Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1900 — WOMAN AND HER WAYS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WOMAN AND HER WAYS.

WORRYING ABOUT TRIFLES. Tp? ROM time immemorial women JET have been tola—by women as well as men, though naturally more often by the latter—that worry digs wrinkles In their faces and sprinkles gray among their tresses. Those warnings do little good. Thd fair creatures go on worrying and will probably continue to do so until the millennium comes. The Detroit Free PresS asks why this is so, and then proceeds to answer its own question in this way. The question of worry wirii women seems to be simply this: so hedged about by the littlenesSqßMtf ir protected lives —for it is the woman who does the most worrying—that it is hard to see beyond and above sometimes, and matters in this way get wholly but of focus. If women had the capacity with men of getting up and doing battle with things worry would slip off their ghoulders as easily as from off those of the average masculine. Man doesn’t woryy about debt, because he feels that he has it within him (since money-making is his business) to make sufficient money to pay his debts—some time. Women look at it more practically and consider the now. Man doesn’t generally worry about his health, because he really has not the time. Let him become ill, though, and have to stop his work, and how is It with him? Man doesn’t worry about the future —he is so madly interested in the present; nor about his clothes, for the tailor stands between him and that; nor about home matters —they, from his point of view, are too trivial —until he comes home to a badly cooked dinner, and then in his broad outlook there is no excuse for this state of things, for in business circles if an employe does not do his work properly his employer gets some one who can, a method that will yet come to be a powerful lever in the leveling of woman's worries. Miss Adah Roberts. In point of human interest, Miss Adah Roberts, daughter of the Utah Congressman who has been excluded from the House, is the central figure among the female portion of govern mental circles. Whatever may be said of Mr. Roberts and his policy, the universal verdict in regard to his daughter is that she is on l of the most charming, beautiful and intellectual young women who have located at the capital in recent years. She is tall and straight as one of the pines of her native mountains. Her complexion is that of rare white and pink seldom seen in the

crowded Eastern cities. She moveu with the grace of a queen, and, although barely 20, her self-possession is that of an experienced woman of the world. When 17 she graduated With high honors from the State University at Salt Lake City. For two years she taught in the public schools. When her father decided to run for Congress she relinquished her position to become his private secretary. Her gentle dignity and kindliness have gained whatever of courtesy and fair hearing has been accorded to her father's cause. Change In a Good Tonic. A change of scenery, fresh face's, or a good blow of fresh air is worth all the tonics in the world to a woman whose face is beginning to look oH, or who is nervous and tired, and gifea a prettier glow to the cheeks than the finest rouge in existence. Obesity goes a long way to makftjg a woman look older than she really is, and it is the encouragement of indAtent habits which allows obesity to gain the ascendency over elasticity. A person whose mind and body are ever oft the alert will seldom have recourse tc diet or science to decrease her size and weight, and at the same time sbedvUl keep her youthful appearance.—Detroit News. Formality of Calling. During an ordinary afternoon caU the hostess rises to’ receive each guest She makes sure that each one who enters has a seat. If there are so many in the room as to prevent general conversation, she talks with the latest arrival. When any of her guests depart she Arises, but does not go to the door with them. It is not necessary for those wbo have first called, when there axe several persons in the room, to hasten away on the arrival of newcomers, although generally they should not out-

sit the latter. Ladles who are calling do not arise on the entrance or departure of other callers, except in the case of the very aged. A general bow on entering or departing should Include all In the room. A formal call should never be less than fifteen'minutes in length, nor should it often be much longer. Cards are seldom sent into the drawing room, but are better left on a salver in the hall. A lady must never forget to leave a card for each lady in the family on which she is calling. A wife leaves her husband’s card, motherless daughters their father’s, but brothers and sons are supposed to leave cards-In person. In some places one may call from 2 to 6, in others, 3 to 5, but the best hours are from 4 to 6. Leah Lanceford, in Woman’s Home Companion. Flirting Proves Vulgarity. The ethics of flirtation have yet to be defined, but the results are tolerably well proved. New and then an arrant flirt may marry happily, but these cases are exceptional. The man who is weakminded enough to be seriously smitten by the coquetries of a flirt is rarely good material out of which to make a husband. But most flirts remain unmarried, or marry in despair some man for whom they don’t care an atom, because marrying men as a rule either leave them se rerely alone, or take them at their own value and consider a flirt just good enough to flirt with. “A youth of folly, an old age of cards,” might be adopted as the flirt’s motto, as it is her usual fate. That flirting is foolish would probably check scarcely any; that It may develop into a tragedy if tie flirt is caught unaware in a grande passion which is not returned may possibly give pause to a few; that It is essentially vulgar and the hall-mark of a vulgar mind may perhaps Induce the majority to discard the practice if they have hitherto been inclined to it, says the London Pictorial. It has been well said that flirting is an education in flippancy, lightness of manners and hardness of heart, and that as practiced to-day it is not readily distinguished from general bad manners. Th® Youngest Commissioner.

Miss Elsie Reasoner, the celebrated war correspondent and only American woman who witnessed the coronation

of Queen Wilhelmina, is tlje recipient of new honors, as she is the youngest membey of the Paris commission, being the Chicago representative o f the Associated Press at the French capital. Th® New York and Loudon offices will be represented by experienced men.

but this young girl with twenty summers to her credit was unanimously chosen for this responsible position by the manager of the three departments, as she has fully demonstrated her ability as a correspondent.

Dainty Stationery. Stationery at one time might have been a luxury—now it is a necessity. One is not in good form using cheap paper, and nothing is criticised more tnan the paper used in correspondence. A good or bad impression is formed by the stations ry one uses. To be quite up-to-date the fashionable young woman will invest at once in French organdy, the dull gray, with hair line white border being the height of elegance, although the blue tints are much liked by tb? younger element in society. tr. • Of Interest to Woman. Needlework schools in Vienna excel ip variety of work and number of fancy Stitt bfes. Miss B. A. Mulroney, of Philadelphia, has made over $50,000 out of her shops la tlie Klondike. Nfw York young women have formed Clashes for Instruction in intelligent foreign traveling. A woman’s society for the prevention of cruelty to animals has been formed Ln New Jersey. Mrs. Elizabeth Cary Agassiz has resigned the presidency of Radcliffe College on account of advanced age. Slrter Geterose (Mattingly), who died recently at Loretto, Ky., was the oldest nun tn the United States. Mm. Mary E. Hawley, of Pekin, 111., who gave her fortune to the cause of temperance, has written a play called “True to Her Convictions,” which will be staged next year. At the International Congress of Temperance Workers to be held in Paris next April, Lady Henry Somerset, who I* to be one of the principal speakers, will touch on the work of Frances Willari3. Miss Georgina Pope, sister of the Under Secretary of Canada, who is hand of the staff of nurses in the Canadian contingent sent to South Africa, is a graduate of Bellevue Hospital Nursing School, New York. A Brooklyn bride had a pretty Idea in presenting the guests pieces of the weddlfig cake in heart-ehaped boxes, covered with ivory white satin of the material of the bride’s gown, and painted with forget-me-nots. T*e unmarried working girls of Boston luive organized a union for protection against married women who work ta big stores and restaurants. The union maintains that married women should compel their husbands to support them.

MISS ADAH ROBERTS.

MISS REASONER.