The age-herald., 1900-08-24
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

1 = 1 Astrologer Raphael's prophecies for this day, Friday, August 24. 1900:
 Ask favors in the afternoon or even
 ing"
 See that thou dost not quarrel; in thy ] business thou wilt have a quiet year, but l run no risks
 "A child born on this day will be quick l in temper, headstrong, steady, but not very fortunate"
 Astrologer Raphaefs prophecies for Sat urday, August 25, 1900:
 Avoid travelling and women, and keep l quiet"
 Thou art threatened with losses, changes, quarrelng, and an unucky year generally; see that thou dost not speculate, | and keep thy money safe" "A child born on this day will be un- 1 lucky from the cradle to the grave; it should keep in employ. If a female, she 1 will marry badly"
 "I fail to see any just reason or any sort
 of excuse for the persistent circulation of scandalous stories regarding the Christian | Scientists" said friend of that school of thought yesterday, in referring to the earn
 
 ''Bigotry is at the bottom of it all, heather and savage intolerance. There was disas- trous war amongst the Liliputians on &C., count of a dispute as to whether a soft boiled egg should be broken at the little end or the big. The Little-Endian- Big End ian war was somewhat like the disputes in the more modern men-made churches based on self-opinionism. The latest islander about the Christian Scientists is that the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of their church, is incurably i'll at her home in Concord, N. H., and that she has in eff feet denied the doctrines of Christian Science and is under the treatment of a l doctor of medicine Mrs. Eddy herself writes, I am we'll despite the many at- l tempts of those opposed to the principles | of Christian Science to prove otherwise. 1 am free from disease and there is but one | physician guarding my welfare. He Is the | Great Physician. There was a time in my l life when bodily ailments laid me low, but 1 I have learned that mind reconstructs the | body as nothing else can do. When God 1 heals the sick or sinful they know the | great benefit mind has wrought. Mfrs. Eddy is now more than 70 years old, | 34 years of which she has taught her prin- l cples, and the membership of the church which she founded numbers 300,000, scat 1 tered throughout the world She is wo- | man in perfect health, physically and men, l tally"
 The net-waist woman is in Birmingham. I She comes a little late in the hot season; l but she is come. If she had known how | exquisitely lovely she would look, she l might have come earlier and in order to l have been with us longer. Several of her l were seen down town yesterday. No col ors were seen in the net-waists; l only pure white ones and black l ones were observable. As to which 1 were the prettier, that is matter of indi- 1 vidual taste. One young woman, a blonde 1 with somewhat oval face and beautiful carriage, was wonderfully attractive in ap- l pearance, in general bearing. Her full | rounded arms and full shoulders and chest l were rosy pink seen through the thin l netting that alone covered them That l which appeared to be lace-like covering for 1 her stays was of the cut of fashionable 1 ball dress, and worked into the upper edge | of the covering was a narrow ribbon of l light blue. If there shoulder sus- l penders they were invisible. Only maidenly | loveliness was visible. The general effect
 was bewideringy fascinating, suggesting l a very thin bridesvail over a bouquet of | the most exquisite of all imaginable pink l roses.
 Another young woman, with black hair | and delicately tanned face, and with arms, | shoulders and chest of purest alabaster, l was similarly dressed in black net-waist 1 without spot or dash of coloring. She | had an arm that men would go miles to
 see and shoulder-blade they'd rave about. ! These net-walst women were irresistibly
 attractive being fresh looking and pure
 as violets of the morning dashed with dew.
 They were singularly modest and gentle
 as they threaded their ways in the streets,
 and were evidently wholly unaware that
 they set men to respectful raving. |
 As for the shirt-waist man, he is mighty l few and mighty unattractive; and likely to
 be fewer still. Many good and thoroughly | respectable men are almost obliged to go | about their duties in the terrible heat | without coats, in their shirtsleeves. They | are all right: they are practical men of
 work not given to fads of any sort of 1 fashion. But the ''shirt-waist'' so-called | mrst inevitably be hideous The least
 ugly of men is not an attractive animal
 physically, to say nothing of his clothes
 or his manners. The latter-day clothes of
 men are ugly in the extreme. Trousers,
 as examples, are simply hideous. Fancy
 god in popular 'pants'l Oh, thunders of | Olympus-strike!
 If man wear shirt-waists he should also
 wear pads, as some few women do; then
 what will he look like? What will he look | like without pads? And when his pads get
 out of proper position as some women's