The vogue of the Christian martyr is over but we still have domestic martyrs. ''Rest!" they shriek, "It may be all very well for you to talk about lying down in a darkened.room; but who is going to see that the boy doesn't neglect the arrangements for tiffin and ascertain whether the coolie scrubbed the back stairs properly. Of course you—''they sniff disparage ingly'—may be able to lock your door and loss your eyes for three minutes at 10.30 besides taking forty winks after tiffin and relaxing for five minutes before tea, but my telephone is never quiet!"
None of us would own up to enjoying fatigue and nervousness, but it is difficult to rid ourselves of the idea that tightly strung nerves and an over-crowded calendar are not concomitants of energy and social success. Our aggravatingly calm friends who counsel Without haste, without waste" are regarded as impossible theorists of somewhat interfering disposition. Nevertheless we know that hot-boxes are foolish monuments to carelessness and it doesn't seem too utopian to ask for as much consideration for these human machines of ours a8 for our motors. strings of beads. worn close to the! throat, are often seen. i several of them at a time, andj Bracelets are being much worn, creeping down to the wrist again.
novelty for which we have to! thank Egypt.is the charm bracelet jon a black silk cord which bears Appropriate symbols in every form!, of precious and semiprecious stones. Due to the vogue for black andj white, black onyx is still much seen land gives a touch of distinction wherever introduced.
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