Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 240, 16 August 1913 — Page 8

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MARRIED LIFE

By MABEL HERBERT URNER. FOR days Helen had been worrying over the difficulty of getting Christmas presents for all his people and all her own with a very limited sum of money. Warren had intimated that they would not spend very much this Christ mas. The coming of the baby had been ,such a drain on their finances that he thought a very simple and inexpensive remembrance would be all that would be expected from them this year. But with two families to be remembered even very simple gifts would count up to an astonishing amount. In some ways Helen was a very systematic little person. And now she went about her Christmas shopping in a most admirably methodical way. She bought a note book and riled the pages into three columns. In the first column she made a careful list of everyone for whom she was to buy a present. In the second column she noted down several articles she thought most appropriate for that person and the outside price she could pay. In the third column she put down the article finally bought with the exact price paid. So a glance through her note book showed her instantly what she had already bought and what she had still to buy the amount she had spent and the amount she had still to spend. His people came first, lor it was much less difficult to get presents for her family than for his. So far she had bought only a few presents and the first page of her notebook looked something like this: Name Mr. Curtis (his father). Articles Suitable Umbrella, or Military Hair Brushes or Wallet monogrammed $8.00. Name Mrs. Curtis (his mother). Articles Suitahle Work Table, or handbag or candle-sticks $.00. Carrie (his married sister). Kimono or drop light $5.00. Lawrence (Carrie's husband) Smoking set $3.00. Jimmy, Roy, Annabella Carrie's children Toys (in all) $3.00. Fire engine 75c. Doll's fur, set $1.25. Robert (his older brother) Tie holder or shaving cup and brush or bill fold, $3.00; tie holder, $3.25. Frank (his younger brother) Bath robe or cuff buttons, $3.00. Edith (his younger sister) Automobile veil, or pretty neck piece or vanity bag, $3.00; vanity bag, $2.98. Uncle Joe Book, $1.50. Aunt Mary Handkerchiefs, $2.00. Aunt Fannie Center piece, $2.00. Lizzie (his family's servant) Lace collar, $1.00. So often had she gone over this list that it was photographed in her mind. Mrs. Curtis's and Carrie's presents worried her most. She had particularly wanted a work table for his mother, but she could find none she liked for anything near $8.00. And if she went much over her appropriation for any person, the sum of money Warren had allowed her for Christmas presents would not go around. Of course she could 'get a hand-big or candlesticks for $8.00, but she still hoped to find the table. Her Shopping Tour. And Carrie was so critical. The attractive drop lights were all so expensive. She did not find a kimono that had been reduced from $12 to $5.98, because it was slightly soiled from be- ; ing on a figure. She knew she could ! clean it with gasoline, but the color 1 was unfortunate. It was a bright blue shade Carrie never wore. LAWS OF THE MIND. I am firmly convinced that all the phenomena of the child world, those which delight us as well us those that grieve us. depend upou fixed laws, as deftnite as those of the cosmos, the planetary system and the operations of nature, and it is therefore possible to discover them and examine them. When once we know and have assimilated these laws we shall be able powerfully to counteract any retrograde and faulty tendencies In the children, and to encourage at the same time all that is good and virtuous. Friedrich Froebel. She I cried all day yesterday. Neighbor What for? She It was our wedding anniversary, and Henry said: "It seems to me that something awful occurred ten years ago today, but I can't remember what it wa 8."

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But this morning she started down town with the firm determination to get Carrie's present. She would take the kimona, if during the day she could find nothing else. She went through shop after shop, bought a few things for her people, found the bathrobe she wanted for his younger brother Frank a very good one for $2.98. But she could find nothing for Carrie. She was just leaving a large department store when she passed a table of cut glass in the center aisle. Carrie had so many small pieces of glass, celery and small berry dishes. She had heard her say the only two pieces of cut glass she wanted were a punch bowl and a large pitcher. And the thought of either at $5.00 was absurd. She was about to pass on when she saw in the middle of the table a pitcher a beautiful one marked. "As it is $5.98." She caught her breath. What was the matter with it where was it broken. She turned to the shopgirl. "That pitcher is it cracked or broken? She Buys The Pitcher. "Just a nick off the edge here," ! pointing to a piece near th handle ! where one of the deep cut scallops at i the top was missing. But it was hard- ! ly noticeable unless one looked close- ! "And here's the piece," taking from i the inside the pitcher a point of cut glass. "Here," fitting it back in its 1 piace, "you can easily have it mended, j And it's a beautiful pitcher was $10.- ! 50." urged the girl. I Helen's mind was working very fast. If she should send that pitcher just as it was with the piece inside, it would look as though it had been broken in delivery or when it was unpacked. And it was such a tiny piece, it really did not injure the beauty or usefulnesr of the pitcher. Why not send it? It was so much better thany anything else she could get for anywhere near the price. "You see it's very finely cut," again urged the girl," and so very cheap." "Yes I will take it. But, now listen, be sure to send the piece. Leave it in side the pitcher, just as it is now. Do you understand"" "Yes, Ma'em and the address," taking out her order book. She gave Carrie's address?" "I will pay for it now, but you are not to send it until the day befbre Christmas. You hold goods for delivery until then don't you?" "Oh, yes, ma'am, we are doing that for many persons." "All right; now be sure to leave the piece inside, just as it is, and to mark it not to be delivered until the 24th. Now, I can depend upon that?" "Oh, yes, Ma'am." She felt small. Helen hurried home with slightly flushed cheeks, had she done right? What would Warren think if he knew? But he would never know. It did seem a rather small and deceitful thing to send a broken Christmas gift. And yet it was such a beautiful pitcher perfect but for that little notch at the top! And she had so little money she must do the best she could. When she noted down on the list opposite Carrie's name "cut glass pitcher, $5.00," she gave a sigh of relief. The present that had worried her the most was bought. At least she was through with that. But in this she was mistaken. There were to be further developments regarding the cut glass pitcher. Men, Women and Adjectives. Certain adjectives are reserved for men and others for women. A man is never called "beautiful." Along with "pretty" and "lovely" that adjective has become the property of women and children alone. "Handsome" and the weak "good looking" are the only two adjectives of the kind common to either sex. Even "belle" has no real masculine correlative in English, since "beau" came to signify something other than personal looks. It is singular that "handsome" should have become the word for a strikingly good looking person, since its literal meaning is handy, dexterous. But "pretty" likewise comes from the Anglo-Saxon word meaning "sly." In England if a man buys a secondclass railroad ticket it is sent to him in an envelope addressed "Mr." If he buys a first-class ticket it is addressed "Esq." An American subscriber to i an English paper once noticed that the abbreviation "Esq." had been written after his name and then erased. Evidently it had been decided that he must be a "piker."

LADY CONSTANCE STEWART RICHARDSON On How to Acquire a Beautiful Figure Through Dancing

Figure One (on top) This is known as the "Praying Boy" figure. This takes in exercises that develop the shoulders into rounded grace, and also stretches the waist muscles taunt and firm. The chief exercise concerns a shoulder shrugging movement that is easy to learn and produces wonderful results in bust development. Figure Two (on Bottom This Exercise Develops Graceful Control of ths Whole Body. That Is a More Difficult Exercise Than Any so Far Described by Lady Richardson, but Is Well Worth Persisting In. Both Exercises Are Fully Described in the Accompanying Article. By LADY CONSTANCE STEWART RICHARDSON. IN ancient times, dancing stood for two things an expression of divine worship and an effervescence of human joy. Dancing has come down through all the ages, and it seems to me that what it stood for has persisted and come down to us to-day too. I never can say in enough ways, or with sufficient emphasis, this one doctrine that I hold all important: The human body was given to us by our Maker in all health and youth and innocence and the beauty that is the result of these component parts. It is our scared duty to respect, and to keep beautiful and well this temple of our sacred soul. Xow, since dancing makes the body supple, plicble, fine and fit, is not this proper exercising of the body He gave us a beautiful form of worship of its Maker? We were meant to be happy, I think. Most of our troubles are really mental attitude entirely, or if real ills befall us our minds can magnify or minimize, just as we choose to have them do. So if joy wells from our spirits, and expresses itself in graceful posture and movement; if a spirit of happiness and thanksgiving expresses it f 7

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self in rhythmical movement, we are only completing the circle of all the ages--and in its expression of human joy dancing gives thanks for existence even while it benefits physical existence with wondrous efficacy. Today I am giving you two exercises which I incorporate in my dancing and which I have copied directly from two fascinating little Greek bronzes. The one is called "The Praying Boy," and the other is a "Dancing Maiden." One is a very bimple movement, yet it brings about wonderful co-ordination-of muscles, and has a wonderful value in arm development from shoulders to fingertips. The other, which is a difficult and complicated step, is well worth a careful study, for it will give flexibility of waist and back grace of arm, arched instep and a lithe, swaying carr-'ipe. Quite a hit for one exercise, is it not? Xow let me go into detail and prove my assertions. FIGURE ONE. Figure 1 The praying boy figure may be copied with an ease that deceptive for the grace that comes from absolutely knowing how to control your muscles with ease and smoothness is hard to acquire. Advance the weight on the ball of the right foot, and stand poised thus lightly with th? lifted heel and ball of the

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left foot, leaving only the toes on the ground. Sway from foot to foot, changing the weight to the forward foot. When you have mastered ease in this part of the movement, combine It with the arm exercise shrug the shoulders as high as possible, at the same time raising the arms from the elbows with down drooping wrists and well-separated fingers. When the forearms are completely rased at the elbow raise the wrist, and gradually diminish the uplift of "the shoulders. Practice this again and again, swaying from foot to foot the while; then walk forward, practising the arm exercises as you move. The shoulder shrugging will develop the shoulders in rounding grace, and will also stretch the waist muscles taut and firm. FIGURE TWO Figure 2. Walk forward on tip-toes, bending the weight gradually backward as you move. When you have learned to keep your poise while doing this exf rcise. try it with the flexed body a-sway from side to side, and then finally add the arm movement, which should be done in apposition to the leg movement that is, when the weight is advancing to the forward right foot, bend the body to the right.

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The Care ot the Hair As "I F I had a mi!lio:i doilar." began Evelyn Carleton. I know exactly what I ouid do"Whereuron the mind of the Beauty Editor, attuned to lotions and garments c :" rare texture, and "cures"' and all the adjuncts of beauty which is so seldom beauty unadorned began to vision jewels rare, and the creations from Paris artists. But Evelyn Carleton went on seriously. "1 would adopt all the poor. dear, little kiddies I could find, and 1 would take 'em all out in the country and let them kick up their hee!s in the long. exl grass, and pick posies, and get dirty nd clean again, and grow up with some of God's sunshine in their little hearts." A! em! "The Follies of U13" ' being exploited dow n on the stage of the New Amsterdam theatre. In a dressing room on the third floor the beautiful girl who thrills you itb lovliuess when she sits in a gc'darmored figure on the gold horse of Joan d'Arc was telling me of an ideal that is greater to her than all the lure oi loveliness. Do you wonder that Evelyn Carleton is a beautiful girl? Most women who are normal, and sweet. and sane and womanly with the full heritage of what their maker meant them to be are attractive with the sweetness of expresison and the charm of the eternal feminity that the Germans call "Die ewige weibliche." A POINTED QUESTION. "But since you supposedly have noi a million dollars," said I. "won t you please tell me how you make life and yourself as attractive as possible? All the little means to the EVELYN great end of feminine humanity Beauty." "Oh. but I am not a beauty," said Miss Carleton with misguided enthusiasm. Excuse me. Miss Evelyn, for remarking it here in open meeting and in such wise that you have no chance to talk back "You are a beauty." On with the conversation of the eve- i ning. Said Miss Carleton: "I have j rather nice hair no credit to me. it runs in my family. It's long and thick, you see. I .shampoo It at least! fortnightly, and sometimes one1 a week. About a shampoo if ycu can-j not get some cue who is an expert at j the art. wash your own hair. Buy a j bottle of liquid green soap and shatce i

; with the arm in a perffc t curve drawn from eide to side, and circling the j from waist line to elbow, and from ' arms you s-.way. elbow to wrist the forearm in a sec- Thee exrei-s are well worth ;ond curve circling the head. While the faithful practice, and from them It is i left foot is held back the right arm'is possible to develop graceful movv ; forward in a graceful horizontal curveJ mnts of the dar.fe and graceful con- ; With the line of the torso stretched ; tro! of th human body two con sumback, walk slowly forward, swaying mations devoutly to be wished.

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Told bv Evelvn Carleton some of the liquid into the masses of j your hair, rubing a ay till you set a foamy white 'athiT. Then wash nd wah and wah seme more until your final rinsing an-r is as cIca; as Croton water eer c.n t. Just don't leave a l it of soap in ; our hair If you mean to have il pretty and fluffy and trnctable. lVm't wear fal&a hair, don't jam your head full of comb and hairpins, dial li-ru your hair off in search of a curl that th first damp hour will steal from you. Shan -j-oo it as 1 have o!. you. brush It faith: ully. a:.d ot'teu open it to the benetiis of sun and wind as often as you can. All growing things like sua and s'r as well as those little kiddles ot my ini'.'ior. dollar dream, you know. At nUht and in the mcrninfc loosen your s.a!p by giving il a rotary mas-i-ase with your iger tips; this wOl stimulate the flow of blood to th scalp veins and Mood vessels and fed ; th roots of the hair. For a tonic my .mother used to recommend breaking a few quinine capsules Into bay-rum. ;and applying this on alternate nights. "Tonic should always be applied ifrom a bottle with a shaker top, or dropped iuto the partings of the hair jfrom a medicine dropper. The lde 'is to get it into the skin from which (the hair is deriving its nourishment Jand not to get the hair oily or greasy I and so ready to attract a coating of dust. To sum It all up, keep your j hair and scalp clean, stimulate the flow of blood to the scalp, and feed the rots of the hair, and I am sure the results will justify you for "taking pains." "All I cau add to my 'beauty intei CARLETON. view' is to go back to my beginning again and recommend that grown-upa try my dream for children living out in the golden sunshine. It Is ood for hair and Seur and disposition." IN PARTING. Whereto be it idded that outdoors surely offers you tome of the health and beauty with which It has so generously cower-d Evelyn Carleton. Next time ynu fehampoo your hair, dry it out in the golden sunlight and when you behold with joy the vital glowing mass into which the sun has transmitted yrur ltx-ks. just register a vow to try a little sunshine tonlo on your nature! LILLIAN LAUFERTY. By C. M. Payne