Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 240, 16 August 1913 — Page 2

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MODERN AMERICAN WOMAN IS DEVOTEE OF ATHLETIC SPORTS She Loves Clean, Fair Play, and Admires Physical

Development American women are good sports. They like keen competition. They like fair play. They like the strenuous things. And accordingly, American women of the athletic type particularly, are Business Girl1 I 'ran.1 mm THE BUSINESS GIRD AXD HER ASSOCIATES. (By Blanche Draper.) One of the most perplexing problems which the business girl has to solve, particularly the young business girl, Is the problem of her social relations with her associates, i Just to what extent she shall admit those with whom she associates In business into he. social life Is a problem not easy for her to solve. And indeed. It Is a problem which deserves the most careful consideration, particularly from the girl In a strange city and away from home. For girls of all sorts enter the business world. While the average employer Intends only to have girls of the best type in his employ, nevertheless he Invariably hires a girl for her ability to meet his business requirements rather' than for her social fitness. , And so it is that the average business girl in the big Institutions finds herself thrust among girls of all sorts. Discrimination, therefore, becomes one of her most valuable assets in solving the problem of her associates. And the wise girl la she who greets the newcomer in the office with dignified courtesy, holding herself aloof except insofar as business requires until she has determined the calibre and character of the new em- ' ploye. I And even when that new girl ha3 been tried and found worthy this wise gill guards herself very carefully against Intimate relations. She may even progress to friendship, but she still maintains a reserve which protects her from the unstablllty of another. It's tho business girl who uncovers her very Inmost thoughts to those with whom she associates In business and makes chums of the girls in the loffice who most frequently meets with embarrassing and unhappy complications. I But If a girl must be discriminating (In her relations with the young women In her office, she must be doubly 'discriminating in her relations with the men with whom she associates In business. I In no place does a girl require a 'stronger Individuality than In business. It's her safeguard against the 'difficulties which confront her. i Be reserve. Don't tell all your selorets. Be discriminating. Be careful Be sane. Be sensible. Be all jtef these, and the problem of your associates will solve Itself. COOL AND

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and Abaility never so happy as In the summer months when they may indulge in their favorite pastime to their heart's 1 content. And each year the interest which women evince in outdoor sports increases. Each year some new activity is added to their list, and each year a larger number of women allien themselves with the sportswomen of the country and go In for the healthful, athletic activities which mean so much of vigor and life in their results. It Is indeed surprising to note how efficient women have become In these sports, and how favorably their competition with men results. In tennis, in golf. In riding, in motoring. In ali these things, women have made records enviable. And with it all they have lost not a whit of their femininity, but have gained ImmeasurableIn optimism. In health and in strength. juuen or the Increased interest which the modern woman has in athletic sports comes as the direct result of the physical culture training which they receive in the present-day school curriculum. Gins are taught that to be strong and well and capable and athletic Is a heap more attractive and worth while than to be dainty and delicate and frail and helpless. They are taught that the id.al woman Is she who can do, rather than she who must be served.

SOME SIMPLE SUGGESTIONS FOR THAT PICNIC LUNCHEON

One of summer's most dellcK 13 pleasures is the picnic. But the picnic is decidedly negligible in pleasure if the picnic luncheon be not of the daintiest and most attractive viands, carefully packed and served in an appetizing manner. One need not prepare fancy dishes for the picnic. Indeed, they are just the things least suitable for an event of this sort. But there must be immaculate care in the packing, and the selection of foods must be made with a view to their ease of transportation and serving in picnic fashion. In the packing of the picnic luncheon a good supply of oiled paper is the first necessity, for no matter how well the food may be cooked, if it be not well wrapped, it becomes dry and messy and otherwise unattractive. The picnic menu need not be elaborate if there be plenty of each article of food, and the food be of the nourishing, satisfying sort for only good appetites attend picnics. Following Is a menu which may be worked out easily and most satisfactorily for the midsummer picnic, and there would be but little to carryon the return trip. Ham and chicken sandwiches Devilled eggs Pickles Apple puffs Hermits

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PICTURESQUE AND BEWITCHING MIDSUMMER HATS

Have you ever seen more quaintly picturesque hats than those offered for the summer girl's choice for the midsummed season? It is as though all the lovely, bewitching things of many past seasons had been united In one dainty confection and offered for the fair maid's wearing.

TWO IiECIPES. J -Mtk' ' ' ! m TO KEEP COOL.

Beat together a littlt suspicion, some old love letters from an erstwhile sweetheart, a dash of don't-care-what-happens-to-me and you will have the finest kettle of fish th-at any woman could wish. To one tried-out engagement, add confidence, trust, a balanced love, and the finest joy in the world will result. This is a time-tried recipe and has the recommendation of every supremely happy married woman. Will American Present Indications of American women will arrive at the vogue of trousers. That is, they will if they follow very much further In the trend upon which they have started. Men predict It, and women, though they hesitate to admit it, cannot but Pineapple lemonade Each sandwich, each apple puff and each egg should be wrapped separately In oiled paper. The pickles may be carried in a glass jar tightly covered, and the hermits could be carefully wrapped in oiled paper.

One Mother Tells How She Solves Problem of Rainy Day Amusement

"I've solved the problem of amusing my children on rainy days," said ona mother with great glee, the other day. "And this Is the way I have done it," she related: "I watched them closely at their play, and the things I found they most enjoyed doing, among the things which they did while sitting were the things I kept in mind to save for their diversion on rainy days. For Instance, I found that one of my little daughters adored making dolls' clothea. The little girl with whom she plays is never so happy as when she is making dolls' hats; and I discovered that my young son would amuse himself for hours with a picture puzzle. "So whenever Dorothy wants to make dolls clothes, or Tom wants his picture puzzle, or Virginia comes over " V sarHei

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I TT- ! Capture the cool air. ( ' T :';,:.:.?;' Keep out the warm air. V U f Invite the dawn breezes. ' 1. Close shutters and inner hlin.ls. ; I IfC&SfZ ' I'se only windows where there 3 : ,r,llgt shtide. ' - $' Keep inside doors open to afj jP'iiwiii 1 1 1 l2&&4t'"Z ''-4 ford good circulation. 1 S" f""iwi' iHftff j An uncorked bottle of lavender ! ZA&?&$& S!llts ad3s a refreshing tins to the J f&" air. ' 1$ csL t I Avoid heated ovens and stoves. - V' , WT ' i Sprinkle as frequently as poslals-'' ' " "

Women Adopt Parisian Designers Point Abolition of Skirts read the handwriting in the styles they see. For the extreme creations from the realm of the Parisian 'signers, all b it offer the trousers now for fashionable evening ware. With the increasingly narrow skirts, which have made necessary the slit of varying depth to accommodate the feet in walking, in many instances trousers would be a bit more modest than the present mode. Trousers are worn with no apology by sportswomen for driving' and for golf. Over them is worn a long coat which, in a measure of course, covers the trousers; but nevertheless the trousers are there. For evening wear and dressy occasions, however, women have kept an apology for a skirt, though skirts have long been considered superfluall excited about a new hat she wants to make for her dolly, I insist that they wait until some rainy day. As a result they just long for rainy days, and the rainy days are among the happiest days they have, where formerly they were among my biggest bugaboos." The idea sounds like a decidedly practicable one, and one which might be worked out by any mother with cerain success. The fact that the mother reserves some of the pleasurable things for the rainy days furnished the children with anticipation, and it robbed them of none of the pleasure of sunny days, since on pleasant days there are so many other things to take their places. Then when the rainy days come the children actually enjoy the thing to -' - U i. Ml

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Trouser Vogue ? to Evolution d th an ous; and only the most diaphonous things are chic. Just how far American women will follow the pace set by her Parisienne sisters is a question which has not yet bee answered. And it is a thing which is being watched with no small amount of interest. Invariably the American woman modiiies the mad frivolity of her French dictator in the matter of style. But that might only mean that should the Parisienne appear in closely fitting trousers, her American sister would wer slightly fuller onea. This much is certain: Either one of two things will develop in the styles tho skirt will swing to the other extreme o' the pendulum and women will be wearing hoops Just as their grandmothers did, or else or, horrors, could it possibly be skirts will become just a wee bit narrower, for there is now only room for a very slight decrease in width. Then the trouser will be a necessary evoultion, and the prediction will have to come true. Women will wear trousers instead of skirts. However, fashion may only dictate, but it remains with the women to follow. Some women there are ho doubtless would leap into such a mode, but the average American woman, no matter what Fashion might decree, would never so forego her femininity and womanliness to adopt this extremely masculine attire. GREEN HAIR IN PARIS. The season appears to be distinguished for eccentricity, not only in its amusement, but in its methods of adornment. No sooner is there a mode for powdered hair than a more startling fashion presents itself; that of green hair. A long oval side panel on a new skirt is weighed down by a long silk tassel.

THE MIDSUMMER DAY AND EVENING

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SUMMER HOMES SHOULD NOT BE DUMPING PLACE FOR OLD STUFF Woman Declares Experience Teaches That New Furnitures Is Best and Most Ecanomical

"If I hail my rummer home to refurnish. I'd buy everything absolutely new for it," baid a woman who is now occupying her cottage for the second season. "I'd forget that I had any old thinss about my home, things that I don't want there and which are of no particular use to me. If I had to dispose of Unit rubbish, I'd relegate it to the rubbish heap where it belongs, but I wouldn't pack it off into the summer home where I want most of all to have everything as convenient as possible." 'What this woman said, many another housekeeper who has furnished her cottace with castoff things from her city home will doubtless echo, for It savwrs of good hard sense. As a matter of fact, it is quite a common idea that a thing no longer of use In the town home 1j entirely good enough for the cottage; but when a woman goes to her summer home for the season. i?he goes there to rest, and she needs everything as conducive to' rest as can possibly be. And there is nothing wh'rh makes work liehter like conveniences. And then besides, the furniture and utensils which have been cast off at home have doubtless served their term of usefulness. Either they are worn out or hard to clean or something Is wrong with 'them else they would not have been cast aside. All thij makes work at the summer cottage just that much more difficult. The summer home should be as simple, as fresh and clean as could possibly be to afford the greatest pleasure, and the simplest way 't furnish all this Is to furnish the cottage with new things, simple, inexpensive and suitable for the use for which they were purchased. If the rule to buy only those things

Jealousy Is Mere Selfishness

(BY BLANCHE DRAPER.) Have you ever thought that Jealousy Is just pure selfishness? Has It ever occurred to you that the woman who Is jealous Is only displaying a new phase of an extremely selfish disposition? Have you ever known a Jealous woman who was not also a selfish woman ? But It's true. It may be she Is Jealous of another's clothes. It may be another's house, it may be she is Jealous of her husband. She may be jealous of anything. But before she Is jealous she was selfish. And between selfishness and jealousy there was a streak of greed. It's not that she love3 pretty clothes so much that the woman is Jealous of another's clothes. It's because she wants all the pretty clothes herself and doesn't want her friends to have any. It isn't because a woman loves her home so much that she Is jealous of another's home furnishings. It is

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f which there is a definite need It followed, there will be little dim in having a superfluity of things buy. And the result will be that the sun mer home will be Immeasurably mcr attractive, more comfortable an I more convenient for everjbody concerned. It is not such an expense as It might seem, since the useless articles otherwise hauled to the cottag might be disposed of to a efondhand dealer and net a portion of tha expense. Anyway, this woman's suggeMlon is worth trying.

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1 f M 4 enoia 7 In fly time close tne kitchen windows, add a quarter of a teaspoonful of carbolic acid to a pint of water, and allow It to boll vigorously for five minutes. Then raise the windows and the flies that are not dead will fly out. Doing thia once or twice a week will rid the house of thes' pests, and destroy as well other germs that may be In the room- No onej should remain in the room, aa tha fumes of the carbolic acid might be' injurious. When cleaning pieces of rllver with filigree work apply the cleanser with a oft old brush and polish with a small piece of velvet carpeting. Tha pile of the carpeting finks down among the chased work and cleanses and polishes It better than anything else, without scratching or injuring the rllver. rather that she wants all the pretty' house furnishings herself and bo-: grudgea another the pleasure of the:n. ' It isn't that a woman loves her husband no much that she is jealous of him. It Is because she Is too self-; Ish to share the pleasure of his c - ciety with any one else. Invariably the jealous woman Ir th selfish woman. And she wu selfinh first. Everybody hates selfishness and when I ray that. I mean Just that. There Is no real use for relflrhnesi in the world- It gets no one anything. Jealousy Is. however, excused n scores of different ways. But v. .en we stop to think that Jealousy and selfishness are rynnomour, and that jealousy Is but an expression of selfishness, these excuses which we ara prone to frame up for tho jelous ona lose their potency. ( And whenever you feel Just a sua- . piclon of Jealousy stealing Into your mind. rtop. think for a minute and ' see if you're not relfirh. And of course you wouldn't be relfIsh for anything. . 'Y list T. m ; V-

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