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Show Woman's World MY SHIP. ' . ! pLnn t"' the wharves,' as the sun goes : down, Ar.d the daylight's tumult and dust and din I re dying a way in the busy town, I go" to tc-e if my ship comes in. ' j I case far over the quiet sea, ' Hosy -uith sunset, like mellow wine, j YVhnv ships, like lilies, lie tranquilly, .Many and fair but 1 see not mine, j .,11-Fti'in the sailors every night j Who over the bulwarks idly lean, j ir.g the sails as they come "in sight Have you seen my beautiful ship nunc In?" . v "Whence does she come?" they ask ol me; ' "Who is her master and what her name?" And they smiks upon me pityingly Winn my answer is ever and ever the same. V O. mine was a vessel of strength and iruth. Her sails were white as a young lamb's fleece, She mailed long since from the port of Yout li-Her li-Her master was Love, and her name was Peace. I And like all beloved and beauteous things, f-'he faded in distance and doubt away With only a tremble of snowy wings She floated, swan-like, adown the bay. Carrying with her a precious freight .Ml I had gathered by years of pain; A tempting prize to the pirate. Fate And still I watched for her back I a gam Watch from the earliest morning light Till the pale stars grieve o'er the dying dy-ing day. To catch the. gleam of her canvas : . w hiie " ' Among the islands which gem the bay. But she comes not yet she will never come !To gladden my eyes and my spirit more; - j And my heart grows hopeless and faint and dumb. As I wait and wait on the lonesome shore. Knowing that tempest and time and storm Have wrecked and shattered my beauteous bark; Hank seaweeds cover, her. wasting form. And her sails are tattered and stained and dark. But the tide comes up, and the tide goes down. And the daylight follows the night's eclipse And still with the sailors, tanned and brow u, '.' I w ait on the wharves and watch the ships. . And still with a patience that is not hope. ' . t ! For viiin and empty, it-long hath been. ' ' ' ' ' I sit on the rough shore's rocky slope. II And w atch to see if my ship comes in. I Elizabeth Akers Allen. THE SPiRLKTG GIRL AND j HER 1830 WALK M avian Martineau in Chicago Tribune. The spring girl is here, and -she has t bruupht a new walk with her. It is literally a springy waik, but it has other oth-er thir.es besides springiness to recom-liK'iiij recom-liK'iiij it. It is a graceful walk, it is an easy Avalk. it is a healthful waik, and it is I a walk that gets the-e: It is also a I walk which is adapted to the new skrt, I the 130 skirt, and on that account it I must he called the 1S-10 walk. Now, the 1S30 walk is by no means an athletic walk. It is more n feminine femi-nine lines. If you want to walk it, get out your fullest dress skirt, stand in front of a pier glass, lift up your dress until your feet are exposed, and prac-I prac-I ti-e. The peculiarities of the walk are I these: You must stand up straight, i f-traieht enough to have a Grecian ! hTd. Take care to preserve the Mrsight front. This front line must be mathematically precise. It must be one straight line from the chin right down to the tip of the toes. Take your stand before a long glass f arid stand erect. If you 'are correctly poised your chest will be full and your abdomen will be held in. To test this let drop a string from the bust to the fl -or. Tie a weight upon the end of I the f' ring. If you are properly poised I 'he string will swing dear without I touching the abdomen. Weight Ests on Ball of Foot. T vslk correctly practice walking 1 upon the balls of the feet. Bear your 1 wrjght upon your foot at the broadest I-iit. Do not cme down upon your h"!s heavily, do not place your weight upon the back part of your fool. ' Let the ban of the foot serve as the pivot upon which you rest the body and f ing it forward. I Th- woman who learns to walk upon 1 the balls of her feet will be able to high heeled shoes and there are u w women w ho would not be glad to near the tall fashionable heels of the s-as.ii'. They are pretty and when a v."Tii:ui goes out to walk 'she wants to '"ok nice. High heels- are never beneT ficial. yet, to the woman who has 'r-r. rned to walk upon the halls of her th:y are much less injurious than I th.'ueh she had not acquired the art of talking in this 'manner. 1 The collect poise is absolutely necessary neces-sary to the woman who is going to barn th" new walk. She must learn to stand with the chest out and the abdo-ii''"i abdo-ii''"i in. The shoulders are thrown back ftid the back is curved. The girl who fannr-t get this for herself should take J JrKs0,. uf g.jn)e -est Point cadet. Let f V't ask the first soldier she sees how ' s'and and he will tell her to throw ': e chest out. draw in the abdomen, s '.'Kite the shoulders and pull the cl-'""s cl-'""s down. - Walk With the Legs Alone. The correct poise once learned, walk- j 'ff is easy. The step is long and the f""t should be swung out until it rests l:""st at right angles with the other f""t. This is easy. But It is one of t!i"se things which mut be practiced UMii it becomes second nature. The J'icht foot is swung forward and the left follows it. taking a step in advance, Ei'd so the body moves along in walk-h'sr walk-h'sr position. The rule in the walking schools is to alk with the legs, not with the back, or. with the shoulders. The body is lr'll immovable like tjiat of a SQldjer,. while the legs propel it along. "Walk entirely with the legs and the 'rS muscles," is a rule made in the walking schools. Don't let the muscles of the back assist the legs. Make the lt-cs ci0 all the work. talking exercises as given in the walking schools consist of walking in n exaggerated manner. The feet are I ,irtd high and the pupils walk around J rf'0' as i,igh fteppere. ! The high eiepplng exercise is g?od practice for 1 ' ' " "" 1 I the legs, for it develops the muscle and makes the legs strong and round and firm. High Stepping Excellent Practice. The woman who is an ungraceful walker should follow a few of the instructions in-structions of the walking schools. High stepping is one of the gymnastics which the pupils must practice. But nigh stepping js not all. There are other exercises which are put into practice from day to day. If you want to pretend that vou are in a walking school put on a "gymnasium "gymna-sium suit, but do not loosen your clothing. cloth-ing. Remember that you are learning to walk in street dress and that you must wear your clothing just as loose as but not looser than you will wear it w-hen you are gowned for the thoroughfare. thor-oughfare. Stand in walking position, but do not walk. Let one foot be in advance of the other as though you w ere goins ! to take a step. Now put lb- other foot forward as though you were going to ! step. Try this w ith one foot and then th other. The second exercise consists of an arm and leg movement. Take a step forward, lift both arms and swing them. Swing them back and forth high above the head, first one arm and then the other. As you swing, walk. This is to strengthen the lungs and make you capable of w alking in the open air at a rapid gait. The high stepping cvcrcisc if? not difficult. dif-ficult. Lift first one foot just as high as you can,, and hold it in the air as long as you can, now lift the other leg as high as you can and hold it in the air as long as you can. This is a strengthening exercise for the leg muscles mus-cles and the woman who can rtand this with one knee poised high without touching anything for support is sure Of a'boriv ha la nee Walking upstairs is another exercise which js part of the new walk. Hold the body erect, lift the skirt with one hand, then walk upstairs, lifting the body from step to step. . Don't crawl when you walk upstairs. Don't throw the body forward- Don't huddle up all in a heap as though you were going to tumble forward on your face. Don't lift your clothing up with your handa high, and double up and climb up the stairs. This is bad for the body and ungraceful to the beholder. be-holder. In w alking downstairs, keep the body erect. Use the knees and go down from step to step. So in' going upstairs. Hold the body erect and lift yourself from one step to another, not doubling forward, nor in any way injuring the breathing apparatus.. The woman who arrives at the top of the stairs panting may be sure that she has started wrong. , ' 1830 Walk That of Soldiers. The 1S30 walk has other things to recommend it besides the fact that it is fashionable and is easily learned. It is a healthful walk. It is the walk which is taught to our soldiers on the march and it is the walk which is adopted by walkers on long stretches-Avoid, stretches-Avoid, when you-. walk, the sideways, waddling step. This is harmful, for it injures the spine and prevents one from ever getting there. It is not a walk that arrives. On the contrary, it is a sagging backward means of locomotion. It is a walk which soon degenerates into a waddle. Jumping on one foot is excellent for her who would learn to walk well. Stand on one foot, take the other foot in the hand, and try the old fashioned hopscotch. Hop all over the room just as you did when you were a child, kicking the pebble in front of you. Another fine leg exercise is that of putting the heels together and leaping into the air. r Jump'tip as high as you can and jump up again. This is a good leg movement and one that will help all the muscles of the body.. The 1830 walk is the long, easy stride which carries one along. The old fashioned fash-ioned Grecian bend walk did not make much progress. The victim did not get over the ground. Then there was the baby walk, which was a little, sideling side-ling step. Besides these, there was the athletic walk, which made the petticoats petti-coats swish around the legs and which was awkward. "The 1830 walk," 6aid a dressmaker, "is the dressmaker's delight. It does not stretch the shoulders of the gown, for it is a walk that is performed with the legs. It does not widen the belt, for jt is rot a walk which brings a strain Upon the "w aist line. It is not a w alk which interferes with th throat of the gown, for the head is held high. It is, on' the contrary, a walk which is walked with the legs alone and the dressmakers are glad that it is the style." ' Marian Martineau's Answers. M. B. H.: I have a cosmetic for the complexion which is partly made of salts. Have you eyer heard of it and do you approve? There is a cosmetic which contains ?alts among other things. It is not injurious. in-jurious. ". AU of those things,' however, tend to fill up the pores of the skin- -f ' Kate Tou saved my life lar-t fall Ijv telling me how to keep my skin nice in bad weather. Now, will you tell me how to keep it nice in summer weath er? The dust gets into the pores ana makes. my face black. You must wash' the face in hot water nightly. Soften the w ater .with borax. Next coat the face with cold cream and wash off with hot water. Before going out cold cream the face and dust it with powder. f Zephyr:- I am told that the face can be bleached, wjth a paste made of almond al-mond oil and vaseline,, half and half, with a little peroxide of hydrogen Etirred in while the mixture is warm. Do you approve and will ft injure the eyes? r Peroxide will lighten the eyebrows. A good bleach is made of lanolin and peroxide, but you must be careful not to touch the eyebrows with it or it will bleach them also. f - Mrs. O. K.: This i? the season of the year when I am most troubled with rheumatism. You seem able to help everybody. Will you see what you can do for the terrible pain in my bones j which racks me night and day, but I nart tenia rlv- nights? ! particularly nignis. Rheumatism' is a difficult thing to cure. Try hot baths at night. Massage afterwards with almond pi!- Sleep in a fl8tinel night robe, not too heavy. Walk all you can in the open air. Take every morning a tablespoon of phosphate phos-phate of soda in hot water. ' f H. V.: My feet trouble me terribly. I have corns and bunions and all sorts of disagreeable troubles. What can X do to remedy the ill? Soak the feet every night in hot salt and water. Rinse in clear water and apply a little vaseline. Rub into the -feet until it is absorbed. -This will soften corns until they disappear. ' - J Vida O.: Is there any cure for an aching tooth?- I have one which. both-.ers both-.ers me all the time. It has been tilled, but there is no relief. , It is hard to tell just what ails a tooth of this kind. A dear friend of mine takes a hot bath and a dose of castor oil for the toothache. Her theory the-ory Is that this course draws the ache down into the system. Why do you not try it? H. .:.' Tell me how to remove superfluous super-fluous hair from the face. It is a hard thing J-0. d m. vay-X-ite,. tor the hair is too thick -for the electric needle.. It would take too long. Try pulling out the hairs and applying apply-ing a bath of weak ammonia torthe upper lip. This has killed the hair roots in not a few cases. X. Y. Z.: Last winter I made a fine rose cold cream for my skin. I have lost the formula. Will vou please repeat? re-peat? For rose cold cream take equal parts of almond oil, mutton tallow, and spermaceti. sper-maceti. Melt all together. Take off and beat" with an egg beater as it is cooling. Acid ten drops of oil of rose geranium to each teacup of the mixture. mix-ture. Pour into glass or china jars. F. II.: Does not cold cream make the hair grow on the face? And, if so, what would you advice? Cold cream nourishes the skin and so is apt to promote the growth of . hair. Yet it is doubtful if it will do so to any disagreeable extent. I know persons who have used it all their lives, yet have no growth of hair. f Anna L.: Please repeat the formula for sweet clover lotion for the skin. Take the stalks of sweet clover and cover them with water. Let simmer, strain, and to a pint of the fluid add enough benzoin to make the lotion milky. To each half pint of the liquid add a teaspoon of powdered borax. a ; Miss .G.: Is the Vaucaire remedy good for the development of the bust? I have heard it highly recommended, and a few weeks ago you gave the foi-inula foi-inula for it, which I have preserved. The Vaucaire remedy is excellent for the development of the bust, or so it is claimed by thousands that have tried it. It is not a patented remedy, but can be put up by any druggist. Odd Russian Custom. In compliance with an ancient Russian Rus-sian custom all the young men and w omen o-men of the mercantile class in St. Petersburg Pe-tersburg assemble on Whitmondav, the former to stare and the latter to be stared at. The younjr cirls. dressed as richly as their means will allow, are arranged in long rows by the sides of the flower beds in the summer garden, with their mammas stajiding behind them. The wardrobes of their mothers and grandmothers are laid under contribution, con-tribution, and everything bright and gaudy is carefully brought forward to enrich the drapery, the nead dress or the girdle. Some of the young ladies are so covered with gold and jewelry on these occasions that their natural charms are altogether concealed; indeed in-deed the ludicrous excess to which this sort of decoration is sometimes carried goes beyond what has ever been attempted at-tempted elsewhere. Thus bedezined, the blushing damsels are drawn up in mute rows, while the papas, in flowing craftans and curling beardf. parade their sons up and down. Here and there the papas and mammas try to lead the J'oung folks into conversation with one another, in the course of which certain little looks and emotions may arise, pregnant with future circumstances. cir-cumstances. Eight days or so after this bridal exhibition, private family meetings take place, at which those whose hearts are captivated at the grand show are more formally affianced to one another by their parents and relatives. "Woman Tramps" a Bother. .(Chicago Tribune.) The "woman tramp" is the latest! She is the bane of the store clerk's existence, just as the woman with the "elevator primping habit" is the elevator ele-vator boy's burden. A clerk in a State street store told all about her yesterday. "I read a piece in the Tribune this morning," he began, laying an assortment assort-ment of neckties on the counter in front of his customer, "about the trouble the elevator boys have with the primpers, but we clerks have a bigger grievance. It's the 'woman tramp.' She comes in, looks over our whole stock, and then goes out without buying anything." "Well, maybe she didn't see anything any-thing she liked or maybe she was looking look-ing through all the stores?"" was suggested. sug-gested. "O, no! That sort of thing is all right, but the woman tramp is no of the ordinary kind. She merely goes through the stores as you or I would go through the St. Louis falf to see the displays. If you ask her if you can p?U her anything she just says; 'O, no, I'm just lookin',' She's' always 'look-InV 'look-InV Inquiries made of clerks at the other stores proved that the "woman tramp" does exist. In some; of the stores, it was said, she has become such a bur den that special sals.nen and saleswomen sales-women have been employed to detect her and show her over the store, hoping hop-ing she will get her esthetic taste so thoroughly satisfied that she will not come back, on the same principle that the farmer instructs his new. berry pickers to "eat their fill." , "If they buy anything it is about 10 cents' worth and no more," said a clerk in a. department store- "They often take our time from regular regu-lar . customers by apking us to show them expensive silks and rare laces. When they -are not In the stores they are walking along' the streets looking into the shop windows. "One woman comes into this store regularly and looks at nearly every ribbon in the department. She has not bousrht a yard since I have been here." "There goes one now," declared a saleswoman in a 6tore on the west side of State street, when asked if she had ever nret a "woman tramp." " -The. woman pointed outwalked over to the' jewelry department and looked critically into every 'case. Then she passed on to the hosl?ry department and asked to be shown some expensive goods and priced them. She did not buy. She next went to the book counter coun-ter and. looked at the pictures in a handsomely bound volume of "Les Mis-erables." Mis-erables." From the book counter she went to the 'stationery counter, and from there to the. cut glass and china department. She remained in this department de-partment until time for the big shop to close. . Wilhelmina's Shoes Were Tight. ' According to the opinion expressed by a Philadelphia traveler, Wilhelmina, queen of Holland one may no longer write it "Little Wilhelmina" :s said to be growing "very plain," but none has yet denied her a large share of very "human" qualities. In proof of this this same traveler tells a story which presents pre-sents her in a pleasing light. It seems that a certain famous London photographer photog-rapher had been 6ent Sor to take the queen's picture. It was the second such commission he had received from Amsterdam. Am-sterdam. When the sitting- was over and the plates had been developed Wilhelmina Wil-helmina said, delightedly: "Why. this is a much better -picture of me than you took before. I wonder why that is?" "Your majesty has now a more cheerful expression." ventured the artist. ar-tist. "Perhaps that is what makes the difference." . "And I know why that should have been so," added n.h,e queen, instantly. "The last time you" were here, I remember, remem-ber, I had on very tight boots. How-can How-can any one look cheerful when her feet are being pinched?" Philadelphia Press. : Gold-Heel Girls of Montana. (St. Louia Globe-Democrat.) "The gold-heel girls of Montana Helena, in fact will whirl into The I Pike during the month of roses, and you mark it well! They are whizzers! j They're a crowd of our most precious ; young lady stenographers, and what I they don't know about drawing good j salaries and getting rid of them never was meant for girl mortals to know." The speaker wes Eberly Chandler, formerly official court stenographer of j Helena, an$ now of N?w York,' though just from Helena, on business. Drifting along The Pike, he added: "The gold-heel gold-heel girls number fifty. For their trip to the fair in June they will wear gold heel tips, crescents of eighteen-carat gold on each dainty French .heel. They're a queenly, gang statuesque, finely dressed and all that sort -of thin. They write checks for ten.-; of hundreds of thousands of dollars daily, but they don't sign 'etn. Their employers do that, ancl this means that they work In the mining headquarters and the banks and brokerage offices in and., around Helena." Corean Widow Can't Marry. Good society in Korea has many curious cu-rious cuftoms. One of these is that widows must not remarry. . No widow in the really "smart set" would ever dream of remarrying, however young she may be or however soon the death of her husband may have followed her wedding. Married life in Korea 'S by no means an unmixed blessing to the woman, so perhaps perpetual widowhood widow-hood might not- be objectionable if it were not for the necessity of perpetually perpetu-ally wearing mourning for the departed. depart-ed. Thitf means that during the whole of her life she is limited to blue, black and green as colors for her costumes. Medicinal Value of Vegetables. The "medicinal value" of vegetables and fruit is by virtue of the large per j cent of sugar and starch of which they are composed. When eaten moderately fruit is .a good means to proportionate the demands de-mands of the system occasioned by an ovcrs.'upply of fats and proteids, such j as meats, etc. Overindulgence in fruits and vegetables veget-ables and consumption of unripe fruits or of that which is more or less decayed de-cayed frequently causes pain or other unpleasant symptoms. There are persons w ho because of a personal idiosyncrasy cannot eat certain cer-tain fruits without distress. Another important thing not to be forgotten is that fruits have, in addition addi-tion to the nutritive value, a beneficial effect on the system by stimulating the appetite for other food. Strawberries Three Ways.. Straw berry Meringue Pudding. Take crumbled sponge cake it is better and lighter if stale; the yolks of two eggs, pinch of sugar and of salt, enough milk to make. a custard: bake this in a buttered but-tered dish until set. When cold, pile ripe strawberries (with plenty of powdered pow-dered sugar) on the top, then heap a good lot of well-whipped cream and sugar over all. Strawberry Salad. Take the little scarlet strawberry which is best, for it, perfectly ripe and very dry. Pick them carefully into a glass bowl, sprinkle powdered sugar over them, then dress with a few spoonfuls of gooseberry jelly jel-ly and a tumblerful of red currant wine. It should be poured over an hour before wanted. Strawberry Pyramid. Beat up a pint of fresh-made curd with a small jar of red currant jelly and a little sugar, and pile in a pyramid. Lay some fresh strawberries in another dirh first and pour a boiling syrup over them; when cold place them and the syrup round the pyramid. J How to Choose Coffee. After roasting only the expert can detect the difference-until drawing. Before roasting there are many ways by which to judge the poorer from the Vbetter grade. The grains of the inferior infe-rior quality are irregular in outline and color, having more or less' brown and black hue tinged with the green. They are irregular in texture, and by close observation many large holes may be ee-en on the surface. " |