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Show papers or an old tray ana let it dry la the r.ir, but not where the suru will strike it. One of the best cosmetics for bk-ycla riders or persons upon the water i3 fresh cucumber juiee. This will ail in keeping the skin, of the face soft and smooth. To extract the juice from a cucumber, cu-cumber, first peel it, and then cut it iuto thick slices and' press the juice out with a lemon pqueezer. A simple and harmless- remedy for sunburn is to bathe the face in buttermilk. The suggestion of a last rummer's camper to add a few sheets of the sticky fly paper to the outfit may be worth repeating. The paper, he saye, proved a veritable boon in the woods, where gnats, flies, and mosquitoes were abundant. This flypaper has been known to catch flics, roaches, mice, and only recently accounts were seen of the entrapment of a rat on its gummy surface. The washing of fine silk or lisle-thread lisle-thread hosiery should not be entrusted to the general laundress without some supervision. They should be washed quickly in warm salt water made rather soapj. No soap should be rubbed on the stockings'. They aratheni thorough ly rinsed in several clear waters and dried m the back of a chair, or on a towel rack out of the sun. Put a thick towel over chair or rack first, cs this absorbs the moisture while they are drying and prevents streaking. They should not ba ironec but pulled into shape ..when about dry. -Many housekeepers house-keepers liave the wooden stocking forms to stretch such fine hosiery over as the final drj'icg is accomplished. The entrance hall of a bare-looking country house, which was one of the deserted farmhouses common nowadays, nowa-days, -was made attractive last summer by an improvised dado of daisies. These grew in great profusion in the fields, and were arranged! along each nde of the hall in common red clay half tiles-, in the bottom of which cheap pint basins had been fitted to holdthe water. Chicago Inter Ocean. HINTG HERE AND THERE. A Tip Is. Tina Save Worry Waste L'ttllnlns Old Uon Curtain. If women staving et seashore resorts re-sorts will spend part of their time in collecting a variety of shells they may utilize them in tlie fall for a unique door drapery. Fasten the shells thickly thick-ly on fish nesting, then dvapethe mating ma-ting over a door casing and let it hong down at the sides. The bheli-trimmed netting also makes an attractive portiere por-tiere by lining it with a light ahauV of sea green silk-finished material. Green mosses gathered in the woodrf for iu1er use have a way of losing their color and turning brown as they become dry. If the mofs is first well cleansed in clear water and the n soaked j a shoil time in water m?de almost black I with bluing it will brighten in color when dried. Sprcr the wet mcesupoa |
