Show I I J 1 I J I J 11 i JL t Jiw t RECOGNITIONS AND KfTKODljbxiOXS Ilio Daughter of Senator Dawes Advises a Few Plain Seiisiliio Observances Perhaps the greatest bore known in the social world is the apparent stranger who cornea up t you and says You dont know who I am I believe you have for j gotten me and the second bore is that i other who without saying this in so many > words acts it by an expectant silence j and the third bore is 1 he who never realizfs that you have forgotten him but j I leave you to flounder about in an un I hap v ignorance of who i is you are talking to The first takes rank at the j head because his crime is deliberate and of malice aforethought and the other r two are only a trifle less to blame though they are simply stupid j i There are some of us who never could xcmembra name yet who1 memories are a perfect gallery of fact gathered i from many scenes and places There are otners of us who do not care t burden i still more xin overburdened mind with names we never need to use again Generally I Gen-erally both the unwilling and the will ing bankrupt is really glad to renew an I old acquaintance and knit up lost threads I of life But in this busy world many times such chances are lost in the delay I f of the vain attempt to remember that I womans name or the struggle to decide i where v > e saw that man the last time and I oie is justly vexed that theman woman wil not speak their names You have beea very pleasant acquaintances it maybe may-be lu meeting on a sudden in a strange place you cannot possibly recollect them I r quuk tough t hide that melancholy j fact Jf only the man would speak his i nane it would be at once an allsufficient J clut Time makes changes too in the PER seasons men grow beards and J woer u ear bonnets 1 c iiicot see any possible o hjection to I sayS ig when you meet whilom acquaint I mice My name is Smith 1 am i Mrs Jones whom you met at Kewport TluU would be enough to save the whole I meeting and conversation from destruc tior Y t t some men and especially some woien do seem to have an objection t I thi course though on what grounds a I I h e said it is impossible to conceive j Moreover the name should be spoken I immediately belore that fatal moment I which discloses to you that you are forgotten I for-gotten It is really your business to prevent r pre-vent that contretemps You can save the j situation Almost no one in these busy j days and this crowded world can remember j remem-ber us at an instants notice and while he is searching perplexed memory the pasng opportunity for all the pleasant questions and answers that might have i been has gone by I But that highway robber of society who I calls upon you to stand and deliver his name ds serves no mercy from you t Dont you knowme3 she cries and you are tempted t answer No I never want to Such retort would be only I just retribution for such challenge For it is most embarrassing even t appear to j have forgotten a friend And it is a sore huri to find yourself forgotten Neither i the one orson nor the other should be put in such a position It is highly prob I abe time and trouble have changed us so that n old friend does not recognize us but he does not wish t tell us so what i right have we t oblige him to be even j tacitly unkind I was once met with this greeting in the I midst of a crowded room Dont tell me you don t know me I have just been to fee Mary Smith and she didnt know I me and I shall be perfectly disgusted i you dent either That visitor was making her appearance for the first time in a df zen years during which she had grown from girlhood t womans estate Set it down that it certainly is obligatory obliga-tory upon every individual recalling him I Eelr t an acquaintance after lapse of litre or a change of place to speak his I own name And this is binding even i when the acquaintance may be called a frit jdshp unless it has been a matter of daily intercourse or a very close intimacy It is especialLy good form upon meeting meet-ing v itt Distinguished men or women i The moon looks on many brooks and while H is highly proper and pleasant to remind a great man tht we have met him before the occasion particularly require quire that a name should be given In all probability he is glad to remember us and renew or increase an acquaintance but he cannot stop to think to whom this I lace belongs I The like custom i quite necessary with elderlv people Many a father or mother nuuibers well enough that you once visited under their roofbut your name has slipped away or your face it not quite distinct to dim eyes I would doubtless give them much pleasure to learn that you remember that visit also i you the younger person would seek the opportunity oppor-tunity to say so and begin by telling who you are j The ability to remember names is counted I great gift and with reason It is said of General Grant that he never bigot a name and many idols of society were born with a like gracious talent All the world recognizes the social charm it j orives and covets the power I I in introducing strangers their mutual friend would give them some commons common-s point the battle of social ease would be half won There would be no lack of topics no despair of finding anything any-thing t talk of but the weather no disastrous dis-astrous failure to enjoy all that was expected ex-pected in each others society And besides 8 be-sides for instance such an announcement announce-ment as clrs Jones the wife of the admiral ad-miral prevents you telling that good lady that yon think the navy should be abolished while it also enables you to compliment the appearance of the Whites White-s squadron at Bar Harbor Allow me to preentt Miss Robinson of Chicago is a simple phrase and easily spoken but it may furnish forth conversation con-versation for a whole evening In like manner the name of Captain Brown of the th cavalry suggests to you the inquiry whether he knows your cousin Lieutenant Smith This is the use of phrases which seem to savor of the shop and the especial value of titles in introduction vaue ir Thayer the artist gives you at once the long coveted chance to ask the meaning of his Madonna and a deli cate suggestion of the fact that plain Mr Davis is Mr Richard Herding Davis opens a new world I you iiro informed at the moment of introduction twit you must have met Mr Whitney when he was secretary or that this is Professor Briggs the items will be hints quite sufficient to prevent your villifying the Democratic party t the one or avowing an especial devotion for orthodoxy to the other How often we have all bewailed ou ignorance ig-norance that we were meeting the neighbor neigh-bor ota relative of our own and we have all of us at some time or other lost the one chance to ask an important question or t inquire of the well being of a long o depattea friend for want of some slight 1 and easy assistance on the part of her who gave s introduction in the way of information in-formation a t residence or personality It is possible with every introduction we give to find some common meeting point r for the two people to furnish a common J grund for conversation Locality will always suffice occupation is another e 55 J bridge In four cases out of five we who introduce them know oi an interest common com-mon t the two whom we hope to make friends philanthropic artistic professional profes-sional political or social that would make the introduction a gate beautiful beauti-ful ANNA L DAWES RATiONALE OF LAUNDRY WORK The Perfect Laudress and Her Practices Prac-tices tces To wash or not to wash is seldom the question Civilization so emphasizes cleanliness a to make plentiful and regular laundering I launder-ing imparative I But the wisest woman of us may well ponder the how and wherefore of clean t I clothes Soiled garments may duly go through the suds the boil the rinsing 1 water and yet come out almost as far from clean as they went in Indeed i their case is often worse Every skilled laundress knows that it is much easier to wash a garment in the original dirt than t make it white and clean after it has come streaked and i grimy from the tub The reason is not far to seek A wise i man has defined dirt a matter out of place What is called dirt upon our i i clothes is a mighty varied assortment of matter spread usually on the outside fibres of textile stuffs Soap water and ruboing well applied will remove it Ill applied the result is to C set the dirt by carrying i so deep into the texture a to make its removal very much harder Dirt is got rid of in two ways chemically chemi-cally and mechanically In the first the water dissolves it out of the fibre in the second the particles are expelled by rubbing kneading or pounding The soilure upon body and bed linen has always more or less of oil from the skin With this soap unites to form a compound soluble in water especially hot water hence the efficacy in boiling in soapy water On the other hand acid or milky or pasty spots are hardened by the action of alkalies and heat Often too they are discolored as well Therefore everything soiled in such manner ought t be well soaked in clear cold water then rubbed through clear hot water before dropping into suds Without such precaution the last estate of table linen childrens garments gar-ments and many other things is apt to be worse than the first Fruit stains in particular readily removable after the cold soaking become darkly indelible at the touch of soap Chemically soap is a salt the compound com-pound of fatty and resinous matter with an alkaline base In a perfect soap the ingredients balance exactly Many of the cheaper soaps have a resinous or else an alkaline excess The effect of alkali upon fibre of all sorts is to eat it and destroy it That is why many washing powders play such havoc with our wardrobes They do take out the dirt no doubt of that bit take so much of the garment along with them as to make the triumph of cleanliness dearly bought Soda potash borax and ammonia are the chief of our chemical allies in the fight with dirt The two first are used chiefly in the form of soap Borax is used to some extent as a component of soap but more largely in the form of powders Ammonia is used in a liquid state and is certainly most valuable detergent It is impossible to make clothes thoroughly thor-oughly clean with soap and hard water since the lime of the water combines with the alkali of the soap throwing down a hard powdery precipitate and setting free a greasy graywhite mud to float on top of geay tle suds and smear whatever is in them When hard water must be used for washing first soften it with lye using a cup full moderately strong to a large tub of water Lye from wood ashes is best and can be made in country kitchens a months supply at a time and bottled for use Dissolved pearl ash or even washing soda is generally used in city kitchens Never put in soda or pear ash in lumps or powder The tiniest tini-est fleck remaining undissolved may mean disaster to every garment you wish most ito Ito i-to keen whole and sound Dissolve an hour before useover night is better and safer The perfect laundress is a compound of mind and muscle She can rub as hard as fate when it is really necessary yet in general she saves her energy and her garments so wasteful an expenditure She knows that what is saved in soap is more than lost in time tme also that you cannot gather clean clothes from dirty suds no matter how white and strong the foam on top of them Her tub is as full of suds as it will hold without too much splashing over yet is not so full of garments that she cannot freely souse and lave each piece She knows too that the dryer they are wrung the less dirt goes with them into the boiler or the next tub She takes up nothing at haphazard tugging now at a sleeve now at a neckband neck-band now groping bindly for the dirty place on thesheet Instead she folds the dirty spots on the outside before water touches the garment and when they have been sufficiently soaped and soused and rubbed she gives the garment a vigorous plunging and treating in ex tenso She keeps her lather full strength Chances it often She knows that the quicker colored things are washed and dried the brighter they will be Above allthe crown and capsheaf of her practice is her belief that thorough rinsing is the secret of fresh cleansmell ing garments MARTHA MCCULLOCH WILLIAMS I TiE A3IEUICAX GIRL I I I inst mul Present Tiic AVomlorful Young Woman of 1893 ller Patriotic Ancestors I An-cestors a Cputwry Aso An advance chapter from the Columbian Exposition I Ex-position Souvenir What America Owes ton to-n now Being edited fcy Mrs Farmer for the Womans department of the exposition j I The American girl stands out on the page of history both as the brave maiden of the Revolution and the quaint picturesque i pictur-esque prim Puritan Prudence of colonial 1 times Many a ir of the time became a spinner spin-ner for hen country and many a demure Prudence proved her brave heart and stanch patriotism An old Revolutionary j diary chronicles the dointrs of a nartv of Puritan maidens The followine droll affair lately happened I hap-pened at Kinderhook A young fellow an enemy to the liberties of America going to a quilting frolic where num her of young women were collected and he the only man in the company began j his aspersions on Cob ress as usual and held forth some time on the subject till the girls exasperated at his impudence laid hold of him stripped him to the waist and instead of tar covered him with molasses and for feathers took the downy tops of flags which grow in the meadows and coated him well and then let him go He has prosecuted every one of them and the matter has been tried before JusticeS Justice-S We have not a yet heard His Worships judgment It is said Parson Buds daughter is concerned in the affair SOUTH CAROLINA AND NEW JERSEY GIRLS You all know the story of the two brave New England sisters who having heard that the Red Coats were approaching approach-ing took a drum and fife and stationed themselves behind a huge rock overhang ing the road where the enemy were to pass So persistently did they ply the I drumsticks and play the fife that the 1 Red Coats supposing an army of BlueCoats Blue-Coats to be advancing fled precipitately frightened away by two brave American Ameri-can girls There was also courageous Mary Gibbes a girl only 13 who in 1779 in the midst of flying shot and shell as the American and British were fighting for the possession of St Johns island thirty miles from Charleston fled along through the woods at midnight where cannon balls crashed and shot fell like rain around her back to the deserted home to rescue the baby boy left behind in their hurried flight clasping the infant to her beating heart she retraced her way through that j I same dreadful forest where the iron rain I of bullets still cut the midnight air and brought the child in safety to her agonized agon-ized parents That little boy sived by I his heroic girl cousin became afterward I General Fenwick distinguished in the war of 1812 I Another young woman in New Jersey in 1777 passing a deserted house beheld within a drunken Hessian soldier who had straggled from his company There being no men within call she returned home dressed herself in mans apparel armed herself with an old musket and going back Oik the Hessian prisoner She stripped him of his arms and while leading him captive she met with the patrol pa-trol guard of a New Jersey regiment to whom she delivered up her charge j THE SPUNKY BELLES OF 1776 i I The Pennsylvania Journal in its issue of July 161777 contained this item We hear that the young ladies of Amelia county in Virginia considering the situation of their country in particular par-ticular and that of the United States in general have entered into a resolution not to permit the addresses of any person per-son be his circumstances and situation in life what they will unless he has served in the American armies long enough to prove by his valor that he is deserving of their love Those loyal maids of the revolution I were as charming in the faallroon as they I were brave on the field where some of them clad in Continental uniforms fought by the side of their fathers and brothers for the girls of that day could handle a musket as well as a distaff In February 1779 an imposing entertainment enter-tainment was given by General Knox and the officers of the corps of artillery at Pluckemin in New Jersey to celebrate the anniversary of the French alliance General Washington and the principal officers of the army Mrs Washington Mrs Knox and many other distinguished of them there was a remarkable style of looks and behavior Their charms were of that kind which give thaf a proper determination to the spirits and permanency to the affections More than te once X imagined myself in a circle of Samnites where beauty and fidelity were made subservient to the interests of the of state and reserved for such citizens as had distinguished themselves in battle THE NEW YEARS GIRL OF 93 The fascinating typical girl of 1893is i not one whit behind her lovely great j greatKreatgrandmother the bygone girl of 1776 The girl of 1S93 embodies the best attributes of a century of American types She has the pretty demureness of the Puritan maiden the patriotism of the belle of Bunker Hill the picturesque attire at-tire of the New York battery when young Washington Irving then a law student walked up that fashionable boulevard she has the softness of the Florida flower the deftness of the Yankee girl the fearlessness fear-lessness and buoyant strength of the pioneers pio-neers daughter And withal this ir of 1893 has the independence which is not boldness the culture which is not pedantry i pedan-try the attainments which are not smatterings smat-terings tie selfpoise which is not vanity the truthfulness which is not bluntness the breeziness which is not brusqueness the beauty which is not II ilfhealth the modesty which is not prudery the benevolence which is not lip service the simplicity which is not inanity the selfrespect which is not pride the dignity which is not haughtiness haughti-ness the exclusiveness which is not snobbishness snob-bishness the coolness which is not indifference difference the cordiality which is not gushing the faith which is not credulity credul-ity and the practical religion which is not hypocritical cant Tnt girl of 93 has domes ic deftness which does not necessitate neces-sitate becoming a household drudge She has the sympathy which is not officiousness officious-ness the helpfulness whic is not impertinence imper-tinence the social tact which is not in I Li Jj I T 1If J J 4 p b n S z I NEW JERSEY GIRL CAPTURING A HESSIAN D I k i 4 s r I 1 YI rr2fTY I I I j i j I i k 4lz I I I 1 1 7 I I 1 i I I I I I i I j Jzam x L9 i I c 1 i E GIRL OF 1833 I guests were present The bale was I opened by General Washington One of the honored guests an old mal of 6 thus charmingly describes the wit of I a brilliant girl I was particularly particu-larly amused witn the lively sallies of aMiss a-Miss asking her i the roaring of the British lion in his late speech did not interrupt the spirit of the dunce j I iSot at all said she it rather enlivens for I have heard that such animals always increase their howhngs when most frightened fright-ened And do you not think added she you who should know more than young girls that he has real cause for apprehension ap-prehension from the large ornaments and honorable purposes of the Spaniards i Sosaid I you suppose that tho I King of Spain acts in politics as the I ladies do m affairs of love smile in a mans face while they are spreading out the net which is to entangle him for leI le-I At what season replied the fair with a glance of ineffable archness omen o-men losd the power of paying such com j I plimentti 1 I cI do not know that have ever been more pleased on any occasion continued I con-tinued the old gentlemen There could not have been less than sixty ladies present Through the whole company I sincerity the frankness which is not impoliteness the heartiness which is not illbreeding the mental strength which is not masculine the daintiness which is not selfishness the refinement which is not veneering the kindliness which is not condescending the love of the beautiful beau-tiful which is not barbaric the taste I which is not bizarre The girl of 93 has the neatness which is not primness picturesque negligence which is not slouchiness the dashing jauntiness which is not loudness the fetching frown which is not peevishness thedelightful audacity which is not unladylike un-ladylike the selfreliance the moral courage which isnotpugnaciousness the devotion which is i not servile the deference defer-ence which is not cringing the unselfishness unselfish-ness which is not the suicide of personal individuality i i individnalv j j I THE COMPOSITE TYPE I 1 have made a particular study of this charming American girl of 93 and the typical girl whom I describe is but the combination of the attributes of the best types of modern American girls I you study carefully the characteristics of the most efficient broadlycultured refined and Christian girls of your acquaintance you will be surprised as you analyze their characters to find how many of these desirable de-sirable traits they possess either in embryo or in practice Follow the modern American girl from I the parlor to the kitchen 1rom the kindergarten kind-ergarten to the ball room from the cooking cook-ing club to the lecture room from the hospital to the afternoon tea from the sick room to the art gallery from the Kings Daughters circles to the tennis ground from the shopping tour to the library from the Bible class to the reading read-ing club from the sewing circle to the swimming school from the chitchat club to the gymnasiumand mark her broad development mentally morally and physically You will find the girl of 93 as deft in decorating a table as in making her charming toilet as efficient in the sickroom sick-room as in the sports as much at home in the library as in the parlor She talks with brilliancy and dares to express her i opinions which are often well worth hearing for she has not been limited to the narrow horizons of nursery maids and governesses alone but from childhood has breathed the atmosphere of cultured circles and taken active part > in family conversations having been muzzled by the ancient fallacy that young girls should only he seen not heard Of course by the American girl of 93 I do not limit my subject to misses of 16 for sensible girls dgot now leave school < until they are 2 and then pass only from the schoolroom to the lectureroom where they remain as students through life And modern American girls are not imbued with the idea that early marriage is the desideratum womans existence marriages at 18 are now the exception and not as formerly the rule Our girls have a distinct age of youngwomanhood and girlhood is not as formerly 1 fleeting fleet-ing hood step between childhood and matron GOD BLESS THE GIRL OF 93 I I Taken all in al this typical American girl of 93 is the daintiest brightest most lovable bit of femininity of all of Eves fair daughters I woman continues to live up to the hieh mark of her advancing advanc-ing possibilities the charming young girl of 2092 will prove far more fascinating fascinat-ing than even Mr Bellamys Edith of future Boston God bless the American girl of 93 She is the living proof of the marvellous advancement of woman and the hopeful prophecy and powers of her increasing possibilities LYDIA HOYT FARMER I THE LUCY STONE OF EUROPE A Swiss AVomnns Work for a Quarter Century Copyright GENEVA Dec 20Almost twenty seven years ago Mme Marie Goegg began a career of work for women that has carried car-ried her over thousands of miles in all sorts of weather and among all kinds of people I The delicate fail little Swiss woman hardly larger than our own Lucy Stone is to the full as stout hearted as the American i tleAmer ican friend of women I Madame Goegg is a Genevese by birth education and residence it was in Geneva Gen-eva back iu 1866 that there appeared her brave little newspaper Le Journal Des Dames The political journals opened batteries against the womans paper Weeekly and almost daily Madame Goegg received letters some signed some anonymous and of ominous import menacing her work I But though the winds blew and the rains fell the small structure remained intact Le Journal des Dames grew and extended and expanded and circulated i widely in the countries where it had been most defamed I Before long Mme Goegg learned with delght and astonishment of the movement move-ment started in America almost simultaneously simul-taneously with her owneffort and letters iJr I pI I FRAU GOEGG THE LUCY STONE OF i I AMERICA were freely exchanged between herself and the American pioneers I was another an-other proof that the spirit of great movements move-ments go in the air Soon after this an international society for women was established with its headquarters in Geneva and with Mme Goegg as its president and Journal des Dames opened its columns to fearless contributions con-tributions from the members throughout Europe I In 1867 from Geneva the platform of another great movement was broadened and strengthened to extend around the world this movement was the incorporation incorpor-ation of the International Peace league aton In 1888 a conference of the league was held in Berne and to this conference went Mme Goegg presenting herself in the name of humanity and womanhood with a plea for the admission of women to the league I was entirely a new idea to these men but Mme Goegg so clearly demonstrated the wisdom and advantages of the step that her petition was granted and she herself was elected the first representative repre-sentative of her sex in this great international interna-tional body i Mme Goegg recognized in this mem Goegg bership new reponsibUities and she took them up and pursued her work as ably as she had carried forward her first undertaking The organ through which her voice and power fcaye been heard and felt all over the continent is that pithy sheet Les Etats Unifd1 Eur ope Of this journal she has had complete editorial edi-torial control for a quarter af a century It is the recognized organ of La Ligui rlnternationale de la Paix et de la Liber tie To it was accorded the gold medal in the department of social economy at the universal exposition of 1S89 in Paris The victress of all these struggles is the sweetest and most unassuming of women i i quite like our Mrs Lucy Stone again wih the same sunshiny smile the same low vibrant sympathetic voice and the same strong cordial grasp of the small hands Her dress is refined in the extreme ex-treme usually rich golden browns or black with a bit of fine old lace on her I head and at her throat Her house is furnished in soft autumn reds and browns and dark woods Its walls hung I thick with rare engravings and dainty little minaturep and wherever there is space for them there are blossoming plants MARTHA TRACY OWLER I TVife of the Kichest Man in England LONDON Dec 20The Duchess of Bedford Bed-ford like her sister Lady Henry Somerset Somer-set although possessing exceptional beauty rank and good health has of late more entirely devoted herself to the cause I of the poo and suffering of her own sex I C k 22 I I t DUCHESS OF BEDFORD WIFE OF THE RICHEST M IN ENGLAND She attaches the greatest importance to the drink question and may be said to have converted Lady Henry Somerset to her views though the latter has now become be-come a more ardont reformer than herself her-self Even when Marohioness of Tavis o tock and in the first flush of her youth and beauty the duchess spent every moment mo-ment of her spare time in trying to practically prac-tically alleviate some of the misery which she saw around her and it was after she joined a rescue society in Pimlico that she became aware what a terrible part the love of strong drink played in the lives of many poverty stricken and hardworking women As an energetic member of the Ladies Association As-sociation for the Care of Friendless Girls i She tried to persuade those young people I with whom she came in contact to take the pledge and in order that there might be no sham in what she aid herself became be-came a total abstainer This was twelve j years ago and since then by public speaking whenever she had the chance I such as at church congresses or at meetings meet-ings where womens welfare was in question ques-tion she has incessantly labored t promote pro-mote the cause of temperance Two years ago the duchess started the Happy Home Thank Offering Band wnose aim is explained ex-plained by its name The society has gone on increasing and its members lorm n true link between the contented mothers of families and those with whom life has not dealt so gently When not busy in London the duchess spends most of her spare time at Wobourne Abbey the Duke of Bedfords beautiful country sent and even when there she always makes it a practice to have parties of children down to spend a happy day or week as the case may be AS TO HAIR AND SKIN FreshBaked White Yeast Bread a Source of Evil Vnrts Moles and Pimples Olive I beg that you will tell me what you consider the best thing for preventing pre-venting the hair from falling Three years ago my hair was twice a thick as it j is now I ha been slowly thinning all j I of that time It is very long and rather fine is inclined to be oily but not excessively exces-sively so 1 have never used any kind of hair tonic Nervous depression is at the root of the symptoms mentioned in this and the second query Women neither eat nor sleep as they should and live too much in the house The heated dry air of our houses is death to hair A oily head should be kept scrupulously clean by brushing nightly by the use of the neglected fine comb which is friendly to moist hair and by wipitfe with flannel Once a fortnight it may be cleansed with yolk of egg and rain water rinsed and carefully dried not put up wet to take its time drying which ruins hair A lotion of equal parts olive oil and spirits of lavender I lav-ender well shaken may be brushed into the roots of the hair at night and is more effective for being heated before use Will you tell me what in my case will refine my skin The pores are large and there is occasional roughness from slight eruption uuder the skin Ihavent much appetite my digestion doesnt trouble me I am quite thin and somewhat languid lan-guid but have no specific disorders My coloring is brunette and I am twenty five years old Undoubtedly the fresh baked white yeast bread and raised biscuit are the foes to a clear complexion in ninetenths of the cases of coarse and rough skin They produce a state of ferment in the blood which lessens all healthy activity of mind or body they clog the waste ducts so that matter which should pass off otherwise must force its way through the skin A change in diet a hot bath with borax and amonia in the water daily and sponging spong-ing the face with equal parts alcohol and rose water frequently will improve the complexion speedily Friction with flan 1 nel enough to bring slight color to the cheeks is refining to a skin with large pores Martha Will a preparation of almond i al-mond paste rose water and tincture of I benzoin injure the complexion Answer i An-swer It depends on the kind of complexion com-plexion Benzoin is highly irritant to many skins and almond paste on oily skins is like doing a greasy face up in a j mask of pastry making a bad matter worse A dry leathery dull skin might be benefited by the preparation Airy Fairy Lilian C My face is covered cov-ered with pimples and my skin is dark and muddy I am very stout and growing grow-ing stouter and thought by working hard my flesh might be reduced but unfortunately un-fortunately it is just the opposite I grow stouter fleshier Is there any remedy rem-edy fr the compound powder of jalap extract ex-tract of jalap five ounces cream of tartar nine ounces eincer one ounce powdered Take from onehalf to a full teaspoonful once in a week or ten days omitting each fourth week Reduce your diet to lean meats broths green vegetables fruit and graham bread toasted brown ana hard Eat sparingly and slowly work moderately bathe and change clothing daily and sleep in a thoroughly aired room alone I cannot answer questions of this sort by letter i A S FirstI notice you advise the use of salycilic acid t remove warts and moles How do you use the acid I comes only in crystals Do you dissolve i I so how Answer Use a 10 to 20 per cent solution solu-tion of the acid in alchohol The druggist drug-gist will prepare it Second I have a wart or a mole on my chin with a growth of hairs in it I is horribly annoying I have been extracting extract-ing the growth with tweezers for several gowth years and the hairs keep multiplying I i Cutting them close with scissors makes I then coarse and seems to multiply them just the same Would you advise the use of salycilic acid in this case By all means I is the great destroyer oi morbid growths like moles and warts Wet the mole freely with the solution repeating half a dozen times in the day The spot will perhaps cow sore and forma a scab which healing will show the mole much reduced Repeat the treatment i necessary until the skin heals clear j SHIRLEY DARE i APPLECOOKERY Tim Fruit We Have Always With Us Inexpensive 12veryDny Dainties A wise old Englishman once said to some of his countrymen Had you but given to the improvement of your apples a tenth part of the pains it cost you to naturalize those fonr species of grapes how much mora substantial glory you would have won I So we mieht say i American housekeepers house-keepers bad given half the attention to the apples that they have bestowed upon oranges lemons and bananas how much our country might have gained in health Because the apple is so abundant in our land it is within reach of the humblest family and it may appear in so many varieties that none need ever tire of it True there is a large percentage of water revealed in a chemical analysis of the apple but it also has a larger per cent of phcsphorous than any other fruit and there are other doubledisiilled essences of the sunlight and glorious afr in which the fruit has hung for months combined with some of the forcegiving elements of mother earth drawn up by the roots of the sturdy tree these have their chemical names but we will not recount them here And as for wateris it not by fa the larger part of our bodies We refuse to recognize the fact and persist in overloading over-loading them with foods too solid until we groan with rheumatism or some vital orgTinrebels May not the apple be as beneficial a the muchlauded grape cure Someone has observed that apple lovers are usually people with healthy livers and therefore very amicable people An old proverb says I will beggar a doctor to live where orcharas thrive No other fruit is so deserving of the cooks good opinion in that it is to be had at all seasons From the early summer sum-mer sweetincs around to the hardy russet in the late spring and summer there is always al-ways some Variety in prime condition The careful housekeeper a1so provides herself with canned and dried apples For these uses choose apples that are solid and heavy juicynot mealy full of sparkle spar-kle and neither very large or small The skin in some form should be cooked with the apple for canning a it adds much t both favor and nutritive value This use of the skin is quite possible in mince pies and apple pies i the fruit is sliced or C T J < > > ri I chopped very fine but it is not out ot f ver o place in many puddings l SYRUPS FOR THE SKINS When the skins are tough but not otherwise imperfect and especially i they are bright colored put them with the best portions of the cores cover with cold water stew till soft und strain off every drop of liquid This fragrant but substanlial essence i has many uses i there sufficient make jelly of it i you like if not bottle i for use in pies or in apple sauce use it with a lemon to make a pretty pink padding sauce for the next apple pudding A PERFECT BAKED APPLE J A baked apple is delicious the process is properly attended toit must be 1 thoroughly wiped perhaps washed Do not cut it i possible put it on a graniteware gran-iteware plate with a spoonful or two of water in itUn or iron will affect the flavor of the fruit The oven should bfe hot enough t change the apple juices into steam and puff out every little cell till it forms a frothy pulpy mass This I may require a longer or shorter time according ac-cording to the variety of apple Whoever has eaten brown bread and baked pumpkin sweets broken into rich creamy milk will never be satisfied with such poor imitations as brown bread or baked apple ice cream JARS OF DAD SAUCE Then there is baked apple sauce where I big quarters of apple are packed in I earthen jars with brown sugar or molasses sngr I lasses covered closely and baked slowly in a moderate heat like that oi the old brick oveDs or the modern Aladdin until the contents of the jar have shrunk to hatf their original bulk and are rich red and luscious This is a good family f sauce and should be as common on the f table as bread or potatoes i t POSSIBILITIES OF THE COMPOTE Half way between the baked apple and the apple sauce stands a simple dish called a compote of apples The apples i are cored and pared without quartering i quarter-ing and cooked gently in a heavy syrup till nearly soft without break sjup All the better if the ing i syrup is made from the delicately tinted pink juice of tho sking Drain the apples and let them dry in a moderate oven with the door open occasionally basting with the S syrup The spaces where the cores were lay then be filled with apple jelly and the whole sprinkled with granulated sugar For dinner serve them as 1 desert with whipped cream Served hot from the syrup they are a delicious breakfast accompaniment ac-companiment to wholewheat muffins I FAMILY PUDDINGS Apple sagoes and tapiocas form excellent excel-lent plain family puddings especially where there is a houseful of children g lhe apples are cored and pared i preferred pre-ferred set in a pudding dish and the centres filled with sugar in which has been mixed some cinnamon andsome salt Over these pour the tapioca or sago which has been cooked for a half hour in a double boiler with five times its bulk of boiling water When half done open the oven and turn the apples upside down then cook till the apples are thoroughly soft and rich and the tapioca clear and formless There are many easy and good combinations com-binations possible between the ordinary cream of tartar and soda biscuit dough and apples In one pint of floor sift half a teaspoonful of salt a teaspoonful of cream of tartar and half a teaspoonful of soda or two even teaspoonfuls of baking powder Rub in n teaspoonful or an ounce of shortening and mix with a half cupful or more of milk or water until a dough is formed as soft as can handled Roll this out till half an inch thick and nearly square then spread it with a pint of sliced or chopped apples and sprinkle thick with sugar and a scatter of the spice you like best oldfashioned allspice is good in this pudding Roil UP like a jelly cake pinch the edges well together and steam for about one hour Or i the time is limited cut the roll in inch slices stand on end and steam a shorter time The same dough may be used with whold apples for apple dumplings t be either baked or steamed or with another spoonful of butter for a short cake t be filled with rich apple sauce or apple marmalade Another variation is to use the original dough proportions with the addition of an egg and a little more milk Stir into I this batter a cupful of chopped apples and steam it as a pudding or bake it in gem pans as n luncheon dainty when it is delicious with butter or with cream and sugar A pretty variation for the gem pans is to cut the apple quarters in two or three pieces and stick the sharp edges down in the dough and then sprinkle the top with mixed spices and sugar Tempting individual puddings can be made by putting a spoonful of roast apple sauce in a cup and some of this soft dough on top These are to be steamed i THE PINK SAUCE I Serve any of these puddings with cream or with a pink sauce which is made in this way Mix one heaping tablespoonful tablespoon-ful ot flour with one cupful of sugar Over this pour one pint of hot juice from the appleskins cook five minutes or until un-til it thickens then add one tablespoonful each of butter and vinegar and strain if necessary APPLE DAINTIES For apple snows the pulp of steamed or baked apples is sifted or beaten till smooth light and dry then the whites of as many eggs as apples are beaten till stiff and dry then the two are beaten together and sweetened to the taste with powdered sugar It is served with soft golden custard cus-tard made with the yolks of the eggs There are many combinations of custards with apples custard may be poured over the apples prepared as for the tapioca pudding and baked till the apples are soft the custard baking until firm For variety the centers of the apples may be filled with previously steamed raisins dates or any other fruit Fried apples are an agreeable relish at any time with fat meats and roast goose would be quite incomplete without applesauce apple-sauce or an apple stuffing Let us all make more use of the apple especially in the winter season and spread its fame as Bryant did in his poem on the Painting of the Apple Tree The fruitage of this apple tree A inds and our nag ot stripe and star Shall bear to coasts that Ho affair Where men shall wonder ai the view And ask in what fair groves they grew And they who roam beyond the sea Shall look and think of childhoods day And long hours passed in childish play In the shade of the apple tree ANNA BABROWS |