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Show I Woman's World Conducted by Helena Valeau. IHELENE VALEAU'S ANSWERS, Miss Valeau will reply to all quof-ikniB quof-ikniB aked by the feminine readers of ihe Intermountalii Catholic. The well known character mid authority of her rpplips need no introduction to those Hlroady familiar with her ability. Minn ! Valeau w ill take a kindly and personal interest in thppe who write to her, and ill ppare no pain? In Beeing that their iii((uirirR are answered fully and carefully. care-fully. Write only on one Vide of the paper. Addrep letters to MIps llelene Valeau, Intel mountain Catholic. ' I'cn-- Mic Vnleau: I Please tell nie a Rood di ving wash for I the hair and a curline liquid. O. M.. Park Cltv. A Kood drying wah may be made as follow: oil of canHa. one-half drachm: I !-'nti;l oil of almond, one fluid lrachm: ence of musk, one fluid Ora-hm; rectified spirit, two and a half ounces. Add after thoroughly mixing:, ! thr?e-quarters of a pint of distilled wa ter and one ounce of dissolved (turn am bic. I . 1 .. ,. . ... , . , . II v'.i cuiiniK ii'iuui 1 mane ironi I lichen speeds. Roil in water until re- 1u'ed to half Its bulk: then strain and scent whh a few drops of essence of I '-""se or violets. I I Dear Miss Valeau: I What will remove surnius fat from 1 ihf face? V. H. p.. Ogden. I A surplus of fat on the face is re- I 'iuced by severe liiasaelnfr. I'se cu- 1 .-nniber lotion cream. Wash the face ft nlcht in very hot water to open the ! P'res, anply the cream and then rub I lnrd. T5ep:in under the chin and rub up 1 towards the ears. Then place the finper 'ips Jut beli-w tbe cheek bones and 5 nib toward the temples. This, if done - I eonstanlly every nipht, will wear off ' I 1 superfluous flesh in several weeks. Al- I ways rub up. "3f Dear Miss Vnleau: j I am only "3 years old and quite bald. 1 j 'a.i you lulo me? , ' J AM ICS P., Salt Luke. I Y-.ur system evidently is sadly run down and in need of iron. The latter ' taken internally. I think, would benefit ' you. but that a physician must pre- i scribe. A tonic that should improve your bair is maJe of one-half ounce of tinc- 5f Hire of eantharldes. one pint of recti- :t fled spirits, one-half ounce of sublimed 'I sulphur and found ounces of glycerine. I Mix and Use three times a day, mois- I tenmjr the bald spot and massaging pcntly. Shake the bottle before using, j i At night wipe the spot pently with i warm water and pat until dry. Trouble and Borrowed Trouble. About one woman In a dozen now-ftdays now-ftdays -has what Is politely termed "nerves." In old times this disease was called "hypo: and later hysteria, j ' Of course nerves mean a real and most disagreeable Illness. The woman has f overdone "or been overdone. She may ' have done ton much housework; she , may have been to too many pewlng t ncle.'es. clubs mothers' meetings, plc- E nfrs and the like. She may have had f too Tnuch company, her second cousinB ! and their wives relations, or even I, dear friends of her own whom she i loves, until she is worn to a frazzle j from waiting on them, from hearing 5 them talk and from talking back to j them. Or she may have been too dull. 1 Hbc may liftve had a surfeit of same- ness and Is dying from it. And then. I again, her habit of mind may be to i borrow trouble. t 1 This habit Is a poor one to cultivate. I "It will grow on a woman and make f her far more wretcned than any real trouble will. Once her mind is trained to it.- she cau catalogue possibilities mid coticoct situations which for mis- ery will put to blush genuine grief. A I cough or a sneeze means to her a year I in the Adirondacks and finally death :md a handsome funeral. A strain I means permanent lameness; a head-c head-c ache, probable blindness: the loss of a I - position, the certain loss of the home I w ith all that it cost In the denial of lux- nries and the poorhouse In the near I future. Phe sees the sheriff's padlock on her door and nothing will avert it. If her daughter receives a glance of limitation, there will certainly be a i most unhappy marriage with all that 3 such a calamity carries with it. And I the woman wears herself out and meantime nothing much is wrong with ' her world except herself and her nerves. There Is no help for this ter-rlhie ter-rlhie state of affairs but a sharp change. The woman must, he ve change j nf'seene and surroundings. If she has ' ! to look out for herself, all the better. I She will have something to think of ; ihal is real and noi imaginary. If ' she cannot have that, there is nothing I 'ike real trouble. When real trouble- conies :o a wo- I n,an she usually astonishes hcr'friends f Vy her courage. -She lm her moan and I hour of weeping all by herself and : j Uien the woman in her shows itself I I ntid she acts the heroine. Usually she I i given no time to grieve. And we , j v,.e her endure funerals and prying I - yes. we see her stand immovable at I ar,ies, we see her face disgrace and ftoveriy without blanching. She puts i 1 ,,u a brave front and does her best, j I .MT-1 often her best is very good. The I j Slj- small Voice is in the real trouble. J j catholic T'nion and Times. L I Moody Women. I -it is ail very well to" be bright and J frolicsome. ill smiles and laughter, I when one is is or 20." remarked a I moody woman of .in, "but troubles soon I vtt'cp all that kind of thing away, and , I i yet some people wit go on trying to ? .' keep vouthful." ,v j fnd why shouldn't they?" asked an K ! "older woman. "Keeping youthful does I l ot mean pretending one is 25 when one i ha passed 40. but it does mean retain- f i-c that brlphtness and rteshness which i the charm of youth, and which every : cue rcali.es is the most delightful thing in ihe world. "Kvery one has or has had her youth, and 'it lias always appeared to me ab-viutelv ab-viutelv absurd the way people literally their vouthful feelings slip off as i i tl.rv walkalong the road of time. There j ; is no reason for it. It is some precon- $ ,eived idea that unconsciously urges I them to do it. It -big. grave troubles I ,.oniP j, m-v sober down their spirts O r tinS but then, if this youthful- j is such a pood thing their first J thought should .be to gather it up ' .round them agn. Just as ! a cloak that a gust of cold, b tter d had blown unfastened But as a lule. it isn't trouble, worry, stress or tmy. thing that may come to one that steals . ,way the brightness of .fe w wrP ) as that weird habit of nWnf. moods, and ugly moods, too. which so iji any women cultivate. "You will find moody women m every walk of life .lust tearing their youth from thnn. You have only to be with them ten minutes when you realize that v. h?(-,cv, r happens to them is. in their j jufct the very, y orst tbizig. If a preat happiness comes along they can only see how much greater it might have been, and so on. Their moodiness soon becomes a disease, and disease poon destroys all beauty in everything." For Nagging Housewives Only. There is no such kill-Joy 1n the home as the nagging, complaining wife and mother who sees only the dark side of things, and upon whose world the sun never shines. She courts trouble by going go-ing to meet it. instead of husbanding her strength so that if real sorrow comes her'way she is able to meet it with fortitude. The members of the household are made to suffer for the contrariness of circumstances, and each in turn falls under her displeasure. A nagging, complaining wife will soon wear out a man's love. He becomes impatient im-patient and then indifferent. This last is love's deadliest foe. As to the children, chil-dren, little people are great Imitators, and hearing mother nagging all day and every day they follow her example, and nag and quarrel among themselves; them-selves; thus their childish affections, end ineiilentollv. thefr rnnncitv for love in after life is nipped In the bud. Why women can be constantly scolding scold-ing and fretting when there are so many pleasant things to talk about Is past understanding. If women would refuse to see things from the blackest point of view . the clouds would soon give way to the bright and smiling morning. Secret of Woman's Health. If the woman of the twentieth .en-tury .en-tury is going to give the greater part of her waking hours to unnecessary care of her body, she sinks to the level of the Indian squaws whi were tha pets of the great chiefs hundreds of years ago. The squaws were oiled and painted and overhung with sharks' teeth and wampum they had rings on their fingers and bells on their tees. What real differences are there between be-tween those fine ladies of the Choc-laws Choc-laws and the Iroquois and the fine ladies of today? And yet thme echo In the ears of the modern woman the cry of the tenement house, the cry of the child laborer: the cry of alt the pressing, unsolved problems of the home and of the world the cry of her own Immortal soul -the -.htle she dawdles over her silly face, and grimaces grim-aces before a mirror! The ?quaw was the nobler woman of the two. At least, Fhe "lived up to her lights." The whole "bcautificaticn" enterprise enter-prise is delusive. The woman who scrupulously regards neatness, who observes the laws of health, who does the duty of each day as though it might be her last, and then glv?s hr best efTorts to making her world better bet-ter and happier without much considering con-sidering her own complexion that woman wo-man is not only admirable for her character, but she 's also likely to be far better looking than her belaced, overdressed, powdered, rouged, "ce-rated." "ce-rated." massaged and over-manipulated sisters. I Value of Olive Oil. Various forms and kinds of oils form a large stone In the foundation of beauty beau-ty culture. Only the thoughtful observer obser-ver realizes their importance and that they were indispensable to the belles of old time to the Greeks and Romans and eastern beauties- of ancient days. Olive oil was the most luxurious, as well as most common. It was taken tak-en Internally and externally: they rubbed rub-bed with it. bathed in it. drank it and used it a hundred ways. Olive oil Is still olive oil. though not so many people peo-ple recognize Its value except as an ingredient in-gredient for salad dressing. It is excellent for the digestion and may be taken in dopes of from one to nine or more teaspooiifuls a day. Some people find It distasteful taken clear. In that case it may be disguised in wine or lemonade or some pleasant drink, which of itself should ugree with the individual's system. Olive oil is a good flesh builder. If rubbed into the skin, it not only accomplishes accom-plishes this with faithful applications, but makes the skin soft and velvety. JQeing a vegetable oil. it has absolutely no tendency to stimulate a growth of hair. Olive oil is used in a hundred other ways, but the sum of its virtues lies aimnlv in this if is irentle in its nr. tlon. soothing, nourishing and strengthening. strength-ening. - Happiness a Duty. There is no duty we so much underrate under-rate as the duty of being happy. By-being By-being happy we sow anonymous benefits bene-fits in the- world, which remain un ! known even (o ourselves, or. when they are disclosed, surprise nobody so much as the benefactor. The other day a ragged, bare-foot boy ran down the street after U marble with so jolly an air that he sent every one he passed Into a. good humor. One of those persons, who had been delivered from more than usually black thoughts, Stopped the little follow and gave him some money with this remark: re-mark: "You see what comes sometimes some-times of looking pleased." If the boy had looked pleased before, he has now to look. both pleased and mystified. For my part, I justify this encouragement nf smlllnp rather thnn lonrfiil i-Oili- dren; I do not wish to pay for tears anywhere, hut I am prepawvl to deal largely In the opposite commodity. A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than five dollars. He or she is a radiating focus of good-will: and their entrance into a room Is as though another candle had been lighted. We need not care whether they could prove the forty-seventh proposition; they do a better thing than that: they practically demonstrate the great theorem theo-rem of the liveableness of life. Robert "Uiuis Stevenson. Hints to Nervous Women. There are so many things a neurasthenic neuras-thenic woman can do which will mitigate miti-gate the severity of her symptoms and, perhaps, if the disease is slight, she may recover without the intervention of her physician, says Dr. Hammond In Harper's. In the first place, the original orig-inal trouble, worry or anxiety which was responsible for her nervous breakdown, break-down, must be done away with, or, if this is Impossible, she must school herself not to care, or else remove her- J selef to new scenes and surroundings w here her mind will not be harrassed. Peace of mind will do more to restore shattered nerves than almost anything else. The next thing Is to make the bodily health as good as it can be made under the existing circumstances and surroundings. sur-roundings. Sleep and rest are absolutely absolute-ly essential to recovery, and the sufferer suffer-er should do all she csn to secure both, t Narcotics, to produce sleep, are not to be thought of. They do not cure anything, any-thing, and their continual use can only be uroductive of harm. TranQUilize the mind, banish by force of will unpleasant unpleas-ant thoughts, and sleep alone rather than with some one else whose restlessness restless-ness or deep breathing, to say nothing of snoring, might well banish sleep from the eyes of even Morpheus himself. him-self. Sometimes a warm foot-bath before be-fore bed, or eating a slice of bread and butter, or drinking a glass of milk Will bring sleep to the tired eyes. If. however, how-ever, these means are inadequate, it is better to consult a physician. Normal slep. and plenty of it, must be secured before recovery becomes possible. For Hot Hands. The following lotion will prove very beneficial when the hands? perspire too fieely and become uncomfortable in consequence. Take ten grains of tannic tan-nic acid, half an ounce of .implo tincture tinc-ture of bezoln, two ounces of elder-flower elder-flower water and three ounces of rose-water. rose-water. This mixture should be used on the hands, and the result will be thul they will remain fresh and cool. The Duty of Being Well Dressed. Every woman realizes more or less the influence of dress on the mind, and that if she would be good-natured and self-possessed, she must be neatly and becomingly attired. Dress is the exponent ex-ponent of character and while the old saying that clothes do not make the man is doubtless true, yet there are certain niceties of dress which almost Invariably characterize a lady or a gentleman. The woman who appears nn the street in a Paris costume and wears soiled and torn finery In the house is lacking In some of the domestic domes-tic virtues. She Is either indolent and slovenly or else she is Impolite enough to think that it does not matter how-she how-she treats her family. In this she makes a serious mistake, for dress is an environment not only to the wearer, but to all with whom she comes In contact, con-tact, and especially to children and inferiors. in-feriors. If a woman's wardrobe must suffer at times, I would prefer the one who would wear a shabby dress in public rather than saciifice her neatness at home. It shows better traits of character. But the secret of being well dressed depends de-pends more on good taste and infinite pains than on money. Unfortunately our American women do not make sufficient suf-ficient study of artistic dressing and are too close followers of fashion. A French woman cares little if her gown is in the latest style, provided it is of good material ma-terial and becoming. She never loses sight of the latter feature and she positively posi-tively refuses to wear things that make her look hideous, no matter how strong-lv strong-lv thev may be advocated by fashion, "it should be the personality of the woman rather than her dress that makes an Impression: elegance of carriage, car-riage, harmonv of effect and the Inde: finable something that gives her clothes the air of being made for her above every other woman. Doing One's Hair. "Knack" at doing one's hair will result re-sult in a better coiffure than can be made bv the hairdresser. There are even few French maids who can do the hair as becomingly as the woman who has once learned the art can do It for herself. By putting thought in it always and doing it carefully everyday, every-day, whether it is an important occasion occa-sion or not. a woman will In time acquire ac-quire the gift of doing her hair well. If the locks are kept in a healthy condi- , tlon, trimmed and burnished and waved once in a while by the nairaresse(r, ana if they are scrupulously clean and glossy, it is comparatively easy for a woman to achieve a good coiffure for herself. |