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Show I J 1 1 Woman's World I 1 . - - I I THE LITTLE GRAVE. I 11 is cold on the distant slope today, Where the rn.-:idstones glimmer arow. Tin-' sky is a .smothering mass oi gray, Ijut the soft rain poems to know-That know-That one little grave is new. Thn wind croons an autumn lullaby, " 1 The earth sails the leaves to her j breast, : i Close let them drift, .mil lightly lie, Wind, he your cadence tenderest, "Where one little grave is new. The empty nests blot the barren bough, The birds have all flown away. The heart's old tenants are strangers now, J Tor how could peace and gladness I stay, I When one little grave is new? -Lflvt: WHEDOX MITCHELL, in 1 j Twentieth Century. j THE PHYSICAL CULTURE GIRL. ; I Parian Marti neau in Chicago Tribune. I Is it the Hindoo Brahmin Avho be- ; j licves health is a virtue and that she i v hii lac ks good health is minus a virtue i oi femininity? And is it not thisj same j Hindoo Brahmin who includes tn his I religious creed certain laws of health, laws which in this land would be called aws of hygiene, but which over there iive part of their religious creed? The girl who sets out to be attrac-, attrac-, live, and who considers an attractive 1 lMdy an essential for a woman, .begins I by making herself healthy. Instead of J working upon her complexion she works I upon her digestion, knowing that as I soon as the digestive organs are in I good shape the complexion -will take j i-iire of itself. As soon as the Ptomach I is properly fed the blood will be health-I health-I ir and the skin will glow with the bril- liinoy of youth. j This girl is not content with the c-at- I ing of good substantial foods, but ehe j r gulates the matter of drink as well and takes only those drink? which 1 ;rree with her, good hygienic drinks I v hich do not make the liver torpid nor I the head dizzy. I This girl, instead of bleaching and I dyeing and brushing her hair, treats $ ;lie scalp. She puts it in good condition I and in a short time she is rewarded by I a healthy, smooth and glospy head of I hair, an attraction which she did not I possess when the scalp was in poor I condition. I The girl who is searching and triv- I ing to make the best of herself will I find herself, early in her career. aVfir-j aVfir-j .us of possessing a nice trim little 1 waist. She will want a w.ist which, I while not of the wasp ord-!. is never-I never-I Iheless well proi ortion?i. not large and I swelling, but symmetrical, round, and. I "if ehe be an 'in to-date girl, she will I want a v.aist v.;'- the slightly elongated elon-gated point .. i'rvr one of those long low front w'rh u the pride .f the woman of the lay and the delight of the artist win Taints her picture.- The girl who u ?ts to be beautiful in figure is clever n;ugh to knov that she cannot gt this long, low, r.cat waist line by tight lacing. Thif touTse of action will only crowd the fat from one fpot to another, and what the girl ! loses around the waist she will gain in I the matter of abdomen. 1 A well shaped eonset is all well I enough. But "the woman whose waist I i? big and high and swelled jut cmnot 1 expect a m'racle even from so well I planned an article as the modern t-or- I set. I The girl whose waist line does not I uit her will find it necessary to mcke it smaller by systematic exercise aj.d bv the right kind of dieting, it ofttn happens that the Avait is trim enough, " 1 bui appears larger than it is. 1 The girl who has indigestion -.yill ! ivarly always have a waist too large ! in proportion to her body. The fact i that she has indigestion mak?s her body and flesh tender, and she cannot i b..ar the slightest pressure. Her waist bands muet be worn loose. Apain. if her indigestion be pro- nounced. she will bloat and this? always throws the waist line out of gear. Or. i worst of all. she. may not be able to I wear a corset at all, and if there is a I f'-ininine misfortune it is certainly this. I for ihe figure looks so terribly straight I up and clown. J It i all well enoush to talk about I conventionality and to profess to de- i spise the modern figure. But it is a I fact that the most admired women are I iho?o who wear corsets and who have I tri:n little waists and the prettiest wo- I in. n are those who follow out the con- I rcntionalitips to the letter. It may not I bo perfecily natural to make use of hair pins, high stocks, corsets1, belts 1 and bands, swishy petticoats, and high- h. -ld shoes. Yet who among us but j admires them and likes to appear in j i:K-m now and then? i The girl who is what is called the ! siil of the period wears one or all of 1 ih-so things all of the time. She dres-es I i;i pretty and conventional fashion and I li-r attire, instead of distressing her, I :f ouite comfoitable. I In spite of her corsets, her hair pin? I nnd her conventional dress. this 1 healthy girl of the period does not have I li iolaches. She does not have trouble 1 vith her n ck and i? not bothered with I that awful '-crick" which is the bane of I the life of so many women. I She is strong as to her back and can f v.-Mk miles and miles every day. She I is likewise strong of lung and capaoity ..nd can walk up hill rapidly, dance I ;!id run upstairs without suffering j from the asthmatic shortness of breath f which afflicts too many. I The girl of the period is not an old I ui 1 1 and never will be old. True, she t may have passed the 50 mark, but her I skin is nice and peachy. She may have I -raveled nearly to three score, yet her ! 'lands are beautifully kept. She may I Ho a prandmother. yet her hair is poft j .'lid of good fone and is carefully I 'ln-ssed each day. not gathered into a 1 Virrlblo knob on the top of her had. I This "girl." 'no matter how aged she I iM.-.y be, from a consultation of the f family Bible, has a nice trim figure, j Sh.- has the Lady Curzon waist, which a nioibl f neatness': she has the i Oueen i:ii.ab"th of Austria shoulders. I -a hich were beautifully sloping ih i'lral U20 rhoulders. She has the full I hips of ihe Cibsonian models and her j ankles are not of the spreading va-I va-I ri.-tv. I There are women of 60 who are re- 1 ally delightful. True, they are not nu-; nu-; merous. and among your acquaint-I acquaint-I anc.-s you may not number more than I halt a' dozen. But when you do find j them you will discover women who do I not iiuggest the age of 60 in any way, 5 and who are np ready for a good time I ."is any girl of 36. The woman who is "always ready for j i ri good time" is not of the kittenish j type by any means, nor the woman who 1 :, is frivolous. Kittenish actions are j pretty only in the young and frivolity I is not admired at any time. Headv t for a good time means a state of health is such that one can enjoy one s food, can take exercise, can be blight ; . iid happy, and can enjoy the aniuso- n; ntfi of the young. f Activity fs one of the secrets of beauty. The woman who is always on the go is usually the slender type of I woman who looks young for her age. The woman who is active unon her f'tt, who likes to get out into the air,, snd who belongs to a gymnasium class i;; almost without exception a woman who does not look her years. If she be 40 she does not look over 30, and at 30 ! vhe might be 2o. The girl who goes in to Improve her looks must give up certain practices .and certain habits. She must not lie i'iwn after breakfast and read. She i must get out of . the way of 'snuggling up in an easy chair for hours' with no other companion that a book and a box of candy. The girl who is going to be beautiful : must stop, doing fine needlework by! . gas light and must never work by a fading light. True, she may be compelled com-pelled to go without some of her flne underwear, and may have to content herself with one ruffle instead of two. and with one one row of embroidery instead of tnree. But what she la in finely wrought clothing she will gain in natural color. "Women get heavy around the hips from neglect. They sit eternally. Manv a Woman seats herself after dinner and sews until supper time. And there are thousands and thousands of women who sit and sew for hours without resting rest-ing the eyes or glancing around the room. Sitting in a rocking chair all day makep one fat: tewing from morning until night make? one wrinkled, and fancy work is as destructive to beauty as are rich foods or pie. Lying down .in the middle of the day and napping at odd hours will al.o increase the weight, and the woman who gets out of the habit of using her muscles will find the fat piling up around them until un-til she loses her beauty and ymmetry under the heavy rolls of flesh. These are the exercise?" which the girl who wants to be pretty and graceful grace-ful will practice: i She will practice a body pose. She will extend first her right foot and then her left foot in front of her. setting it at right angles. While standing in this position she will swing: her arms, all the time maintaining her body poise. She will practice the dance movement for grace. There is one Avhlch calls for a swinging of the arms over the head. It is called the cotillion exercise. exer-cise. The arms are hung over the head in such a manner that the finger tips' meet and make a frame for the face. The feet then describe the dancing dan-cing steps and the pretty girl trips gayly around the room in dancing fashion. It is important to change the shoes frequently if you are going to be beautiful beau-tiful In figure. The feet must be perfectly per-fectly comfortable, and this can come only from having good shoes and plenty of them. It is not too much to declare that no woman can exercise, walk, and do gymnasium work without four pairs of shoes for a change off. Nothing rests the ankles like "a fresh pair of' shoes, and when these have been worn a day, it is time to put on J another pair. i The philosophy of changing the shoes often is this: All shoes press upon the feet in one place or another, and from constant pressure the feet become sore. Corn develop, callouses grow, there come all sorts of blemishes of the feet, and shoes become a torture. If a different pair of shoes be worn each day in the week almost all of the troubles of the feet would be avoided. The pressure would come in u different place each day, and there would be fewer corns or blisters. A poor pair of feet keeps many a wo man home. She cannot walk because her feet hurt her so. She says they get tired, and Indeed they do. Try the plan of alternating the pairs of shoes; try the plan of wearing low heels, then moderately high heels, and then quite high ones. Evenings the high heels are a positive rest to a tired pair of calves. When you exercise try to wear a comfortable suit. If your exercise lakes the form of walking be sure to walk in an instep skirt: be sure that you are warm enough, yet not too warm, and be sure that your stomach is comfortable. comforta-ble. A full stomach is as bad as an empty one, and neither is ideal for tramping purposes. If you exercise in the gymnasium, you might try the regulation gymnasium gymna-sium suit, though a great many women wo-men prefer simply the short skirt and sweater. This ia always comfortable aiyl is a pretty suit as well as a hygienic hy-gienic one. Don't neglect to open the windows wide. With the windows open you can practice violently and thus get j-our-self in a glow without injury. Don't take violent exercise in a stuffy room, for your lungs will suffer. Don't exercise upon a carpet, for there are many microbes afloat. Don't exericse w here there are hangings and rugs and all kinds of bric-a-brar. for these things act as harbingers for all kinds of germs. . Try to secure an empty room, if you cannot get a nice gymnasium in which to practice. And if you cannot get any of these, then get out upon the highways' high-ways' and walk. Walking is the grandest grand-est exercise in the woild. Don't think that beauty belongs to a select few. You can earn it for yourself your-self if you are willing to work hard for it. Like most other things in the world, it comes to those who are willing will-ing to strive for its possession. KITCHEN AND TABLE. , '. : '- 1 Recipes. To Fry Ham. Slice the ham the night before: trim neatly, leaving a narrow border of fat. Cover each slice with a cup of cold water, in which a tablespoonful of sugar has been dissolved. dis-solved. This softens and freshens the meat and gives it a fine flavor. Wipe the slices dry before putting them into fhe frying pan. Potato Puff. Boil the potatoes, mash them fine, season to taste and add dou- j ble the usual quantity of milk or cream i (usual quantity in mashed potatoes): into a pint of this stir the yolks and whites of two eggs, beaten separately, adding the whites last: bake quickly j in a dish that can be sent to the table. Tongue on Toast. Tongue or ham on toast is a perfect dish. Chop the tongue of ham fine, beat the yolks of two eggs, add them to the tongue or ham with one-fourth of a teaspoonful of mustard and a little cayenne pepper; pep-per; stir until the eggs are cooked and serve on squares of buttered toast. To Cream Potatoes. Boil small Early Hose potatoes with their skins on. Let them get thoroughly cold. Then peel and mince them very fine with a silver knife, put them in a saucepan, pour over them enough rich cream to come to their level, put four or five little pats of butter over the top of the potatoes, season them with salt and stand them on the stove where' they will simmer gently till the cream is nearly absorbed. ab-sorbed. Do not stir' them while they are cookinr. A Friendly Sin. "Look Pleasant." That was the sign in large letters that adorned the kitchen kitch-en wall of a bright little housekeeper. When the nervous w'orry lest the steak get too brown while she was mashing the potatoes threatened to. crease her t forehead she looked up at the friendly j sign and smiled. One can really work from the outside as well as the inside in getting the kinks straightened out of fretted nerves. Smooth the face, and before you know it the worries will follow Fuit and smooth out, too. Wait. Keep still. When trouble is brewing, keep still. When slander is getting on his legs, keep still. When your feelings ure hurt, keep still, till you recover . from your excitement, at any rate. I Things look differently through an un-agitated un-agitated eye. In a commotion once, I wrote a letter and sent it, Hnd wished I had not. In my later years I had another an-other commction. and wrote a long let-ttr; let-ttr; but life rubbed a .Mule sense into me and I kept that letter in my pocket against the day when I couldlook it over without agitation and without tears. I was glad I did. Less and less it seemed necessary to send it. I was not sure it would do any. hurt, but in my doubtfulness doubt-fulness I leaned to reticence, and eventually even-tually it was destroyed. Time works wonders. AVait till you speak calmly, and then you will not need to speak, maybe. Silence is the most- massive thing conceivable, sometimes. Ij is strength in very grandeur. Selected. Talk Frankly. What a good thing it would be if women would be true to themselves and converse intelligently when in the society of gentlemen. There is nothing that honest men desire more than to understand that mysterious race that is so like themselves and yet so unlike, "who share their homes, but not their thoughts; who are so shrewd, so practical prac-tical and so irrational. The poor men yearn to break down the invisible barrier bar-rier and see into the real life of those they love so well. But the loved ones smile and chatter and say pretty things and ingenious things, things they have borrowed from men and improved in the borrowing, but never a word of the really true and, in many instances, vital thoughts that are working in their busy brain. So many flatter and lie because they think women like it, and the women -accept It all because they think it is man's nature. And the men think women are denr, empty-headed empty-headed angels, and the women think men are fine, intelligent brutes, and the two classes go on loving and despising de-spising one another accordingly, and all for the want of a little discernment discern-ment and truthfulness in conversation. To Keep the Hair Dry. Don't brush the hair only. Brush the scalp until it glows. Don't brush the hair roughly. Let the motion of the hand be light and gentle.- Don't brush the hair in any other direction than the way in which it grows. , Don't think that you must not brush the hair because it is falling out. As a rule, don't wash the hair often- er than once a. month. Too frequent washing makes it dry. Don't use too much soap, borax or soda when taking a shampoo. Substitute Substi-tute yolk of egg. If the hair is natur-a natur-a iy oily, use only the white of the egg. Don't fail to . rinse with clear water and to rub it, a little oil after a shampoo. sham-poo. v ' Don't rub the hair briskly with towels tow-els after washing it. There is danger of breaking the long hairs. Absord the moisture carefully with warm towels. Don't neglect daily massage of the scalp with the tips of the fingers dipped in cold water; or use a clean nail brush. Don't fail to apply a tonic to hair and scalp at least once a week. Don't singe or clip the ends of the hair. Don't use a coarse brush, but one that has long, fine, unbleached and undyed bristles. : Don't buy a cheap dresisng comb. It ( pays to buy a good, flexible tortoise-I tortoise-I shell comb, even if you must do with 1 one dress the less during the year. Don't wear the hair always in the same style. A change of mode is beneficial. bene-ficial. Don't tie the hair or roll or twist it in any way tightly. This strains the roots of the hair and is very injurious. Don't use many hairpins. If each pin is made to do its duty, and the hair is arranged to fit the head, few pins are needed. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Never keep vinegar or yeast in stone crocks or jars. Their acids attack the glazing, which i" said to be poisonous. Glass for either is hotter. Salt rubbed on the black spots on dishes will remove them, and salt placed over a fresh claret stain on the table linen will assist it to disappear when washed. Glass covers for platters are better than metal ones. The former retain the heat as well as the latter and have the advantage of being transparent. If burned milk is put immediately into in-to a jug and then placed in a basin of cold water until it is cool, the burned taste and smell will disappear. Everybody at the table always knows how to pick out cantaloupes better than the person Mho picked them out. |