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Show Woman's World Do Not Wait. Ky A. J. p:gerton. Tf you have a word of cheer That may light the pathway drcau Of a brother pilgrim here, Let him know. Show him you appreciate "What he does, and do not wait Till the heavy hind of Fate Lays hirb low. If your heart contains a thought That will brighter make his lot , Then, in mercy, hide it not; I Tell him so. Hide not till the end of all Carries him beyond recall. "When beside his .sable pall To avow Tour affection and acclaim To do honor to his name And to place the warmth of fame On his brow. Rather speak to him today! For the things you have to say May assist him on his way; Toll him now. Life is hard enough at best; Hut the love that is expressed I Makes it seem a pathway blest To our feet; And the troubles that we share .-Win the easier to bear, Smile upon your neighbor's care As you greet, r.ough and stony are our ways; Park and dreary are our days; 1 But another's love and praise Make them sweet. "Wait till your friends is dead. Kre your compliments are said; , For the Spirit that has fled. If it know, lines not need to speed it on Our poor praise where it has gone Love's eternal, golden dawn ' Is aglow. Hut unto our brother here That poor praise is very dear; If you've any word of praise, Tell him so. ENGLAND'S BEAUTY SHOW. (.Chicago Sunday Tribune.) One trosty day last montn King Ed-I Ed-I ward was sitting by the beuiiicU; ot Mrs. I l'i-gct. Airs. iJaget lay in ot a broken I hip, two iractureu knee caps, a broken I ami and internal injuries. Nevcrtne-' Nevcrtne-' 1, ss, with American ' pluck, snc was X propped up in bed acting the part of .' I ll SU.. I -i have been thinking these long i Jjij-s." said cue, "of tne hospitals ana I i iic good work they u. And 1 have j l'ciu wishing we could do something lor i ho suttering poor." 1 There is the hospital fund," said his In.ojcsty. "'c ought," said Mrs. Paget, "to hold a i.c.uiy tournament for tne benefit of the lurid. We might call it a great I mtdieval tournament. "Capital," said the king. "And we would need a pueen of beauty-" "Quite so, Mrs. Paget, and whom vould you select'.'" "1 would select the Ducness of Sutherland Suth-erland King a tpical English vo-iiiHii vo-iiiHii and a great beauty." "An ide.i worthy your clever brain," ;iLre-d the king. Ant after an hour's chat, during which the details of the plan "ere worked out. the king departed. depart-ed. And such was the beginning of the gieai medieval tournament which is to i " held in London next June, ana for v i.kh rich Americans arc now buying umIs at $ir0 each. The Iuchess of Sutherland will prob-1 prob-1 io'ly bo its queen, unless another and ;.;.' perfectly equipped beauty arises 1 ,-iween now and that time. If another ii- i lioseu there is to be no ill feeling jm ijher side, for all will agree that the 'ineei." must have certain characteristics. character-istics. She must be English born and Eng-I Eng-I li-h bred. I She must be a typical English woman. I She must be a great beauty. j .Nil i.l she. must be popular. j Who will combine all there traits and will combine them in the most perfect w;.y? Such is the question which English Eng-lish women are asking themselves and c;o h other. Thus far all lay the laurel t upon the head of the Duchess of Suth-vrland. Suth-vrland. Whoever is chosen, she will be lovely, for the English woman has certain ( ints of beauty which are her own and whii-h are not shared by many other won!-':i in the universe. While not of icias.-ie beauty, she is yet a wonderfully hiiiidsome woman and with a beauty ithat is particularly her own. Tlie i:ngli.-h woman excels in com-xim. com-xim. Jler skin is perfectly smooth I The English woman is ahead of all others in color. Not even the rosy-I rosy-I i in -ked Irish girl is the equal of the Ft.tlish woman in the matter of ruddy 's. site has the complexion of a i hil l at play, high and beautiful. Engli:-h women are noted for no lew? H. m nine distinctive beauty features, v Hep, begin with a good complexion. The English complexion is perfectly "'':, without pimples or blemishes. The- English skin cream and white, ia er m a- or dull.' 1 I T'l" English eyes are sparkling; there ; i- something absolutely lustrous about ti in. They have the look that lies in " ehiki s eyes Avhen it hau just awak- e,j f , ,,m The English lips are red. They may fs beautifully formed as the lips l' 1 Frenchwoman. But thev are of . Lett.-,- ,,,!,. '1 la- ihigiish mouth looks like a cher-j The tongue is red, the interior has; ti a: p--euliar glow which is the glow of : a:;h, hut which no eickly woman ever I i'. i.-. I .'' Lnglish teeth are hard and white. '' !'". dentists make little money .! -ar.-d to American dentists. They ''. ' have a many fillings nor do y i;ae one-half the annual amount "' ''','!i:'?; English dentistry is called ''''!' J-ut it is not crude. The fact Is ,: ;' ;h- English dentist docs not re-; re-; ,he finished art of the American j '' : ';st. The English woman has teeth I ' i; ?..-.( ,n pUjit to do the w ork of mas-I mas-I !'' -niiig her food, while the teeth of the i !,, ,,,, unman are frail and brittle. 1 English shin is hard and fine, and ' It is ngt of the flabby description. tile p0ri.s a,-0 fjl,p- n addition to these things the Eng-1 Eng-1 M "in. hi lias a vigor of her own, a ',' 1 !-'::t "Lt sh which is cnaracleristie of "!' Siie enjoys long walks, and she c' out. ,,,!,) vr shine. "W hat is the secret of the English """an's wonderful vitality?" asked oi,,.,,f ;l traveling Kr.Klishii'an. - i ' '"''" se, ret," said ho. "lies in their X 1 homes. The English woman J J 1 ',;!,) never iii the world think of I -"'''Meg in the atmosphere in which Americans live. She sleeps in a '" in that is almost down to freezing. " bathes in cold water and she sits in ' ool apartment during the day. Then sl'e walks out a great deal. Tlie English woman." said he. "while '"aiitjfnily dressed, is less fond of ''less than an American woman, and j the result is not difficult to behold. Shs li;is more time to put upon herself. hile the American woman is doing fancy w-rrk the English woman is out "'ing the sights. "1 noticed." said he, "in a walk IS through your parks that your wonun V "!dom or never take the air in this .1 m;:iiikt. When American women j ' F'.es out she pees to shop. She hurries j from one hot store to anothM', and j v v'hen she gets home she has a shopping headache. "In three months in New York I never once saw an American woman out for a walk, much bss did 1 ever see one enjoying the air of the public parks. They are always in a bustle, always in a hurry, always have they Kot something important to do. There is no time to get the air. "Now, the English woman do;s not v.ork in this way. She looks after her own children and frequently takes them to school. Then she does her own marketing. An American woman will spend money on telephone messages f alling up the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker, giving her orders or-ders for the day. "The English woman, on the other hand, will get out and do her own marketing. mar-keting. She will order her meats and her groceries and will go from greengrocer green-grocer to greengrocer selecting what is to be eaten during the day. "And the result is obvious. She gets the air and she gets exercise. She gets occupation, and she 0ets many other things which she needed namfly; food for her brain, as well as something for her body to do. "The English woman." continued this observant, Englishman, "never worries. She never wakes up in the night and says to herself. "I must do this and I must do that.' Sue never occupies the long watches toward morning in perplexing per-plexing problems concerning the ways and means of accomplishing this and that. She does the best she can every day and lets the rest go. "And there is another thing about the English woman. She never gets nervous. ner-vous. The American woman is apt to spend more money than she can afford, and the thought of her extravagance makes her nervous- and worried. She is not free and easy in her mind. Her face begins- to pucker and she is old before her time. "The English woman of 50 has bright and red cheeks and a clear eye. She may be full in figure, but her cheeks are plump and she is not wrinkled nor haggard. - Her -eyes are not dull. "The English woman preserves to the last her clear sightedness and her cheerfulness. In old age. Mrs. Gladstone Glad-stone was as clear, as tranquil, as full of life, and as placid in manner as when in her early prime. The American Ameri-can woman at SO is a w reck. Few women wo-men ever live to be as old as SO in America, and when they do. it is distressing dis-tressing to behold their feebleness. They are shaking, uncertain, trembling in. body and in voice, and thoroughly unnerved; "I have lived my life,' they plainly say, both in words and in manner. man-ner. And certainly in looks. "The English woman takes her best meal at an hour when she is bost able to digest it. She makes a hearty meal at noon. P.ut at night she eats nothing noth-ing nor until next morning. To be sure she has her cup of tea, and plenty of bread and butter at 5 o'clock, and frequent cups of tea in between times. Kut she makes no hearty meal after the middle of the day. "It is said that the English woman lives on roast beef. True, she eats it one meal a. day. But as an actual fact her main living is hot breads, vegetables, vegeta-bles, and tea. She is as fond of potatoes pota-toes as her cousin, the Irish woman, and as fond of rye bread as her relative, rela-tive, the Scottish woman. She eats potatoes po-tatoes cooked properly, and rye bread and hot biscuit, and crackers heated in the oven. And she takes fried oat cakes and all sorts of dishes of that kind, while her hearty meal consists of roast beef and roast beef gravy, greens and potatoes. "It is seldom that the English woman indulges in high living. She eats little and is hungry for her food." "I wish I knew what it is to feel hungry." chatted an American woman it1 London to her next door neighbor. "I don't think I have been really hungry hun-gry for five years." "Why don't you go without a meal?" said the English woman. "I was not hungry this noon, so I only took a cup of tea. By night I shall be hungry. I wait until I am so hungry that 1 can eat bread and butter and potatoes. That it; the way to enjoy your food." The English woman will make a meal off cold potatoes sliced up on a platter and sprinkled with pepper and salt. Perhaps she will pour a little melted butter over them. But she will drink lea. eat waffles and partake of home made marmalade. Her foods are not quite as filling, not quite as fattening, not quite as bad upon the complexion as the American pickles, strong coffee, sausages and w heat cake combination. But it is her outdoor life that is her great salvation. She goes out of doors a gr?at deal and remains a long time. She lives in the open. Her house is her home and she makes it homelike, but she has a way of surrounding herself with a tiny bit of yard, a courtyard perhaps no bigg?r than a pocket handkerchief, hand-kerchief, yet from which she can draw her supply of fresh air. After several months of hard study a committee of doctors, appointed to study stu-dy the clear English skin, pronounced upon it thus, giving for itis causes a variety va-riety of things: First The habit of tea drinking. Tea, if not too strong, warms the stomach, flushes the system and aids digestion and circulation. Second The diet, which is simple and easily digested. Third The habit of living in the open air. Fourth The fashion of wearing large shoes and generally loose clothing. These things promote the health and furnish the material for the clear skin for which the English woman is noted. How to Wave the Hair. Thos? to whom nature has denied curly locks, and who yet are willing to circumvent that lady by a reasonable amount of effort, know much discouragement. discour-agement. Xo matter ho wprettily the artificial curls are arranged, no matter mat-ter how closely they may imitate nature na-ture hers r If. a sea breeze or a little perspiration undoes the work of hours, and the last state of the straight hair is worse than the first. However, it ir. possible to curl the hair, and keep it in curl, under the most disadvantageous disadvan-tageous conditions, provided the hair I properly prepared beforehand, and then up overnight on soft rubber curlers. curl-ers. Always select curlers made of rubber, for rubber attracts the hair and toils it naturally around the waver, making a natural wave in far less time than anything else. Papers should never be L-sed. Not only do they break the hair. Put they have a most wretched appearance. appear-ance. i There is much in the way the hair is wound around the waver, one kind of waver requiring a different twist from .i.other. When the hair is to be waved by the process known as "doing it up." no matter what kind of waver is used, thoroughly wet the hair with an egg preparation made by placing the white i t an egg in a teacup, beating it slightly, slight-ly, then adding one half-teacupful of ld tea. Separate the hair to be waved from the rest, wet with the liquid, and part into strands just thick enough to wind around the curler comfortably. I lace a rubber curler close to the head and begin to wind the hair over, not toward the forehead but back from the :'aco. At every turn place the finger of the 'other hand "over the tw iFt. to keep it' smooth ., cm -the curler... k 4ht: lust before- fastening it the strand of hair is in the exact shape and position of a natural curl. Fasten the curler, then do the same with the rest of the hair. This wave will stay in for a week in the warmest weather. If the hair has the least bit of a nat-ural nat-ural wave, do not do it up on the curlers, curl-ers, but mo'sten it with the egg solution, solu-tion, and coax it into the semblance of natural curls with the fingers. In the morning wet only the edges of the hair, and repeat until the hair is really wavy. There is a natural position of the hair that has a suggestion of cur! that must not be disregarded in using this method. Always follow the natural direction of the slight wave when doing ic up or forming it into curls with the fingers. If one desires the hair to be fluffy instead of wavy, a different method must be selected. The following will j keep tht hair fluffy even while at sea: Moisten a comb repeatedly, and draw it through the hair that is to be Huffed until it is thoroughly damp. Divide into strands, and twist each strand around, and around until it is like a cord, before wrapping it around the kid roller. It is the first twisting lhat insures in-sures the fluffiness: the kid roller waves the hair, and the egg solution assists the hair in retaining the curl. When the hair is combed out the next morning morn-ing it will appear twice as thick as usual, which makes this a treatment to be recommended to those whose locks are scanty. If there is any trace of the egg. brush the hair until it disappears. dis-appears. After a few trials one learns tc apply it so that it can not.be seen w hen the hair is arranged. During the winter once a week will keep the most refractor' straight locks :n condition, and in the warm weather twice a week will answer for the most fastidious. If one does not fancy using the tea with the egg (for tea is liable to darken the hair), water may be used instead; and since it is a dainty personal per-sonal refinement to delicately scent the hair, rose water may be used to dilute the egg. If the odor of the rose is not fancied, use plain water with a few-drops few-drops of one's favorite perfume. Put the egg mixture in a wide-mouthed bottle, covered, and keep in a cold place, where it will remain fresh until used. If one insists on using the iron to wave the hair, at least use it intelligently. intelli-gently. No hair can withstand the destructive de-structive use of the "tongs." and one that is perfectly straight should be bought, or made to order. Around this iron the hair should be folded smoothly, in the shape of a natural curl. Hold it in place a few moments, then gently pull the iron out from the hair. Never cveiheat a curling iron, for "that destroys de-stroys its "temper," and it never curls as well or as quickly afterward. Keep the iron clean too, by frequent scour-ir.gs. scour-ir.gs. Every one has noticed how much more quickly a new iron curls (he hair than an old one. It is perfectly per-fectly clean, and for that reason the heat reaches the hair at once. Do not make the iron very hot. Better hold the curl in position for a longer time than destroy the hair. No wise mother is ever guilty of using a curling iron on a child's hair. If curls must be coaxed into being, do the hair up on the softest soft-est rubber or kid rollers, and do not draw them tight to the head, so as to torture the hair or draw the skin around the eyes out of position. Ben-giger's Ben-giger's Magazine. j Healthful Foods. Celery in invaluable as a food for those suffering from any form of rheumatism, rheu-matism, for diseases of nerves and nervous dyspepsia. Lettuce relieves those suffering from insomnia. Watercress is a remedy for scurvy. Peanuts alleviate indigestion. They are especially recommended for corpulent corpu-lent diabetes. Peanuts are made into a wholesome and nutritious soup, are browned -and used as coffee, are eaten as a relish simply baked or are prepared pre-pared and served as salted almonde. Onions are almost the best nervine known. No medicine is so useful in cases of nervous prostration, and there is nothing else that will so quickly relieve re-lieve and tone up a wornout system. Onions are useful in all cases of coughs, colds and influenza in consumption, con-sumption, insomnia, hydrophobia, scurvy, scur-vy, gravel and kindied liver complaints. com-plaints. Eaten every other day they soon have, a clearing and whitening effect ef-fect on the complexion. Asparagus is used to induce perspiration. perspira-tion. Carrots are good for nervous disorders dis-orders and for. scurvy. Honey is wholesome, strengthening, cleansing, healing and nourishing. Fresh ripe fruits are excellent for purifying the blood and toning up the system. As specific remedies, oranges are aperient. Sour oranges are highly recommended for rheumatism. Cranberries for erpsipelas are used externally as well as internally. Lemons are excellent for feverish thirst in sickness, for billiousness, low fevers, rheumatism, coughs, colds, liver complaints, etc. Blackberries as a tonic. Useful in all forms of diarrhea. Tomatoes are a powerful aperient for the liver, a sovereign remedy for dys-I dys-I pepsia and indigestion. Tomatoes are invaluable in all conditions of the sps-tem sps-tem in which the use of calomel is indicated. in-dicated. Figs are aprient and wholesome. They are said .to be valuable as food for those suffering from cancer: they are used externally as well as internally. inter-nally. Apples are useful in. nervous dyspepsia; dys-pepsia; they are nutritious, medicinal and vitalizing; they aid acidity of the stomach and are valuable in rheumatism, rheuma-tism, insomnia and liver troubles. An apple contains as much nutriment as p potatoe in a pleasanter and more wholesome form. Tranquillity. Who does not love a tranquil heart, a sweet-tempered, balanced life? It dies not matter whether it rains or shines, or what misfortunes come to those possessing these blessings, for they are always sweet, serene, and calm. That exquisite praise of character which we call serenity is the last lesson les-son of culture; it is the flowering of life, the fruitage of the soul. It is as precious as wisdom, more to be desired than gold. yea, than even fine gold. How contemptible mere money-wealth loos in comparison with a serene life. a life which dwells in the ocean of truth, beneath the waves, beyond the reach of tempests, in the eternal calm! How many per.ple we know w'o sour their lives, who ruin all that Is sweet and beautiful by explosive tempers, who destroy their poise of character by bad blood! In fact, it is a question whether the great majority of people do not ruin their lives and mnr their happiness by lack of self-control. How few people we meet in life who are well-balanced, well-balanced, who have the exquisite poise which is characteristic of the finished character! Laughing Women. A woman has no natural grace more betwitching that a sweet laugh. It is like the sound of flutes on the water. It leaps from her heart in the clear, sparkling rill, and the heart that hears it feels as if bathed in the cool exhilarating ex-hilarating spring. How much we owe to lhat sweet laugh!. It turns the prose of our life into-poetry. It flings showers show-ers of sunshine over the darksome .wood in which we are, traveling, it 'touches with light our sleep, -which" is lio more the image of death.- but gemmed with dreams that lare the shadow of immortality. j MARIAN MARTINEAU'S ANSWERS. F. D.: Can you .prescribe for a skin that breaks out all over in little circles and then in lumps that extend to the back of the neck? they are so sore that they make me feel ili. I think you had better see a doctor. Your trouble may be internal, so that you need a physician's care. j Ugly Duckling: I am 27 years old j and no one has ever called me pretty. Ycu don't know what it is to be homeiy year after year all one's life. I would i give worlds to be handsome for five ! minutes. I ar.i thin and sallow, with j protruding teeth, and my eyes are i weak. Cure your eyes with solution of bor-acic bor-acic acid applications. Ask the druggist to prepare it for you. ;o v-ti the choco- j late diet until you are plumped out a I little. Have your teeth s.raighteneil by scientific process. And. meanwhile, work on your complexion. Eat little i meal, but plenty of cooked fruit. Lots ! of vegetables. And be sure t ; eat J plenty of warm bread and butter and baked potatoes. Golden Locks: I want to make my I hair red. All my life I have longed for gold locks. I read about a girl whose hair was so glorious that all turned to lo k at her. You can make you hair redder by dipping dip-ping it in henna lea. But, O. dear girl, careful. It is so easy to get the hair going wrong. Why not be contented with it as nature gave it to you? Shampoo Sham-poo it until it is clean and soft. Dress it, prettily. But don't change the color unless you are willing tc keep on changing it for years, for it is a thing that must be clone consistently, for it will grow out dark at the roots. Maude N.: Does peroxide wear off the hair? I have had my hair bleached from a jet black to a golden bronze. Tt has begun to. grew out dark at the roots. What can I do for it? You will have to leave it as it is until un-til it grows out all the way. Or else you can have it colored black. It will be a slow piocess. Health as Well as Beauty. It does require industry and vigilance to keep one's self well-grooned; but the plainest-looking and poorest-dressed poorest-dressed woman will have our admiration admira-tion if we see evidences of the proper care as regards her skin, hands, hair and entire person. It is also in the line of health and hygiene to take care of ourselves bathing at the proper time and devoting a little time each day to one's personal appearance. It is not always the women of elegant ele-gant leisure that we find the neatest or the best groomed. Did you ever see tapering fingers covered with costly, cost-ly, beautiful rings: yet the hands were neglected, and we could discern little rims of black underneath the nails. While a very busy woman cannot can-not spend much time, manicuring and caring for her hands, yet she can free the pores and keep them healthy. A family physician recently advised a timid young mother with five little ones, who was always so uneasy about them catching diseases (as they went to school) to wash their hands before going to bed at night in warm water to which a little carbolic acid was added, add-ed, then dry good and dust thickly with Mennen's Talcum Powder and put them to bed. He said this powder was perfectly healthy and is softened the skin and done away with the harshness of the carbolic acid. Yv'e owe it to ourselves to kutp wtll-grooiv.-ed. Sarah IJentc.n. , . Wear Loore Clothing in Winter. "During the winter one should abjure i tight, shoes and t;;,rht cio'.hing of a'! j description if one would avoid adJi-I adJi-I r'orial suffering from the cold." Dr. j Gustave Lippman says. "Drivers of vehicles often have thti:-I thti:-I feet frostbitten, though they have made I every precaution cf which they ni.nl-- have knowledge against just sueh a j contingency arising, and the reason I they suffer frostbite is because they have gone to the extreme of wearing socks so thick that the feet are eramp d j in the sho.s, the circulation is thus ! retarded and frozen toes under such circumstances are practiea'dy inevita-l inevita-l hie. Men who sit still in an expose! place, like teamsters, sh uld never bind i the feet at all. The wrappings for waimth ought to be on the outside of the shoes, and never drawn tight. "Even -a citizen, who is not exposed : i to the inclemency of the -weather, and : who wears a tight shoe only in the evening, will suffer severely with cold feet because of t he retarded circulation. circula-tion. When the threat. H boundiy tightly tight-ly a cold in the head may develop, and women who lace the waist to an extreme ex-treme degree are in danger of contracting con-tracting a cold iii some part of the body which receives only a partial circulation circula-tion of blood in consequence. All clothing worn in cohl weather should be loose not too loose, but sufficiently as to enable the blood to flow naturally and freely, and the chances of colds and frostbites being contracted will be much reduced when this is attended to." St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The Popular Girl. The girl that is popular is the girl who laughs. Not the girl that simpers and puckers or giggles, but the girl that laughs and means it. The girl that laughs can have candy and flowers flow-ers and theatres every day in the week. Men flock about her. They adore her. She laughs herself straight into the hearts of beaux and admirers and straight into all the good times that a girl can dream of. She laughs, but she is careful when she laughs. She laughs with her beaux, but never at them. She laughs at what they say when they say it, but never afterward. aft-erward. She laughs at their jokes, but never about them. She never laughs at anyone's blunders or misfortunes. j Wholesale Dept. 'Phonea 876, S77. i f Ketail Dept. 'Phones 664, 965, 966. W. S. HENDERSON, Wholesale Grocer, Corner Second South and Third j j West streets. Retail Detpartment, ! 267-269 Main street. P I i Specialty, High-trade and Im- Q . ported Goods. a |