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Show f Woman's World Conducted by Helen Valeau. HELENE VALEATJ'S ANSWERS. I V Miss Yalcau will reply to all jues-J lions asked by the feminine readers of ihe Intermontain Catholic. The we'.l j kiiown character and authority of her replies need no introduction to those already familiar v.ith her ability. Miss J Valeau tvlll take a kirdly and personal interest in those who write to her, and will spare no pains In seeing that their inquiries arc answered fully and carefully. care-fully. "Write only on one side of the paper. Address letters to Miss llelene Valeau, lnterniountain Catholic. Picnic toll me what to use for a s-hampoo for the hair; also what will help the scalp. Shampoo your hair once a week with the following lotion:, yolk of one egg-, one pint of hot rain water, one ounce of spirits of rosemary; beat the mixture mix-ture up thoroughly and use it warm, rubbing: it well into the skin of the head. Rinse your hair thoroughly in several waters. After your scalp gets back to its normal condition, once in every two weeks will be often enough. Please tell me how to improve ray complexion. Enfclosh women, who are noted for their beautiful complexions, use the following mixture for cleansing, softening: soft-ening: and whitening the skin: One pound of bran and a quarter of a pound of starch is muslin bags, a couple cou-ple of ounces being put in each. Boiling Boil-ing -water is poured over them, and when they are coll it can be squeezed out or. they may be used as they are. as wash cloths. The starch is added so i hat some of it may be left as a fine, impalpable powder to whiten the skin. A violet perfume is imparted by adding add-ing one ounce of powdered orris root and ten grains of lonone. Your thin, fiellcate skin does not need steaming, massaging, nor should yon dry it with povders or astringent lotions. Bathe V it at least once a week with sweet )! milk. rie.nse tell me what to use for a complexion wash. I Here is the formula for a simple complexion wash which will give your a!!? "kin a fresh and healthy appearance: jt " Four ounces of rosewater. four ounces of orange flower water, two and one-half one-half drams of borax and one ounce of tincture of benzoin. Mop your face with this lot'on wice a. day. V. Please tell me how to make Reca- micr cream. Koca.mler cream is one of the best of face creams. Here is the formula for it: Four ounces of oxide of zinc, thirteen thir-teen drams of glycerin, one dram of spirits of rose and five drams of water. The Complexion. There is not the slightest excuse for a coarse complexion: where the skin grows dull with coarse pores and an oily look it is due almost entirely to neglect of propT cleansing as well as to greasy, rich foods. I should like to tell every woman exactly ex-actly how to use a "complexion brush," pnd" what-kind to use, as so much depends de-pends upon both as to whether results are good or exactly the opposite. A brush that is too stiff will scratch the in, making it rough and scaly; if it is too soft it docs no good, and the worst feature of using such a method is that nothing so quickly becomes filled with impure germs that cause eruptions of all sorts as the ordinary "complexion" brush when it is not properly prop-erly taken care of. As an addition to the coarse skin, blackheads are nearly always found in abundance. While I cannot give a "formula" for the cure of these, as so often requested, simply because no formula includes the means to be used, there is nothing easier than to remove them, only it takes time, and that is what few women care to grant. They all want some treatment that will eradicate erad-icate the blackheads in a few days when they arf really the accumulated result of year' ,' neglect of the laws of real Heanlir If the fac- i I shed properly there will never b -ikheads: they are fc just dirt; pi i o" . dirt, that has j passed Into ti :r t o" . s, been rubbed in still further h ;e application of i soaped wash c-.v. -ind powders, and never really wi 1 out. In time they -"' fill the pores with a sebaceous matter, and a tiny black s;ot forms on the top f each: whence fie name of "blackheads." "black-heads." The only way to get rid of this condition condi-tion is to begiM and continue the treatment treat-ment until they are all gone; this may take a year, but they will be gone, if the woman persists faithfully. First, as the pores are filled and choked and hardened, they must be V softened. I do not approve of the r "steaming" process for this: neither the application of exceedingly hot water; both are apt to inflame and leave worse than blackheads; festering pimples, a f ter. Warm water and three soft, big cloths; some good bland soap that makes a lather easily and takes off dirt; the cloths wrung out and laid on the face, changing as fast as they begin to cool, until the whole surface is pink from the heat and soft also; then a lather with more clean water and soap, applied with the palms of the hands and the rubbing hard enough to make the skin tingle: then the rinsing in fresh warm and lastly cold water and do ing with a soft warm towel. If the skin is examined after this is properly done it will be noted that a great many of the tiny black f-pots are washed away. Press out any that will come readily. i:6ing a bit of old linen between the nails to avoid breaking or bi-ui.sing the Fkin: as each comes out h.ve a little diluted alcohol, half each of water and the spirits, and with a tiny camel's hair V brush touch the open pore: this closes ; it temporarily: when all are out that I can be pressed easily, fill the face with cold cream and let it remain half an hour; then wipe off any that is superfluous su-perfluous with a soft cloth, the amount J of dirt that comes will be incredible. t4 Again fill with cold cream, this time rubbing it In gently, wipe off a little and dust with powder. If this treatment treat-ment is repeated every night and the precaution taken of always filling the skin with cold cream before going: outi into the dust and grime of the streets, the pores cannot collect more dirt, and the cold cream, being soft, will not distend dis-tend them further. Only keep them filled with something clean until they have a chance to close. (If a strong astringent lotion is ap-" ap-" plied over the accumulation of black- heads it only serves to tighten the pores over thcni, not remove them; so the lotion lo-tion for which I offer formula should t never be used in the beginning of treating treat-ing a case of blackheads. For the coarse, oily skin camphor water is good. Mix half an ounce of borax and the same of glycerine into half a pint of camphor water, not the spirits. Wet the face with this in the morning and let it dry: it is very healing heal-ing and helps to cure the ollincss. But the softening and thorough cleansing should be done every night without fail if the skin is to become refined in texture. text-ure. Warm water has to be used for these oily skins, but a cold spray should always al-ways finish: then the cold cream, well rubbed in, helps to make the glands soft so they will perform their natural functions of supplying Just enough and no more natural oils to the pores. A mixture that takes the place of soap in making a lather is half a dram of iodide of potassium in one ounce of glycerine added to a pint of soft water; apply with the wash cloth or the brush and rinse off in warm, then cold, water. ASCETICS FOR SOCIETY. The Fashionable Suffer Far Greater Rigors Than the Christian j Who Keeps Lent. The re&traint and mortification of ! Lent, as now observed, are slight in j comparison with the hardships which many people in society impose upon themselves. A fashionable woman as flippant as fashionable was once ! heard to declare, says the Ave Maria, that she had suffered more in her lifetime life-time from tight shoes alone that St. Lawrence did from his gridiron. Not to speak of the mental strain and bodily bodi-ly fatigue incidental to constant entertaining enter-taining and visiting, the stern discipline disci-pline of the table, the hard trials of the drawing room, or a hundred and one things to which people in society have to accustom themselves, the exigencies exigen-cies of dress alone constitute a ereater hardship that common folk have any idea of. Who that mixes in society is allowed to wear what he pleases, where he pleases? He must conform to usage, though he would prefer any fashions that ever existed to some which prevail. Wherever he goes he must wear the fetters fet-ters with which society binds him: and they are all the more irksome for being shared by so many others. "When, therefore." says an anonymous anony-mous writer, "we shudder at a life of asceticism or Chirstian perfection, it becomes be-comes a question whether as much restraint re-straint of the natural man is not exacted ex-acted by life in society as in the acquirement ac-quirement of Christian virtues. The actual physical pain endured in society diseases gout, dyspepsia, neuralgia and the like is as great in amount, and perhaps greater in intensity, than the bodily lacerattion of ascetics. The self-control self-control and self-inspection prescribed for attaining humility, patience or meekness, are not much greater than are needed for acquiring th ways of society; and use or habit makes them similarly a second nature. Hence the comparison depends on the motive or end. The object in submitting to the exigencies of society is pleasure and the enjoyment of society. An old victim of society, reviewing his forty years in it, may well ask what he has gained by his adherence to society rule. Was the game worth the candle? A Christian life is a higher ideal, a nobler aim; and a believer in immortality has enormously enor-mously the advantage of his forty years' practice of Christian virtues for a similar amount of self-restraint; it is tlie difference between a wasted life and a life of successful lagor. Xor does he lack the qualities of a true gentleman. The Christian virtues induce the consideration con-sideration for others that Is the mainspring main-spring of what we call a gentleman. A saint has all the requisites of a gentleman, gentle-man, but a gentleman has not always the requisites of a saint." Care of the Hands. To be able to conceal the defects and bring out the good points of the hand is an art which women are always striving to cultivate. The fingers must be trained to show off their beauty. Even more they must be shown how to behave. The ill-behaved hand Is always al-ways ill at ease without showing the. good points which the well-behaved hand has been taught to show. Some hands have defects which can be hidden. I have in mind a woman whose hands are too broad for their length. They have the pudgy look which gives one an idea of commonplacenesg and poor ancestry. Now, this woman, who happens to have the bluest of blood in her veins, is verv sensitive ubont lipr ordinary-looking hands. "They are pos-ivtiley pos-ivtiley plebeian," she confided to me one day. "They may look disagreeable to you," said I, "but I can assure you that they are pretty hands or would be, if you knew how to hold ihem." I then placed her In front of a mirror j to convince her by experiment. Picking j up one of her pudgy hands I placed it in such e position that the forefinger came Just upon the tip of her chin. The other fingers were curled under. That is the Cleopatra pose. The Egyptian queen counted that one of her Pest attitudes, at-titudes, if her casts are anything to go by . It certainly gave a classic length to her forefinger and a beautiful line to her wrist. After some thought and study this woman learned complete control of her hands, and in a short time they seemed to possess patrician lines and grace. Women neglect their hands and nails, although ten minutes a day is the cost of a well-groomed hand. Surely it should be easy to spend so short a time when such results may be attained. All hands have faults, and, unfortunately, unfortu-nately, we get accustomed to the faults of our own hands. The nail grows crooked, one side is lower than the other, the moons are irregular and the nail itself is rough and corrugated from too little use of the buffer. These defects de-fects the owners may not notice. Every woman can be her own manicure mani-cure with a little practice and patience. Nails must be trained to the proper shape, which should be a trifle more pointed at the end than the moon at the base like an almond. This is done by a good file which is smooth on one side so there may be no danger of roughening roughen-ing the flesh under the nail. After this is done the tips of the fingers fin-gers are soaked in tepid water softened with shaved soap and a teaspoonful of borax powder. The a cut lime or lemon Is gently rubbed round the nail until the cuticle Is sott. Again the fingers are washed, and. with a small piece of cotton cot-ton wrapped around the point of a wet orange stick, the superfluous cuticle that has been allowed to grow around the nail is carefully removed and the flesh is gently lifted up and pushed back from the base o the nail. Never cut Tthisrtruticle with scissors. The art lies - in .keeping it rolled back without spoiling the shape of the nail. If the flesh is simply drawn back, it leaves a pale half moon, bluish in tint. If this is not carefully done it will leave unsightly scars on the nail. Cold cream should be massaged in and around the nail three or four times a week: this prevents the nail from becoming brittle and splitting. . In many respects the hand should remind re-mind one of a beautiful shell. The back should be smooth and white and the pa Ira pink. Pink ualms are the sign of youth. The girl of 16. has them, and the woman who wants'.io. Jceep bed hands from growing old should;. "Study methods for making them, plrtk.v The French woman rouges them lavishly with a kind of rouge that does not come off on her handkerchief. Rubbing them with a rough Turkish towel Is a safe method, A little cologne rubbed on the palms will make most hands pink and perfume them at the same time. A few drops of oil of jasmine diluted with alcohol and delicately massaged into the wrists will scent one's sleeves and make the arms mroe supple. The women of Europe display their hands to much better advantage than do the Americans. They express with their hands what the American women do with their eyes. The ancients had the harp, which almost al-most seemed designed to display the hands. The Spanish woman has the fan. with which she gives expression to her moods. She also has the mantilla, by-means by-means of which she shows off the whiteness white-ness of her hands. The French woman has her wonderful lace handkerchief. The beautiful women of Venice are never nev-er without their flowers. Along the Med- j iterranean women make free use of gestures, ges-tures, the graceful movement of the hands, and in this descriptive panto- j mime express their every mood. In far-away Egypt there is the coffee cup. dainty and delicate, holding but a spoonful, but giving the Egyptian belle an opportunity to display-her hands. Some appreciative man described his hostess' hands as white doves fluttering around the coffee cups. Does this sound like an American speech? ! WITH CHILDHOOD GONE. i It wouldn't be much of a world for me ! With childhood only a used-to-be; Jt wouldn t bo much of a life to spend Wore love and laughter of child lo end; A dreary road and a lonely way With childhood gone from the land ' of play. It wouldn't be much of a dwelling place With childhood gone, and its April grace Dim and faded, and little feet W.'th their music lost from the field and street; No laughter heard, no fairy born. No patering down on the steps of morn. It wouldn't be morning at all or noon, Nor fall or winter, or May or June, Nor day or night or the even hour, , With no one folding a little flower Or childhcod dream on a mother-breast While the twilight drifted down to rest. It wouldn't be' much of a. world to mo With never "a Tightheart on my knee; And the house would die, and the doors would rust And the stairs of morning fall in dust, And 'dawn forget us, and laughter come Like ghosts of music on lips grown dumbs. Baltimore Sun. THE SPRINGTIME GARDEN. One can harrdly have too many of the verbena and the pansy. Seed of both should be started very early. The salvia Splendens will give one the brightest spot in the garden, and this grows readily from seed. For tall effects the cosmos is one of the best and most satisfactory annuals, an-nuals, and blooms incessantly for months, in spite of all hardships. Of this flower . there are three varieties: white, rose and crimson. To let vines climbs up on wooden buildings will cause damage to the outer walls by premature decay. A trumpet vine In full bloom and trained to a pole v.ith the flower-tipped sprays stretched in every direction illustrates the easiest and handsomest way to grow them. It is an error that the Irish shamrock sham-rock does not take kindly to American soil, says a writer in Floral Life. I have hundreds of little self-sown seedlings seed-lings coming up from one original I plant, which I set out this spring. The flowers are small and of a yellow color. It remains to be seen if they will live out of doors during the winter, since it is a. well known fact that the climate of the Emerald Isle is milder than ours here. Where your soil is not too forbidding mixed verbena seed will give a glorious glori-ous return, and in. long stretches of bare ground the stlk poppies for. if in the background, where taller flowers are needed for a backing to the low-growing low-growing kinds) the regular common, large flowering poppy, In its varieties, varie-ties, will give months of gay bloom, and grow wonderfully, with no care to mention. THE DOER. Her hands were not soft as you touched them, Nor were they of delicate hue: They were hard and labor had smutched them She had always so much to do: Others might idle in pleasure The lingering hours away: Sh never had a moment of leisure-Except leisure-Except when she knelt to pray. She was lowly of race, and no beauty Nor riches she ever could boast: The pathway to good she thought duty. And that was the way she loved most. So unto the sad and th weary The touch of her hand was as balm. And the words of her comforting cheery A3 sweet to their ears as a psalm. To those that were burdened v.'th sorrow sor-row She came like an ?ng?l to bltss. With hopo of a brighter tomorrow. When comfort should banish distress. So she lived only known to her neighbors. neigh-bors. Remote from the world's busy ways; And when she had ceased from her labors. la-bors. There were few to mourn her or praise. ' But into the mansions of glory Who can doubt of the welcome she had From the Master, who knew all her . story. How she labored and loved and wa? glsd? Indianapolis News. V ' ft ' |