The Savannah morning news., 1901-03-17

putable earmarks, and while do not
wish to say anything uncomplimentary
to you, madam, l must admit that the
physical infrmities you have Just de-
scribed are already becoming apparent to
the casual observer"
The woman flushed half angrily ooh
dear" she said, Il didn't know the de.
fects were noticeable. | thought perhaps
just felt dattened and bent"
NO" said the doctor mercilessly. "vou
are beginning to look that way. And no
wonder. Did you ever stop to think how
many miles the average fiat dweller or
top-foor clearinghouse dweller travel
vertically each year?'
NO." said the woman weakly. 'T
didn't. 1 never was much of a hand for
figures"
Well" said he, you don't have to be
an expert mathematician to figure thar
out. Counting in the stairs you climb in
your own home and the homes of your
neighbors and at the elevated stations
you won't get off with an inch less than
quarter Of mile day. If you kept on
going right straight along with no des-
cents to terra TRINA you can see for your
self where you'd get to after a while
But climbing stairs in itself is nor
harmful exercise. It's the way Won
climb that hurts you. You've been told
often enough, of course-everybody has
heen told-how to carry yourself when
gong upstairs. Walk straight, hold your
head up, keep your shoulders thrown
back and plant your foot firmly on each
step, then you will not experience this
fattening-ou, doubling-up process YOU
have just complained off,
secret we'll worth finding out. burt one
which comparatively few have succeeded
in discovering, is the act of being COM
panionable. A writer in the Woman's
Companion thinks some people are born
with the happy knack. There is a spon
taneous gayety that you expect women
to have, just as you expect the birds to
sing and the sun to shine. Many a very
bad quarter of an hour has been averted
In the domestic circle by a bright laugh
or gay rejoinder. The laugh may be
saucy and the rejoinder Bit of verbal
buffet, but if 1t is only done good natur-
eddy it will be all the more effective
1t used basely to be said of men that
the only way to make them happy was 20
feed them we'll That could only have an
piled to a small and commonplace minor
ity OF course, no one wants an uninter-
rupted round of even the most brilliant
smiles any more than he would wish to
make three meals day off meringues and
biscuits glaces, but 1t is safe to say that
countless numbers of willing and delighted
masculine captives may be led by the
lightest chains that gayety and good hui
NOR can forge. One result of a great deal
of the imperfect education that is dealt
out by the handful nowadays is that some
women are apt to set undue value on mere
book learning and the gift-of controversy
This kind of person looks upon your 1T
tie jokes as beneath her dignity, and she
treats you to a somber harangue on the
necessity of having serious views of life
at the moment when you are striving 10
look at things cheerfully In an effort
to forget cares and anxieties. 1t is a wo-
mans privilege to tighten the shadows
and be al that is gracious and bright on
the ornamental side of life. 1t is a good
plan to let much learning sit as lightly as
possible, and TO get into the habit of max
ing little troubles pass like little ripples
In a sunny river.