Middletown transcript., 1906-09-15
OUR WOMAN's COLUMN
Eagiisll girls are great walkers.

EhkiIsti kltls aIe kiehs haikCirs
i CInny lace seems to be gaining favor.
/ The long, sloping shoulder is promised
Fnrs promise to be more fashion abll
and richer q atty than ever.
Dry ness Of skin and general eruptionI
call for more fruit to be eaten.
A spoonful of water added to an egG
before beating it makes it more frothy.
Beauty is never complete until IL har-
monies with ones character and ones
life.
Matrilnony to one man is a halter, to
another harness, and to still another a
spur.
Forget your old troubles; you'll be that
much better equipped to overcome the
new ones.
Selfmade women outnumber self-made
men dozen to one-as any dealer in cos.
netics will tell you.
Wasp waist comes back into favur in
London, in spite of physicians warnings
concerning tight corsets.
1t is the Stimulation brought about by
exercise that fills out muscles and even
increases the dimensions Of bones.
Give expression to your best thosghts.
You will be surprised to find how inter.
esting you can be TO yourself.
Young women addicted to golf are sr--
curing young girls as caddies. So there's
another masculine occupation changing
hands.
Women have not only become more
robust but they are thousand times
happier than in the old days when it was
the fashion to be delicate and enjoy poor
health.
Most employers say that they prefer
small women as saleswomen and general
helpers, explaining that they are natur.
ally more enegetic and get about more
quickly.
Women should smoke cigarettes to pre-
serve their complexion and avoid heart
disease which results from tea drinking,
says DR.. Martin Friedrich, health officer
Of Cleveland.
Russian women already have as much |
freedom as any of their sex in Europe |
quite as much as the English and much
more than those OF any other continental
country except the swiss aud Scaadi-
nayians.
Dress has great deal to do with the
general outline of the figure. The short
girl logged in rufies and wearing per
iectly fiat hat looks as if she tePn
pounded on the head and nodded to
shorter proportions.
The total number of..women inhabiting
IN lia, saysthe Tribune, is l43, 95ti. Az, out
i wliici, 25,S9l 1886 are widows. which,
means that ont Of every i've there is one
Tidov. The Hindus carry the highest
1umber of widows, which is l9, 73S, 468.
During tile last ten years the American
girl has grown up. That's not saying
hat Uncle Sans daughters hayen't al
ways been full-sized but the tendency to-
ward physical culture development has
added several inches to the average fem
nine figure.
Skirts are to be longer than they We
been for many glad day, SO says the
Paris people. But an inch and q half
rom the ground we've been used to is all |
he concession American women are ex-
oected to make.
There's peg loose somewhere il par.
,nt's who have given their children care
ind shelter through childhood years have
o spend their declining davs 10 the
county poor farm when either son or
laughter has SO much as root for shei.
er or two crusts Of bread. i-r
The Oldest junk dealer in die United
states is Minerva Lucinda Percis Melinda.
Lee Davis Of Columbus, Ind: This aged /
Eoman, who weighs scarcely an ounce
,ver eighty-four pounds, is noSlarger than
child. Although she 10 so years old,
lie works on with untiring efforts in try
ng to earn her living by gathering iunk
rom the by-ways of Columbus. II