El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-12
For the Better Half


Friendship is the supreme luxury of
life
Friendship is, at most. but half made
the other half is BORN
w. c. Garrett.
The fin de steele girl is gone and
none of us will ever see her again this
side of Heaven or wherever she may
go when she dies. but the summer girl
will return to us.
Shocking. never quite out of fashion
among gentlewomen. is again some
thing of fad and shocked yokes Co.
blouses and fronts are being fashioned
out of many of the soft silks. crepes,
gauzes, and thin hannels.
The new shirt waist fashions begin
TO show themselves in January each
year. although the real shirt waist sea-
son does not come until the warm
weather. The first news concerning
the twentieth century shirt waist is
that it will have no yokes.
The Commercial Appeal editor tries
his hand at answering Max O'Rell's re-
cent query for definition of perfect
lady: A perfect lady is a woman who
may be perfectly beautiful or perfect
ly ugly. but is apparently perfectly
unconscious of it.
Mrs. McKinley's newest gown is of
t-r favorite color. a delicate blue. and
: If embossed satin and panne velvet
with pearl and turquoise trimmings
and point lace. Mrs. Mckinley has
some handsome diamonds and laces
among her vanities with which to add
the final note of beauty to her cos
tunes.
In 1910 Harriet Martineau visited
the United States and reported seven
occupations only. open to women.
teaching. needle work. keeping board
ers. working in cotton factories. type
setting. book binding, and household
service. Today every business and pro-
fession and art and many of the fields
of labor are open to women on equal
terms with the men.
A part of the report of the benefits
of the Paris Exposition is the tale of
a red headed American girl who re-
ceived III proposals from men of
fourteen nationalities while she was at
her work in one of the American eX-
hibitS at the exposition. She was a
typewriter and as soon as she discov-
cred that she was really being pro-
posed to every day, she notched the
space bar of her typewriter every time
a man succumbed to her charms. She |
says that the nationalities were. big |
Russians. little Italians. heavy Ger |
mans. nervous Frenchmen. excitable |
Poles, insistent Spaniards, dark Portu-
gese.. stolid Dutch, yellow headed |
Swedes. grim Norwegians. earnest |
Japanese, tall Arabs, a heathenish |
Other American girls who went over |
to work in the exposition. report I'M
numbered conquests.
Singing the ends of the hair has
become the almost invariable con-
clusion of a shampoo. Various argu- |
ments are set forth for the process; |
that it rids the hair of the dead. brittle |
and broken ends as one would rid \ |
plant of dead leaves and stalks, and |
that it seals up the ends of the hair |
and keeps it from bleeding" as it |
would do if il were only cut. are the |
two pet theories of hair singers. |
French hair dressers divide the hair |
into locks, twist each lock tightly. AMI |!
run the flame of a taper up and down |
the twisted strand from the scalp to |
the end, burning off every projecting |
hair end giving the hair practically IN
all over smuggling. Amateur shampoo
ers who do their own hair cannot east
1y accomplish the smuggling of the whole
length, and content themselves with |
the ends with the flame of
match.
N the early days when the world |
was yet young and the herds and pas
lures were the only riches and inter-
ests of the men who were the fathers
of our race, when language was begun
and words were newly coined for the
needs of man, the girl child of the
house was called 1.-The little milkmaid"
and from that title comes our word
daughter In the lives of words one
may read many quaint, tragic, senti-
romantic stories; the history
of the passions and ambitions of men
and women. the story of the child
growing to manhood, of the world
dreaming it's dreams and making its
mistakes and accomplishing its great
purposes.
Caolos Duran, the artist, whose por-
traits of women are so fine, soft, and
sympathetic, says that he believes that
human beings are getting handsomer.
He deplores that so many humans are
lomely and cross and too fat or too
can, and that a crowd, mass of jost-
ing human beings, impresseS one as
Ugly and unpleasant; but he argues
hat many of the in 1ividuals prove
pleasant looking and some few are
beautiful. The increasing study of
he laws of health, digestion ventila-
prove the human race. Women eXer-
cultivate a |