The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-30
TO BE HEALTHY, HAVE A FAD.
II You Are a Woman and Are Tired
of Folks.

OF Folks.
''There is nothing like a fad to make
life interesting" said the girl with the
collection of blue china, according to
the New York Sun. There was a time
when people thought it silly to be
faddy, but show me the woman with
out fad and 1 Will show you one who
is the least interesting of her sex.
"Of course I mean the girl with
leisure. The girl who works in an Of
fee or the girl in a profession has no
time for fads as a rule. but the wo-
man 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 a time to every wo-
man when she gets tired of people,
herself as we'll 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 enfee-
bic women more than they help them,
for the reason that they keep the mind
fixed on whatever ailment, real or i'm
aginary, affiicts them. Then she be-
comes that greatest of all bores-the
woman whose bad health is the gener-
al topic of thought.
1.-THE fad for health culture and ex-
ercise is of course the healthiest fad
of the lot. A woman may cause her
family to fear for her sanity if she
prefers to vault over the footboard of
the bed when she rises in the morn
Ing, 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 disiked classical
music, had grown tired of society, her
friends and her gowns, and had lost
her appetite and interest in things.
Some one told her that if she interest
ed herself in something which did not
then interest her. she would brighten
up and feel as though life were worth
living.
50 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 little marble and bronze
busts of the great composers.
she became engrosSed in the study
of music and in a year. through her
development of a fad, she had become
an interesting person to meet and con-
verse with. She had so many auto
graph letters and interesting photo
graphs from great piansts, 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 there is lot of fun and health
to be had out Of a fad. Some girls are
in fnR
adays and others for books or old
prints; but the beauty of the fad is
that you must study up on your sub
ject.
Blue china is absorbing as a fad.
and 1t 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 charming when you get to
understand them.
old mahogany is in the same class
III YOU once get that fad in your brain
nothing will drive it out. When YOU
cultivate all three and get a collection
you VIII look with disdain at houses
furnished with merely new things.
Cushions are a fad with some girls.
Some go in for old brocades and Others
for embroidered designs or the dull
art shades on velvet and satin.
Rugs are an expensive fad but are
wonderful study. You can get posi-
lively daft about rugs and when YOU
know all the different names and the
patterns and meanings of the designs
you possess a mine of information.
TT all tends to broaden the mind
and keep up ones interest in life and
that is the way in which to keep in
teresting- When woman allows her
self to settle down in a rut as though
she lived inside a narrow circle she
speedily becomes tiresome.
The fad for antique jewelry, for
old seals and carved stones is a rage
just now. Many girls will wear moth
ing 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
and the shops of ConstantinopIe and
st. Petersburg.
"A fad for antiques gives one dignity
and requires study. A fad for athletics
brings health and color and pleasant
companionship. A fad for the theater
keeps ones knowledge of the drama
brushed up and even the girl who
makes a sincere fad of clothes will
never tire you as a companion for she
Will know all the newest fashions and
makers and colors far in advance of
other people.
Autograph nendS are usually re-
garded as unpleasant people, but If
you ever see a great autograph COL
lection you will respect the fad It is
worth all the humiliation and the bad
report that go with it. 1t is not the
one name or two great signatures that
count, it Is the general collection of
names and sentiments. the differences
in handwriting, the odd disclosures of
temperament and character made in
these scrawls dashed off without
thought.
Photographs are the pets of some
people, and old photographs are won
derfully interesting. OF late picture pos
tails have become a great craze with
travellers. Like posters they are used
to paper rooms. Poster collecting Is
another up-to-date fad and poster
rooms are capable of wonderful effects.
Bachelors collect stems and mugs and
pewter, but man always overdoes a
fad. He is in too great haste to enlarge
his collection. To be artistic fad must
grow gradually"