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P jConc:rng Health C cr_, ng Helt Concerning ,e,,t, A LITTLE TALK ADDRESSED TO THE SCHOOLGIRL. The Ideal Girl of Yesterday a Willowy, Delicate Creature-The Schoolgirl of To-Day, While More Robust, Should Look After Her Health First-Don't Try to Pay Your Way Through School with Your Own Work--Substitute Plain Water for Soda and Fruit for Pastry-Hot Biscuits Not for a Beauty. BY MARGARET E. SANGSTER. (I you ever, Dorothy, in the house of some old-fashioned friend, pick up one of those elegant gift books which were in vogue in the '50's, you will remember the steel engraving that showed the ideal girl of yesterday. She was a willowy creature, with a delicate face, long silken ringlets shading her cheek, a very small waist, and long graceful hands. She had been taught to do embroidery and other fine needle work. She excelled in the piano playing of her day, which was a less severe accomplishment than now, and she was refined and re poseful. But there was something a little depressing in her charm. A dirgelike hymn, familiar to your mothers, epitomizes that girl as she used to be. "Sister, thou wast mild and lovely, Gentle as a summer breeze, Pleasant as the air of evening, When it stirred among the trees." I have attended the funeral of more than one such exquisite girl, and have helped to sing that very hymn beside the silent sleeper. With the knowl edge of hygiene, which is universal in the twentieth century, we are learn tag that the girls who used to be sac uiliced on the altar of a mistaken ideal need not have died so soon. Very early in life they were taught not to run or Jump, or do anything unfit for a little lady, and as.they grew older they wore tight stays, abridging their breathing pc-er; they slept in un ventilated rooms, being afraid of the night air, anri if by any fatal chance they came near a case of tuberculosis, they fell victims to it along the line of least resistance. It may have been 20 years ago or more that the reaction against this style of feminine languor reached its height Then, the athletic girl was greatly in evidence. So far from car lag at all about her looks, she was In tensely proud of a sun-bronzed and wind-tanned complexion, of red hands and arms, and of a sort of rude robust ness that eliminated the touch of daintiness to which every girl should aspire. We have reached a saner day, and our girls have learned that they may live an outdoor life, have perfect health and lose no Jot of attractive l well remember in my girlhood hearing a man comment unfavorably en the thickness of my walking shoes. He said, sotto voce: "How can that girl's Mother let her wear those hn;, .thick-soled shoes?" Being 'hat quick of temper and well ýed with the youth, I ventured a that the shoes were adapt- a ed to tli cllate and the weather and I eabled me to take long walks with- ' Sdhceomfort. He crushingly re Plied: "No elegant young woman e ·tlkql bong walks, or wears any- t 9it c~pt thin-soled shoes." a Il3lose few girls who have grown a I tnder the excellent regime which teaches us to dress properly for the weather, can believe that this critic voiced a general opinion. I have had reason all my life to be grateful for the independence and wisdom of a very sensible mother, who thought it a duty of her daughters to be well. Not merely a privilege-a positive, religious duty. * * * « , Without health, one's pleasure is in terfered with on every turn. This would be a small matter if one's chances to be useful were not also greatly diminished by fragile and un certain health. People who are mor bid and blue, and easily discouraged, who make mountains of molehills and see lions in the way where others walk safely, are usually the prey of their nerves and have not reserve force enough to carry them through what they undertake. Schoolgirls, and those at college, too, sometimes break down through overwork, al though I am inclined to think that this is seldom the case unless in addi tion to their legitimate work they at tempt something else. Unless a girl is very strong, she should not try to pay her way through school or college by her own work. Some girls do this successfully, but they are exceptional. Still more dan gerous is the effort to combine study and society. The girl at high school, living at home and trying to go to parties and concerts and other even ing amusements, cannot maintain her proper rank in the classroom. Briefly stated, unbroken health is ¬ within the reach of most of us. We are fortunate if we have inherited vig.- t orous bodies from parents and grand parents. Yet if we have begun life b with te:rlencies to delicate health, we may overcome them by resolute will, S careful dieting and generally hygienic t living. An abundance of good, plain, i nutritious food is essential to health. i Thousands of schoolgirls owe their ti dull eyes, sallow complexions, pimples and frequent headaches to constant h surfeiting on rich food and to eating too many sweets. A habit of eating between meals, nibbling chocolates and bon bons is fatal to digestion and good looks. A girl who is half sick b most of her time will lose her comell- c' ness, and as beauty is the birthright o: of schoolgirls, which they should not a sell for the modern mess of pottage ei in the confectioner's window, one can- a; not but regret the spendthrift folly. u Equally fatal to health is the habit ti of taking drugs. The girl who never gets far from the pill box will not have the high spirits and gay good It humor which should be her portion. tc seldom see a group of girls stand- h a.g around a soda fountain without dl wishing that they knew the advan- ri ;ages of drinking plain cold water, ti )nly that and plenty of it, and letting St sweetened syrups alone. Fruit should al :ake the place of ;)astry, and it is n )etter for growing girls wholly to )mit coffee and tea from their bill of 01 are. Bread at least a day old is a al )etter choice for a beauty than hot )iscuits, and fried food should not be le ,hosen if anything else can be had. he * * * * Another secret of health for the ichoolgirl is plenty of sleep. The xeauty sleep must be taken before nidnight. Go early to bed if you vould be strong and equal to what ver you have to do. The temptation o sit up late because others do so is lways great, but it should be re isted. Copyright, 1906, by Joseph B. Bowles.) I When My Lady Motors And Peter Pan Turbans Lend 'ýIltnlves Well to the Drap n ' Veil of the Day. Tqi ard turbans of the Peter Pan are comfortable motor shapes, :1 '1t $ MOTOR HAT. Smany little smugly a motor veil of chiffon, ,wnd the sides and back of of fine straw braid or are really ideal for motor :O feather weight, most be coming, and so closely fitted to the head that the wind bothers them but little and veils can be comfortably and attractively adjusted over them. Milliners are showing draped, close fitting turbans in all shades of light gray to harmonize with the popular light gray motor coats, and, with the the turban and leaving the face ex. posed. The veil is usually in gray, matching the strawl, and sometimes a very sheer silk is used instead of chiffon, answering the same purpose of protecting the hair and neck and wearing much better than the more filmy material. Many women prefer for ordihary motoring to wear a sep arate veil tied over the hat and cov ering all of the head save the face, and select these veils with a view to their becoming qualities as well as their relation to the costume. If one can afford to sacrifice a veil often, one of white chiffon is desirable, for nqthing is n:.,re becoming, and the white motor veils with dotted or striped borders of black or of colors are very charming. For the Nerves. For general treatment, go out into the fresh air as much as you can, take ocean baths, or sun baths it pos sible, and avoid tea and coffee and stimulants of any kind. Try a diet of fruit and vegetables, with meat once a day. Drink a glass of hot milk the [last thing b,fore going to bed. Soldiers o fortne among men are lize te tl thatwasfor Soldiers of fortune among men are lized the trouble that was before him I n Pvtr:,r .,i rr..... • -,,, 1 .h. 4, .. Soldiers of fortune among men are the not uncommon-those who wander critic about the whole wide world seeking had adventure, now mining in Africa, now I for serving in some South American war, of a now fighting duels in China or India ht it or where not, spurred on by an insa. well. tiable lust for excitement. They may itive, do considerable harm or considerable good and generally end by getting themselves shot and so good-by. But is in when woman is cursed with the same This spirit she leaves a wake of trouble one's that involves many other men and also women. She must use men to secure I un- those things for her which she herself mor- is unable to secure. Men must be her iged, tools, made to do her bidding under and the influence of her fascination. .hers In everyday life there are, of course, Y of many minor examples of this, but now erve and then a woman arises who wanders ugh over the two continents involving in irls, her meshes men of international prom lmes inence-strong men generally thought al- to be proof against such things. In that the old days such women used to iddi- make history; today-well, they make at- scandal. There is no walk of life, no country which has not furnished its she quota of such magnetic, unscrupulous )ugh women. Little German peasants, 'ork. French dressmakers, English govern but esses and American shopgirls have dan- had meteoric flights and toppled over tudy men who have spent lifetimes of hard cool, work in making reputations for them to selves. ven tain Career of Mary Boozer. A few years ago a South Carolina z is girl with the unromantic name of We Boozer-Mary Boozer, later changed vig to Countess de Pourtales-stirred up and= trouble in three nations and finally life had her head chopped off by the mi we kado of Japan. In her youth she was will, said to be a most beautiful type of enic the southern girl. Tall, black-haired, ain, lithe of body, she had such color as Ith. is given to those alone who spend heir their early days in roaming over the mountains and riding half-broken pant horses across the blue grass country. ting There was not a swain in the country ing who did not fall under the influence of Ites her sparkling eyes and keen wits. and Hardly had she reached maturity tick before a duel was fought on her ac eli- count-fought in her presence. It was ght one of those bitter contests of arms not where two men stand before each oth age er shooting till one is killed. Leaning an- against a tree, she laughed carelessly F. until one of the men fell with a bullet bit through his heart. And the reward to ver the slayer? A kiss of the fingers, a not flash of bright teeth, and that was all. nod In a week her affections had turned on. to some other youth, only to inflame nd- him for a few months. But finally she out did marry. A young man proudly car an- ried her off as his bride. From that ter, time on he was unhappy. He was not ing strong enough to hold her in control uld and soon there was gossip In the is neighborhood. At the country dances to where the two went she wofild pick of out the handsomest man in the room a and in an hour have him at her feet. hot The hot-blooded husband was power be less to check her and could protect his honor only at the expense of a duel. Then one day after a particularly vi ore ,onU lat- I ion Is lous sto a h re t but hd e j na la t )r a the t a S li sen o -C' him, her head erect, her eyes flashing, c, and then, drawing a revolver, shot him She was not arrested and lived on e to marry again, only to secure a di o vorce. She had some money and final rs her. She hung ered for a wider field.a SGoin then to Parisre she at once became the center of a throng of admirers. to who was prominent as a diplomat, By n, marrying him she bounded at one leap 05 Into the atmosphere she craved-an orand women of intellect. Her husband ewas soon after sent to Japan on a mis e sion for his government and proudly toiok his bride with him. He ltte rea At the court of Japan she repeated the process of the little South Carolina dances. Mlan after man flickered about I this hot flame. In a few months the f foreign colony was all agog. The s count found plenty to do in trying to I Protect his own and his wife's good s name. It was useless. It came to the s usual climax-a duel. iHe was killed. i Executed in Japan. The widowed countess, lovelier than ever, returned to Paris. In a short ' while she had married another French officer. Back again to Japan she went, her husband on a diplomatic mission. In a month she had caused so many duels, created so many difficulties, that the mikado lost his head and or dered her to be executed. The act was done and, strange to say, caused 1 no international complication. The in side story has never been told, but i I-. \\P;A / `' ' 'lam NO, r LAUGHED (APELES5L'1 AS ONIE OF ThE t1f N ELL WITHA BULLE T INi HIS t1EAQT._s that therA miist hal na la n that there must be one is proven by the fact that the whole matter was hushed up and forgotten. Three na tions might have been involved in so rash an order but were not. There was a little shopgirl in Stet tin, Germany, who, having read much in society novels of the gay life at court, longed, as many another shop girl has done, to taste of it. But Anna was different from others of her class. She was beautiful and realized it and had a mind of wonderful versatility. Although uneducated, she devoted her self to study and in a short while had a superficial knowledge of many things, with the charm to make a great deal of it. Saving up a little money, she made herself some dresses and shortly after disappeared from her native town. She turned up at Buda Pesth and secured rooms in the beau. tiful and expensive hotel Unter den Linden. Here she met a Prussian count, who instantly became fascinat ed with her. She had registered as the Countess Riglano, but naively let it be known that this was really not her right name. No, she was the Archduchess Katherina of Austria-Este, and, there fore, a near relative of Prince Ferdi. nand of Austria-Este, then heir pre sumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne. She had a fortune, she said, under the care of the kings of Saxony and Roumania. The income of 1,000, 000 marks would come to her on her twenty-first birthday. Acted Her Part Well. She was soon the belle of a small circle of Prussian nobility, each of whom had heard the story under the oath of secrecy. At the theater par ties and teas she carried off the hon ors of the grand lady with the title of serene highness. Outside this privi leged circle she remained plain Count ess Rigiano, preferring, she said, to live in retirement until she should come into possesion of her property. Of course every unmarried count and baron who knew her story instantly fell in love with her. She selected the only son of a rich family. The latter were only too glad to give their ap proval. She was photographed in a family group which included every member of the family. That in itself was a letter of credit to every shop man in the kingdom. When she had run up credit to the sum of many thousand marks, so that in spite of her photograph shopmen had become a bit uneasy, she sum moned her father-in-law. She wished the loan of 175,000 marks for a few days to settle the legal costs of man aging her estate. It would be several days before she could negotiate this sum, Would he favor her? Surely, willingly, gladly. It was an honor to be able to accommodate the archd uch ess. He insisted upon making it 200, 000 marks. The next day she fell ill and the doctor very kindly advised her to leave at once for a winter resort. She paid. her hotel bills. For all any body knows, she is still at that winter resort, wherever that is. The chagrin over the discovery of her trick was such that the victims refused to say a word to the police. The story of the Humberts is still fresh in the public mind, but it was so extraordinary a swindle that it will ii ldoubltles becolme historic. A woman, IMine. Therese Ilumbibrt, was at the t head of this. She was born on a small H farm near Toulouse. She married the p son of a senator who was supposed to o inherit a large fortune. On the d I strength of this she began to borrow small sums of money whenever she was in difflculty. But the story was c disproved and she found herself deep- il ly in debt. It was then that she in-. vented her famous story of the Craw- b ford millions. She stated that in 1877 there died at Nice a rich Amreican by the name of Robert Henry Crawford, e leaving Therese his entire fortune of $20,000,000, in recognition of the fact a that a few years before she had saved his life. P Trick Well Played. ii Shortly after this a nephew ap peared who said that he knew of a T second will. The latter put the will in the hands of a lHavre lawyer and gave him power to act as his notary. As a result the will was taken into court. This was part of the scheme of the IHumberts-a scheme to legalize the fiction. The money being tied up, it was natural that the Humberts should be forced to borrow. And borrow they did. For 16 years, while one kind of liti gation after another occupied the at tention of the courts, the big safe which was the depository of the $20, 000,000 occupied a position of honor in the Humbert household. When madam wanted to "raise the wind" she talked about the safe and its contents and explained the status of the litiga tion, exhibited a notary's certificate that the safe actually contained the bonds said to be held there and pro tected her creditors by her own per sonal note indorsed by Maria, so that whichever way the ultimate decision of the court ran the lenders would be secured. So long as this ultimate de cision could be deferred so long the game could be successfully played. It seems remarkable that these cred itors did not ask for the numbers of these bonds or examine more closely into the antecedents of the rich Amer ican, who, although the possessor of a fortune of $20,000,000, excited no at tention in his native land; In fact, who seemed to be entirely unknown. It may be that they did investigate, and, lacking sufficient data to probe the matter to the bottom, were unable to go beyond the records of the French courts; or, satisfied by the legal steps which had been taken that such a legacy did actually exist, they rested in the secure belief that their loans would be repaid. The End of the Farce. Various efforts were made to recov er large sums loaned the Humberts, but nearly all of these were unsuccess ful. When the creditors, resorted to civil process for this purpose they found that their notes were qualified in various ways, the most common of which was that payment of the loan should be made "after the Crawford compromise shall have been settled," or "payable after the conclusion of ac tions of law." It became necessary to proceed along other lines and to raise the cry of fraud before the bubble could be pricked. This was done by the cred itor to whom they owned $26,000. He asserted that the safe d14 not contain the $20,000,000 claimed by the Hum. berts and attested by the notary and he asked for an examination and in ventory. To this the lawyer for the "Crawforaj" objected, but the lawyer for the Humberts, innocently believ ing in the integrity of his clients, as sented. The result is known to the world. The safe contained only about $1,200 in securities and a few insig. nificant articles of jewelry. Two days before it was opened the Humberts had fled from France. In the end these adventuress.es come to grief in one way or another. A few brief years they reign and thei the fall. There is no recovering alter this It is the logical end, and a bitter ens. EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE Capt. El 1. Willis, of Denton, hal announced as a candidate for sergeant at arms of the House. Meth.d!sts of Waco are preparir.i for a great (Ceorge Stuart meeting !a' Septembr r. Wichita Valley tracklayvers reached Iiaskl1 with the track last Wednes day, and ente red the city Thursday. Deputy ('ollctor of Customs David Hloover, at (Gtt.way, Mont., is under indictment. for sniuggling Chinamen into this country. J. 11. Jenkins. a Santa Fe foreman, who was struck by a falling telegraph pole several days since at Blum, died of his injuries at Cleburne Wednes day. Charles Hodson, for thirty years chief clerk of the American embassy in London, died Friday. Mr. Hodson served under eight ministers and am bassadors. At a saw mill on the Washitan Riv er, Indian Territory, 2500 saw logs and a gasoline launch were carried away by the sudden risa of the river. The probable loss is several thousand dolE lars. Announcement is made that Mr. Taft, the Secretary of War, is going into Maine to take the stump in favor of the re-election of Representative Charles E. Littlefleld. The Governor of Samara, Russia, was instantly killed Friday by a bomb thrown by an assassin who was sub sequently arrested. The Governor's head and feet were torn off by the ex plosion. From San Francisco to New York in fifteen days' time is planned by L. L. Whitman and C. S. Carriss, who are making the trip in a six cylinder run about in an effort to lower the trans. continental car record. After striking a heavily loaded truck at Lee Avenue and Middlcton Street, Wiliamsburg, N. Y., and perhaps fa. tally injuring four men, a car ran two blocks before it could be brought to a standstill. George F. Jackson, traveling freight and passenger agent of the Mexican Central railroad, a man of close observation, stated that in his judgment reports of trouble in Mexf co had been greatly overdrawn and would not be realized. i. G. Hillager was shot and killed at the home of Sheiman Gooch, three miles east of Ireton, I. T., a small town twelve miles southeast of Chick ash. Robert Brown surrendered to officers and was caried to Chickasha and placed In jail. The electrolytic *.tlters of the Boston and Montana Company of the Great Falls, Mont., have closed down as a result of a strike which will ul timately involve not less than 3000 men. The State .partment has received a dispatch from Mr. Combs, the Amer lean Minister to Guatemala, stating that President Cabrera of Guatemala has announced the complete disband ment of the Guatemalan Army in ac cordance with the Marbelnead pact. The Hillsboro old settlers and old soldiers reunion was opened by Jo Abbott, and the main address was de livered by Senator Culberson. The receipts of the Dallas postofice for July, 1906, are $33,174.77, while those of July of 1905, were $30,993.94, Dr. Thomas D. Wooten died at Eu reka Springs, Ark. He was one of the most prominent physicians in the State and had lived In Austin for more than thirty years. The Reading Railroad has a force of clerks at work revising the pas senger tariff over the entire system, based on a 2 1-2c a mile rate. The schedule becomes operative colnci dent with that of the Pennsylvania Railroad. C. C. Ingram, aged about twenty-five years, who has been employed as a cook in one of the downtown restau rants In Fort Worth, was fonud dead in his room Monday afternoon. The deceased had been ill for quite awhile. The southbound Frlsco was wreck ed at Kosoma, I. T., fifty miles north of Paris, Sunday morning. Engineer Harlan was severely hurt and Fire man Skelton mashed to a pulp. The wreck was evidently done by mis creants. Senator Bailey has filed his campaign expense bill of $11.SI0, as follows: Postage,, $5.08; assessments by thirty four countlies to covcer cost of printing name on official halots. $:4; foes for mopey orders, $1.o2; stationery, $1.50. F. Rendor, of Cameron. died sudlden iy while sitting at the breaikfast table. T'ht. nuose of his d! ath was. heart truu dle. Tl' day b'lotie lie was down town sha';in g hands with friends, tholgh hii.- Ili alth has not been very 'good ir soc:. tinme.