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Show i Woman's World h 1 TWO OF A KIND. I Thr v,holo day long- their tiny feet, 1 Go trotting' to and fro: i A moment's rest they will not take, i No weariness they know. i J'ut up and down, across the floor, And out and In they run; -: Thy never are one moment ?till f From dawn to pet of sun. The whole day long:, from morn till nipht, The.e two in mischief are: 1 h-ar a crafh. "What's that?" I cry; Tis dad's tobacco jar. Wife, what has happened to the cat?'' 1 tad asks, "her head is bare." Vh ' li-cP: '"We played at barber's shop, n' cuttit pupsy's hair." j nvpr know a moment's peace - Till safe in bed at last. 'ii. ir arm? around each other's necks, I I f-'H them sleeping last; ! - n i yet without our pickles two How empty life would be: 5 Ini-e precious, too, than wealth untild, Are they to dad .and me. 2UCH GOWNS GO AT OLD CLOTHES PRICES (Chicago Tribune.) To pet a SHOO pown for $100 or J200, a Slwt costume for or a $-0 toilette for J.2 would make most women happy. Yet in thes'e days of magnificent toilettes-this toilettes-this is quite possible. For, after being I -'w worn only two or three times, they be- 1 ( iiine "old vlo."' AVith comparatively little money a woman can. if s"he knows how, be the vmi'T of some of the creations of cel-i cel-i rbrated artist tailors. Puch dresses may be seen on the ptage in all their If pa woo, worn by actresses who could )io more afford them when they left the linnds of the dressmaker than they - -ould afford a palace on the Lake Shor; j drivo and another at Newport. I The woman who want? such bargains j ha (inly to go to the little two-story f iliri' k building on a busy 'hieagO thor- ' ciughfare, where such are to be bought. A small glasu sign with the name of j "Mrs. . wardrobist." outside, and j Fmue cabinets with glass fronts' and a fiiM- display of gowns are all that show j v It re the business i? carried on. From the 400 to the 4,000. In these days of conspicuous toilettes an. I their frequent description in the j-uiblic prints the society woman of pride mid means dislikes to appear in the saiiK- dress more than two or three times. There are other women, unable to buy such drct?es at first hand, who are quite willing to appear in them aft- cr a little alteration. Getting these robes from the one class and putting th"m where the others can buy them is on- of the new, modern forms of busi-iieaf:. busi-iieaf:. As it has been described, it in merely "buying from the 400 and pell-; pell-; Ing to the 4.i00." "The modern society woman who sells 1 ? her castoff clothing is a philanthropist. ! j The old-time fine dame brought up on j The tradition that 110 woman of posl- I ' tion would sell her old clothes was a j I peitish prig-, especially if she packed ; . I them aw ay in tissue paper or white wax i i or hung them up in clothes presses till ' they fmelled like the ark and were j j I ready to fall to pieces," pays r Chicago j I wardVobist, who was a seamstress un- I j 1 til phe married. Her earlier acquaint- ! j ; mice kept her in touch with north side families, and on one occasion she un-. un-. i rlortook to dispose of a dress belonging ; 10 a former customer. From this small leginning she has worked up a busi- ; I lies? that occupiep her time and that of her husband and daughter, requiring a ; 1 large room and many a glac-s front 1 . s-howcase. ; Great Boon, to Poor Girls. ( ; "We will never get rich at it," she ? Fays, "but my life is in my work and I know that 1 do a great deal of good ' for working girls." j "AA'here does the good come in?" asked the Sunday Tribune reporter, j "One would think that it might foster ' a taste for fine clothe? beyond the means and that much harm might come of it instead." "The shop girl knows good materials, he stands near a clerk who rustles xrith silk linings and lifts her chest high, knowing that she hap on a well cut garment. The poor girl can afford nothing new unless it be of flinrey, material, ma-terial, poorly made. She comes to me nnd buys a drss made by a good tailor and frequently without a sign of wear. Sh pays me the s-ame money she Mould have paid for a cheap parment. Jf she is presp?d for money I give her lhtrtv Have in which to nnv for it "Now look at that black cloth gown! It cost $Sl. The satin lining of the coat ipn't soiled and the dress has years of wear in it yet. I sell that for Jl.". And the girl Mho buys- it readily adapts it to herpelf. Can't you see bow it lessens les-sens the temptations of the poor girl end makes her happier?" Actresses Buy Ball Gowns. "A'es. in this case. But how abo:it the j'arty gowns and fripperies?" "They are upually bought by professional profes-sional women s ond and third rate act ressep. Here i sa piece of a $3f0 irev-s I saved. It had been woni twice when iis owner went into mourning and I sold it to an actress for $100. You see biv elegant the material is. The trimming trim-ming wap beautiful and it is- really equal to two dresses', for it is burnt i orange color by day and a rich pink by night. She appreciated her bargain and often buys from me. 1 "Then send to me from distant cities for dresses and I send them several to i boopc from. They go to the e-xpres? office, examine the goods, and often take them all. If not. they psnd them ; liack, paying the express one way." j Some of the dresses had several yards ' 'f new material attached, greatly add- ' ? ing to theij- value in the eyes of thrifty "women accustomed to making over. ! Little Question About Price Received. I "Do you have trouble agreeing on a , I juice with those who sell to you?" ' "Not often. 2on of my patronp feel ' 1hat they are doing good in selling things cheap. They hate to think of the mothp eating them up. They much prefer some one should get some good cui 01 ineui. x K'JI 10 me iiuusv, iiifj ; i thow me the things, and I make them 1 r an offer. Jf they prefer I sell on com- j . . mission. When I get an offer I tele- phone It to the woman . and she usually accepts. ; "I buy only from people I know and I take the heft of care of my dressep. 1 Hence no one need hate to try them CD." j "Have you rivals in this business?" , "I suppose no. though I do not know j of "nc- who conducts a business juPt as I do. At any rate. I never suffer from competition. Many of my neighlwrp think 1 am a dressmaker. Thev bring me ti,,.ir material to make. I tell them I don't make dresses, but that 1 have I 1h-m for sale. They regret they hadn't known it and usually come back and j Suv from inc. 1 have dresses'" as low ' as $2." j Sometimes Regret Parting Too Late. ! In old days in Chicago a woman! , bought the material for a silk drcsP, ; her husband's second wife had it made i j up. the third wife wore it out in a I wrapper. How much better when the "rdrobist intervenes and fewer sensi-nilitiep sensi-nilitiep are ."hocked: Still there are -aseS where women regret their dealings deal-ings with Mrs, Wank and wih they "M riked the corruption of moth and ust a little longer. A society woman who is going to Eu-f Eu-f i"0 this month was talking with her 1 frien1 about the wraps the would led- "What shall I wear-on the -;-a?" ",, a irked. . ;.. ! "That TeiBian lamb cape of yours will be just the thing," said her friend. With a whoop which would have done credit to a city boy suddenly turned loose on a fruit farm, the society woman rushed to the telephone and called up Mrs. Blank, wardrobist. "Please, Mrs. Blank, don't peil my Persian lamb cape. I'm going to need : it." I "I'm so sorry," came the answer. "I j just mailed you my check. I sold it j yesterday to an actress for $25." A woman should be quite sure she wishes to sell her belongings before phe sends them to Mrs. Blank, wardrobist. Marion JIartineau's Advice to Anxious Anxi-ous Beauty Seekers. Mrs. G.: Tou recommend a treatment treat-ment for the removal of superfluous hair. AVill you be kind enough to tell me what it is? There are several treatments for this blemish. For your case use the salve stick, which will be sufficient. The other reader who wrote regarding it is advised to use the electric needle, as her case is far more obstinate. Minette: I have always been thin. I am one of the lean kind. I guess. Is there any certain fattening diet? There are diets which are pretty sure to fatten. Kat all the chicken you v ant. Take plenty of good, well coolfed vegetables. Drink with your meals. Eat good foods, such as rich game, wholesome pastry, and lake sirups with your hot breads. This diet will fatten. M. K.: I, too. am one of the thin ones to whom you refer in your recent talk. If you could tell me how to get fat you would earn my undying gratitude. grati-tude. You can get fat upon a certain diet, but it is, unfortunately, expensive. You must take cream, game, good gravies, and the best of sweats. You must eat sweet fruits and you should drink a sweet wine with your dinner if you are not opposed to liquor. Take all you want to eat and eat whenever you are hungry. That is one way to be sure of getting fat. B. L. H.: I am not a thin woman. 1 On the contrary. I am too stout, but my fat is all in my arms and hips. How ' can I reduce these and build up the rest of my body, which is quite flat? This must be done by systematic exercise. ex-ercise. Dieting will do you no good at all. AA'htle exercising eat lightly and do not drink more than is absolutely necessary, body that is too fat in one place and too lean in another is never a well proportioned, graceful body. Iieader: You have not answered my questions about my complexion. Your letter has lain unanswered waiting for a new facial cream, which I recommend to you subject to the approval ap-proval of your druggist. Take an ounce of mutton tallow and an equal quantity of pure olive oil. Melt together to-gether and add five drops of carbolic acid. To this add half an ounce of melted white vaseline. Beat with an egg beater as it cools. This has been highly recommended to me, though I have never tried it. ' " r A. P. M.: AA'hat diet would you advise ad-vise me to take for spring? I like apples ap-ples and they agree with me. You might try an apple diet. Take boiled apple tea, baked apples flavored with lemon juice, apple " sauce with prunes, and plenty of good wholesome i bread, with the best of salted butter. I - Inquiring Reader: I would like a cold cream, the one you consider the best made. This is difficult to give, as different skins require different treatment. Here is a cream which has been recommended recom-mended to me. Cocoa butter, 50 grams; sweet almond oil. " grams: white wax. 15 grams; spermaceti. "5 grams: rosewater, 50 grams. Heat in a double boiler and stir well as it cools. Stirring as the substance cools is important im-portant in cold cream making. AVill the reader who asked for a cold cream kindly take her choice of the above creams, according to her skin, j or write a.gain. telling just what is her j trouble? Aunt J.: I have used your wrinkle cream With the best of success. I find that my furrows are slowly but surely-disappearing-. I was ashamed of mv-self mv-self I looked so old. Do you think melted vaseline would mako a vnn cold cream? It is cheap. Yes. melt the white vase-line over hot water. Add a tiny pinch of borax powder, pow-der, and to a 5-eent bottle of vaseline add five drops of henzoin. Heat rfight-ly rfight-ly before using. M. A .: I have heard of a benzoin and vinegar bath. Is there such a thing and would you advise me to use it daily? You probably mean the skin tonic under that name. Take a quart of vinegar and add about an ounce of benzoin. Shake well and put a few-drops few-drops in the bath, just enough to make it fragrant. 4 Miss H.: My skin sags and ip wrinkled. wrin-kled. I do not know what I can do to make it regain its elasticity. Is there any good skin food? Take one ounce each of white wax and spermaceti. Add to it two ounces of lanolin; sweet almond oil. four ounces: cocoanut oil, two ounces; orange or-ange flower water, two ouncep, and about fifteen drops of benzoin. Heat all together and beat as they cool. Miss T.: I am troubled with a skin which exudes oil. It if disagreeable to me and a constant source of mortification. mortifica-tion. Nothing will cure your face except good soap and hot water and plenty of both. Lather your face with shaving soap. Rinse it well with hot water and rinse again. Put a little boracic acid in the water to make it soft. This will open the pores and clear the skin. Constant Reader: I would like your advice upon reducing the weight. From reading your letter through I I should ray you would have to walk. though this is a difficult thing for you I to do. AValk all you can. Eat stewed fruit p. Do not try to do much pewing or indoor work for a time, for your beauty and your figure depend upon getting out into the air for exercise. - No Name: Please do not print my name, but answer my questions without using my name. Your name will never appear unless you wif.h it to do so. You ask about wrinkles. There is only one cure. Map-sage Map-sage them with a good skin food. All your defects can be remedied if not completely cured. f Mrs. Y.: I have tried your beauty column with much interest. I now have a nice pink and white skin where once I was saffron colored and not at all good to look at. I used your treatment for the complexion with the best results-. II. B.: How can I use the -electric needle? There are beauty parlorp where the electric needle is ussd. It is not a difficult diffi-cult operation and there are women who are doing it for themselves. It requires re-quires a needle and a battery. It is not painful, as a rule, unless one is sensitive as to the skin. M. E. C.: Do you advlsr the ap-ple cure, or the grapf cure, or the milk cure.. or any of those cures? - i This is a hard question to answer. These cures are sometimes, excellent. There are certain stomachs that take to them naturally. Others turn at the continued taking of one kind of food. If your stomach turn? then stop the food and take something else. Remember Remem-ber that what is one-man's meat is another an-other man's poison. Miss T.: 1 have read that the complexion com-plexion can be brightened. Do you think there is any hope for a girl who is yellow as saffron? Yes, indeed. Drink .1 glass of water before breakfast with two lemons squeezed into it. On alternate days take a teaspoon of phosphate of soda before breakfast. Live on spinach if you can. Take ic at least once a day. f Reader: Is there such a thing as reducing re-ducing the weight? I v eigh at least 20i pounds. It is unhealthy and unbecoming. unbecom-ing. AA'hat do you advise? I advise reducing, knd quickly. There is no need of weighing LMi pounds. 4 (I. B. H.: Let me thank you for your reduction treatment. I ate all I wanted want-ed and enjoyed myself, yet I lost weight all the time. It is good to know that you can get rid of fifty pounds of fat without starvinar to death. A correspondent says: My face is covered with blackheads. Can, these be removed permanently? No, they cannot. The skin must be steamed and the blackheads taken out with soap and water. This is not difficult. dif-ficult. The same thing must be done over at least once a week, and twice is not too often. 4 Mary T.: Please tell me how to steam my face. I injured my eyes once in that manner. You should close the eyes when steaming the face. But it is important to get the steam at the right temperature. tempera-ture. Let the water boil in an open dish. Let the steam bathe the face, but do not. if you are an amateur, try to cover the vessel or to make a cone. This is almost sure t burn the skin, if attempted by any one who does not understand it. Face steaming is little more than heating the face until it is hot. M. B.: What is the best face cream you know? T want something that will soften my skin so that it will not chap. Take sheep's oil and pure almond oil in equal quantities. Add a few drops of perfume. This makes soothing cream. Beat with an egg beater as it colls. M. B. II.: My wrists are thin and my arms emaciated. AA'hat: can I do? Massage a good skin food into them. You can make them plump in this manner. Mrs. T. : My complexion is much hetter, but it does not improve rapidly enough to suit me. AA'hat can I do? The skin food was of great assistance, was it not? Now remedy your diet. Eat less meat. Take green vegetables. Trj- to keep the system in a healthy condition. That is half the battle and is next to the care of the skin. f- Mrs. Y.: You promised to give a talk upon bust development. Several readers have asked for this and for the Vaucaire remedy. The latter lat-ter is highly recommended. But have you tried the exercises and a simple system of massage? A poor "bust and hollow cheeks can both be filled out with systematic exercise and by rubbing rub-bing the skin' with a fattening food. fr. H.: I want to thank sou for the wrinkle, cream, which was . of much benefit to me. Now will you give me a massage cream that will fatten? Cocoa butter is fattening. But a good thing would be almond oil, mutton tallow tal-low and spermaceti in equal parts. Heat in a double boiler and let cool. If : too thick, melt again and thin With almond oil. It should be no thicker than sweet cream. O. H. B.: Is buttermilk good for the complexion? I have tried it, but it 13 j unpleasant. It should not be. Whole sweet milk is quite as good. Heat the milk, but do not boil it. Dissolve a pinch of borax powder in a cup of the milk. Bathe the face with it and let it dry on. If you use buttermilk, omit the 'borax powder and rub the buttery particles into the skin. Miss G. :. My face so soft and white that I do not know myself. I have used your preparations and they are excellent. They contain, nothing injurious. Grandma wants a wrinkle cream for the lines in her forehead. Grandma is sensible to want to rift herself of these lines. Tell her to rub) them well with pure almond oil every I night. Let her wet her finger tips in the oil and gently massage the lines, working along the deepest of the furrows. fur-rows. In two weeks the result will be apparent. . 4 N. B.: Do ycu approve of lemon juice for freckles? Yes, indeed. But it should be applied ap-plied weak. Do not use the juice strong enough to injure the skin. There are skins that will bear it clear. Apply a cream for rough skin afterwards. f Ida A.: AA'hat will whiten a yellow-neck? yellow-neck? Peroxide and lanolin. J. L.: My nails split and crack; Give me a lotion for them. : Take vaseline of the red kind and rub it into them every night. KITCHEN" AND TABLE. Breakfast. Fruit. Grape Nuts. Sugar and Cream. Fried SmeltP. Scalloped Potatoes. Diamonds. Coffee. , Lunch. . Cheese Pudding. ' Cold Slaw. Cake. Canned Fruit. Tea. Dinner. - Salmon Timbales-, Purslev Sauce Mashed Potatoes. String Beans. Tomato Jelly Salad. AVafers. , ChreP3. Date Roly Poly. Soft Saiee. Coffee. Tabic Talk. Tomatoes Au Gratin. .One-half pound tomatoes, two ounces bread crumbs, one ounce butter, put the tomatoes in a bowl, cover with boiling boil-ing water, and let stand a few minutes, take tbem out, dry and remove the skins. Cut in slicep. grease a small baking dish, and put half the tomatoes at tho bottom, sprinkle with pepper and salt, and put in half the bread crumbs and half the butter in small pieces. Lay in the rest of the tomatoes, season, and put the . remainder of the bread crumbs and butter on the top. AVipe round the edge of the dish and bake in a quick oven fifteen to twenty-minutes. twenty-minutes. Omelet Making . The omelet is the supposed "impossible" "impossi-ble" in the average kitchen, when in reality it is but a moment's work, which any ordinary cook can accomplish. And once a simple omelet is achieved there is no end to the pretty and toothsome variations easily within one's skill. In the first place, omelets need not be "tossed." but just handled calmly and practically; and in the. second place, the puffy omelet js the "souffle," by far inferior to what might be called the "true omelet," which is not puffy at all nor subject to falling. The One point in omelet making which must be Imperatively Im-peratively observed regards the pan. It is not at all necessary to buy a regular omelet pan. as a smooth," rather heavy, medium-sized spider answers the purpose pur-pose equal! well.. But it must be kept sacred to omelets absolutely never appropriated ap-propriated to other uses. It must never be washed, but cleaned. by: rait and brisk rubbing. Before using melt a little lit-tle lard in it, drain it off and rub out well with a dry cloth until th'oroughly clean and shining smooth. It is not too much to say that a proper pan is two-thirds two-thirds of the battle jn successful omelet ome-let making. . Never make an omelet for several persons at once, individual ones bein both more satisfactory and more easily managed. Ella Morris. Pease Pudding. One-half pound split peas one ounce butter, one egg. pinch of sugar, pepper pep-per and salt. AVash well the peas, remove re-move any discolored ones, and soak over night in cold water; tie loosely in a cloth, leaving room for them to swell, and put them into a saucepan with a good pinch of salt and enough boiling water to cover them. Koil quickly from two to two and one-half hours, or until the peas are quite p.-ift. keeping well covered with water all the time. AA'hen ready take them up and drain. Turn the peas out of the cloth and rub them through a wire sieve or colander. Add the butter, egg. well beaten, pepper, salt and a pinch of sugar. Beat all well together to-gether for a few minutes, then tie up tigntiy in a nourcu i ioin. non oiie-uan hour, and eerve in a hot dish. Pressed Chicken. I give this recipe not so much as a dinner meal a to us? for a cold evening even-ing repast or for an ornamental luncheon lunch-eon dish. Use the meat from half a boiled chicken: chop very fine and mix it with "four skinned sausages; this should be chopped to a paste. Grate enough bread crumbs to make equal bulk with the chicken meat and have the sausage about equal also: that i?, a third of each. Mix well and add pepper, salt and lemon juice to taste, with a pinch of grated nutmeg. Cover the chicken bonce with boiling water, add three cloves, half a dozen allspice and a bit of garlic: boil about half an hour, take some of it to moisten the paste, then add three well-beaten eggs and a wineglass of white wine, or sherry will answer. A square tin mold with straight sides should be used; line the sides and bottom with strips of salt pork, covering every inch: pour in the paste, put more pork slices on top, tie a buttered paper on top and bake about an hour in a moderate oven. Set aside to cool, turn out, remove the slices of pork and serve the loaf on a bed of jelly. It may also, after cooked and cool, be molded in jelly and turned out, or it may be served plain. Cheerfulness at Home. Of course, kindness and tact are the undisputed groundwork upon which all other human traits are built more or less(, and are dependent upon; but there is another characteristic of the successful housekeeper of almost, if not quite, equal importance, and that l cheerfulness. Not the intermittent kind that comes and goes pitifully, and can never be counted upon, depending de-pending upon the physical condition of the individual or upon the smooth running of the domestic or social wheels of life, but the steady, strong, courageous cheerfulness that keeps a woman joung in heart as well as features, and those about her happy and contented. It has the same effect, and that an inestimable one, upon her equals and her dependents. There is nothing more humanly contagious than a giving way to irritability, a readiness readi-ness to be annoyed, to speak sharply in reply to a sharply spoken reprimand or criticism; and, on the other hand, it is one of the hardest things in this world to grow ill-tempered and cross, when your companion, be she mistress or maid, is sunny and bright and amiable. A young married woman was about to begin house cleaning a week ago and her housemaid .gave warning the very day she announced the intentions. The mistress Was greatly annoyed, and finally bluntly asked the girl why she should feel at liberty to fail her when her presence was most needed. "Have I not always treated you considerately, con-siderately, Hannah? It hardly seems , fair that you should fail me, does it?" The girl was silent for a moment, I but finally she frankly explained that 1 she hadn't any too good a disposition herself, and knowing, as she did from experience, the irritability of her mistress mis-tress .when she was surrounded with household disorder, she felt she simply could not go through the siege that days of it implied, j You see, any one can he cheerful when these things go smoothly there I is no excuse for anything else but to be cheerful in spite of things is the only really worthy course. Woman's Exchange. , |