The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-17

burg. And l can easily tell you why.
| 1t is because of the use of poor soap.
There is no known chemical that
viii make hair grow where none was
before and no chemical that will kill
hair. But there are substances that will
stimulate the growth on certain places.
The lip, the chin, the sides OF the face,
all have more or less fine down in ev-
cry person. This down is stimulated by
the free alkali in imperfectly aged
| soap.
THE reason this happens so much
in Chicago and Pittsburg is because in
those cities there is so much SCOT in
the air that constant hard scrubbing
Is necessary to keep the face at all
| clean. Women are constantly washing
| their faces, and thus they rub in the
alkali and start the hair The rubbing.
forming just the proper massage that
hair needs to make it grow its best,
aids in the work, and as result well
| defined mustache, and even chin whis-
kers, soon appear on the face where
none grew before.
'That the use of poor soap Is respon-
sible for much of this is proved by ex-
| perimentS In our business. But II IS
illustrated every day in the country
| women who come to the city and who
are seen to have hairy faces. Did you
ever know a farmer who bought toilet
soap? Not one. They use laundry soap
all through the house. This soap is full
of free alkali, and these women use it
| and become hirsute.
Laundry soap is made in the same
kettle with toilet soap, but the latter
is taken out and milled-ground up and
| treated to remove the excess alkali and
to age it--and 1t then loses most of its
| bad tendency. But even with toilet
| from frequent hard scrubbing of sooty
| soap thus made the constant massage
| from frequent hand scrubbing of sooty
faces is bound in time to develop mus
taches on them.
Scarcely day passes that some wo-
man does not come in here for treat
ment and express the greatest surprise
| that her face has developed such a
tendency Why, l never had mus
tache before, she will say. And it is a
fact. And she wouldn't have it now in
| an ordinary city, but in Chicago she
would be unusually fortunate If she
escaped it.
"a gentleman who had been away
from Chicago for two or three years
came back the other day A day or
two after he came back l met him on
the street. He spoke OF it at once.
Where did all the bearded ladies
come from?' he demanded. 1t seems
as if every woman I meet has whIs-
kers.'
"It certainly behooves Chicago wo-
to join in a clean cftv league and aid
| in suppressing the smoke nuisance and
| in keeping the dust off the streets The
| women have taken some interest in this
before, but they must do 1t now as a
measure of beauty preservation and
| when a woman takes such measures
! she generally accomplishes what she
| is after.
There is but one way in which such
| hair can be removed and that Is by
electricity. Electricity skillfully APP
| piled will kill the roots. But no chem
| ical will;
When a baby is born to royalty in
Holland, says the New Orleans Times
Democrat. almost the first garment
| into which it is thrust is called a.
| ''steckkissen." This is a sort of elab-
crate sacqEe open at one end, where
the babys body wrapped in swathing
clothes. is inserted, the head alone re-
naming visible.
The constitution provides that imme-
diately after the birth the Queen
mother, or in the absence, the Queens
| nearest female relative. must throw a
shirt over the little one, place 1t in a.
steckkissen and lay same on a. golden
tray.
The tray is then carried by a court
physician into an adjoining room,
where the ministers are assembled, and
put down on table, whereupon the
Prime Minister removes the steckkis-
sen and clothes, and, with the concur
renee of the others, announces the
child's sex, of which, until then. the
baby's own mother is kept in ignor-
ance. After the announcement the
ministers sign A protocol, setting forth
that on a given day and hour male
Cor female) child was born to the
u Mt
princess, queen and frau" etc.
Western girls are charming" said
a young man who accompanied the
presidential party on the late President
McKinley's Western trip, but some
times their hospitality declares itself
in disquieting ways. Out in Los An
geles / met the prettiest girl I've seen
in years. We were walking in that
dream-like park of the town, West
lake, when she suddenly stopped and
looked at me. Then, as stated by the
New York Times, in that brisk way
Western girls have, she said:
Isn't there something the matter
with your
IT didn't know whether 1t was my
hat or my tie.
~ don't know said. rs there?'
Haven't you a cough? she asked.
mo. / answered. getting worried.
Didn't you ever have bronchitis.
or short breath, or a stitch In your
side, or pleurisy, or pneumonia, or any
thing like that?' she went on.
II had to fess up that ] hadn't.
I'm so sorry she said, plaintive-
ly. I hoped you had.
IT Just gasped and she continued:
For II you had, you know, YOU
could stay out here and join the b.
L. B.
what on earth is that?' asked.
Why, the Busted Lung Brigade"
Lots OF the loveliest men belong 10 n.
I'm so sorry you can't. but-and she
frightened visibly-perhaps you will be
consumptive after a while
THAT'S a Western girls way OF be-
ing agreeable. but II struck me as a
bit ghoulish.
mo. there wasn't much romance
about Ephraim" said the postmaster,
sToking bis beard thoughtfully. Eph-
rlen, says the Youths Companion, had
been the great man Of the town, ana
his death the day before had called out
"reminiscences 10 which the postmaster
seemed anxious 10 contribute. Il don't
s'pose n you'd billed Ephriam or put
him under the stone breaker you could
have drawn "a ienf out N him Never
raM him laugh. Likely enough ~ never
kissed biz wife ~ one ~ the children
"AnG set be- nfsn.t mean mea 81 \
bad man, ] eni'late d. often laughed ~
cried Inside. but 'twasn't bic way "