Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-15
In Woman's World.

r. w near women tu!R OF nerves!
nerves!" as though they looked upon
them as their greatest foes All the
physical pleasures of life are brought
to US through our nerves, and even the
| higher joys of the intellectual and the
| spiritual life we become aware of only
| through the medium of feeling, and
for this reason alone it behooves one
TO keep ones nerves III Il normal,
healthful and responsive condition.
The fact that the nervous system
! Is amenable to training and that it's
habits can be unerrngly cultivated at
ones one will, and under ones own.
direction. or with outside assistance If
necessary, is d fact of growing jm-l
portance. This is so because the re-.
cent work of scientific men is showing
| us to what minute degree nerve
| habits can De controlled and also be-.
cause, especially in America, our cli-
| mate and our modern civilization are
making greater demands upon nervous
force and contribute TO the unconsci-
GUS formation Of detrimental nervous
| habits.
The time has come prophesled by
Mr.. Gilman's neOlithic man.
We're Going to wear great piles Of
| stuff
Outside our natural skins.
We're going to have diseases
And accomplishments and sins
Worry. ill-temper haste. laziness,
overwork, selfishness. egotism and dis.
trust are in many cases bad habits Of
the nerves.--Anna Sturges Duryea in
The Delineator for June.
Most of the washable waists are
built on very simple lines. a great
many of them have a single deep
tuck on the shoulder at the front and
back that just covers the. armhole
seam. a model of this kind has the
advantage of leaving the entire front
OF the blouse for an effective display
of handwork. Huge chrysanthemums,
conrentonaized dasies and other
free. open designs are worked out
clererlN in soutaclle or rat-tail braid
while the smaller dainties mofs are
left for the hand embroidery which
lis oftener than not done in colors, es-
pecially in dull blue and clover-pink.
In Paris most of the waists are made
With tile low open necks, but the
shops show q great many with the
high collars as q distinct concession
TO the American element in Paris
Some of the lingerie waists have one
or two shallow tucks at the shoulder
and little round collarless yolles of net.
or fiet lace. Around the yoke and
down into the blouse are used
rows of crochet of Cluny insertion,
while the seams are put together with
narrow insertions of the same lace.
Only the heavier thread insertions and
edgings are considered smart on the
crepe waists, although the valencien-
mes laceS are used as much as ever in
the sheer lingerie blouses which are
still being shown
Kalamazoo is q city of only about
10000 inhabitants, yet in many respects
it has attained to such correct civic
department as indicates careful brig
ing up by hand by the Improvement
league that the Rev. Caroline Bartlett
Crane organized. 1t is the vital needs
of the heart and lives of the commun.
ity that are reached
The League looked on the streets of
Kalamazoo and saw that they were
not hygienically swetp. How should
men know how to sweep, anyway? The
men of the city governme,t said that
they were cleaning the streets as the
streets always had been cleaned. and
it must be right. But the women said.
No. that they would show them. The
city council was asked to give over to
the league six blocks of the main
street for period of three months, to-
sether with the appropriation usually
expended OH this strip of pavement.
The plan was agreed to- Then it be-
came noised abroad that the women
of Kalamazoo were going to conduct
this demonstration or right street
cleaning. And the yelowest journals
of Chicago, the nearby metropolis, be-
gan to focus the trained machinery of
their all-searchinS staffs on the little
town.
The women grew nervous in this
glare Of the limellght OF publicity. but
under Mrs Cranes direction the ar