The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-03-23

if he is well, and to degree fashionably,
dressed And to return to my first prop
osition. The Ill woman viii help herself
nightly II she remembers her physical
and mental condition. If you have
headache and are suffering from nerves,
even If you have a more real pain, such
as neuralgia or the toothaChe, and are
able to be about at all, don't go around
the house in your oldest wrapper, with
your hair down. Rather put on a bright
frock and brush your hair, as if you
were expecting company; and this bright
outside, combined with the effort to look
cheerful. viii go far toward helping you
out of your pit OF darkness; and, though
it won't cure pain, you viii be surprised
to find how many pains and little ILL
nesses it viii tighten and lessen
Advantage of SIimness.
The sliTn-built, graceful woman VIII
always have the advantage of looking
better than her heavier sister She viii
retain youthful appearance often until
she is so, when her daughters may lock
as old as she does, while the Over-plunlo
woman begins to look matronly when
she is 25, often earlier. For that reason
it is entirely right that women shoul
do all they can to remain within TIE
weight that accOrds with their height
and type Five pounds increase in
weight Is easily dlScerned. 1T can as
easily be put away without any trouble
or any rigorous diet or treatment. Ord
nary exercise or a doing away with
whatever article OF diet or mode of life
causes the gain will rapidly remove the
result Sometimes an almost unnoticed
item viii add rapidly to weight When
strawberries come in season many pco-
pie win take on flesh, not through the
fruit, but on account of the cream that
is taken daily with the berries.
Physicians generally are opposed to
the strenuous banting methods that wo-
men indulge in in the endeavor to rapid
~ dispose OF bulk. Walking in the open
air, mild exercise begun moderately and
generally increased is advocated by ev-
cry doctor, but the drugging resorted TO
most injurious and often fraught with
serious consequences
There is hardly a probability that she
present rage for thinneSs among WON IN
will become more than a fad. AT the
college the American girl remains the
same splendid normal type that she has
become within the last ten years, which
have banished so many evils in the way
Of unhealthful dressing. The society YO-
man may COPY the English Burne-JOrsss
angel for the spring of 1901, but in al.
likelihood the summer girl will return to
her chiffons, her frills and her rufhed
petticOatS. The SDaSmodic attempts
that fashion has made in years past
toward pulling the feminine skirts tight
about the limbs have always yielded TO
the more sensible and modest moderation
that has marked the dress OF the Amer
lean women, who long ago abjured the
hideOus eccentricities which the fashion
plates Of % years ago bear witness to-
New Century For Women.
Certainly it seems as if many Of the
new century fashionable women are cap
able of giving US plenty of surprises
and a masculine critic. And the question
now does not seem to be, as heretofore
What viii the new century girl do
next2' Already she has caused her so
called fin de steele prototype Of decade
ago to appear quite tame by contI'7sT.
Within a year her innovations have been
surprisingly daring. There is no pur-
suit that her men friends occupy them
selves with that she Is not eager to par
ticipate in, except business and voting.
AS lar as the latter is concerned, Ala.
will tell you that she is no Woman's
rights person And why should she bel
She has all the cakes and ale OF exist
ence, says the New York Tribune What
matters it to her that nine-te of her
sisters are fighting in some way against
unequal conditionsi Decidedly she has
no wish to work and assume responsible
ity as long as there is no necessity to
do so. She is frankly uninterested in he
questions of the day; but in all that ap-
pertains to sport and amusements she
has-suddenly in some and gradually in
others taken rank with the men n
everything The fin de steele woman
could ride to hounds drive a coach,
call herself an expert in golf, tennis ETC..
but it Is left to her daring jeune steele
sister to bestride her ponies and play
polo, conquer her WOmanly instincts of
pity and protection sufficiently to shoot
pigeons, gamble with the GOODNESS of A
veteran while it goes without saying
that she carries a cigarette case and a
flask to doctor her afternoon tea with
Not only are the women doing all this
but. by jove, they are overlapping US.
think it is an actual fact that the av-
erage society girl of is today is better
: han a boy of the same age. How it is
all going to end Heaven only knows."
A Great Singers Method.
I never wrap anything around my
neck even in the coolest or dampest
weather. says Madame Schumann- Heink
in Harper's Bazaar. 1 do not confine my