New-York tribune., 1907-12-26
GLE4NINGS.

Manv women are curiously careless Of their COM
plexiors in winter. says a beauty doctor They
will take precautions against sunburn, probably
because Of its obvious and instantaneous effect,
but they are quite oblivious to the steady deter
ioration of their skins during the winter months
Cold cream applied to the face before going out
and then wiped of and followed by busting OF
powder is great protection against the cold.
and when the weather is at all severe the face
should be protected by chiffon veil. Keeping the
face perfectly Clean which is q work Of art and
apparently beyond the power of most women is
also a help.
A pretty idea for bazaar is a modernzed Won
derland. All the familiar figures wander about
just as Alice found them, with Alice herself look
ing on while a motor keeps rushing in and out
among the figures and through mysterious cas-
tie One has only to give this motor or the mock
turtle or the fish footman or other well known
characters 10 cents. and Immediately with extreme
amiabiiity, he rushing off to the castle and
brings back beautiful large pink and white par
eel, which, when it is opened reveals precisely the
thing that one has been longing for. There may
be also in the garden enormous Humpty Dump
ty, who obligingiy smashes himself every time one
gives him 10 cents. and discoses in his interior
box Of chocolates.
Fearful and wonderful the ways of frugal
and industrious womankind. They viii seize
| the most unlikely objects such as empty tins or
frying pans, and with infinite toll and patience turn
these dubious articles into precious ornaments of
the home. English dispatches say that the
in that country have now attacked the mems hats.
ana no chimneSpOI, however new or treasured Is
safe from their nlaraudfng hands Male visitors
afraid leave their headgear in the hall lest
is no place public or private. where a man can
feel safe with his top hat, Elderly women have
even been seen to snatch prizes from beneath pews
when seemingly engaged in their devotions. and
the only thing that mas been found effective in
upon the cloche and feathers OF offenders.
The fact that under the new election law Of
Russia women can vote on the terms men.
hat they O bx O
have escaped notice. Even who watch Russian
affairs most attentively,' says The AngIo-Rus-
sian, had overlooked it until we were brought to
realize the situation unexpectedly by an appeal to
issued by the Octobrist party, now forming
the centre Of the Douma This appeal: issued be
fore the last election depicted the terrible state
Of the fatherland and urged women who possessed
the necessary property to give their proxies 10
who had none" The only one or the United
States that gives women proxy vote is Louisi-
ana, but they may vote in person if they wish
AT one election Mrs Kate NJ Gordon, president
of the Womens Sewerage and Drainage League,
collected proxies from three hundred un1id women
who wanted better sanitation but shrank from the
polls, and voted them herself
President C. Stanley Hall of Clark University.
If he is correctly reported, has a great deal to
deplore He deplores the Termination Of the
schools He deplores he paternalism which pro-
vides free textbooks. free luncheon and free ned-
length to which antcllild labor legislation has
gone and he deplores the co-education of boys and
girls after they are ten or twelve years old.
The Iady's Pictorial is aggrieved because Miss
Laurence Alma-Tadema has gone across the
to teach the Americans how to be happy. Charity
begins at home it remarks. and there are not
q few of Miss Alma-Tadeinas own countrynen and
countrywomen who would be thankful to have
few lessons The PICTORIAL hopes that when she
happy she will hurry home and take the English
hand. This much has found its way back across
the Atlantic, that happiness consists in managing
self but there Il seems there are some
people who never be happy unless they are
managing other people
The ordinary housewife who has trouble with
her servants may derive some satisfaction from
the fact that suffers in the iustrious company
of the Carlyles. In their Chelsea home servants
We're but birds of passage with one or two excep-
/ tions Carlyle described ''pessima' C'the
,Sbjle another was .'beautiful' but had 10 GO too
because she read the letters and proved to be IAN
Austrian spy.
Nilliners are complaining. according The MIL
linery Trade Review that inconvenently large
number Of is insisting upon small hats.
Some manufacturers foTesaw that this would be the
case; that there must be many elderly women who
would refuse 10 cover their heads with the mon
@ sIous Ihlngs rat iisUu tbs ;edeS e n
those who were less wise in their generation wish
that they had credited the sex with a little
more backbone.
Violet L. is certainly a very beautiful wom-
/ an said natron. who, at large gathering of
studying the women who from time TO time
within her line Of vision, 'and don't believe there
half dozen people besides myself who know
Il. Moreover, she's only of several women I
know whose personal loneliness passes unnoticed
just because they don't happen to correspond with
the fashionable type of the moment, and who IL
they had Only been born ten years earlier or later
might have enjoyed all the appreciation that our
mpenetrable stupidity deprives them Of There
should be some way Of gaining for these
their lawful amount OF admiration.
Jack thinks If the thing were only left to the
men II would be all right He says at present
women select a certain face. figure and stature
and proclaim them beautiful with all the
mence of a trying sell some worthless
wares credulous public. The the
credulous ones, and if you show them woman
often enough. spare no expense In adorning her.
and them that her type is The only
worth noticing. they will in time give the adn1ira-
tion demanded, in spite of their better judgment
This view of the situation doesn't very fat
tering the masculine Intelligence One would
hardly suppose that If men weak minded
10 allow women to force wrong opinions