The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-25

She neither works nor worries, this for
tunate girl of to-day.
This view OF the case did not originate
with me.
a man sat near me on the boat one night,
weary ana toil-begrimed. He was not p
particularly pretty sight, this homeward-
bound workingman. His hands were
roughened and twisted with hard work,
and they were not even comparatively
clean. The mans eyes lacked luster, and
his shoulders had the pathetic droop
which tells that patient endurance has
come to fill the void where once ambition
vaGIted.
Presently a daughter of luxury fitted
before US, prating of the sunset. Chaper-
oned and well attended was she. Well
groomed, too, after the fashion Of her
kind.
The odor OF violets filed the air about
her, as it did when Peter the Great walked
abroad. The delicate frou-frou of silk &C
companied all her movements.
A suggestion, too, of the Ginning of
silver bells where my lady's chatelaine
tangled its chains.
Seeing, hearing, smelling-so many
senses were delighted. That subtle seventh
sense none the less. For in the beams of
the girls eyes, thrilling the tones of her
voice, e22alating from her as did the odor
OF violets, was magnetism bred of her per-
feet health and happiness.
Ny workman beamed at the apparition,
leaned him back and sighed sigh of deep
content. 1t was Joy to him only to look at
this highest product of civilization.
With a sort of proprietary pride, as if he
himself had had some hand in bringing
about this happy contamination, the work
man leaned over and spoke boastfully and
admirlngly to his fellow.
And this was what he said:
"She neither works nor worries"
The highest product of civilization
a girl must have 1 know not how many
generations of progressive grandfathers
before she can step forth what Chimmie
Fadden euphoniously describes as ga
turrow- bred"
To be entirely correct a girl must have
ancestors who came into England with
the Conquerors and others who did things
in our own Colonial days. There is no
veneering in the shape of education and
grooming will make the matter right.
Money, like charity, covers a multitude OF
sins, but it can never make its possessor
worthy of the name of 'turrowbred."
As to the education, there's plenty Of
latitude there.
One must be able to smile we'll and to
write swell little notes. For the rest, g
year or two abroad is more effective than a
lifetime of study in a convent, and also
much more exciting, which is the main
thing.
Ones health simply must be perfect.
It's bad form to be out of repair in this
year OF grace-hopelessly bad form.
Are our society girls ever guilty OF
illness?
That is the sin against the Holy Ghost Of
Mother Grundy's religion.
They do about everything else. They
capture burglars, they ride, they drive
they swim, they golf, they get married all
over the pages of the newspapers, they
elope with each others sweethearts and
they buy themselves rather bad bargains
in counts.
But whatever happens, well-bred girls
are never III nowadays.
About the grooming2 That's more diff
fcult
First. there's the bath. Everybody is
taking cold bath in the morning now.
Ever since Father Kneippe over in Ba-
varia took to making English pripcesses
run barefoot over the snow the shower
bath falls alike upon the just and upon
the unjust, and nobody cares whether OF
not she is rubbed dry afterward.
Father Kneippe says it doesn't matter,
and the consciousness of being correct will
almost drive away an attack of the shivers.
The cold bath is but a sort of morning
cocktail.
The hot bath at bedtime is for cleanli-
ness. and is as sedative in it's effect as the
shower is tonic.
The bedtime bath is followed by the
Iumi-lumi of Hawaii, as nearly as my
lady's maid can administer that sacra-
ment.
A Hawaiian woman learns the gentle
massage of her country almost as a science,
studying for lifetime to improve her
method. She can take the tired away
every bit of it. She takes away the
wrinkles, too, and thinks it slovenly for a
woman who is not very old to wear them.
She is needed in our midst, this lumi-
Iumi woman of Hawaii.
Wouldn't it pay somebody to bring over
a whole shipload Of her?
Beauty doctors are sign OF the times,
but not nearly so much affected by "our
hest people" as they would like to be, for
sooth! Superauous moles and stray hairs
must be removed without doubt, but the
plain, unpretentious man of science can at
tend to those matters quite well.
He can even soften down the hump on
my lady's nose if it is too aggressive, and
it is quite the surgical fad of the hour to
do something or other to that time-hon-
ored and useful invention, the human
nose.
Cosmetics, by the way, are most emphat-
ically "out."
Face massage, the steam bath, medical
science, all these are legitimate beautifiers.
But paint or powder on lady's cheek?
Quelle horreur!
Yet IL is written. in history and in books