The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-01

| the New York Times, was like snow-white
| spun silk, her skin was fine and deli
| cate and dehcatcfy tinted as a baby's,
| and il was all set off in a dainty way by
| the pretty. soft lace around her throat
! and her deep chincilla furs She had just
\ had a troublesome wound lanced on a fin
\ ger with no cutlery, and the surgeon had
| admired greatly the fortitude of a woman
! so delicately nodded and finely made.
| Yes" continued the woman, Il am sure
it is so. You viii find 1t is more often
| the ignorant people, the people of coarser
! natures, who lose self-control A thor
J oughbred woman shows her quality as a
! thoroughbred horse does. A fine horse
/ must be handled carefully, its nerves are
always on the alert. &C as easily excited.
and responsive to every touch, but in time
! of need you can rely upon it 10 do good
| service and use its nerve TO the best pur-
| pose if it dies in the effort, while au old
dun farmers horse, which nothing can
! impress in an emergency seem to weak
| en-, lose ats head, and become dangerous
| and unmanageabe. If l had children, the
! one thing l would attempt to develop In
| them would be fine nerve. 1t means a
great deal; it is that which makes the
| perfect woman mistress of herself though
| china fan "
There are few things says the Phila-
delpha Times. more unbecoming than
cracked lips, and during the cold weather
they are very general Some lips. are very
| difficult to treat and, as is usual with
| cosmetics, very few have the same, results
on two skins. AS the white. broken-up
! look on the lips produced by the east
| wind would spoil the best looking wo-
! mans appearance, 81 is as well TO take
! time by the forefock and always keep some
remedy al hand for use on the first windy
| day that makes itself felt.
III is quite as necessary to consult a
| specialist about our lips as about our com
pleXions in general They not only crack
| but they are apt to collect great deal
| of the dirt in the air; the best plan is,
| therefore, to put some grease on them be
| fore washing in very hot water. They
must then be dried very carefully, and
| finally have a little more grease rubbed
in. These small precautions win prevent
them getting very bad, although they will
probably be a long way from possessing
| the red rose appearance which is the de
sire of almost every woman.
But to turn to another Important and
often neglected feature of our faees-i. e.
the eyebrows. Very few people have the
straight, dark penciled brows so much adj
mired, though many have a good growth,
which they too often allow to grow in the
wrong direction. 1t is good plan always
when brushing the hair to brush and comb
| the eyebrows; with the aid of little
grease they will improve considerably. In
such like small matters we cannot be too
careful as they make or mar our whole
| appearance.
Another detail to which l should like to
| draw attention as the creases and lines
! which form around the nose, and when
| ultimately result in blackheads The COM
pfeXion treatment deals with these, but in
the ordinary every day washing it is as
rra1l 10 e~fxr
tion to this part Of the face.
Creases in the skin depend a good deal
upon the plumpness or thinness of the
| face.
Some one has made the discovery that
music of certain kinds does in reality
! prevent the hair from falling, while that
| produced by certain instruments has the
| most disastrous effects in causing rapid
| development of badness. He finds that
! while composers are as prone as others
to lose their hair at an early age, those
| who play their compositions upon the
| piano preserve, if they do not acquire,
luxuriant growth of hair.
On the other hand, wind Instruments
and especially the cornet and trombone
| are fatal to hirsute adornment The vio-
loncello and the harp keep the hair in
pretty well, but the flute cannot be de-
pended upon to preserve a strong growth
after the fiftieth year of age.
1t has been admitted for some time that
music has a certain therapeutic worth
and il will be recalled that in September
| last DR.. Ferrand presented a report TO the
| French Academy on the physiological in
| fiUence Of music, pointing out in what
ways it could be employed with therapeut-
ic aims. Subsequently DR.. Betzchinsky
| reported an instance of night terrors in a
| child of years, who was cuxed by having
played to il each night music of a calm
ing nature written in a minor key test
was made after a few nights by emitting
the music, and that night the child had an
| attack.
1t has not as yet been determined lust
what key is most favorable to the preven-
| ton of an early bald state. Wind instru-
ments are always dangerous if the hair
| has not a good hold, while stiff-haired peo-
pie can stand anything. Possibly a good
rule for any musician would be, as soon
as he finds his hair falling, to cease play
ing for others.-Medical Record
A valet in the place of maid is said
to be the latest instance of man usurp-
ing womans sphere. The usurpations re-
! ported are not yet numerous-only two, in
fact But they are spoken of with such
| enthusiastically the mstresses, not the
supplanted mads-that other cases are ex-
tremely probable. one of these mis-
tresses is said to be a New York bachelor
woman, who recently returned from Eu-
| rope, leading, as IL were, in triumph a
young French peasant about 20 years. He
| announced that he was her valet and that
| he was worth two or three maids The
| other woman, in an emergency, borrowed
a japanese valet from . friend of her
| husbands, and found her new acqufsiti-..
| so great a comfort that she begged the
| accommodating friend TO extend the loan
| Indefinitely. With wonderful unselfshness