The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-11-12


I'M her education at Mrs. Polishers
IVA excellent School for Young In,
ksS dies and then she "carn g., OUT
S>ssss0 was a tradition IN Edlth's fam-
lily that college was too hart" for girls.
There we're two unmarried sisters older
thnn Edith. Sally. the oldest ono. q good
girl. but rather plain and dull, had come
out at the uge OF eighteen. Rebecca,
Polisher's until sho was twenty. nebecea
,Nas not pretty, but she was bright. IN
fact she was almost too bright. Like l;t
tongue With a tang. ana the - young
men were rather afraid of her
When Edith came along, impatient, as
vited' and 10 take her regular place. in
society, there was hard work to keep her
back. She was the pretticst Of the three
would not Be so long a-narrying as
had been those leisurely naidcns, her
sisters. Accordingly, she planned to avoid
nent tier p inatTlmoniai barks sind had split
mission schools . argued Miss Edith;
OF thing When en- 'i ann s old and a. gray ray. oii
women have nothing to do bit. philan-
thropio work 1t makes people poky. any.
Way to see SO much suffering and poy,..s
and try to forget all about It,. And as
for Rehecca, she talks too much. Tho
quiet little mouse, provided she looks
.RebeccA makes remarks about everybody,
ard tries to- he smart. and witty, and !
50 she gets herself dGsllked. But / must
A \ when the church people
oa nks eass or s q, IT, for
iect, she would smile and say sweetly$
that She would '1ove to do it-only, YOU, !,
know. am SO busy. I really have scarce
" time to eat and Sleep ~
Sally expostulated with her ana Re-
becca made fun of her. nut Miss Edith
went on in her own obstinate way
Edith had a beautiful room to herself,
maid to herself. You will think so, too,
her. heartless father insisted that one
mother was a partial invalid and had .
trained a. nurse at hand always to walt
every woman who could afford 1t; relapsed
into state of more or less pronounced
invalidls'n attended by operations: Bless
work. : : - = =
INTO her beautiful room Edith locked
t9f part Of every day
late almost every night. she never APP
peared the next day until time for lunch
con. Elise. the maid, attended upon the
nit. The division OF E;lise's services was
the hardest rtns problem in the family, and
all around. But whatever happened, poor
Elise Elise had e an ~, hour or two Of hard
For. Edith was indeed very busy" If
you desire to know exactly how she en-
ployed the weeks and months of time
she left school. cut out from the papers
all the rules which you read for taking |
care Of the hands, Improving the COM |!
GRACEFUL and to Sdevelop the figure"
caring for the teeth. and rracticing steps,
m 70 81 pe eyary heoai The ~ hnss
every lady should do daily. H You viii
fd t ae spS Ed ~! b sp9k
to eat and to sleep" for she was trying
to do Just fthat-to perform all the rIdicu-
lous :. which degenerate' ard de; !,
upon simple unthnllnE women.
Every morning Edith took her cold bath. !,
[oliowed BY massage. E.yen. her by MISS
was patsn Hi'e WORKED asfaf sto
face and her neck and arms, While this
skin food oa vas delnsits smoothng and
instructor came to guide her. On other
lays she went throug!i@the@ exercise for
half an. hour by herself. Once week
which took a half hour more. On other
lays Elise looked after Edith's important
niger nails. If sheEcould get time. lf5the
o them herself though she always com
oIainad hcart-brokenly when she was
'orced to make this awful .exertion. II.
n addition 70 this imposition, she had
lersclf cruelty abused. Once wcel: the
manicure. who vas also an expert hair
dresser. shampooed Edith's pretty brown
lair. Every dav Edith herself rubbed
, preparation Of vaseline into the roots
II her hair. which was always having
imes OF "falllng out5 Then the vase.
else put on. The care Of q
sdMh's hair alone occupied her fully an q
,our each and every day,
ong enough It was rubbed of. and some
oct OF q WhItener was rubbed on. Then |.