The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-12-13
ART OF N]EA1A[Eo[B[S[l0[SWL55o
Concentration and Similar Psychic
Phenomena Which Seem to Simple.

HeStuurdnt OF Ill ONe ol tHe hth 70" ADoAA'9
indulging just now in the discussion OF
bought centers. She grows enthusiastic
about waves of thought; she dilates upon
The mysterious something that pro-
buces thought, and she is GLIB about ITS
}eflex action. Honestly, | confess that
5on't understand that. With equal hon
sty. I'm tempted to believe that she don't
understand it all herself; but it sounds
kery nice and it convinces the people at
| he next table of her lack of interest IN
tossip. One thing do understand about
his thought concentration, You, who are
great thinker, can, if you try very hard,
entirely bring your thought power to
ear upon me, who happened to be bit
yeaker, that am impelled to come to you
IS quickly as | can, or to communicate
nth you in some manner, preferably by
otter.
This is the way the woman who knows
. II about the waves of thought explains
You and l who are less highly cultur-
a beings simply say: "0h, it's the old
Tory: speak of angels, and you hear the
nstling of their WINGS" 1t is all true
his last-,how many times have you chat
bred all afternoon about a friend and the
ext morning letter would come from
er. in which she would say, Somehow
felt impelled this afternoon TO write to
pu." What impelled her? How many
mes have you and l, busy at our needle
FORK, wished TO see somebody we loved,
liked a good bit about her. ind 10! and
ehold, when the bell rang. the sepulchrl
bice. questioning through the tube, dis
kvers that the friend talked OF is ut the
rect end of tie wire. Then whcn ste
bpears we all say how funny it was that
be came just when we were wishing for
kr. The average woman thinks so many
(ings are funny simply because she can
BIT explain them. Then the lady who
bows all about concentration of thought
|ys, that, If we manage our think tank
Fuperly, we need never be unhappy. As
we had not been taught that when we
ere children. as if that were new doc
inc.
As il the mother, the wise mother, did
BIT say 10 her daughter, When every
ling is at its worst have faith and hope
br the best" All the new doctrines in
be world cannot claim that as a some
hing evolved to-day. But, whether it IS
lst being made much of to-day. or wheth-
as is the truth. it has been taught for
enturies, it is still beautiful faith. 1t
light be called the faith of making be-
i've
Really and truly, when we are particu-
[rly unhappy, or particularly poor, or
hrticularly i'll, there is a certain happi--
ess sure to come if we can draw on the
ank Of imagination and cash checks
bat buy us for the time being the relief
bat we are not unhappy at all; that we
re absolutely healthy, and that we are
Wonderfully rich. 4 good ima gination is
great blessing. OF course, like all great
Blessings. it must be properly used, but
khen it is only utilized to make one bet
Ter satisfied and more hopeful, to find
beauty in what seems merely ordinary,
hen vivid imagination is a source of
reat and never-ending happiness. With
9 you can make the people around you
|eem better than they are; with it you can
bake your environments seem less shabby
han they are, and with it you can make
LII your life really richer than it is.
Without it-how poor life would be witt
Iut imagination, Hope would be dropped
md there would be nothing worth living
Fould be killed.
! BY the bye, speaking Of the fairies,
licked up that most delightful of imagi-
htive books, tAlice in Wonderland" the
ther day, and read this: A little kind
ess and putting her hair in curl papers
ould do wonders for her." And
ughed over the funny quotation, until
dawned on me how much kindness and
bril- papers would do for some people.
lot the veritable curl papers such as
ydia Languish and her friends used.
lrl papers made Of old love letters, for
bwadays anything that suggests frizzing
counted excessively bad form. 1t is
bnderful what an artistic hairdresser
n do this season for the woman who is
Sc enough to submit her head to him.
lie who has low brow may wear her
ir in soft, high roll that best pleased
arie Antoinette, and with this couture
can assume bodice that, in design
a style of make, suggests those ladies
10 MIXED the cows and made the butter
play with the lambs at petit Trlanon.
The girl who has a classic face-that
bnderful face over which artists rave,
d which is much more general among
nerican women than is supposed-may
rt her hair, draw it down softly and
oothly, and simply twist it in knot at
back. There need be no wave and no
ggestion OF a curl, for the classic head
luires only that kindness be shown TO
for it would be ruined by curl papers
The woman who cannot roll her hair
I'm off her face, whose features are not
ssical, dresses her hair after the man
Of the piquant French woman; she
rts it slightly at one side. and then has
laid in rows of close glossy waves,
Awn back and knotted, looped or twist
in the manner best suited to her gen
style She who can-and her number
ew-has her hair parted in the center,
ny bunch Of curls on each side Of her
:, while in the back the hair is loosely
ed and pinned to the head. If you
Il know just what this style of hair
Bsing is, look at that picture Of du
lrier's in the first part of '"The Mar
y where the lady is saying, "Quel
(ur d'enfantr'
mart English girls are adopting the
ticelli couture, which forces them to