The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-08-18

STORY LECTURES.
Editor the News: am glad 10 see that
you are bringing out the experiences OF
mothers In trying To train their children
without crushing out the little ones spir-
it's. and souring their dispositions I
know with my own children l have found
that one of the hardest things is To hold
the attention OF the tot through a long
scold.' / started I'm To explain always
the reason why I wanted the child 10 do
this or that. but sometimes before I got
through he would be thinking OF some
thing else. Once when / thought / had
got him he waited till l had stopped
speaking, and remarked: Mamma, when
you talk, you don't moye your upper
jaw"
So now always put my lectures I'm the
form OF story. / find II usually holds
the attention. and the moral sticks I'm the
memory. 1t makes such vivid image.
S. r.
Providence. August II.
COUNTRY GIRL IN THE CITY.
jeanette l.. Glider. writing in Success
on the subject should Country Girl Go
to the City?" has this TO say:
i cannot give any castiron rules 20 gov
ern this question. IT depends altogether
upon the girl and upon the Career she
TO the city or not. BY "city," these girls
almost invariably mean the American
metropolis, New York. When country
girls write 10 me. however (and "a great
many do), asking IL l would advise them
To come To the city, i almost invariably
say, No. don't come" / think that very
frequently country girls, attracted by the
outside glitter and show OF city life. and
impressed with the idea that their talents
will there be given full scope. leave their
homes and the work which they can best
do, only TO be submerged and perhaps ut
terly lost sight of i'm the wilderness of a
large city. Opportunities are, OF course,
greater in the city than in the country.
but the competition Is also greater. and
believe that an ambitious girl has as
good a field In a small city as I'm a large
one. Girls often write to me, saying they
want TO come to New York to engage in
Journalism, for instance. / advise them,
instead of coming to an already over
crowded centre, to take what IL at hand
and make something out OF IL; TO try
their skill on the paper I'm their own
town. Why shouldn't a girl win success
on "a paper In Chicago. Cleveland, New
Orleans or Boston as well as I'm New
York?
Much stress has been laid on the tempt
ations which beset the unsophisticated
country girl who goes to a large city TO
and temptations that surround her can
not be exaggerated yet l believe the self
respecting girl, the one who means busi-
ness, who goes with an earnest purpose
in view, is just as safe I'm the city as in
the country-sometimes safer.
A NEW COMPLEXION TONIC.
Every now and then some new tonic To-
tion or form of exercise appeals TO wom-
a.,tt 81 gIr. ly..c
her exercise by punching the bag believes
she has discovered an Incompatible tonic
for her complexion. To secure the best
results the punching bag should be used
Just after the morning bath, when the
loose dressing gown worn gives free play
TO the muscles. Ten or fifteen minutes OF
this vigorous exercise will send the blood
coursing through every part OF the body.
The bag should be placed by an ex-
pert and should hang about on a level
with the users eyes. The striking motion
must be upward. and the left hand should
be used as much as possible. The imme-
diate effect of this splendid exercise Is to
develop the muscles OF the chest and
arms. The advantage of using the left
hand even more than the right will be
evident at once when 1t is remembered
that dressmakers habitually complain OF
the difficulty I'm fitting their clients, the
majority OF whom have the right shoul-
der higher than the left. This state OF
affairs, of course. comes from the habit
OF using the right hand almost exclusive
ly.
MANUFACTURING WAX DOLLS.
An interesting account OF the manu-
facture of dolls in Thuringia is given by
an American resident in Coburg. He
writes:
The first doll was manufactured at
Thuringia forty or fifty years ago. Simple
az a doll may appear, the work OF max
ing Il IL complicated The cheapest wax
doll, made OF the commonest materials.
requires many hands to get II ready for
the market.
Certain workmen make the arms aD1
legs, either by cutting them out OF wood
or by moulding them OF papier mache (;
others arrange tho limbs I'm fiat, wooden
boxes, which are put near the stove or In
the sun TO dry. others dip the arms <nd
legs into q basin containing red dye. to
slve industry. Manufacturers employ
sew cover and stun the doll; others paint
the eyebrows, lips and hair: If this last
be not merely indicated by paint. mohair
IL glued on. The manufacture OF the
glass eyes, as well as the fixing OF the
same I'm the head. Is done by different
,oopto. and all tho Darfo ira nut toQothpr