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PACIFIC TREE AND VINE 



Woman's Realm 



Love From Two Points of 



View 



was sweetened by tliis little scene of 

 love unfeigned. 



Both these incidents are typical. 

 Each represents a tendency in mod- 

 ern life. There are those to whom 

 all tender feeling seems ridiculous, 

 and who do not believe there is such 

 a thing as genuine, unfailing love 

 of husband and wife that grows 

 deeper as the years pass on. This 

 tendency is strengthened by a cer- 

 tain class of fiction, and by thecon- 

 ventionalties, the rivalries, the 

 struggles for wealth and position, 

 and the false standards which pre- 

 vail in a few social circles. It is as 

 fatal to sincerity and true feeling as 

 ceeded to draw gloomy pictures of ^^^ '^^P ^^ Cleopatra, and if it be- 



Recently a dail}' paper, not of the 

 yellow sort, withdrew its attention 

 from the control of the universe 

 long enough to preach a short ser- 

 mon. The text was furnished by 

 the conduct of some young ladies at 

 a public entertainment. Appar- 

 ently these girls considered that 

 sentiment was ridiculous, for they 

 laughed at every manifestation of it 

 in the representation of life that 

 was placed before them. Accord- 

 ing to the editorial, and the editor 

 ought to know, these young ladies 

 belonged to families of the highest 

 social standing, and the editor pro- 



the decay of true affection and the 

 love of home. 



One afternoon a few days after 

 the appearance of this editorial, says 

 John Mervin Hull in the Eadies' 

 World, an immense audience was 

 as.senibling to listen to a recital by 

 Paderewski. When the hall was 

 nearly full, a man, not old, nor 

 very young, passed down the cen- 

 tral aisle of the floor almost to the 

 front row of seats As he turned to 

 take his .seat a woman rose to meet 

 him. She also was not old nor 

 very young, but she was very beau- 

 tiful, and she was dressed in the 

 exquisite and quiet manner that 

 revealed wealth, social position and 

 good taste. Her eyes beamed a 

 welcome to the man. .She lifted 

 her face to him, and in the pres- 

 ence of three thousand people she 

 kissed him squarely on the Hps, 

 while she slipped her arm over his 

 shoulder and gave it a few gentle 

 pals. It was easy to read the situ- 

 ation. 'I'he husband had been away 

 from home a few days, and they 

 had agreed to meet at the recital, 

 and their greeting was the same as 

 if they had been at home. There 

 was not a trace of self consciousne.ss 

 in it, evidently neither of them 

 thought there was an>thing ])e"u- 

 liar about it, and the whole ])lace 



comes dominant in modern life it 

 means the destruction of love and 

 home. 



But where the poison flows, there 

 al-^o springs the fountain of health 

 and beauty. The world never con- 

 tained brighter examples of unfail- 

 ing affection than can be found to 

 day among the homes of all classes. 

 Owing to special circumstances 

 some of these instances have become 

 well known to the whole world. 

 The love, amounting almost to ador- 

 ation, which Robert Burdette had 

 for his invalid wife he so expressed 

 in some of his sketches and poems 

 that by it the lives of thousands have 

 been made more tender and gentle. 

 No one thinks of William McKin- 

 ley without also thinking of his 

 wife. The example of their love 

 and their home life has been an up- 

 lift to the whole world, and this 

 beautiful casket has for its most 

 ])recious gem the unspoken words 

 of the President's will : "My chief 

 concern is that ni> wile shall have 

 from my estate all that she reijuires 

 for her comfort and jileasure." 



Beauty Culture 



The saying that the present age 

 is essentially an age ol beaut\' and 

 "style" has been repeated so ol'ten 

 that it has become trite, yet its com- 



monplaceness does not in the .slight- 

 est degree detract from its truth. 

 Nowadays, indeed, it is necessary 

 for every woman who would fain 

 pass muster with her compeers to 

 possess at least a fair share of per- 

 sonal attractiveness — wherein, 

 doubtless, lies the chief reason for 

 .such universal patronage of "beau- 

 ty" doctors, genuine or otherwise, 

 not to mention the daily publication 

 of columns of more or less unre- 

 liable matter anent the cultivation 

 of beauty of face and form. Prob- 

 ably more women have been harm- 

 ed than benefitted by the effort to 

 follow the bewildering hints printed 

 for their guidance, for complexion 

 treatments and physical culture 

 systems are not things to be lightly 

 dallied with ; but that fact will in no 

 wise deter other eager experi- 

 menters from following in their 

 footsteps, for — alas! — it is not to be 

 denied that in these modern times 

 the good things of life fall mostly to 

 the lot of the woman who can boast 

 of a pretty face and a graceful fig- 

 ure. One does not hear the old 

 saying "Handsome is that hand- 

 some does" as often as one did a 

 score of years or so ago, and al- 

 though everybody recognizes that 

 "beauty is only skin deep," it is 

 pretty universally conceded that the 

 skin referred to is very well worth 

 having. A point, however, that 

 few beauty -seekers appear to real- 

 ize is the intimate association that 

 exists between a cheerful frame of 

 mind and a beautiful face. Worry 

 of any kind is the deadly enemy of 

 personal attractiveness, for it im- 

 prints indelible lines where there 

 should be no lines at all, imparts a 

 querulous and discontented expres- 

 sion to the features, and undermines 

 the bodily health. Hence the wo- 

 man who would be beautiful must 

 cultivate, above all things, a calm 

 ,uid equable temperament, never 

 losing her temi>er and never allow- 

 ing herself to fret, lieauty of com. 



