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Show f7V,T f . fM4 . a. j& Dress and ibWUM 5 WOtiCl. CHaracU, i Specially Prepared tor Our Feminine Readers. iA Lovable Old Woman. You sometimes see a woman whose old age is as exquisite as was the perfect per-fect bloom of hr youth. You worrier , how this has come about; you wonflcr how it is her life has been a long ana happy one. lre are some of the reasons: rea-sons: Phe knows how to forget disagreeable disagree-able things. !She kept her nerves well in hand and inflicted them o;; no one. j i She mastered the art of saying pleas-jJL pleas-jJL ant things. i t ' She did not expect too much from her friends. She made whatever work came to her ' congenial. . - . . . She retained her illusions and did not believe all the, world wicked and, unkind. un-kind. She relieved the miserable and sympathized sym-pathized with the sorrowful. She never forgot that kind words and a smile cost nothing, but are priceless ; treasures to the discouraged. She did unto others as she would be ! done by, and now that old age has j come to her and there is a halo of white j hair about her head she is loved and : considered. This is the secret of a long I Hfe and a happy one. The Modern Girl. (Chicago Tribune.) "The girl who reaches the age of 25 and can't cook a cake or pie or can't make a shirt waist or trim a hat is not a true woman she is a sham, and her parents are responsible and ought to be punishable for misdemeanor." Jenkin Lloyd Jones had this and more to say yesterday at the weekly meet- !ing of the National Housewives' association, asso-ciation, and he was applauded, too. "Three hundred and fifty women listened lis-tened to a talk I made on Browning at an Evanston woman's club yesterday," the speaker continued, "and there are only thirteen here to listen to me talk Ion housewives. This attendance shows the trend of the thought of today. Women Wo-men are nowadays occupied with discussions dis-cussions of Browning when they ought to be teaching their daughters how to hake bread. "When I talk on a subject sub-ject like this I shut my eyes for fear I may see a housewife in the audience." PIANO VS KITCHEN RANGE Mr. Jones ridiculed the practice of sending daughters to Europe to learn j how to play on the piano an art which, 1 he asserted, is never used after mar-I mar-I nage. 1 "The modern girls spend hours at j their pianos and easels, but they are J ashamed to be seen presiding over a 1 kitchen range," he said. "Girls who I go to Yassar and Smith and other col-I col-I loges think it's a good joke if a cake I "falls' after they have wasted hours I of labor on it, but I tell you it's no 1 joke at all it's an everlasting disgrace, 1 an unmitigated shame." I The modern girl who bends her energies ener-gies to social conquest, and "dabbles ! with every fad" came in for a share of denunciation, and then Mr. Jones turned his ridicule on the domestic science schools, "where the chafing dish is substituted for the old fashioned cooking stove." "The chafing dish is the greatest humbug that was ever brought into a man's home," he said. "Do not think that you are teaching cooking when you teach your children how to make fool .things on that silly contrivance. WANTS TO FOUND A SCHOOL. "I am willing, even anxious, to assist as-sist in the founding of a technical school of cooking, the diploma of which will mean to the women what a sheepskin sheep-skin from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology means .to the men. . 'j. I would prefer to found a technical school of domestic science than a University of Chicago. "I have come here to tell you a plan. If you will send a committee to me I will not only suggest a way that such a school may be founded, but I will also euply he building." I The thirteen members of the asso ciation applauded the idea.. . "I knew the Lord would raise up I somebody to help us," exclaimed Dr. Mary Seymour. "You are the best friend we have in Chicae-n " declared Mrs. Augusta Levi. I Mr. Jones' plan, although it was not announced at the meeting, is to devote a floor at the Lincoln center, which he will erect on the site of All Souls church next year, to a cooking school. SMILES AT PUBLIC TRAINING Incidentally Mr. Jones laughed at the domestic science courses to be found J in the public high schools. I "Why, they think they are teaching cooking there," he exclaimed, "and they devote thirty minutes a week to the study." In dealing with the "hired girl" problem. prob-lem. Mr. Jones blamed the housewives for the conditions which make it impossible im-possible for them to secure good help. "Chicago is full of them," he said, "whose boast it is that they came to Chicago barefooted. But where is I there a woman whose boast is that she began life washing dishes at $2 a week. The woman who washes the dishes is often not as shallow or as low as the woman who sits in the parlor at the piano and lords over her." I Pictures in the Home.' ' ". j When we enter a home, among the I first things to attract our attention are I the pictures, and from them we can read the taste, or lack of it, of the lady of the house, for they give us the keynote key-note to her character. If we find gaudy chromos and cheap oil paintings, made by "lightning artists,"' we know at once that refinement' is lacking in that home. Pictures .should be selected select-ed always with an eye to the surroundings surround-ings in which they will he placed. If the house is very large and handsome, and money of no consideration, then of course oil paintings by the best artists ere preferable. People of moderate incomes who wish tasteful homes should choose water colors, engravings or etchings if they can be afforded. Artists' Ar-tists' signed proofs are most desirable, but no better than good copies, with the exception of the signature, which is supposed to add value. i Wholesome Discipline. Don't try to make life too easy for the children. True, they will have lots iof troubles in later life, but the childish child-ish ups and downs are a very good preparation for the struggle that awaits each one at "grownupdom." An undisciplined child grows into an undisciplined un-disciplined man or woman, a nuisance to himself and to every one else. There is a theory now that children should not be made to get sums right; , that al?. lessons should be play lessons. Make the lessons bright and attrac-tive attrac-tive by all means. They can't be too much so. But do let lessons be lessons and play be play. Give lots of encour-1 encour-1 agement and every help, but let the ! child realize 'Mt if a thing is rth doing at all ifvs worth doing well and that doing well always means taking infinite pains. TTh- yomen Worry. If a woman is to protsct herself from J the ravages of worry and so retain her j youth for a longer period, she must I come into more frequent contact with I other people, as her husband does, and 1 read good books; she must relieve the J monotony of her duties and the limit-I limit-I ing. influence of confinement within I four walls by taking outdoor exercise I a walk every day or a spin on a bi-j bi-j cycle; in short, she must exercise the I body and mind in a healthful manner, j and she will find the bloom of youth J health remain with lur for years after it has faded in other women of the same age. "The ordinary woman," says a celebrated physician, ','leads such a monotonous existence that her mind 'has r.-o occupation but worry. What she neeeds is to come out of herself her-self much more than she does. She must haw intercourse with more people peo-ple and take mcr exercise. This raw be done without neglecting the home, and every right minded man will do his best to secure fr his mother or his sister or his wife these aids to the retention re-tention of youthfulness of body and ! mind." , The Girl We Like. The successful girl is usually a popular pop-ular one, and her popularity is derived from the little things she does and says in life. They may not at the time impress im-press a person, but in the end they must surely do so. The girl who is popular with men and women is she who appreciates the fact that she can not have the first choice of everything' in the world. She is the girl who . is not aggressive and does not find joy in inciting aggressive people; she is the girl who never causes pain with a thoughtless tongue; she is the girl who, when you invite her to any place, compliments com-pliments you by looking her best; she is the girl who makes the world a pleasant place because she is pleasant herself. .. Disease Lurks on Skin of Traits. (From Chicago Tribune.) Danger of disease, death perhaps, hides on the surface of every piece of fruit, and the rosy cheek of the apple or the purple covering' of the grape may be using its attractiveness only to -lure you on to your doom.'' This startling state of affairs is laid before the public in a report recently issued by Dr. B. Ehrlich, a physician of Strassburg, who has-just concluded a series of experiments at the Institute Insti-tute of Hygiene and Bacteriology in the university of that city. That the infection of fruit with bacteria bac-teria to such an extent as the report of Dr. Ehrlich shows will be a general gen-eral surprise even in these daysK when we are suspicious of the water, the street car strap, the public jdrinking cup and "practically, we come" in contact con-tact with. ; , , MILLIONS OF BACTERIA.- i But that half a pound of cherries should be carrying around 12,000,000 bacteria, each one of which may be aiming to destroy your life, with a good chance of succeeding, is a bit rof startling information. "Wash all fruit thoroughly," says Dr. Ehrlich, and it may come that Chicgo will have to add this warning to its present "Boil the water." The variety of diseases that can -be carted along in this manner is surprising, sur-prising, but the most fatal plagues are classed in the list. WORSE THAN THE VEGETABLES. It has been known that vegetables could be held responsible for the transmission of much sickness, acting as vehicles for the germs of disease; indeed, there have been cases where epidemics have been traced to the vegetables, vege-tables, but much of the danger of this was neutralized by the cooking of the food. However, that fruit, which usually usu-ally is eaten practically in its original orig-inal state, holds so great a peril is a more serious matter. Few are in the habit of washing fruit, and still fewer remove the skins or peel. Thus the bacteria has every possible chance to enter .the system and do his deadly work. - In. the. condition in which it Is placed upon the market, .the surface of fruit i is almost always unclean; on the surface millions of microscopic creatures crea-tures exist. It has already been proven, that in certain cases cholera, .typhus and even tuberculosis have been transmitted trans-mitted in this way. . The danger can be partially obviated by peeling or washing the fruit. In order to determine the degree of uncleanliness in market fruit, Dr. Ehrlich washed fruit of various kinds and then ascertained by a reliable process the numbers of bacteria thus removed. In this manner he found that 200 grams (about half a pound) of the fruits examined supported upon their surface bacteria in the following numbers: Huckleberries. 400,000; damsons. dam-sons. 470,000; mirabels (yellow plums), 700.000: pears, 800,000; gooseberries, 1,000.000; garden strawberries, 2,000,000; raspberries, 4.000,000; grapes, 8,000,000; currants, 11,000,000, and cherries. 12.-000,000. 12.-000,000. These figures teach how necessary it is that all fruit should be cleaned before be-fore it is . eaten. In. view of his experiments. ex-periments. Dr. Ehrlich recommends that before fruit is eaten it should always be washed, preferably in running water, and that" the washing should be repeated when dry matter Is observed to be adhering to the fruit. Artistic Mending. When a worn place appears in a really nice bit of household linen such as table cloths, napkins, tray cloths or doylies, linen pillow shams and covers used in a bedroom mend by inserting a butterfly of. lace, bought- "ready made," or fashioned at home from different dif-ferent sizes of Honiton lace. These butterflies are appliqued in fine buttonhole but-tonhole stitches of linen thread, and the cloth beneath is cut away carefully after the butterfly is firmly placed. Besides the butterfly, one' could use a bow knot, fashioning it of; braid, and filling in with the simplest lace stitches. A papier mache initial of correct size to cover completely the thin, place, can be covered with linen embroidery, if the worn place has been obliging enough to take a suitable position in the article to be mended. For the busy woman, medallions suit the purpose beautifully, and are quickly quick-ly and easily made. Sew a narrow braid in a circle, letting the edge of circle come well outside the thin spot of linen. Gather and draw up the inner edge of the braid and fill In the: center of the medallion thus formed. This sort of "beautiful mending" was first suggested by a friend who unfortunately unfor-tunately caught the sjeeve of a handsome hand-some spencer waist, just above the cuff, on the outer -part of arm. The 'next time the waist appeared , in public it sported a handsome medallion on the outer part of each sleeve. The very few moments.it requires to shape one cf these medallions makes them very practical and many a way to use them, on collars, ties, handkerchiefs, handker-chiefs, and all kinds of household linen ; and underwear, will suggest itself. A j yard or two of braid and a spool of fine embroidery linen are all the materials necessary for this kind of decoration. How to Gain Soft, Plump Hands. Save all old pieces of beef suet, or buy a piece; rub well into the hands, and let it stay on a time; then wash in warm water with almond or oatmeal soap for preference. Rub on a little lemon juice to whiten them, and dust with fine oatmeal. They will feel lovely,' love-ly,' and prevent chilblains. If the suet only be used, it will be satisfactory. Food Tor Nervous Individuals. . As a rule, salt meat is not adapted ta. the requirements of nervous people, as nutritious juices go into the brine i to a great' extent. . Fish of all kinds' is good for them Raw eggs, contrary to the common opinion, are not as digestible di-gestible as those that have been well cooked. Good bread, sweet butter and lean meat are the best food for the nerves. People troubled with insomnia and nervous starting from sleep avid I . J ' n - . . sensations of falling can often be cured by limiting themselves to a diet of milk alone for a time. An adult should take a pint at a' meal, and take four meals daily. People with weakened nerves require frequently a larger quantity of water than those whose nerves and brains are strong. It aids the digestion of these by making it soluble, and seems to have a . direct tonic effect. Science News. , . |