Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-12-10
Bab's Interesting Discourse on
Presentments.
THE FAITH OF MAKING BELIEVE.
Reflex Action Of a Superior
Will.


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Ia drinking her tea at home at fash
ionable restaurant, or in one Of the
new tea rooms. is INDUCING just now
In the discussion of thought centres.
She grows enthusiastic about waves OF
thought; she dilates upon the mysteri-
GUS something that PRODUCES
thought, and she is glib about it's re-
fiex action. Honestly, l confess that
i don't understand that. With equal
honesty, am tempted to believe that
she don't understand 1t all herself; but
it sounds very nice and ii convincea
the people at the next table of her
lack uf interest In gossip. One thing I
do understand about this thought con-
centration. You, who are great
thinker, can, If you try very hard, 80
entirely bring your thought power to
hear upon me, who happened to be d
bit weaker, that am inpelled either
to come to you as quickly as ] can. or
ner. preferably by letter. This is the
way the woman who knows all about
the waves Of thought explains it. You
and ! who are less highly cultured
beings simply say, "Oh, it's the old
story; speak of angels, aud you hear
tho rustling of their wings" 1t is oil
true--this last--bow many times have
you chartered all afternoon about a
friend and the next morning letter
would como from her, in which she
would say, Somehow l felt impeiled
this afternoon to write TO YOU" What
impelled herY How many times have
you and ], busy ut our needlework,
wished to see somebody We loved,
talked good bit about her, and 10 /!
and behold when the bell rang, the
sepulchral sounding voice, question
ing through the tube discovers that
the friend talked Of is at the street end
of the wire, Then when she appears
We all say how funny it was that she
came Just when we were wishing for
her. The average woman thinks 80
many things are funny simply because
she cannot explain them. Then the
lady who knows all about con-
manage our think tank" properly
we need never BIO unhappy. As il we
had not Leen taught that when we were
children! As IL that were a new doc
trine!
As If tho mother, the wise mother,
did not say to her daughter. "When
everything is at it's worst have faith
and hope for the best. :" All the new
doctrines 10 the world cannot claim
that as something evolved to.
day. But, whether 1t is Just
being made much of to-day or
whether as is the truth, it has been
taught for centuries, it ia still beau
tiful faith. 1t might be called the
faith Of making believe.
Really, and truly, when we are par
ticularly unhappy, or particularly poor,
or particularly i'll. there is certain
happiness sure to come il we can draw
on the bank Of imagination and cash
chscks that buy us for the time being
the Leliet that we are not unhappy at
all that We are absolutely healthy and
that we are wonderfully rich. A good
imagination is great blessing. OF
course, like all great blessings, it must
be properly used, but, when 1t is only
utilized to make one better satisfied
and more hopeful to find beauty In
what seems merely ordinary, then
vivid Imagination IL source Of great
and overcoming happiness. With ii.
you can make the people around you
seem better than they are; with IL,
you can make your environments seetn
less shabby than they are; and with 1T
you can make all your life really richer
than it is. Without it-how poor life
would be without Imagination! Hope
would be dropped, and there would
be nothing worth living for, for your
faith, even In the FAIRIES, would be
killed. By-the-by, speaking of the
FAIRIES, / picked up that most delight
full of imaginative books, 'Alice in
Wonderland, the other day and read
this: "a little kindness and putting
her hair In curl papers would do won
ders for her. AndiI laughed over the
funny quotation, until it dawned TN
me how much kindness and curl papers
really would do for some pepole. Not
the veritable curl papers such as Lydia
Languish and her friend used. curl
pupers made of old love letters, for
nowadays anything that suggests
frizzing liz counted excessively bad
form. II is wonderful what an artis-
tic hairdresser can do this season for
the woman who is wise enough to sub
NIT her head to him. She who has a
low brow may wear her hair in the
soft, high role that best pleased Marie
Antoinette; and with this couture she
can assume bodice that. in design
and style of make, suggests those
ladies who MIXED the COWS and made
the butter and play with the lambs at
petit trianon.
The girl who has classic face-that
wonderful face over which artists rave
aud which is much more general among
American women than is supposed
may part her hair, draw it down softly
and smoothly, and simply twist it in u
knot at the back. There need be no
wave and no suggestion of curl, for
the classic head requires oniy that
kindness be shown TO it, for it would
be ruined by curl papers
The woman who cannot roll her hair
from off her face, whose features arc
not classical, dresses her hair after the
manner of the piquant French woman
che parts it slightly at one side and
then has it laid in rows of close glossy
waves, drawn back and knotted, Topped
or twisted in the manner best suited to
her general style. She who canAand
her number is few--has her hair parted
in tho centre, a, tiny bunch of curls on
each side Of her face, while in the back
tho hair ia loosely curled and pinned
to the head. IL you don't know just
what this style Of hair dressing 10,
look at that picture of Du Maurer's in
tho first part of "1'he.M Marian. whore
the lady is saying, "Quel amour
d'enfantW
Smart English girls are adopting the
Botticelli couture, which forces them
10 part their locks in the centre, wave
them, draw them down we'll over the
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