The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-07-15
THE ARTS OF BEAUTY;
Studies in Craces, Health and Good Looks
COPYRIGHTED. BY n. H wooDwARrs& COMPANY.

nineteen was beginning TO lose its peachy
pioom and round outline, while the dark
ilno under her eyes ought To have startled
nor devoted mother into taking her out at
once graduation or no graduation. Man
ners wcrb not ON the list at tho normal,
and her conversation WAS bread and butteTy
enough for tho nursery.
How do You like your teacher?' was
tho stock question OF a friend.
"Ob, i Ike her so-ome," was the I'M
graceful reply. II amt so fond OF hor's
i am OF mother one. she ain { ha'f SO
Interesting, somehow.
A French mother would be mortified at
an answer so poorly expressed. which,
simple as its idea was, her daughter
would know how to turn with grace and
humor No wonder conversation Is ono
OF the rarest arts, II this specimen Is all
that a four years course can do for our
coming teachers.
1t is more important TO train girls to
use "a tooth brush i've times day, at
night and morning. after each moal, 10
give them crusty bread, that thoy may
learn 10 eat slowly and thoroughly. To
enforce charcoal and safe dentifriccs. than
To classify and dissect plants or insects
for the microscope. The little indiges-
tions from eating fast or from reading
while they cat should be corrected by
doses of liquid maRnesia for acidity, or
the citrate of magnesia for bilious and
papers from the tablo ut meals, unless 10
read out an item or two of interest 10
give zest 10 tno general chat. Teach
young folk % be entertaining at the table
and welcome joke and fun there and
everywhere out of church. ChoCk moth
ing but i!-naturo. aud iet this relieve
Itself by "A smart .snappisA nt. rather than
suppressed pecsishness for day. There
are sound medical reasons for allowing
the nervous charge % pass of and n
healthy reaction 10 takes It's place lt
ought 10 bo great cause OF gratitude to
know that most OF the ill-humor In the
world is physical, and that IL passes of
with zest, IL over-tired, or by reaction
from sudden shock or stirring up when
tho nerves suffer from confinement This
Is why children aro so angeiically better
after an outbreak and smart slippcTing,
and WHY, after hysterio crying spells,
girls will get up fresh as June roses after
showers. Change of interest and place
might prevent tho crying In both cases.
Wo are meant 20 be happy, satisfied and
at case, and nature rises up for her rights
when the strain goes beyond safety.
Keep girl from fretting, by all means,
right and fair 80 others; but since life Is
strewn with daily discipline it is well for
her health and good condition 20 keep
her under direction, TO which she lis
bound TO submit. IL is mercy To our
excitabe girls to give their oapricious
wills the support Of kindly and certain
control. It quiets the nerves and helps
thom against then selves. The beauty
schools" which sent out some OF the III ost
finely bred women of the last generation,
were Moravian schools. with their early
hours, uneventful, placid routine, their
gentle. Inevitable rule. their unobtrusive
reality of religion and thorough ground
ing in the best parts of a woman's eduoa-
tion. t;