The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-12

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Compound and Sanative Wash and they
have cured me- cannot praise your
medicine enough"
found that in many cases the phenomena
occurred absolutely simultaneously with
death.
I must teilsyons of something, says a
writer in the Washington Post, which
happened less than a month ago. Several
young women had been invited to attend
young companion on the occasion of her
marriage, and few days before, or per-
haps only one day before, the ceremony
married kinswoman of'the bride-elect gave
them all a breakfast. The married kins-
woman is woman of ideas, and as an en-
tertaining feature Of the affair she ar
ragged a list Of toasts. A girl from New
York acted as POSTMASTER She was al
most an utter stranger to the other guests.
but she made an exceedingly witty speech.
In closing it she said
Il shall ask Miss Blank to respond to the
first sentiment, a sentiment which I am
sure she wilhdeal with earnestly and with
feeling. Miss Blank, 1 give you, why
Prefer Single B1essedness.'
Everybody turned pale. Miss Blank
flushed painfully, half rose from her chair,
tried to speak, and then to the New York
girls utter establishment she burst into
tears and ran out of the ROOM The New
York girl found out later that Miss Blank
had once been betrothed to a western gen.
tleman who had eloped with one of her
friends almost on the eve of her wedding
day The New York girl was SO angry at
the hostess for putting her in the way
of making such a false step that she took
the next train home, and her place in the
bridal procession was empty.
Harper's Bazaar notes that prosperous
and busy householders who have no pri-
vate secretaries, now employ women, who
come for so many hours on so many days
of the week or month, add up the sixty or
more bills presented, see that they are
correct, and then draw the checks for
| them. The head of the house. of course,
signs the checks himself, these women
having no power of attorney But they
come again on another day, see that the
bills are properly racelpted and correctly
entered on the books, and then they file
| them away for reference each householder
| having some system of his own. The saw
| ing of time to the householder is enormous,
and as these women are skilled account
ants their services are we'll worth the 81 an
| hour paid for the work. More than that,
theirs is a work open to gentlewomen who
| find it difficult to find suitable employment
in other directions.
The method of washing the face daily
| says the Philadelphia Times, is of great
| Importance as even if one only washes it
twice a day the operation has to be gone
| through 100 times in the course of a year,
and this would naturally affect il for good
or evil. Highly scented or highly colored
soaps should be avoided, and one which
gives a soft lather and does not cause any
feeling of irritation is the best. The soap
! I
clean piece of flannel, and then bathed off
| in a basinful of absolutely clean water,
so that every particle of soap may be re-
moved. After thoroughly bathing the face
| should be dried with Turkish towel and
| then, If the skin be coarse and thick, it
may be rubbed with a rough towel, but if
the skin is at all sensitive a very soft towel
should be used, and the face finally well
rubbed over with a piece of chamois
| leather. Gentle friction of the face with
soft leather, or better still, with the fin
ger tips, when clean, tends to remove lines
and to prevent the forma ton of wrinkles.
If lines have formed the skin should be
rubbed in a direction contrary to their
| length as for example, if there are YER
teal lines between the two eyebrows, they
| should be rubbed from side to side; if
| there are straight lines across the fore
head they should be rubbed down from
the hair to the root of the nose and back
again.
| No doubt the human race would consider
| ii little short of a universal tragedy, says
Answers, If there were no looking glasses.
| Yet in spite of their widespread use it is
an astonishing fact that we have never
seen ourselves as others see US. In the
| first place. the reflection in the mirror
does not portray our likeness with any at
tempt at accuracy. The hair is wrong in
| tone, the eyes are not correct In color, and
our compilations are hopelessly libelled
| by this specious household deceiVer 1t is
| certain that if the looking glasses spoke
the truth the sale of various complexion
| washes would decrease TO half, for any
fair skin looks gray and paid in the glass,
| and numbers of women who have splen-
did compilations ruin them by trying to
improve them because they look bad in
the mirror You may be certain that,
however plain your face seems, it is by
no means so plain as it appears in the
telhale mirror. Secondly, you
cannot assume your natural ex-
preston while peering in the
| looking glass. The eye must be in a GER
tain position before you can see at all, and
| the eve so far as expression is concerned
| governs the face. The consequence is that
YOU can see only one of your expressions
| in the glass, and that expression is one of
attentive examination All the other ex-
pressions by which your friends know you.
favorable or unfavorable. you have never
seen and never win see.
Mrs. L. u. Letter has set all Washington
| by the ears. says the New York Press, and
| she is right. There is nothing elegant
about dancing in public restaurant. The
New York swells and struts do it because
only thirty-hve of them have ball rooms
large enough to accommodate full grown
| cotillon. Mrs. Letter declines to join in
cause she lis quite able to entertain In her
| own house" Brave womanl 1t is well
| known that Mrs. George Curzon, nee Miss
Letter. had the prettiest foot in Chicago,
and her fond mamma dotted on It. Voyag-
| ing to Europe on the Lucania, the dear