The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-23
Women at Thirty.

A gracious, self-possessed woman OF
the world is she at thirty, as far re-
moved from the old-time woman of that
age as is the joyous, earnest, ambitious
school girl of today from the Dresden
china ShepherdeSs damsels of a hun
dred years ago-those fragile, ornamen-
tai, sentimental maidens of sixteen
whose most serious occupation was the
ensnaring of beaux, says the Philadel-
phia Enquirer.
In those days. when girls married at
sixteen, the woman of thirty was the
mother of a numerous family. Her
highest ambition was to be called the
best housekeeper in town, and all her
thought was given to the hemstitching
OF her linen sheets and the embroider-
ing OF her underclotheS. All honor to
her name, for her standards were high
in the only things which were consider
ed legitimate for women. Standards
FOR women today are higher, but they
viii do we'll if they strive as strenuously
to reach them as did she.
An exquisite creature was our grand
mother in her girlhood; no one so dam
ty and so graceful as she: nowhere to-
day is there so delicate a piece of
femininity.
Today, indeed, few women covet that
praise 1t is no longer the tiny hand.
the milk-white skin, the trim ankle and
the taper waist that women strive for
and men demand. but rather the strong
arm, the firm step, the bright eye and
the clear brain-no longer perfect
femininity. but perfect womanhood.
1t has been said that there is less
physical beauty in the world today than
there was a century ago. Certainly
there is less talk about it. But, view
ed by the new standards, our grand
children will blossom into such beauty
the world has never seen; for it has
been given to US to know many things
that We're undreamed of IN the phil
osophy of those pretty little maids OF
long ago Perhaps the most important
most helpful of all, we have learned to
see the fallacy of that tine-honored aph-
orism, Beauty is only skin deep"
and we now set to work scientifically
to make ourselves beautiful from the
inside outward
Hints For the Mother.
Mothers never have any trouble with
the naturally curly locks of their chill
dren but it is the straight ones that
perplex them. Some hair doctors" say
that If a child's hair be brushed up
ward instead of downward from in
fancy it will nave acquired a tendency
to curl by the end of the first year.
In fact, hair dressing is a detail that
receives too little attention in the case
of little girls.
Probably not one mother in three
score studies the contour of her daugh-
ter's face with a view to finding the
most becoming head dressing.
babys cry should be to the intelli-
gent mother the best index to its phys
zeal condition.
The healthy baby cries very loudly
and in a lusty, explosive, angry man
ner, and the tears flow freely.
The sick baby, or the one on the
verge of sickness, cries peevishly or
whines in low tone.
If it is perfectly well it will attack
the bottle greedily and will express its
satisfaction much in the same manner
as any other young sucking animal
that is, by soft and inarticulate noises
and grunts.
If, on the other hand. the baby con-
templates it's food before touching it,
or after tasting turns from it, be sure
there is something wrong.
Don't play up to the sky and back
again" suiting the action to the words
by tossing the half-delighted, half
scared and wholly excited baby several
feet skyward and catching him as he
comes down, while he gasps and
trem bles, undecided whether to laugh
or cry.
Babies have nerves, and such games
will make neurotic martyrs at an early
age.-BoSt ton Post.