The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-27

f At noon. a sponge and spray bath Is given
The extremities. with similar applications
/ 81 Turkish towel. For quarter Of an
hour in the late afternoon. these ardent
. Water-sprites. scantily clad march sol
EMMY up and down the length of their
cath-tuhs. in about q foot Of cold water;
this done they hop out. and clearing away
the rugs from a hardwood floor run for
hall an hour up and down the, length of
3 the room. and then SET into shoes and
stockings. When troubled at night by I'M
/ scmnia they get up and take cold water
. bath. or sponge on with cold water. and
before tho moisture has dried on the skin
/ skip back under the covers, damp indeed.
I but soon scothed to sleep. The walking
] in water Is. they hold. "a sovereign cure
. for nervous prostration, the baths correct
} nervous dyspepsia. and as they are rlgld
] dieters. and the cold water stirs up lively
appetites. they satisfy its cravings. and
I resist temptations al teas etc. by calmly
producing from their pockets little square
/ silver cases shaped like. cigarette boxes.
. within are squares of toasted bread, hard,
I brown. and crisp. Of WHICH a nihbled bit
OF two every hour satisfies nature
/ yearnings.
English papers-who know more about
us than we know about ourselves-are
{ gravely telling their envious feminine
/ readers that the American belle can. II
/ she will. have the advantage OF a col
I lege Of beauty course In this remarka-
bic institution one Of the Exercises impos-
ed upon her by her learned professors will
be two hours daily practice in pronounc~
. ing the homely word potato in such way
as 10 give the face a quite bewitching eX-
I preston. It used to be "prupes,' and
there is a legend to the effect that GER
/ tain ancient belle lived on prunes because
she could not ask or them without alter
ing the expression of her mouth But II
/ really sounds as if the grave English edi-
"a fa n
Of the professional beaJtfers and had
taken them seriously
The papers says the New York Press.
/ have been humorously referring IN an
/ anonymous manner to young society
people recently betrothed who. 1t is said,
found their affinity by the MT
/ ting in Of the vibrations at
teleps thy parties Not half so bad an idea
/ this for the advocates Of the failure OF
| marriage to propose, in determining the
7 cCngeniality of parties. Instead of the us
I ual counting. when man and woman try 10
/ find if tastes agree by the medium of even
/ insincere language, they coGld hold hands
| and tervently think. If comparison proved
| a simultaneously working of brains. the
couples destiny would be solved. Imag-
I inc the fin de steele Juliet eXclaiming to
. her Romeo. Il am thine forever. The
/ vibrations of the molecules of my brain
go with a right hand rotary movement
/ into yours and the two fit together as
| strands of rope
| There is an army surgeon at Governors
Islaud, who, his friends assert can COM
pei his opponent to make whatever move
on the chess board he wishes by trans
mission of thought. His invariabie sue
cess has earned him the sobriquet of
"Aieab" but since his success has been
confessedly assigned to telepathic power,
q game with him is the most interesting
| afternoon event at the club.
Don't worry about the shape Of your
| baby's nose If it is snub, nor be sure If
IT pleaaes you by it's regularity that it will
be the nose that will grow ub with It. for
scientists have observed that no feature
changes more as life progresses. The
| length Of the nose increases SO much fast
| err than It's breadth that the snub-nosed
| baby may evolve a long, even hooked
! nose This change in the shape of noses,
| q writer in the Popular Science Monthly
| asserts. is gradual and imperceptible.
| generally more expeditions in the male
| than in the female, correlated with vari-
| Gus other characteristics such as intel
| lectual attachments, or weak constitution,
/ and producing different results.
| During maturity and senescence the
bridge of the nose becomes more and more
| prominent. often more convex. so that eX-
! IRENE old age may even develop an aqui-
| line nose" so that one need never dispair
OF possessing satisfactory nose at some
| period of his life. If he only lives long
enouah But. like so many other bless
! ings that are deferred, the right kind of
nose may arrive too late to effect ones
fortunes or happiness.
A London society woman says the New
York Times. wishing to give a fancy ball
recently. was besieged by letters after
/ her Invitations were out asking permission
to appear in ordinary evening dress.
I Alarmed at the prospect of q colorless
/ ball. she automatically replied that any
woman over 35 might come in evening
/ dress. The ball was brilliant affair and
/ every woman came in a character gown.
/ Which story is matched by one told a. d
woman's club last week of the efforts of
/ 2 good clergyman to interest the women of
his flock in some church movement. Il
/ will ask" said he, at the close of the ser
/ mon, q" the elderly ladies of the congrega-
/ ton to remain a few minutes after the
benediction." He Sound himself alone
with one woman-the mother of the teller
/ of the story, who. at So, was willing 10
/ sacrifice herself for the sake of her pas
tor. and remained to point out to him his
grievous blunder The same notice, differ
entity worded. the following Sunday, Sc
cured a numerous response.
/ Curious occupa lions for women crop UP
I in these days when any talent. from that
TO teaching Greek. seems TO find q. money
/ equivalent from some circle Of patrons
novel way of earning a living is
afforded certain number of young girls
in one or two places of business in the
East End of London. Their sole duty is
10 test eggs by holding them between
the eye and the light. From skill and
/ experience they are able instantly to deter
mine their condition in this way.
Another woman. also English is pur-
veyor. or provider, for considers ton, of
appropriate names for children. For the
modest sum of % cents she proclaims in
the newspapers her willingness to select
suitable name for any baby Of high or low
estate. All that the proud parents have to
do who wish 10 take advantage OF her
professional assistance. is to forward with
the requisite fee such particulars as to
their position in life. temperament, the
color OF the babys eyes, the month Of its
birth and che or two more of like import,
and by return mail the applicant will re-
ceive a name. which, it is stated, lis war
ranteed TO give satisfaction.