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Show M jr j Woman's ' World A i - - j! THE WIDOW'S MITE, f ff H ividow phe had only one, 116 p " jrjny and decrepit son; !V : ' rtv day or night, ? I s 7l)mgh fretful oft, and weak and II small. St? j 1 loving- child, he Mas her all , f 1 A widow's mite. ' " J ,e 1 f The widow's mite aye, so sustained ; j she buttled onward nor complained j Tho' friends were fewer: )r f I And while she toiled for daily fare, j f a lit'lc crutch upon the stair j Was music to her. . . s 1 1 I I ! 1 saw her then and now I see J I Tiiat. though resigned and cheerful, she " I I Has suffered much: 1 J lias. He gave it tenderly, J f Maih faith: and, carefully kJd bv, j That little crutch. 'j OUTDOOR LIFE IS ! j BETTER THAN COSMETICS. 1 ? Martineau in Chicago Tribune. ' if Vov winter it may be the English If F-!i "' tne 'rl of America. But when K th' summer days come it is the Irish' If till whose tvne is the envied nne. (.f ! The Irish girl has six remarkable j ' ; traits or characteristics which are bred 1 in the bone and brought out in the " She is full of that quality which, for . lit k of a better designation, can be ; . : i thilrd spirits. p.. r iff. '"'h'' has a marvelous bounding walk, it .? a walk which never tires. 1 S:i-- has an appetite of which she is ; s jii'i ashamed. " Hfr cosmetics are dew and sun and V , rs- f In spite of exposure she never burns i cr tuns or gets yellow. - p,- H'f freckles are of the pale, pretty h -'M. not the disagreeable deep yellow ; ( oik-. : ; : l l.r -voice is fresh and she talks all day long in a tone which has been called a thrill. i And she has another trait, that of 4 ' I which comes from a superabundr : ) am p of animal spirits. These are the thmgs which make the Irish girl not j like other girls, the typical girl of the J J summer. She is the girl of the trees , j f ii flowers and the girl whom you as- j 5 . K.ii inte with lhe hav nd tho ralr i A city girl once went into the coun- i try to become strong. She weeded the garden, she raked the hay. and she ! picked berries and gathered flowers. Hut. in spite of this, she did not grow j stronger- She lost flesh and lost spirits) When You Go to Rake ths Hay.. Another girl who went Into the country, coun-try, on similar thoughts intent, came ha k with a splendid store of health a store sufficient to last her for many months to come, probably all the year. There is a moral to be drawn from this. Or there are several morals, all of which must adorn this tale. The ; first is. in going to the -country be sure t'i select your spot well, or you will f c-me hack worse than you went. lmi't, if you are going to be a Maud Mullfr, rake your hay upon a farm which lies low and is full of damp sp'Hs. There is malaria here and at night you will breathe it into your . lungs. Be sure that your farm lands are i)ich and dry and that the well is situated in a proper place for a well, not in the barnyard nor alongside any cf the buildings. Irish Diet Good Tor Summer, lie sure, also, that there is a good farm cook in the kitchen. The proper diet for summer is the diet upon which i the Irish girl lives. This is the diet of ceieals or grains, rooked together; a iii't of vegetables, including the Irish 1 potato; and a diet of fresh fruits and I lmt bread. Tho pretty society girls Of 1'uh'in, "with their glowing cheeks and vreuy complexions, live upon hot ; I'v-aOs, upon grains and upon fruits I ',"'l vegetables. They get little meat. ; Yft iii all the world, if you ask the j t'Mirist. he will tell you that there are ! Tn pirls hp glowing as those of Dublin. ', Rii' iv hen you go into the country i jut! Hie qiven a diet of eggs, and there j sre many who cannot eat eggs. You I sro civn plenty of milk, and this may" j mn dETeo with you. If you do not eat- ' th'se you must eat -hjjflvy bread and -rse pi.-s or you must take into your system pounds and pounds of pork. The 1 jish girls, not those of the farms, but those of Dublin and Belfast,, of Limerick and Cork, live well. The iir.fsi salads of the world are tossed to-I to-I Cntlier In- these younr women. wh V'le the leaves in a deep bowl at the I piazza teas for which they are noted. I It vjts Sidney Smith who extolled the IHmi salad, and those who have visited visit-ed Limr-rick with letters of introduction t" the Ftciety oX the city come away lr.-aming of the wonderful dishes of c-f-ens dresed out with marvelous Il'veparations ot saiaa on ana vinegar at -i the rest. Diet is not everything in the world, hut it is a great deal. It will help you "Ut amazingly in j-our beauty scheme. Lnt r.ext after the diet comes the care of the complexion. In America, where til- v.inds blow hot one day and cold tlie next, the skin burns one afternoon ;vl the next day is beaten by the cli-Thore cli-Thore !s nothing even about the 'i '1s of the season; and the girl who "ants to have the skin of the Irish girl iivjt take care of her complexion every 'j.i;- of her life. Oatmeal Best For Complexion. Tii'.ro are those who hold that the !ciil who is caring for her beauty should place a little pinchers upon her :- daily to keep it in shape. The : .. reddens in the "wind and spreads. -;e should do this while she is cream-i" cream-i" 5 her skin. The matter of keeping the skin nice is one which causes the spring girl t : ' at concern. . "l have a patient," said a beauty spe-' spe-' list, '"who takes oatmeal inside and ' ;t. .She diets on oatmeal to keep in-' in-' . : siion at bay. And at night she e;,ths her face in oatmeal water and k f -"s the same upon her hands, r "Xor does this woman's oatmeal stop "t small measures. She cooks a table--i 'hfui of oatmeal in a quart of wa-''' wa-''' until it is milky. This she strains :-i makes soft with borax. To this she 1 his just a little benzoin, and with :'.is she washes" her face after coming 'roni a dusty walk. At. night she si'-eps with her hands in gloves lined' nil oatmeal paste, and she has a h::'.e tray of powdered oatmeal, mixed ''' l line lmmice, which she uses upon '" r iiands once a day to take off the she ,iK0 makes a soap Jelly which is vi-eiir-nt for the hands and w hich h-'t- oatmeal as a basis. And by per-, severing- with her cure she manages to ' "I, on hand a collection of fine cos-n.oijos cos-n.oijos for use on all occasions when 'h" spring tears the skin and the sun s -orches it." Tace Powder Needed by May JJeiles. (The woman whose face chaps ter-'n ter-'n ly can cover her face with cold 'ream and can then give it a liberal '"aring of powder. This will protect !' trom the wind. Of course such a j liberal dose of powder is not in the best of good form, and unless a woman w"ars a veil it is apparent to the pass-p' pass-p' by. But she can apply a little cold 'ream and can add a little powder to 11 ith the best of results to her skin. It is almost necessary to use a little f -i' r. powder these days, and there are 'Hv women and fewer belles who do h"t indulge in it more or less. If the '' e is inclined to pit. or to show black-h'jujs black-h'jujs there is nothing that will pro- ,rt it nue a liberal coating of good howder, and as for the skin that is (I merely rough and chapped, the coat of powder is the most beneficial thing j lll't was ever applied. " ' ; '. Vt ccu.-Ee there are pow tlei s and pow-' j " ; ders, and the woman who is treating her face must be careful to seblt a good powder. And the same is true of soap, which, while an excellent thing lor the skin, must be of the right kind or it w ill do more harm than good. A good soap, made into a stiff lather and spread upon the face, will, when washed off, bring with it many imperfections. imper-fections. This is the latest and most modern of beauty's facial recipes. And, combined with good recipes for the skin, it will produce beauties which would be second to none in a beauty competion, with all the beauties of all the ages as contestants. The care of the mouth assumes an immense proportion these days,, when the wind is cutting and the lips chap, j Winter or summer, the wind and even j the air are enemies to the mouth, for in the summer the lips blister and crack and in the winter they become sore and withered. Cherry Lips Gained Only by Care. This withered state of the lips is one that is peculiarly difficult to deal with, for the lips grow gray and nil redness leaves them. The wind bites and the lips seem to lose their life in the teeth of the elements. Either the lips are blue, or they are gray, or they are parched and chapped, and there is a cracked appearance which makes them as disagreeable as they can be. Lips, to feel right, ought to be smooth. To be pretty they ought to be a bright red; they ought to be full and not' dry; they ought to be shapely, which they cannot be if they are sore, and there should be nothing about them to indicate that they are not in a healthy condition. A pretty girl walked into a drawing room the other day. Her cheeks were plump and rosy; her hair lay in pretty waves upon her forehead; her eyes were bright and clear, but her lips spoiled the picture. They were chapped and ragged; there was a great crack in the lower one, w hile upon the upper lip there was a big fever sore, showing that they were in far from a healthy state. Lips such as these are never attractive. at-tractive. Slight Defects Destroy Beauty. Another young woman might . have had pretty lips but for her habit of pressing them together into a hard line. Still another would have had a pretty mouth, but her upper teeth protruded, pro-truded, and this took away the sweetness sweet-ness of the face, giving it an uncouth look. Still another young woman in that assemblage had a mouth which would have been pretty but for an unfortunate un-fortunate habit of keeping the lips separated. Any of thesre young women might have been pretty by remedying some trifling fault of the mouth. And this shows how easily beauty is marred. But if beauty can be spoiled it can also be restored. And often it happens that a woman without beauty is transformed into a pretty one. In a certain family there was a girl with tolerably good features and a pleasing expression. This girl, after reading a beauty talk, went to work upon herself and her looks. Her hair, which was drab, was transformed into a lovely bright brown; her eyes, which had long been red and devoid of "winkers," were coaxed until there was an airy fringe around them, making mak-ing the eyes sweet; her mouth, which was a little askew, was treated by a cosmetic dentist, who replaced missing teeth and made the mouth straight I again; her wrinkles were massaged away and her complexion was made like the peach. One day the family awoke to find that it had a professional beauty in the house, and from that time on each member devoted herself to the getting of good looks. "Bead work and crochet were neglected, brasses went unsecured, un-secured, and power work was thrown aside, for the whole family had gone into the business of self-adornment. And a year later all acknowledged that it was a good investment of time. Strawberry Juice a Fine Cosmetic. The juices of ripe fruits make an excellent cosmetic. Ripe strawberries can be rubbed upon the face or the berries can be prepared into a straw - berry wash. There was a certain beauty who used to macerate a pint of berries daily and add them to a little softened rain water. This she strained and heated and then she added it to her bath. Sometimes she used the berries ber-ries stronger, taking the pure juice. It was expensive, as she was not a country coun-try girl, but how well it repaid her. It was cheaper than rouge and better than medicines. The old belles relied upon strawberry juice to clear the skin for the rest of the year. They rubbed the berries on the face and let the juice dry on. This, in the case of an olive skinned belle, will create an attractive flush. The juice of the berries will take away freckles end the color will tint the skin. But the blond skinned girl must bere. The ripe berries may make her too pink and she must, therefore, there-fore, experiment a little with her skin before she goes ahead. , , The girl who gets the most out of spring will -scent her hair with the petals of spring flowers and she will fill her jars with' buds and leaves of all fragrant kinds to be opened and used as a disinfectant for the house in the winter time. t MARIAN MARTINEAU'S - BEAUTY ADVICE Miss T.: I have tried your excellent treatment for hair that is just beginning begin-ning to turn gray. My hair is almost completely restored. Now, will you kindly give me something to develop the bust? Drink the chocolate and cocoa preparations prep-arations and take outdoor exercise. Stand and sit straight. Have you tried the Vaucaire method? Caroline: How can I keep my hair from being stiff and bristly? It'is the most unruly, haJr. you ever saw. I am SO and there are a few gray hairs. . To you and the other reader who wrote about a few gray hairs there is this advice: Massage the scalp twice a week with olive oil. Use no more than four drops for the whole head. Castor oil is still better. This acts as a general restorer of color pigment. . " Grace L.: - Cold cream seems to make my face -sticky. I cannot use powder on it afterwards, because my face is too greasy and lumpy. The reason is not far to seek. Y6u are not using the right cold cream. Make a thin cream, little thicker than cream of milk, and spread it on the face thinly. Massage it in well and wait five minutes before applying powder. pow-der. Y. H.: I am to pale. Is there any way of putting color into my cheeks? Yes, you can put color into your cheeks by massaging them. Also by outdoor exercise. If too pale you might use a little harmless vegetable rouge, but not much, and only in the evening. - f Mrs. Johnson J .G.: Thank you for telling me how to take the hair off my upper lip. The treatment was splendid. splen-did. What' would you charge to make my complexion good? It is red and pimply. There is no charge at all for advice in. this column. Your red and pimply complexion must be doctored from within.Eat spinach. Take spring medicine, med-icine, oM-fashioned sulphur "and mo-i' lasses is. good. Massage the face every night with a good cold cream. H.: What do you consider a cold cream suitable for a skin that chaps and is always rough and scaly? If the skin be in poor condition take equal parts of almond oil and white vaseline. Melt together and apply a little every night. j Miss- T. : Does cold cream make hair grow on the face, and is there anything to put in it to prevent it from having that effect? . . It is said that cucumber juice, made into cold cream, with the suitable ingredients, in-gredients, will keep hair from coming on the face, as the acid is inclined to kill the roots. 1 C. E.: My skin is clear but I am as , white as milk. Nothing seems to give me the red glow I so much desire. Can you help me out? Perhaps a milky tings is irtore becoming becom-ing to you than a red glow. In that case, do not meddle with your complexion. com-plexion. Keep it clear and you will like it better than though it were red. v K. II.: Do you believe the theory that cold cream causes hair to grow on the face? I have used it freely since I have been reading your articles and, as yet. havs not had that trouble. You are perfectly correct in presuming presum-ing that, since cold cream did not make hair grow on your face, it will not make it grow on others. The most obstinate who have never used cold cream. Minerva: I am taking outdoor exercise exer-cise to reduce, but I am so tired every night that I feel as if I would drop dead. What can I do to make my joints more limber? They ache so I cannot sleep. Take a bath in a good bath vinegar. It is Just possible that you are overdoing over-doing the exercise business. f F. K.: Do you think a ripe strawberry straw-berry rubbed on my face would give me a. dark complexion? I am dark and :my face is muddy. 1 No, it would probably require a great deal more than that. Take a little strawberry cream and massage your skin. Then treat yourself inwardly. Your spots are probably liver spots. Grace H.: Can deep wrinkles be massaged out of the skin? Yes, if a good wrinkle cream is used. No matter how deep the wrinkle, it can be massaged away. Rub the wrinkle wrin-kle cream faithfully into the furrows iiisnu. Dieam me iace ngniiy 1 before using. Be careful not to injure the texture of the skin in steaming. Hot cloths are best. Kittie J.: How can I treat the skin of my hands? They are red and rough and freckled, and the nails are not a pretty pink. Sleep in gloves lined with paste for the hands. You can make this yourself from one of the formulas previously given. If you have lost the formula write and it will be repeated. N. L.: Kindly give me something, to whiten my neck, which is yellow, as are my arms. To whiten the neck try lanolin and peroxide. The skin ought to be greatly great-ly improved by this application. It will not prove injurious. f- Miss G.: Do you consider wine and other spirituous liquors bad for the system? On the contrary, they are considered good. As for one's personal prejudices, that is a different matter. There are many that do not believe in taking alcohol al-cohol in any form. French Heels and Rheumatism. "There's another of those women with broken down feet," said the shoe store man, as he walked back to the cas for a particular shape of - shoe, "Didn't you know there was an epidemic epi-demic of that sort of thing? No? Well, there is, and the French heel is to blame for it. There's a whole lot of women who think they have rheumatism rheuma-tism in their feet, but they haven't. It's simply a case of the arch of the foot being -broken down. They wore French heels that threw their heels up in the air, and then next season they went to the low heels. The change threw the bones of the instep out of place, and now wJien they walk the bones cfause them pain. "I have fixed up any number of feet for them. Some of them have been to springs where they treat rheumatism, and some of them even to Europe. When they come in here to buy shoes they speak incidentally about their troubles, and generally a silver plate and a shoe that will hold the bones in place fixes them up. "Often I can tell what is the matter with a woman's foot just by seeing her walk. You see that shoe, all worn off at the side? And this one, -worn at the toe? Well, that is because the women have tried to ease the pressure of t hnQo .VirnUoti itnvrn .honoc A foot- that is formed right and that is in perfect per-fect health will wear the shoe evenly across the sole. If women only knew what was the matter with their feet the doctors would miss a lot of fees for treatments for rheumatism." New York Press. Train. Your Girls to Work. Girls as well as boys should be trained to some work by which, in case of necessity, they would be able to earn a living. No one can guarantee guaran-tee that the daughters of even a wellr to-do family will never come to want. Why should their.future, then, be left to unprovided chance? A most pitiful thing is a woman forced out into the' world to work, with no home back, of. her, with no protection protec-tion around her, with no skill in any useful occupation, and wjth no refuge to fly to in case of temporary failure," She is like a child among .wolves,... She is like a stranger in a new country. What to her, then, are the rudiments of 'ologies and trumpery half learned accomplishments? What to her, then, are calisthenics and Ollendorf French? What to. her are the rules of. prosody and the data of physiology? What to her, then, is the parental care that tried to make of her a parlor doll, but that took 110 thought to fit her for the j realities 01 lire ana tne auty 01 complying com-plying w ith the ordinance of God to eat her bread in the sweat of her brow?. Let every girl, therefore, be instructed in-structed in some gainful craft in dressmaking, dress-making, in millinery, in typewriting, fn photo-negative retouching, in artistic cooking, in any one of a thousand employments em-ployments by which, if Providence-willed Providence-willed that they should have to provide pro-vide their own support, they could surely deserve their salt." May a Woman Tell Her Love? It is true it is unconventional for a woman to tell a man that she loves him unless the man has persuaded her to make such confession, but is there any good reason why a woman should not take the initiative? Is she any less a woman for doing so? A shy and timid man may not know hew to tell a woman wo-man that he loves her. Should the woman who is of firmer faith and stronger mind stand halting and waiting wait-ing for a confession that may never come? Why should she suffer in silence? si-lence? By so doing may not she lose the man who loves her and also" the happiness of a lifetime as well? A Talk to Mothers. Mothers, by enforcing the many tiny courtesies of the home, in your little children, you are but sowing the seeds of respect, reverence and honor, whic h is due you as their parents and which they will have for you all through their lives. Some of these little courtesies are, for instance, that the girls should be served at table before their brothers, that all should wait for the last comer,' that, none i should be seatect till the rhair-.has..lJeen , placed .for father and mother, that the boy nearest the d'jor . ,. .. 1 should open it for. mother if she has : occasion to leave the sitting room for nursery or kitchen, that no child should be allowed to address the parent ab- ' ruptly and without including the name "father" 'or "mother" these are ele- I mentary rules of home courtesy, but j they would do much toward preserving, through all coming years, the love that is founded on respect. The little phrases, "Pardon me," "Excuse me," "May I have the pleasure?" pleas-ure?" "Mother, dear," "Father," do not take much -saying, but they perfume the air with the fragrance of paradise. |