Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1899 — WOMEN HOME [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WOMEN HOME

BEST TO HAVE HIGH IDEALS.

CjgO HE polishing process Is not always fortunate for the object experlmented upon. Pure sliver can be worn thin as paper, and show true metal all the way through; but the plated article must be brightened carefully, and so must coarse souls, for their basis is brass. Nothing destroys freshness and purity of heart like dally contact with a sordid nature, says the Buffalo Enquirer, especially If this be one to whom bound by ties of affection. Between those who are continually together there can be no compromise in relation. There must either be contempt tor sympathy, and how rare to find sympathy! Art Is the one idol whom the lover never charges with his own imperfections. Every intimacy between man and woman has Its disillusions and humiliations; upon the shoulders of the other each lays the burden of the fault But he who is enamored of an art suffer* only from self-betrayala Unchangingly perfect It commands eternal devotion. Selfish persons do not begin their career by resolving to please only themselves, but by finding some apparently valid excuse for Ignoring the welfare of others. False promises, like earthworms, attract the gaze which is lowered from heights’of beauty and generally to the mire upturned by the wanderer’s own feet; and to the mind which once gives Itself aver to specious reasoning there will obtrude a thousand proofs of the baseness of associates to one suggestion of personal reproof. Women Lawyers. In refusing to enroll the name of Miss Sobrajl, a distinguished English law graduate, upon the list of lawyers ad-

mitted to practice, the High Court of India is behind other English colonie* In New South Wales, and even in Cape Colony, there are several women barristers. The idea that women as lawyers is a new notion is an error. As long ago as 1648 Margaret Brent,

of Maryland, wae duly licensed to practice In the courts of her State. Another instance to prove that the woman lawyer is not a product of the nineteenth century is that In 1487 Cassandra FldeMs, then only 22 years of age, was a professor of law In the University of Padua. She Is supposed to have suggested Portia to Shakspeare. The first woman admitted to practice by the Supreme Court of the United States was Belva A. Lockwood.

Decree Against Corsets. The Minister of Education in Saxony has just issued an order that all girls and young women attending the public schools and colleges shall discard corsets and stays. The preponderance of public opinion in Saxony favors the decree, but the girls affected and their mothers are protesting vigorously. Recent and vigorous agitation of the subject In the press and in the lectures given by professors in medical schools is responsible for the Minister’s order. Tight lacing has been denounced unanimously by the physicians of Dresden and other large towns because of its effect on the health and of Its increasing prevalence, even little girls indulging in the practice.

Women’! Pace* by Men. Mrs. William A. White, of Emporia, Kan., made a great hit at the State meeting of clubs recently by an amus-

ing paper on woman’s pages written by men, and which contain references to “a bright and cheery smile.” The smile Is the only help the writing man gives when the jell won’t jell, the roast burns, and cream sours and the Ice

melts. Then there la the economicalminded man, who tells how to make a S2O hat out of 33 cents’ worth of chiffon, seven cents’ worth of violets and a silver buckle from grandfather’s old shoe. He has no help for the woman whose grandfather wore cowhide boots.

Culture Best Acquired at Home. There is a mistaken idea of culture prevalent. Culture does not mean merely committing to memory a great number of facts out of text-books, but it does mean a careful and thoughtful assimilation of every bit of knowledge that comes our way for the purpose of making ourselvee more intelligent, more noble, more helpful human beings, and where can be found a better school for the development of these attributes than In a wisely and properly conducted ’ ome?—Ladles’ Home Journal. Economising Nervous Force. The lady principal of a normal school gave excellent advice to a class of young women who were receiving their diplomas, when she recommended them strongly to room alone. Nervous prostration is not common in England, and there is a good reason for it Americans are apt to smile at the well-known reserve of the English; but our cousins

over the sea are wiser in their genet* tlon than we take them to be, for H “shutting themselves up" ttxey saw* themselves from many of the indiscriminate filchings of vitality which we pay so dearly tor exposing oarselves to. A celebrated physician ascribes much of the waste of nervous force which is characteristlc-of Americans to our over-sociability. We respond so quickly to anj sort of companionship that only by occasionally isolating ourselves can we shut off th* nervous drain. No occupation absorbs more vitality than that of a teacher, and it is imperative that she should have perfectly quiet hours in which to recuperate.

She Admire* Dewey. This is a picture of Miss Marie Powers, Decatur, 111., school girl. Her photograph stands on Admiral Dewey’s

dressing case in the Admiral’s cabin on board the Olympia. “Every morning when I shave I look at the picture. Instead of in the mirror,” the Admiral told E. W. Hardin, the St Louis Post-Dis-patch correspondent “I have already cut myself

three times while looking at her, and expect she will be the death of me yet - The Admiral sent Miss Powers a big brass button from his uniform coat She wears it constantly attached to a long gold chain. They knew nothing of each other until after the battle of Manila, when she wrote a school girl’s letter of congratulation to the nation’s hero. She sent her photograph and won the greet silent fighting man’s warm admiration and a photograph with his autograph. Rule* for Deantifyin* Complexion. Here are a few rules given by th* celebrated French dermatologist M. Felix Chaleux, for a clear, beautiful complexion and perfect health: Don’t drink tea or coffee. Drink pure water. Eat grapes, apples, raisins and figs. Eat a few salted almonds dally. Don’t eat much animal food. An egg or two a day, soft boiled, Instead of meat. Eat an orange every day or so. Walk two or three miles a day. Bathe the whole body daily in tepid water. Don’t fret, don’t worry; be calm and quiet " Follow the above, you will be perfectly strong, healthy, beautiful and live to great age. Symptoms of Over Exertion. An eminent -German physician declares that as long as a bicyclist after a long tour, has a good appetite, does not feel a desire to go to sleep at once, and is not annoyed by heavy dreams on the night following, he may consider that he has not made too great a demand on his physical resource*

B. A. LOCKWOOD.

MRS. WHITE.

MISS FOWERS.