class conducted by a noted wielder of
the baton. When it is taken into consid-
GRAFTON that mental and moral culture are
as carefully attended to, it will be seen
that the typical girl of the period will be
E-I.n I~t.s a
facets as diamond, the only question
being whether the intrinsic fire of the
gem does not disappear in the process.
Well-regulated women, says the World,
make periodical visits to their dentists,
not because they are enduring the tor
ment of toothache, but because they wish
to escape it. Two or three times a year
they go confidingly and subject their teeth
TO critical survey and thereby they of
ten escape sleepless nights, pain and large
pills.
But these same women, TO whom the
frequent dental examination is a matter
of course, never think of consulting a
physician except when they are really ILL.,
1t does not occur to them that their heart
and lungs are quite as likely to reveal be-
ginnings of disease to the practised eye of
the doctor as their teeth are to the den
list. They do not recognize the fact that
the ounce of prevention is worth the
pound of cure, and that it is as much their
duty to take account of physical ''stock,"
and as it were, as it is to balance up their
accounts at certain periods.
The New Year season, sacred to the de-
stroying of ancient correspondence, the
settlement of old bills and the like, is an
excellent time TO have a searching physi-
cal examination made. Then when ones
doctor says that he thinks a little less
dancing would improve the action of the
heart and a little less reading would
strengthen the eyes, those details could
be attended to. If any disease is begin
ming, the chances of its gaining Roadway
will be infinitely lessened, and if, on the
other hand, ones system is in perfect con-
dition, one may enjoy that knowledge to
the fullest degree.
The doctor as preventive instead of a
cure will be even more valuable insti-
tuition than he is now.
Although strong perfumes are consid-
cred vulgar, faint sugges ton, on the
other hand, says the New York Tribune,
is indicative OF refinement. We all know
how delightful is the delicately pungent
smell of the pot-pourri of rose leaves in a
fresh, well-aired drawing room, or the
breath of violets which is just apparent,
and no more, about the person of a fem
me bien soignee." In olden times ladies