The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-12-15

kill time than anything else, needs a
fad.
! There comes a time TO every woman
when she gets tired of people. herself
as well as everybody else. She is bored
and 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 enfeeble
women more than help them, for the
reason that they keep the mind fixed
On whatever ailrHent, real or imagin-
airy. axicts them. Then she becomes
that greatest Of all bores-the woman
whose bal health is the general topic
of thought and conversation even at
dinner table. If her health is not dis
cussed, it is thought of. it is in the air
and she mutely expresses the invalid
i, all the time.
In nine cases out of ten the cultiva-
ton of a good wholesome fad would
drive away the trouble and make new
and interesting woman of the sufferer,
AMI her friends-WhO are the real suf-
ferers-would rejoice.
The faI for health culture and ex-
ercise is, of course, the healthiest fad
of the lot. 4 woman may cause her
family to fear for sanity if she prefers
to vault over the footboarl of the bed
when she rises in the morning. rather
than get up in the old style, but her
mind is tending in the right direction,
even though she overdOes it.
Il know a girl who lisliked classical
music, had grown tired of society. her
friends and her gowns, and had lost her
appetite and interest in things. Some
one :Old her that if she interested her
self in something which did not hen in
terest her, she would brighten up and
feel as though life were worth living.
so she began to go to all the con-
certs, to the opera and recitals, all of
which she had deemed a torture. She
studied the lives of musicians and then
began to get. collection of their por
traits and bronze busts of the great
composers.
She became engrossed in the study
of music and in year, through her
development of a fad, she had become
an interesting person to meet and con-
verse with. She had so many auto
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graphs from great pianists, violinists
and music writer's that she speedily
made friends among people interested
in music and the first thing she knew
found that life had taken on roseate
hues.
That was rather an advanced fad,
but from postage stamp collecting to
posters Their is a lot of fun and health
to be hal out of a fad. Some girls are
going in for collecting book plates
nowadays and others for books or old
prints but the beauty of the fact is
that you must study up on your sub
ject.
Blue china is absorbing as fad.
and it is very apt to lead to others Mn-
les 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 charming when you get to I'M
derstand them.
old mahogany is in the same class.
If you once get that fad in your brain
nothing will drive it out. When you
cultivate all three and get a collection
you will look with disdain at houses
furnished with merely new things.
Cushions Ss'e fad with some girls.
Some go i2rfor cd brocades and others
of embrosf dered esigns or the dull art
shades osyn velve and satin.
Rugs &are inexpensive fad, but are
a wonderfully sttay. You can get posi-
lively daft a.hdt rugs, and when you
know all the different names and the
patterns and meanings of the designs
YOU possess a mine of information.
1T all tends to broaden the mind and
keep I'D ones interest in life and that
is the way in which to keep interesting.
When a woman allows herself to settle
down in rut as though she lived in
side a narrow circle she speedily be-
comes tiresome,
THE fad for antique jewelry, for old
seals and carved stones, is rage just
now. Many girls will wear nothing but
odd and frequently ungraceful rings
and bracelets and combs of old silver
and gold, set with the queer stones
that come from Greece, Italy AMI the
shops of Constantinople and st. Pet
ersburg.
"A fad for antiques gives one dig
nifty and requires study. A fad for
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