The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-06

drinking her tea at home, at ta5hioH1
ble restaurant. or in one of the new tea
rooms, is indulging just now in the dis
cussion of thought centers. She grows
enthusiastic about waves of thought; she
dilates upon the mysterious something
that produces thought and she is slh
about its reflex action. Honestly, ! con-
fess that don't understand that. With
equal honesty, / am tempted TO believe
that she don't understand it all herself
but it sounds very nice and it convinces
the people at the next table of her lack
of interest in gossip. One thing I do un-
derstand about this thought coneentra-
ton You, who are great thinker can,
if you try very hard. so entirely bring
YOUR thought power TO bear upon me, who
happened TO be a bit weaker, that l am
impelied either to come to you as quickly
as I can, or to communicate with you in
some manner, preferably by letter. Ihis
is the way the woman who knows all
about the waves of thought explains it,
You and I who are less highly cultured
beings simply say, ooh, it's the old story;
speak OF angels, and you hear the rust
Ing of their wingsr' 1t is all true-this
last-how many times have you chatter
ed all afternoon about a friend and the
next morning a letter would come from
her, in which she would say, Somehow l
felt impelled this afternoon to write to
YOU" What impelled her? How many
times have you and I, busy at our needle
v ork, wished to see somebody we loved,
talked good bit about her, and 10! and
tehold! when the bell rang, the sepulchral
sounding voice, questioning 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 wish
ing for her. The average woman thinks
so many things are funny simply because
she cannot explain them. Then the lady
who knows all about concentration of
thought says, that, if we manage our
think tank properly we need never be
unhappy. AS if we had not been taught
that when we were childrenl AS If that
were a new doctrinei
AS if the mother, the wise mother did
not say to her daughter, when every
thing is at its worst have faith and hope
for the best All the new doctrines in
the world cannot claim that as a some
thing evolved to-day. But, whether it is
lust being made much of to-day, or wheth-
er as is the truth. it has been taught for
centuries il is still a beautiful faith. 1t
might be cahsd the faith of making believe.
Really and truly, when we are particu-
larly unhappy, or particularly poor, or par
ticularly a. there is certain happiness
sure TO come if we can draw on the bank
!, ffas, qrA ch rhRQEG
us for the time being the belief that we are
not unhappy at all; that we are absolutely
healthy and that we are wonderfully rich.
A good imagination is a great blessing.
OF course, like all great bless!rss, Il must
be properly used, but, when it Is Chy utll-
lied to make one better satisfied and more
hopeful. to find beauty in what seems mere
~ ordinary. then a vivid imagination is a
source of great and never-enui" & happl-
ness. With it, you can make the people
around you seem better than they are;
with il YOU can make your environments
seem less shabby than they are; ana win
it you can make all your life really rlcner
than it Is. Without it-how poor lie
would be without an imagination! Hope
would be dropped and there would be
nothing worth living for, for YOU faith,
even in the fairies, would be khied.
BY the bye, speaking of the FAIRIES,
picked up that most delightful of imagin-
alive books, "Alice in Wonderland, the
other day and read this: "A little kind
ness and putting her hair in curl papers
would do wonders for her And /
laughed over the funny quotation, until II
dawned on me how much kindness ana
curl papers really would do for some peo-
pie. Not the veritable curl papers sucn
as Lydia Languish and her friends used,
curl pe pers made of old love letters, for
nowadays anything that suggests fritz
zing is counted excessively bad form. 1t
IS wonderful what an artistic hair-dresser
can do this season for the woman who IS
wise enough TO submit her head to him.
She who has j low brow may wear her
lair in the soft, high roll that best pleas
ed Marie Antoinette; and with this Golf
fure she can assume a bodice that, IN de-
sign and style of make, suggests those la
dies 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
and 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 knot
a Il the back There need be no wave and
no suggestion of n curl, for the classic
head requires only that kindness be shown
10 it, for it would be ruined by curl
papers.
The woman who cannot roll her hair
from off her face, whose features are not
classical. dresses her hair after the man
her of the piquant French woman; she
parts it slightly at one side, and then has
It laid in rows of close glossy waves.
drawn back and knotted, looped or twisted
in the manner best suited to her general
style. She who can-and her number is
few--has her hair parted in the center, a
tiny bunch Of curls on each side of her
face, while in the back the hair is loose
ly curled and pinned TO the head. If you
don't know just what this style Of hair
dressing is, look at that picture OF Du
Mauriers in the first part of The Mar
tian," where the lady is saying, "Quel
amour denfantr
Smart English girls are adopting the
Bottieell couture, which forces them to
par their locks in the center, wave them.
draw them down well over the ears. and
loop them in a soft knot ia the back Try
ing? OF course. it is trying but it has a
certain picturesque air that forces you
al least 70 look at il and, ia a way, APP
Irove Of it. Then 1t hides ugly ears.
The doctors are writing articles every
now and then telling how hard thinking
and badness are syno' ymous. The aver
age woman would rather, l am sure. be