The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-19

FADS PROMOTE HEALTH.
Pursuit of One Tends to Make Life In
teresting.
"There is nothing like a fad to make
life interesting" said the girl with the
collection of blue china. "There was a
time when people thought it silly TO be
faddy, but show me the woman without
fad and 1 will show you one who is the
least interesting of her sex.
"Of course l mean the girl with ies-
ure. The girl who works in an Office or
the girl in a profession has no time for
fads as a rule, but the woman who has
nothing to do but dress and see her
friends and go here and there. more to
kill time than anything else, needs fad.
There comes time to every woman
when she gets tired Of people, herself as
we'll as everybody else. She is bored aud
begins to feel i'll. Her physician maybe
gives her a tonic or orders her out Of
town for change of air.
Perhaps she takes one Of the many
treatments for nerves, which enfecb!c
women more than they help them, for
the reason that they keep the mind fixed
on whatever ailment, real or Imaginary,
atfiicts them. Then she becomes tina:
greatest Of all bores-the woman whose
bad health is the general topic Of thought
and conversation even at a dinner table.
IT her health is not discussed it is
thought of; it is in the air and she mute
ly expresses the invalid all the time.
In nine cases out Of ten the cultiva-
ton Of good wholesome fad would
drive away the trouble and make new
and interesting woman of the sufferer.
ana her fr!ends-WhO are the real suffer-
ers-Would rejoice.
The fad for health culture and exer-
else is of course the healthiest fad of the
LOT. a woman may cause her family to
rear for her sanity if she prefers to vault
over the footbeard of the bed when she
rises III the morning, rather than get up
IN the old style, but her mind is tending
In the right direction even though she
overdoes it. :.
II know girl who disliked classical
music. had grown tired of society, her
trends and her gowns, and had lost her
appetite and interest in things. Some
one told her that if she interested herself
IN something which did not then interest
her, she would brighten up and feel as
though life were worth living.
so she began to go to all the concerts,
to the opera and recitals. all of which
she had deemed torture She studied
the lives of musicians and then began to
get collection of their portraits and
little marble and bronze busts of the
great composers.
'She became engrossed in the study of
music and in a year. through her develop
ment of fad, she had become an inter-
estlng person to meet and converse with
She had so many autograph letters and
interesting photographs from great plan
lists, violinists and music writer's that she
speedily made friends among people in
terested in music, and the first thing she
knew found that life had taken on rose
ate hues.
THAT was rather an advanced fad but
from postage stamp collecting to posters
there is lot Of fun and health to be had
out Of a fad. Some girls are going in for
collecting book plates nowadays and 9TH
ers for books or old prints: but the
beauty of the fad is that you must study
up on your subject.
'Blue china is absorbing as "A fad, and
it is very apt to lead to others unless YOU
are very constant. For you will find in
your searches for the old china many
odd pieces of old silver-sugar tongs and
basins and ladies' that are really charm
ing when you get to understand them.
"Old mahogany is in the same class.
II you once get that fad in your brain
nothing will drive it out. When You
cultivate all three and get collection
you will look with disdain at houses fur
nished with merely new things.
Cushions are fad with some girls.
Some 60 in for oid brocades and others
for embroidered designs or the dull art
shades on velvet and satin.
Rugs are an expensive fad but are a
wonderful study. You can get positively
daft about rugs and when you know all
fho
meanings Of the designs you possess q
mine Of information.
1T all tends to broaden the mind and
keep up ones interest in life, and that is
the way in which to keep interesting.
When woman allows herself to settle
down in rut as though she lived inside
a narrow circle she speedily becomes tire
some.
''The fad for antique jewelry, for old
seals and carved stones is a rage Just
now. Many girls will wear nothing but
odd and frequently ungraceful rings and
racelets and combs Of old silver and
gold, set with the queer stones that come
from Greece, italy and the shops of
Constantinople and St. Petersburg.
"A fad for antiques gives one dignity
and requires study. a fad for athletics
partnership. A fad for the theater Keeps
ones knowledge OF the drama brushed
up, and even the girl who makes A sin
eere fad of clothes will never tire you as
companion, for she will know all the
newest fashions and makers and colors
far in advance Of other people. -
"4utograph fends are usually regarded
las unpleasant; people, but if you ever
see great autograph collection You will
respect the fad. It is worth an the hu-
milia ton and the bad report that 90 With
it. 1t is not the one name or two great
SIGNATURES that count: it is the general
collection Of names and sentiments, the
odd disclosures Of temperament and
eh1Earter nude in these Scrawls dashed