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LDP ARAAAADIADE DEE DEERE DEE EDDE SE HEE ERE UNOLE SAM— Yes, I had a merry Christmas, and I'll have a happy New Year yet, you bet! SN se haba lala “IF | WERE A GIRL,” EWS despatches have reported briefly the experiment of the Rey. Abel N, White, of the Auatin ethodist Church, Chicago, who used a “Wanted, 0 Girls,” to call hearers for is sermon on the subject, “If | Were @ Girl.” These are sonie things that Mr White raid “It 1 were a girl J would week to be Deautiful and winsome There is an Altraction in beauty, and 1 whould want to de attractive, You ask me, what do 1 mean by beauty? A pretty face? Yes, A pretty form? Yes A pretty dress? Y: 1 would strive for ail of these things, Hut more than these, 1 Would strive earnestly for the funda mental principles. Lake a boy, a grt has a tripartite nature There is (he p 1 wide, the intellectual side and the splritual—the body, the mind and the soul. And if 1 were a girl | should BAG PUNCHING FOR WOMEN, ¥ punching a rubber bag for tony taken in evenin minutes a day for a week a women ean do more to reduce her weight i to preserve @ firm figure than by Obwerving «© rigid let for six months Bag punching is the ideal Indoor ex ercise for women. The object of all athiation ts, of course, to get the blood to clroulating Fapldiy aod well, It ie the proper ection Of the blood that cleara the complexion. bullds up tis and makes the «hin Woman fat, or burns out unhealthy willpowe tinue and makes the etout woman thin. Plenty of good blood coursing fast through the volne te a réemety for nearly ail physical tile that are remediable. Hf @ woman has a complexion like Paste, bag punching will tart the slug mee blood In motion and give her a skin q color of peaches and cream, if an tht Wad been ay invalid with nervous d Pepela for three years, and now | fhe appetite and the digestion of Ostrich, and not an ounce of Mewh to Much. Bag punehivg exer be ‘ Mousele inf the body, and expectaliy (one that have a tendency to take on fat, it Gevelops the chest and shoulders ay neck, and reduces the walet Tt regitres no teacher, and there sitong point tn its favor for (he aversg woman, Unlike fencing, 11 dives no Gilre an antagonist. Exercise can t FRENCH DAISY GOWN, m wait of white platted and cor: =: TIMELY CARTOON, BETWEEN HOLIDAYS. oo. Soe 4 ft se0K to Ket hold of the prinelplea which "ICT were a girl I would be temper: T would be temperate in (he use of | women le the girl who uses slang you J would be temperate in| would not have reason to look back dress, And tf I were a girl [think 1 | years hence with regret ehat you had would be tnelined to that kind of dies ver the entire body would avold any form of comprane Wicked for » Christian to compress her body and to hinder the development of any organ than i is for the heathen | fully and properly. Chinese to dwart “1 would be temperate in the uae of caramels and fudges and anything that would arrest digestion and tend to make the face anything but lovely temperate in regard to late hours, that my nerves would be steady and stron and true, that | might not be tr Fitable but rather compantonable, tr ‘rome or ptreet a in the most up-to. date gymnasium attire Jo Demtnning, tt te nee erve Just two rules, Sus) Out from the shoulde Wrings into play number of muscles than it tends to expand t heat and give a \ trifle above | tinal wil, When | began practice I her weight rapid the baw TRLEPHONE allied his wife up by the His words great me papers lying u know If they are ¢ minutes passed His anger overflowing To central in his madness, When th the door is wife ap ‘ ‘ ‘ . ‘ ’ ‘ ‘ Mer features beaming wiaanens, 4 + "Dear, | forgot to anawer yim,” She sald, seeing the Murry, “Here are the things. ee Oe Oe ee ee ete ee ee | dransed to, wuch « hurey.” De ee oe eo ea Rev. A. N. White Says to His Congregation, a r “LT Would Seek to Be Beautiful.” “And, if 1 were @ girl, | would be erate in the use of slang, Oh, girls, 1f you knew how dlegusting to men and apolled your Bngiish by slangy words, Then, 1 would seek earnestly to learn how to do housework, to make bread, to bake cookies that are eatable, to cook potatoes In four or Ave different ways, on my bat, firet the Kingdom of God’ and then «ane if the fundamental principles ate observed.” Ky Mies Frances Namon, & & @& the Famous Woman Athlete, oo twenty-five times with the right arm owing, reat a fow moments, and then try A woman will) twenty-five strokes with the lett hand derive Just an much benefit from (hel Strike with the greatest rei most awkwart ty larity pos sible, and if one ta careful, punehes will soon fall with the regular. the left —- BUG FREAKS | female winks on the | Wh ho forewings and } AM iormal number of antenn ae The Sea Cucumber Jollyitke bodlew that inhabit the soean #1 practionlly efface IUmelt when in tanger by squeeaing the Water oul of vty and forcing }tself into any nar nw ornek | er | Sold by Bulk and Chunk | measure quantity ae well as quality by le ove, and butohers weil thetr meat by he chunk rather chan by welt SMART TRIMMING, the blouse, ‘The t has on THE WORLD: THURSDAY EVENING; VOL. 4 Pebsoerdeednvns a NO, 14,573, Published by the Press Publishing Company, 63 to @ PARK ROW, New York. Ratered at the Post-OMice at New York as Second-Cinss Mail Matter, BABIES AND PET DOGS IN THE CHRISTMAS NEWS. Eloven babies, stepchildren of the city of New York, fell ill of the measles over on Randall's Island, They were transferred though the eold and the damp to distant plague hospitals. All of them died, When this story il of Btopfathor Knickerhocker’s Merry Christ- Pereemeereeoeed mis for his little ones was published there was ae HARING AND PET nous iN THE an inquiry and a discovery that, although nearly all the children thus transferred had died, the practice of making the transfers has heen kept up, It was a part of “the syetem,” Suv- POSS SS 5-D SOS RSS SOs Fi oo sect eseeesse sees. to aet the table and to watt on It cheer- T would learn how to sweep, to make the b#®, (o mend my | clothes from the sole of the stocking on my feet to the top of the highest ribbon "And, It © # girl, T firmly believe tna web 4 Brviguan "aesk ° ° beauty will ‘OUTS, AB decry | tn th Weal does, he handeome ee wil conduct is right and if the I oay, the ity of @ piston rod. ‘Then alternate one Puneh with the right and another with UG evcentetoliies are belng brought fp) Hk) A epewlal collection by the Britteh Museum, lt has now Ne Wii male wings on one wide and bulterfies The wea cucumber-one of the curloue Kelablen are Usually sold in piles in j Huenos Ayres 'ao that you’ Nave to ing the lives of these babies happened not to he a part of “the system,” So much the worse for “the system?’ Not at all, So much the worse for the babies, They were created for “the sys tem,” not “the syst®in” for them, This incident is illustrative of a tendency to indifferenee about babies, With that item of babies in the Christmas news put all the items you read about Christmas trees and Christmas parties for pet dogs. There were scores and scores of thom in Greater New York alone, They are the signs of the great and growing habit of what may be called the “endof-the-century family’ —a man and his wife -jand their pet dog, We cannot make a better start for the new century than by taking up this matter of the babies, A baby is the most valuable investment a married couple ean make, Also it is the most useful public service they can perform. torrmeeemerent ‘Tle purchase and pampering of a pet dog is PET-DOGGBAY F ict only not in the public intorest but, if in- dulged in in a city, is directly hostile to the Sroweewwerwee! miblic interest, As for its personal effect, what could be more pitiful fér a human being than to waste his or her time in feeding, training and loving a dog? One day Caesar saw some strange women in the streets of Rome with curled and perfumed and bedecked dogs and monkeys in their arma. “Do the women in their country,” he asked contemptuously, “never bear children t” * To found a family about a pet dog instead of about a baby is an exhibition of puorile folly and gross selfishness that cannot but excite the contempt and ridicule of the intelligent. What kind of craving for affection is it that can be satisfied with the wagging tail and licking tongue of a dog? What kind of a passion for oceupa- tion is it that can he quieted by valeting a brute? The production of babies is the most important industry of the Republic, Yet it is a declining industry, And the statisties contain only a hint of the melancholy truth, Not only is our annual pro goeeemennennes ‘uction of babies—about 2,500,000, under MBLANOMOLY 7,000 a day—vastly below what it should be, FACTS ABOUT oun Mostra. | Dut also it is distributed in a distressingly PORTANT wrong inanner, iouerny, The great bulk of the production is among those least able properly to bring up children to be, as Pythagoras said, “worthy citizens of a well-governed state.” Those who are financially able to have the largest families have the smallest. ‘Those who are best fitted to bring children into the world, to train them and to start them right—that is, the great mass of the people of moderate means, simple tastes and democratic ideas—are showing a growing disinelination to the cares of a family, a growing inclination to the petdog substitute poerentne-eeenpr ene ono b The reason for this is a growth of short-sighted selfishness, A baby is an increasing expense, makes increasing demands upon the time, Lt means fewer dinner parties, fewer theatres and snppers after the theatre, fewer gowns to gad about in and fewer hours to waste in gadding rhe laay, the selfindidgent, the shallow cannot see the enormous compensitions—-the valuable material investment in the contain siecess of a well-broughtup child when premeeemetmers il is erowns the superb selflevelopment, self ‘ lpn enon sadveation in loving and caring for and teach THE STAND. Fe Me POINT OF BN ing aw ehild, LIGHTENED SPLY.INTEREST, ; t > svorse than petdoggery, is the neglect of a child Children owe nothing to their parents; on the contrary, the nts owe everything to the child, ‘They introduce it into life, But worse than deliberate childlessness, They endow it with all its fundamental tendencies and instinets. They wholly control ite early environment, ‘They set it the exam ple which it obediently follows inder the law of imitation, Tf a child is illimannered, lacking in self-control, petulant, a bad child—-pray, who taught it to he bad / Tf a child has te be whipped, isn’t ita grim sort of irony that the hand whieh led it astray should be the hand whieh administers punishment / Kadueation is the great overshadowing necessity for all of us, The best way to education is the study and practice of the best methods of educating the mind of one’s own ehild, Motherhood and fatherhood are grave duties—grave duties to | This extremely smart gown i of rusaet brown cloth, with A novel braid] evening Mr. Jagway abrent-mindediy put miscond, effect bordering the wkirt and covering] the straw in his pocket. re : 2 was thie straw—thie inet atraw--) "“Mdlith, you oughin't (o wear your oxag: hen | pink aatin waiet with a rainy-day skirt.” A} ther bettain. SRIEh | whieh Ste, dheway tome whee lnakieg) Oe ey nee Altiina olan A COMFONTING THOVGNT ABOUT bury. seeeeeeeeeeees waril for its faithful fulfilment, Let us have more babies in the Twentieth Century, And let them be Twentieth Century babies with Twentieth Century parent most satisfactory point about duty is this: ll the way In which he blows hie money!" After talsing hie last mint Julep for the! up it Ls foeeeereeneees assiine, grave duties to discharge, But the The greater the duty the greater the re- pre GHVERAL DINKETION, — | te fatnt aroma IL exhaled, “this shows DECEMBER 27, 1900, HESE THINGS G SCHOOL IN THE JUNGLE, TWO. ~ LOADED FOR FAIR. he ) || He stood on the bridge at midnight, Beneath the heaven's great dome Because he was married And the whtekey he carried him afraid to wend his way home, TO ABOLISH COLDS, «* HERE is ho more common ease to which the human family és wisbject,” eays & well-known doctor, ‘th that nated by the latty as ‘a cold,’ Almost everybody npeake of having ‘caught old, when what is really meant te (hat the diseaned proveae. hag solned thelr systema in spite of them, ‘By common consem the adjective in always prefixed to a cold, ber cause they are all ‘bad colda,’ Now, the fear with which everybody regards a ‘id in wel founded, for fully three: fourths of all the serious dineusta cone nected with (he respiratory tract origi nate in colds and many diseases of (he other organs. ‘Ordinarily when one ‘takes Hirect action of a reduved temperature or J jn usually upon the mombranes of body thal open upon the surface, such as the nove and mouth. , The’ in flammatory conditions which result {ne terferé with the normal conditions of the rody by which the nutgitive changes of HARRIET HUBBARD ‘AYER No Mawic Process for Development Dear Mra, Ayer tam golng to attend @ ball, and will wear a low-cut dress, My chest te not soragay, but it could be |mproved, A friend of mine told me that warm olive i} applied nightly a few nights befory would partially Si out hollows and pro- Juce the desired effect, Please tell me T should use the oll, te before. IN Brooklyn, N.Y. O treatment would have a pereepti> ble offect for weeks, possibly for} months, Olive off would nourish the ektn, Tf do not think it preparation which would ¢ line, ae lano‘ine more quickly penetrates, Bleetricity H Dear Mra Ayer how many URESTED, mame made dt, and they show very plain! print & way to remove them. OLLIB, HERE is no simple remedy, Klee triclty ts the best process, but the operation should be performed by vel Kindly T Dear Mm, Ayer pl te Do This Yourself, What will cure @ wart which 1 have, from fa on my first finger partly under the nail? Ae, RB. “HE wart you deseribe cin be re- moved | acid, but I do not O WITH A LAUGH. MANY FALL‘ HE WOULD LIKE IT. Mrs. Henpeck—If you marry Dick, you need never expect me to come to m! Daughter—Just say that into the graphophone, won't you, please? Mra, Henpeck—What for? Daughter—I want to give it to Dick as a wedding present How Tf BYDE “Ever notice there Is not half the| Said he sentiment in literature there war twenty! or thirty veara ago?” Ever notice there are not half wemente there were Unless you do as twenty or thirt Train Up a Child in the Outdoor Way, Says a Doctor Who Knows HH the Ussuom are disturbed, ao the balance of health Js overthrown and not enouga animal heat is produced to neutralise the lowered ‘omperature of the body “To avold or p affalrs oblivious to Health ts concerned Huy thelr olreurt about by educating the system to aulck+ | attution neutralize any sed by ‘too rapid exposure to cold, “Phe man who wraps hie throat with al room for an t red rag to weare away the loaning ele ments lowers the realstance of lily bod + himaeif to diveawe tho] « lowered temporatur and really expo niomant “he leaves ft off The more ‘rourheand-(uable’ is reared the bovter able is he tor elemento. A person may be ot delicate from habit not for hablt ome would contract cold from exposure of (ie heat more readily than from exposure of t dien from Infancy #hould be accustomed | y “Th some countries rain falls steadliy half the year, bOt people attend to thelr} filter ng out all the ba Advice to Seekers of Benuty; Right anc Wrong Aids to Employ, as ot and the average More than Nifty hates at a siting When the Hole Falls } hair from falling ou iy romethiug wrong Kit of orion with the frietions Phentg avid, 2 rams; thee ture of nUx vurnton, 71-2 graven; My nose In covered with emall red! ~ “i ‘ Just how to leolate the wart. You might get into reriods mischief if you tried to perform this eimple opera- ne, 1) gramay The lotton te especially good for very dry hale, Free Trentment for a iMemish, Only One Sure Cnee, Jet me know the name and ince of some free Brooklyn clin euperttugns hale removed] old, it hands by the electric nee-| Can you tell me how 1 can get it om? TROUBLED BLSIB. DO not know of any cliale Where #u- entyenoven years 1 have hate on + LECTRICITY alone will remo: