Middletown transcript., 1906-06-23
OUR WOMAN's COLUMN
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you have to do is tosit up aud take notice.

ls me, Dig, sweet old world. All
b you have to do is tosit up aud take notice.
:. Beauty is never complete until it is in
. harmony with ones character and ones
!, life.
Soap and water and pleasant thoughts
are the foundations bean.ifiers; the rest
are trimmings.
\ The great work Of uplifting the hua-
bands begins, as you precsiye, by holding
them up Tor pnblic inspection.
Have you noticed that the women who
are sighted when invitations to affairs
are sent out never go to the Bible for
consolation
The sweet girl graduate who can ex-
tplain how to get up palatabie meal
using vegetables only is likely to score
distinct triumph.
The long, loose. separate coat is here to
stay, and the summer girl is wondering
how in the world she ever managed to
get along without it.
| Coffee" says Rochester physician,
i'is worst than whisky Perhaps his
wife has had an unsatisfactory experience
with cooks.
/ II the young men would devote as
much Of their time to money-making as
they do to love-making there would be
more RockefelIers iu,the world
The first deaf mute in this country to
become nun is Miss Eta Mae Holman,
who was recently received into Domini-
can order at Hunts Point. New York.
A face that is shining with smiles is
very expressive and beautiful. but face
that is shining with moist shimmering
polished complexion is not SO adorable.
Girls, let this warn you. While dress
ing for party Miss Annie, Welshenburn
of BelIeville, ILL.,, broke her left arm in
trying to button her shirt waist up the
back.
| A San Francisco bachelor offers to furn-
Ii ish clothes for 500 women. If he had
ever been compelled to furnish clothes for
one woman, especially along about the
time she was getting ready TO go to some
fashionable place to stay through the hot
spell, he would no doubt have disappointed
about 500 of them.
England is shocked at the American
ladies' peek-a-boo waist. They think we
are going around clad in the fashion of
Mother Eve; long descriptions of the
shocking garments worn BY women here
are being published. One journal has
canvassed twenty OF the greatest dry goods
stores in London to discover whether
there is likely TO be pee-a-boo shirt
waist craze in this truly prim country
The first marriage of an American girl
to Spanish nobleman since the Spanish
American war was celebrated at Baki-
more on Saturday when Miss Constance
Cazenoys Lee, member of a distinguished
Virginia family, become the bride of Don
Luis Posta, charge d'affaires of the Span
ish legation at Washington. The couple
first met while Miss Lee was travelling
aboard. The bride is grandniece Of
Gen. Robert E. Lee.
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The mothers of to-day are receiving
scientific instruction in the care Of their
babies. At the federation OF womans'
clubs now in session at st. Paul, it was
announced that babies that are Graded in
snow drifts and receive cold baths are
more likely to be strong and beautiful
than those that are raised after the man
ner of hot-house plants. The good old
mothers Of pioneer days, were they to
look in on present day scenes and hear
theories promulgated, would stand aghast.
Pretty clothes when one can well afford
them are good investments. Every wo-
man is justified in being interested
in this interesting matter which is so
large part OF her life. 1t should not be
all her existence OF course for one must
think Of ones's studies, ones home dutiee, 8
affections, charities and all that. But to
neglect oneself is to neglect everything
When We fall into a state of neglect and
carelessness We can safely realize that we
are beginning TO outlive our usefulness as
our 'ornamentaIness.
Commencement day and the season
for expressing girlish dreams and aspira.
tions in poem and essay are at hand.
The girl graduate a dainty creatuFe-all
Innocence and hope, gowned in white, as
her own heart. And her commencement
essay-the very first Towering into
speech of all the dreamy fancies, the re-
solves OF q scarce awakened heart. Hats
Off and health to the sweet girl gradu-
ate For she is sweet-sweet as Was her
mother whose youth smiles through her
daughters eyes, and sweet as every an,
cestress who, vanishing into the mists Of
long ago, has nevertheless dropped upon
her slender shoulders the dover of youth
and all womanly qualities and bequeathed
to her the mission Of reyiving hope and
loie in life.
Jealousy is one Of the most humiliat-
ing, beiittiing and pride-wreckine emo
tions. II is frightful thing for woman
to be obliged to acknowledge. even to her
self, that she is jealous Of her husband, 8
for in this confession she expresses be-
lief that some other woman has greater
powers OF fascination than she has
There are various ways Of making one
self attractive and even though woman
may know them all, she is always in
danger Of foverdoing, A man tires more
quickly Of the woman who hangs around
him every moment and lasishes upon
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