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Show f Woman s World Conducted by Helena Vaieau. HELEHE VALEAU'S ANSWERS. y Miss Vaieau will reply to all ques- f lions asked by the feminine readers of the Intermo'ntalr. Catholic. The well ..known character and authority of her replies need no Introduction to those , already familiar with her ability. Miss J Vaieau will take a kir.dly and personal interest in those -who write to her, and will spare no pains in seeing that their inquiries are answered fully and carefully. care-fully. Write only on one side of the Paper. Address letters to Miss Hele.ne Vaieau, lntcrrruntatn Catholic. AS t the Road. AYli.iU vcr ti -a, may be. my dear, rt us foil.. ay from hero, L.et ux fohow l.i : .i the yesteryear. Whatever it. - j;.". may be: Again Ku u : . , , where the land lies film And live, liko v i-evs. on oui- heart's old Ihniey. Awtiva from t In- orid that slaves for money Omie, journey th- way with me. However llir r.i.-i.l may ivani. my dear. Through sun ... irnin, through green1 or sere, ;vt un follow ii bin k vitli hearts of cheer, I h. while Ave walk here together. Why should we heud the wind and WiitIvT, Wljeii there oti tiie hill we sii.ell the heather. A:id see the lights of home. Whatever the path may seem, my Mvcet, 1a t uh take it now with willing feet. And time our Men to our hear'ts glad beat, Wlial. f...- O... I, . --t the road be rough that we must follow, Y What eaie we for hill or hollow. I I While here in mr hearts as high as the .wallow, j bear the same loved dream. However the road may roam, my Hweet, i Let it lead us farm from mart and street, Out where the hills and the heavens meet However the road may roam; So, hand in hand, let us to gether . And eare no more for the wind and weather, t And reaeh at last those hills of heather, hea-ther, Whore gleam the lights of home. Aladlson Cawein, In Harpers Bazar. Points for Housewife. A rplcndid cement for china is made by mixing- plaster of parls into a thick solution of Rumarabio water. Ti.o addition of a beaten egg to the niHxhfd polaU- used for potato cakes will be iound wel worth wh le. Stblns and discoloration on tinware a:i !, removed by dipping a damp k.th in common soda and rubbing bi5k!y. .'"ten knives that are iiot in general 1!M he kept from rusting if they &r dipped in a drone solution at To clean marble take two parts of soda, one of pumice and one of salt, all u powder, and mix to a paste with w-r.ter. A pretty and warm coverlet can be made rrom thin and worn blankets, covered with some of the handsome figured cretonnes. Fat which is to be kept should be cut up umall and boiled In a saucepan in a lutie water, uid never put into the vn to meh. A flmpic nyrup that 1s good to serve .ti hot waffles la made by boiling: water wa-ter and eusrar together and adding cin-ncmon cin-ncmon to taste. If dirt seems to settle under the nails rub pulverized pumlee stone un-tler un-tler them with an orange stick, and Mash with warm water. An excellent preventive against sear-1ft sear-1ft fever and diphtheria In their era-eon era-eon 1s to give a child a small piece of sulphur every morning'. To remove Ink Bpot soak well In milk, sweet or sour, and rub well be- Vtween the hands and the milk before putting the garment Into the water. A hardwood floor cun be kept free from scratches longer if the legs of . chairs have a bit of felt pasted on the bottom. An old felt hat can be utl-J utl-J lined. To keep ftaroh from sticking use fiallroij that are perfectly clean, and V, h-n making Ihf starch add a. niece ut , Lorax end tlr with a tallow candle. Daintiness and Its Doctrine. To be clean Is not to be dainty: buttons but-tons off, placket gaping, skirt and wast divorced even absolute cleanliness cleanli-ness does not atone for these, t The girl who would be dainty jjer-I jjer-I hups hsd better take a peep into her !uun Are thoea peeping out from under un-der a carelessly made bed? Is a wee corner of a rug kicked up? Is th6 dresser srarf white and frleh looking? Arv the drawers partly open, revealing reveal-ing confusion within, and are there any little threads of hair attached to the carpet or floor covering? Perhaps not the whole list, but a few, or one. Don't scurry everything to rights in b nuddcn resolution. Ieave things Just as you found them. It will not last w hole-pale resolutions never do. Leave the room alozie, then, as a room, but turn your attention to the top of tha drewser. Remove the cloth if it be soiled ever so little. If you haven't a dainty one, make one. Make two or tht.. Hml watch them as a miser watches his gold. If a tiny smut appears, ap-pears, send them to the washtub. But leave everything else alone strictly alone. You have heard the story of the washerwoman who was given the pot of hyanctnth? She set it in the window win-dow and immediately noticed that the glass was dirty. She washed the glass nd the siil looked doubly grimy; the Ji sill washed, the floor looked offensive, y and so on until the slovenly window f became a model of neatness. ' That's the principle. After awn le ; vou will find yourself sneaking your shoes Into their box and making the bed more carefully and sending the curtains to the wash, and finally your own person will change, and some day, so gradually will It come, you win be surprised to hear some one exclaim, What a sweet, dainty girl-" Perfuming the Hair. There Is a difference of opinion as to prf!imed hair, some women, nice :ne. too. think a faint, elusive individual indi-vidual fragrance to the hair correct, while other women arc strong in their I condemnation of scented tresses. If you are not one of the women who think perfunv! hair vulgar, you my lik to know how to Impart an oiur to It instead of paying to have It done bj th hairdresser. Th. Ns!: time is limned iaiHr after '0 v-ir u sfcainaooed .triiik 2 : sU2 ' filigtly damp. Pour five or six drops of oil of lavender, oil of jasmine, or oil of violet in the palm of your hand and rub it over the bristles of a clean, rather rath-er stiff hair brush. Brush the hair thoroughly for five or ten minutes and you will carry around for a week a faint, delicate fragrance. Out in the Fields With God. The little cares that fretted me. 1 lost them yesterday. Among the fields above the sea Among the winds at play: Among the lowing of the herds, And rustling of the trees. Among the singing of the birds. The humming of the bees. Tk-e foolish fears of what may hap-. hap-. pen I cast them all away Among the clover-seeneted grass, Among the new-mown hay, Among- the husking of the corn. Where the drowsy poppies nod. Where ill thoughts die and good are born. Out in the fields with God. Mrs. Browning. A Cockroach Remedy. A housekeeper w ho was recommended to try cucumber peelings as a remedy for cockroaches strewed the floor with pieces of the peel cut very thin, and watched the sequel, says Suburban Life. The pests covered the peel in a short time .so that it could not be seen, so voraciously were they engaged in mucking the poisonous moisture from it. The second night that this was tried the number of cockroaches was reduced to a quaiter, and none were left on the third night. For a Flower-Loving Friend. A woman who has success in raising rais-ing plants from seed can send a charming gift to some flower-loving friend with a garden. Knock off the top of egg shells and fill with rich earth, in which are sown seeds of delicate deli-cate plants that do not like transplanting, transplant-ing, as annual popples, mignonette or candytuft. Set the egg shells in a small wooden wood-en tray with a rim two inches deep. This tray can be made from a raisin box or shallow cigar boxes painted dark . green. Fill it w ith sand, w hich can be kept moist if necessary, and in the sand imbed the egg seed cases. The tray can be set in a sunny window and the plants grown along until all danger of frost is past, when the plants can be set out without injury in-jury to the roots. Is There Danger From Decline in the Birthrate? Frederick L. Hoffman, statistician of the Prudential Life Insurance company, is quite alarmed over the decline in the birth rate, and writes vigorously on the subject in the May number of the North American Review. "The problem which confronts the nation," he says, "is the question of the rate of natural increase, or, in other words, the normal excess of births over deaths, in each of these ele ments, and the physical, moral and mental resultant of intermarriage of like or. unlike ethnic elements." Mr. Hoffman finds by a careful study of the census reports and other obtainable data that the decline of the native-born of native stock, and it will only be a i-horl time when the foreign element will exceed considerably in natural increase in-crease the births of native mothers of native stock, and in illustration he says: ' If we take the age period 23-29, we find that among the native white population of native stock 71.8 per cent of the. women are married, against 72.6 per cent of the foreign; but the proportion propor-tion of native married women at this age period has decreased since 1890, while for the foreign born the proportion propor-tion remained the same." This method of investigation is applied to later age periods and data used from available statistics of New England states, and the summary is reached that "the actual ac-tual deficiency in the annual number of birthsof native-born women of native na-tive stock will approximately amount to more than one and a quarter million." mil-lion." Mr. Hoffman does not entertain any hope in race assimilation. There is no indication of it. "and it is not likelv that there ever will be." He strongly condemns the deliberate limitations of families and finds that this condition prevails among me educated and cultured, cul-tured, or w ealthy, and for it he can find no justification in morals or in neo-malthusian neo-malthusian economics. A survey of American colleges for women brings out the observation concerning graduates gradu-ates that "in all cases the percentage of ma-ried women is less, the age at marriage is more advanced, the number of children is small and large families are the rare exception." Dr. Stanley Hall is quoted as saying: "From the knowledge at hand it is plain that our race would be speedily extinct if it depended de-pended upon the rate of replenishment of the educated classes." Mr. Hoffman finds in his study a parallel par-allel , between America and "ancient Greece and Rome. No argument is complete in these days unless appeal can be made to those historical civilizations. civiliza-tions. "In the declining days of Greece i marriages were rare and unfruitful," ! and this principle of decay was tlie same in Rome. On the one hand immigration immi-gration was marked in both nations and on the other hand "an extravagantly high standard of comfort." Looking I through Grecian and Roman glasses the writer sees in this country the same story repeated. The problem is one of national well-being and for the statesmen states-men and social reformer. |