The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-03

WORLD.

her WOIh DCNCl NOllCS
she rushes from one self-imposed
ii, 10 another how she sets her red
I'D mouth and the awful scowl that
siseeures her fair young brow. Now
,,oman's face is like any malleable
Instance. In the beginning it is
Goth and unwrinkled, and only
.non the spirit of unrest takes possess
.ion of her does it begin to show the
cunning power of mind over matter.
nlacid woman has few lines upon
her face at co.
Tho woman always in a hurry or a
,,,orrv will have set mouth and crisis
oross marks on her brow at IS. And
wrinkles formed from such cause never
oor he readicated until the subject has
roformed-until the fretful woman
,oarns how to control her chatting spirit
until she can say: peace, be still"
70 her soul and find it obedient.
IN know how to rest-to be willing
"a rest-is the secret of many cases of
woman's beauty and the greatest
rossible help in maintaining a youth
flu! appearance.
The way to rest from mental fatigue
is TO take bodily exercise of a health
ful kind that demands sufficient atten-
tion 10 divert the subject from her
grief.
nurse in attendance informed me with
GREAT solemnity that l should never
Get well until l stopped thinking. And
I mentally added this lady to an al
ready long list Of cranks, each of
whom had asked me to do impossible
things on the promise of regaining
health thereby. l had not then learned
that one can stop thinking in the
sense that one can drive worrying
thoughts clear away and shut the door
on them.
The best way to learn how to stop
thinking is the gradual method. When
Won are nervous, worried, fretful and
oyertaxed, heart and brain, don't sit
down and think things over, under the
impression that you are resting. Get
out of doors and take a spin on your
bicycle. or, if you are so happy as to
own a horse, take a swift canter of an
hour You cannot for your life do any
worrying on horseback or on a wheel.
Walking is of all exercises the least
efficacious in the rest line for a tired
brain. Unfortunately one can take
ones worries out walking. There is
nothing to forbid. Whereas, the guild
ing of the wheel or the controlling of
the horse requires just enough of your
mental presence to keep you from con-
centrating your mind on anything else.
l have seen women who rested their
wearied brains by an hours practice
upon the piano, forcing themselves to
overcome some purely mechanical diff
Guilty.
But the out door rest is the best.
The idea that stimulants or narcot-
les will take the place or bridge over
the gap left open by lack of sleep IS
erroneous. Sleep is not a matter of
convenience. You cannot put it off in
definitely as you can going to church.
Sleep is q necessity, and for the repair
Of nerve and tissue we require eight
hours of sound sleep out of every
twenty-four.
1t is curious fact that many wo-
men who spend so much time in pre-
pairing for life awake take so little
pains about their toilet and the sur
roundings of their sleeping rooms.
The Frenchwoman, rich or in moder-
ate circumstances, even of the lower
middle classes, takes as much pains
with her toilet for bed as she would
for the theater or a social function of
the greatest Importance. / have not
unfrequently heard a French lady's
maid assert that ii always took her one
hour to make her toilet la mutt" And
we all know the American girl who
says. Il was so tired 1 could hardly see,
and 1t took me just five minutes to get
off my clothes and into bed" The
Frenchwoman is right.
Prepare yOur toilet for the night
with care and delicacy. Take a re-
ireshing bath, have the hair brushed
and plated, the teeth brushed and the
mouth washed out with an antiseptic;
rub a very little cream into the skin
wh6n it is warm and relaxed and best
take nourishment have a lotion of I'M
guent for the hands if they are rough.
Have a sweet, clean bed and a we'll
ventilated room to sleep in, If 1t cost
you a dozen sacrifices.
Give your lungs pure air with which
TO do their perfect work.
Sleep alone and in a room by your
self if possible.
Don't get into the habit of sleep
Ing in awkward positions or upon one
side only.
A one sided sleeper frequently grows
to be what is called lop-sided. One
shoulder droops, one hip is higher than
even the nose gets one-sided.
Sleeping upon the back with the spi-
nal column straight is said to give a
graceful carriage.
This position will induce sleep more
quickly than any other, and for that
reason has been called the narcotic
position.
Don't bolster the head up with a lot
OF pillows. One rather fiat one is
enough.
Don't trouble your souls about the
alleged beauty sleep that can only be
procured before u at night. So long
is The sleep is natural, not superin-
uuced by narcotics or stimulants, and
Is taken in long draughts, any of the
"eht hours will answer.
Some of the finest laces in the world
tohe from Belgium. There are no less
man thousand lace schools in that
country.
Each Of the towns has it's own par
Scular points," the patterns of which
nave been handed down from mother
laughter for generations. Lace
anaAlAg is the chief Industry Of the
seoLnen OF Flanders, and has been for
i've centuries.
The finest specimens of Brussels
ace come from the town of that
nam Bruges has its point duchesse,
nm belgian Honiton, a brilliant white
piIo" OF flowers. united by barrettes.
,btsuest of all the Flemish laces is
H. made at Mechlin. Point de Mech
~, il IS called. 1t has an exquisitely
N'"7Parent ground and fine design.
NE American woman has the salts
."'lon Of setting a fashion NOW and