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The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27
MODERN WAY OF
RAISING BABIES

Hospital methods, says Golfers
Weekly, are adopted more each year
in the private treatment of babies
the methods, that is to say, of the SUI
perior modern hospital conducted I'M
der the best medical supervision. The
cradle is doomed and all it's rocking
memories. The child lies upon it's bed
and is not picked up and carried
about the room even when 1t yells.
Visitors and relatives are no longer
encouraged to pound it in the ribs,
pinch its chin or transfer microbes to
it's lips. This strictness is laughed at
by ribald outsiders and resented by
relics of the old regime, which, like
every other fossil, is attributed to ma
ture, no doubt with justice, but with
out much relevance. Actually, this in
telligent treatment of infancy is do
ing much to check nervousness in our
children, to protect them from bad
habits and needless exactions and to
make them self-reliant. Babyhood in
ded is the best conducted age at pres
ent. When the child grows older it
meets undoubted loss in the substi-
tuition of nurses for mothers care, a
tendency encouraged by the new ac-
tivities of women and by city life. At
the beginning, however, in the first
weeks and months of his existence
when change and development are
more rapid than at any other period,
the human being has never had such
decent treatment as it is the happy
fashion to bestow upon him now. He
is treated for his own welfare instead
of for the amusement of his friends.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27
THE PORTIERE CRAZE.

We know a house-one of those snug
little toy affairs, designed for the oc-
cupancy of bridal couples-wherein
portieres obtain. The bride is a victim
of the portiere craze, one of the most
exasperating fads of modern times.
In that house, says the Philadelphia
Ledger, you can scarcely struggle
through doorway without
bending double. While say
ing your farewells you are
perhaps gently edging your way out
of the parlor, when, 10! your hat is
suddenly removed by one sweep of
the heavy draperies. Quite frequently,
when stepping forth to speed the part
ing guest, the hostess pompadour is
obscured by festoons of brocade and
bobbing tassels. In that house you can
not get anywhere or do anything with
out fighting off portieres. 1t is really
awful.
Apropros, here is a delicious bit of
sarcasm by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Anent that pretty fiction about the
traces of a woman's hand she says:
TT is a minor myth, but very dear
to us. We imagine that a woman
any woman-just because she is a
woman. has an artistic touch, an aes-
thetic sense, by means of which she
can cure ugliness as kings were sup
posed to cure scrofula, by the laying
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27
AMY WOMAN CAN KEEP YOUNG

Any woman can grow old If she
wants to do so: any woman can keep
young, if she will take the trouble. A
woman can, at thirty, begin to get old.
She can neglect to do her hair becom-
ingly: she can fall out of the way of
wearing nice neckwear; she can let her
complexion go to the dogs and her
teeth keep company; she can allow her
hands to shrivel and lose their shape;
she can grow scanned and marred and
she can forget that her figure should
have it's outline preserved. All of these
things are possible for the woman who
does not care how she looks.
A great many women, says the
Brooklyn Eagle, who are very fully
groomed, still look very untidy. 1t is
because they do not know the up-to-
date methods of looking nice. There
are ways and ways of making the
wrinkles disappear, and there are ways
and ways Of making the hands charm
ing and the eyes bright.
Now, if one wants to look very nice
one must devote at least an hour day
to modern processes of beauty. One
must try to look nice and one cannot do
1t without application and strict atten-
ton to the new beauty methods.
Unless the hair shines, unless the
complexion CLOVIS unless the hands are
correct In their plumpness and shape
unless the weight is in proportion to
the hight, unless the teeth are a JOY
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27
PULLING UP" THE
SAGGING CHEEKS.

This is accomplished in a manner
which was probably originally borrow
ed from the dressmaker. The face is
carefully pushed up on either side,
says the New York World till over
the cheek the skin lies as firmly and
smoothly as in childhood. A tiny tri-
angular piece of the skin is shipped out
of the surplus which has been push
ed up close to the edge of the hair.
A few stitches holds this ingenious
gusset in place while the healing pro-
cess is in progress, and when My Lady
again energies the ''fit" of her face
has been frightened to a degree only
realized by those who have had the
experience. Her smile or frown is of
necessity stiffened and practically cur
tailed. 1t is not her desire to appear
emotionless, but her inability to ex-
press feeling of any kind naturally Qor
the time being at leasD, that sets her
features like mask.
have known one woman go through
the pulling up operation twice, for
of course, after a while the skin re-
lakes to some extent. The expense is
something like 5000, but this and the
pain involved are nothing to the wom-
an in search of what she fondly be-
lieves will preserve her youth.
Women. too. are still having the out
or skin of the face removed to gain
the downy skin that is underneath.
This metamorphosis is another of short
duration, for exposure to the weather
rapidly toughens the cuticle, and the
too-delicate under skin is much more
sensitive than it's predecessor.
The wrinkles we see are not the re-
suit of over-expression, but over-mas-
sage. Not emotion, but an undue
amount of beauty creams and lotions
have lined the face of our women.
The frequent laugh that comes from
happy heart will pull the face up
in manner that needs no stitches or
gusset to make it lasting. A little
more sleep and fewer heavy lunches
and late suppers will remove the need
of a glove-fitting face and the criti-
cism it has called forth.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27
WOMEN IN THE PULPIT.

lady of mature age recently APP
nlied for ordination as a Congregational
minister in Western New York, but
was refused, though strongly recon-
mended. This refusal, says an Amerl-
can clergyman in London News, was
NOT because the application was un-
nrecedented or because of objection to
women in the pulpit. A glance at the
Conprepational Yearbook for 1902,
taken at random and without eXhaus~
five scrutiny, shows twenty women Of
aciatine as ministers of Congregational
churches in dozen states, TWO OF
them in New England, the rest beyond
the mississippi. These are without ex-
cen+ion ministers of small churches
averaging about forty COMMITMENTS.
Except In Colorado, where tnere are
five such the few states IN whlcn
women have the right OF Suffrage 40
not seem to be more iiberaliy suppiieu
with women preachers than the others.
Much more frequently the names or
women appear in the lists of church
clerks and Sunday-school superinten-
dents. ,n., ,,...,..,,,,,
oh,,rehas-i g.. Unitarian and Unit
versalist-the pastoral charge IL very
often IN the hands OF women, some
OF them gifted preachers. yer even
10 those who have quite outgrowh we
not very ancient prejudice, there - sun
sense of an incongruity soineWhe'
lndlerous In reading reports or the Ut
terancea OF THE Rev. Annie" ana
"the Rev. Nellie" .,
How greatly the status OF women
An thls a. In other points has changed
~lthin the memory OF liying men
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27
AN UNFAIR EXCHANGE.

When the soup was served, says the
New York Times, Mrs. Broadway be-
gan to talk shop.
did you exchange those gloves this
morning, Jasper?' she asked.
NO" said Broadway. Il didn't"
"Why not? / told you to. But OF
course you forgot it,"
mo, didn't forget. They wouldn't
take them back"
Mrs. Broadway ratified her spoon
against the side of her plate. They
wouldn't take" she said. We'll, of
all things. l suppose you went to the
wrong place"
Possibly" returned Broadway. 81
went where you told me to-"
And what did they say?"
Various things. The girl at the ex-
change desk wanted to know II / want
ed to get the things cleaned and re-
paired"
"cleaned and repaired? Why. she
must be crazy. They have never been
worm"
That's what told her. but my ar
gument was not convincing"
But why did you let her browbeat
your" asked Mrs. Broadway. why
didn't you call a fioorwalker?"
II did. / called half dozen Of
them and threatened to lick the whole
bunch. but they didn't seem afraid.
They all said the same thing-that
the gloves were sOiled and Ia bad
shape generally. and could not be tax
en- back. ! couldn't even get them 70
let me have another pair, much Less
20 refund the money"
THAT Is an Outrage" cried Mrs.
Broadway, II VIII meyer step my foot
inside that store again.
n told them that, too put IN BKoad~
way. Il told them you never would
tconapuea on Psge Tweny-ons.J
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27
ANTI-KISSING SOCIETIES.

IF kissing be abolished it will dis
integrate the universe. Mrs. Cornelia
Stewart Robinson.
New York, says the New York Her
aid, believes in OSCILLATION. 1t admits
1t not only on the basis of custom,
hut on the ground of ethics. 1t mas
an economic excuse for the practlce
and defends it as an expression OIL
good taste-always allowing Tor the
fact that there are kisses and Kisses.
Agitation on the matter was preclp-
iated by the announcement of the re-
cent formation of the National Anti
Kissing Society of America in Oakland,
Cal. 1t has already 100 members, who
declare themselves "Of sound sense,
who are pledged to abjure all forms
OF the kiss, from the amatory to the
perfuntory, for the rest of their nat
ural lives
They renounce the pleasure and graf
ifcation to be derived from the use of
the art of OSCILLATION, commonly known
as kissing" from a "heroic desire to
promote and preserve the health and
freedom of the human family gen.
orally"
The president is X. 1. Sweat and the
Secretary M. Farley. A local secre-
tary will be appointed for all branches,
for its organizers are positive that the
world has only 10 learn of the eVils or
The kiss, physical and moral TO az once
assume a muzzle or its equlvalent-a
Certificate of membership in the Anti
Kissing Society.
A. s. Rutherford of Oakland. who Is
the general secretary. explains the mis-
son of the society az cause The
anti l<issers take themselves serious
~ lie says
The practice OF kissing IL menace
noi only 10 the morals, but 70 tne
heaith OF the community Through
.Wehd, and the evil effects or Hnch
n,afss Of affection cannot be estimat-
Then Just think what a shield
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27
PROLONGED THE HONEYMOON.

How to Prolong the Honeymoon"
was the subject of a recent address by
NCamden M. Cobson of Detroit, and
having, he said, just passed the TWEEN
.tieth milestone of married life he felt
competent to offer suggestions and told
of several instances in which he had
stopped divorce suits by giving this
advice: Never speak unless you have
something pleasant to say" His re-
marks were in part as follows:
Most love stories come to an end
when the honeymoon commences. L
think this is the place where the best
love story of life ought to begin
have no sympathy with the notion
that the first moon of married life
has the most honey in it. True love,
E like true religion, grows sweeter every
#year.
If you have married the wrong
!. woman, bear the fruit of your mis-
q Judgment like a man. Job had a wife
3that deserted him in his sorest ex-
Etremity and told him the best thing he
could do was to die, yet he lived to
prove that man is strong enough to
conquer the devil, even if his satanic
majesty has his wife for a colleague.
every law to pull together, and if you
B are hitched wrong pull your best any
way. You supposed she was all honey.
i Now you find her a jar of vinegar. But
are you quite sure you are all honey
& Here are some rules which if adopted
at the beginning of married life will
make every moon a honeymoon:
BE absolutely true to your wife.
f Never give her the slightest cause to
be Jealous. The Bible says: Jealousy
is as cruel as the grave Some one
q has well said: Take care that your
p hearts don't need much washing, for
3 they may perhaps need wringing also
+ if they do
"A husband will keep his wife's love
usually if he keeps his own. Most
women can say: I loved him because
/ he first loved me- Love is born of love
Il and grows with the habit of it. He
+ who rests content with the love re-
ceived at the betrothaI will soon lose
n that. If the counting keeps up the
Il honeymoon will never be over. He is
the wise man who remains the lover
H husband To him the best romance OF
life lies in the long years far removed
from the wedding day.
The wife deserves the same atten-
| ton and tender courtesies ten years
| after marriage as ten days before. We
used to thank her for any little favor
and praise her to the skies. Now she
gets up the best kind of dinner fol
us seven times a week and too many
of US never say word unless it is
What is the matter with this coffee?
Don't be afraid of praising your wife
| too much. A mutual admiration So
/ ciety is good in it's place and the home
| is the place.
mo home can be happy where hus-
band and wife are not frequently
lunching together at table where the
| honeycomb is abundant"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27

on of hands. We find this feelingly al
luded to in fiction, where some lone
ly miner, coming to his uncared for
cabin, discovers a flower pot, a bird
cage and a tidy, and delightedly pro-
claims, "A woman has been here!' He
thinks it is beautiful because it is fem
mime"
Knowledge of artistic ethics, so to
speak is more widely diffused than
formerly; but even yet the average
woman possesses only the concrete,
not the abstract, idea of beauty.
And hence it is that in these times
when tides and patchwork are
passe, we have the horror of the SUI
perf1uous portiere, which may be at
tractive in wide archways and lofty
apartments, but which is an abomina-
ton in a house where the rooms are
like pigeonholes.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27

The body motions are very necessary
to beauty. Learn how to sway the
body prettily and one has conquered
the dreadful bugbear of awkwardness.
One must learn to bend and sway, to
move this way and that way, to stand
up and sit down. without acting as if
hinged There are women whom it is a
delight to watch and there are others
whose every movement is painful to
the eye. One can just as well be grace
full as one of the awkward sisterhood.
Physical culture exercises will make
one graceful. Practice them early and
late. And, If one has few minutes in
between times, practice them again.
Stand erect and, with the arms go
through with the calisthenics which
will accomplish the transformation
from an awkward to a graceful woman.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27

single fact illustrates. About seventy
years ago, when agitation of the slav-
cry question began, a notice was sent
to the pulpit of a church
near Boston announcing that
Abby Kelly would speak at the Town
Hall Monday evening on the abolition
of slavery. The minister fulfilled the
request to give the notice by this an
nouncement: "At the Town Hall to-
morrow night a hen will crow"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27
Too Much Holiday Fun and Folly

Too much of good thngl That's what we
all liable to take during holiday season Healthy,
jolly people will do it and make themselves sick.
ain time of peace prepare for war, and have about
the house pleasant, perfect, palatabe, positive
medicine for sour stomach, sick headache, collie,
Winds belching, bousness, furred tongue, lazy
liver constipation, bad BREATH bad taste, all liable
to result from holiday over-indulgence. Cascarets
Candy Cathartic is what you want; tablet after
big meal will prevent sickness, or tablet at night
before going to bed after good time, will fix you
all right for mornne, and let you get up clear as
bell ready for business or pleasure.
noOo a. oennias tablet stamped &C. Guaranteed %
G0NEnAQ11 cure back sample and booklet
&Sg~ 49, free Address
~auuHunEun etsTling Kennedy Co., Chicago York
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27
ia E. Pinkham'sVegetable Compound

tell you what remedies for Before
taking them used have headache would be
would spells when everything strange and would not
where
81 doctor medicine but it did
do good but after taking Lydia f. Pnkhams Vege-
table Compound l began to improve at
honestly remedies all suffering
al to
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27

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The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27

ST cheerfly Lydia e. Pinkhams Vegetable Com
medicine all female
troubled with displacement of other
could hardly walk the floor,
friend medicine which did, after
bottles
of troubles
lam more thankful every
know
to
The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-27
FREE MEDICAL ADVICE TO WOMEN.

If there anything your which you
surely yOu pers
America wider In treating
ills. helped hundreds of thousands of back
her advice is
foolish if do accept her kind invitation
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-06-05
frequent
Ths'OhhiI1g
Headache.

There's many a cause for headache.
Men are not often troubled by headaches.
When they are it is generally due to bill
iousness or indigestion. But women
have headaches which seem peculiar to
their sex, frequent nervous throoblng
headaches. Does it not seem as II such
headaches peculiar to women must be at
once related to womanly disease? Wom-
en- who suffer with diseases peculiar to
the sex do not realize the drain of vital
strength and nerve force they undergo
as a Consequence of disease. 1t is this
which causes the familiar headaches Of
sick women.
Or. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
cures such headaches by curing the
cause-irregularity, weakening. drains,
Inflammation, liberation or female weak
ness. uFavorite Prescription" invigor-
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and gives refreshing sleep.
81 was troubled with congestion Of the uterus
and female weakness for i've years, writes Mrs.
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any work. Had severe pain In back, also diZzi-
ness and pain in head. My heart would beat 50
hard and fast at times would have to sit still
till got all right again. But after taking four
bottles of DIR. Pierces Favorite Prescription and
one of his Golden Medical Discovery felt
entirely we'll. also used one box OF Lotion
Tablets and one of Suppostories' as directed.
All the SYMPTOMS of my trouble have disap-
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Tor your kind advice and your medicine"
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets clear the
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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-06-05
For sale at Opera House Drugstore

Miss Bessie Roome, of north
Main street, left this afternoon for
Jerusalem, Ohio. where she will
visit relatives for a few weeks.
The Fourth of July fatality season
has already begun and Is not I'M
likely to get momentum enough to
carry 1t we'll over Into August.
Lost-Plaln gold locket and
chain with initials engraved.
Suitable reward If returned to Oh
Review Office. 43t*
The pluck and hopefulness OF
the Kansas City and Topeka people
Is as monumental as the misfor-
tunes that have come upon them.
Robert Price, contortionist on
Prices Floating Opera, spent few
hours In the city today with his
mother who resides on Water
street.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. G. Rulings,
who have been visiting relatives In
the city for few days, left on the
afternoon train for their home at
Wheeling.
John Kinkaid received a telegram
last evening conveying the sad
news of Ills mothers serious Illness.
He left on the 6:18 train for her
home at Indiana, Pa.
John F. Shore, cashier of the
Bank of Middlebourne, passed
through the city this morning en-
route to his place of business from
a trip to points north.
En- Davenport, the genial and
popular travelling representative OF
the New Martinsville Grocery
company, was calling on his patrons
here this afternoon.
Mayor H. G. Meek and Boyd
Lively left on the afternoon train
for Moundsville, to witness the ex-
ecution this evening, at the State
prison, of MILFORD Davis.
Miss Alma Archer, who has been
the charming guest of Miss Mabel
Chadderdon, of the South Side, for
a few days, returned this morning
to her home at Bellaire, 0.
F. F. Debolt and family, who
have beeu visiting the formers
mother, of Mccoy Heights for a
week, returned to their home this
morning at East Liverpool, o.
o. J. Smith and family returned
home this morning from a weeks
sojourn In the interior of the county.
Mr.. Smith Is manager of the job
printing department of the Review.
George Whitson, and family
went to Marietta this morning
where they will locate for the pres.
ent. Mr.. Whitson has accepted
position with the Leidecker Tool
company there.
The R. Gates Transfer company
added to their business yesterday
handsome plano truck of the very
latest device. 1t was built at
Firdlay, Ohio, and was especially
manufactured for the transportation
of pianos. We are pleased to note
this evidence of prosperity and
enterprise on the part of the above
company. Mr.. Gates. the genial
manager Of the firm, Is chuck full
of hustle and has built up an ex-
tensive patronage In the piano
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-06-05
Local News

Saturday fair.
Not so cold today.
Kansas Is recovering.
June brides are rather shy.
Much warmer this afternoon.
The weather man should guess
again.
II. R. johnson, OF Pittsburg, was
In the city last evening.
Cantelopes have made their
appearance In the local market.
R: B. Ciark. of Wheeling, was
: registered at the Hotel Wells 90
day.
IT.. Sellers, Jr Of Middlebourns,
was business caller IN the city to-
day.
J. R. Wells, of Lo1g Reach, was
trs1sactirg business In the city to-
day.
NJ. z. Hagan went to Waveriy
this morning to look after his oil
interests.
John Shannon, prominent cap.
1talist of Matamoras, was In the
city today.
T E. Baldensparger, of New
Mar:lnsville, WAS calling on friends
In the city today,
n. Z. Stoner, the Burt street
machilest, was a St. Marys ousi-
ness visitor today.
Joseph Sweeney returned this
afternoon from the Bankers Con-
vertion at Parkersburg.
Wanted-Go d coat maker at
once. Apply Oil Review Office.
I6t
Contractor Frank Moore left this
morning for the Cameron oil field
to7lcok after his business interests.
For RENT - Nicely furnished
rooms, cool and quiet location. No.
e2I south Water street.. 26.tt
W. S. Clark, of Thompson, W.
Va, Is visiting his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Clark, of east Hill stieet.
Frank MILKY, who Is interested
In the Darnell heirs oil we'll at
Little Sancho returned to Plttsburg
this morning.
J. c. Rose, representative for the
Crossett Shoe company of Boston,
Mass, was business visitor In the
city yesterday.
The Moran House on Water
street Is receiving coat of paint,
which will add much to Its appear
ance when the work Is completed.
WI Neuenschwander returned
to the city last evening from Par
kersburg where he had been In at
tendance at the Bankers Conven.
,tion.
W. B. Showalter, the popular
travelling representative of the
Vance Shoe company of Wheeling,
was calling on his patrons here
today.
The river continues to recede. A
stage Of 3 feet and 6 inches IS all
there Is In the channel at Wheeling.
The local boats are all running on
schedule time.
John Brooks, the we'll known
stone and brick mason, returned
from Midd1ebourne this morning
where he had been engaged at
masonary work the past week for
w. II. HUH.