The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-12
WOMAN'S WORLD

Then he went on to say something
that she didn't understand about
stocks, but he finished with a heart
rending statement that she did under
, stand-to the effect that now he didn't
KNOW whether or not she could pur-
chase the furs he had promised her.
AS another woman started out to call
on friend her sister called her back
to say: ASK Nellie if she will lend me
her new skirt pattern and bring it
back with YOU, will you, Jennie? You
won't forget?''
Not T. replied Jennie cheerily look
ing IN the glass to arrange her veil.
When did 1 ever forget anything"
In two hours she was back again as
debonair and happy as you please.
Where's the skirt pattern?" asked
her sister impatiently, as she knelt be-
side the cloth she had spread on the
floor.
Skirt pattern?" echoed Jennie faint
ly. Skirt pattern? That is what you
| asked me to get you. isn't it? Do you
know couldn't think, to save my life,
what your message to Nellie was.
thought and 1 thought and finally con-
cluded you had sent her an invitation
to dinner. So she's coming around this
| evening"
1iS mural Oh IneSe IeTTlDle examples
| is that the only way to be sure of ones
| messages are going to be delivered
safely is to deliver them oneself. Ones
| own beloved Amanda is just as likely
to forget ones cough strip when one
| is dying for lack of it because she's
deeply interested in purchasing for her
| self some new handkerchiefs. And even
the careful Charles will bring home
| cabbage when one has told him to
| buy spinach if he meets a friend en-
| route to the market.
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Women need not wander up and
down the earth seeking. like Ponce de
Leon, the Fountain of Perpetual Youth.
| They need not drink bad tasting wa
! tiers, take bothersome treatment or
prove the fallacy of new theories of
| beauty specialists. All this is a waste
OF time ard precious vitality.
10 remain young and fair. to defy
the years that leave their traces on
face and figure, lies within the power
of each woman. The Great Magic So
cret is contained in four rules:
Keep the mind clear of all unnec-
| essary worry and the body clear of all
unnecessary food. Live with great
regularity and still greater moderation.
That sounds very simple, says the
| great singer Patti. in an article in the
Record Herald of Chicago, but the av-
erage woman will find that the observ-
ance of these rules gives her a re-
markedly fine training in elf-control
1t is we'll worth the effort. for there
| can be no tragedy in life so awful TO
woman as the realization that her
youth is gone and in its place are the
| wrinkles, and the dull eyes, and the
| decrepit figure of age.
| To my four rules l would add anoth-
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| young. The one in whom faith and
hope and love still live must reflect
| the fact on the features. This is in
| evitable. 1t is the hopelessness, tho
| disappointment of life. the absence of
! love of the positive sort. that make
so many women grow old before their
time. They may love those near to
them in a perfunctory sort of way,
| but this is a negative love.
The love that lifts them out of them
selves and glorifies the humblest home
is gone, or has forever passed them by
hence the unhappy, disappointed faces
| one sees on every side. And so l would
say love someone, or something, truly,
if it is only a dog. The emotion makes
you forget yourself and keeps youth
lingering.
Why dosn't it go to show that 4
| ter another has a warm heart and a
| desire for domesticity? Perhaps there
are some women who would not think
| so, but a good, practical woman who
has head as well as a heart might
| feel that it was good augury for d
| happy married life. Anyway, says the
| Philadelphia Press, the bridegroom at
one of the fall weddings in town not
so far from Philadelphia had proposed
to one after another of seven girls,
had been refused by them, and, not
| BEING discouraged, asked the eighth.
This was the girl with the practical
| head, and she accepted. That was
quite right, and very likely it did not
make much difference to the man. for
he had only had the bad luck to begi l
at the wrong end on his list of pro-
posals. The girl knew the history OF
the other seven and was not dismayed.
| Probably she was not so entirely pleas
ed with the joke of it as the first sew
en-, and here comes the wicked part of
the story. The seven were mischiv-
Gus girls, and on the day of the we'd
ding, in addition to the festive gowns,
| in which they decked themselves out
for the occasion. each wore big bow
of white ribbons, asked to be directed
| to the mournerS' seat when they
reached the church, and sat in con-
spicuous position, with gay smiles and
| their seven knots of white ribbon, a !
seven in a row. But no one cared
much, not even the bride, and the
bridegroom thought it was no end of
a joke.
Young widows find it necessary to Re
very careful. There is a certain young
wife who was a widow before her re-
cent marriage, whose little daughter
| almost made a scandal in a church.
| The young widow was very sweet and
| charming, and her small daughter of
inherited her attractiveness. The lat
ter, says the Philadelphia Ledger, at
tended the church to which the young
mother and her daughter went regular
ly. He had known the family before
the death of the father, who was much
older than the young wife, and had
fallen a victim to the wiles of the lit
tie daughter, who appreciated the fact
that she had this handsome young man
in her chains. Never was damsel more
firm in insisting upon her rights to
have her cavalier always at her dis
posal. When she attended church She
preferred to sit always with the young
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