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Show ) i Woman's World Conducted by Helen Vafeau. . HELENE VALEAU'S ANSWERS. V Miea Valcau -will refly to all ques- t tions acked by the feminine readers of t thfl Intermo'-ntali: Catholic. The well ! known character and authority of her : replies need no Introduction to s those ! f already familiar ulth her ability. Miss Valeau will take a kindly and personal y Interest In those who write to her. and will spare no pains In seeing; that their f Inquiries are answered fully and care fully. Write only on one side of the paper. Address letters to Miss Helena Valeau, Intennountain Catholic. 1)18 r Miss Valcau: "Will you ploase trll me in your column col-umn what to do for a very yeilow neck and something for my face, which has i little spots of yellow on oach ldc? A i little hair Is bpgrinninR to show on my J face and 1,'p and my forehead la full of ? lines. A COUNTRY GIRL,, f will knd the following a splen-I splen-I rlid recipe for face and neck bleach: I Tur oxide end sine, 1 ounce; glyrerine. ; 1 drm; rosewater, 4 ounces; essence fif lose. 15 drops. I Sift the zinc, dissolve it in Just j enough of the roeewater to cover It. ! then add the glycerine: next, the re- mainder of the rosewater. Shake well, and apply with a soft sponge or an antiseptic, gauze. 1 have dark circles around my eyes .ind would like to know how to get rid of them, for they are annoying;. Massage is good for the black circles under the eyes, the despair of brunettes, bru-nettes, which are due oftentimes to! lack nf proper circulation of the blood, I though when it occurs naturally, as in people with dark complexions, it Is caused by a certain thinness of the skin. You may easily massage tin skin around your eye yourself. With the thumb and forefinger of each Ivyd take up tiny pinches of the skin and with considerable pressure, bit by bit, go over the whole tissue underneath the eyes. Massage of the eyeballs will r prove beneficial. This should be grntly ' done by means of the forefinger or the middle finger or each hand applied to the correspond ;r.g eyeball over the closed lid. Begin at the middle and gently, with a circular motion, pass the fingers outward until the whole eye has received the gentle rubbing, little pressure should be exerted on the eye. as it tends to flatten it. ! I T come to you for help for what 1 seems to me to be a most distressing m trouble. My eyebrows are uneven and f meet over my nose. My eyes are pretty, pret-ty, but those horrible eyebrows give me a fierce expression which is anything any-thing but pretty. Try pulling out all the offending hairs those out of line and over the nose. Then apply a weak ammonia to the roots. This treatment may have to he repeated several times, but the ammonia am-monia in time will kill the roots of the hairs. Brush your eyebrows several times a day with an eyebrow brush. Th's will shape them nicely and make Ihcm smooth and clossv. " Mary. Salt L.ake: Dry shampoos are apt to clog the pores of the scalp and lave the scalp and hair unduly dry. A good shampoo lotion is made by stirring stir-ring a teaspoonful of cologne, a table-spoonful table-spoonful of tincture of green soap, and a thoroughly beaten egg into a pint of water. Use rain water if possible; if not., "soften" the water by a pinch of borax. Do not "soften" the rinse waters. The reason home shampoos are so seldom sel-dom effective is because the soap is not sufficiently- rinsed out of the hair, ,or more, until you are sure every particle of soar) is out of the hair. HER FORTUNE SUBSTANTIAL. Mmc. Modjcska's Charity Was Far-Reaching. Far-Reaching. Mme. Modjeska. in happy contradistinction contradis-tinction to the fate of many great artlts. did not die poor. Her property. Is was stated vester-day, vester-day, will total about J120.cm0 not an extraordinary sum In these days of rgal fortunes, but a comfortable estate es-tate for an artist. There Mas an impression abroad , that Mme. Modjeska and her dtstln-' dtstln-' giu;hed Journalist-husband, Count Bo-zenla. Bo-zenla. were considerably reduced in material means, through business reverses re-verses and by other ways. Their income, in-come, however, was substantial, and i was so fixd, by good securities, as to continue indefinitely. Th personal proptrty of the actreses, counting her costumes, her Jewels, her library nnd her sumptuous household house-hold furnishings, many articles of which were presented to her and many of which she gathered in travels all over the world. Is worth something more than $20,000. Of these, Jewels form the largest part. The land holdings of the family hero i were comparatively small considering r the beautiful property, the "Forest of Arden." which she once owned. This famous homeEtead was sold about two years b go to a country dub of Long Beach men. who paid for it 533,000. As property goes, this was a fair valuation, valua-tion, though Mme. Modjeska must have spent considerably more than $103,000 In improvements upon it. These, however, were in artistic trifles that did Pot add to its general value, and the cost of house construct'on in itself was about five times greater in this comparatively inaccessible place than It would have been elsewhere. The holdings of Mine. Modjeska at the time of her doath consisted of the house and lot at Bay island, probably worth 13.000, and an acre or so at Tustin. three miles east of Santa Ana, worth perhaps $1,500 or $2,000. There were also a number of first-class first-class Bccurities. The largest single property, according accord-ing to reliable Information, consists of a Polish bond, worth about ?40,00Q, backed as effectually as though by the government, end interest bearing for a very extended period. I There were also some standard I American stocks, some railway bonds, I f rst mortgages and the like. TA11 of ' these properties were in good shape, and are secure. Yet this little fortune, comfortable as ! it is. was only a small portion of what Modjeska earned during her actual career upon the American stage. This may be est'mated at not less than JSOO.OOO. Its owner's princely generosity accounted ac-counted for the disposal of the larger part of It. as no case of suffering or vent among her relatives, or even mere 3iualntances. ever went unrelieved, unre-lieved, as far as she could prevent it. And her gifts in Poland arc actually historic. ; , She is the founder of the Industrial I School Tor Girls in "Cracow, Poland. ' She gave $100,000 outright for th s v oik. The Institution leaches poor iJils the art of needlework, house- work, and, in short, all the needful learning necessary to make them self-supporting self-supporting in an intelligent way. At another time she made a trip to Poland with several scores of thousands thou-sands In actual cash. This was disbursed dis-bursed to charitable causes within a few months. Pome time ago her biography was sold in the east, and she had received re-ceived iu advance payment and earlv royalties about $7,000. The actress left a win, but this, in ail probability, will not be filed. Her attorney, in answer to questions ques-tions concerning It. said: "I cannot fit th s time, say anything about the will, or about any of Modjcska's property, prop-erty, save to state that the will is a simple document, devoid of nnv sensational sensa-tional clauses, or even any of" marked public Interest. Briefly, it is a purely family affair." From other sources, however, it was learned tlmt the reason of the probable prob-able non-filing of the will lies in the fact that all of her property Is already disposed of. save a single acreage piece In Orange county. The tranquility of the family affairs af-fairs of Count Bozcnta and his famous wife were notable, hence at her death, the property simply passes to his en-lire en-lire control, and will so remain until his dith. when. In all probability, the simple private testament referred to will dispose of the remainder among relatives and others parties individual or corporate whom the great actress deemed worthy of benefactions. The body of Mme. Modjeska is in strictly private cHre while it is at the rooms of Cunningham & O'Connor, but at 2 o'clock this afternoon it will be transferred, under the escort o a guard of honor, to the slub house of the Knights of Columbus, at Twenty-second Twenty-second and Figueroa streets. There it will lie in state until S o'clock Monday morning, when the funeral services will begin. Public services commence at 3:G0 o'clock at St. Vibianah's cathedral, Monsignor Harnett celebrating high mass, and Bishop Conaty delivering the sermon. There will be elaborate elabo-rate music tinder the direction of Ilar-ley Ilar-ley Hamilton. Among the pallbparers already chosen chos-en are Dr. .1. H. Bullard. .Joseph Scott. James P. Rise. Samuel Tustin, Joseph Yoth and Richard Dillon. After the funeral services, the body of Mme. Modjeska will rest in the Calvary vault until her entire family here find it possible to make arrangements arrange-ments for a trip to Europe. This will probably be about May 1. Tributes, telegraphic and otherwise, were received from local managers and actors, and from managers and actors all over the world, during the entire day yesterday. Scientific Feeding to Reduce Infant Mortality. An experiment In scientific feeding of babies in tenement districts, where dark homes, foul air and dirt are handicaps, handi-caps, has been made by Dr. Irn S. Wile, senior physician In the New York Milk committee of the Association for Improving" Im-proving" the Conditions of the Poor." t is said that remarkable results have been shown in the tests. Bodily weakness, weak-ness, ill health and death have been overcome in spite of the handicaps. The report of Dr. Wile's investigations investiga-tions just submitted to W. C. Phillips, secretary of the milk committee states ! that fifteen weeks ago thirty-two tenement tene-ment . babies of an average age of fifteen weeks, who had come into Dr. Wile's milk depot for treatment. showed an average weight of 13 pounds 6.4 i ounces, each of the babies being 2 j pounds 1.6 ounces under the standard weight for infants of that age. On the first day of this months the thirty-two thirty-two babies had an average weight of 18' pounds 1.9 ounces, 9.9 ounces above the standard weight. "The statistics compiled by Dr. Wile furnish a most valuable contribution to the work that Is being carried on to reduce re-duce the terrible infant mortality In all the large cities of the United States." Eald Mr. Phillips. . "These thirty-two babies have lived under the same hard conditions during the past fifteen weeks as before they were brought to Dr. Wile. At the depots the mothers haflp been taught how to feed their babies properly, instructed in hygiene and afforded af-forded the opportunity of securing pure milk modified to the needs of the Individual In-dividual baby. "There is no more inexpensive nor more efficient method of saving the lives of the thousands of children who will be killed by heat during the coming com-ing summer in all the great cities by the establishment of an adequate system sys-tem of milk depots is given in Dr. Wile's report." To Make the Arms Plump. The best way to overcome scrawny arms is to practice tensing exercises many time daily. Stretch the arms at right angles to the body, holding the muscles very taut: clench the hand and draw up to the shoulder, using as much force as If lifting a heavy weight. Repeat Re-peat until the arm begins to get stiff. Massaging the arms with hot olive oil for fifteen minutes night and morning morn-ing will also help to make them plump. WORLD IN WHICH WE'RE LIVIN This here world in which we're llvin' We're inclined to th nk is cold-Full cold-Full of selfishness and meaness. If the plain facts must be told But one thing we all have noticed, If we use use a bit of mind Seein one small act o' kindness Makes the whole world seem more kind. And the big world does grow better Fer each little kindly act. Though mean folks and them that's grouchy May not recognize the fact: And if vou're a doubter, pardncr, Thinkin bitter is life's cup. Just go do' some act o' kindness-Go kindness-Go and make your world cheer up: |