The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 31, 1905, Page 12

THE FRANCISCO * SU VDAY CALL. sewelk the protr of fat at this & woman's ap- Mas- g to reduce Its removal or, the rear. or no bet- r be accomp- ed” by 1 carriage of the head. Never allow the head to hang forward or let the chin drop on the chest. Hold the head up, with the chin rather high, 204 Jook up, mot down, even at the prics the Gibson, Hutt and Christy typs. When alone ex- aggerate your pose until the head is very high and the chin pointed upward. This will not only reduce the flesh on the “ma- must caref f“ 2\ « 2 IS name was Willlam Lackpeace Workawey and he was deter- mined to write the great Amer- fcan novel. In vain his friends endeavored to turn him from his fell intent, but he wouldn't be turned. Being a good American, he couldn’t very well be a turner. (The first hundred people sending a correct solution of this alleged joke will be allowed to keep on living.) The great American novel is like the American girl or the American ideal, or thé American mule or any other American product which is sup- posed to be peculiar to the sofl and general eénvironment. Each man has some particular specimen of the above- mentioned specles that strik him es being peculiarly and unusually Amer- And they are all right; this is & fairly good-sized country and is en- titled to more different kinds of the only genuine native product than some, little 2x4 kingdom or principality where you can’t turn a four-horse team without producing Iinternstional com- plications. ican s AN ANGCIE OF yare: almost entire carriage the back the woman may be sure that her is sinking in, Better th g and her carriage Is an an exercise prescribed f the day is the ri- of the his standing correctly abdomen must make a line down the front and the hips o the back. The woman w dening will find that her first efforts to stand correctly will re- f stiffness in the calf 1 last only a short woman who studies herself critically in double or triple’ mirror will give the sanle attention to cream- g and scrubbing the back of her ears the way and neck she does to her face. Before the hair is curled at of the brain the neck and ears should be washed thor- with a rough cloth or face the base and over ears, the brush, then the skin should be rubbed with a bit of raw lemon“and rinsed off in tepid water. This cleaning process should be worked into the hair. At night when the face is massaged with cold cream, rub it into the throat and ears as well. A pink and pearly ear Is most attractive, would possess it must be lavish in her and she who use of cold cream and lemon. Tire latter may be rubbed over the top and behind the ear whenever this organ is washed. The girl who does not marcel or curl her back -hair should guard against a fringe of “scolding locks” around the back of her neck.* These troublesome tresses may be kept In place by brushing them up smoothly with a brush dipped in a solution of sugar and water. Dissolve half a tea- spoonful of granulated sugar in a tumbler of bolling hot water, dip the brush in this mixture. It will not make the hair sticky, but smooth and satiny. The careful woman wears both combs and barette if her hair 1is But it is fot our intention to waste valuable time and high-priced ink in airing our views about the greatness of America or the number of its original native novels, girls, mules, etc. It is our purpose, rather, it we don't forget it before we get through, to relate the sad struggle of Willlam Lackpeace Workaway in his efforts to find time te write the chef d'oeuvre of American literature. A chef d'ceuvre is some- thing that you do yourself; if any one else had done it it would have been an unspeakable daub, all of which shows the value of words properly ap- plied. The chief drawback to the perform- ance of a great literary feat of the sort that our friend William contemplated is the fact that it 1§ necessary to live while the stunt is being done. It's not only & very natural prejudice in favor of stay- ing in a world with which one is meas- urably familiar as long as possible, but it 1s also a necessity arising from the nature of the case. Dead men tell no sales, neither do they write any—for ADVRANTACE OF 7'W/C IUEORS HUNE /7 //ffil&'l’!&'f' — = 5 Se————— i PRI T 7l ZUIIPAND THE FEEINE % which let us be thankful. It's bad enough to have so many living men at it without being forced to hark from the tombs the doleful sound of type- writers and fountain pens in full blast. Being confronted with the necessity of making a little money on the side while he wooed the muses, Willlam stirred around and influenced & weak-minded newspaper to give him a trial as book reviewer in ordinary. It was his'idea that rubbing elbows in this way with literature right fresh off the griddle, as it were, he would be preparing himself for the great work to which his life was dedicated. He would also aoquire a large library, which he could dispose of at the sec- ond-hand places for about 25 per cent of the list prices. Both of these con- summations were devoutly to be wished, and Willlam set about hi; pointed task with a light heart, feeling that he was daily drawing néarer to the re tion of his highest hopes. For the next three years William re- viewed—ws will not say read—an average of thirteen books per week. The subjects T THE TRAGEDY OF TOO MUCH WORK-- e ranged from grave to gay, from sacred to profane, but Willlam was rarely any- thing but profans. No one who has not tried it can imagine what & strain on the nerves it is to work through a pile of books composed of, let us say, four histor- ical novels by ambitious and surpassingly beautiful young ladles, two theological ‘works by college professors who have just heard of Darwin and are in & great hurry, to demolish him, a manual on ifldn Wwhist, and sundry works on scientific dis- coveries which have not been made ‘yet, but would be very successful if some one would only hit upon them. When & man has tried his brain at this kind of a strength test he feels that nothing but a mental Turkish bath could make & human being of him again. As we stated above, Willlam stood it for three years, and then he struck to be transferred to the city-rcom. He didn't seem to be getting in shape for his great intellectual feat at a partioularly rapid rate and he wasw't mhaking so much money that he would be likely to retire from active participation in the great comwed Z> KATHERIN Velal S dressed high. The combs keep the waves in place close to the colffure. The barette, which i{s much larger than last season, holds up the “scold- ing locks” close to the nape of the neck. Barette and combs should matoh, work of molding public opinion for at least seventy or eighty years. To be sure, it would be nothing of a descent for a lit- erary aspirant to go out in the strest as a plain, everyday reporter, but he be- thought him of Charles Dickens, Richard Harding Davis and other great men who entered lterature by the reportorial back door, 80 to speak, and he took heart of grace. At any rate, he would be getting nearer to' the great heart of humanity than he was when dallying with a type- writer and a paper cutter in the officlal ‘book reviewer's cubby-hole. s ‘Willlam was dead right about getting next to the great heart of humanity. In fact, he was 50 impressed with its pulsa- tions that before long he came to the con- clusion that beating is the principal busi- ness of the human race. He also learned that reporting prize fights, Interviewing ‘ward politiclans and shady actresses and working up murder cases were not exactly calculated to develop the higher life, His {deals were being gradually taken away from hifm, although he was unable to see that they were passing into the possession and this year they are of tortolse shell. set with tiny jewels. The invisible net is much used, but it must be adjusted with the hand of an expert, or the coiffure looks like a wig. It costs not less than twenty- five cents and is easily torn. Infinite care must also be taken that dandruff does not attach itself to the fine mesh, especially when the hair is dark. Only very young girls wear ribbons on the halr and these must De immaculately fresh. Even the slightest powdering of dandruff on a dark bow glves the effect of slovenliness. ‘Women wear ribbon at the nape of the neck when riding horseback, but at no other time. A drooping collar at the back of the neck is most unsightly. should wear a high collar without some sort of support, either featherbone or the new cellulold collar suppor.s, which look lke toothpicks and can be In- serted instantly into the collar of even a wash wals They can be had for 10 cents a set at any notion counter. Fancy eafety pins or tiny jeweled bars have replaced buttons or hooks for fastening collars in the back, but they should be used in matching sets and a larger bar in the same design should be used for the belit. 'Three or four styles of fancy pins down the back of a costume look gruous. The woman who buys shirt wals ready-made should look No woman most incon- and blouses TrHE carefully to the fastenings If the gar- ment closes in the back. It pays to re- work all buttonholes and make them smaller. The machine-made button- hole Invariably gapes. In all cheap waists work extra buttonholes or add more hooks and eyes, especially be- tween the shoulder blades, where the waist {s apt to gape In unsightly fash- fon. Shirt walsts closing on the shoul- der and side need additional metalllo clasps. The trimming of the new hat fits w@m@ao snugly to the hatr in e.back. - Whan there is a space between bandeau.and hair either fill it In more tris ming on the hat y looss pm € 4 ur ow curls made fr hatr. These are m colffed women. The hang and fit depends largely on beneath it. A corset W snugly to the back, but sticks « deflant lnes is not only ugly, but down- right vulgar. The woman, who has a Bol- low just below the waist line should have a small bustle or ruffle sewed inte. sach skirt to soften this unsightly break iu the lines of her back. The petiicoat sholid be fitted to the figure, and a wad of gath- ers just below the waist band should de avolded. Over the hips the petticoats should be cut out and fitted on bias or curved mot stralght lines All skirt bands should fit snugly and the newest way of attaching skirts to shirt waists is this: A band is attached to the blouse showing stesl bholes alosely set. The skirt band is inset with corye- sponding steel hooks. The new plackes fastenings are built on the same design. The newest walking skirt from Lefdon and Parls show a very slight slevation n the back. That is, they ave just a trifie shorter in the back than in Che-fromt The woman with the broadening Dack should avold horizontal lnes. Her Dells should be narrow and pointed in the dack and her shirt walst yokes should also show & pointed’ effect. And above all WELL- 600N ED, Vol THESLOVENLY BAEK T things the stout woman or the thin, the tall woman or the short, should naver leave her house without taking a compre- hensive back view of her get-up. This precaution would save her many & mo- ment of embarrassment. Who bas not seen & woman look into a shop window, backed by long windows, suddenly fSush, then clutch her skirts and dart iato the store in search of a dressing-room, where she corrects some defect in her dressins which she should have found at home Y the ald of double mirrors? N N N N N N N N N N S N N N N N N NN TS ® A FABLE FOR THE FOOLISH | BY NlCHOLAs NEMO { of any one else. An ideal isn’t like a pen~ knife or a pair of kid gloves; when it's lost It's lost, and that’'s all there is to it No one makes a rakeoff when an ldeal disappears from the domicile of its origi- nal owner and it lsn't worth while to ad- vertise for #t. About the time when Willlam discov- ered that he had finally parted company with his long-cherished ideal he acquired & small but eminently desirable compe- tency left him by a distant relative, who had suddenly ceased to have any use for it, having departed for another country, ‘where debenture bonds and first preferred stock are non-negotiable. Willlam mourned his relative for at least five minutes; he had never seen him, and he knew that the money had been left to him only on the ground that he was such & poor imitation of a man that he would probably die in the poorhouse if some one didn’t take pity on him. The first thought that occurred to him after he finished taking stock of his new possessions was that at last he could turn his attention to his chef & oeuvre. Imagine his discomfiture when b8 learndd that he no longer cared for chefs @’ceuvre. Hs had been making cheap pottery for so long that he couldn’t give his mind to the manufacture of fina china and cut glass. The upshot of the whole business fs that whenever feels the need of some steady occupati Just to keep the moss from getting too thick he drifts back into some newspaper office for a fow weeks. The great Ame can novel is still unwritten, and W probably continue in that unsatist: condition to the end of time, at least as far as Willlam Lackpeace Workaway concerned. The moral which may be found lurking somewhere in an out-of-the-way corner this impressive agsregation of languas is that an ideal should be caught and kept at work steadily; also, when a man has been a hack all his 1i2 he can't make a thoroughbred o “fi self in a minute just because he do t have to do a general trucking busines’ any longer to keep himself in fodder. (Copyrighit, 1904, by Albert Britt)