THE LADIES. LAPLAND.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 42, 19 February 1908, Page 4

THE LADIES. LAPLAND.

Lapland is situated in the big, easy chair (most any chair, on a pinch) between ten o'clook and midnight. It is always / dark in Lapland, but the darkness is peculiar. You can see all you oare to. see, and_nothing you don't care to soe. Everything is couleur de rose, moreover. Lapland is peopled exclusively by yourself and the dearest little woman in the world. There are a great many of her, first and last, but only one at a time. Laplaqd is the most densely populated country in the world. There is never room for ono moro. Tho climate is Balubi^ous. Heart troubles, especially, are benefited. The chief product of Lapland is bliss. The output is enormous The only industry is taking no thought of" the morrow ._ The introduction of new processes is not encouraged, and the old way of doing things still prevails, very largely. < Panics and hard times are unheard of. —Life. THE SONG OF BRIDGE. With eyelids heavy and rebT, r With cheeks that flush and burn; A woman sits in her gladdest rags, Playing her cards in turn. Bridge, bridge, bridge ! Daytime and night the same ; And still with voice at excitement's pitch, She sings the "Song of the Game!" "Play, play, play! The whole of the evening through; "Play, play, play! ..'Till the milkman's almost due. Mtening and noon and night, J Trie same thing every day — What is it, then, that men call work If tfils be only play? "Play, play, play 1 For we must bo in the swim ! Play, play, play! Till the cards grow blurred and dim. Diamonds, hearts and clubs, All in a mist they seem, Til) when I am Dummy I fall asleep And still play on in a dream ! "0 but for one short hour To feel as I used to feel, When i played my round of golf a day And longed for a hearty meal ! A day on the links I would dearly love, But at home 1 need° must stay, For they must have another hand, So 1 play, play, play ! "O men with sweethearts dear ! O men with sisters and wives! It's not the rubber your playing out, But foolish women's lives ! Nervous, tired and worn, Excited, flushed and rashPaying at once a double price In health as well as in cash!" With eyelids heavy and red, With cheeks that flush and burn, A woman sits in her gladdest rags, Playing her cards in turn. Bridge, bridge, bridge ! Winter and summer the same, 'Till the breakdown comes, a$ come it will, She will make and double and play, and still Will sing this "Song of tho Game." — J. W. Merrill, in' Life. FOREWARNING. "John, do you love me?" "Yes. "Dv you- adore me?" "I s-pose." "Will you always lovo me?" "Ve — look here, woman, what have you been and gone and ordered sent home now?" — Louisville Courier Journal. EQUAL TO THE OCCASION. A notable wit of tho English bench, Lord Bramwell, was once sitting in a caso where an apparently fashionable woman was accused of shoplifting. "My lord, my client is not a common i thief." urged the barrister for the de- i lenc<S ; "sho is suffering from kleptomania. ' That is exactly the disease I am here to cure, replied Lord Bramwell, blandly. — Circle. A PERFECTLY NEW THING. There are wonderful things to bo read in tho New York Sun, such as, for instance, tho tale of the young southern girl, Ruby H. Thomas, who supports herself by making "golf quilts." Young women have made money in odd ways before now, a,nd ranged from raising pigs to cultivating violets ; from nursing people, to canaries ; they have made lace and embroidered, but a "golf quilt" is surely a novelty. As tho story runs, Miss Thomas's family live spmowhere, on a; nice plantation,, and last fall she went into the next town and saw northern tourists playing golf. She took the first opportunity to walk over the course, never having had tho opportunity before. When she reached home, her mother was put ting a quilt on the quilting frame, and while engaged in helping in the process, the idea came to her of /making a quilt like tho golf course. She made a plau. The body of the quilt was to bo green calico ; the tees tan coloured ; . the buriiiers d al 'ker green ; the men and women to wear red jackets ; the players were to have golf clubs in their hands ; the caddies with bags of them slung over their shotijdets ; and the quilt was to be bordered with a strip of red on which were golf balls. Such a quilt was made and pronounced to be pre,tty by Ruby and her mother.' It was sent up to town, where a woman offered to take it tb the hotel, where the guests "were rich as butter," asid there it was sold. And then — orders pilad in. Ruby and her mother sowed like mad, and the bank account swelled and swelled. Sometimes one woman would order half a dozen. What strange and eerie Christmas presents must have been made that year ! And now, to end the story, the girl is at an art school in New York city, and her mother is working h6r fingers' ends off making golf, quilts for the winter trade. DEMAND FOR COSMETICS. Hairdressers, skin specialists, and beauty experts are testifying to the fact that tho sale of cosmetics is decidedly on tho increase in England (according to an Exchange). By tho term cosmetic artificial aid to the complexion is meant, and this includes rOugo 'in all its liquid and dry varieties (thore is no small number of them), powders, "pencils," hair dyes, and so on. At tho same t)ime, the really prao tical and essential skin food is not reckoned among tho "make ups," for it, leaves no evidence on the face, and really is or should be a tonic and a restorative ; The complexion of the ordinary English girl has been regarded for centuries as part of the Angio-Sax-oh birthright, yet it is prophesied that in a few years the beautiful colouring, which has been compared to rosos and cream, will have given place to the sal-low-ness that is the troublo of French women. Devotion to sport and games in biting winds and grilling heat is one cause of this deterioration, and then in the rush for continual exciterfient too much time is spent in heated and badly-ventilated rooms and theatres. Too many cigarettes and highlyseasoned dishes are also follies that no complexion is proof against, and though no ono doubts the valuo of exercise and freedom, yet if they injuriously affect the greatest beauty a women has tho -"am is. dear^x bought.