The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-04-11
AFFAIRS OF WOMEN
Topics Of Peculiar Interest TO the Better
Sex Given Passing Notice.
HEALTH, BEAUTY AND FASHION HINTS
A Cure for INSTRUMENTATION to X ccp
Your Eyes Bright without BELLA.
Gonna Florence Nightingale
Speaks word For Fen Driukers--
Carmen sylvia. " Royal PocicsS.

Those whose hearts and minds arc full
or the same great objects IN life are
drawn toward one another Even
though at first they may be widely sepa-
rated by distance or outward cirCum-
stances, they must meet in time. This
sympathy Of like aims is q sure attrac-
tive power and some day brings to-
gether in thn flesh those whose hearts
nave long been in touch. Just as surely
we repe! and are repealed by those whose
thought and life are repugnant.
1t IS often said that people OF like
profession or ideas drift together as
we phrase 1t. But this drawing together
Is not drifting III the sense OF being the
result OF accident or chance. 1t is the
sure action Of the mental attraction eX
listing between those like III ideas or
mental abilities.
In less degree people whose thoughts
run to things, not ideas. take an inter-
est in one anothers society. while they
discuss their particular fads. rs bicy
cliSts or athletes.
Tho weakest and least enduring at
traction Of all is that purely physical one
founded upon admiration for 4 pretty
face or q strong arm. One reason 1t
does not endure is that these physical
qualities are not lasting. ana the attrac-
ton fails with the quality that excited
attraction Is always one side which ad-
irlirers or likes. while the other submits
to the admiration or liking. And this
Migrant inequality becomes tirrsomr
and turns toward tho other cXtrcmc--re-
pulsion.
1t has been said by some who seem
to understand lt;!c about the matter
that equality in the love Of the man and
the woman for each other is impossible.
This is true Just this far: When the
attraction between tho woman and the
man is only 4 physical attraction, ana
nothing higher 1t is not equal; it can
not be. But when il is only. this. neither
Is 1t love. Love endurcs. And such an
attraction as that is nothing but u far
lower. baser thing, which often dnres
to take the name Of love, although II
never can claim It's attributes. Things
are better understood when they are
called proper names.
Nfr:. Rorcr. in 4 dee suggested for
nervous persons, docs not veto coffee
altogether Once 4 day. At BREAKFAST,
without sugar, 1t appears on the list.
White bread dried out In the oven and
lean roast beef. steak o. hroiled chops
three times 4 day are permitted. Fruit
she advises 10 be used sparingiy, and
never In the latter part OF the day. The
surprises in the list are that coffee
should be allowed at all that meat
should be provided in abundance and
fruit sparingly Finally plenty Of green
salad, with all The salad oil. in a French
dressing made with lemon. tina. can he
taken. Fat around the nerves. she says,
smOoths them out very quickly.
Lady Dixie is a great collector OF val
liable and curious books, valuable in
many eases not only for their rarity.
but for their having once belonged to
celebrated people. Her house at Pyr-
ford. near Wok!ng, is filed With artistic
and literary treasures. which show how
+nj1 q !,
Many girla in their anxiety to beautify
their eyes have recourse TO bcl,adonna
regardless Of the pern.cious effect Of this
drug Take this advice and try a sim
pie, equally effective and more lasting
method OF making youts eyes brilliant
just battle them twanty times each.
every morning and every night, with
soft, small sponge and the coolest water
you can get by this means the blood
III the numerous little vessels surround
ing the eve Is circulated. and the eyes
become bright and clear and stronger in
consequence.
II you wish TO improve. or retain Your
Aealth, you should not lose an opportu-
nity-especially at this time Of the year
or taxing Your constitutional when
the sun IS shining; should you, howeycr
De prevented from actually going out
into the sun, pull up the blinds and open
the windows, so that it may come to
you. Itooms from which light ana sun
are excluded arc never thoroughly aired
and, therefore, are not really sanitary
1ne lack OF Vitality of those who live
without experiencing the effect of the
sun rays Is Ve!y marked. for sunshine
causes the blood to circulate freely. /,
eNniiarateS our minds as we'll as our
ibooles; IN fact, 1t has q mys;eri0us
power over us and Will do more for
anaemic glrlds than many bottles OF
MEDICINE.
Elizabeth. Queen Of Roumanja who
was Princess Of Pied one OF The small
hhlne provinces, is far better known ~
-amerlcans as Carmen sylvia. Tho
Auehor-Queen Elizabeth was not only a
frlncess OF small means, but Of modest
AtHDitlons Defors chance raised her IN
the throne or Roumania in 1869 She was
most studious girl and wished TO be-
COME simple German schoolmistress
i"hen an oi1er came for her hand and sho
accepted a throne, taking up literat,ro
as her ilfe's work. Her only child. n
daughter. died few days after its birth
ana no other children coming TO take tho
1lttie ones place, the sore!y bercavnd
Hiotner turned to her pen and to her
1,usc. She was n pupil OF the grea t
lara nchumann, an author OF recognize
60 ABILITY and surely 4 beloved wife
Tor when the Roumanians s,leaastnI
their hlnS should procure, like Nano
leon, n divorce and another Vic IL
hopes OF an heir. Queen F,lizabeth's ms.
pand rejected the proposition with scorn
and Indignation.
F!orence Nightingale has come to The
ue1ence or tea in print. She thinks there
IS altogether too much said against ten :
drinking, and says she would be worry
Riad II any OF the tea-a busers would