The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-12


to five little girl friends" edited by Ed
ward w Box. are printed, for the first
time. in April Ladies' Home Journal. The
author Of Little Women" in these let
tiers chats with delightful freedom about
her work, her cares, her early struggles
and influences. and of her religious faith.
In writing to one Of her little girls"
who had Just lost a sister-One Of the
five correspondents of earlier years-Miss
Alcott says with characteristic charm and
loving candOr: 80 / think you need not
worry about any name for your faith,
but simply try to be and do good. to
love virtue in others, and study the lives
of those who are truly worthy Of imita
ton. Women need a religion Of their
own, for they are called upon to lead
q quiet, Sacrificing life with peculiar
trials, needs and joys. and it seems 10
me that a very simple one is fitted to
US whose hearts are usually more alive
than heads, and whose hands are tied
in many ways. Health of body helps
health of soul; cheerful views Of all
things keep up the courage and brace
the nerves. Work for the mind must be
had, or daily duty becomes drudgery, and
the power to enjoy higher things is lost.
Change of scene is sometimes salvation
for girls or women, who outgrow the
place they are born in. and 1t is their
duty to go away, even If II is to do hard
er work, for hungry minds prey on them
selves and bodies suffer for escape from
q too pale or narrow life. have felt
this and often gone away from Concord
to teach, which 1 never liked, because
there was no food for my mind in that
small, conservative town, especially since
Mr.. Emerson died. Food, fire and shell
ter are not all that women need, and
the noble discomfort that asks for more
should not be condemned. but helped if
possible. At twenty-ona l took my little
earnings (S2W and few clothes and went
to seek my fortune, though / might have
sat stu and been supported by rich
friends. All those hard years were teach
ing me what l afterward put into the
books, and so / made my fortune out OF
my seeming misfortune. ] speak of my
self because what one has lived one really
knows and so can speak honestly"
with a moderately stiff fesh-brush and
q supply of bran bags" announced the
authority on beauty, any woman should
have skin of smooth satiny texture. The
coloring does not depend on these, how
ever. Bran bags will not remove freckles
and they viii not, give rosy cheeks, But
the flesh brush bringing the blood to
the surface, helps to give proper amount
Of color ssa 90. oont,,,,oa asofton the
water and makes it almost as efficacious
as milk in its effect upon the skin. Any
woman who has no actual disease of the
skin and whose digestion is good ought
10 be able to acquire the velvety smooth
ness all women want by a daily warm
bath, in which the bran bag takes the
place of the wash rag.
Bran bags may be made at a trilllnS
cost at home Bags of cheesecloth about
eight inches square are loosely hlled with
bran, shavings of CASTLE soap, and a pinch
fof m
with perfect impunity, which is more than
can be said Of the ordinary rough wash
rag"
Many girls do we'll to work, because in
this way they make themselves indepen-
dent. Those, for instance, who succeed
work in Journalism literature, art of any
kind, teaching-are removed from the
temptation of accepting the first offer of
marriage. They can walt, look. about
them. and walt for the arrival OF some
thing approXimating to their ideal, says
a friend of Sir Walter Besants, to which
he replies: quite so. There is, of course.
the danger of setting up an impossible
ideal; we have to accept the world as II is.
pears, girl can then, If the essential first
condition Is possible, join the noble army
of wives. II the essential is not possible,
the girl will remain as she was. When
marriage presented apparent independence
instead of dependence there was always a
strong temptation to take the first offer.
view. The custom of throwing the hand
kerchief has become obsolete, yet l am
told that there are still some young. gen
flemen who hold to the former belief that
they are irresistible as regards the fair
sex
People, says Harper's Bazaar, are not
snobs who lay stress on quest tons of taste;
they are simply those who look to some
thing added to morals in their choice of
friends. To stand where, in ones choice,
one becomes no respector of persons is
TO stand on quite different plane from
that on which the social harmonies are
preserved. Yet even while standing here
and while admitting that moral character
alone should be considered in the choice
of friends. manners being a vain and world
ly distinction, a line must certainly be
drawn between one whose manners are
bad from lack of knowledge and expert
ence and one whose manners are bad be.
cause of a wilful disregard of the laws OF
good breeding through selhshness, stub
bornness or conceit. Into manners such as
these the character enters as much as into
the moral standards of the man.
No; those people are not SnoDS who lay
stress on ques tions OF good taste and man
ners in their choice Of acquaintances. They
are simply concerned with seeing that the
machinery of life runs smoothly, that tbs
atmosphere is kept purified, and that the
harmonies are preserved.
The world in fact is on one great search
for harmonies everywhere, in art, in NOR
ais and in domestic economies. The per
son without taste can never be depended
upon not to bring discord somewhere.
It was their first baby. Anybody. sav
the New York Mail and Express, coull
have told that from the way she looked
il, and the way he didn't look at it,
waited train. SO was l. The mother was
tiny little morsel of humanity. and tn,
baby was a 'goOd-sized chunk' Of a baby
BY the time the little mother had made tn,
big baby perfectly comfortable. qhere wa
only The toe Of one Of her shoes touchinf
the floor. lie was carrying a parcel abou
hiH enough 70 hold an Easter shirt or
neckile Of modern dimensions lie main
famed an aloofneas from the little woman
mat might have induced The belief n,
never had heard o. that baby before 1
lne hehy's mother had not asked him fo
something.
Then ae puf his hand Into his pocket an,
p. h@Nt la- lettsr WITH "a runhcr attach
mont ana nlrfod n over with face y
is' - 9 peet' Why ~ chs could Imagine