The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-05-03

fourteen dollars a week, and had PIC
ture of La Giaconda" hanging peiore
me. would get up and Smash u witnou'
regard TO It's owner That eternal SMILE
may be artistic and mystic ana noh-uh-
derstandable, but IL Is exasperaiinS 10 the
last degree. To grin. and grin. and grin.
and never cease TO grin, Is very opJec-
tionable thing TO do. Then, on warm
dav when tho family dinner was 10 con-
sist Of corned beef and cabbage, ana the
babv was crying with the collie, ana TWO
OF the children were groaniDg Win pam
a. n natural result OF eating unripe ifu'|
what 10Y would come 10 WOMAN VI
what rest. from gazing at the iiusuenos
Lovers?" They look so cool that any W.
man who was warm and VINO sineit VIC
healthful but not delicate door OF oaoD"e'
and corned beef, would want thetil W ~
even in picture. down, down. cow. "
where II was warmer even than In that
kitchen, and where the neat "ouiu q"
crease forever and forever.
WHERE THE POOR DWELL.
When the thermometer II at ninety
how can you call those places honisS
where the workingmen live? Inc WIG
takes no interest in anything except hanB-
INK out OF the window. or over the nre es-
cape, gossiping with her neighoorS anu
indulging in an occasional glass of beer:
There Is no knowledge OF the different
kinds OF food. that dinner may be
cheap. good and yet cool never enters
the head OF the woman. That cleanliness
and eoolness arc almost synonymous Is
unknown. The chances are that before
her marriage the wife was a household
servant. She spent all her money IN
clothes, and she is ignorant of every
thing that she should know. Economy In
preparing the food, a little care to It's
presentation. and a little thought as TO
the rooms themselves, never come TO her.
She is always untidy looking. she Is al
ways hot and she is always ready Tor
quarrel. She takes no interest in any
thing except the dreadful crimes OF tho
day as they are told in tho most vulgar
OF newspapers. She likes those news
papers that are. really, colleges for crimf.
The boy who stole a bun yesterday b.
cause he was hungry, is taught by sun
newspapers how 70 rob his employer J.
morrow, ana how TO break a bank tie
next day. This woman Of the tenemets
takes great pleasure. as she Is usuallYOf
foreign birth or descent. in laughingtat
the stupidity OF the police OF New Ilrk
city. Murders are committed and forot-
ten; jewels are stolen. ana my lad, OF
the tenement announces with a hippy
giggle, "An' shure it tux the gentlemen
from Scotland Yard to fond tile robtrs."
and then. in way more expressive han
polite, she unites her nose and her tnmb
and waves her dstended fingers the
bobby who stands on the street beiw.
HEAT AND WICKEDNESS FRIENDS.
Personally, l believe that many man
would have been clean OF mind IL ID had
ever had an opportunity 10 be clan OF
body. There is u work for the charitable
Ia al Inf
baths wherever you can. Not merely
such baths as mean going into TIN river.
but baths in houses where the women and
children can 90, and where thy will
come out more solf-respccting thlp when
they went IN. L don't believe thl clean
liness IS next 10 goodness. l belUve that
you can't be dirty and cody. Tie clean
illness has got 10 come first. The worship
OF soap and water was inculcsted into
me ut an early day end by mems OF a
highheeled red satin slipper. Shoe then,
L regret to say. that l have grown older,
but L have never forgotten. Ard would
recommend to any mother who's, child OBJ
jects 10 bath the use Of 81 pper with
a Louis Quartorze heel this heel affords
good grip, and the slipper fiies UP and
down in a way that suggests perpetual
motion, and which produces heat OF body.
with a calm aftersprt. Thosl old saints,
who used TO let their hair grow and wear
robes that rotted on them an refused 10
be INTRODUCED to water are, u my think
ing, frauds. it cannot please the good
God who made you in His own image 10
see that image deded by ordinary dirt
IL was meant that we should keep the
body. that entrances the soul. sweet and
pure and pleasant 70 look upon. The man
who believes dirt viii increase his godli-
ness Is most awfully mistaken.
WOMAN SHOULD BE CLEAN.
A woman? oh. | don't ike to think Of
woman and dirt together. She ought
20 be really too much OF a woman for
that. OF course, the heat OF the day
sometimes makes the dust Of the day ac-
cumulate on one but thac IS easily got
ten rid Of 1t doesn't come 10 stay; 1t
will disappear when acquaintance is made
with warm water, good soap and wash
cloth Not one Of those hard knitted
things, nor one OF those dreadful brushes,
but an old piece OF damask that ID soft
and pliable, and doesn't treat your skin
as n IL were parchment. There are a
good many things to think OF. even when
one is quite willing TO be clean. There
Is cheap soap-I mean that which Is
strongly perfumed-let II alone. Use In
it's place a good plain soap that has no
perfume except that OF cleanliness.
Don't DO mean with the water. and re-
member that the fountain OF eternal
youth is really, after all. IN tho bath
tub.
Who invented thermometers7 Satan, I
am sure. Nobody else would have had
the art. when you feet uncomfortable.
mussy, warm. cross and certain that IL
is n hundred and two, 10 have that horrid
thing mark it only eighty-seven. II IS
hard 20 pray in summer time, but here is
a fervent prayer: From too much heat
and all its attendant evils. good Lord de-
liver Bah.