Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1899 — WOMAN AND HER WAYS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WOMAN AND HER WAYS.

WOMAN'S LOVE. THE following from a woman's letter should go to the heart of every man: "What a deal that companionship means! That companionship between a man and a woman that grows sweeter and stronger and stiller as the months go by. I say stiller, because as two people learn to know each other and to read each other’s hearts, tlwy do not need to speak every word; a look tells. And this companionship is no more possible between two women than it would be between two parrots. It is formed of a man and of a woman. lam very conventional, my friend; I hope you are, too. I could not love any woman in the world as I could a man, and I couldn’t sacrifice for any woman in the world what I would sacrifice for a man. The good God made us that way. He didn’t make us to waste our love letters and our coquetries and our hearts on other women; they were intended for men. "Sometimes the man takes the heart and cares for it and loves it until it beats with pride and joy and love for him; sometimes he takes it and slights it and forgets it and hurts it, and it beats with love for him just the same; and the brain that belongs to it comes and says to it, “He doesn't think, he doesn’t know,” and the heart excuses, and grows broader and more charitable and kinder; and some day. when it ceases to beat, everybody knows then what a dear, loving heart it was, and most of all its loss is felt by the maa who neglected it”

Novelties in Neckwear. The two collars are of white linen and are worn with wide soft cravats of silk carelessly knotted. There are for wear with shirt waists or tailor

gowns. The elaborate stock and cravat has a linen standing collar closed at the back. The silk cravat is drawn through a jeweled slide in front. The Young- Housekeeper. “The true advice to give a young, restless housekeeper is to put more mind into her work; to find in her daily occupation studies interesting and important, which will surely conduce to her own benefit as well as to the well-being of her household,” writes Katharine Roich in the Ladies' Home Journal. "She may easily fill her mind with the annoyances, the disagreeable and monotonous details, the confinement, the interruptions of the dally life, but by intelligent use of her time, by systematizing her work, by simplifying her manner of life, and by resolutely seizing her opportunities she will find time for favorite studies and for interests outside of home. Let a woman gird up her intellect and courage—she needs both —to the high office she accepts. Let her not be anxious, but cheerful, striving every day to make her work more complete, more perfect, and to win from the daily care the refreshment which she needs. While she may be often weary she will not then be restless nor discontented, realizing that she has Secured in her home some of the things best worth striving for. And her friends will see in her own intellectual life and character a richness and sweetness of which she may be quite unconscious. For in the quiet of her home, with its thinking and planning, and working, the bearing of many cares, and loving, unselfish ministrations for others, there will spring up in herself sincere, generous sympathies, sound judgments, and cultivation of mind and spirit which will prove her best reward.”

Do Not Refnae the Offer. Never should the mother, through that foolish desire to keep her child as long as possible dependent upon her, or that worse pride which would show itself to be self-sufficient, refuse the proffered help of her child. If she is doing something in which, from the nature of things, she cannot share, let her be careful to substitute some other loving service while declining the one proffered, remembering that love turned away nourishes selfishness, and proffered help refused begets idleness. She may have to say, “No, dear, you cannot help me to dress the baby,” but she can add: “You may hand mamma the clothes.” The Answering of Letter*. Time was when men and women took letter writing very seriously, and sat down to the desk as if. to an important task. The scrawls of the modern girl; her hasty dashing off of an epistle to

catch a post; her dozen notes scribbled in hot haste and illegible penmanship, sealed with sprawling wax. and dismissed with a sigh of relief, would haye filled a young woman of Jane Austin's day with unfeigned horror. Apart from the stilted style, by persons who bad the courtliness of their period and its leisure, without the inborn grace of the raconteur who is of no period, but belongs to all time, the epistolary remains of the last century and of still earlier centuries, possess an interest which we shall vainly seek In the annals of onr own day when we come to search for them in letters. Cowper. Mme. de Sevigne, Mary Mitford. the ladies of the Hare family, Mrs. Browning In a yesterday just past, and others, whose memoirs form part of our literary wealth, are good examples of the perfect letter.— Harper's Bazar.

Are Labor Leaders. Miss Martha M. Hohmann and Miss Marie Geiger have distinguished themselves as labor leaders in Cleveland. Miss Hohmann was recently nominated to the position of vice president

of the Central Labor Union. Miss Hohmann is well educated, and an accomplished young woman. Miss Geiger was instrumental in organizing the Garment Workers’ Union. Raised with Rouge. A writer In the Louisville Daily News gives the girls this sensible hint: “If there is anything that makes me tired it is to see a pretty girl ruin her complexion with rouge and powder and kalsomine and other truck. 1 saw one at a summer opera the other night who made me rage. She was naturally a pretty girl and had a fine figure, but one forgot all about those things when he came close to her. The natural timings of the flesh were not to be seen and the tender curve of the cheek was bedizened with rouge and paint, as were the pretty lips. I felt like taking that girl to a lagoon, dipping my handkerchief in the water there and giving her face a good oldfashioned scrubbing. No wonder so many girls have skin trouble. They rub enough stuff on their faces to kill any skin,”

A Charming Blouse. There was worn at a smart "at home” the other day a charming blouse of rose pink silk muslin. There was no yoke at the back, although this blouse was really a transparent shirt worn over a slip bodice of pale green glace. The back and two fronts were filled in with six groups of tiny tucks, crossing each other diamond fashion, the spaces between the groups being filled in with large diamonds of delicate white lace, from beneath which the pink mousseline had been eut away. The sleeve was of the coat type, tucked all the way down, the tucks separated by straight rows of lace insertion. The tucked collar was unlined and showed the gleam of the green glace beneath 1L

Pompadour with a Parting.

Sufferers from nervous headache seldom find any actual cure for their trouble, but there are certain remedies which alleviate the pain. Most of the so-called "headache powders” have a dangerous effect on weak hearts, and therefore cannot be recommended except in special cases. A safe and simple remedy for general use is to be found in horse radish. Scrape a little of the root, hold it in the hand a few minutes to warm it, and then snuff it energetically. The sensation for the moment is unpleasant, but it la worth while to endure a monetary twinge In order to secure immediate freedom from pain. Meed es Ootdoor Kxerciae. Let your children have plenty of outdoor exercise, especially in the evening. Wait until they are really sleepy before you send them to bed. Let every child have its own bedclothes. Vary the child's diet with the season. Let them avoid all greasy-made dishes when it is too warm to take much outdoor exercise. General Marcus P. Miller la a great smoker, yet never had a Manila cigar between his lips until he reached the Philippines. The annual production of cheese in this country is about 280,000.000 pounds.

TWO LABOR LEADERS.

For Nervons Headache.