Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 225, 30 July 1913 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM ANDSUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1913 PALLADIUM'S MAGAZINE AND HOME PAGE

MARRIED LIFE THE FIRST YEAR

THE BY MABEL HERBERT URNER. The thrill of motherhood! f Helen tried hard to feel that when ' the baby was laid in her arms. But ' somehow she couldn't. Her strongest feeling was one of uneasiness, of a nervous fear of hurting it. She couldn't find no way of holding it comfortably. I However she placed it, it would ' manage to riggle into some other position. She was afraid to sleep when It was beside her for fear she would fturn over on it. She had horrible viions of waking up and finding it j J smothered to death. It was so little, j there seemed no way to keep it covered, and yet keep its head out so it could breathe. She was glad the room was kept dim. She didn't want to see it again now. She had looked at it once, and it had been so red and wrinkled that her feelings had been almost one of repulsion. She told herself that it was a most unnatural and unmotherly feeling, but that had not changed it. Dreams and Reality. Her dream pictures had been of a golden-haired, blue-eyed baby the kind one sees on calendars and infant food advertisements, but this was very different. There wasn't any hair at all, and its eyes were so squinted that their color couldn't be told. After the first look, she turned her 'face to the wall with a faint request to the nurse to take it away The nurse had tried to assure her that all very new babies looked that way, that it took several weeks before they were Yery pretty. , And then Helen asked if Warren , had seen it. And when she was told ke hadn't, she asked them to keep it from him until it looked a little "different." For some reason she felt it was her fault, that its unattractiveness was a personal reflection on her. She wondered if she could ever grow to love it if it would always be ugly. The possibility of having a homely child had never occurred to her, so certain had she been that her baby would be beautiful. Mother Thoughts. Prnhnhlv aftsr n whil It -wnnldn't Ve so , red and so wrinkled, but its mouth' had seemed so large. Could time change those things? From that one glimpse, deep in her heart, she could not believe that time would tnake it a beautiful chUd. i If it had been a boy, it's look would "not have mattered so much, just so it was big and strong, But an ugly little girl! The thoughts made her sick a heart. And then she thought of all the dainty little clothes she had made lace gowns with blue ribbons. Blue ribbons on that crimson baby! Nurse, don't use any of those little dresses that ha,ve blue ribbons. I don't think blue very becoming to It now! The nurse promised, repressing a ttmile. ' . "An Ugly Little Girl." And then again she turned her face to the wall and began miserably to plan how she would dress it if it were always the ugly little girl! At least she would have the judgment to dress It plainly, to make it as inconspicuous as possible. She had always thought it ridiculous to see ugly little children dressed up In all sorts of frills and furbelows. , And then she thought of the family reunions and dinners at Warren's father's, when Carrie (Warren's sister) would bring her three beautiful children! And she bad looked forVard so proudly to taking her own beautiful baby; and now and now she would have to take an ugly little 'girl! Why should Carrie have lovely children if she could not? . Carie's husband was not nearly as good looking Lawrence Took His Time. 1 The dispute about an unfinished Lawrence portrait recalls a story of thar painter's dilatoriness. The Lord Meibo rough of that time, after much letter .writing about the portrait of his wife and child, sn'd lie could wait no longer. Lawrence pleaded for more time; he .was well forward with the lady, but the baby wanted finishing; could he jiot have one more sitting? "My wife will be happy to give you anotistr sitting whenever you like." was the answer, "but the baby is now in the guards!" Dundee Advertiser. Basket or Crock Holder. Cut strips of crape paper about three Inches wide and braid tightly. Fasten to the flower crock or basket with Itlue. Sage green or brown would be pretty.

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as Warren. And Carrie herself at times she was almost plain. "Nurse," she called faintly, "bring me a hand glass." The nurse hurried to the bed. "Why, you don't want a hand glass now, do you? You're not well enough" "I want a hand glass, and I want to have the blinds raised by the bed so that I can see." There was something in her voice that made the nurse think it would excite her less to humor her than to refuse, so she brought the glass. Helen held it up before her face and examined each feature more critically than she had ever examined them be fore. What was the cause of the baby's homliness? Warren's regular. clean-cut features were unquestioned and hers? She had always thought her features were good; she had always been considered "very pretty." But that was perhaps because of her hair and her coloring. She remembered now that she never took very pood pictures, and after all, pictures were tlie test of one's features. Her mouth she hod never thought it large before, but now, when she thought of the pictures and the baby's mouth Disillusion. She let the glass fall to the floor, V A Vi - r f rt in r ft a TUlAur o n (1 V 1 1 c? f f into tears. The nurse bent over her in alarm. Mrs. Curtis! Mrs. Curtis! You mustn't cry like that! You'll start your fever again. And just, because you look a little thin and pale! Why, you'll be yourself in a week or so, if you don't make yourself sick again now." "Oh, no, no, it isn't because I'm thin or pale," sobbed Helen. "It's because ! the baby's so ugly, and it doesn't look like Warren, so it must look like me!" The nurse had a sense of humor, and in spite of her anxiety for her patient, she could not help smiling. But when Helen sobbed on and i would not be comforted, she became both impatient and alarmed. Warren had just come in, his face full of anxiety. "She's taken some absurd idea that the baby's ugly," the nurse whispered hurriedly, "and it resembles her. I can't do anything with her; se if you can, She mustn't cry like that, it will send her fever up again. Warren sat down on the edge of the bed, and put his arm about her. "You foolish little mother, don't you know that all babies are like that at first? It is going to be a beautiful baby; the doctor. said so!" Comforted Again. "Not not with with that mouth! And your mouth is very good, so it must be mine!" she sobbed brokenly. "As if you didn't have the dearest and most kissable little mouth in the world! And the baby will, too; its only while it has no teeth." "Oh, will will teeth make a difference?" "Why, of course," catching at the note of hope in her voice. "Just wait and see. Why the doctor says it's most beautifully formed in every way." And so he comforted her until she ceased sobbing and the dreaded temperature was averted. "Oh, I suppose I am foolish," she admitted shyly a little later. "I was torturing myself with all kinds of thoughts, planning how to dress it if it was an ugly little girl, and thinking of the family dinners where . Carrie's children would all be so much prettier!" "You foolish, imaginative little thing!" he laughed tenderly, and kissed her. "Dear, I hope the baby will have your mouth, your eyes, your hair everything but your imagination. I think she will be so much more comfortable without that. The Russian Frontier. One feature in which the Russian frontier differs from others is the complete ignorance of those living near the border of what lies beyond. A correspondent of the Autocar says that he called at the Automobile club in Breslau, hoping to gain some information. "The members received me most kindly and did all they could to help, but explained that they never crossed the frontier and had no first hand knowledge. The German customs officer, living for ten years within yards of Russia, spoke no word of Russian, and the Russians beyond the chain spoke no German. "There is a neutral strip some three or four yards wide between Russia and Germany, along which many Russian sentries are posted, and mounted Cossacks pass at short intervals, riding the boundary." New York Suii.

Lady Constance

Written Exclusively for the Readers of This Page. Figure 1, shown in the topmost picture shows the body poised on one foot. A swaying ex ercise fully described by Lady Richardson's article brings 4 about an easy control of the waist muscles Practice In this lesson wii do more to reduce the waistline than any other fat-reducing method known to Lady Richardson Incidentally it produces naturally graceful movements when walking or running. BY LADY CONSTANCE STEWART RICHARDSON. Copyright, 1913, by International News Service. - w ANCING is one of the most! II characteristic and characterJ ful things I know. It ex presses the individual and the nation in perfect accord with the feelings and customs that character ize him or it. Take, for instance, the Hungarian '

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teristic of its place and clime, and however well the people of another nation do the dance that is not their own, they still must modify it to suit their own temperament. . If we take the best of the mcdern and add to it the finest steps of the ancients and teach our result we will get as many variations as we have individual temperaments expressing the dance we have made. If people will stop to think what a wonderful mode of expression the dance offers them, and will study it, its music and the effect of this expression on their own temperaments, they will no longer consider the dance ard the body that expresses it as something to be despised, but they

Dr. Park hurst's

Article on Railroad Wrecks Unionism

Influences Promotion, Advances Men Not Efficient in I inal -Elements of Engineering, PartiallyResponsible for Disasters

BY DR. C. H. PARKHURST. SOM cle OME years ago I read an arti cle by a locomotive engineer. iritten in a strain half fantas tic half serious, regarding the moodiness and vacillating dispoiition of locomotives. It appears that there grows up between an engine driver and his machine a sentiment very like that which a man cherishes for his j horse, and also that at times there

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will give to the body, which is capable of beauty, its due of admiration and its right to beautiful expression, which body will be definitely taken through the worship of loveliness. A Perfect Outline. To help you all make your bodies so perfe2t in health in outline, in strength and in power to respond to your desire to express emotion through the great safety valve of movement is my desire. When dancing, look happy and as if you were oancing because you love to, and as if you were dancing because you love the particular step you are taking not doing the fashionable thing; some dancing teacher had assuredVyou was the "proper way." Make one or two steps your own, and througa them teach your body to ex press itsen witnout snanie or con W h ichl manifests itself in the machine what might be called a certain irritableness and obstinacy which baffles the skill of any but the most experienced driver. It is interesting to discover in a letter written by so prosaic and practical a man as James O. Fagan. of Waltham, Mass., a railroad man of long experience, whose writings upon such matters can be accepted as authoritative a reference to this same almost

This is the fourth of Lady Rich ardson's valuable articles on dancins as an aid to natural beauty. Another will appear on this pagi next week, in which the student i' carried along a little further, and in a trifle more difficult exercises. This is the first time that any newt paper has presented a series of arti c-les in which such expert instructions and advice are given on the value o1 practicing natural movements for tht

preservation of human grace and .'beauty Editor. sciousness in perfect happiness and rhythm. Dancing is a safe and sane form of self-expression, and it is good for body as well as soul. Figure One. In figure 1 the body is poised on the ball of the foot, while the other is raised with - the leg thrown slightly backward from the knee and the toes pointing downward. A "straight line from flexed knee to the tip of the toes seems to be a favorite idea of grace, as depicted by the sculpture of the ancients, and as it adds to beauty of line the benefit of etrengthening instep and ankle, it is one of the little separate movements that I often in corporate in my dancing Eteps. To return to Figure 1 Bend slightly at the waist toward the uplifted leg and raise the arm above the head so there will be a continuous curve from elbow to toes. A flexible waist 'incalculable locomotive moodiness, ex isting sometimes to such an extent that the mere handling of levers and treating of valves according to bare ! mechanical rules will not meet the requirements, of good engineering, nor i suffice to secure from disaster. His illusion to this mysterious quality of a locomotive occurs in a letter' of his written in attempting to account for the recent Stamford dis - aster. If a railroad engine approaches a j point of temperament, as near to the human as the two authorities cited claim, one can easily understand that ordinary formal acquaintance with an engineer's duties opening a valve when he wants to start his train, and doing something else when he wants to stop it does not measure up to the full requirements of his position. Censure Not on Dohertv. but UdHis letter indicates the suspicion on his part that some consideration of t hat sort will have to be reckoned In in explanation of the Stamford acci - dent. This does not mean a censure upon

On How to Acquire a Beautiful Figure Through Dancing

In Poses Especially Adapted for the Accompanying: Article. Figure 2 is a walking exercise that ha a wonderfully beneficial e'fect upon the whole body. Constant practice in this exercise makes it become as easy and natural to you as when a child skipping along the street. It is Lady Richardson's claim that all these movements are but normal, simple, human express sions. This style of dancing, says Lady Richardson, is good for the soul as well as the body. waits upon the earnest practice of this exercise. From elbow to wrist the arm is bent j above and toward the head, while the ; arm, stretched light out from the shoulder and parallel with it, terminates in loosely flexed wrist and hand. Sway lightly frcm foot to foot, and . .., v.; iiy conn oiled muscles of he waist result. Figure Two. Figure 2 pictures for you a walking ?xerci8e that has a wonderfully beneScial effect on the whole body. It is i natural bodily expression such as you have often seen little children drop into quite undontciously. Tiptoe along from foot to foot, with the raised limb flexed at the knee and held with down-pointing toe. Bend the body well forward from the waist, and sway it toward the lifted foot, stretching the arm over this foot back and down and the other arm forward and as you would do In feeling your way along a solid surface in the dark. . Leg, arm and waist muscles are here brought Into play and when such simple, pretty, little exercises as this become indeed play you may feel sure that you are on your way to a body beautiful and graceful. After all. just such dance movements as this are normal, simple, human expression, and out of them we con evolve natural grave of body and movement Doherty, who may have acted In strict conformity with formulated rules, but a censure upon the New Haven system, which allows a man to run a passenger express without having acquired the final elements of engineer lng efficiency. There iollows upon this another point that is exceedingly serious and UDon which the traveline Dublic ought ! to be better informed than It Is, which li. thi- that n irroat i th nrpmrnra ni nnn rail mart manarpmpnt hr j labor unions that the appointing power :s not left untrammeled in the filling i Df vacancies. The unions insist upon ja certain order of promotion being fol- , lowed, so that there is no quarantee I that when a vacancy occurs it will be ' ned by a man woo has acquired what j we have just called the final elements Icf engineering efficiency To that extent the murder of mno - cent travelers must be charged home . ; to the unions. j In a recently published volume by j Mr. Fagan he enlarges upon this point 1 at length. It is an instance where the tyranny ; of organized labor becomes fully as

' despotic as the tyranny of organized i capital. The Inner orkins of con- ' flicting railroad Interests do not often j become visible to the general public, ibut sometimes they do.

There was an accident on an Enlish railroad due to the intoxication of the man at the lever. He was" promptly dismissed. Tb? union protested, and the public convenience was so endangered by the excited union sentiment that the protest was backed by th government, and the man was put back on his ! engine. I We believe in capital, but not when ! it reaches the point where It rom : mencf s to bcome a usurpation, j We in the same way believe In unionism. but not when it arrives at the ! point where is begins to become a ! usurpation. The ExamDle Cited Does Not (ever the Point Involved. The exatnple Just cited from English railroading is a long way oft. Something of the fame order, as officially reported and publicly printed, has recently recurred nearer home. So nrany railroad disasters have happened since July. 1515. that the public has probably forgotten the one at Crrnv.all. which occurred Just a year ago on the I)., L. & W., by which Tortyor.e pasengers were killed. The train was running at the rate of a mile a irinuts. All cautionary signals were disregarded. The train crsahed Into the rear of another passenger train. The only reasonable conclusion was i that the enr;!r.eer was asleep. He was tr!ed ard acquitted. The assistant district attorney, writin.c In regard to the matter, says: The principal thing that brought cooui mis tarcicai Vermel was in tremendous ar.d overpowering In flu-' ence of the railroad employes nnlons." One additional remark: The public is in one rerpct exceedingly superficial In the ntiltude It takes toward rallrot" mnaement and the entinr with an Intensity verging on bittrrneF In cave an accident ts attended w'th great loss of life. But If ro one happens to be killed and only the ep?lcer and stoker Injured, people th'.nk nothing about it, and the newspapers give It no space. Luck an Important Factor in th Lowell Wreck. a caf c Pl nsi occurrea oniy a fcw day8 ac ncar ljOWplL Ms. A .rap.aiy moving tiyer naa its engine de railed, due, if I remember tightly, to an open switch. As good luck would have It. no cne was ki!led. and dj comment have been mede. Had luck turned the other way, as It perfectly easily migh have done, and & dozen distinguished Bostonlans bscn crushed or burned to death, a great many comments would have been made and the disaster been entered as another indictment against the wickedly clovely railroading of th ' New Haven system." The public should achieve the .Intelligent point of view, which will prompt It to feel that ratlroadlnc negligence Is Just as criminal whether It does or doea not issue in disaster. Clethes MUh Easy te Kill. The moth that destroys clothing Uas been studied by the Pennsylvania division of xoology to such good purpo that Dr. Surface gives this advice about Its destruction: "You can destroy tbe clothes moths by saturating with benzine or gasoline the fabric which tbey InfesL If you will dissolve a very slight proportion of corrosive sublimate In alcohol, using not more than one part by weight to 100 parts of water and pour or sprinkle this over a cloth It will poison it and render It lmmuue to them. "Where clothes moths Infest articles that can be spread and shaken It Is a good plan to take them Into the sunshine in an open yard and whip them thoroughly with strong whips and air them WelL If one can place small articles In an oven and watch tbe temperature that it does not ret higher than something like 150 to 160 degrees he can kill this pest by beat Where tbe articles are small enough to put then Into a closed vessel a very excellent method Is to put them into something that can be closed tightly and pour over them or set nnon them a shallow ! pan containing the liquid known as carbon bisulphide and let It stand and I fumigate three or four hours or more. At least on t"nna or tnis snouia oe i DswJ for eacn 100 coble feet of space, j and more do no n"11- KP fire waT f1 1 explosive. th f am the fames f benzine or g ,IneS "A tmrreI win do TrT tor t1" ! PnrToe. fastening over the top of It 1 ,V r;..; ! ln P by hoop placed outside ; As a last resort for household pesta we can fall back upon fumigation with bydrocranie add gas, which Is certs la to be effective If properly done, bet rf hich is both expensive and somewhat dangerpns when use4 by careless Dersons.7 Bv C. M: Payne