Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-08-05
.W0MANS INTERESTS.
AND SOCIAL, LIFE.
Continued from Page 9.

port News. will spend next week with
her cousin, Mrs. o. H. Hitchings, on
Tunstall avenue.
Mrs lie Faucheur, OF Boush street,
with her daughter Myrtle, and little
son Lucien. are sojourning in the
mountains OF Albemarle county for the
summer.
Miss Lillian Wildman. of Danville,
Va. is visiting Miss Rose Summer
field, at her home in Client.
Mrs. o. B. Law left yesterday for
Wythe county. Va, where. she Will
spend the month of August.
Judge James e. Heath and Mrs.
Heath left home yesterday morning to
spend two weeks at Buffalo Lithia
Springs,
THE ART OF TALKING.
Mrs. Burton Singsland writes on the
Art OF Talking as follows:
1T is better to be frankly dull than
pedantic.
"One must guard ones self from the
riding ones thooby.'
"Whatever sets one apart as capt.
tai r. should be avoided.
True wit Is a gift, not an attain
yield to the temptation of saying any
thing that can wound another in or
der to exhibit their own cleverness.
1t Is natural and spontaneous. He
who runs after wit is apt to catch nom
sense
IA joke or humorous story is de-
pendent upon Its freshness for appre-
citation. Some emotions will not bear
warming OVER
"Gt Is no longer considered good form
to sag word against any one. An
ill-natured criticism is social blum
der. Gossip, too. Is really going out
of fashion.
Talk that has heartiness in it and
the live,iness and sparkle that come of
light-heartedpess and innocent gayety
Is fairly good substitute for wit.
Offer to each one who speaks the
homage of your undivided attention.
Look people in the face when you talk
70 them.
Talk of things not persons. The
best substitute for wisdom is silence.
1T Is n proNlncialism to say yes,
sh'. no. ina am. 10 onc's equal.
Have convictions of your own. BE
yourself and not 4 mere echo.
Never ask Leading questions. We
Should show curiosity about the con-
Germs of others crly so far as 1t may
gtmisy them 10 toll us.
DRAW out YOUR re;Ehbor without
catechlz;ng linn. Correct him, If ne
CeSsnry, without contradicting him.
Avoid manIerismS.
"Strivc TO be natural and at ease.
The nervousness that cunceals Itself
under affected v'vdcity should be con-
trolled. IS should tic loud laugh.
Tradition says that no woman who
ever lived had such n beautiful COM
plexion as Helen of Troy. and now we
are informed she attained this distinc-
ton by using a very simple salve or
lotion on her skin.
The ingredients of this salve are an
egg, n cltron and some settler water
How the beauteous Helen contrived to
obtain settler water we are not told
hut the discoverer of the recipe assures
lis that water very similar to 1T was
well known in ancient times.
The citron. after being cut in two
Iengthwise. is freed from its pulp and
the two halves are put together so as
TO form n small cup, into which the
yolk Of the egg is poured after being
carefully separated from the white.
The mixture is allowed to stand for
an hour and is then put on the face,
where it should remain for half an
hour, after which time 1t may he re-
moved by spraying the skin with the
contents of n siphon of settler water.
BY repeating this operation daily
wrinkles will soon be- removed and the
complexion will become fair and bril-
liant. IS
SOLOMON'S TEMPLE.