The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-13

az much effect on her audience as the
theme OF her essay. 30 many girls spend
weeks planning pretty dresses snd pTac-
tlcing songs. orztions and recitations,
only TO spoil ali by stumbling onto the
stage or coming down front with Ehaky
knees and Eti1 arms.
The principal OF = fashionable board
ing school In the West End has engages
an e1-actress with a long experience IN
walking parts 10 train her girls In the art
of graceful entrance and e1it This young
woman has a professional eye 20 the
front and she drills that class OF gig
Cling. blushing Fchool girls for haf an
hour every day to cross the stage with
the proper foot forward 20 produce
three-quarter visw on the audience. Sns
also Insists that for stage wear, skirts
should be very long and perfectly even
al! around, and that chlns should be held
I'd and arms carried in manner that is
not suggestive Of a patent sutomaton-
This would be good practice for some club
women the writer has seen. who lose half
their prestige as Presidents by the set OF
;helr skirts and their awkward stage
presence.
Lemons ard Enihusiasm.
Of course II will be the duty OF every
girl who has theme 10 deliver or song
10 be sung 20 develop sore throat or
symptoms % tonsiIitie and nothing Is so
tenacious and hsrassing as spring cold
Whole quarts Of lemon juice will be i'm
b.bed: but a girls mouth doesn't look
pretty after II has been pursed up In a
lemon all afternoon, and the practice Is
apt 20 develop sour stomach and fall
Ure 10 appear at the last moment. A
cold compress or an oid-fashioned mutton
taiiOw cloth just before going 10 bed, to-
eejher with hot bath and hot lemon
sde are as effective cures as can be
found
\ lemon. as the worldly girl will tell
you. is. Of all the accessories to the toi-
let table. the most important, a sip OF
II just before going on" will clear the
throat wonderfully. Every day the hands
should be rubbed in the soothing yellow
juice. II you wish TO keep them their soft
est and whitest. Dark creases around
the throat, made by torturing collars, can
be- removed quickly and enectually by
lemon application. Teeth, black from tea
drinking OF claret, need only be rubbed
OF once or twice with lemon juice in or
der 20 become veritable tooth-wash ad-
yertlsements in their whiteness and brill
isncy, and hnger-nails, sunburnt noses.
and spotted white gowns can be made
charmingly snowy and virgin by this ef-
acaciOus little fruit
Enthusiastic? OF course. the girl grad
uate is enthusiastic. But there are worse
things than being enthusiastic. Enthusi-
asm is "A good thing when ii calls up
color into your cheeks and a glowing light
into your eyes. Enthusiasm Is good
thing when il spurs you on 10 becoming
an ideal woman and to achieving great
things Enthusiasm Is a mighty thing
when II enables you TO weep over novel,
laugh over play, stand by friend, or
wage war with an enemy. In short. en-
thusiasm is becoming when 1t forces you
to be your real self: for the artificial girl
is going 20 that bourne from whence old
fashions never return. and the real girl,
the true Womanly woman. Is coming in
as fast as the tide of public favor can
carry her.
Here's 70 the sweet girl graduate,
All dimpes and smiles and CuT.s;
With her P, es ag5W and her heart elate
She is queen Of the garden Oi girls.
To her in her simple white null gown,
With her young life all in tune,
We drink from the flowers of springs own hours
IN the dew o. the roses Of June ,,
IRENE ROWLAND.