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Show taioman'sSlorld I A Eecipe. I (By Magdalen Rock.) ' If we at heart would hapjiy be. We must remember and forget Forget each v. rong and injury, 1 Remember all the good we've met. - j And none who use this recipe I Will it in youth or age regret; I If 'we 'at "heart tvott.d happy be, - I We must remember and forget. r The hearts from bitter memories free - O'er daily ills fall not nor fret;' i Remembering: and forgetting, we j The best of former days h.ave yet. ; TIVE-MINUTE EXERCISES FOR WOMEN. : (ilarinn Alartineau in Chicago Tribune.) A man went the rounds of. 1 he city the other i uay trying io find a woman who wasn't 'busy. Ho ? -avc it up as an impossible job. Three-fourths of ilic women were rushed to death, aud the, other fourth were down sick from overwork. The industry of the busy bee is proverbial, but not more so than the industry of the .busy wo- man. A man's work may be from sun to sun, "but j a woman's work is never done. j Yet, in the busy hive of women workers, there I I must be some that are busier than others. And I ,i.mong- the busiest ones can be counted the women , who "work,"' who are actually employed. And in this number can be mentioned the women lawyers, ; doctors, the women school teachers, stenographers ind clerks, the women who work at indoor pur- ; tuits and the large -number of wage and salary I i-arm rs everywhere;. All these require a special j physical culture treatment. i '' A correspondent wrote a little while ago to know what -ould be done to improve the physical condition : '.'i? woman who works. "I am a school teacher," .-he -' el, "and in spite of attempts at hygiene I h va he bad air all day. At night I am so exhaust! that I come home glad to sink down on the coiun. I am too tired to eat, aud often my dinner g0.. xtnlasted. "Even wlun I do eat," continued she, "my food does not agree wiih me, and I suffer from what is called nervous indigestion. Exercise only makes it worse, and I get ihinncr and thinner, and more i.nd more nervous."' It is :.iot difficult to imagine that this plaint is i ne of many. How a school teacher or a woman lecturer of any description can use her lungs all day in n room which is filled with pupils, all breathing ho same air over and over again, is a miracle. The problem of supplying the lungs of the teacher with perfectly fresh, pure, warm air . has never been solved, aiyl the poor teacher must cither breathe poor air or open ihc window and catch cold. IOf course, there is such a ibmg as veutua-tion. veutua-tion. But ibis is imperfectly arranged, as every teacher knows and as every woman who is employed em-ployed in. an office, where there are others, knows. The air grows heavy and the head grows dull, and ihc heart and stomach grow sick. It is the .old, . -ld story of the woman who we.rks. She is tired to death before the day ends and goes to bed loo lired to sleep. She does not get rested until spring, when she breaks down with nervous prostration, end so secures a little respite. It is not to be expected that the woman who cannot reconstruct the office nor can she sj order ' . matters as to make herself wholly comfortable. Slic must take tiling as she fi-ds them and over come that which is bad to the, best of her abil-- ity. ' " Physical culture is that sort of training by vhicli "the ill effects of a bad method of living are o.-orcome. The woman who knows anything at oil about physical culture will not get as tired as Hie woman who is ignorant of the art. ' While one fjrr.ws fagged and pale the other keeps her eolor ..nd preserves her strength. It is all a matter of physical culture, this preservation pres-ervation of your health, and this retaining of your color. One woman grows white and WTinkled and ragged, while the other stays plump, and red and pretty. Both breathe the same air, both eat the same food, but one llvrives while the other pales. The first requisite for the preservation of health is the proper amount of exercise. But this should net be taken as cxpercise pure and simple. It f-hould be a modified sort of exercise, a sort which :ests and does not tire. The woman who goes liom-j at 5 o'clock at l ight, tired in every limb and so weary of bone and brain that she cannot thii k, is in no condition condi-tion to perform health exercises. In the first place, she is too tired to tax her vitality. She is really too weary to do anything 1 ut rest. She must not exert herself to" the point f exhausting the little strength she has left. There are those who approve of a,hot"bath at such limes, and other;? that advocate a cold bath. 1 ruth to tell, the woman who has worked all day is too tired for either. The cold bath shocks her too much, while the hot bath takes too much of the natural oils out of her system. If convenient, and one feelj equal to it. a rub-down rub-down of ideoholis best. But ii this is not always possible the woman who has worked hard all day will tind herself wonderfully freshened by a complete com-plete change of clothing, particularly of the shoes and stockings, underwear and collar. The theory of the complete change - is tin : I The Ixidy, which has been compressed all day in orsots, collar and shoes, has become tired in spots. The collar presses on the back of the neck, the shoes grow rough here and there, the corset worses wor-ses the hips. Now, if a fresh hi of clothes be put n. there will be a new pressure exerted,1 and , ihc c-ld spots will get 'rested. It is almost equal, :nretorativc qualities, to, putting on a rest robe, j If the woman who has worked all day "feels equal to ihc task, she can slip into a gymnasium . suit; and, once in it, she can perform stunts; and, j O, such pretty stunts at that. She can take a j locking chair and. with this simple outfit, can. go i through the gymnastics which will rest her body i and develop k as well as though she were to try j the most elaborate of calisthenics. ; In performing the gymnastics the woman who har worked herself tired during the day should take J o;T al that it is possible lo remove. ; She .-hould'then sit down ir the, rocking chair j : nd, leaning forward, touch the tips of her shoes. I This is a simple feat, but it re-ts the back. ' She j can then rock backward and forward, swinging her j arms mer her head. It is not ;.t all hard to do. She can also kneel on the'eluir and, still rock- ' ing. manage to keep her body balaueed; There .'.re many and ninny little, things she can do to exorcise ex-orcise without thiring herself. In certain sanitariums in Austria, where the tired out Austrian society women go to rest, they h.ive a bath which is for the worn out. It consists I .of olive oil sconte'd with ro-e. This sweet and in- I vigorating mixture is used as a massage, and it f is rubbed into the body until more is not a drop i left in an ounce bottle. This takes a long tiiie rubbing, but it leaves the patient rested. As ff'fiit-ivner ff'fiit-ivner it has no equal. . AUf the pure, swevt oils are good rubbed -itiio the body and all are restful. But the tired i out working woman cannot always secure the serv- iocs of a masseuse and must get along herself, as ' iest. she can. At this point,' after she has exercised, she ean call to her aid the best of all things sweet sleep. If the worker, who has grown too weary to eat her dinner, will drop oC into a lif teen-ininute sleep lefore. the dinner bell rings sh.i will waken won-, uerfully refreshed. There is nothing epuite as rest-j. rest-j. ful as a fifteen-minute sleep.. A certain actress; who is one of the hardest worked women in the world, makes it a point to lest-for fifteen 'minutes every afternoon at dusk. She falls asleep, after taking just'half a glass of warm milk. She sleeps only hfteen minutes, for she does not want to. spoil her night's sleep. This leaves her .refreshed -.for evening, and she comes out from her sleep with bright eyes and a rested ! .head. ..... , . j A great . many women are opposed to the us.3 j Co any beverage stronger than coffee' aud milk, j But those who do not object to them can take a i little light wine and always with a warmed feeling at the stomach. . There is no doubt that chocolate or warm milk will do the work quite as well as hot wine. But. there is something about a little wine, warmed and slightly spiced, which finds its way to the stomach stom-ach of the working woman with teiling effect.. It isNall a. matter of opinion. But the spiced wine is reeommended by many physicians Three table-spoonfuls table-spoonfuls is about the right quantity to take. The tired woman can freshen by loosening her clothing and washing her face and hands. It is wonderful the amount of breathing you do though the pores of your face and hands. You have no idea how it will rest you to hold hot water on your Ii.Kc'. little boracic acid used as a gargle will aiso help the tired throat, and a little can be vfsed to brighten the eyes. It is excellent as a spray. In making boracic acid for use in the eyes it is always a good thing to consult the druggist and to tell him just lov you are going to use the powder. This will keep you from all mistake and will, at the same time, insure pharmaceutical correctness. cor-rectness. The great mistake which the tired woman makes is that of coming home and throwing herself her-self elowu to rest without changing her clothing. It is absolutely essential that shoes and tie strings should be relieved of their pressure and that the collar be unhooked.-. Xow, if, in addition Mo this, tiie air of the room.be fresh and warm and a few light gymnasticsjaken, the tired, woman will feel a thousand times' ref reshed. .. .. . The matter of diet is one for every woman who works hard to consider. It is a fact that all brain workers have indigestion and the great majority cf them cannot take a hearty meal. IWeat is specially difficult' for them to digest, and there, are many to whom certain vegetables, such as beans, onions and cabbage1, are so much poison. They disagree with the. stomach, seanelalize the breath, and upset the patient for a day or two. Onions, if they agrejc with the' stomach, will not give that disagreeable after reminder. But persons per-sons who can eat them without announcing the j fact to a critical world are few indeed. .But, where they do agree with the stouiaeli, they make a cheap and nutritious food. The tired woman is usually tired in her head. If it does not ache, it certainly feels like aching; and the working. woman presses her hands against it and wonders if it will ever, feed right again. The reasons for a tireel headache are too many for investigation. Just what causes it no one knows or pretends to know. There is no one general gen-eral and infallible reason why a head should ache. Yc't ache it does when one gets tireel. The English remedy of a cup of giod tea, boiling boil-ing hot and not too strong, is cne that can be relied re-lied upon in many cases of dull ache. But the best remedy of all is the taking out of the hairpins and the rearranging of the hair. If the hair has bee n worn high eluring the day. just let it down when you get home at night. While, if it has lieen worn low, it is a goed 41h.11 lo raise it. The hairpins find new spots aiid the head is wonelerfully rested. ' The gospe-1 of beauty is one that the tired woman wo-man should not forget. It is s range, though true, that good clothes do wonderfully lielp a tired head and a pretty evening waist will brace a woman up wonderfully. Kose colors are said to be soothing to a set of fagged out nerves. ' . The tired out woman should be careful not to take drings that are too hot into her stomach. The practice of drinking a cup of hot water is one that came into vogue a dozen yearr ago and carried off many a victim before it was checked. Hot water wa-ter scalds the throat and the stomach.- The mouth may become accustomed to it, but the delicate lining lin-ing of the stomach is hopelessly ruined thereby. Let the water be hot, but not scalding, if you would avoid indigestion. ; The working woman should keep cool in summer sum-mer and warm in winter. And just how to do this is only one of the many lessons which she must learn. QUERIES .AND ANSWERS. A Reader. Kindly tell me what will make. my lipsred? They are sometimes white and sometimes blr.e. White lips denote poor blood. Blue lips show ' a defective cireulation and hear, trouble. In either case diet will benefit you. Take no friend stuffs, eat celery and cooked fruit, and walk in the open air. . Mrs. J. Is there not some way to redden, my lips for evening. I have tried biting them, but it, make? them sore. Yes, biting the lips will make them sore. But you can redden them by a littie vegetable rouge which will do no harm. Any druggist will sell it to vou. But be careful that vou u3e but a little. lit-tle. . Mrs. J. Is there any way to reduce the size of I my libs? They are so large that they hinder me from walking. I waddle like a duck. Your predicament is an ui fortunate one because be-cause walking is the only thing that will benefit you. And i! is probably difficult to bear your weight upon your legs. Anv kind of leg exercise would help you and -it would be a good thing if you would riele an old-fashioned bicycle that works hard. 11. 13. M- In spite of all pree-autions I have pimples em my fae-e. I ma f sage it with cold cream every night. Perhaps you use a cold cream which has j-ylcerin in it. And nothing will injure the skin like this. That is, if glycerin does not agree with you. There arc people whose fr.oes will be almost a raw sore with the application of glycerin. With others it acts as a magie-beautifier. Mrs. K. II. I was a mass ;f wrinkles and I tenjk your advice and applied (he skin food to niy skin every night for a month. The wrinkles went frway quickly and my face is now smooth anel nice.-Will nice.-Will I have to keep on using it. forever i Yes, you will have to 'keep mi using it forever. :r every few days all your life When wrinkles Mice make up their minds to come in a face there is nothing to do but to ruirthem away with the skin food, using it often. Arlina. I would like to purchase a- complete i-el of your skin foods, no matter what they cost, I want the wrinkle cream, the skin food, the formu-" formu-" la .for removing superfluous hair, and the oye-brightener. oye-brightener. Where can 1 get them and how much will they cost? ; Letters like this are received constantly. The skin preparations are not on sale anywhere. They cannot, be bought. You w ill have to make them for yourse'lf, using the tfprmuias' given- jn these, columns. Please do not send nion'ey, for the ad-' 0 ' .- vice is perfectly free and is given to all who reael this newspaper, with,' no charge whatever. Mis.s X. Thank you for recommending a treatment treat-ment for superfluous hair. My face, which was covered with bristles, is all right now. T look like a different person. And it cost me nothing at all exctept a few cents for the drugs. ; CJracy K. I go out to dance? a great deal and the next day I am., so tired I cannot move. The doctor says it. is rheumatism, but my mother says it is because' 1 dance, too hard anel stay enit too I late. j Yourinother is' probably right. But it seems ' a pity for a young girl to give- up her dancing. Xow try this: Take a hot bath some time during the day, preferably" in the morning, if you are going go-ing to stay, in the. house. And, when you go to the dance do not wear 'your clothing tight. Dan- cing will not hurt you at all, though tight lacing will. . Kittie IC I am a young gul whose' mother is strict with her. I am not allowed k go out at all. Last Sunday afternoon I took .1 Wiffk with a young gentleman and caught cold, y mother says it is a 'judgment on me. How can I keep from -taking cold so she cannot say thii? It is not nice of your mother to talk in this May. She probably does so without, thinking how her words sound. Pay.no attention to it. The next time you go out to walk Sunday afternoon put, on warm clothes and, when you come in, take a hot lemonade. Be sure to get back before the dew falls, say before 5 o'clock, or you may get an iwful "cold. : ' Ci. II. K. I want to express a thousand thanks for your advice about reducing the weight. I was fat all over. 2sow I wear a thirty-eight-inch waist, my belts are moderate siae, and my limbs, which hael such a swollen look, are now of nice proportions. propor-tions. You are a great benefactress to women. And the beauty of it is that you elc not charge a cent and will not take any money. You are correct. The advice, in this eedumn is free. If you do not want your questions answered an-swered in the paper enclose a self -addressed sramped envelope. You will receive a reply by return re-turn mail, or in a day or so. ! Mrs. IL I write to you in deep distress about j a fat pair of hips.' 'I am ashamed to go out. j This is, indeed, disfiguring. T would massage j them and would walk 'and would jump and would j diet. That will help the hips amazingly. j Mrs. Y. I want -to ask you several questions, but do not want my name to appear in print. Do not be afraid. Amir name will not be printed.' print-ed.' This rule has never been violated. Advice in I this column is free for the asking. ! ! (Iraee T. : How can I enlarge my bust ? I am fiat as can be and this flatness makes me awkward. awk-ward. . I do not wonder that you feel awkward. Try drinking cocoa. Try4tho exercises. Try standing up straight, and try. by all means, the deep breathing breath-ing exercise. . . KITCIIEX AXD TABLE. BREAKFAST. .' .,' Baked Apples Cream Scrambled Eggs Bacon- - Wheat Gems. ' ' ' ;. Coffee. , .Lrxcn. , Cream of Tomato Soup Macaroni a la Creme , Baked Potatoes Hot Rolls . '...' Cocoa ; JDIXXER. -; . ; Vegetable" Soup '.'...;, ' - .: Mutton Pie Potato Crust Egg Slaw . Steamed .Apple Dumping Egg Sauce RKCTPES. Boiled Onions. Boil the 7 onions for half an hour, changing the water several .times, replenishing replen-ishing with boiling .water. Remove the. centers and. fill, the cups with any kind cf chopped meats chicken and; veal being the '"best for this or use any kind of a croquette mixture for filling. Pour melted butter over them, tie them or wrap them in waxed paper to keep their shape and bake for an hour. Serve on. squares of buttered . toast and garnish, with greens. Small -onions should he UTieel for them, then one can he served to each person. '''' . Clear Soup. Cut -the meat f rom. a soup bone,. brown it anel 'cut it' ill small pieces; then simmer meat and bone in plenty of water for three hours. Then add an onion, a carrot, a stalk of celery, one clove, salt and pepper and boil one hour. When cool shim off. the fat. beat in thfc beaten white and broken shell of an egg and stir until it boils, then strain through a cheescloth bag.. Heat 'again and f.dd the juice of a lemon before serving.' 4 Soft Boiled Eggs.-p-Place eggs in an earthenware earthen-ware dish, cover with .boiling .water, then cover dish with tight lid and let them stand five minutes min-utes on the table; then drain off the water; and cover again with boiling water anel let stand five minutes. This- will not make them too well done, as there is only warmth enough in the water to cook them to a jelly.- ' , . Prune Whip Cake. Make a sponge of three 'eggs, 'one cup of sugar, oho' cup of flour, two teaspoons tea-spoons of baking powder and a half saltsppon of salt.. Bake in two round pans. For the filling chop fine one cup of stewed prunes. Beat the whites of four edds to a froth, add one tablespoon of sugar and the primes. Spread half of this one one layer of cake, put on the second layer and the remainder of the prunes and whipped cream on top of : that. Xo matter how simple the dish served at luncheon lunch-eon or".linner, it should be garnished. Strips of (fried potatoes, slices of lemon, olives, green peppers and cress are used for garnishing fish. ' Radishes and beets e-ut into fancy shapes, curled celery and celery tips anel spirals of olives are nsefor all kinds of salaeks. For cold meats, mounds of jelly, bunches of parsley and cress, shredded lettuce and ilejnons, cucumbers and. ..hard-boiled eggs, cut into fancy shapes, and tomatoes. ' .' Slices of orange or pineapple and white grapes dipped in the white or an egg or sugar a re . pretty pret-ty for rice or gelatin, and for sweets there are all kinds of candied fruits, currants, raisins and bonbons. ' ' ; The Gracious Woman. The gracious woman is so rare that 'once e-n-. countered she is never forgotten. There is an air of ease about her that' is most restful in thij bustling bust-ling age. Her soft, low 'voie'e, uttering the usual inqiurics, seems -more musical than any .one has hoard in ye-ars. While even tho triviar-coTumon. places are interesting from 'her lips, itodcrn wo-' men are more alerrt to possibilities and hndoubt-edly hndoubt-edly much more nrogressivo, but there is eveT that air of nervous tension wearing alige to both speaker speak-er and listener. More leisure for? nerve rest is a plea that should receive some -degree- of eonsidera--tion in every home before the time for such a possibility has passed, and instead of the request there will be" heard the command that niiist be'-, obeyed. '. ' 'v ' |