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Show "' I vjIOTHEKHOOD. - - "fl f Two little feet, so small, Pt) light, 1 Tint nver rest from morn to night, J AIP the whole sum of mj' aelight: - 'f two link' eyes of speedwell blue i Tl'Ht open every morn anew I -With some fair wonder still to view. d- j two litti.i npp, whoso kisses sweet j jlv earliest waking hours greet, I v;ul some soft word of love repeat. ' two little hands, to lead me higher, a I 1 t.. keep alight the smouldering fire j That is the grave of our desire. e ; (M,.- little heart, my heart to keep, T" rescue me from many a deep, i j -j-,. still my aching nto sleep. I (tii. little life, God gave to me, n that great city by the sea, I t l"vp for all eternity r jlnv He keep watch 'twixt thee and me. I ' ' C. E. C. Weigall. THE STRAWBERRY AS A COSMETIC ; j;nan Martineau in Chicago Tribune, i r.f strawberry, that supreme table j d-'M- acy and staple, can be turned to " Recount by the woman who has I bi. Miishes on her face. Kven the belle t til vh has no blemishes c an tuse it, for r ( j C. , 11 preserve her beauty and fortify I ' ivr for the season to come. Tl'-' tra w ben y properly used is the j1(.st cosmetic. It clears the system, t, '.m uses' the skin,' takes off spots, removes re-moves freckles and gives the, complexion complex-ion that 'pretty glow which is the de- light of those who love beauty. It .Mil be takeii internally and '.it can ; t,o hi 'plied externally, and in either ca-' ca-' parity is good. But l st of all, at this time of year, is t!' strawberry when applied exter-iiallv. exter-iiallv. for there are those who cannot ! partake of the fruit freely for fear of i a Tiisli. and there are others who can-' can-' ,,t touch it at all because for some t jit?oii it acts as a poison upon the : ft mach. And, where the straw berry-dues berry-dues not agree with one, it is a poor i food indeed. One of its properties is tl.iit of a strong acid, which permeates j The system and utterly destroys the ,,,ai'cW mind of the person with whom ilio arid does not agree. There are people who can never touch a strawberry straw-berry as a food, for it acts in the most 11-rrihlc manner upon the blood. I Hut as a cosmetic the strawberry is .'lhove reproach. If the berries can be i at'?n it is a pood thing to take them j on rising. A pint of strawberries, eat-t eat-t m with plenty of sugar but no cream, makes a good appetizer for the breakfast break-fast that is to follow. The Ideal beauty I br- akfast is a pint of strawberries well i f-wectened. but eaten -without milk or ream. This should be followed by a cereal and a well cooked hot bread. : At a sanitarium for wealthy invalids, where people go as much for their complexion com-plexion as for more serious ills, they ' give the patients large dishes of oat--1 meal or other cereals, with freshly sliced strawberries laid in a thick layer ever the top. The whole is now sweet ened and eaten with a fork. They also spread hot breads thick with unsalted, butter and with this delightful dish iliey serve sliced strawberries, or large bf-rries on the stem. As a cosmetic the strawberry is fine. Those who have freckles and spots, Hotches and blemishes, can take the berry and cut it in two. This berry, .V nibbed upon the blemish, -will turn into V an acid which will take off the. spot. Obstinate spots can have strawberry juice, applied to them and left on ..for I iuiir an hour and afterward washed off ? with hot water. ' (I There is in society a young woman j whose Fkin is a deep olive and whose I arms specially are a ripe olive brown. t At times, when she is bilious or out or ' S rendition, her arms are almost brown, ; Tlii ynung woman cuts a strawberry j and ruhs it over her brown arms. Then ' she takes and washes off the juice with I a tasin of hot water with a teaspoon- " fa! of borax dissolved in the water and fbeiit five drops of ammonia. She Im . arcful to not get this into her eyes. Ami. to soothe the skin, she follows the :.i:n hath with an application of cold cream. I For the face the ripe mashed berry mtkes an excellent bath, but it cannot iv used by all alike. The brown-skinned brown-skinned beauty will find her complex-l complex-l i'1" wonderfully improved thereby. The ! acid will cleanse the complexion, while I the rosy glow of the berries will im- ; part a pleasing tinge to the skin. I There are olive beauties who depend ? upon the strawberry bath from season to season. They use-the first berries j that come and keep on with the berry hath until the last bit of the crimson i fiiiit has disappeared from the fruit stalls. They claim that it gives them 1 ihe half rosy look which is so essential to .in appearance of youth. A fresh complexion is necessary to I tli-' woman who wants to keep her- . youth. For no' matter how well pre- i see,j fOir. may be otherwise, a sallow skin will surely give her away. If she i h" dark skinned or yellow skinned, or if her face be muddy, she will find a j ready relief in the fresh juice of the fiiiest berry of spring. Those who are too fair to use the i bar juice of the berry can make a j l i e complexion bath. Take half a cup ' 1 ipe berries and squeeze the juice i "o a basin, straining it through a fine ; 1 I' th. To this juice add a pint of boil- water and a cup of red wine vine--a; This makes a nice bath for the ' h 1 : rj s and arms, and it is excellent for h- face, though the eyes should be; j kopt tightly closed while using it. It j J 'an be daubed upon the cheeks and .':-li( ad without touching the eyes. Tlide was an old lady who made her A ' ' '"nunc one summer at a famous water- i"K place celling cream of strawberries . 'or the complexion. Her jars of cold ' ream sold as fast as she could make ; h- in. Kach jar contained the Juice of i -11 ies skillfully compounded with heal- :i:ar lotions. The recipe for this cream, as begged :i"'n Per, was this: Taking a heaping abb-spoon of mutton tallow, she would but ii on the fire to heat, and into it she n-ould stir about a .tablespoon of pow-; pow-; cb i.-d oatmeal as fine as flour. Then to this she would add balf a ; up of strawberry juice, Ptirring vigor- ! o'isly over the lire until it was all of a 1 -a 111. Finally she would pour it into J is and set away to cool. It was about as thick, as cornstarch and "'thing to the skin. The old lady '"Uld never give the directions accurately, accu-rately, for, as she wisely observed, ta-bl-spix.ns were of different sizes and "mo kinds of oatmeal mixed better than others. There was. in the days of the beau-tics beau-tics of the lapt generation a terribly xtravagant belle who ordered her maid each morning to bring her the juice of a quart of ripe berrh. The naid strained the juice, added a tea-Hjooh tea-Hjooh of borax powder and heated the v hole just enough to be pleasant. It vas good enough to drink, but the belle bather her face in it. her neck and her arms, letting it dry on the skin. In .- tifieen minutes she was ready for her bath, which left the skin rosy and linglinp from the acid wash. -'or are strawberries the only prod-1" prod-1" t of spring that can be used for the beautifying of the complexion. Tha beneficial effects of spinach taken in-i in-i !prnally ere well known. The summer ', f Ionian who want? a complexion as 1 i j r'e:'r as cream and as ripe as peaches 'flculd eat spinach. She should take I j A w"pH cooked, without the addition of t ; boiled eggs and . with I vinegar. Si uatercrcis and all sorts of greens, not h rgetting the ever nutritious and ce- t . 11 '' . 1 T-' licioiis lettuce, should -nl"o be eaten- in plenty. But it is with lettuce that the summer sum-mer Woman should deal just now. Lettuce Let-tuce made into, a cream for the skin ia delightful. .It should be cut into tiny bits and only the thick, juicy - part : should be used, the stalks w-befe the acidis are. The stalk phould be chopped fine and stirred in cold cream while in a liquid state. The juices of lettuce can be extracted ex-tracted with good results and a mixture mix-ture made which is called lettuce milk. This is good for the skin. j Take enough lettuce juice to fill half a cup. Add to it half a cup of boiling water and a tablespoon of boracic acid. To this add about ten drops of tincture of benzoin. Bottle and keep for the skin. A more economical recipe is this: Cover a head of lettuce leave? with boiling water. Let simmer, straain and add enough benzoine to make the water milky. And it is' not only to lettuce that credit must be given for the preservation preser-vation of the skin, for cucumbers claim their share, of healing properties. Cu-' cumbers split lengthwise and bound upon the face are a powerful restorative. restora-tive. Whilo tho rnillf f ; c ine, wniie the milk of cucumbers is famous. To make good milk of cucumbers cut up two large cucumbers and cover them with water. About half a cup is the right amount. Let simmer half an hour. Keep covered so that the water does not simmer off. Take off, strain, add a cup of "boiling water, ten grains of powdered borax, and enough tincture tinc-ture of benzoin to make the water look milky. This is a delightful skin prep-arationando prep-arationando nethatc anbeusedonthe g aration and one, that can be used freely free-ly on the face and neck and arms. For freckles there is an excellent lotion. lo-tion. It consists of choped cucumbers, or cucumbers cut in slices with, all the juice left in them. They are then bound upon the face in such a way that the juice will dry on. For freckles and chapped hands there is a bath of witch hazel and cucumber Juice in equal parts. This can be applied ap-plied to the skin with a little sponge. After it has been on fifteen minutes it can be washed off with soap and water, for there is something unpleasant unpleas-ant about the nicest lotion when it is allowed to dry upon the skin. The summer skin is a matter of much anxiety, for in the summer all would have a nice, complexion, yet it is extremely ex-tremely difficult when the sunshine brings its blemishes and the winds are laden with tan and freckles. Unceasing care is the unfallible recipe rec-ipe for a good skin in summer time, and the woman who docs not bestow constant care upon her skin will be rewarded re-warded with her just punishment. .She will have a batch of freckles and blemishes blem-ishes that will dismay her when she comes to dress for evening. There are those who are opposed to the use of water on the skin, claiming claim-ing that it chaps and dries out the cuticle, cu-ticle, taking away the natural oils, and makes it more liable to chap and tan. But this is an erroneous idea. Hot water wa-ter does not. injure the skin, but it should be properly prepared. ..To every basin of water intended for the complexion put enough powdered borax to soften. And if soap be used, there should be at least half a dozen waters for rinsing. Soap, left on the face, will dry out the skin almost be-I be-I yond repair. '"There should be enough to rinse the face until you can tell by the feeling of the skin that the soap is all off. j The face should be lathered, though this is a thing a woman rarely does. The complexion ca nbe treated to a heavy coat of soap lather, which is afterward washed off, though not until it has been upon the skin long enough to soften it. When washed off it leaves the complexion fine and pink. Never go out for at least an hour after washing the face with soap, or, indeed, after applying any lotion whatsoever what-soever to it, for the skin is tender after aft-er washing and more liable to chap. Those who are addicted to summer freckles -would do well to remain in the house for at least an hour after washing wash-ing the face, or the sun will bring out the freckles in great yellow batches. Remember that this is the time of year when the skin needs attention. And remember, also, that, though nature na-ture is cruel to the skin at this season, she also applies the materials for curing cur-ing its Ills. ' 1 Marian ITartineau's Answers. Mrs. G.: I have heard that carbolic acid is good for the skin. Please tell me how and in what quantity to use it. There is a solution of w ater and carbolic car-bolic acid which acts as a disinfectant and removes pimples. It is, however, to dangerous" that I have hesitated to recommend it. The usual formula is ten drops of carbolic to a full basin of warm water. But it would be better bet-ter to let" your druggist advise you. as skins differ. This might redden your face instead of healjng it. , Ellen H.: I have restored my hair to a considerable extent under j-our advice. ' The roots are much darker, and I think I shall have no more gray hair to bother me. Of course, it is a great improvements ' - - - f J. H..: I wrote, you for a treatment for obesity. I would like a dietary. I am willing to diet if you will tell me Just exactly what I can eat. You can eat pjretty nearl yall the things you want. But you must not drink with your meals. Take lettuce, spinach and green vegetables. Eat white meat and cooked fruits. When thirsty eat fruit instead" of - drinking water. Mrs. .: What can I do for aching joints? My joints ache hard just before be-fore a fain. My doctor tells me it is rheumatism and 1 am taking medicine for it. but it does no good. Rub the aching joints with melted vaseline. Take a hot bath in water prepared with an ounce of aromatic vinegar and a teaspoon of borax thrown into a tub of water. While the skin is warm rub with the hot vaseline. vase-line. - v " G. V. D.: You seem able to cure everything ev-erything I want something for a cough which I have had for some time. I caught a cold in the winter and cannot get rid of it. Of course I do not know the cause of your cough. Under ordinary conditions' condi-tions' fresh air, taken In deep drafts, will cure a cold. Try not to cough, save your throat from irritation. Dollie G.: I whitened my hands with lanolin and peroxide according to the formula you gave me. but I did not put it on my face. Would you advise ad-vise me t odo so? Hardlv. on account of the danger to the eves. Besides, it might bleach the roots of your hair and your eyebrows. Peroxide has that effect. Frivolous: I desire- to lighten my hair. It is a port of drab. Where can I get a bleach? What shall I ask for? The pure oxide of hydrogen applied to the hair will lighten it. Shampoo the hair first. Let it dry. Then apply the bleach. , But be careful. It is a dan-erous matter to change the color of the hair. You will have to keep touching it up, you know-. -- G. L.: For a long time I have beeuJ reading vour beauty and physical cul-j ture talks' with much benefit to my-, i self. " All the family read them, even ' 1 to father, who has kept his head from getting any balder by your wise words. I am annoyed by gray hairs. Do you know any way to restore the hair? Massaginb the scalp with a little good oil-will keep it from getting any grayer. Use just a few drops and massage mas-sage thoroughly i into the scalp. , Tell your father not to wet his head too often. This is why so many men grov bald early in life. They shampoo too much. - , ... ' j Kathryn: What do you consider the best family, shampoo? I wish to make ! a quantity and keep it in the house for all to use and I want your prescription. prescrip-tion. Take half a cup of pounded soap. Old bits of soap dried and pulverized are best. Put into a bottle. Cover with hot waterenough to make a pint. Add a tablespoon of borax powder and about four drops of weak ammonia. Throw this in a double boiler until the soap is dissolved. Subscriber: You ,spoke of a salve stick for the removal of superfluous hair. Where can such be obtained? You can probably get such an article at the drug stores. If not, there Is a formula for making it which I can give you if you will write and ask for it. Reader: What is the cost of writing to your beauty column for advice? I have a friend who would like to consult con-sult you. but she does not feel as if she could pay much. T -ill ... v,.. nnthinr at all Ad- It will cost her nothing at an. Advice Ad-vice is free to all who read in this column. Do not send money. Write, including stamped envelope, and ask, your questions, and they will be answered an-swered either privately by mail or through the columns of the paper. Her name will not appear. V. N.: For enlarged pores what would you advise? Steam the face without injuring the skin. Massage it with benzoinated cold cream. Wash off with hot water. wa-ter. Do not go out for at least an hour, after using this preparation. Do this three times a week. 4 A Man, Reader: I am a young man, yet my head is almost smooth. What causes it and can the hair be restored? Not if the pate is shiny. It could have been prevented by not shampooing shampoo-ing the head. Also by not brushing it too often. Nothing wears out the head like frequent shampooing and brushing. brush-ing. Let the hair alone and you will not be bald. Mrs. T.r Give me a diet for reducing the weight. Live on cooked fruit and vegetables. Take long walks. Do not sleep over eight hours a night. Get up early and take a long walk after every meal. Let all your food be of the easily digested di-gested kind. No Name: Your questions are hard to answer, and I will have to devote a whole beauty talk to them. Questioner: Here are two good rem: edies: For cold cream take equal parts of olive oil" and vaseline. This makes a good massage for the arms. Use the white vaseline. For the face this is a little too coarse. X.: I would not advise you to reduce re-duce 'by dieting. This is difficult and dangerous unless you understand it..' Why do you not reduce entirely by long, walks and by massage? You might cut down-a little on the quantity of fluid you drink. This' alone will be of much.' benefit to you. Katie M,:. How often shall I steam my face for blackheads? You might steam it once a week or twice a week. Anoint with a good cream and wash off with hot w ater and good soap. This course will cure the most obstinate case of blackheads. Z.: Rub a little good hand paste into the hands nightly. You can prevent pre-vent them from growing old and wrinkled wrin-kled and shapless. . - A June Wish. (Frank Walcott Hutt, in Ladies' , World.) Oh, to keep summer with the summer time, To know the gladness that a wayside knows. To know the zeal with which the arbor ar-bor rose Doth with his neighbors climb. Oh, to keep summer as the gardens do. To make each fragrant day of it as rare As that the lily and the rose declare In all their grace and hue. Oh, to bestir us with the summer praise, Oh, to becalm us with the summer prayer, Just as . our friends, the birds and breezes, fare Their sweet and reverent ways. Let us keep summer in these hearts of ours. That when life's gleaners linger down Time's hill, They'll find some littl egarden-close, where still Bloom everlasting flowers. On Gossip. Gossip, after all, is fairly harmless, provided it is sensible and innocent. The chief thing is that you receive it for what.it is worth, and pot.magnify your friend's prattle or give idle" words a terrible significance. All of us like to talk about our friends; all of, us do talk about them, and we will to the end of time: but that doesn't mean that we like them less or hav,e the less confidence in them. You must take into consideration the spirit of gossip, not the letter. I tell you in privacy that my Uncle Joseph is a cranky old gentleman, very pernickety in his ways. Are you then justified in going to Uncle Joseph and telling him that I said he was a crank? If you have a bit of sense you know very well that his crankiness is what particularly endears him to me, and that he has a thousand other virtues which outweigh that fault. Uncle Joseph, on the other hand, might tell you that I am a thoughtless feU low, given to taking the world lightly. Is it just to repeat to me that. Uncle Joseph thinks me light-minded and brainless? You forget that Uncle Joseph Jo-seph would be the first to combat you if you said aught against me, and that j down in Jiis heart he thinks I am one of the most promising lads of his ac quaintance. Gossip, then, is rarely evil in intention when it deals with friends. Wc speak of faults., but in our hearts are a thousand reservations and the memory of many virtues. Knowing our own feelings, we hesitate less to criticise. criti-cise. The great thing we must learn is that gossip is to be heard in the same kindly spirit, and that it is not to be repeated. Whoever hears wrongly, or whoever carries ill words willfully, Is in the devil's service. Gossip you will if .you are human, but be above carrying carry-ing it. and be above misinterpreting a ! thing that has been said about yourself. i Laugh at the. criticisms of your friends i? they meet your oars; smile indulgently indulg-ently and be nice to your critics, for you can assure yourself that if they talk of your faults, they also appreciate appreci-ate your virtues.. Gcssip so received is robbed of chance venom, and the person who receives it cheerfully is doubly , aimed against the stfngs of fortune. Home Companion. A Delicious Frappe. Strawberry frappe is .a cooling refreshment re-freshment for a warm June evening. Serve it from a bowl with a ladle, but do not keep much on hand as it melts rapidly. Freeze a good quantity or as- much as the occasion requires, and renew vhen needed from the freezer, or put a block of ice In the 'center of the punch , bowl and heap the frappe -around it. THE SUNDAY JEENTJ. BREAKFAST. Pears. Celery. Cream. Scrambled Eggs on Toast. Hashed Brown Potatoes. Gems. Coffee. LUNCHEON. Bacon Omlet and Creamed Potatoes. Coffee. DINNPJR. Tomato Bisque. Chicken Pie. Mashed Potatoes. Stuffed Green Peppers. Sliced Cucumuber Salad. Cheese. Wafers. Coffee. Strawberry Recipes. June is the month of strawberries, and the cook says the proper way to put them up is to make them into preserves pre-serves after the old recipes of our grandmothers. Allow a pound of sugar to a pound of fruit, place the fruit in a stone jar in layers and cover each layer with sugar, having sugar at the top. Set in a cool place overnight. In the morning drain off the juice and boil until of the consistency of sirup. Then add the fruit and cook slowly until thick. Bottle and seal. To Improve Canned Strawberries. Vinegar not only preserves the color, but improves the flavor of canned strawberries. To fill a quart jar, use three ipnts of fresh, sound strawberries, strawber-ries, one cupful of sugar and one ta- blespoonful of vinegar. Heat and can in the usual way. -f Preserved Strawberries. Wash the strawberries before they are stemme.d by putting them in a colander col-ander and plunging them up and down ! in cold water. Remove the stems carefully and quickly. Weigh the berries; ber-ries; allow four pounds of sugar to four pounds of berries. Put a layer of sugar in the bottom of a large preserving pre-serving kettle, then a layer of berries, another layer of sugar, and a second layer of berries, with the remaining sugar on top. Stand away in a cool place for about two hours: then put over the fire and bring slowly to a boil. Lift the berries with a fork: place them in tumblers or jars. Boil the liquor rapidly until it is reduced one-half, and then pour it. while hot, over the berries. When cold cover the jars with paraffin and paper. Strawberries Straw-berries preserved in this way will keep for an indefinite length of time. Strawberry Bread Pudding. Line a buttered pudding dish with half-inch slices of bread and butter. Then turn in one quart of firm, ripe strawberries which have been well mixed with three-fourths of a cupful of granulated sugar. Beat the yolks of two eggs until light, and two table-spoonfuls table-spoonfuls of sugar.- a pinch of salt, and one pint of rich milk. Pour it over the berries and bake twenty minutes in a moderate oven. Then spread over .1 meringue made with the whites of the eggs and tw'o tablespoonfuls of powdered pow-dered sugar. Set the pudding back in the oven with the oven door half open for twenty minutes. A Child's Diet. If a child is inclined to be constipated, consti-pated, great care should be. taken with its diet. This is a ,much more important impor-tant matter than most people seem to realize. Many an irritable, cross-grained cross-grained child who wears its mother's nerves and temper to shreds and keeps the house in a turmoil would turn into a veritable sunbeam if this matter cf dietwere attended to.. If naturally pleasant children have spells of being1 peevish and quarrelsome an investigation would prove, nine times out of ten, that they were constipated. con-stipated. I know one child of 2 who has a verk marked tendency to this trouble. She eats whole-wheat bread and fruit freely, but in spite of this she sometimes has a . day without a movement. On those days she is fretful, fret-ful, cries easily, gets tired quickly and acts as if she felt badly. It ws discovered dis-covered that brown bread, made of one-third each of granulated Indian meal, rye meal and white flour, was the best thing for her. and if she has that she gets along all right. She is extremely fond of it. and when ready for her luncheon almost always calls for brown bread. Many serious diseases have their rise in constipation, and it is every mother's moth-er's duty to check any tendency in this direction as soon as it shows itself in her children. Injections and suppositories supposi-tories may have to be used, but they should be a last resort after diet ha3 failed. -' Some of the things that a constipated child should never have are tea, coffee, cof-fee, cocoa made with milk, scalded milk, .white flour bread, crackers or pastry, wnoie wneai yreau, jdhmuj cake, cereals and fruit are good. When these are not effectual," try brown bread or rye pudding with jeream. molasses or syrup on it. This rye pudding is made of rye meal, stirred into boiling water, salted slightly, to make a thick mush. When well cooked and free from lumps, this is not unpalatable. Susan Brown Robbins, in Ladies' World. How to Keep Cut Flowers. " F il the vase or pitcher with very warm water, and as each rose is inserted, in-serted, cut off the tip of the stem with scissors under the water so that no air may reach the freshly cut stem. Do this every morning, leaving the flowers to cool in the same water until the next day, when repeat the process. All hard-stemmed flowers can be kept fresh in the sarrie way i ', ' " '.' ;;-; M ' ' To Preserve Cut Carnations. To prevent that premature bursting of the calyx which so often injures the appearance of several varieties of carnations, car-nations, especially 4he cut blooms, turn down the calyx of each blossom and : slip beneath it, close to the base of the sepals, and quite out of sight, a tiny collar of soft silk or cotton thread. Tie, and cut off the ends of the thread: then turn the calyx back to its natural position, po-sition, smoothing it carefully over the thread collar, and the flower will retain re-tain its perfect shape until it fades and ' dies. Ladies' World. Be Kind. The deepest wound from which the hciart hath bled I si from the unkind thinks that you or I have said; Therefore, be kind, 'tis but bread on life's stormy waters cast To be returned in that restless turmoil vast, ' Ere you have realized the greatness of : your little deed You, too, may have felt the need Of some kind word from a sincere heart; -iven, That will light thy being like contact : .'. with heaven. . ' . if . Lucille W. MacPherson, |