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Show 1 Woman' eWorld Conducted by Helena Valeau. HELEXE VALEAU'S ANS"7ESS. . Miss Valeau -will reply to aH.-iuei: tions asked by the feminine readers ofi The Intermountain Catholic. The well known character and authority of her; replies need no Introduction ta those n ready familiar -with her ability. MissJ Valeau will take a kindly and personal Interest in those who write to her. and iivtll spare no pains in seeing that their inquiries are answered fully and carefully. care-fully. Write only on one side of the paper. Address letters to Miss Helene Valeau. Intermountain Catholic. Pear Miss VaWu: Please tell me n-hat will rf-movr grease from the Dtaves of a book. Mrs. (1. M.. Pueblo. Grease may be removed from ihe leaves of a book by sponging the part with ether or benzine, and then placing :t between two .sheets of Wotting paper, Mid iui'kly nd lightly passing a hot at iron over it. De;u Miss Valeau: What will remove Mains from piano keys? Ci. H. S., Og-den. Og-den. Alcohol is excellent to clean the piano keys, but care must be taken that no Orop of it touches the -woodwork. Tf the alcohol should spill on the wood -.vipe olT immediately with a drv cloth :md rub with a bit of clean chamois. Deir Miss Valeau: Ploase tell me liow to wash hair ribbons. School Girl, Salt Lake. An excelb-nt way to clean ribbon is ihe following: Cover the ribbon with warm water, then spread it on a board or table and scrub it thoroughly with a brush that hap been rubbed in soap. I After a good lather has been formed and tl-.e ribbon looks clean, rinse it in Hear warm water. lay it between folds I f thin cheeso cloth and press until dry. I Dear Miss Vab-au: What will cure Mi earache? M. J.. Bingham. In case of cara-'he do not put anything any-thing into the ear except by direction i f a physician. The best way to relieve earache is to beat an iron or brick, wrap it in two or three thicknesses of Manuel, pour warm water on the top, when steam will at once arise. If the ar is placed dose to the flannel the Menin will permeate every part of it. Dear Miss Valeau: Is massage good for the face? Please suggest a good vroam. I. K. S.. Eureka. Massage is very good for the face, if 1t is done correctly, but you can do a gTcat deal of harm by unskillful massage mas-sage movements. Apply the cream for which you will find formula below. Put it into the. face thoroughly, and mas-rage mas-rage gently in the contrary direction a from that in which the lines are formed. Hot baths are good for the face: cleanliness clean-liness is the foundation of beauty. Oil of sweet almonds, four ounces: white wax, six drams;' spermaceti, -six drams;, borax, two iira-iiis: glycerine one arid a half ounces; "orange flower water, two ounces: oil of neroli, 15 drops; oil of bigarade (orange skin), 15 drops; oil i of petit grain, 15 drops. Melt the three I first ingredients, add the glycerine to, - ihe oranee' fkwer uater-'B.iKi dissolve ihe borax in the mixture; then pour it 1 Mowly into the' blended fats, stirring continuously. I I The Lifters and the Leaners. i There are, two rlasse? thatmak. UE,. ! 1 lie peoplir" of-ihe world.' -The reader I well as the writer finds his place ; iii one of these. There is the class ihat lifts and the class that leans. 5 Those who lift are those who do the work, who "lend a "hand'' to help oth- . , tp to lift burdens" too 'large for one i individual. The world's wo-k. the hurch's work, the family's work, the work of society, is done iiy the lifters. I The leaning class aie they who de- I pond on others. These do the grunt- iiig and the prowling and the fault- I finding and the complaining, while the I lifting class take help and lift and lift I the load out of the mire, or put thei .boulder to the wheel and make things ! 1 Every chinch has lifters, but near jj by stand the leaners. These are worse than ciphers, for they dd to the dead ""eight that has to be lifted. The lii't-' lii't-' is are the pew-renters, the confrib- i t;;ors and the workers who give cheer- I fully of their possessions, of their time j und their talent that smve.ss may I mark the result of all undertakings. I The leaners are always poor. ever, in ; ourage and in one wragement. They Ieome from a generation of crawlers or ibey have evoluted 6 that class. They itt the tares among the wheat, and they might related to the dogs in the 5iia;,ger. Their room is better than their ompany, but they hang on so as to 3;ave an opportunity to growl and grumble. i How many families have leaners? I The grown-up young man who loafs I .nd drinks and sponges and permits I. m p lather 1o lift alone the increasing family burden. If they, wil?"! w.jik neither let them eat. is the wise injunction injunc-tion of divine wisdom. Wise parents und parents who have reasonable love I for tbetr .children do not t'olerate -un- is in the family after they have at-! lained the working age. ! T)ie mother who has spent herself for yearn in doing household work i-nd in lifting the family burden may hi'jve the misfortune of having a irrown-up dautrhter who leans on her mother's sinncth and on her mother's f( olish fondness. The daughter who will not lend a helping hand, who is al-wjys al-wjys pre paring foT company, or who is m eking to p'-rfect herself by practice io emeriaiii others, is a leaner wlw fught to be roued io action. Such p-'oung women are "poor factors in :hej leaking1 of hapny. houniR. The mother's .ho tolerate such conduct on the part 'f grown-up daughtvrs have not good j N nse r sound love for those "young i 1- c'ifK ' i Then in societies h"v few are the j lifters' Miaiy of the leaners a re J v.aitlng for benefits, offices a". .Jmil-1 m ients with. Hit giving uid pro ouo. Were it not for the lifters, how many leaners would dwindle and die' The leaners never j:ive vim and vigor to ;n organization. May the lifters multiply; multi-ply; Catholic I'nivetsc. Lotion for the Hands. A good lotion for the hands is the following: To four parts of glycerine add one part of tartaric acid dissolved in the smallest Toss!ble quantity of hot water. Mix well, apply a few drops 10 the hands and rub in thoroughly. If bands are badly chapped use more of the lotion, rubbing in thoroughly. Wash i In clean lukewarm water, dry well and apply a little more. " Applied immedi-l immedi-l Mely after peeling fruit or vegetables 1 It will remove stains at once. When 1 hands are badly stained treat as if bad- 1 ly chapped. ;This lotion will remove ink I stains from goods if spots are immedi- 1 ately put to soak in a little of the I Jiouid and afterward washed in clear i Kikewarm water. The process must be I . .. . When Father Has the Grip. ". " (Detroit Free Tress. Poor mother wears a worried look, . And sister wears a frown; And If I venture ur the stairs They send me straightway down. I'm going .to the drug store now, Upon a hurried trip, ." To get some other kind of dope. For father has the grip. 1 heard him groaning in the night. He said his head would split: And then' he thought his back would break , In just a little bit. He told us that his legs were sore. And Konn it was his hip: It seems that everything is siek ! When father has the grip. The doctor came today and left tvune capsules, and he said To take one each three hours until The pain has really lied. .Says pa. "That means twelve hours be-i fore I give this pain the slip.; ! I'll bet he'd finder a faster dope If he had got the grip." And then he told ma that he thought That he was going to die; An' may says no. that isn't so. An' gave the reason why. Then pa got mad and told her that He didn't want her lip; Oli. there's no comfort in our flat AVhcn father has the grip. True Sympathy. We must all realize that this life is full of sorrow, and if you personally have had the good luck to escape your share of it you are very fortunate. But do not on that account allow yourself to grow cold-hearted and unsympathetic unsympathet-ic to others. Those poor people! Their lot is often so hard, so lonely, so full of misery. We are here to "heal the wounds and bind the broken heart," and the only way we can do this is by being kind, loving and sympathetic. . A few words of love will do more to help a sufferer than money sometimes, and heart-sickness is much harder to help than hunger and poverty. Show interest in others;' try to help them; go out of your way to lighten the burden of the heavily laden. Do not hesitate to whisper your kindly kind-ly thoughts in their ears. Don't pass by on the ' "other side." If you are strong, then be merciful. Remember th-u we all look at life from different standpoints, and what might appear like a grain of mustard seed in your path for you. is an almost insurmountable obstacle to your weak- I er sister. The more sho shrinks the more necessity neces-sity for you to step in and help her on her way with genuine sympathy and loving sisterly words and acts. Telephone Girls In France. An evil which it is hoped annoys the government as. much s -the public is the telephone service. Chicagoans have suffered from defective telephone service, serv-ice, but a revolution would have broken out had their grievances resembled even faintly those of Parisians, who are driven to desperation. The most irritating feature, is ihat as telephone employes are ."government! servants, they treat subscribers with 1 open contempt. For example, the Mar-! quis d'Albufera rang thirty-five minutes min-utes the other evening without receiv- j ing any reply. - Finally a telephone em j ploye decided to attend to business. The marquis called attention to the fact that he had been ringing a long time. The Marquis d'Albufera at once demanded de-manded to be put into communication with the superintendent. He was dum-founded dum-founded when the. man answered "He's not here. Besides, this affair doesn't concern any one except me. If you want to lodge a complaint against me. go ahead." Mile. Sylviac was prosecuted by the state about three years ago because in a fit of exasperation she compared a telephone girl to some animal or other. Mile. Sylviac was acquitted, but the telephone administration had the nerve to fine her by cutting off telephonic communication with her house for seventeen sev-enteen days. M. Simyan, under-secretary of state for this department, promises to effect great improvement in two years. Similar Sim-ilar promises have been made by his predecessors so of ton that one is reminded re-minded of the old sign in a barber's shop. "We shave gratis tomorrow." Where the telephone service is concerned con-cerned improvements are always to be made tomorrow next year. The fact is no improvement is possible possi-ble as long as the state continues to manage as a branch of governmental administration what is in reality an; industrial enterprise. Chicago Tribune, j Beauty's "Do's." See that you never sleep in the underclothes un-derclothes you have worn all day, for they have absorbed much of the perspiration per-spiration and effete matter thrown on by your body, and need to be turned, shaken and aired all night. To sleep in them would be but to give your skin a chance to reabsorb these waste stuffs and that you know is bad even without my telling you. Let never a morning pass that you do not draw a dozen deep breaths, expanding ex-panding and lifting the chest with every one. before you (leave your bed and take a few brisk arm exercises, trunk bendings and some tiptoe work on lising only a. minute, perhaps, but j you do not know how much it may mean to you to form the habit. I At night give at least five or ten minutes to this work and emphasize the chest work and trunk bendings at the waist line, and weak parts of your anatomy an-atomy just now and possibly made so by the fashion of wearing two-piece garments, skirts and waists, as well as ; by the corset, which more or less re-J re-J stricts activity just at the waist line. I Keep the sk'n clean. A daily sponge and hard, brisk rub will not only prevent pre-vent your taking cold so easily, but be fine exercise for your arms, stimulate the skin to better work, strengthene your heart and increase your lung capacity. ca-pacity. ' Be sure to go out some time during the day. Fill your lungs and exercise your body in "the open air and sunshine for at least ten minutes daily. Never let rain keep you in, for as long as you are able to be up and working about the house you are able to run out for a bit into the open. : Just Breathe. Don't take a stimul.'.nt: just breathe. This is the advice of a donor who dees not believe in the old medical policy of mystery, but who undertakes rhilosophically to explain, to any patient pa-tient why s-uch and such a remedy Fhould' be beneficial. "When we are 'let down,' " continued this physician, "don't take a cocktail: ! just breathe. Put your fnig'-r on your' hUlse and get its rhWthm. During eight beats draw in the breath, breathing deep and low and forcing the dia-I'hrugm dia-I'hrugm down first, then tilling the. upper up-per lungs. Then exhale this breath during four beats of the pulse. "Now, if you are working with a pieeo of machinery, what do you do to make ft run. more smrothly? You don't put a lot more oil on it and gum and clog! it hll up. You clean it fiict. You ani best clean the blood by breathing. The! blood passaes through the lungs, and H j m-eeds and expects to find plenty of! fresh air with oxygen in it. If it can't find perfectly fresh air It needs more eir which is .not . perfectly fresh. It needs to be Jjaned by onntucjt with the air. Onceirfu while hold the lungs full of breath as long hs you can wiihoutj expulsion. In doing this you are simply cleaning the machine. You are eleariu? the blood. At the same time you are giving that little fillip to the action of the heart and the nervous system which you thought you were giving when you took the eocktail. In the latter lat-ter case you didn't clean th machine. You simply ran it a little faster and gummed it up a little -more. You can got the same results, the same feeiing of exhilation and of accomplishment? without taking the cocktail, and at the same time the machine will steadily improve im-prove in its running quality. Breathe the best air you can get and plenty of if. It is as necessary as food. The heart and lungs act invohitarily. In hurried business life they become too involutary. In that case don't take a cccktail: just breathe." How to Cure a Cold. It is the easiest tiling in the world io catch a cold in these days of unseasonable unseason-able weather. One does imprudent things, and next thing find one's self in possession of. or rather, possessed by, a horrible attack cf grin. As a rule, the simplest remedies for a cold are the surest. There is nothing for carrying off the congestion like a hot bath, a hot drink and a good sweat. Do this at night. Jf necessary to g-i out next morning, rub the body vigorously with alcohol and a Turkish towel before venturing f'.rth. It is of the utmost importance to avoid getting chilled after the hot bath. If it is a tight cold in the head, rub the bridge of the nose thoroughly with aseline at night. This simple remedy sometimes works like a charm. Another efficacious method is to snuft' up warm salt water. But one must not go out right after this or the cold wid be aggravated. Rub a little camphorated cream on the chapped lips or nose. If there are fever sores, moisten a little powdered borax and apply. For aching limbs a good rubbing with alcohol or spirits of camphor is excellent. It is of the utmost importance during a cold to keep the system from becoming becom-ing clogged. The old. senseless maxim, "Feed a cold and starve a fever," is responsible for many bad complications and prolonged colds. The proper method is to eat very lightly. If you wil use plenty of stewed fruit in your diet, eat fresh fish, drink hot water on rising and before meals and take nine or ten glasses of water during dur-ing the day you will be taking the best possible measures to get rid of a cold. Philadelphia Press. Adipose Tissue. The Houston Post says that Secretary Secreta-ry Taft was once a newspaper reporter. A tendency to take on flesh caused him to fall from his high estate." Charleston Charles-ton News and Courier. |