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FROM Paris comes forth the de
cree that the Hpanlsh comb
the old-fashioned high comb
Is once more to adorn my
lady's colfTure, and every American
woman Is hastening to possess her
self of one.
Perhaps she has one laid away
among her store of treasure; per
haps she boasts of some soft-eyed,
graceful Spanish ernnra as a grand
mother, from whom she has Inherit
ed one of the exquisitely wrought
pieces of sliver illlKree that for
many years have been prised chief
ly as curiosities; perhaps she Is of
less romantic extraction and owns
one of those wldr sedate tortoise
shell affairs that topped the coiffures
of English and American women
somewhere In the thirties; but what
ever her ancestry, If she owns a
comb at all, she will take It from
Its resting place and put It to prac
tical use.
If there Is no comb among her
heirlooms, the idem dealer can
GUARDING A SENSITIVE ORGAN
EARACHE, one of the painful Ills
to which flesh Is heir, Is also one
of the most dangerous to neglect
and difficult to cure.
It may come from a variety of causes
cold being the chief. But whatever
the cause, professional advice should al
ways be sought as soon as possible. The
ear la something with which It never
fays "to fool." Quack remedies and
otlona may be tried on other and less
sensitive parts of the body, without the
long suffering organs rebelling unduly,
but the ear is very apt to be harmed
Irreparably by untrained doctoring.
Of course. In the case of a child's
sudden agony, which must be relieved
before the doctor comes, one may resort
to some simple cure.
The old-fashioned method of smoking
Into the painful ear often proves effica
cious. Cotton should be Inserted as soon
as the smoking is finished.
A drop or two of warm oil also proves
soothing, or laying the little head on
a piping hot bug uf dried hops or on a
hot-water bottle.
Putting a narrow strip of porous plas
ter or some of the medicated pastes or
clays close behind the ear olten relieves
Intense pain.
The main thing Is .to get at the seat
of the trouble, and that only a skilled
aurlst can do. The deprivations of a
lite without hearing are loo serious to
make Its possibility a thing to be lightly
gegarded.
Never dig at
the ear with any Instru
ment, no matter how blunt. A,o he
careful how a syringe Is usid on It with
out full knowledge of Its effect.
The getting oi too much water Into
the ear sometimes has serious result.
Tills should be carefully guarded
against. In ocean bathing especially.
Even the ordinary dally washings may
be overdone. One young woman who
was troubled with a constant roaring
and feared permanent deafness consult
ed her aurist. tu her intt ne disgust,
after removing an accumulation of wax.
he told her that she was too clean; that
he washed her ears too far In and the
water had caused this formation. Be
ing a somewhat unconvinceable young
peison she persists in her vigorous ablu
tions, with frequent visits to her aurist
entailed.
Certain ears by a peculiarity of forma
tion are specially susceptible to the ef
fect of water. When this is recognized
great pains should be taken to guard
against it.
It Is not enough To cure earache; we
must learn. It possible, to prevent It.
often It is caused by neglected colds In
the throat or none So sensitive la the
eustachian tube that the slightest In
flammation In either Is found to affect
the ear.
A very prolific, but often unsuspected,
source ot earache is the habit of some
women of washing the hair lain at
night and going to bed with It damp.
This Is apt to cause trouble at once. If
one's ars sre at all sensitive.
It also often follows sitting In a
strong draught, and allowing the cold
air to blow squarely on the ear. Jf one
supply her needs. Makers are vying
with one another In turning out a va
riety of styles and sizes. There are
plain hlsrh bands of tortoise shell;
there are the same bands with a
wondrous degree of carving; there
are shell combs Inlaid with gold and
mother-of-pearl, beaded with pearls
and diamonds, or edged with balls
or fleur-de-lis of shell. There are
amber combs, silver combs, shell
combs whose carving Is touched
with gold, and occasionally a comb
that Is all of gold.
Some one has hinted that the pres
ent style of millinery Is responsible
for this revival of big combs, and
there may be some truth In the no
tion. Hats have steadily grown more
elaborate of late years. They are
piled high with trimmings of various
sorts; they are bent and twisted Into
every conceivable shape, and no or
dinary, unassuming hatpin can as
sure their remaining firm and un
wobbly among the fluffs, twists,
must sit In draught sometimes It Is
unavoidable, and one should never pum
per oneself to the point of susceptibility
try. If possible, to fade It, or, at least,
let It be token obliquely, so that neither
the ear nor the back of the neck suf
fers the latter being extremely suscep
tible. The chief thing, however, after the
damage Is done. Is to sea that It Is re
paired as speedily as possible; deafness,
partial or complete, Is not pleasant to
contemplate.
Wedding Books
w
EDD1NO ' books are by no
means a new Idea, but bought
ones are eXDensive and lack
ing In Individuality. The woman who
Is clever with her fingers and brain
can make one for the friend who is
about to become a bride, which Is
bound to he a great source of interest
and pleasure.
If she Is good at making pen-and-ink
sketches. she wants nothing better
for her purpose than water-color
paper the block sheets for her pages,
and the more elaborate Bingle sheets
for her cover.
Kach page Is supposed to be set
apart for some special record of a
happening on that wedding day, and
should have Its upproprlute Inscrip
tion in old Kngllsh lettering, and an
accompanying sketch at the top.
There must be a space for a bit of
the bride's gown, a leaf for the spray
from the bouquet she wants to keep,
panes for newspaper clippings chron
icling the great event; pages for the
incident that some member of the
bridal party feels should not be for
gotten, tiuests may write their names,
and their special wishes for the hap
piness of tile newly wedded pair, and
the passing of the years adds greater
interest to the history herein recorded.
Baggy Knees and Elbows
THE condition of the knees and el
bows of many men's garments In
cline one to the echoing of the
song of rejoicing by the little street
cur:
"I am ugly and yellow and full of fleas.
But my pants, thank heaven! don't bag
at the knees."
Raggy knees and elbows are certainly
not attractive, and tailor's bills are an
Item, but they can be got Into shape at
home with a liltle trouble and no ex
pense. Lay a damp cloth on the baggv place,
fold the garment and lay It away for a
couple of hours. Then unfold It. place
It upon an ironing board, pull the baggy
Place gently In every direction, smooth
It with the palm of the hand, then cover
w-ith a clean cloth and press Mat. The
cloth placed between the garment and
the Iron Is to prevent the shiny appear
ance, which Is almost as bad as the
bagging.
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Yedvy JaZr are frxnaJe.
puffs and curls that the fashionable
dame of 19u6 makes of her tresses;
so the comb must needs be called
Into play to Insure a firm resting
place for the oack of the hat.
There is no record of the lirst woman
who drew her hair up high, placed a
long, narrow comb at the base of the
knot, pinned on her hat and after one
long self-congratulatory glance at her
self by the aid of two mirrors went on
her way rejoicing; but. surely. If "Imi
tation Is. the slncerest flattery," she
should be well pleased with herself.
Holding an elaborate piece of milli
nery In place Is only one of the uses
for the big comb, however. The woman
who goes In for anything elaborate In
the shape of a coiffure will neeil one as
a finishing touch. If she draws her hair
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PIANOS do not. a a rule, add to the
decorative beauty of a room ; they
are a mass ot ugliness that tiKhls
with every conccnahle tth-me. of
decoration. But since they are a com
arutlvelv recent development they have
not established a formal precedent of
liieir uvmi, and so the decorator is free
to exercise his own taste and iuve.it
Iveness. it is only quite lately that
attempts have been made to trial llw
piano aesthetically Some of Hie at
tempts are undoubtedly iniprov emcut
on the old form, but even belter devel
opments are hoped tor.
The grand pi.ion, with its Irregular
shape, la the least ungainly, but this
takes up so muctksiiart' that 'here are
comparatively few houses that have
room for It.
The arrangement of a piano can make
up Into a soft knot on top of her head,
she will top it with one of the silver
filigree combs or one of carved and or
namented snell. If she inclines toward
a low arrangement, siie will finish her
series of soft, graceful puffs with one
of the exquisitely carved .shell butter
flies or one of tho Iohb shell pins that
is tipped with a round shell ball.
The narrower and much ornamented
combs in silver, shell and :imir are
particularly attractive with the coiffure
that is neither very low nor very hltih.
tiddly enough, the pompadour Is still
the favorite arrai.gement for the front
of the hair, despite the revival In
combs.
Pictures of beauties who flourished in
the early Victorian period show the
front hair parted and the wide, hinh
the en-atcst possible difference to a
loom, and tins is p.irticu.a. ly tiue of an
lilUltdil p.lll.o. hen one Is placed II. it
against the wall its stiuight. squ.iie
teles are made too pioiuiuetit, beside
the fact that it U not r.glit to sing
against a w a!l.
In Knglami in the best homes the
piano Invariably stands out In, the room
snd has a handsome worked curtain in
the back. The piano then sets aa a
screen. One of the accompanying 11-
to ornament to7ace rt tAe mocr(
jecos7rsifS crnpe
comb appearing among a mass of puffs
and curls hinh up at the back of the
head, but tho modern woman Is not
tiammeled by consistency In periods.
She has leaped the benefit of her
mothers and grandmother's experi
ences. She has learned that every pe
riod of fashion hiu Its beauties and Its
atrocities. She scans the history of
Res and the costumes of dead and gone
society leaders, takes a liltle here, re
jects a little there and rejoices openly
in the artistic result of her gleanlncs.
She may be guilty of an anachronism
when she wears her Spanish or her Vic
torian comb with a much-waved pom
padour, hut she is pretty, she is attrac
tive, she is satisfied, snd surely no
more can be demanded of mortal wom
an !
PIANOS
lustrations shows a beautiful stenciled
piano buck. It wlil be readily seen that
such a back as this In rich harmonizing
colors would add much to a room.
Often a piano can be placed at right
stifles to a floor. This fcies a delight
ful little touch of privacy to a room.
Sometimes it can be set out in the mid
dle of a long room and so brink It up
In a pleasing manner. There are a
variety of ways of placing a piano,
treated in this way, but the position
must be governed hv the llnht and by
the heat, for the sake of the piano, as
well as by where It looks best.
A square piano should ho placed
across a corner, or In a hay window so
that Its squareness cannot make itself
too much felt. It should not be put
flu t. against a wall for the reasons bo-
fore mentioned.
The tughiy polished surface of most
pianos is not aita-tic. A clever )oung
artist who uiidersta uds the u.?e of paints
got away from this by painting his
piano, making it look dull and giained,
tooln w liat lis,- the mission furniture.
A hit e thought g.eib to the arrange
ment of a poino ran make the most
marked difference to a room, as those
who give the matter much thought can
see for themselves.
REVERSING THE SOCIAL CODE
H
ELEN BATES called Charles
up on the telephone this
morning," a middle-aged
woman remarked to her
a few days ago. "She said
not at the office, so she
It possible that he had not
home yet. When I asked her If
family was In anv trouble, she
seemed very much surprised at the
question. She was going downtown
today, she said, and merely wanted
to let Charles know it. Is It the fash
Ion nowadays for young women to
keep their men friends Informed of
their movements In this way?"
"It's the fashion If the young wom
en find It worth while," returned tho
daughter demurely, but her eves
twinkled. "If you kept ahrenst of the
times, mother, you would know that
the average girl In these days must
take the Initiative If she doesn't want
to sit In a corner, unudmlred and un
appropriated." THE WAY OF FORMER DAYS
"In my day," said the elder woman,
with dignity, "the girl who went out
of her way to attract a man's atten
tion was considered bold and for
ward, If nothing worse."
"In your day, violets were more
fashionable than chrysanthemums,
mother, that Is the difference." the
younger woman retorted. "We regret
It, hut times have certainly changed.
Nowadays it Is the girls who give the
attention, the men who receive It.
"You may remember the Carters?
Those girls were all pretty and pop
ular, but when they lost their money
they dropped out of the public eye,
and It wasn't because people really
thought less of them, but simply be
cause they hadn't the means to do
things that had been everyday oc
currences with them hitherto. Belle
Carter used to he seen at the mat
inees, and football games with men
all the time, and it was pretty gen
erally known that she paid the bills,
but no one thought any the less of
her qn that account. Now she never
goes anywhere."
"She started on the wrong prin
ciple," said the older woman decided
ly. "If she hail never done tiiose
things for men, she "
"Would have staid home, or gone
with other girls," finished the daugh
ter. "Now, you meet Ned Carter ev
erywhere. He Isn't a bit better look
ing or richer, or more attractive than.,
his sisters, hut he Is a man. be knows
a lot of rich girls, and he gets asked
by them. There are plenty of girls,
and their mothers too, who are will
ing to go to any expense for the
sake of having a nice looking man
to go around with them."
NOT THE MARRIAGEABLE KIND
"But the men don't marry that kind
of girls," put in the mother trium
phantly, "they may accept their at
tinlions, and flirt with them, but It
doesn't go anv further. Many per
sons are cotnjdaining that the num
ber of marrUgcs is falling off year
by year. It seems to me they might
see that this reversing of matters is
at the root of the scarcity in wed
dings. ben I was a girl, an old
iiiaid In the vicinity was rare enough
to cause comment. l,ook at the un
married women of today!"
"Wen, then- are plenty of them. I
know," the daughter admitted, "but
that's because a woman doesn't have
to lake the matrimonial vows any
more. In order to escape the Jibes of
her family. She can live In an apart
ment, take up any fad she pluases,
and handle a latch key. without being
haunted by the fear that If she
doesn't succeed In dragging some man
to the altar before very long, she will
have disgraced tier sex and herself.
"As for men not wanting to marry
the girls that run after them. I am
Put in a position In settle that ques
tion, since I am not married, and
But personal observation leads me to
believe that what a man wants most
in a woman, depends entirely upon
the man 1 was lalklim to a man the
other day, whose views would have
filled you with Joy. He said he want
ed a wife who was modest and de
mure, and waited to he wooed; but
I know a girl who calls him up reg
ularly once a week, and hints that
he shall take her out to lunch. Hiid
he takes the hint. There are plen
ty of the modest violet type of maid
ens unattached, but I haven't noticed
hurrying after
"I know another man who says dis
tinctly that he would never bother
about any woman who didn't bother
about him first, and why should he?
His mall Is flooded with Invitations
from various girls of his acquaint
ance, he gets barrels of presents, In
season and out, and as for his tak
ing a girl anywhere when he has to
foot the hills the Idea Is absurd.
Now that man may never marry any
body, but If he does, the probabilities
will be that the girl will be chosen
from among those he knows, and at
the present time he has only seen fit
to know one kind."
"Well, all I have to say," announced
the mother In a tone of finality, "Is
that I sincerely trust no daughter of
mine will ever stoop to such undig
nified methods! 1 should feel that oil
my teaching had been In vain."
"Oh, present company Is always the
exception, of course, anil 1 trust t
have never done anything thus far to
cause my ancestors to turn In fhelr
graves," said the daughter, stooping
to pick up her handkerchief as she
spoke, and hiding, at the same time,
the smile that lurked about the cor
ners of her demure mouth
Sun Baths
SOME one once called the sun God's
antiseptic and sterilizer, and cer
tain It is that not half tho peo
ple" on the earth real.ze how large a
part sunshine can play In cleansing,
purifying and making whole.
No one can overestimate the value of a
sun balh, and each year you see an In
creased number of children, wrapped up
from the cold aid comfortably tucked
Into their iierambula toi s, on the sunny
end of the piazza, getting the benefit of
this greatest of nature's tonics.
Sun baths that are taken as a remedy
for rheumatism, or to ward against
sleeplessness, have belter effect If they
are followed by a warm sponge. If they
are taken for any skin d. sense (and in
such troubles they are exceedingly valu
able!, they should be followed by a warm
bath.
Even when there Is no special disease
to tight, but Just a sense of languor and
fatigue, and a run-down neivnus sys
tem, the sun bath will do good work
better than medicine.
One Key for All Trunks
WAS thf iv pvit i unman lwrn who
tlhJ not al H'imr tinif in her t .i-n-rr
lone or fortt hT t runic
key? Who Iihh nt -xm ruiw'l Ihf wild
Ben hp ttf despair th.it hwm-ih over ii
tra vel-wurn, iluwty mal'irc who arrivi
fit her Jouiney k nd with no more Ori
ent Hie Implement than a hairpin to
prolie th inynttiirs of her trunk Writ?
And when tier pii-ren of haite num
ber tnore than one. hii'I all the key nr0
left liehind, o mucli (he greater in t
mourning over the dNutrr!
Now i-iuneH ulontf a 1 mlon trunk deal
er who for Ingenuity and true iuiKini -
InMim-t put? at) his Yankee brethren o
the hluhh. Me haM invented n mm i m of
trunks, nkirt trunk. f tin trunk, hat
box Htid every ot her Mrt of trunk or
box that you may ni-ed. all of w hl' h tan
be unlorked with one key.
at rours, yuu may forwt the one
but It tu leH of a memory tax than half
a dozen, and, Fhould t be forgotten. mli
will hipj'.nder Uhh of your HiibHtaina
upon the villafce lork.-mith than if you
were obliged to order a wind hunrh.
Making Candles Fit
WHKN your candle is Just a little too
laige to tit into your cafiill. -t i. k.
don't shave it down, for yi am
apt to shave away a little too much ami
be no better off than before Instead,
hold the candle end to a lighted min h
and when the wax has softened a little
you wi:i have no difhculty in iliin.g It
Into Its socket.
Homettmes the candle Is Just a IriHe
to i small and wabbles unKracefully
when put Into the stick. The iinlin.g
process works almost as well In this
case, but It may be necessary to honow
a little wax from the end of a ili.-i arded
candle, melt It and pour it around the
new one to help till up the superfluous
pact.
that he
them.
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