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Show I J Woman's World Conducted by Heleno Valeau. HELENE VALEATJ'S ANSWERS. I I va)eau will reply to all ques- I t L ST aske3 by the feminine readers of J." termountalc Catholic. The xvr'A rni(Vn charac'" and authority of her y w I need no Introduction to those v.? r familiar with her ability. Miss Int w!n take a k'pd'y and personal " ,rest n those who vrite to her. and in ,8?are no Pa'n 1" seeing that their fnii are answerei fully and care- i,'y' Write only on one side of the paper. Address letters to Miss Helena . aieau, Intermountaln Catholic. Dear Miss Valeau: m !uJOU kin3,v Ky me a lotion to ' " -l0p the hands perspiring fieelv? ii your child thews the fruit thoroughly thor-oughly it win be all right for him to at some kind?. Always give it to him b""re breakfast. ! j , Th,e following; is ;i recipe for a lotion ; xo cherk the h;nds from perspiring: f Boric acid. so Rrains; borax, 120 f' grains: glyr-orine,, 2 ounces; saliovlic I ac,d. Io0 grains. ; j rttib on the har.ils four or five times I ; I ? -aj'- Wash the hands in warm water ! j St applying;, and dry carefully. i' Shake well. If the giyrcrine is heated i I Jt W'H increase the solublitv of the I ' preparation. I i ft ' I Dear Mis Valeau: 1 5 Will you kindly give me ;i recipe hlch I can make at home to soften I ' and whiten the hands? AXXA H. Here is a very simple recipe for a lr- i rior to improve the condition of the ; hands: Put Into a bottle two ounces of f glycerine, two ounces of water, four I tablespoonfuls of lemon juice and a i drops of carbolic acid. Shake well. I i After washing: and drying the hands, j rub a little of this mixture into them. ( i j Dear Miss Valeau: ' i v Can you tell me what causes puffy ' eyelids? I know my condition is not 1 natural, for I never had them before. . X. T. Z. f Puffy eyelids generally Indicate some Internal disturbance that needs the at- tentlon of a physician. It may be that r .r.iour urr is oux oi oraer, or mc Kia- . rf neyB may not be doing: their work properly. You should not neglect this I trouble, but find the cause and then get r.d of it as quickly as possible. ; Dear Miss Valeau: f X Please aive a formula for green soap Shampoo." HAIRDKESSER. , f 1 hardly think an amateur could mix t the ingredients for green soap together, j AS this soap is sold by all druggists, ; it would be better to buy it ready i made. ! Dear Miss Valeau: j 1 have read your advice for many j years, and now want to ask if you. will i please publish as soon as possible the recipe for astringent lotion? W. T. R. y Follow. ng is the recipe you desire: . luin. 70 grains: almond milk (thick), l'i ounces: rosewater, 6 ounce. Dissolve Dis-solve the alum in the rosewater. then pour gently into the almond mink. Mini constant agitation. Apply with a soit linen cloth every night before re-tiiine. re-tiiine. ' . Tiu r tie Vnleaii: Is sassafras good to thin and cool the blood? MARGARET. Sassafras tea is excellent for a spring tonic, together with plenty of fresh air and exercise. The drug store windows are full of the fresh, fragrant sassafras bark just now. and when properly made it is very appetising. Take just a few pieces of the bark 8nd pour boiling boil-ing hot water over it. letting it stand until it is a. delicate pink color and steaming with fragrance. If too much !f the bark Is used and the tea steeped too long or allowed to boil, It is thick and dark and bitter and not at all tempting. : Drink this three times a day and especially es-pecially drink a cup before going to bed. A cool sponge bath should be takpn everv morning and a cup of hot water taken half an hour before breakfast, break-fast, with a teaspoonful of lemon juice 1n It, will tend to take away that un-A un-A r . becoming blush. Leave meat and sweets from your 4 bill of fare and eat plenty of vegeta-f' vegeta-f' Hle espec'allv spinach and beets and ; tomatoes. And above all get so inter-: inter-: sted in having plenty of fresh air and exercise and wholesome work that you vrlll forget all about your red cheeks J , and pinky rars and just be healthy, . happy and sensible girl. I r M Xo not attempt home treatment for the removal of moles. Consult a physician or go to a derma- tologlst. H T Park City;Yhat remedy for fre klcs' have you tried? There is nothing noth-ing better than lemon juice and water, . half and half, applied several tim-s daily- O. U. Palt Lake: Use carbolized vaseline vas-eline for itching scalp, and wet the r-xalp with cold "store" tea to arrest falling hair. G X Evanston-.A shampoo of cas-tile'soap cas-tile'soap suds is a remedy for excessive .-.iliness of the hair. i Typewriter Suggestion. c'ea.1 vour typewriter with benzine. It "will remove rust and dirt that other things will fail to take off. and make tlie machine fairly "run away." ' - For the Hair. Tut one tablespoonful each of salt. -vc-Tine hnrax and powdered sulphur !".:." ,',rf ran and fill with soft wa ter let stand one week, shaking the can a 'east once every day during the i week dd a few drops of bergamot or any other odor, after straining the r above. I ji For Sprains. PlacP the sprained purts in a vessel ; ) filled witi. buttermilk. Permit the af-4 af-4 fjf i fee-led parts to remain in the buttoi-I buttoi-I K g m lk for a period of thirty minutes i ) t repeat this three or four times a I B I dav. Within a week from the time I I - A began using buttermilk the swelling I t "j. afl en?- Simple Remedy for Lockjaw. i Dr j o. Hatch, an old physician of s nver' fortv yers practice, re corn - i mends the following treatment for ! lockjaw, having tried it successfully both on himself and on others, it a person is threatened or taken itn lockjaw Trom injuries In the hands, feet, arms or legs, do rot wait for a doctor, but put the part injured Into I the following preparation: Put not ! ; wood ashes into water as warm as can J he borne: if the injured part cannot be put into the water, then wet thick folded cloths in the water and apply them to the part as soon as possible, st the same time bathing the backbone from the neck down with some power-r-jl laxative tt'mulant, say cayenne "jecpe- and water, or mustard and weter (good vinegar is better than water), wa-ter), it should be as hot as the patient pa-tient can bear it. Don't hesitate: go to work and do it, and don't stop until the Jaws relax and open. Xo person need die of lockjaw if these directions are followed. Gems of Thought. Though, he were rich ss Croesus, still, would man be dissatisfied with his condition. Better, live an honest man. than die a selfish and grasping millionaire. m m Such is the course of nature, that, whoever lives long, must outlive those whom he loves. The rarer the beauty of the external scene, the deeper should be the impression im-pression of the unseen God. The gigantic genius of Shakespeare so far surpassed the learning and penetration pen-etration of his time that his productions produc-tions were little read and less admired. Rather lo good than seem to be. So Jive with men as If God saw you. Well Cared for Hands. A well cared for hand always lends-a lends-a distinct touch of refinement to one's appearance, and the well groomed g rl will give it careful attention, keeping keep-ing the nails immaculately clean and nicely manicured as well. It is quite possible with the proper tools to do this oneself without the expense ex-pense of employing a manicure. A good "silk file," some emery boards with which to even off the edges after using the other file, a pair of scissors, a good buffer, with some rel'able polish and an orange stick for pushing back the cuticle, are all that is necessary. If these are used every few days in conjunction with the nailbrush daily, astonishingly attractive results will follow. A tiny bit of pumice stone for removing re-moving ink stains, etc., from the fingers fin-gers should be kept on the washstand. Tf r,nt nmnir f I lion lomnn iiiirr w'll answer th- same purpose. The Value of Hot Baths. Hot baths are of great use to those who suffer from nerve exhaustion. A warm bath art the close of a hard day's mental work is productive of sleep, but it is always wisest first to apply colli water to the head, or, at least, the brow. After severe physical exertion, such as climbing, walking, bicycling or riding, it is wise to take a hot bath before going to bed. so a? to relax the muscles and prevent any sensation of stiffness on the following oay. Health and Beauty. Washing the face too frequently removes re-moves the natural oil and gives tha skin a w ithered look. To make the hair fuzzy" massage the scalp two or three times a week with alcohol and dry by fanning or in the open air. To keep the hair in curl dissolve three ounces of powdered gum arabic in half a pint of rose water, then strain. Aoplv immediately after curl ing. Don't neglect sleep. You can sleep yourself into good looks. A long nap and a hot bath will make any woman more attractive and life years from her shouldeis. In ordinary cases of blackheads good results will follow rubbing into the skin soft soap dissolved in spirits of wine, followed wime hours later by rinsing and the application of hazeline to which a 1 ttle acetic acid has been added. Joan of Arc. The beatification or Joan of Arc at Rome has called forth hostile demonstrations demon-strations in France that are certainly not creditable to citizens of the nation that may be said, perhaps, to owe its existence to the Maid of Orleans and that abandoned her in her need to a pitiful fate. To Joan most historians give credit for having saved France from complete subjugation to English rule in the fifteenth century: for, although al-though the army that forced the English Eng-lish to raise the siege of Orleans was onlv nominally under her command and really led by experienced generals, it was her presence and the enthusiasm she aroused that made it an effective fighting machine restoring the courage of the French soldiers that, with good cause, too, had fallen to thu lowest point as the result of a series of crushing crush-ing defeats. Had Joan failed in her mission let that be regarded in any light that you will what would have probably been the fate of France? It would seem as though no human power could have saved Orleans, where the last stand for her independence was being made. With France conquered politically, would the French language and literature liter-ature have been absorbed by the all-conquering all-conquering Saxon-Xorman nation from over the channel? Would English have become a continental language? And what effect would all this have had upon the tongue of Shakespeare and Milton, then in process of formation from the blending of the French of the Norman conqueror and the Saxon of Alfred the Great and Edward the Confessor? Con-fessor? Considering how the Frenchman French-man clings to his native tongue and how it has won its power as the language lan-guage of diplomacy, polite society and art. may we not ask whether a close union of the two countries would not have made modern English show more of the French or Xorman element than of the Saxon? The crime of Joan's brutal execution must rest upon England and France alike. Upon King Charles lies the shame of abandoning her when the Burgundians held her a prisoner for ransom, and allowing her to be sold to the English. Upon the Duke nf Bedford, Bed-ford, then regent of England, lies the disgrace of sanctioning the trial and execution; upon the English Cardinal Winchester and a group of English and renegade French ecclesiastics, the chief of the latter being Pierre Cauchon, bishop of Beauvais. rests the blame of lending the sanction of the church to the proceedings and refusing her pitiful pleadings to be taken to Rome as was her right. Cauchon presided over the ecclesiastical court and has left a record rec-ord of the trial that has everlasting damned his memory. Joan was burned alive in the market place of Rouen on Trinity Sunday, May 21, 1431. On July 14. 1458, Pope Calixtus III revoked the Judgment and proclaimed her a martyr to her faith and country. Mastication and Digestion. Dinner, the most important meal of the day, is attended with a certain degree de-gree of ceremony In the most modest household. Breakfast may be hurried over In haste that is unseemly even ; when one considers that the day' work is all ahead of the family, and luncheon may dwindle down to a "cold bite" eaten standing. Everybody Every-body must d:ne, and dining is always "business." A dinner party is th most serious of social functions, and even a family dinner follows a prescribed pre-scribed order." There must be a beginning, be-ginning, a middle and an end. Plates must be changed, for even in the backwoods back-woods meat and pudding are not set on the table at the same time. This is as it should be. If we would have "good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both." we must bring to the discussion of the heavier nourishment nourish-ment set before us orderliness, leisure and tempers free from . annoying discomforts. dis-comforts. Magnificence is within the reach of a few; modest elegance is attainable at-tainable by many; cleanliness and good manners are free to the hublest housemother and her brood. But I would lay stress upon a cardinal cardi-nal duty a duty the neglect of which is a proverbial national disgrace. It is a physical impossibility to eat properly and to digest with any prospect pros-pect of healthful assimilation a breakfast of coffee, steak, hot rolls and fried potatoes, in five minutes, or in fifteen. Tet this is what' the commuter, the clerk, the collegian and a host of other men " (includ'ng' " an " bce'ftsio'Tiat capitalist) try to do six days In the week. They eat, as they live, on the jump. When, an especially . audacious jump lands. them In. the grave, intelligent intelli-gent scientists affect' to wonder with the rest of mankind at the untimely taking off. Big mouthfuls and . bolting, are alike part ef the national ' trick advertised in dead earnest, riot : satirized, by the raucous shout of the brakeman at the half-way house: "Five minutes for refreshments!" re-freshments!" Mr. Gladstone did not consider it undignified un-dignified to, give, as one secret of the san'.ty or body and mind prolonged through fourscore years, his habit of chewing twenty times upon every morsel of meat taken into his mouth. The family physician who attended one of our great men lately deceased in his awfully brief final Illness, said frankly that certain sharp attacks that had afflicted the statesman for ' several months before the cruel climax came were caused by the habit of eating eat-ing hurriedly such luncheons as lie could snatch in the intervals of business. busi-ness. If the truth were told as bravely brave-ly In thousands of other "mysterious visitations," business men would be startled and enlightened if not cured ui line pi acuces. William Thomas, an old colored man who did odd jobs around offices, was noted for his use of words of many syllables. In the course of his life he had accumulated a remarkable vocabulary vo-cabulary of polysyllables. He would swell up and roll out these words regardless re-gardless of their sense, of which he really had only a vague idea, their sound appealing to him as an. exhibition exhibi-tion of abality. One of William's jobs was to start a fire early in the morning in the fireplace fire-place in one of the offices, materials for the fire being kept in the building. One cold morning when the clerks arrived ar-rived at the office there was no fire, and they found written on the floor '.n chalk the following: "Consequently no charcoal. Subsequently no fire. William Wil-liam Thomas." "Doin' any good'i" asked the curious individual on the bridge. ! "Any good?" answered the fisherman, fisher-man, in the creek below. "Why, I caught forty bass out o' here yesterday." "Say. do you know what I am? asked' the man on the bridge. The fisherman replied that he did not. "Well. I am the county fish and game warden." The angler, after a moment's thought exclaimed: "Say do you know who I am?" "No." the officer replied. "Well., I am the biggest liar 'n eastern east-ern Indiana." said the crafty angler, with a grin. , May. Mav is liere. the world rejoices: Earth puts on her smiles to greet her: Grove and field lift up their voices:. Leaf and flow'r come forth to meet her! Happy May. blithesome May: Winter's reign has passed away! Birds through-ev'ry thicket cairns'." Wake the woods to sounds or: glad.-ness; glad.-ness; Hark! the long drawn notes are fall- ing,--. Sad. but pleasant in their sadness. ' Happy May. blithesome May! Winter's j ielgii has passed away! Earth to heav'n lift up her voices: h,h flfiri and wood and river: With their heart our heart rejolees: For His gifts5 we praise the Giver. Happy May, blithesome May! Winter's reign has passed away! ;'.;... :. . ,-Pcii'sh ,Sqng., Dandelion Salad, French Style. , (Chicago Record-Herald.) Rub salad bowl with a bit of garlio. add a leeek cut in tlnr ri"5 and deposited, de-posited, with salt and pepper in th? bottom of " the bowl and covered -vWt h a tablespoon tit French wine vinegar in which has been dissolved a dash of English mustards. Add drop by drop two tablespoons French oil, then 0 hard bo'led eg? cut in rings, and last of all the dandelion leaves. Toss all together with fork and spoon. This salad should be mixed at the table anil served at once. Xo salad has a better medicinal value than this, as it is a splendid spring tonic for the blood. Great Painting Stolen. A famous madonna and child, one of the most noted masterpieces of the world, has ' just been stolon from a church in Venice and is supposed to have been shipped to this country. During Dur-ing Lent, according to the custom in the Catholic churches, every picture and statue was covered by a veil. This furnished the unknown thieves with an opportunity to purloin without discovers- for some days from the chapel valier of the historic church of the Madonna Ma-donna del Orto at Venice the picture in question. It is painted on wood. The oaintlng. which is of great beauty, shows the Virgin Mary with the infant Jesus. It was executed by the noted fifteenth century artist. Giambellino. and is among the most highly treasured paintings of Venice. San Antonio Daily Express. Pretty Hands. For pretty hands injured by the appearance ap-pearance of premature wrinkles use the milk cure and avoid scented soap. Sensitive sknis become withered by frequent contact with perfumed soap and water. The very best castile soap is preferable to any other when the skin on a pair of fair and prtty hands begins td look dry and filled with tiny criss-crossed lines. Th" hand bath of fresh unskimmed piUk;is better still . A prima, donna in the troupe that sinirs in the Metropolitan opera house. New York, during the winter is not yet in the thirties. Her frauds are slim and. white, but they became suddenly so ajed and withered as those of a woman of sixty. Mine. Sembrich saw them and showed her own pretty, plump, snow-white members mem-bers in comparison. "Use m.lk. my child," was the consolation. con-solation. "Every morning a quart of the best mtlk is sent to 'my rooms in the hotel, and four times a day I soak my hands just a moment or two in the sweet white fluid. I dry them gently with a very old piece of soft pure linen, and they shine and gutter like new ivory. Milk is a tonic to dry skins such as yours and m ne. It also lightens up the outer cuticle ana lend to It downy softness. "In summer I use a buttermilk bath for my hands once a day .and when I require a bath for them In soap and water I use only the purest castik soap and water in which a duublt handful of oatmeal has lain soaking for a quarter of ap hour." Amusing the Baby. A simple device for. kecp'pg the baby amused, and happy. Is to fasten at intervals in-tervals upon a broad bright ribbon .the toys of which he is most fond, sus-1 pending the ribbon above the bed upon I which he lies, within reach of his lit- i tie. hands. s by securing pnc. end to the head of the bed and the other lo the foot. .. He will ten entertain h mself by the hour pushing the toys back and forth, and watching them swing above him. Harper's Bazar. . Wild Flowers for the Garden., Every garden should contain a few wild (lowers. The busy woman will find that they grow without care if proper soil is provided and will bloom where there is too much shade for other flowers. March brings forth the lovely hep-atlca, hep-atlca, and wild ph lox or Sweet Wil-lian Wil-lian soon follows. Next' comes the .wild geranium, or crane's bill, but as its petals fall rapidly it is not as ef- i fective as Sweet William, which will i be a mass of delicate bloom for five weeks or more. The trlllum or wake robin Is another desirable flower, and I wild' violets thrive where the cultivated culti-vated kind will not grow. The Indian turnip or Jack In the pulpit is an interesting plant and a curiosity to many who never ramble In the woods to see it In its native abode. All of these, bear transplanting and are satisfactory sat-isfactory as garden plants, but choose Sweet William if you wish the mop' desirable for color, fragrance and duration du-ration of bloom. Indianapolis News. SPRING VEGETABLES. Rhubarb Sauce. Cut rhubarb in small peces. Place alternate layers of rhubarb and granulated gran-ulated sugar into a bowl until you have used all the rhubarb, leaving a good layer of sugar on top. 'i hen place in a steamer and steam rroiu thirty to loity minutes. It is delicious. A Rhubarb Hint. Do not peel rhubarb. Cut in the usual sized pieces. Cover with boiling water, in which one scant teaspoonful of bak.ng soda, to the quart, has been dissolved. Allow it to remain until cool, when a greenish liquid will have formed. Pour this off, wash, and cook the same as yc.i have always done, but with less than half the usual uuiouni of sugar. Potato Griddle Cakes. Pare, wash and grate six large raw potatoes and an. onion; add salt and pepper to teste: now add three eggs, ucaicn muiuui separating nunc h . miu yolks, fry on well greased griddle, spreading the mixture flat w.th a spoon. Serve piping hot, buttering a. you eat. Stuffed Cabbage. Take one pound of beef to one pound of pork and chop fine, add one egg, two tablespoon fuls of flour, pepper and salt, and a little chopped onion, stir in a cupful of milk,, making the. whole heavy thick) as . paste. ... Now. take., a cabbage head., hollow jt out, 'and fill with the meat, close the hole up with Ihe bottom of the cabbage head, tie a string around it (head), and bo 1 in salted water. - If any meat, remains Over make or form into balls and cook 'alongside of. head.- . .1 ' " . , Creamed Onions. ' Steam medium sized . onions ' until lender: make a cream sauce, one tablespoon- butter, one- tablespoon -flour, hearly- one pint milk; - salt -when - this thickens, add your onions; just before serving add a stuffed olive, pressed in on top-of each onion.,., , |