Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-18

intend to live with full set of my own teeth in my mouth.
 "I do not permit myself to sew in the afternoon, but in the city I go to the gymnasium or to one or two clubs I be- long to, and attend to my church and so- cial duties every day from until 6. At 7;30 o'clock we dine. Jack and Rosamond understand that dinner is @ ceremonious function, and though we are frequently alone during the winter we always ap- pear in what Jack calls full regalia, and the happiest hour of each twenty four is mine when sit opposite the smil- ing, sunny faces of my big Yale '93 grad uate son and my pretty young daughter, now in her second season, except the times when we have Gladys and Ned and are then the very jolliest of united families. l am keeping myself young for my children and my grandchildren
 Exactions of the Course.
 Tt requires patience and courage not to yield to the indolence which over powers us all at certain periods but it is worth while. I m not a rich woman. but 1 insist on being well dressed and well groomed from head to feet. l se- lect my shoes and stockings and my gloves and laces with just as much care as though they were for princess royal, and when my son tells me that 1 am the best dressed woman from head to toe in all New York 1 m as happy and as vain as ever his sweetheart will be of his praises.
 Every night when I take my bath and scrub l am careful to see if my skin needs either an emollient or an astrlngent. l look after my hands just as scrupulous, and do my own manicuring on scientific principles. I expend about $2o year Tn cosmetics, all told, and about the same sum in electric baths. l use only very fine French perfume, and very little of that. and one four-ounce bottle lasts me six months. I am just as careful about selecting my corsets, too, as in choosing my shoes. I will not wear an ill-shaiEd corset nor an ugly shoe. spend about $500 on myself every twelve months, and I have not been under physicians care for nearly eleven years nor paid a farthing for drugs. I ride bicycle play billiards, tennis and golf, swim, skate and ride horseback, but l can cook a nice little dinner or cut and fit dainty gown, or trim you a chic little hat or nurse the baby quite as well. I am a self made young woman of 45, whose stock in trade at % was a broken heart, mea- ger purse, and three helpless, fatherless babies.''
 A Daughters Testimony.
 .'Vivat Regina" I cried-and looking up I saw Glays in sweet hostess, Who had entered silently and heard the latter part of the bella donnas discourse. AS she put her arm about her mothers neck and bent down to kiss her cheek she said, "Yes, long indeed live our queen, our boastful. deceitful queen. Tor she is telling you now of our Lady or Vanity Fair. Has she said word Of bella donnas boundless charities, has she told you of the sick and lowly to whom she is a good angel has she ever so faintly touched upon her work Tn the slums, of the hours she gives to teachins German to a class of ambitious girls who cannot afford to pay for instruction
 .sBella donna, mia, you love to prate of your grim conquest or l1ne-il you do not acknowledge you are the pest as well as the most beautlful woman III the world I intend to tell Mime. de Morny how vou went all last winter to visit that noor little consumptive and how Jack found out only by accident that you had to go through one of the most notordous barrooms in the slums and then cIimp a ladder in the court yaru oh .nt t ou tha side of a wretched tenement to go to the sick girl You tell of your fashlonapie gowns and smart dinners, mother mine let me say a word for the beauty or the soul that has made Heaven or tnis world for three children who are bella donnas own.'
 Answers to Correspondents.
 Anxiuos wife-Yours will be the first case of incurable pimples, not inherited ar the result of some internal trouble. Send me your address. l cannot answer your second question through these col umns.
 "Wash Cloth"-The reason why you reouire ascrubbing brush for your face Is because you cannot get it clean by any other process. The skin carries off more liquid and ten times as much solids as the kidneys and if the skin of the face is not kept clean the pores open, the excretions of oil and sweat removed by friction, the consequence IS a stoppage and clogged. enlarged pores, black heads or pimples You cannot keep your hands clean without brush. The skin of your face is much more oily and does not get any assistance in the necessary friction unless you produce it with brush suited to it.
 Lisbeth-Bust and waist measures of the symmetrical woman have been given in previous paper.
 Mrs. B. J.-Have the toe set by sur geon and insist on wide heelless shoes.
 Lidna M.-All bleaches so far as I know are composed of corrosive subli- mate, or chloride of lime. They eat through the skin; the after results are most disastrous.
 Dumb Bells.-Forty-five minutes each day is sufficient and should be the max imum of calisthenics.