The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-27


l believe he told the truth? That is
| immaterial. She believed 1t. She even
said she would forget all about it, and,
perhaps, she did. but within a week |
Know that she found occasion to dis
miss that pretty servant. Now the
point is that if there had been my old
clothes distribution scheme in opera
ton, hubby never would-well. he
wouldn't have had that beguiliny ex-
cuse don't yon see?
A married woman has been telling
| group of unmarreds how a man uses
powder; not gunpowder. but the poudTe
de riz of women's warfare:
ITO see a man manipulate the puff
is something ridiculous" she said. He
doesn't dab as we do. but he coats his
skin abraded by shaving till it looks
like the lather he had on a few min
utes before. He will inspect himself,
then, with complacency. In a looking
glass, and then, with much unneceS-
sary eXertion proceed to rub his face
so vigorously with a towel that there
is soon no trace Of powder left. After
this waste of time and energetic say
nothing of the expensive poudre de rlz
he makes another close inspection of
his personally dear, familiar features,
and with a lingering look of admiration
at Tire AdAlA illsS iCSQAl VI lliS l1OCtS
turns round to express in a smile his
belief that "a thing of beauty is a JOY
forever All, the creature!"
Young women who are ambitious to
become trained nurses, says the New
York Sun, need not fear that the field
is overcrowded. According to a train
ed nurse at one of the largest city hos
pitfalls there are not nurses enough to
supply the demand.
Il made the mistake" she said, "of
being too captious in my selection OF
women who came to me and tried to
exclude all those applicants who seem
cd to me not to be suited especially to
the work of nursing. l soon found
that if 1 tried this plan that there
| would not be enough women to do the
work required. So l had to accepA a
larger part of those who came.
THE most difficult thing about pass
ing upon applicants is to select those
who are animated by something more
than the money that they expect to
earn. OF course, all of them are at
tracted to a greater or less extent by
this consideration, just as persons are
in all works of life. But l try to flnd
girls who think of some other feature
of the occupation; not only of the
money they are to receive, but also
of their duty and their responsible
ties. There are many such women of
course but there are others who go
into the work for the financial re-
ward and nothing else. There is still
plenty of room for all who want to
start to work as nurses.
The most popular nurses are from
Canada and the Southern States. They
are better liked even here by the native
New Workers. than those who were
born in the vicinity of this city or in
the Northern and Eastern States. The
reason for this is found chiefly in the
personal character of the woman. The
Southerners seem more successful in
their contact with women patients es-
pecially than those who are native to
this region and have more business
like and somewhat less yielding man
ner.
The compensation OF trained nurses
is not so great as 1T sometimes seems.
They always get from $25 to $50 week,
but they are not able to work as
rule, more than ten years at the most.
The period of their activity varies, OF
course in accordance with their own
constitutions; not often are they able
20 stand the hard work for longer than
this time. Thus, at best, they cannot
earn more than their preparation en-
titles them to have.
After it becomes impossible for them
to continue nursing they are some
times able to find other occupations
that enable them to earn living. One
conspicuous instance of this is the case
of woman who found that the hard
ship OF nursing was too great. She
gave it up, made a reputation as a
masseuse of the scalp and is now able
to occupy all her time very profitably
at this work. Not all nurses find such
acceptable lines of work after they
have been compelled to give up nurs-
ing. If they were able to practice their
profession all their lives nursing might
be an overpaid occupation. But in
view of the duration of their work
their compensation is not too large.
An advertisement which recently ap-
peared in an exchange column probably
arrested the attention of more than
one person. 1t ran thus
FINE assortment of ladies' elegant
Costumes worn only few times, for
sale at a low figure; only those who
are not superstitious need apply"
woman, says the New York Her
aid, whose taste was beyond her peck
etbook promptly swallowed any
uualms she may have had and sought
out the advertiser.
The array of gowns that was shown
to her was handsome and varied--all
sizes and styles seemed to be among
them, and the woman was filled with
wonder as to how the advertiser came
to have them in her possession, as
we'll as about the curious last clause
in the advertisement.
"Are you willing to purchase a hoo
doc gown?' asked the advertiser. I
could sell them without telling about
them, l suppose, but it wouldn't be
fair, l think-the conglomerated hoo
doc might descend on my head
But why are they hoodooed?" asked
the prospective purchaser.
II don't know, I'm sure. don't adj
NIT that they could be, but the women
who owned them thought so, and that
was enough. Not one of them could
be persuaded to wear those dresses
again
Time and again l have seen friends
fling aside a dress in a rage, or give
perfectly good gown to their maids,
and l found that they had gotten an
idea that those particular dresses were
unlucky.
I'm always bored to death when
wear that gown, or something dread
fully unpleasant happens when I put
on this one, many of them declared
to me; and I'll never, never put the
horrid thing on again
1T made me positively Ill to see those
stunning gowns flung aside for a ca
price--and / had an idea.
II sent out a circular Offering a
stated amount for every 'unlucky' dress
a woman might have, and these are
few of the results My friends have