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Show ( Woman's World 1 (Don't Look For the Flaws. ; Don't look for Haws as you go throucli I : And even when you find lhem i J i is wise and kind to be somewhat j Wind, i And look for virtue behind them, f j Tor the cloudiest x&sbt has a hint of IS I light I . Somewhere in Its shadow hiding; ? 3t is better far to hunt for a Btar Thau the spots on the sun abiding f The urrent of life runs even- ivay To the bosom of Cod's great" ocean; ; I:o:i"t set your force agrainst the river's course And think to alter. its motion. Don't vast" a curse on the universe- 1 member it lived before you; ' Don't butt at the Ftomj with your uuny I form, Dut bend, let it fly o'er you. "i The world will never adjust itself To suit your whim to the letter; ?..:ne things must go wrong your whole ; life long-, : ud the sooner you know it the better. ; Jt is folly to fight with the Infinite i Ana go under at last in the wrestle. The wiser man shapes into God's plan, As the water shapes into the vessel! Ella Wheeler Wilcox in Progressive i ASl- PROPER BREATHING. . ; i Marian Martlneau in Chicago Tri bune.) What is deep breathing? Can anyone learn it? Ts it difficult? j ?i llov: lonS will it take me to" acquire I Must I breathe deeply all the' time? Does deep breathing make .you beautiful? beau-tiful? ... . These are just a few of the ques- tions which are asked about, the won-! won-! drful form of physical culture known as deep breathing. And the unswer ! to them all in a general way is that ; frP breathing can be learned bv , everybody. It is difficult at first, but j Peonies second nature after awhile. And it should be practiced constantly. I 11 certainly plays an important part : j" beauty's programme. I It is claimed that people wh f Vuvathe naturally always breathe deep- 2y. The Indian squaw who has never i known a band around her waist i breathes deeply. So does the little baby whose lungs have never been ramped. So does every human being -; until the time comes when the -waist j , is compressed and the body "dwarfed. As people grow info maturity they pet out of the habit of breathine deep ly and they refuse to take in deep i breaths. The body Ftoops a little, 1 the shoulders grow round. And the ' result is that the person breathes in f little Khort gasps instead of in long, ' deer) breathy. ... . The habit of breathing in gasps soon becomes deeply seated. You breathe w ith only a portion of the lungs and the remainder is never used. You can i tell at a glance when a woman is breathing In this manner. And you may be sure she is not "at her best fither mentally or physically. Her spirits are low and her health is poor. The thin girl who breathes in little lit-tle gasps is In danger of consumption. She is bent, her shoulders are stooped, and she has a ioor walk. Often she puffers from indigestion. The stout woman who breathes badly bad-ly is worse off than the thin woman, tt Fhe puts on fat rapidly, and ehe jx ' v has a curious gnawing at the pit of ?' I her Momach which may be hunger and vhirh may be indigestion. Often there ; i a great desire for water on the part I 'f tht fat woman, for she has a. stifled 3c"liiicr, as though her lungs would not ; supply her with air enough, j Le-; breathing for either of these vtitnt-n is important, for it gives her f a "ew lease of life. As soon as she learns to breathe with her whole lungs f ; her strength increases and sh be- I J 1 i-xines a different sort of person, -j Deep breathing will 1 educe the 'J weight if you are fat and it will' add j ? J!esh if you are thin. It is the great- ! ; t-nt known equalizer. It puts you in I prime condition and you will soon be : ; developed normally. In a short time ? yo-a will be of correct weight, for your, f hMst. and your complexion will be im- j 'l oved. I The woman who gets up in the morn- itig and breathes deeply will have an PP'--tite for her breakfaFt. But she i must breathe good air. Deep breath- j iiig in bad air is worse than no i breathing at all. You might as well $ breathe in little gasp as to take in loiip breaths of poor air. i Jlefore you learn deep breathing be i sine lhat j'our atmoBphere is good. The air should be free ajd pure all Hie time. There should be no useless j bri; -a -brae around. There should be ito velvet or moth-producing hangings, j There should be nothing in the room, j '-specially the sleeping room, that can- iiot be shaken out every day or at I ) ast onr-e a. week. " In the sleeping room? of the wealthy wise there is an almoft puritanical sim- f 1'Iicity. The beds are made of brass, the hangings are washable or are made j of silk, which does not collect dust or germs. The floor is covered with thin 2 upa of fine texture than can be hung out to air daily. There are few pic- j I lures on the walls and no knicknacks. I Th- room is kept as clean and neat as daily airing, sweeping and dus-ting can ; make it. j The result of sleeping in a room free I "f small articles soon becomes appar- i erjt in the health and complexion of the ! occupants. The lungs breathe good air j free from microbes and there is plenty i of breathing space. The rooms are not S cluttered up. I Frequently' it 'hap'peiis" tliat th room , f f a young girl, just the girl who '! should have plenty of air, iK-crowded I m it h trifles. Baskets and yhat not I! , bang from the walls, there are photos galore, there atf? hangings laden Avith ; germs, and on chairs and every avail- ! abb; spot there are tied bows of jibbon.j The result is that the air is -always- fuU 1 of dust and the girl s-leeps in a poor at- 1 I mosjihere and wakens with a tired feel- mg in. her head and pimples, on her f face. " ' ; Now. to get-the-best results, sleeping or waking, have good, clear, pure air Mid learn to breathe deeply. ; To breathe deeply study .the, art of j filling your luikgs full with fresh air. I Stand erect. Place your hands upon I your hip?, throw back your shoulders 2 una meat ne. ine process is . aneu u u- dominal breathing and is taught in all i the gymnasiums. i In walking be sure to practice deep S breathing. Draw in a long, deep breath. Exhale s-lowly while you walk. 4 You can walk four or five steps while I you are exhaling, and four or five steps 3 more, while you are drawing in your : breath. Practice this and it will be- come second nature to you. I Practice deep breathing every day. ! I Loosen your clothing, stand erect, I I throw back your shoulders and inhale a J full deep breath. Try to take ten deep : breaths, or long: breaths as they , are I I called. I Here are the three position for practicing prac-ticing deep breathing. Stand erect with both heels together. Place one hand upon your chest and the other hand upon the middle of your back. Take a I ong, deep breath, j The second position is this: Stand II "icc-t. with both hands upon your hips, 1,4 'hrow back your shoulders and take I ill rn long, deep breaths. Begin at the jf f-ginnlng and try deep breathing over 1 1 -gum, going through with the three I 'Cpit iono, one after the other, breathing ; I Wply all the while. ' j Tor & tired out feejing breatjie deep- !h "I11 J0U wn fe'1 refreshed. It' fills the lungs with pure air and often the lungs need it badly. They are cramped and are not allowed the freedom which is necessary for health and beautv. Hhen deep breathing is painful, a otten happens, then there is some trouble. trou-ble. It may be organic or it mav be merely a, muscular difficulty. In either -ase it should be treated. A long deep breath will cause coughing if the 'lungs are hot strong. Or it will give one a sharp pain in the side. Again, a long, deep breath brings on a "crick" in the back or there are pains in the ribs showing muscular rheumatism. i' or organic diseases , the services of specialists are required,' and there ip no need of trying to effect a cure by phv- 1 sjcal culture alone. There have been cases where lun-j troubles have b-en cured by Jiving in the open air and bv exercise. But it is dan-erous for the amateur to decide upon this matter But for muscular difficulties and for nervous twitchings, and for cricks and stitches deep breathing is a cure. If it is painful to take a deen breath then try a hot bath after the exercise. After the hot bath rub a little skin food Into I the skin, mass-aging the ribs and the lungs. There are skin foods which are healing heal-ing not only to the skin but to the muscles. mus-cles. They feed the tissues. Pure glycerin gly-cerin and lanolin, mixed in equal parted makes a good massage lotion for thosa who can usa glycerin. A cheaper skin food is white vaseline melted in a double dou-ble toiler jand thinned with almond oil. There are skin foods made of that most soothing and most excellent skin tonic, mutton tallow, and to this is added enough red vaseline to make a paste-If paste-If too thick make thin with glycerin, if your s-kin will endure it, or with lanolin. lan-olin. Massage .is a powerful agent at all times. It acts as exercise uron the muscles and gives them the needed amount of, work without tirin? them. Tired people, sick people, old people and those who are prevented from taking tak-ing out-of-door exercise should indulge in massage. Massage and deep breathing breath-ing wil lwork wonders for a person who Ing will work wonders for a person who is not firm in health, exercises and why must I practice arm movements daily?" asked a woman not long ago of her physical culture teacher. "My husband enjoys perfect health, yet he does not exercise with dumbbells dumb-bells nor does he swing Indian clubs. Yet he is not fat. nor is he short of breath. He is well proportioned and strong. Yet he never exercises unless he is compelled to do so. Please explain ex-plain to me why this is so." Th physical cucture teacher smiled. "Madam," said she, "your husband probably rises early in the morning and goes to his business. He is on his feet all day. He goes out to his noonday meal, and, perhaps, before he gets home at night, he walks several miles. He stands for hours a.nd when not standing he is busy with his arms. . "Your husband," continued the physical phy-sical -culture teacher, "gets not only-physical only-physical exercise but mental exercise as -well.. He works all day. with his head as well as with his heels, his I arms, and his whole body. - TJe leads an active life. "Your muscles are seldom exercised. You dress you body tightly, and when you walk you walk with your lower limbs alone. You do not move your whole body as in rapid or vigorous walking. Even your neck is not exercised, ex-ercised, for it is tightly bound up in a stock. You get little or no muscular muscu-lar exercise. ' "But there is no woman living who, if she be iu good health, cannot loosen her clothing and take daily exercise. She can lift her arms, she can balance herself on one foot and on the other. She can breathe deeply. She can throwback throw-back her shoulders. She can bring into in-to play every muscle of the body and she can gradually build herself up into in-to muscular perfection, taking off her superfluous fat and making herself a J symmetrical woman." Marian Martineau's Advice to Anvi-ous Anvi-ous Beauty Seekers. Madcap I am out in the -wind a great deal and my face feels rough like a grater. I have tried cold cream at night, but to no avail. Why does cold cream not heal my face? The cold cream does not heal your face for one reason, and one only. Aft-tr Aft-tr using it you are in the habit of washing it off with hot water. This is correct, but you must not go out for at least two hours afterwards. r Minerva O. In spite of your good advice my skin is in bad condition and the surface is rough. What can I do to make It smooth and pretty? Complaints of this kind are frequent this time of year. Perhaps you are using a cold cream with glycerin in it. This will roughen the skin. Perhaps you go out into the air too soon after washing your face. This will spoil the nicest skin. . ' Violet G. D. What would you advise ad-vise a girl to do for her nose? My nose is red and there are pimples on It. You might take a spring medicine of port wine and sulphur, Or you can take molasses and sulphur, the old fashioned treacle. Wear your clothing cloth-ing loose. Mrs. V. I am 43 years old and my nails crack badly. It is something new for me to have bad looking nails. I have tried everything, but to no avail, and I await your advice with interest. inter-est. ' Rub a liny bit of red vaseline in under un-der the cuticle every night. Thiii will soften the nail and keep it from splitting:- It will also make the nails rosy; The nails begin to crack at the age of 30. This Is the age when the hands begin; to grow. .old. . . Kittie J.-You have . answered the questions of a great many older and wiser than I. Now, will you answer the questkms of a young girl? I want, a nice complexion. I want to -develop the hust. ' J would like to have curly hair. I want 10 get rid of my freckles. freck-les. . '. - Here arefour difficult questions to answer, Kitty, but I will try. For your complexion, wash your face with soft water and good soap once a dap, rins-; ing it off in five waters. It you can not get gOOU SOap use a mue oaimcm water. Leave your hair alone until you are 18. Perhaps it will begin to be curly b'y that time. As for your freckles, use cucumber milk on them daily. Do not. go out directly after washing the face. Aunt Amanda I am told that you know how to cure corns. Mine trouble me . terribly. I am almost a cripple jut before a rainstorm. I would pay anything to get them relieved. I do not expect them to be cured. You need not pay anything at all. There is no charge for advice in this j column. You must bathe the feet once a day in hot water with a little borax dissolved in it. Bub them with red vaseline. Do not wear the same pair, of shoes two days in succession. Blank The lock of hair you enclose Is hazel brown. You could easily make it bloom into a rich golden red. Mls T. Giv me something for a rough skin. I need A MTluKle cream, I thiuk. Fill an eggshell with mutton tallow. Fill another one witlr the pure oil -of sweet almonde. Take a piece of sper maceti as big as a walnut. JHelt all together. Scent, with rose and beat vifh an egg beater. Fill the eggehells. flam? to, the dresser w ith ribbons. This called grandma's rose cream. - -f A. B. C Is there room in the beauty column for a few words for me? I am anxious to knowthe color of my "air. I enclose a lock. I also want to know where I can buy your preparations. prep-arations. Jour hair is nearly pink. It is a pinkish pink-ish drab. The preparitions you must make yourself. They are not for sale. O. Y. M. I am immense in the hips. What do you advise me to do to reduce? re-duce? You ought to take the hip exercises. Nothing else will bring down the hips as quickly. ' THE SUNDAY MENU. Breakfast. Pears. Cereal. Cream. Scrambled Eggs on Toast. Hashed Brown Potatoes. Cents. Coffee. Luncheon. Iacnti Omelet and Creamed Potatoes. Peach Cake. Coffee. Dinner. Tomato Bisaue. Chicken Pie. Mashed Potatoes. Stuffed Green Peppers. Sliced Cucumber Salad. P&ch (Vltlliler With Kurd Voam Cheese. Wafers. Coffee. Fried Chicken. Cut chicken in pieces; sprinkle with salt and pepper; roll in flour: fry in a little fat or butter. Remove chicken, j add to gravy in pan two tablespoons-ful tablespoons-ful flour and two cups stock: cook, season and strain. Add some chopped parsley. Pour sauce on dish, arrange chicken on it; garnish with toast points. Boston Brown Bread. One cup graham flour, one and one-half one-half cups water, half tablespoonful soda, one cup rye meal, three-quarters cup molasses, one teaspoonful salt, one cup cornmeal. one cup raisins (if desired). de-sired). Mix and sift dry ingredients; add molasses and water; mix well. Turn into well buttered mold; steam four hours. -f Steamed Rice. Three cups .boiling water or part milk, one teaspoonful salt, one cup rice. Pick over the rice and wash thoroughly. Put ricm salt and boil-; ing water or milk in a bowl, place in a steamer over boiling water, cover steamer, and cook until rice is soft, from three-quarters of an hour to one hour. j Rolled Oats and Wheat. Two cups boiling water, one tea spoonful salt, ote cup meal. Follow the rule for making mush. Boil ten minutes, stirring constantly; then cook over boiling water at least one hour. A longer cooking improves it. Boston Baked Eeans. One quart pea beans, half pound salt pork (fat and lean), two tablespoonfuls salt, oue teaspoonful mustard, quarter cup molasses. Wash and soak beans over night in cold water; scald, drain, put into bean pot. Cut pork in half-inch half-inch strips; bury in beans. Mix salt and mustard with molasses; fill cup with hot water, pour, over beans. Add enough water to cover, bake eight hours in moderate oven; keep covered till the last hour, adding water as needed, then lift pork to surface and let it become crisp. A half teaspoonful teaspoon-ful soda added to beans when scalded makes them easier pf digestion. Troubles That Never Come, The most annoying troubles that rome into a woman's life are those that never actually appear. This sounds like a contradiction or a meaningless mean-ingless bull until we discover an incident inci-dent of this sort which took place here in Boston. Then a flood of light is let in. There is a delightful little lady not a thousand miles from Boston who put into the cold embrace of ink and paper the list of troubles that she expected during the year. She sighed with a certain Christian resignation when she saw them down in black and white. At the close of la?t year she looked over the list and was surprised to find that an insignificant number of the impending evils had actually materialized. material-ized. This dark brooding cluster of cares had an existence only in her imagination! imagina-tion! You remember the old song that era- j died our youthful slumbers, of course "The Letter That Never Came"? Well, the most serious part of our difficulties dif-ficulties are the TROUBLES THAT NEVER COME! We harass our nerves and throw our mind Into ague and feverish spasms of apprehension when there is really nothing to cause us apprehension. The great sorrows of life those that come in the mighty crises can be borne with a resignation that carries comfort. Bereavement can be made a time of purification and preparation for a more blessed reunion. But there is no cure for the troubles that never come. They are spectral -wraiths that stand across our paths and prevent us going forward resolutely and courageously. ' Daily life has its bitter trials and its poignant miseries. . But we know thut i i-i V a An ,9 K1 ckaacirJ roof mt1 1 nrtma But those who yield to imagined bur- dens which tear the heart and soul from one have no means of lightening the burden. Do you realize that each day has the hint of Immortal things in it? That it is, in a very real way, a fresh creation? crea-tion? Republic readers should remember remem-ber that a little common sense is a cure-all for the troubles that vanish into mist when we confront them courageously. cour-ageously. The Republic. Rock-a-By. "Rock-a-by, baby, thy cradle is green!" Over thy slumbers the cool branches .lean. Bees in thy bower are crooning their song. ' . Leaves whisper round thee all the day Ions. Rock-a-by. rock-a-by, blue are the skies! Rock-a-by, rock-a-by, shut little eyes! "Rock-a-by, baby, thy cradle is green!" Tiny brown mothers their soft feathers preen. While the dear birdlings are hushed in the nest, And the light breezes blow out of the west. Rock-a-by, rock-a-by, blue are the skies! Rock-a-by, rock-a-by, shut little eyes! "Rock-a-by, baby, thy cradle is green!" Father's a nobleman, mother's a queen. Sweet as the dews in the cups of. the flowers, Love sheds its balm on thee through the bright hours. . Rock-a-by, rock-a-bY blue are the skies! Rock-a-by, rock-a-by, shut little eyes! James B. Kenyon, Strive to Be Cheerful. There is much in daily life to try one's nerves and temper that it is not always easy to preserve one's cheerfulness. cheer-fulness. Moods are contagious; one unhappy person in a family without any active effort can destroy the pleasure pleas-ure of ali the rest. We do not always remember this and so we give way to causes for depression, and we do not bear ourselves as bravely as we might when things are going wrong with us. It is a good rule to keep one's troubles 5n the background of life, in the background back-ground of thought, bringing ,to the front .only, that which ia cheerful and! sunny. To some temperaments buoy- J oncy is not difficult. Whatever may happen to keep, them down, they bob up again like corks. Others have inherited in-herited a tendency to glpom, or have cultivated in themselve an indeffer-ence indeffer-ence to the comfort of those around them, the result being that they arc not the most agreeable companions in the world. The perscn whose outlook is cheerful always impresses others unconsciously and elevates the tone of all whom she meets. Catholic Pictures in the Home. Just as you can tell the character of people by the furnishings and adorn7 ments of their home, so also bv the Pictures on their wails and the papers and books on their tables can you Judge of their Catholicity. There are many , Catholic homes which might just asl. well be pagan for all the evidence the casual visitor may gather from a survey sur-vey cf their art treasures or their literature. lit-erature. On their walls hang pictures of Grecian gods and goddesses, or trophies tro-phies of pagan Rome, or reproduction of modern materialistic paintings: while the secular magazines, the daily or weekly secular papers, the society journals of New York or other large cities are strewn upon their tables. Of Catholic art or Catholic literature there is not the least evidence. Such people foolishly imagine that they are above all that. They are cultured and refined to such a degree that they do not rieeil in he reniiint..rt Kv niihiro w paper that they are members of a Church which fostered and developed both art and literature in the ages when these two expressions of human culture wre almost overwhelmed in the flood of European barbarism. This is no way for Catholics to think or act. No matter how wealthy or educated Catholics may be, they are still children chil-dren of the Church. They should show their Catholicity in the furnishing and adornment of their homes. Effect of Meat Eating on the Temper. It is wonderful what beautiful, healthy children one finds in many rural ru-ral districts in this and other countries, who are never allowed one bit of meat. That the eating or non-eating of animal ani-mal food has an influence on the temperament tem-perament is a well attested fact. A mother whose young son was of most violent temper, and often even cruel to his little brothers and sisters, was advised ad-vised to confine him to a diet entirely without meat, or meat juices, and in three weeks sjie returned to the doctor to tell him her -buy was quite cured, that he Is noW the joy of his home! On the other hand, strong , meat juices have gaveti the life of many a child whose vitality had fallen almost to the point of extinction. The writer kept her family of young children on a non-meat diet for three years; they were in excellent health, physically and mentally, all the time. Watercress For the Elood. Watercress contains much iron and this is a real blood medicine. People who desire to have good complexions should eat of.it abundantly, because it is a destroyer of pimples and a cleanser of the entire system. Watercress will also neutralize chalk 'in the blood, which limy matter is the great cause of the aging and stiffening of the fibers. Those who would feel young and look young, therefore, should eat watercress. |