The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-28

She basks in the subdued writing several
 light of pink candles. articles on "the
 care of t3e child" and ''how to make the home bedu- tiful." They were first written to the accompaniment of smothered scorn be- cause the majority of women wanted that sort of thing. Then they were written in a ponderous and conscientious manner, and lastly in a spirit of reverence. As for the corned beef hash, eat it most thankfully wherever I can get 1t decently cooked, which Is in, alas, very few places, and wish to goodness that had at this moment the recipe that scornfully threw away.
 Corned beef hash is very wholesome and soothing to a digestion made blase by swcetbreads and something's a la some thing else.
 And it's the same way with peoples characters.
 ''The hands that smooth the bed and make the meal'-I am quoting rather badly from something that have read somewhere-well, give me those hands, at any rate, in preference to hands which writhe in art nouveau gestures from an art nouvreau floppety tea gown or hold in their fingers, stained with chrome yai low and studio atmosphere, the dizzy cigarette.
 Soap and water and sunshine have fascination for me which-well, simply cant describe 1t except by likening it to the effect of catnip on a cat. And when I come across some woman who washes her face in cold cream to preserve the skin and basks in the subdued light of pink cdndles it makes me feel cramped. and I get out as soon as can for fear will open the front door and throw her out into the sunshine to get some clear air into her soul.
 The Cult of the "Wopples."
 am talking about all this because this wahdering into the ranks of the wopple sided and the soulful is a common ac- cident. to girls. The trouble Is that few ever emerge; it seems to be fatal. I was --er-helped out by fate and few other circumstances; but, as Kipling says, that is another story" I'm glad 1t happened, although 1t was painful at the time.
 The girl who joins the ranks of the dreamers with false ideas of life--in A word, those I call the unwholesome-lS apt to be one who had too much soap and water and common sense in her home. She had a mother who was so good she was fairly m0notonous and whose eye for the practical far exceeded her eye for the beautiful One such girl at the rather crucial age of fifteen suddenly made the alarming discovery that she was totally unlike the other female members of her family. She came to that conclu- sion after she had had a conversation with her mother, in the course of which she innocently aired a bunch of startling 1y original and rather forceful ideas, which caused her mother to gasp help lessly and declare her inability to soIvs any of the problems presented for her amazed consideration, Never having been guilty of such complex sentiments herself, she felt as If they were almost out of place in a woman. and l believe that. without saying so, she could not help conveying that impression.
 That finished any comparison of ideas between mother and daughter. The girl retired to her shell and started a very remarkable diary, in which she wrote only twice a week, and never news, but only the changes in her mental thermom- eter.
 That it was a silly diary there isn't much doubt, because 1t was thoroughly sincere, and no girl at that age can help sounding silly if she really unravels the wonderful mix-up of ideas in her brain.