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The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-27

all of which she passed a fair examina-
ton. He said Then you have been in
dulging in holiday overeating. Whenever
you eat a heavy rich dinner. and let il
be seldom as possible. omit the next
meal and substitute a quart OF water.
You can't take cold unless you get into
condition for it,"
This she did and the cold failed 20 ma
ture and although she has frequently left
undone those things which she ought to
have done, and vice versa, and paid pen
atty proportlonate to her carelessness, she
has never since suffered from really vio-
lent cold.
OF course, any system of living which
builds up well-nourshed body is mimi
cal to colds as we'll as other forms of
disease. Cold water taken in this manner
simply washes the stomach, carrying eff
the injurious acids which penetrate there
and which allowed to circulate through
the blood impoverish il, thereby weaken
ing the vitality Of the person. After
washing the blood clean, as ii were, the
next thing is to induce circulation. This
is done by means of the vigorous curry
ing, which, beside bringing the blood to
the surface to resist external chill, also
opens the pores allowing impurities to es-
dape. Then the daily bath finishes the
work.
The woman who has banished colds by
means of water drinking and currying
claims 10 require much less clothing than
| formerly In terror of her health, she
| built breastworks of flannel and for which
! proved utterly useless when the assault
| came. Since she has gone in for the
| homemade product in heat, she finds that
! she is now much warmer with less cloth
| ing
Those who intend to put this simple cold
cure I'm practice and it is a remedy for
many another evil, should remember that
water taken with meals does not count at
all, or if it does it is rather to be added
| to the side of the enemy. 1t must be
taken before breakfast. and again just be-
fore retiring. and a whole quart must be
slipped within say three quarters of an
hour. II cold water chills one the tenn
perature may be raised a little until this
difficulty is overcome. Some good cheap
distu ed water is best where there is any
question of the purity of the water sup
ply.
There is one other essential point TO be
remembered by those who would escape
colds as well as drugs By the free cir
culation of the blood much impurity is
thrown off through the pores. 1t is there
fore important, when the presence of a
cod indicates some impurity in the blood,
that in addition to the daily bath, the
clothes worn next the skin should be
changed frequently to prevent reabsorp-
ton to the skin. OF course, clothing
worn during the day should never be worn
at night.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-27

school gowns should be shaped thus, and
there is q very decided tendency iowa d
cutting sleeves off al the elbow. This
Is a reversion to the fashion Of the chill
dren's grandmammas. who wore low-neck-
ed and short-sleeved suits summer and
winter. and were pronounced immune
from colds and chills in consequence
The dress Of the little girl in the single
sketch. who holds her accordidn-peated
Empire skirt in both hands. is a most m
expensive and pretty frock of corn-colored
crepe Nubienne. AN imitation cream Irish
point is inserted in sharp zigzags ard
points about the hem Of the very fun
jupe which is attached under the arms
and across the bust to a very short jesse
phine waist. The waist is well-nigh hid
den by a very wide collar Of the imita-
ton point Under this collar Is laid a
lining OF yellow chiffon. which IL, all about
the edges. made fast 10 the lace by a
braid of gilt. Lace Of the same weave
and with the same lining as the co IT
form the tops and cuffs Of the sleeves
while fun Bishop pufls OF chiffon fan out
from the elbows TO the wrists. Such Is
the Empire OF Josephine gown as worn
by Z. 10 or 2-year-oid 10 the dinner or
bunch table when there are guests. and
20 juvenile entertainments that are not
dancips parties. Deeply incenAed woulI
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-27
TOILETS FOR LITTLE WOMEN.
A STROLL THROUGH THE MISSES
Department or THE SHOPS.

All FaShionably Dressed Children
Wear White Stockings To-day,
and Advocates of This Revival OF
an Old style Say II Is Quainter and
Cleaner Than CoIOred uoxiery--A
string OF Dull Gold or Coral Beads,
From Which Tiny Loclxet Hangs,
Is the Only Ornament Permitted
the Well Dressed Child.
New York. Jan. 25.-A spring opening
of frocks for five and seven year olds
would be an attractive bazaar. It seems
pity seine enterpris.ng dry goods house
does not order one for the benefit of
proud and ambitious mammas. who will
stint their own wardrobes in order to
sarnish the plump persons of their youth
full daughters. This conviction is strong
upon one who enters the department of
any one of the big emporiums where
ready made gowns for girls Of alt ages
are shown. The winter fashions and fab
RIGS have almost disappeared. and II is
like walking into springtin1e to stroll
among che lay figures decked with pictur-
esque little toilets of light twilled fan
mel, Abbess cloth. yelling. crisp Swiss
and crepe Nubienne. Constructed on larg-
err lines any one OF these charming gowns
would be suitable for the most fastidous
debutante. for the child of the day does
noe dress a moment behind the fashions
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-27

demonstrations of lace, panne. boleros,
paste buckles and buttons, taffeta drop
skirts. lingerie tuckngs of silk muslin,
tinsel chenille and lawn undersleeves all
play an important part in the construc-
tion of the little maids costume, and the
fashionable dressmakers for children do
not blush to ask thrty-five do lars for a
saffeta waist for a girl of ten or one
hundred and twenty-five for a knee-long
frock for child of thirteen. These, how
ever, are exceptions to rules that obtain
in the shops where pretty ready made
suits are for sale. Suits, too, boasting all
the latest and most important features
in childrens fashions.
Open ThrOated Waists.
Five little women are sketched this week
IN the most recent finery their fashions
have to show. Though every one of the
gowns shows an open throat they do not
all pretend to be dancing costumes. In
fact. only one and that one with the short
sleeves and the lace mittens. is arrayed
for party. while the necks of the others
go to prove that the mode now is IN
favor of showing as much as is admissible
for health's sake of pretty round baby
Threats Untll girl is Is her play ana
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-27
FIGURE BUILDERS.
THEY ARE THE ADVANCED CORSET
MAKERS OF TO-DAY.

Mothers Now Appeal to Their Figure
Builders to Correct. Mould and
Develop the PLANT Young Bodies
of Their Daughters-BOn-Bon Eat
ing Boarding School Misses Are
Thus Saved From the Evils of
Early Lacing, Dropping Shoulders.
Contracted Chests and other Evils.
POmpadour and Pauline BOnaparte
Types Are Excessively Fashion
able.
New York. Jan. 2-Nowadays the ad-
vanced corset-maker calls herself fig
ure artist, or she drops the word figure
entirely and is an artistic alone with an
exqulsitely corseted sylph on her cards
and signs, in order to suggest the vaiu-
able nature of the art she pursues. Lit
orally she is a figure builder. taking uD
her good work where nature sometimes
leaves lines and proportions cruelty in
complete. In the process of constructing
supple shapeliness from adipose chaos she
often uses no less than half dozen
different kinds of stays, graduating her
shapeless body conforms to the new stand
ard of beauty. and what is very interest
ing, indeed, is to watch the effect of her
system and her stays on the girls just
emerging into womanhood. IAN appal-
ling proportion of the over-developed, hol-
low-chested dumpy. hipless or bowed
back figures 1 have to contend with,"
sighed the figure builder. ARE the direct
result of putting schoolgirls into improp-
er corsets and leaving them to do their
own lacing."
THE same mother who will get right
down on her hands and knees TO see that
her daughter l. fitted to the proper sort
of sleeve, will. when the girl clamors for
corsets. buy a pair that are as far from
fitting, supporting and tenderly moulding
the plant, sensitive young body as hob
nail shoes would fail in their duty by the
child's soft little foot However. do not
let us bark back to the semi-savage ways
we ignorantiy pursued in the darkness
of nineteenth century, but turn our faces
toward the happy and enlightened twen-
tieth era, in which it promises to be the
custom for all mothers, as soon as their
daughters reach the corset-wearing age,
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-27

lea the whole mass of the women follow
one style; padding bones or crushing desn
in determination to follow the fashion
Smart Types.
I'VE figure builders are here to point
out the error of this way and we are
turning out few exquisite specimens of
the Pompadour, the Pauline Bonaparte
and other types of feminine form divine.
with a special stay built to secure just the
lines that the style, build, hight and cir
conference of the individual woman eug-
gests; but what we have to fight against
and lamentably often yield to. is the wo-
man who demands a small waist. The
wasp waist is the, fashion, and the fashion
is what our women follow, so it is no
surprise to me to have a 190-pound ma
iron, with shoulders like a man and
bust measure of an unbelievable number
OF inches. trundle in and ask for 25-inch
waist. Naturally l try to talk her into
an appreciation of the lines of my Venus
over there, but 1t is rarely of any avail
What she wants is fair imitation of the
hour-g.ass shaped girds she sees on the
street and the result is we comply and
put on the pressure.
A Scientific Triumph.
Tho harmless compression of loose
flesh is one of the scientific triumphs
achieved by the figure builder. Nova
days we can put a woman in a wha.e-
bone vice and lace her down to half her
normal size and never harm her in the
least. Here is La Victolre, the stay that
does the business for the latest custom
ers we get. You see we lace 1t up not
only behind, but twice in front, from the
bottom nearly to the top. Looks awfuly
cruel perhaps, but because the pressure
is put In the right places the wearer
hardly feels it. Here is another stay WOW
en- of a material known as vesting silk
wi what We call h p curtain all around
tic and is supplied witt SIX stout elastic
straps that are anchored to the tops OF
the stockings so that all the hip flesh -
firmly controlled. Stout women rejoice II
"a stay of this sort and its chief virtue Is
that like the Victoire the closeness OF
it's fit seems to check the growth Of tesh
Though ! grieve to say IL an easy corset
invariably makes a stout woman gro"
stouter, and THAI is the reason we pu.
on our too slender patrons a stay tha'
does not open behind at all and closes III
front with laces instead of hooks. Weal
loose stays, eat an abundance OF butter
and breakfast I'm bed are the directloh'
we give the women whose ribs neeu
comfortable coat of flesh and who nav.
been obiVed to resort hther to injur1ou"
pads and taffeta fiounces fer the cohceaF
ment Of ugly Irregularities"
Fanny Endres
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-27
CARRIED TOO FAR.
The Fear of BEING Deceived or Hum
plugged Prevents Many People
Prom Trying a Good Medicine.

Stomach troubles are so common and in
most cases so obstinate to cure, that peo-
pie are apt to look with suspicion on any
remedy claiming to be a radical perma-
nent cure for dyspepsia and indigestion.
Many such peop.e pride themselves on
their acuteness in never being humbug-
ged, especially in medicines.
This fear of being humbugged can be
carried too far so far in fact, that many
people suffer for years with weak diges-
ton rather than risk little time and
money in faithfully testing the claims
made for remedy so reliable and
universally used as Stuart's Dyspepsia
Tablets.
Now Stuarts Dyspepsia Tablets are
vastly different In one important respect
from ordinary patent medicines for the
reason that they are not secret patent
medicine; no secret Is made Of the in-
gradients, but analysis shows them to con-
tain the natural digestive ferments. pure
aseptic pepein government tesO Golden
Seal aud diastase. They are not cathartic
neither do they act powerfully on any
particular organ, but they cure indiges-
tion on the common sense plan OF digest
Ing the food eaten, thoroughly before u
has time to ferment, sour and cause the
mischief. This is tho only secret of their
success.
Cathartc pills never have and never can
cure indigestion and stomach troubles, be.
cause they act only on the bowels, where
as the whole trouble is in the stomach.
Stuarts Dyspepsia Tablets taken after
meals, digest the food. That is all there
Is 10 Il. Food, not digested or half
digested is poison. as It creates gas. acid.
ity. headaches. palpitation OF the heart
loss OF flesh and appetite and many other
troubles, which are often called by some
other name
They are sold By druggists everywhere
in the United States, Great Britain ana
Canada,
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-27

to put the destinies OF their lovely young
figures into the hands of a scientific cor
set-maker
1he builders Scientific Processes.
Just now I have dozens Of school girls
on my books; some of them are pitiful
examples of maternal ignorance Their
poor young shoulder blades | must gently
push back into place, straighten out their
spines, lift up their chests and let their
suffering young ribs, hearts and stomachs
out of whale bone and coutllle prisons.
OF course, it is hand to hand struggle
with the girls themselves, for there Is
no creature so innocently and crudely
ambitious of a tiny waist than a bon
bon eating boarding school miss, but the
modern American girl has brains and
when ! talk to her ike a sister she be-
comes as elastic in my hands and con-
sents to follow my way. 1 assure her
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-27

the owner OF such an Empire gown fell
If a careless Individual referred to It as
Mother Hubbard or a Greenway.
The Dancing Group.
A very captivating little figure is the
child in the dancing group that wears the
green velveteen bo.ero. Her skirt is of
cheerful. verdant green Abbess cloth,
tucked I'm clusters from the waist half
way to the knees and then garnished
along the edges with a band Of embroid-
cry done in green and gold colored SILK on
white OF a darker green veiveteen the
bolero is made, and trimmed with need e.
work OF the same type as that used on
the skirt finders. eeves OF cream white
Chinese crepe flow from the close arm
castings of the ve.veteen jacket, and dark
green hose and patent leather pumps,
adorned with tassels OF tinsel, complete
the attractive costume.
The companion of this well dressed
child wears white Swiss dancing gown
finely tucked AMI encrusted with inser-
lions of imitation Mechi!n lace; about the
waist a gilded lace band serves as belt,
and cherry velvet ribbons are caught 10
the right shoulder and at the waist line
by paste buttons
Box Patters for Children.
In the second group a gown OF tucked
and embroidered blue yelling IS showed.
Such suit as this comes single and
special dress length, cut in prepared and
embroidered pieces and folded in box.
These boxed dress patterns are new things
for children, a novelty that has found a
place at once, and the dresses made usu-
ally OF fine French dress flannel, cash
mere or yelling are charminsly decorated
in needle worked designs of closely ming
led and various coors. The blue gown
under discussion is a pure sky tint and
its fretted edgings show delicate touches
of rose green and black cunningly COM
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-27

Jewelry for children must needs be dis
cussed, for the reason that the twentieth
century mamma does not hesitate to give
her little girl of six a watch and chain,
rings and stick-pins that her grown sis
ter should envy and wear. Recently II
has been noticed that the BARNS of the
very rich wear less and ,ess of this crue.-
~ Inappropriate decoration, and now the
jewel casket of the kindergarten grad
uate contains only single string of dull
gold or coral beads. from which hangs a
tiny gold heart locket. and this ornament
is only brought forth and worn when the
occasion seems to justify special spleu-
doris of dress. Mary Dean.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-27
WAYS OF MAKING A LIVING.
Speculation in Pawntickets-Cinde rs
From the Elevated Road.
From the New York Post.

From the New York Post.
Many men make their living by buying
up the cast-off wrapping-paper and paste
board boxes from the janitors or large
stores, and sorting and selling the paper
and boxes TO East Side dealers. Many
others buy the newspapers that accumu-
late in office-buildIngs and sell them for
wrapping-paper, and even turn it into
money at the paper-mils, though the
price paid is low.
A business peculiar to the East Side is
that of buying and sci log pawntickets.
The men IN tn line seldom redeem the
pledges. and realize on Their sale. They
buy the tickets at TO 10 per cent. of tn
amount named on the ticket, and sell
them at from 10 to % per cent. of the
amount loaned Only articles of consider
abe value are Inspected before the sale
or purchase of the ticket, for the pawn
broRers charge Or cents for any such in
spection. If the face value of the ticket
is small, the Spectator relies on the judg-
ment of the pawn-broker.
A profitable business is done in old met
ais. If q dwelling is torn down, the
Spectator receives ON the coat. actor
the right to all the old metal in the de-
bris, sometimes for a mere nominal sum
as in most cases the contractor is glad
to have It carried away. The debris is
carried away and sorted, and the copper
and lead are disposed Of at a handsome
profit.
A number OF men are engaged in a
door-to door canvass, buying small arti-
Giles of siverware. The poorest people,
In the most wretched parts OF the city,
usually have something In silver, a spoon.
a charm. or thimble It may be, and In
case of distress, If eviction for non-pay-
ment of rent is impending. or ready
money is needed for medicine or for
drink, the silver buyer makes a profitable
purchase.
There is also the man who peddies Gin
ders TO people too poor to afford coal. He
obtains his supply from the places where
the elevated road dumps its ashes, pick
ing out the half-burnt Goals and pedd,ing
them in a push-cart.
An old Italian who for nearly fifty
years has been peddling matches In res
taurants and barrooms. especially In the
Tenderloin, is reputed to have grown rich
ana is said TO own several houses. Other
types are fast dying out, such a the man
who used 10 pedde sawdust 20 saloon
keepers. but an lrshman who has sup
piled many offices and shops with feather
busters FOR the past thirty-four years Is
still at his trade. These busters are made
IN Nescy street. Such turkey-feathers AZ
cannot DO duty as ostrich-feathcrs are
bought in Canal street and resold 10 the
duster-makcrs In Ycsey street
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-27
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. JANUARY y. 1901

methods Of treatment. After laying down
the law on the subject Of diet and fresh
air. he said: You will also go TO some
big department store and purchase for
IS cents a horse brush with which you
will give your whole body a thorough
rubbing each morning before you battle.
AS soon as you rise you will I'LL quart
pitcher with drinking water. and sip II
slowly while dressing. At night do the
same thing over again, emitting, OF course.
the bath.
The cold water was easily managed and
soon became indispensable. but at hrst
the horse brush seemed 10 tear the sensi-
tive skin. Having absolute confidence n
her physician however. the patient per-
sisted at first. barely touching the bris-
ties 20 her body Within few weeks
she wac not only able TO do the currying
most vigorously. but really anticipated Il
with pleasure. The signs OF the first win
ter cold drove her in haste TO the doctor.
The great man of medicine refused to sup
ply her with drugs. He questioned her as
one would a child as TO leaving her win
dows open at night. as to drinking water
regularly and taking her exercises. upon
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-27

bined. belt of rose colored suede work
ed in tiny turquoise beads is the only
ornamental feature not supplied. by this
self-decorat 'ng costume
An extremely pretty wash silk suit In
pinkish lilac and cream white Is the ht-
ting associate for the blue yelling. All
the lilac stripes show at the top of every
pleat In the skirt. and scattered vioets
appear in the embroidered bands that en-
close the panels of cream silk on the skirt
and waist. The sleeves are consecutive
puffs of white silk, braceleted with straps
Of the embroidered Vlolets, and the pref
ty little maid wears open worked cream
white Isle hose with her black kid Slip
pers.
Hosiery and Jewels.
The craze for white hose on children is
unaccountable, but none the less does it
grow. and the race-like hose of white
Isle are latest fashion. Perhaps white
stockings are cleaner and quainter and
more in harmony with the mode that has
revived the sleeveless low necked gowns
for small children, but truth compels the
admission that thin little legs are not
shown Off to advantage in anything but
black coverings.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-27

that l will prolong her caramel eatir.
days and she resigns her antiouated riS
crackers and falls gracefully into the 81,
entifc trea Iment.
"Of course it's expensive" smiled the
figure builder. resigned,y. for when a gir,
is growing she should not wear the Sam.
stay for more than three months at
stretch and the stay she wears at sixteen
is entirely different from the one she
wore when she was fourteen; ana
un.ess q girl is hopelessly fat and
clumsy l refuse to put her in genuine
stay before she has reached her four
teenth year. 1t is no more expensive
though than the constant changing neees-
sary in the shoes of growing child and
the reward will be found adequate in the
wholesale reduction of nervous troubles
and dyspepsia, so rampant among the
school girls of to-day.
For Older Patients.
But I don't want you to think" added
the head of the establishment, that he
cause l am training the undeveloped fig
ure in the way it should grow that / am
not striving in the behalf of the elder sis
ter and the mammas of any youthful
patients. They are here, my atIllt pat
rons, morning, noon and night. and the
ueihdnu Is lof d SlhdH WAIST NOW / was
trained in Paris for this profession, and
in Paris the women desire figures that
will accord with their style. A superb
blonde goddess will calmly refuse a small
waist, saying, with acute artistic appre-
citation of her fine roints, no thank you
build me on large flowing Juroesque lines
the wasp waist would look ridiculous
with my broad shoulders and deep chest
it would not be my genre and you know
when a French woman discovers her
genre she lives right up to it. That ac-
counts for the fact that there are at one
and the same time dozen types of cor
set and figure seen in Paris; but in Amer
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-27
IMMUNITY FROM WINTER COLDS.
" Threatened with Influenza skip n
Meal.

New York. Jan. 25.-A woman who for
years suffered from violent colds which
several times threatened to end fatally.
claims to have attained immunity by the
use OF pure cold water as a medicine
and an ordinary horse brush for currying
AZ q morning and evening exercise. OR-
ing to a severe nervous breakdown che
was Obliged 10 consult New York ply
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-27

Two prizes Of 1860 francs each ana
third OF 500 francs have been oifereu O'
anonymous donors. according to the Cour-
rler du Livre. for the best essoys on
insects which attack books and enc oes'
means OF destroying them" Henry Mo-
tin Of the Bibliotheque dc LArAVn~F
Paris, will give All particulars
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-27

Three Baltimore meat dealers were fined
for selling red frankfurter sausages,
colored by means Of an anil inc dye, A.
though an expert testified that the dye
was n coal tar preparation containing 40
arsenic and was perfectly healthy ar
ticle OF food
The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-27

the owner Of such an Empire gown fell
II a careless Individual referred to 1t as
Mother Hubbard or a Greenway.
TIN Dancing Group.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-12-08

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