Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-10-16

Week end party, oh, where Is thy
rest? At the last week end of which |
was a victim the entire party played
two rounds of golf In the morning.
The moment they finished luncheon
they played eroquet till tea time, 5
o'clock tea. after which they played six
followed by bridge till the small hours
of the morning. Apparently during the
whole of that strenuous day 1t had not
occurred to anybody to sit still, and,
though all were groaning with the
heat, not one of them made the slight
est effort to keep cool. The one thing
that everybody seemed anxious to
avoid was rest. Yet 1t was obviously
what they had all come for. And the
surprising part of it all was that they
went back to town the next morning
actually fortified by their exertions and
full of the delightful peace and rest
fulness of the country and all the bene-
fit they had derived from their visit.
AS a matter of fact. there must be a
physical stage of collapse when the
mind and the body alike cease to act.
Into this state the confirmed week
ender no doubt hypnotizes herself, for
no woman even of a robust constitu-
ton could stand the strain of many
successive Sundays In the country and
resume her normal occupations on
Monday. The average week end re.
quires an even greater effort of the
mind than ! does of the body, and If
your limbs ache as the result of much
physical exercise your brain is apt to
grow equally weary IN the endeavor to
find a topic of conversation which
will keep your neighbor at dinner in
terested and prevent you yourself from
falling asleep between fish and the en-
tree.
Copying the idea from that in effect
in many of the summer show" thea.
tiers, a millionaire hostess keeps cakes
of ice in a hidden tank in her dining
room. This room by an architectural
mistake is so situated as to be ex-
tremely warm in the dog days, though
sunny and comfortable in winter. The
hostess, who entertains literally In the
summer, decided something must be
done to cool the atmosphere and final
ly decided ice In bulk was the only
thing. In a corner Of the dining room
she has a big tin tank built, and this
is kept filed with cakes of ice. Around
the wall just above the tank are fas-
tened three noiseless electric fans, and
the whole is surrounded by a hedge of
giant ferns and other plants. entirely
told of the new device, and in conse-
quence the guests of the woman were
astonished to find the temperature in
the Don had fallen SO wonderfully.
One evening, however, one of the
young matrons decided to investigate
the cause of this "Greenland's icy
mountains air. so she quietly moved
around the room when the other guests
were bidding their hostess good night.
Peering through the ferns in the cor
ner, she slipped and fell upon what
seemed to her startled senses an ice
berg. Then. of course, the secret wa.
an open one.
Washington is to have a new social
favorite the coming season in the per-
son of Baroness Kiyo Takahira, daugh-
ter of the Japanese ambassador. In
recent years Japanese women have
moved almost inconspicuously in so
ciety at the capital. largely because
they have affected western dress. The
baroness. however, will afford a well
come change, as she sticks to her
oriental costumes. She is not yet sev-
enteen years old, but she has had a
year in diplomatic society in Tokyo
and in every requirement is vastly
more advanced than the average
American girl of equal age. She speak
English with a quantity pleasing ac-
cent and freely in French
and German. She is of medium height
as her countrywomen go, with a smil-
ing, attractive face. In her native
dress she will be a pretty figure in
Washington.
4hC1 aLC INV IL Nv AoNA1
how sweet, how CHEEKY Or how I'm
selfish they may be, who would not
prefer two-thirds beauty and one
third brains had they the choice. They
feel that beauty is something that ma
ture has no right to withhold from
them, because perhaps, with Bruyere.
they find "how much art, good ma
ture, indulgence, how many good of
fees and civilities are required among
friends to accomplish in some years
what a lovely face will do in a few
moments"
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Violet is not a usual shade in which
to furnish a room, but n girl who's
color it was experimental, and here
is the result.
The walls we're papered with