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Show i n : Woman's eWorld I I ;;(- I " t!l j Rocking the Baby. .11 v-Pn m..tl.rr r;;-klns the baby. J ; ."-."'i.ir.p hT lullabies. ; ; ViJi;i, f 1 lie dear, dear dream she I- ' ' ' divains. . a ! s ., ,. inp, lonpr thoughts that rise? ) I ,.f :lx Jnify future h i h- r vet 110 foot has been ;,i I I fjiin " would summon the sisters is f ' iliree. j T tiw them what they spin, y : i -vii' " lii'itlur is rocking the baby, .. ci," in her tender arms If ' jjaw fair the nieadows that lie before, A I'h naught (God grant) ihai harms. l rinee he'll be. of the hearts of men, .A !,d never a prince so true! G'l-at vroiigtj to rinl.t and U-.e weak to ; help, e And wonderful deeds to do. Vi'lieit mother is rooking tho baby, f l!er eyes look far and far, ' marvelous eyes to tva i and pray j The eyes of a mother are. And Hhe holds him tight and lighter, As she scans adown the years f I: ut the babe knows only her fence sonp. And not her l.'opee and fears. "When mother is roekin? the baby i The sweetest time of all! . . , A time that swift as an envies ni0ni Has passed bevond recall. To the mother must eine a hngina, f When her heart is lone and w 1 I And the babe must ukc to a clav ' ! 1 ' when, oh, I Thoe arms enfold no more IMuin 1- H'in in I-adieo W 01 1 1. HOW TO MAINTAIN THE FIGURE OF THE SLENDER GIRL i:V .MAIM AN MARTIN K A U, in Chicago Tribune. I ,.m ." feet S and I weigh 135 pounds. 1 a little under weight, am 1 not?" ,ii'-ned the slender girl, anxiously, of !,.. weigher in a physical culture gymnasium. y( u are exactly right." said the veigher. "The proportion has been re-- re-- durcd a few pounds. We used to call it in for your height." "0," said the slender girl, with a y.g.h of relief. "I was afraid 1 had ' i.-,iu''ed too much:" i:.'iucing- too much is one of the faults of the girl who is losing flesh. It i s p easy to take off her pounds that snot! she finds herself losing more llesti than she wanted to lose. In place of becoming just exactly right she gets iiuky. And the gawky girl is almost as bad as the fat girl. There are women who reduce, but when they do so they reduce in a p-nrf il and awful manner. They drop .ff their fieph so fast that the skin hangs in folds, and they reduce sa lHpidly around the abdomen that they j'd weak all the time. Now the girl who knows how to re-liiiee re-liiiee is possessed of many little secrets which make this unpleasant state of .'.flairs impossible. She know? at least ioi little tricks of reduction which are tab ulated to reduce her without injury in-jury cither to her health or her figure. She never reduces more than five pounds a week, preferably three. She never takes the Hesh off her face without with-out treating the skin to prevent it Jroin becoming baggy. She knows what to do for loose hecks and flabby muscles. No matter how thin she geta she will never be llabby. She understands the art of facial massage, and knows what to do for her chin when the fat begins to go. She has a recipe book in which she Iihs written down all the little lotions I for the bathing of the skin. These lo- I lions are astringent and they shrink t lie skin as the fat leaves. They pre- ei,t bagginess. This girl never gets too tired. Her ii.Hs. ies are never strained. J?he is fit ii!! the time. The slender girl has the art of dieting st hr beck and call. She can order j ':i, fi"''d which will reduce her weight, ni"! she knows how to select foods and viands that will not fatten. f "h" girl who keeps her weight down knows that she must not drink with li'r meals; she knows she must not eat between meals; he knows she cannot i;ike food before going to bed. and she knows she must never eat all she can hold. The girl who keeps her figure is well s.'iire that she must walk or exercise - her meals. Gravitation has a fin-at deal to do with good digestion and the woman who sits down or who b-s down, or who decides to take a' I'-ip after dinner will be fat. will have i indigestion, and will be blessed with a pasty complexion. One must walk! after dinner and one must not stuff so I n-ui'li food that walking is impossible, i I'he thin girl knows that a slow. . gentle massage with cold cream 'leveiopB the flesh. She knows that the !;eeks can be developed in this man- She knows that it is the way to j 'i--ve,.p the bust. And she has tried i; upon i.er skinny hands and arms. TUn the girl who is intent upon keep- I h r the youthful lines of her figure I kn.,ws another thing. She knows that t.iej,. js a rnaspage that reduces, and '' is is the vigorous massage, the heavy stroke, the wonderfully skillful mas-" mas-" 'x hu h takes off the flesh with each J i '.oinip and with each pounding. I here is a beautiful society woman vno engaged a masseuse to reduce her The woman went to work as :j"";sh she were, kneading dough for I1 " hread board. "You hurt me," aid society woman, angrily. "Do you k I am made of leather?'' . I J'he piassuse did not even pause in j 'ff ir.aHipulations. "You hired me, Ff --"lame" said she. "to reduce your! -hi. i must reduce you in my own ( ,l;'.v. Having, hired me you cannot ;M,'K nuU reputation will not allow vie t,, ;Vf. ynu up untiI j have re j V After llVO U(,ekE of tle dreadfulivi Mgors ,;)af,saffe tip Woman began to; I f"' 'bini:er. and in six weeks she had f 1 M- fi' v,,ral pounds. This is one way j I " -r'l!'"K thin, u is a sort of artificial so-, ,,,. There was once a slender i irl wh, hegan to get stout. "What w.i-nl i do?" she cried in affright. ' 'i on must exercise," came back the I f.Gvjee. ! Hut liow and when? Teach me," ! "f'-'1 1il("' woman, shaking with fear at th- thought of losing her pretty figure. After u cuurse at a physical culture Potior she began to lose weight. The treatment was vigorous but effective. She was coinpeilod to lie flat upon the J'eor and do physical culture Ktunts with a wand in her hand, and her feet ! thrown i!)) in the air. She held the and with her feet and lifted and swung it from the knees. It was a long, heavy piece of wood, and the girl oi2,J ,jSP f ,.,,, fl,,or pan(jnR. Wj,jj Jong exercise, for she was compelled to je jjat m hfr back and exercise fifteen fif-teen minutes at a time. 'ne woman who was growing stout I began jumping over a little barrier no higher than three inches. She leaped I " again and again. Next day she raised it to four inches and jumped j across it many -times. The following ' I day she raised it again and took her (twelve jumps, and pretty soon, in the course of her physical training, she found herself leaping a barrier two feet high with little exertion. It came by raising the standard every day. I The woman who is trying to reduce her weight must raise the standard I every day. Each day she must do I i-omething which she could not do the 1i day before. That is the only true way I to get tliiii. the only way to keep your I figure. Keep on trying to do some physical stunt which has hitherto seemed impossible. . (The woman who has been exercising la the gymnasium uiii he terribly thirsty. But, and here is one of the slender girl's secrets, she cannot take a drink of water. The girl who keeps j her figure w ill inform you that water i is the worst thing in the world for fat forming, and that no physical culture student will take it. j There are things which can be taken 1 to quench the thirst. One of these is an orange. The juice of a lemon , squeezed in a glase, with the juice of I two oranges added, makes a lovely and j wholly refreshing drink. It is a little . tart, but one does not notice that. j There is a doctrine which says that! every person must take three pints of j water a day. Well and good. But the water need not be taken from the faucet. It comes in the juice of fruits and in other healthful ways that are far from fattening. Be careful what you drink, when you drink and how-much how-much you drink. This is one of the most precious secrets of the woman who is trying to get thin. Muscular exercise is essential. Don't try to reduce your weight without hardening your muscles at the same time. The woman who reduces by-walking by-walking alone has an up-hill job. But she can reduce many pounds by bringing bring-ing her muscles into play. One of the best ways of doing this can be worked by means of a skipping rope. There ought to be an assistant, but if one cannot get a person to help, the rope can be. tied to a hook in the wall where it will do almost as well. Take the rope in both hands, grip it as tightly as you can and pull. Take hold of the handles and jerk as hard as you can. S.toop down and throw all your weight upon it. Let the rope be strong enough to stand the strain, and do not hesitate to pull with all your might. This is a littla tug of war which is beneficial for the reason that it brings every muscle of the body into pl;,y. There is positively no muscle that' is not benefited by it. It makes the neck strong. It reduces the abdomen. It develops the shoulders and makes the spine strong. By fastening the skipping rope high on the wall, just on a level with the eyes, a nice implement for physical culture cul-ture exercise caif be made. Stand upright. up-right. Take the rope in both hands and stretch it over your head. Lift it, first with one hand and then with the other. Keep on until you are tired. This makes good exercise for the back and spine. It is the strong woman who is .jd-mired .jd-mired in society. It is the woman who can stand a great deal. The woman who can walk is better than the silly creature who cannot. And the woman with strong nerves is much more popular popu-lar with all who know her than the woman who is a bundle of uncertainty. The girl who reduces her weight not only keeps her figure, but she succeeds in keeping her beauty and her strength. It is impossible for her to grow weak while she is dieting and exercising. And there is another thing. The woman wo-man w ho is keeping her figure will be free from disease. She will exercise in the open air, she will keeep her muscles strong, she will preserve her full lung power and she will ineure her digestive powers. Marion Martineau's Answers. Mns. "W.: I am much interested in your beauty talks and have been hoping hop-ing you would tell me how to take care of my complexion. It is hopelessly hope-lessly red and blotched. I am ashamed of it. What can I do for it? You must beein from the inside. Dose yourself with old-fashioned sulphur and molasses. Then steam the face and apply the skin foodc and lotions. You will find that your face will improve. im-prove. F. H.: My skin' is awful. What can I do to make it white and pretty? Apply the skin food often given in this column. If you have lost the formula for-mula write for it. Will the reader who did not receive a reply to her letter please write again? By an office accident a letter was lost recently and could not be found. H. K.: How can I bleach' my hair light? It is a miserable color, neither one thing nor the other. Your hair is really pretty, for it must be of that lovely Fhade of medium me-dium brown which goes with everything. every-thing. If you must bleach, it, however, how-ever, uee the pures peroxide of hydrogen. hydro-gen. Girl: How can I rid my arms of superfluous su-perfluous hair? You have no idea how annoying it is to have this growth of down upon them. Superfluous hair is easily killed. You can go over your arms with pumice stone until you have scrubbed it all off. Then as it comes in again apply peroxide perox-ide of hydrogen to bleach it light so it will not be conspicuous. Add a little ammonia, which will soon kill the constitution con-stitution of the hair. Kittie L.: Is an hour a day too 't-r.g to exercise? I would like to get thin, but I get tired so quickly. Can I jump and take gymnasium exercises m houra day? And will it reduce m? j An'hour a day is too much at the j beginning. Begin with fifteen minutes a day. Even that may tire you. In six months you will be able to exercise exer-cise an hour. Pearl T.: 1 have bags? under my eyes. I am and may be it is time I had them. But they make me look old and haggard. Bags under the cyce are caused by internal disturbance, kidney. and .liver trouble. Late hours will also create them. Do not massage them, har correct cor-rect the trouble whatever and wherever wher-ever it may be. You are too youn? to haye thtrn. (lirl: I am slender across the shoulders, shoul-ders, so narrow- that I look deformed. I have exercised, but it does no good. Try eating plenty of chocolate and drink water and pood milk. Don't get too tired. Y'ou ought to take a nap' every day and you should never worry. Worrying is bad for thin people; peo-ple; it makes them still thinner. Go to bed early and cat a little before retiring. re-tiring. ' Adipose Tissue: You must not drink before you go to bed. Taking a drink of water at night is bad for you. It will feed the tissues while you are asleep. Better go to bed dry. lou will soon get out of the habit of wanting want-ing a drink of water. H. N: Is there any method by which' freckle? can be taken off the face permanently? per-manently? I do not know of any. Freckles will come with the first sun. They can be taken off easily, but they will reappear. reap-pear. Do not go out for at least an hour after washing the face. A moist face will be pretty sure to show a crop of freckles. KITCHEN AND TABLE. The Sunday Menu. BREAKFAST. Bananas and Oranges Sliced. Kice and JMilk. Codfish Bails. Boiled Eggs. Wanes and Maple Syrup. Coffee. DINNEIi. Cream of Fea Soup. Leg of Lamb With Mint Sauce. New Potntoes. Boiied Beots. Jelly. , Tomato .Salad With Mayonnaise. ! Pineapple Sherbet. Black Coffee. 1 Crackers and Cheese. SUPPER. Chicken JIash With Green Peppers. Sliced Cucumbers. Hot Rolls. Strawberry, Shortcake. Tea. Good Things Hade of Lemons. In the' majority of homes lemons are only used in the sick room, on the toilet table, and for making that most refreshing re-freshing beverage, lemonade. 'Tis a pity this is the case; for truth is. nothing "in the hands of a good cook lends itself more readily to the preparation prepar-ation and seasoning of a greater num-pe num-pe of palatable and, for the most part, wholesome dishes than the lemon. ' j The best lemonade is made from ' lemon syrup. Into the juice of twelve lemons grate the rind of six; let stand over night. Make a thick syrup of six pounds of white sugar, and when cold strain the juice into it. A tablespoon-ful tablespoon-ful added to a glass of water makes a most delightful drink. It might be well to sav in this connection con-nection that the only part of the lemon peel which should be used for flavoring purposes is the yellow- outer rind. Much care should be used w.hen grating it. or tl white under the skin will become mingled with the yellow- and make it bitter. Lemon Sherbet. I To two quarts of water add the juice of six lemons and two cupfuls of sugar; whip until stiff the whites of five egs. add to them three tablespoonfuls- of sugar; stir all together and freeze immediately, im-mediately, i Lemon Custard. One quart of milk, five eggs, one ta-blespoonful ta-blespoonful butter, one cupful sugar, one teaspoonful cornstarch and two lemons. Cream the butter and sugar, and add the yelks ef the eggs beaten until light, thvn the juice and grated rind of the lemons: dissolve the cornstarch corn-starch in the milk, and add this to the other ingredients. Bake in a buttered pudding dish until the custard is set. then cover it with a meringue made of the whites of the eggs and a fourth of 1 a cupful of powdered sugar. Return to the oven and brown slightly. To be served cold. Lemon Pie. j For two pies, beat the yelks of four eggs until very smooth, add the grate! peel of one large lemon, and one and one-half cupfuls of eugar: stir in two tablespoonfuls of flour and the juice j of the lemon. Lastly, add' two-third-of a cupful of water: stir well, and cook until the mixture thickens. Pour into crusts of pastry, previously baked. Cover with meringue made from the whites of the eggs and four tablespoonfuls tablespoon-fuls of sugar. Brown a golden yellow. Boiled Lemon Pudding. Take half a pound of broken-up loaf sugar, and on some of the lumps rub off the yellow rind of two large lemons; lem-ons; then powder all the sugar. Cut up in a pan a quarter of a pound of fresh butter: add to it half the sugar, and beat until smooth. Beat six eggs until light, stir into them two table-spoonfuls table-spoonfuls sifted flour; add this mixture gradually to the creamed butter and sugar in turn with half a pound grated bread crumbs. To the remaining sugar add the juice of the lemons, then add this gradually to the other ingredients, and stir the whole very hard. Have ready a pudding cloth, dipped in boiling boil-ing water, shaken out, then well dredged with flour. Pour into it the mixture, tie firmly, leaving room for the pudding to swell, and not forgetting forget-ting to stop up the little aperture at the tying-up place with flour and water dough. Drop into a large pot of boiling boil-ing water, and boil constantly for two hours and a half, turning several times in the pot. Serve hot with hard sauce. (This is an old Virginia recipe and much esteemed.) Lemon Filling for Cakes. One cupful sugar, two tablespoonfuls butter, two eggs, the juice of two lemons; lem-ons; beat all together, and boil until the consistency of jelly. Ladies' Home Journal. HINTS ON CANNING. An Infallible Method of Canning. When read' for canning, rinse and drain the jars, and let. them on a wet folded towel. Cook the frytt or vegetables veg-etables until tender, adding sugar if desired. Using two kettles and cooking only enough for one jar iji each will prevent the fruit from becoming crushed by stirring. Now for the se cret. Heat the lids thoroughly, but not so as to crack the porcelain lining. Place the rubber on the jar, fillLeve! full with fruit, and. lifting the hot lid with a cloth, screw tightly in place. If the lids are old, take a hammer and tap lightly all around while the lid is hot. to make the union perfect. The union of the rubber and the hot lid with the jar filled with hot fruit makes the jar air-tight, which is the secret of keeping fruit. Don't try to tighten the lids when cold, for if you do you will break the union and admit air. Use dark rubbers, as they are more elastic, and can be used for several years. You may can vegetables, fruits, rhubarb covered with cold water without with-out cooking, left-over chicken ind broth, and many other things by this method. Canning Tomatoes. Only perfect tomatoes should be used for canning. If a large quantity is to be canned, have a large panful of boiling boil-ing water on the stove all ready. Select Se-lect your tomatoes and drop them into the boiling water, leaving them there for only a few minutes. Then remove them, and place in another panful of cold water, when the skins can be readily removed. I cook tomatoes just long enough to bring them to a brisk boil, when they are ready to can. Have the jars already cleaned and on the stove hearth heating; then there will be less danger of breakage. Have the rubbers all new ones handy. I get new rubbers and lids every season. After filling the jar full -with the boiling boil-ing fruit, put a knife down into it, to insure the escape of all air, then see that the jar is filled to the brim. Wipe the jars perfectly dry, place the dry-rubbers dry-rubbers on, then screw the already hot lids on as tight as you can, and set aside to cool. Do not try to screw the I lids on tighter after they are cool, for it destroys the suction. The aluve . rules will hold good for any kind of fruit, only some have to be cooked longer than others. To Can Berries Without Cooking. Carefully pick the hulls off the berries, ber-ries, and wash. Put three or four cupfuls cup-fuls of granulated sugar in a stone jar. then a layer of fruit, and so on until the jar is full. Place a ?)late on the fruit, and weight it. Let it stand oyer night. In the morning skim out the berries, and put them in the jars. Put the juice in a porcelain kettle or pan, and let it boil. Fill the jars with" the. juice, and seal. Your fruit will keep for years. Be sure to pit the cherries. Sun-Preserved Strawberries. Hulf and wash four pounds of strawberries, straw-berries, and pour over them the samo weight in sugar. Let them, stand in the cellar over night. In the morning cover the receptacle with glass, and set in the hot sunshine, taking it in at night. Repeat this for four days, then put the berries in jelly glasses or glass jars, and pour paraffin over the top aldose al-dose with tight covers. Other fruits may be preserved in the same way. Ladies' Home Journal. Household Hints. House flies may be effectually destroyed de-stroyed by the use of the following mixture: Take half a spoonful of black pepper in powder, one teaspoonful of brown sugar and one teaspoOpful of cream. Mix them well together and place them in a room on a plate where the flies are troublesome, and they will very soon disappear. A pleasant household deodorizer is made by pouring spirits of lavender over lumps of bicarbonate of soda. - Sprinkle w hole .cloves or salt on your pantry shelves if troubled with ants. It is said that hot milk will take out any kind of fruit stain. Sometimes boiling water will remove them. Salt dissolved in alcohol is often found to be a good thing to remove grease f.ots from cloth. 4 A teaspoonful of mustard to a gallon of waler will destroy vermin in the earth. V - ' ' Paint snois on glass may be removed by rubbing with alcohol and a soft cloth, or by tho use of saleratus water in the same way. i i HINTS TO WOMEN. To Cleanse Linoleum. j After washing linoleum dip the mop in the following simple preparation, pass it again over the floor, leaving the linoleum to he dried by the air. For a room ten feet square break two eggs into a vessel, beat them enough j topartially mix them, and -add about j one quart of water. An old linoleum I will seem almost new and look as if it had been varnished. Mrs. J. F. R., Richmond, Ind. English Recipe For Polishing Furniture. Fur-niture. Shave 5 cents' worth of yellow beeswax bees-wax into enough turpentine to make it of the consistency of paste. When it is dissolved apply with a soft woolen rag to a small part of the surface to be polished, then rub with a flannel or soft cloth. It is wonderful in its results, re-sults, making a surface as highly polished pol-ished as a "professional polisher" could make it. After one trial the most skeptical skep-tical will be convinced. Mrs. G. A. M., Oak Park, Ills. For Croup and Asthma. As a quick relief for croup use an onion poultice. Slice the onions thin, putting them into a stew pan. with just enough water to keep them from burning, burn-ing, and stir in a little cornmeal. Or the onions may be usd alone, if desired. de-sired. Apply to the throat and chest as hot as can be borne. Almost as quick relief may be given to anyone suffering from asthma by letting the patient inhale the fumes from burning blotting paper which has been soaked in a strong solution of nitre, or saltpeter, as it is more general!;- called. Mildew.' A mildew- stain is one of the most difficult stains to eradicate. Rub it well with soap, then apply a paste of powdered chalk and water and lay it in the sun to dry. When it dries, repeat the operation. The stain should come out after two or three applications. Hint From Freeman's Journal. With apologies to our young lady-readers, lady-readers, the fashion critic of a yellow journal says: "Did you notice that peekaboo shirt waist on that woman who just went by?" asked The Cigar Store Man. "I noticed more than the shirt waist," replied The Man Higher Up. "I have also noticed that the costumes of the women are more or less peekaboo from I the basement to the roof since the j warm weather set in. A woman with openwork stockings. a transparent skirt, a perforated shirt waist and a lace hat is the summer attraction of 1904." A little of this goes a great way in our woman's page, but if understood, take the hint and try not to be' the subject sub-ject of the coarse remarks. The Study cf Music. In one of her works Miss Muloch gives the following excellent advice on the study of music: If music is studied at all, it ought to be studied thoroughly and from the very first. Parents are apt to think that anybody can teach a child, and that any sort of piano is good enough for a child to practice on. No mistake can be more fatal. A child who is fit to be taught at all should be taught by a capable musician with intelligence in-telligence enough to make the ground work not merely superficial, but solid, and not only solid, but interesting. , great deal of the preliminary study of music is not at all interesting unless I the teacher thoroughly understands and takes the trouble to make the child understand, the infinite and complicated compli-cated beauty of the scheme of harmony, har-mony, in opposition to the dullness of mere strumming. - Then the little souli should there be a musical soul, will soon wake up, will comprehend the why and the wherefore where-fore of the most wearisome of scales and the hardest of exercises, and conceive con-ceive an ambition, not merely to "play" a piece, but to become a true musician. And here let me enter a passionate an:l indignant protest against the habit which ill-conditioned guests indulge in and weak hostesses permit, of talking during music a solecism in good manners man-ners and good feelings which, whenever when-ever it is found, either in public or in private, should he put a stop to firmly and remorselessly. If people do not like music they need not listeiv to it; they can go away. But any person who finds himself at a concert con-cert or in a drawing room where the respect of silence total silence Is to be severely reprimanded. And whosoever, who-soever, in any public room, sits by and does not remonstrate against such behavior, be-havior, or, in a private room, connives at and submits to it, is let me put it in the mildest form a very weak-minded and cowardly person. Work and Worry. By Adelbert F. Caldwell. Discouraged and sad, Work came home, worn out (Only a part of his tasks were done). And the Master ai'ked in an anxious tone If he had been hindered by any one. "A stranger stood by as I toiled," he eaid, "A being possessed of gi:anti2 frame:" "He's stolen your strength," the Master Mas-ter cried, "And Worry too true is tho monster's mon-ster's name." |