Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 248, 26 August 1913 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1913. PALLADIUM'S MAGAZINE AND HOME . PAGE

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By MABEL HERBERT URNER. Jit was his mother's first call since the holidays. Helen had received her in the front room rather formally, but when the baby began to cry they had , both gone into the nursery. While Helen quieted Winifred, Mrs. Curtis was looking: around very critically. Helen knew she had called to comment on the expensive furs Warren had bought her, and on the few other extravagances In which they had indulged since his profitable speculation. She had long ceased to wonder how his family seemed to know of every purchase she made. To that fact she became reconciled but she never became reconciled to their criticism of their interference. And now she wondered with mingled curiosity and resentment just howMrs. Curtis would manage to bring the conversation around to the furs and just what criticism she would make. And she determined to make it as difficult for her as she could. Several times when she saw that the subject of expenses was being adroitly led up to, just as adroitly she continued to talk of the baby its new dimple the way it coos in the morning and how it loves its bath. A MUSICAL EDUCATION. Suddenly a hand organ began to play in the street below and the baby crowed with delight. "She loves music so!" explained Helen proudly. "Yes, Warren always loved music," said his mother complacently, "all my children did." Helen repressed a smile. Every desirable trait that the baby showed was always attributed to Warren and all the undesirable ones to her. And I suppose you are planning to give her a good musical education?" Mrs. Curtis went on. "Oh, yes, Helen answered. Just as soon as she is old enough we are going to start her." "Well, you know that is an expensive training, and now is the time you and Warren should begin laying aside for that purpose. By the time she is old enough to take lessons there may be other babies. And you may be less able to spare the money then than now. I think all parents should begin to provide for their children as soon as they are born. Helen knew what was coming, but

to the very excellent advice she could only murmur a "yes, that is a very good plan." "And I suppose you and Warren are putting aside something each month, with that in view." "Well, no not yet. Of course, we expect to but we haven't begun, yet." THE FURS AT LAST. "I'm afraid, Helen, you're inclined to spend a great deal on clothes. Of course, I never want to interfere, but Carrie noticed you at church with some expensive new furs. It seems to me what wit all the expenses you and Warren have had this year it would have been better to have waited. Helen flushed. "Warren bought me those furs, Mrs. Curtis!" "Oh, of course, Warren wants you. to have the best of everything; that's quite natural. And he is always so generous. But you should discourage him when you feel it is more than you can afford." For a moment Helen wanted to tell her the truth that Warren had been speculating and had bought the furs with some of the money made that way. And then she realized she would only call down upon herself an avalanche of criticism Mrs. Curtis would claim it was all her fault, that It was to supply her with needless luxuries! And besides Warren would be furious if she told his mother. His father would hear of it then, and he had always been most bitter against speculating of any kind. "Helen, as 1 said before, I don't wish to interfere. This is something you and Warren must decide for yourselves. But I think it .is your duty to do something now to provide for your child's future." "That evening when Warren came home Helen greeted him with:' "Your mother has been here." "That's so?" carelessly. "What did she have to say?" "Carrie has seen my new furs at church. And your mother thought we'd been most extravagant. I think she called purposely to tell me so." "I wish Carrie would attend to her own affairs." "Well, you know she won't. And now they are blaming me for leading you into rash expenditures!" "He laughed. "You don't mind, do you? You say they blame you for everything, so you ought to be used to t by this time."

'But when they find you've been j speculating! Oh, Warren, they'll blame ! me for that, too. They'll say you did it to gratify my extravagant demands." I "Nonsense. You keep harping on . that. One would think an occasional venture in stocks a criminal thing." ' "No, no, but I can't help worrying : about it. I can't help being afraid." i "What's there to be afraid of? I've made good in every deal yet, haven't i I? I tell you I know something about I that game. I could give points now to

some of these brokers. Why they're duffers, most of them." It was this air of assurance, of self-

'confidenee that Helen mo.st feared.

She had heard too much of the treachery of the stock market not to realize the danger of such an attitude. "Oh, by the way, Pulton wants us to dine with him and his wife at some Bohemian joint next Tuesday." "Oh, Warren, we don't want to go!" "Why not?" "Because," "Because what?" sharply. "Because you think I'd like to po? Because you

know I want to be decent to Dalton?" "Because," deliberately, "I have never approved of the Iialtons, and now that I know that he has influenced you to speculate, 1 approve of them less than ever." DALTON'S BEEN DECENT. "Oh, you never approve of anybody. Dalton's been mighty decent in putting me on to a number of good things lately. Now he invites us to dinner and I'm going;. If you won't go, I guess they can get some one to tal'.e your place. Mrs. Dalton's cousin is visiting

j them, and she's a darned good looking

girl, too." "Oh, Warren, how vulgar!" "What's vulgar about that?" "Trying to force me to go by telling me that if I don't go you'll be with some good-looking girl." . "I'm merely telling you facts and you don't seem to like them much either. Now think it over and decide what you want to do." And he took up his paper with elaborate unconcern. Helen's cheeks were burning. Never before had he said anything like that It seemed so common somehow "If you don't go, a darned good-looking

girl will." Other men might say such

things to their wives but that Warren should say them to her! And she wouldn't go she resolved fiercely. She would give him to understand that she wouldn't be influenced

i by any such means.

"It isn't necessary to think it over," she said icily. "I have quite decided I shall not go." "Oh, very well," unconcernedly, and without looking up from his paper.

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

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BEAUTY must be a harmonious whole. In the figures of the dance one ungraceful step can alter the perfection of the rhythmical arm one is trying to produce. In the physical rhythm of the human body, an ugly arm or hand can spoil the spell of loveliness. The question I always ask myself is why, in a world where we are all under the sway of physical lure, do we so calmly accept our own imperfections and those of our children? We work intelligently for evolution and growth in health and strength and brain power; but beauty and grace we accept in the old superstitious fairy-tale fashion as the gift of the good fairies and we fold our hands in the supposedly philosophical decision that either we have it or we have it not. Not at all! Either we have beauty or we set about getting it if

raise the wrists and arms simultaneously until the racks of the hands just touch above the head. A DANCING STEP. Now drop the arms slowly, with rhythmical muscular control, to the shoulder height asatn aiyi turn the arms so the palms ar- alternately up and down parallel n the floor. Then, with palm down, sink the arms gradually to the sides, at the same time inclining the w -ight gradually to the entire foot. Practice this with gradual-

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By WILLIAM F. KIRK. HAT was a brilliant young I man for you, George," said I the Manicure Lady, "that young fellow that was just in here having his nails did. He has just came back from the country, and all the time I was working on his paddies he was telling me about his Summer flirtations at the lake. The way he talked about throwing his spell over the fair sex, he must be a kind of modern Lor dByron, though he don't shape up much for looks or brains if you compare him with that champion." "I got no time for them young warts like him," declared the Head Barber. "Neither have I," agreed the Mani-

j cure Lady, "but I always like to listen to Joes like him, because it is about

all the amusement I get outside of talking to a intellectual gent like you. This young fellow told me, in perfect confidence, of course, that a married lady in the boarding house where he got his eggs was kind of interested in him, and that she admired him because he rowed her three times around the lake without getting tired. "He was showing me what strong forearms he had, and I suppose they was fairly strong arms for a bookkeep-

; er hut not up to the village blacksmith j brand. He said that she had invited

mm to can some time when he got back to the city.and that was why he was having his nails did. "I feel kind of sorry for the poor young simp, at that. I know just about what the game was, because I seen it

j played more than once at the Summer resorts at which I have been at. Some middle aged married lady gets tired of, j setting on tlie porch, and when she j sees that all the giggling girlies get chances to go rowing on the lake, she j looks kind of languishing at some ( husky young swimmer that she knows i can row and swim well enough to get ! her back safe to shore. Then he be-

j we have brains enough to acquire anyj thing! j It is a simple thing to train the human body in the right way the way it should go in the beginning, but it is hard to alter bodily faults once they have come. However, if you have come to maturity without proper training in bodily grace, and the health and ease and beauty it brings, do not despair , instead, dedicate thirty minutes morning and evening (one hour out of your day) to the beautiful art of the dance, and soon your reward will be great not only in terms of the pleasure

i of pleasant, graceful movement, but in I health, beauty and a gloriously sym- j ' metrical figure too. j PROPER TRAINING. j j And make sure that your little chil- j , dren, and the dear young things all

j about you, have the proper beginnings ! to insure for them healthy and beauti- : ful and graceful bodily growth, j Since an ugly arm or hand can so easily spoil the perfection of beauty, ; suppose, today, I show you how beau- ! tiful arms and hands may be evolved j through proper training. It seems a far cry from dancing to beautiful arms and hands; but I shall try to show you how they may be trained in the rhythmical movement and exercise of the I classical dance. j As most of the movements of the classical dance are executed with high -flex arch and, the body's weight falling on the ball of the foot, while the instep is held in a firm high curve, ', they give of themselves a slender grace and power to the so-much-leg-lected foot. In both of the exercises I i give you today, the body must be poised lightly and springily upon the ball

:of the foot, reclining forward toward ly receding and increasing tempo, and the toes. Walking and dancing thus finally do it as you walk forward on will banish the flat-foot that seems to tiptoe, or as near as vou can manage

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! from the toes to heels as the arms are toes pointing outward. Incline the body The faithful practice of these two-.' raised with drooping wrists to shoul-. forward, and keep the head a bit for- ' exercises will register for vou" a dis-1 der height. When the arms are . ward in the line of the slight curve ! tinct step toward the acquisition of I

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: gir.s to think that he has won some- ' body's fluttering heart with his fatal i beauty, and hires a rowboat by the week .which saves the married lady quite a little pin money, and guaran- ; tecs her an escort that she can boss around. Of course there is always a little scandal, but she doesn't care for that as long as she can be out on the water, and the young man, of . course, just glories in the scandal. That kind of a fellow always does. I When his vacation is over he finds that he is out quite a little for boat hire, but his arms is tanned fine and he has an invitation to call some time and meet the family.

ed her and the two kids around the j lake until his hands was all puffed up j and his pock;tbook all fiat. He had I

a awful crush on her, and some of the lines he wrote was almost real literature, she said. I remember four of them lines: "The moonlight nestles in your glorious hair; Where could it find a more enchanting lair? The bee ca.Tts longing glances at your lips: Where couii it find more sweetlysaccharine sips? "That Fall he culled on her in the

city, and her husband was awfully :

"Brother Wilfred got stung that way ni"e to Wilfred. Her husband was a j once. He wf.s up to a lake in the Cats- biS Prince ci a fellow, and Wilfred

kills, and a beautiful married woman seen at a giance that she loved her

that was there with her two child-; ren seemed kind of alone. You know I

them poets, George. Every time a good looker bams on them the beans is spilled. My poor brother wrote about ten poems to her eyes, and row-

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TO A SHY SWAIN. Why, look you. sweetheart, bow you limp and halt! Tour speeches fall and flounder, shy and vault! Is love's dear tongue so hard, in sooth, to learti? His tender graces, then, so hard to ea rn ? Is this the best that you can do ask whether I really think we'll hare a change of weather. Then sit in silence twirling at your thumbs Or crush your cigarette np into crumbs? And all the little precious moments flyin?. And love, disgruntled, in the corner cryiT,-;

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