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Show ; Woman's Wot id Conducted by Helene Valeau. HELENE VALEAU'S ANSWERS. Miss Valeau will reply to all questions ques-tions asked by the feminine readers of the Intei-mountain Catholic. The -well known character and authority of her replies need no introduction to those already familiar w ith her ability. Miss Valeau will take a kindly and personal interest in those who write to her, and will spare no pains in seeing that their inquiries are answered fully and carefully. care-fully. Write only on one side of the paper. Address letters to Miss Helene Valeau. Intermountain Catholic. 5 l-ar Miss Valeau: Please give nie a recipe for thicken- 1 ing the eyebrows. NELLIE M., C-oldfleld. To make the eyebrows thick: Red t vaseline, 1' ounces; tincture, of canthar- ; H"s, Js ounce; oil of lavender, 15 drops: oil of rosemary, 13 drops. Mix thoroughly. thor-oughly. Apply to the eyebrows with a tiny toothbrush once a day until the prow th is sufficiently stimulated; then ! l'-ff often. This ointment may be used t for the eyebrows alone. In this case it should be very carefully applied. It i will inflame the eyes, as any oil will, ? if it gets into them. j Dear Miss Valeau: 1 What will assist me in reducing 1 fl'h? J. S.. Butte. I To reduce flesh avoid all starchy and sweetened food, all cereals, vegetables J containing- sugar or starch, such as I peas, beans, corn, potatoes, etc. Have j your bread toasted, sprinkle it with salt instead of butter. Milk, if it be pure and pood, is fattening. Skim milk may be drunk. Hot water is an excellent excel-lent substitute for other liquids. Add ii little of the juice of limes or lemons to it, if you choose. Limit your sleep-inp sleep-inp hours to seven at the outside, na naps. You must take exercise. If you cannot walk at least five miles a day. and do not wheel go to one of tiie institutions where mechanical massage mas-sage is given. The system Is thoroughly thorough-ly wholesome and not exuensive. In reducing flesh, the one fact to recollect is that fat is carbon oxygen destroys or burns out carbon. You must consume con-sume the carbon by the oxygen you take through your lungs. The more exercise, the more oxygen and consequent conse-quent destruction of fat by the one healthful method of curing obesity. The more starch and sugar you eat the more carbon to burn awav. Dear Miss Valeau: What will remove superfluous hair? G. M., Pueblo. Superfluous hair cannot be permanently perma-nently removed except by electrolysis. The pumice treatment will, however, Vrrect this condition for a time, but must be renewed as the hairs reappear. Get an ordinary 5-cent cake of pumice pum-ice stone. This is not pumice soap, but the regular old-fashioned pumice stone. To remove the hair, rub the skin afflicted af-flicted with the superfluous prowth, and the pumice stone will wear the hair off. Be careful not to be too heroic and irritate ir-ritate the skin. In case the arms are made red by this treatment, use a little lit-tle cold cold. The pumice stone is best used at night before retiring. ART. The lien remarked to the muley cow. As she cackled her daily lay, (That is, the hen cackled,) "It's funny how I'm good for an egg today. I'm a fool to do it, for what do I get? My food and my lodging. My! But the poodle gets ; that he's the household pet. And he has never laid a single egg even when eggs are high." The muley cow remarked to the hen, As she masticated her cud. (That is, the cow did,) "Well, what then? You quit, and your name is mud. I'm good for eight gallons of milk each day. And I'm given my stable and grub; But the parrot gets that much, anyway-All she can gobble and what does she pay? Not a dribble of milk, the dub!" But the hired man remarked to the pair, "You get all that's comin' to you. The poodle does tricks, an' the parrot kin swear, Which is better th'n you kin do. You're necessary, but what's the use o' bewailin' your daily part? You're bourgeois workin's your only excuse; Yon can't do nothin' but just produce What them fellers does is art!" Musician's Chronicle. Rooster Saves Child's Life. (Chicago Tribune.) Last summer we had a large Leghorn Leg-horn rooster which we called Chang. Chans; was a vicious old bird and decidedly de-cidedly unfriendly toward most people, peo-ple, with the exception of our little .'i-year-old son, Billy. Between the two k great friendship existed, Chang following fol-lowing Billy around the yard, eating from his hand and even playing with him in rooster fashion. One morning a terrified scream from my wife brought me hurriedly from out of the house to witness a sight which froze nip with horror. Sitting on the ground happily playing, play-ing, and all unconscious of his peril, was lit tl" Billy, while behind him not three feet away, with loathsome folds coiled and ready to strike, lay a vicious rattlesnake. Agonized and desperate, as a last hope I was about to make a lash at the reptile, when we heard a terrific squawk, and old Chang, every feather on end, his eyes red with fury, swooped across the yard and pounced upon the rattler with beak and claws. To snatch our boy out of danger and then kill the snake was the work of a moment, but poor faithful old Chang received the deadly stroke aimed at his little playmate and paid the penalty for his bravery with his life. For the Complexion. (Bv Eleanor Morris.) A most valuable face bleach and a soothing lotion as well, is elder-flower elder-flower water. It Is rather - hard to procure, but very easily made at home. It is used in the" mixing of face creams and lotions, and gives much satisfaction. satisfac-tion. It is made as follows: Pluck the flowers and cut off the stalks quite close up to the blossoms and place the latter in a large earthenware jar or In an -enameled saucepan. If you use. the saucepan just cover the blossoms with water and heat to boiling point, I hen strain off the water and add two ounces of alcohol to every quart of vater. Bottle, and It is ready for use. If. you prefer an earthenware jar, do us 'follows: Fill the jar with the blos-uutis, blos-uutis, pour hot (but not boiling) water over them and let them' stand for twenty-four hours. When the water is carefully strained through a muslin bag, then add the alcohol. Elderfiower water may be used to bathe the face every morning; also after you have cleansed it with a cream. If closes the pores, refines the skin, and will be a great help in keeping keep-ing it smooth. A whitening lotion, which is also a tonic, is made from tincture of camphor cam-phor one ounce, tincture of benzoin one-half ounce, elderfiower water two ounces. It is also a powerful astringent, astrin-gent, and, combined with other ingredients, ingre-dients, forms a tonic for an oily skin. This one is especially good: Elder-flower Elder-flower water six ounces, eau de cologne one-half ounce, tincture of benzoin one drachm, cucumber juice one ounce. Especially commended for nightly use when the face is red, dry, rough or tanned from exposure to the wind and sun, is a tream of these ingredients: ingre-dients: Almond oil four ounces, spermaceti sper-maceti one ounce, white wax one ounce, elderfiower water two ounces. MEN SLAVES TO BEAUTY. Lament of a Woman With an Unal-luring Unal-luring Face. (Baltimore News.) That men are slaves to beauty is a fact which every woman who lacks that quality recognizes with a pang. Virtues of one sort and another masculinity mas-culinity dwells upon in .its tale what goes to make the perfect wife. Then it rushes out and marries a beautiful creature who lacks them. It isn't remarkable that our brother weak as .water and unstable as the wind should regard good looks as of prime importance in the other sex. What is remarkable is the naive manner man-ner in which he admits this fact. "I hate to talk to a homely woman," said a man the other day. "When I do converse with a girl, as she has not sense enough to talk well about the stock market, politics, or horse racing, rac-ing, I demand that she shall be beautiful. beau-tiful. Since I must talk down to her about things which are of no interest to me, I insist that she shall be pretty enough to justify the waste of time." He made this remark to a feminine friend who is not handsome, but who has , an abundance of spirit. "And what about the woman's end of it?" she cried. "You are not at all good looking. You are not even particularly entertaining. What compensation has she for wasting time on ybu?" - It was a new- point of) view entirely, entire-ly, and it irritated his lordship. "There are some people who think I am not so unpresentable," said e, and went away and never came batk. "I don't demand that woman be beautiful," said another ian. "All I ask is that she have a niee figure, dress well, so that a fellow will be proud to be seen on the street with her, have large and expressive tyes and a sweet voice." ', He was a commonplace loking man with no marked fascination5. His own eyes were .small and not particularly expressive, his voice was not sweet, but he demanded the best. "To be born with a face that does not attract is - a terrible affliction," sighed a young woman .not long ago. "Now, take my own cas for instance. When a man is introduced to me at a function he says a few polite words and then edges towarci some pretty girl ' of his acquaintance) Occasional-13, Occasional-13, if there is no pretty girl or other means of rescue in sight he has perforce per-force to stop' and chat with me. Then I work as better favored women never do. I am as fascinating as I can imagine. I play upon his vanity, find out his pet hobby, get him to talking talk-ing about it or himself and sometimes manage to so interest him that later when there is a beauty about he does not desert me for her. "At a dance, when my reluctant partner finds that I do this rather well, he is sometimes nice and attentive to me during the evening, but generally speaking I am handicapped seriously in the race for attention. I have never known a single man, not an old friend, to pick me out to talk to or dance with when there was a more attractive girl about, one with dimples and curls, for instance. Many times the men who protest at being asked by a hostess to sit beside me at dinner are themselves them-selves homely and awkward besides, but sometimes I think that the uglier the man the more attractive he demands de-mands that the girl he pays attention to shall be. "Women are rather attracted to homely women. Men seldom or never are." How Queens "Make Up." Like the humblest of their feminine subjects, even royalty possesses a weakness for the toilet table, the mysteries mys-teries of which have, from time immemorial, im-memorial, provided huge fortunes for the tradesmen who supply its peculiar' and generally expensive needs. The ruler of Holland, until the recent Spanish marriage the youngest European Euro-pean queen, believes profoundly in the morning tub, into whose waters a pint of the finest essence of cologne finds its way. Before emptying the scent into her tub Wilhelmina tests the purity pur-ity of the fluid herself over the lamp upon which her morning chocolate has been prepared. "Wilhelmina possesses one of the loveliest love-liest and most delicate complexions in Europe, a fact, she attributes to the Spartan diet and open-air life of ner girlhood. The only scent to be found upon her dressing table is rosewater, and . this, w ith glycerine, is the only adjunct -to her toilet which the youthful youth-ful ruler permits herself. Yet, despite her protestations to intimates, court gossips insist that no complexion in the world could be so perfect without the assistance of a whole battery of Parisian beautifiers. Alfonso's bride is another Frm believer be-liever in simplicity of "make-up." Eau de cologne is her favorite perfume. To such length does Spain's queen csrry her detestation of "aids" that a royal cousin bv marriaee. insnectin? Vic toria's private apartments for the first time, declared the toilet table arrangements ar-rangements as "most uninteresting." The Czarina, on the other hand, positively pos-itively revels in matters apertaining to her' toilet, and spends no less than $20,000 annually with one Paris bouse for perfumery alone. Her dressing table is of solid silver, with legs of malachite, and- the contents 4f her many jewelled scent bottles represent a small fortune in precous smells! But . her favorite essence is violet, 'arid for several weeks in early spring hundreds of women and girls may be seen at Grasse gathering the blossoms from which the Czarina's perfume is made. The finished product is tested, 1 ottle by bottle, at the St. Petersburg Acad- : " vmy of Chemistry before being sent to the imperial stores, and the substitution substitu-tion of a single ounce of imitation essence es-sence would cost the maker a contract worth a fortune annually. The soan employed by. the Empress of Russia is made by another Paris firm from a recipe which they dare not divulge or employ upon behalf of any other customer. The rooms and corridors used by the "first lady of all the Russias" are sprinkled hourly, with rare perfume, principally frangipani, narcissus and ambergris, creating an atmosphere which the average healthy England-woman England-woman would probably find intolerable. intolera-ble. Carmen Sylva, the Queen of Rou-mania, Rou-mania, employs upon her skin and in her bath an extract made from forest herbs by her royal self, and although many of her illustrious relatives have pressed her for the secret she refuses to divulge it. The German Empress, justly famed for her beautiful shoulders, gives the credit to a certain spermaceti soap. The preparation used by her has a de-licously de-licously refreshing odor, relaxes the tiny muscles, and at the same time acts as a marvellous tonic upon the tender cuticle of the face and neck. Peppermint, a solvent so cheap that no one would dream of adulterating it, her majesty employs as a dentifrice. New-mown hay is her favorite handkerchief hand-kerchief perfume, and the royal suite receives frequent atomizations -of eau de cologne. The empress powders freely free-ly with poudre-de-riz, a fashion her august consort does not object to, although al-though his strictures upon dyed hair compel her to refrain from attempting to darken her prematurely white coiffure coif-fure by artificial means. Queen Alexandra's figure and complexion com-plexion are the envy and admiration of half European royalty. She is supposed sup-posed to fight wrinkles by anointing her complexion with cold cream, which remains on during the night. Her taste in perfume is chiefly confined to cologne co-logne and violet, and,' according to a well-informed writer a little while ago, the royal dressing table in the matter of toilet preparations is conspicuous by being "a little out of date" a fact which speaks volumes. The late Queen Regent of Spain is hardly a handsome woman, although her countenance is thoughtful and kindly in expression, bearing as it does the impress of an anxious and unhappy unhap-py life. She uses a soap made from whale oil, and also indulges in the very Spanish custom of treating her complexion com-plexion to a nightly coating of salve, both from Spanish productions. Even eau d'espagne, whose virtues she extolled ex-tolled to her son's bride on the occasion occa-sion of their first meeting, has failed to restore the fading charms. . . 1 The Simple Life. Just leave the city's heated air, And seek both joy and rest By casting all your load of care On Nature's loving breast. Then visit each remembered nook You haunted years ago The pastures green, the pebbly brook, The field you used to hoe. Again you'll see the rustic gate Where you were wont to lean With her you deemed your chosen mate A lass of sweet sixteen. How like your boyhood days 'twill seem, As leisurely you stroll Down by the dear old silver, stream With bait and fishing pole. ' The bank of yielding moss will be A cool and restful bed. With Nature's azure canopy Suspended o'er your head. The birds will twitter all day long The notes you love to hear; The bees will drone a harvest song Familiar to your ear. The aster and the golden rod, Each butterfly's retreat. Will seem :o give a friendly nod When e'er you chance to meet. A zephyr will your senses steep With incense from the flowers, And give to you refreshing sleep . Through summer's golden hours. And when at last you must depart . To join the din and strife, There'll be a yearning in your heart To lead "the simple life." Sns-m Fther Mllner. |
