The Savannah morning news., 1902-07-06
pretty girl really has harder time
than the plain girl.

A strange story is reported from
| RodeZ respecting a nun at the Orphan
| age of GreZes, near Laissac who be-
| lieves herself possessed with devils. 1t
| would appear, says the Paris Messen-
ger. that Sister Saint Fleuret, as the
nun in question is called, has been i'm
a similar condition for the past ten
years, and that her hysterical seizures
| are terrible to witness. Her cries can
be heard by the peasants tilling their
| fields at great distance from the con-
| vent. She states that during these
| attacks the devil bites and burns her
| BODY, and that her cries are cries Of
| pain. She cannot support the presence
| of any religious book or picture, and
| when she sees either she is seized with
fearful fit of madness. Strange to
| relate, the sister can feel when any
one is about to bring a sacred book
or image into her room, and before the
person has time to enter she rushes for
| the door in order to destroy them. Sew
| eral specialists have visited Sister
Saint-Fleuret and made an exhaustive
| inquiry. and their opinion is that it
| is case of auto-suggestion. but to a
| degree rarely met with. In fact, when
the nun believes herself bitten or burn
| ed by devils the marks of burns and
| the imprints of teeth appear in her
leSll, 50 StTOIB is lIc power Oh dulO-
| suggestion In her case. OF course, auto
suggestion in itself is nothing new.
| The late DR.. Chacot's experiments on
the women at the Sulpetriere led to
many important discoveries in that di-
rectionf and Michelet also dealt with
the question in connection with reli-
gious communities. Apparently Sister
Saint-Fleuret is a hysteric subject sur
! fering from religious mania.
Few women realize" says a French
| expert, that the secret of face care
| is to treat each feature separately
! American women in particular do not
seem to understand that there are as
! many compilations as there are fig
/ ures, and that no one cosmetic can
! be good for all faces, nor for all parts
! of the face. Rarely is the skin of nose
! and cheek of the same quality, and
what is healing for one may injure
the other For example, the skin may
| be OF good quality all over the face,
except on the nose, where too much
oil is secreted. Bathing the skin with
a soft spong dipped in borax water
will be of value, while such treatment
would be too drying for the rest of
the face. Or, the wrinkles around the
eyes may be treated with cocoa but
ter, which might be harmful for nose
and cheek. Leave all cosmetics en-
tirely alone, or understand their use"
is her closing advice.
On the subject of leaving cards there
is always much to be said. When
should cards be left and when should
calls be made after entertainments are
questions that concern our correspond
ents not a little, and therefore, the
FSI1 yftaer atres nIat
will, no doubt, meet the requirements
of many of our readers and subscrib-
ers:
To leave cards, says the Philadelphia
North American, after receiving hos
pitality is a time honored custom
which even in these days of change
still holds good. 1t may be asked how
did it originate, and what is the rea-
son for so doing, and why should there
be any difference made between one
function and another-that is to say,
why leave cards OH one occasion and
pay a personal call on another? 1t
may occupy too much space to enter
at length into the why and the where
fore of these points in card leaving, it
is enough for the purpose of this arti-
Gle to say what is done under given
circumstances
Broadly speaking, to leave cards
after being entertained by friend or
acquaintance implies a slight recogni-
ton of the civility received. The dis
tinction made between leaving cards
after a dance or reception and calling
after a dinner party is n very sensible
one, as to receive calls from one to
three hundred people, even If spread
over a week, would be more than most
women would care to go through, but
to receive the calls of from ten to fif-
teen dinner guests would be pleasant
rather than irksome. Again, these
calls are never over numerous, even
after dinner parties. The time allowed
to elapse before paying these calls is
rather in favor of the callers conven-
fence. A call need not be made within
the current week If more convenient
to postpone it until the following one
but between the most intimate friends
it cannot de dispensed with without
some excuse being made for the omis-
sion, absence from home. press
of engagements, and the like
reasons, but something must
be said to prove that, if the right thing
has not been done, it was not from
want of knowledge of what was due
on the occasion.
When these calls are made 1t Is I'M
derstood that very little is said re-
specting the previous dinner party; it !
is not discussed, as, after ten days, 1t |
has become ancient history, but word |
is said early in the visit as to the |
party having been very pleasant one, |
and that is all; the talk glides at once |
into other channels, unless some prom |
inent person was one of the guests Of |
the visitor had been introduced to a |
relative of the hostess, when some per- |
sonal remark either is made.
In leaving cards after a dance there |
il a distinction and a difference for
those who are acquainted and unac-
ouainted with the hostess, and a great
number Of dances include the latter in |
both town and country society. In
town those who have received invita-
tons through friends only, or from a
hostess by desire CT the same, leave
cards. as do those acquainted with her,
within the current week of the dance.
II not on the following afternoon, but
In the country, when guests forming a
house party are taken to a dance, they
do not leave cards, there being no time
for so doing before the expiration of a
visit, therefore It is not expected from
them.
After a dance Il is not the rule for
any OF the guests who have been pres
snt to ask II the hostess is at home
but merely TO leave cards. and If this
Is not done Immediately after the event
his card leaving might be considered
as actual calling, when not to ask for