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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-20
STUDY IN FEMALE FEET.

In letter to the London Daily Ex-
press a correspondent writes: The
new instep skirt is a boon to women,
but it reveals the fact that women are
bad walkers. A surprising number are
pigeon-toed. They tread on the side
of the foot. or run down the heels of
their shoes. which gives a most UNI
graceful appearance to the feet"
A physical culture expert discussed
this allegation with representative of
the Express.
at is true" he said. that women
who are otherwise pretty and graceful,
exhibit in walking a remarkable
amount of clumsinesS. Watch a wom-
an going up stairs at a railway sta
ton. In nine cases out of ten she will
plod laboriously up; her feet will come
down at either side of the stair, and
her toes will be turned in. Half the
fatigue would be avoided if she would
work the foot from the ankle and set
each foot truly next to the other, with
heels touching for the instant they are
together.
I'm sitting, also, women are guilty
of number of sins of awkwardness.
The stout woman, for example, inva-
riably sits squarely. with feet planted
about twelve inches apart and her toes
turned in.
1.-The lean, long-legged woman, on the
other hand. winds her feet round the
legs of her chair, or else crosses. her
Toptin,,ad On DoCa rYerrarfxr ft,a
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-20
FINGER NAIL BITING
A DISEASE.

The head school teacher, says the
New York Press, who sat at the end of
a row of six girls at a matinee, saw
one of them take off her gloves as soon
as the lights went down and the cur
tain went up. She watched. When the
girl thought her teachers attention was
concentrated on the stage one of her
hands went to her lips.
miss Blank" said the chaperon,
leaning over and speaking so that
everybody seated around her could
hear, 81 must ask you to stop biting
your nails and put your gloves on i'm
mediately."
The other girls Uttered, and the par
ticular one who had offended did as she
was told, looking very much humil-
lated.
poor child" said a sympathetic
woman sitting in the row behind.
"I frequently find it necessary to adj
minister a rebuke of this sort to girls
with the nail-biting habit" said the
chaperon to a friend who asked her
about it. "All teachers do. A lesson
of that sort is worth ten admonitions in
private. There is no better way to
break a pupil of a bad habit like biting
the nails than to shame her out of it.
warned Miss Blank before we started
for the theater that 1 should rebuke
her if I caught her biting her nails,
and she promised not to do it. When
saw her stealthily drawing off her
| gloves l knew what was coming. We
have to watch girls with the nail biting
| habit in church, in the theater and
everywhere they go in public. 1t is
almost impossible to make them keep
their gloves on"
A fashionable manicure up town adj
vertises to cure nail biting He says
he has many patrons among girls and
women.
1T is an exceptional thing to find a
man who bites his rails" he said to a
reporter for the Press. but 1 have
known of some cases. Nail biting is a
disease, the same as itching scalp or
anything of that sort. To a certain ex-
tent II is a habit, but the habit develops
the disease, which is called onychopa-
gle.
when I was in Paris, four years
ago, first learned about the treatment
for it, and at once introduced it in my
business here. Far from being a HARM
less habit, resulting only in unsightly
hands, nail biting is a prolific cause of
nervous disorders in girls and women.
1t requires various forms of treatment,
according to the condition and sur
roundings of the victim. The best
time to stop it is in childhood. Parents
and school teachers who find children
biting their nails should not only Sc
verely reprimand them, but punish
them in n way that will be remembered.
In my opinion the teacher you tell
about gave the young woman a whole
some lesson"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-20
WOMAN AND TIL E
COUPON HABIT.

1t is declared that the practice of
giving away coupons with purchases
of cigars and cigarettes has doubled
the amount of smoking done by wom-
en-. At any rate, says the New York
Sun, it has doubled their purchases.
Women" said a dealer in one of
the large Broadway tobacco shops,
ARE the chief benefciaries of the cou-
pom system-women and bellboys. The
boysAcan't wait to collect enough cou-
pons to get anything of value, but
bring them in to us in small lots and
go away delighting in a silver stick
pin or a pocket knife.
But not so with the women. They
start out to collect from 800 to 1000
coupons and aspire to pearl mounted
opera glasses and gold watches.
LAS compared with women, the men
who save up for prizes are far behind.
I knew of a man who was saving up
coupons for a fine alligator travelling
bag. At one time he had saved over
$780, In another week he would have
been able to secure the bag.
zone day there came along a pretty,
we'll dressed young woman, who ask
ed for the bag herself. She had the
coupons all right, and went on to tell
me that until the day before she had
been stenographer of this man, but
now she had gone on the stage.
Her employer had discovered that
she had saved up about 100 coupons
herself, and as she had casually told
him she must now purchase articles
for travel, out of the goodness of his
heart he gave her his coupons and she
got the bag. 1t only goes to show
that man can't save coupons.
women get coupons by strategy as
well as purchases. Their chief vic
time is the susceptible cigar clerk be-
hind the counter.
MANY men who are occasional
smokers do not take the coupons due
them on the purchase. Such coupons
we consider our own.
Now the up to date woman collec-
tor watches her time, and when the
proprietor is out at lunch or dinner
she swoops down upon the susceptible
clerk and greets him with the sweetest
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-20
AN INTOLERABLE MISTAKE.

The most intolerable mistake a hui
,an being can make, says a writer in
,ba New York Evening Post. is to
,,I,rrv and find itself mated to what
e netty, or low, or mean, or evil. If
the nature so joined to ours is below
elevation and beyond the hope of I'm
,,,ovement, there remains outside the
door closed against the blessed in
euences of welded love the whole field
Of personal progress and elevation, the
wide world of interests which eXalt
and purify a disappointed heart, when
unhappy men or women seek to forget
their sorrows in efforts to bear the
Grief of Others and ease the burdens
horne by weary shoulders.
To sink down to either fretful,
cynical, treadmill life, given up to nurs-
ing and perhaps exaggerating individ
ual disappointment, is to acknowledge
that mistake has conquered us. To
make the best-the absolute possible
best-of what remains to our impover-
ished domestic life, is but to do justice
70 ourselves. To reach out after every
noble chance to refresh and enrich
our minds and do good to those within
our reach, is only to act as rational
w. as a thirsty man would do when a
Well-spring came in sight and he stoop-
ed TO drink of its clear waters.
If there are hopeless mistakes, they
must be few-irreVocable mistakes are
quite a different matter. Many of
these, alas, we hide away as best we
can under the fair seeming with which
we meet the world, but out of all but
deliberately criminal errors, there re-
mains ground for hope OF attainable
good, and a sort of peace and con-
tent, which is never denied to heroic
effort to undo what we did in uncon-
scious error.
Women, even those who have been
so misguided as to try to feed their
hearts with gold instead of love, can
lift themselves from the paralyzing
bondage they have assumed, and while
striving to ennoble and uplift other
lives gain the nourishment that will
maintain not only their own vitality
but perchance create new, unlock
editor glow, where they least expect
ed it. Many a half starved nature,
keeping steadfast to duty where joy
was denied, has enkindled love and
made in the end a true home in her
husbands heart.
Face to face with mistake, great
or small, we shall only multiply its
consequences endlessly, by sitting down
to mourn over it. To continue to
make them stepping stones to better
things is to put ourselves on the want
age ground where we may laugh at
what is trivial and remedial, or see a
better way, when we have found our
selves on the confines of the land of
despair. After all, a mistake resolved
into its original elements, only means
that we have taken the wrong thing
in hand
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-20
HER CONFIDENCE RESTORED.

She was a travelling mans wife,
says the New York Times, and she had
heard many stories about the "doings"
of travelling men on the road. Her
husband always seemed a model, but
why did he always leave his grip at
the office when he returned from a
trip? She had not seen that grip more
than once in two years. The other
day, when the drummer was on a trip
up Buffalo way, his suspicious little
wife visited the office. Approaching
the porter, she said :
John, you like to make a dollar
honestly when you can, don't you?"
ooh, yes'm.'
You know where my husband keeps
his grip, don't you?"
"Yesm; he throws it down in cor
ner an leaves it there
well, look here, John; he will be in
on the Central tomorrow morning,
and if you slip his grip out and bring
it up to me I'll give you a dollar. You
can bring it back in half an hour"
The porter consented, and two days
later presented himself at the drum
mer's residence with the grip in his
hand. He explained that he had not
before had an opportunity to carry it
away. Leaving him in the parlor the
little woman carried the prize to her
bedroom, and, with teeth set and face
pale, opened it.
The first thing she encountered was
pocket Bible, we'll thumbed and
showing the marks of much handling.
Then she dug out a soiled shirt, some
unchaste socks, comb, hairbrush, and
then letter. This she opened eagerly.
1t read:
Binghamton, Nov. TO- 1903.
Mr. William Hustler:
Dear Sir-Your monthly assessment
of fifty cents for the support of the
Young Mems Christian Associate
(Bible fund.- is now due and the earn
est interest you have always taken in
the work assures me you will prompt
~ remit the amount. You will be
pleased to learn that the good cause
progresses rapidly, as you predicted it
would in your address delivered here a
few weeks since. Yours,
A. w. Edwards, secretary.
This drove much of the hard, strong
look from her face, but she continued
her search. She fished out three or
four tracts, bottle of pop, temper
ance badge, bottle of DR.. Surecure's
corn destroyer, and beneath it all, in
the bottom of the grip, a letter, sealed,
stamped ana ready Tor the mail, ad-
dressed to Miss George Gray, Bath,
N. Y" The superscription was in her
husbands well-known handwriting,
and again the stony look came into her
eyes.
THE wretch!" she muttered. my
suspicious are too we'll founded. Geor-
gle Gray! Oh, this is too much, too
much" And she gave way to a flood
of tears. When she had Gained her
self she tore the letter open and read:
Bath. N. Y, Nov. q.
Miss Gray-Your note asking me to
meet you in the park Saturday even
Ing was handed me by a district mes
senger boy this morning In reply
permit me to say that you have mis-
taken the man. You may not be
aware that / am a married man and
am blessed with the love and conf
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-20

of smiles. There are few youths of
20 who can resist the smiles of
clever, we'll gowned woman. and when,
after making a purchase of cigarettes,
she asks him if he has got any cou-
pons that customers have refused to
take, she generally leaves with bunch
of certificates in her pocket as the re-
ward for the interest she has taken
in the impressionable clerk.
This trick was played upon me for
some time before l discovered it, and
then I found that a beautiful young
married woman was coming in here
several times week and made it a
point to arrive Just after had left
for dinner. She had smiled away about
S. worth of coupons a week, and her
little game only ended when the clerk
one night invited her to go out to
dinner. She left the place in great
Indignation and has never shown up
since"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-20
HINTS TO GAIN FLESH.

A thin girl, who is fiat in the chest,
slender in the waist line, limp across
the shoulders and hollow backed, has
very little chance in beauty's contest.
She may have a pretty face, but what
is a pretty face when there is no fig
ure with it? The body must be good
or the face counts for very little.
The girl who is too thin, says the
Brooklyn Eagle, is as badly off as the
one who is too fat; and perhaps a
little worse She must put on flesh
and this is one of the most difficult
of all things to do. She must add to
her pounds with discretion and must
put on the fat just where it should be
placed and nowhere else.
There have been physical culture eX-
perts who guaranteed to increase the
weight in a perfectly satisfactory man.
ner. They declare that they can make
the chin round, the neck and shoul-
ders full, the chest wide and plump
and, still keep the waist small and the
figure supple.
This sounds very much like a mira
Gle, yet it can be done. 1t is one
performed by the individual, not by
any one else. 1t can not be done by
message; it can not be done by preach
cry; it can not be done in any way
except by the individual personal effort
of the person who wants to improve
her figure in this manner.
To add to the chest, and to make the
figure full, there is only one very
effective course. The bust can be
developed by a certain kind of diet
and by course of physical culture
THE girl who takes fattening fluids,
who drinks chocolate preparations, who
eats plenty of easily digested food, will
grow wide across the chest Eating
all you want of one thing is very good
for the person who wants to grow fat.
And there is another remedy for the
thin chested girl and this is the one
which consists of the eating of food
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-20
SHE FLIRTED AFTER ALL.

When the stunning looking girl with
the big picture hat, says the New York
Press. entered the most crowded car
In the elevated train she had no diff
Guilty In getting a seat. slmpkins gave
up his. Then he edged away a few
feet to get better look at her. She
WAS worth gazing at. She had an air
about her, ana her complexion, height
Der air gave her checks "A glow that
denes imitation by cosmetics.
She looked al Simpkins. Simpkns
thought she smiled. SO Bimpkina
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-20
WOMAN'S WORLD

dence of the best little wife in Amer
lca' Rather than betray that conf
oence or destroy that love 1 would
suter death. In my eyes there is but
one woman in the world, and she it is
VINO greets me with a pleasant smile
and wifely kiss every time l come
from trip. William Hustler
She sat down on the bed and sobbed
Tor While, then closed the grip. took
II TO the porter and asked him to re-
turn 1t to the store and say nothing of
what had occurred.
AS ne entered the store the drummer
looked up and asked:
Did she go through it, John?"
Guess So She took it into another
room an was gone half an hour be-
lore she brought it back"
How did she act?"
Wen. she was smilin, but looked
KIND of teary, too. She gimme an
other dollar an said this would be a
happy world if all men were like her
husband"
"Ah, that's business, John! Here's
your five. Clean out the grip and put
my own buds back. I'm going across
the street to get a bracer"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-20
HE DID NOT DRINK TEA.

A recent incident at the Portrait
Show, says the New York Press,
amused and surprised the persons who
witnessed it.
In the tea room a cup of the kind
that is supposed to cheer and have
no worse effects sells for rs cents.
One day last week one of the very
whose fortune was earned entirely by
himself and is reckoned high in the
millions-came into the tea room and
stopped to talk with one of the patron
esses.
One of the debutantes OF the sea-
son, a very pretty blonde girl with a
peachy pink and white skin, went up
to the millionaire, holding out cup
of tea.
Wont you have cup of tea?" she
asked, hoping for liberal reward for
the charity
And she smiled at the visitor in a
way that was worth a goodly contri-
button in itself.
"Oh, thank you," he said, "but ]
never drink tea"
but this is for charity" the young
girl went on, already confused at his
refusal to take the cup out OF her
hand. "I'm certain that you would like
this"
But he refused emphatically and,
crimson with bushes at her embar-
RAISING predicament. the girl put the
cup back on the table. Then she re-
tired into corner where some of her
companions sympathized with her and
some of the others were inclined to be
less merciful and laughed.
He could at least have taken the
cup, even If he had not drunk the
tea" said one of her companions. "It
would not have hurt him to have CIV
en- you dollar and then put the cup
down on the table,
Indeed, he would not have felt the
loss of a good deal more than a dol
lar had he done the graceful thing.
But the truth was, he did not know
how,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-20
oUEERED ANTI-WORRY CURE.

II see a German physician has in
vented an infallible cure for worry
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-20

DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM:-I can con-
scientiously recommend Lydia Il.
Pinkham'S Vegetable Compound
to those of my sisters suffering with
female weakness and the troubles
which so often befall women. l suf-
fered for months with general weak
ness, and felt SO weary that 1 had hard
work to keep up. Ihad shooting pains,
and was utterly miserable. In ray dis
tress | was advised to use Lydia Z.
Pinkham'S Vegetable Com
pound, and it was red letter day to
me when l took the first dose, for at
that time my restoration began. In
six weeks l was changed woman,
perfectly well in every respect. l felt
SO elated and happy that 1 want all
women who suffer to get well as l did"
= Miss GUILA CANNON, $50 Jones St.,
Detroit, Mich, Secretary Amateur Art
Association. < $4,000 forfeit If original of above
letter proving genuineneSs cannot be produced.
When one considers that Miss
GannOn'S letter is only one of the
countless hundreds which we
are continually publishing in the news
papers of this country, the great virtue
of Mrs. Pinkham's medicine must be
admitted by all.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-20

Amateur Art Association, tells
young women what to do to
avoid pain and suffering caused
by female troubles.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-12-20

Continued on Page twenty-five.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-07-20
PASSES TO FINAL REST
Continued from Page L.

Becoming doctor Of laws Pope Gregory XVI made him dome
peate segnatu March 49, 1897 holy
the priesthood December H. 1897 In 1913 he by
Gregory XVI nunco Belgium and January II the
year he created Archbishop OF Dametta.
He created Cardinal by Pope Plus IN and in September
1877, fill the important Cardinal Cameren
the Roman Catholic Church In that capacity after the death
Plus IN he head of the church temporal affairs and
the solemn oseQuicS supcrnended
tons for the concave He elected Pope February % 1878 and
assumed the of Leo MIL On March he crowned in the
Sistine Chapel with all the ancient ceremonies.
The of Pope Leo NH has been the remarkable of
any Pope in history He has shown readiness with modern
but abated 1.-THE of his rights the head
the church and the desoied sovereign Rome After his
he refused accept the income regularly voted him by the Ia
Parliament combining his Vatican palace
grounds enyclcas demanding
power sovereignty With the assistance Cardinal
JacObn he able bring fairly successful issue the Ku
urkampf in Prussia and make fairly favorable with the
of France His encyclcal abor in 1891 excited profound
interest His golden jubilee Bishop celebrated in 1893
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-07-20
HOW THE SUCCESSOR Of
LEO XIII IS NAMED

Strangely impressive is the method
decreed for electlng a successor to the
Pontifical throne. After death is an
nounced by the physicians the Cardinal
Camerlengo. President OF the Apostolic
Chamber, becomes the head OF the
church for the time being. The laws
of precedent declare that a successor
must be chosen by conclave of Car.
dinals ten days after death OF the Pope
is declared. But meanwhile there Is
much to be done-much OF detail and of
ceremony
After Doctors Certify.
When the doctors have certified for
mally that all Is over with the mortal
life of the Pontiff the Cardinal Gamer
lengo assumes charge Of all affairs. In
violet robes, and accompanied by the
Clerks OF the Chamber, robed In black
he will approach the corpse, and, tap
ping him three times on the forehead
with a silver mallet, will invoke the
dead Pope by the name by which his
mother called him in his boyhood, call
ing him three times:
"Gioacchino! Gioacchino! Gioac-
ohino!"
II no sign OF life be given after this
strange summons the Apostolic Proth-
onotaries draw up the Act OF Death.
The Chamberlain takes the Fisher
mans ring Of massive gold, worth q
hundred golden crowns, and, having
broken 1t up, divides the fragments
among the six Masters of Ceremonies.
The secretaries carry all the other
seals TO the Cardinal Camerlengo. who
breaks them also In the presence Of
the Auditor, the Treasurer and the
apostolic clerks.
Great Bell knells.
Twelve penitentiaries OF st. Peters
Church with chaplains see the body
shaved and embalmed with new per-
fumes. They vest Il in the pontifical
habits. crown II with mitre and place
chalica in the hands. The great bell
OF the Capitol. which only sounds
when the Pope is dead, knells unceas-
ingiy.
Tho dead Pope lies in state In St.
Peters on lofty eatafalque. and many
tapers burn in the chapel OF the Holy
Trinity. Through the grille the faith
full kiss the feet After three days the
corpse Is tapped In lead. Two and nifty
Csrdinais OF the dead Pope's creation
Will put In gold and silver medals, hav-
ing the effisy OF their benefactor on
one side and some notable act OF his
upon the other. The leaden coffin Is
placed inside casket covered with cy-
press wood and walled up in some part
OF the Basllica-
On the first and ninth day after
death 300 masses Of requiem are Of