Middletown transcript., 1906-02-03
OUR WOMANs COLUMN
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e It's impossible to convince girl that
exercise at washtub improves the COM
plexion.
Begging letters received by Helen
Gould in week recently asked fora total
of 81, 100000.
Ii you desire white lace to have the
creamy tint of real lace rinse it in skim
milk instead OF blue water.
Ii young mans attack of love is the
genuine article, he never thinks OF post
poning the wedding until he can afford
to marry.
Woman, according to the creation
story, always was more perfect than man.
Adam had rib pinched, but Eve got all
that was coming to her.
Awriter wonders how many American
women would pass the ordeal of the ST.
berlan bride-elect, who is obliged to pre-
pare dinner as proof of her future house
wifery.
Make your home cozy and inviting by
having reading lamps lighted, by arrang-
ing nice, comfortable lounging corners
and providing good reading material and
good music.
Every young girl should, if practicable,
have an allowance At first it should be
very small, just sufficient to cover her lit
tie expenses. As she grows older it
should be annually increased.
Princess Ena of Battenberg, who is re-
ported to be engaged to the king OF Spain,
is the only royal child born in Scotland
for more than 300 years-that is, since
the birth Of Charles l in 1900.
That fine old English saying that
every little boy and gal, born into this
world alive, is either little liberal, or
else little conservative" must now be
amended. Some OF them are laborites.
Large hips are no longer considered
beautiful. by having your skirts care
fully cut so as to give fullness at the back
and hips you can create for yourself a
better figure. Hip pads are of course
quite impossible, only the foolish girls
will think OF wearing them.
The fashion of lining fancy wells with
becoming shade of chiffon is increasing.
Very few women realize that pale blue
tuile makes stunning lining for the
winter veil, particularly when combined
with silvery gray net, as it adds a delicate
bloom to fresh cheeks, and, if spotted
with white, the effect is quite fairylike.
Since the announcement of his coming
marriage to Miss Roosevelt Congressman
Longworth's mail has increased fourfold.
Nearly half of his letters contain recipes
for promoting the growth of hair and he
is offered any quality of infallible tonics
if he will use them and send testimonials
in return.
Mrs. Fairbanks, wife of the vice presi-
dent, declares that she does not possess
nerves and it would seem that this is no
idle boast. Mrs. Fairbanks has an iron
endurance and she attributes her forti-
tude, mental and physical, in the fact that
she never allowed herself to worry over
anything great or trivial.
My idea of the ideal woman? The one
who laughs when others would rage, the
one who is kind to animals, the one who
has time and inclination to read good
book, the one who loves children, is
patient with old people, who is never
selfish and whose voice is always an en-
courager and joy. Find girl like this,
and you'll think her pretty, no matter
what sort of story her mirror tells.
The supreme court of the United States
had genuine sensation recently on the
appearance before it for the first time OF a
woman attorney in the person of Mrs.
Belva Lockwood. She appeared in be-
half of about 5000 Cherokee Indians,
who in 1928 were moved from North
Georgia and Alabama but we're
deprived of their share, amounting to
some 100000, appropriated by the
government in their behalf.
Mrs. ]. G. Phelps Stokes, bride of the
millionaire reformer, has solved the SER
1ant problem by being her own cook and
lousekeeper. Though they might keep
, large establishment and many servants
he rich settlement worker and his wife
i've simply in modest six-room apart
nent on the east side of New York city.
Mrs. Stokes kitchen is in white enamel.
yot speck of dirt can be found in the
ghole fiat and she has made it homelike
nd artistic as a little nest for two can be.
The TRANSCRIPT, $l.O0 per year.