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Show te? H J- ; : : I THE WELCOME HOME. !o7 I -hr.ii twilight bells are ringing 8weet, Ss I i id evening echoes Erect me, w ijappv heart seems singing sweet 0( ' , ,f someone who w ill meet me. ? Ol blue eves 'neath a golden crown O? ! Dear eyes: that watch and wait Xl 1 vid little footsteps pattering down ? 1 't1ic pathway to the gate. .! ' enough sud to toil in barren soil, 0( j Though fortune has not found me, f I know that night will bring me light f? j nil twine two arms around me: I Lm'kI let the day be gold or gray o f What thought so sweet as this: 3c i-jt , i rifts and dreams my darling's way I Wlio keeps for me a kiss." S o l"ve of life- and strength in strife! o ii joy to sorrow given! K' I t dear eyes that make "life's skies, 5 earth as sweet as heaven! j vjjii can bear with grief and care, j H'l face the storms to be, I l L"ve. the comforter, will share A The crust, the crumbs, with me! 2 -WOMEN SUPPLANT ? I MEN AS CASHIERS "X (Chicago Tribune.) 1 i 1 iik' of the reasons why there are v three times as many women as men 7 i D.-mig as cashiers is the arrowing dis- Jj (t 1 . yi...ition on the part of young men fo ? I ' i.- h' "" ,hp racc6 a,ld to dabble in the f I I f L.i.-keti-hop.. 5 ! 7 I- Tlii. is what several employers dor ' i s lt re, and one of them continues: J I ; -Within ten years 1 have seen an al- j 8 i ii '.-st incredible growth of interest in l i race track. The time was when j t!i-i ia talk of poker and roulette mi l policy among men in Chicago. Now i I f-r ihing is horse racing. You hear ' I suhjo( t brought up on all sides ( J v ii"j-e there is a chance group of shal- i j low young men. They talk horse, of ! j. iro.s and dams, of jockeys and heavy ! ! n-iioks. of odds, and all that until it ji;'k's me siek of the whole business. 'Having a woman cashier, however, f .iml employing several other women in .llinost equally responsible places, I '( have a. sense of securityMhat I never J 1 al when thes positions were filled by moii. At the same time not one f thrse w omen ' is under bond in surety I oiKpanics. If my judgment of them lias cone wrong and my cashier ah- i-onds. it will be my los. of course, but ) at the fain time I think if will 'be a I in-faking-of the record for woman's I lionohty in Fiii'li positions in Ohlcapo. J never have heard of one woman cash- S jer who has played false with her I clia rgc.'' Better Equipped, fox Position. f Ranking houses are the one excep- tien to the growing rule. Scarcely any I eiher line of large r small business is j net making: roncpiHoiifi to -the ; desir- I ability of a womn at the cashier's win- I ..;iv or desk. Not only are ihe women eliiers in positions, but- in the ad. j vTMements of cashiers wanted the I pre-ferenco for women is as marked. I riiysic-ally nd. tempera menially. wo- f man is better equipped for the role of t cash accountant in the ordinary' busi- neys lines. Where the pressure of busi- ; nrps calls for the handling of large i Finns of money, especially in bills and I in subsidiary silver, the woman has a ;; marked advantage. Her fingers are, ! more supple than are a man's, and theyi i ,rr : tiil more susceptible to the "feel" j :... lH-'essary in the handling of money, i I It is this "fer" exercised in the han- . 41 ,,!, up of both bills and silver that makes j if t!,r woman superior to the man in a 1 general way. Whether at the local cash ' winnow- or at the general accounting j Hinaow of an establishment, this phys- , ia! touch is the one main detector of rounu rfeits. The "raised" good bill can - tve u'-tected by an expert of either sex r: pt a clance. For instance, a dollar bill i may have a good feel, bat it may be ; nun-ked up to $10 or more. The cashier 3 will recognize without thought that tl;ore is something wrong with the de I s:cm on the bill. and. if not that, it is 'i fmposnihle for tbe one altering the bill J to deceive the expert eye in the altera- tioii itself. I More Careful in Accepting Mcney. ! A practical test of the eafhier of j eiihr se- win demonstrate that the j woman -cashiT, even with her quicker i touch, w ii; be mo-re careful than, will . the man. This is especially true where J new bills are concerned. Ordinarily when a new 120 or $"0 or 4100 bill is f l apsed through the window to a man he will pull it through his fingers once i in acceptance . of ,its genuineness. It I n: h:s disposition to hide any possible I uncertainty that he may have of its I genuineness. He does not like to be I i, ' .if position before a customer of $ xsiii ting too sharply, or seeming to do sc. . .' i A vvonian is radically different in I temviei ament in this respect. She is I wholly self-possessed, and it has been 1 h : privilege as a woman to exact eon- C"s:ions from men and to impose them upon women. If she has a ghost of a ilioucht that a bill may be doubtful j Mi-- will hold it up to the light and pull it through her fingers without tbe least j compunction. The fact that Fhe is re- I sponsible for the admission of coun- ; t' ifeits calls her to the responsibility :id out of her independence she allows i the person . on the other ?ide of the; t pratinr to wait. "I'm one of the best recommenda- ti-'iis of the woman as cashier lies in ) sex." said an old employer. "I may j 5 have a decent sort of a man here as j cashier, but I haven't much of an idea! .where he is after office hours. With a j I decent young woman in the position, I j j ftin pretty certain of her in every re- i I smci -.It romps more -natural to the H business man to make himself sure of I the (haracter of the woman than it V j .i - s for him to dig into the character I nf the man. A woman's face is more " casil-,- read." Seldom Ask for Bonds. The woman cashier, as regarded by ' (lie surety rompamw. does not cut i n.n h figure either way. She seldom ( ..ppears to ask for bonds. When she ! ditos mostf the companies w ill furnish ; thi-m. Just one surely company in Chicago will not issue -n security policy ! for a woman. The reason is wholly ethical.. The management agrees with i the 'iupyyer for the most part that the ! woman 5 the less likely to abscond with money. At the same time it puts eii!r,b;isis upon the fact that if a boivl- e,i wot nan .cashier should filch from the 5 till, the company would not be borne I out in public opinion in prosecuting ! b r as it would prosecute a man'.' Ad mitt inar that she is little likely to misappropriate mis-appropriate funds, the company does r,nt crp to th chance of coming into disrepute in the emergency. "Wo have a few 'calls for bonds for omen cashiers," said the manager of one of the companies in the Konkery building. "'When they ask for it we tak-o the risk on just the same lines as we tal:e the risk on a man. There Is in. discrimination in favor of the wo-j man, though pome of us might admit that she would be less likely to bolt j than would a man. The manifest rca-fon rca-fon for the lack of calls from women j is that their employers take their own j riks concerning them. It is true, too, that in most of the big concerns, where millions may be at stake in the hands f the eafihier, a man tills the place. ! s. "VVIkmi he does, too, it is usually at the j cost of heavy bonds." jit I'c-rhaps the matter of bonds is one ji of the leading reasons for the desira.- iility of the woman cashier. Where h " man sUi-f heavv bond his salary must "a ke amends for them. Woincn, es caping this tax, naturally can afford to work for less money on that account, ss they are w illing to work for less on account of sex. Between the two, the woman cashier, is- coming. into prominence promi-nence and numbers at a startling rate. HOW TO MAKE BABYHOOD BEAUTIFUL (Chicago Tribune.) Beauty building in babyhood is the newest idea. It consists largely in a process of modeling the features while as yet they are in a plastic condition, so as to improve their shape. In this way. by tha adoption of methods so fimple that any intelligent mother mav apply them, a child's prospects of btau-ty btau-ty may be materially improved- For example, a nose, if taken early enough, can be modified in shape to a considerable extent merely by gentle and judicious pressure with the finger?". Its bones are soft and its cartilage yet softer, so that by patient work .t may literally be molded into form. Supposing Suppos-ing that it has a tendency to twist to one side, the error may be remedied by pressing it for a minute or so half a dozen times a day in the opposite direction. di-rection. Remodeling Ears Adds to Beauty. Then there ii? the matter of ears. For some reason not easy to understand, under-stand, their importance as elements of I beauty or of ugliness does not seem to have been appreciated until quite recently. Notice how many people you meet w hose aural appendages stand out from their heads like wings, producing an effect absolutely grotesque a wholly whol-ly unnecessary disfigurement, inasmuch as it has been created in nearly all instances in-stances by tying the baby cap in infancy in-fancy with strings passed behind the cars of the innocent victim. This sort of outrage is perpetrated piost commonly com-monly upon boys, the girls' caps being of different and more sensible construction. con-struction. Bone and cartilage furnish, it might be said, the framework of the features, and in childhood, when they are comparatively com-paratively soft, the whole contour of the face may be modified to a considr erable extent- by a process not inaptly described as one of molding. Thus, if the lower projects unduly, the lower teeth coming outside of the upper ones when the mouth is shut whereas, of courpp, the" opposite arrangement should govern it can be made to recede re-cede into its nrorer rdace by the use of bandages which exert a gentle but steady pressure backward. Too prominent prom-inent teeth may be corrected by "plates" which any dental surgeon will furnish. Wear Caps While Sleeping. - Ears afford convenient hooks to hold in place the strings of baby bonnets, but surely that is no adequate reason for rearing our boy? with winglike and Yahooesque -appendanges at the sides of. their heads. So far has the public mind been awakened already on this subject that in many dry goods shops there 'are now for sale caplike contrivances con-trivances tin skeleton form, for coolness) cool-ness) which are intended to be worn by children at night for the purpose of restraining threatened exuberance in the direction above mentioned- Their j effectiveness in accomplishing the ob- ject sought affords a first rate illustra tion of the remarkable plasticity of cartilage in young persons, j The entire face in childhood, indeed, in plastic, and susceptible of "modeling" "model-ing" a process which, when applied I with patience to the nose, has produced j wonderful results. In infancy th nasal i organ is a mere rudiment hardly more than a small lump in the middle of the face. To shape it as it develops, by gentle pressure with the fingers. Is not difficult, and. though its size cannot be controlled, there is no reason why it should be allowed to grow crooked. Prevent Tavist of the Nose. If, as you .walk along the street, you will pay' attention to th"e noses of the passerby, you will see that nine out of ten of them have a decided tw;ist to the right. . The peculiarity is so nearly universal uni-versal as to suggest serious inquiry as to its cause. As yet nobody has made a study of the subject, but there seems to be good reason, for thinking that the twist is due to the fact that people wipe their noses habitually with the right hand, thus giving it an inclinai twn in that. direction. If this theory be correct, it throws an interesting light upon feature molding in one of it3 accidental developments. As for birthmarks on the face or othr er exposed parts of the body, there is no reason why any one should be al-' al-' lowed to gnnv up with them, inasmuch as such defects can usually be removed in childhood sa effectually as to leave little or no trace. It is a sort of work that ought always to be performed during dur-ing the early years of life, w hen growth of tissue tends quickly to obliterate all vestiges of surgical wounds. -Of course these disfigurements are of many kinds, some requiring cautery, others the electric elec-tric needle, and yet others extirpation (cutting out). A new process for doing ! away with large birthmarks is "multi-! "multi-! pie scarification" performed with a ! knife 'consisting of many little blades yet slantwise and parallel, which, in-? fliet with one stroke a series of cuts. A few strokes thoroughly "cross hatch" the area of skin treated, which, being broken up and destroyed, is thereupon replaced by normal and healthy cuticle. Curly Hair Easy to Provide. If a mother wishes her child to have curly hair she should begin to curl it from early infancy, because in this way an inclination to curliness will be given that may be expected to perpetuate itself through life. So well is this understood un-derstood bv many persons of experience experi-ence in such matters that in foundling asvlums it is a common practice to curl the hair or an me resini-m uawn j times a day to encourage the tendency T-ihe reason for taking such pains that people who come to procure an infant for adoption invariably ask for i curly headed one. To use a hair curler is neither difficult nor laborious, and it i obvious that this simple means of beauty making in childhood is within tbe reach vf everybody. On the whole, it would seem likely that at no distant day the modeling of children's features, to make them handsome in later life, will be a recognized recog-nized profession, pursued by persons skilled In the art, who will go from house to house for the purpose, giving special attention to a nose here, to a chin there, and t) a pair of cars, perhaps, per-haps, at another place. MARIAN IIARTINEAU TO BEAUTY SEEKERS (Chicago Tribune.) Mrs. Jane E.: Advise me at once what to do for an abdomen that m too full. I am stout below the belt, thouga well proportioned elsewhere. There- are three things to be done. Restore your digestion, which Is probably prob-ably poor. Eat easily digested foods. Do not touch butter, cream, cheese, nor sweet potatoes. Live, on foods that digest in two hours, and drink nothing between meals. No Name: I want a remedy for general gen-eral ? obesity. I am a little too fat all For thi.? nothing is as good as a general gen-eral reduction diet. Take mething to reduce the weight generally. ou ao I not need special abdominal ercisea nor special exercises for reducing the bust. Your need Is for a general reducer. re-ducer. f M N V.: Do you advise a woman of 40 to get rid of her wrinkles, or do you tliink tiiy are' more becoming to her jmt as they are?' ":: ' ' ' "i 1 i Wrinkles are never becoming to any , 1?dvlse the woman of 40 to. get na or them by all means, also the woman wo-man of o0. A woman of 70 need not nave wrinkles unless she wants them. B. (3.: I washed my hair in a mixture mix-ture of bicarbonate of soda and ammonia. am-monia. I added a lather of brown soap from the kitchen and a little borax. The result is that my hair is quite red. How can I turn it back? It will be impossible to turn it back. iou will have to let it grow out. Peroxide Pero-xide of hydrogen turns the hair. So also does the mixture you describe. It is too bad you turned it, for it will take a long time to get bock to its natural color. II. G.: I have two deep wrinkles that run across my forehead. Is there any way to take them out? Take a good massage cream and rub it into the wrinkles. Go over them with the tips of the fingers, massaging carefully. care-fully. If the wrinkles are deep you should have the cream warm so that it will sink right into the skin. . J. G,: My cheeks are thin and I look hollow in the face. You have helped a great many. Can you not help me? Probably you have mining teeth. This w ill make the face hollow. Have your teeth restored and your face will plump out. Now make the cheeks rull by massaging them with a good plumping cream. O. II.: I am keeping all your remedies in a blank book, in which I write the recipes from week to week. I have never seen anything for rough chapped lips. Can you give me anything which will pehmanently help them? Lips inclined to chap should bo rubbed rub-bed nightly with a mixture made of rosewater three parts and glycerine one part. In the morning apply this cream. Take pure mutton tallow, one table-spoun. table-spoun. add pow dered camphor the size of a pea. To thiis add two tablespoons of almond oil. Heat all together. Keep hot about five minutes, stir well, and pour into a wide mouthed jar. B. II.: I wrote you for something to restore my hair and you said you would make a special talk concerning it. What would you advise for hair that is getting dark and gray? It is difficult to restore hair that is already gray. You might take a few drops of castor oil and apply it to the roots. You will need some one to help you. Just moisten the finger tips, part off the hair, and lightly tap the roots. H. U.: I have tried your remedy for superfluous hair with the best of results. re-sults. It is fine. Tell me how to make a salve stick for the removal of hair on the lip. These sticks can generally be obtained ob-tained of the druggist. Heat in the gas until soft, clap the stick upon the hair. let it cool, wrench it off and it will bring the hairs with it. You might then apply weak ammonia. It will kill most of the hair. How to Keep Young. Women who are asking how to keep young as the gray hairs appear above their brows, would do well to try the recipe of an old lady who, although she has seen eighty years, never impressed im-pressed one as being old, because her heart was still young and sympathetic. When asked how she had secured such apparent j-outh in age, she said: "I know how to forget disagrpeable things. "I tried to master the art of saying pleasant things, i "I do not expect too much of my friends. "I keep my nerves well in hand and do not allow them to bore other people. "I tried to find any work that came to hand congenial. "I retained the illusions of my youth and did not believe 'every man a liar' and every woman spiteful. "I did my best to relieve the misery I came in contact with, and sympathized sympa-thized with the suffering. "In fact, I tried to do to others as I would be done by." WHAT TO EAT ON SUNDAY. BREAKFAST. . Fruit. Cereal. Sugar and cream. Lamb chops- Latticed potatoes. Popovers. Coffee. DINNER. " Ox tal squp. Roast ducklings. Potato balls. Peas in turnip cups. Escarole. French dressing. Wafers. Cheese. Rhubarb tarts. Coffee. i SUPPER- Calves' brains. Saute in chafing dish. Baby short cakes. Coffee. , Chili Con Carne. j , Cut a pound of round steak into small pieces and fry it brown in a tablespoon-ful tablespoon-ful of fat: add a large onion, finely chopped, ahout five minutes before the meat is done and cook tender. Add to this a tablespoonful of sifted floun Have ready half k . dozen red peppers that have been seeded and the skins boiled until soft: drain, add half a cup of fresh water to the boiled: squeeze the peppers well, add the juice to the -water and strain all well; add to the cooked meat and serve. A Mexican chili is made of a pound and a half of lean beef, boiled tender; cut up and seasoned with a small onion, a clove of garlic and six pods. of chili pepper. These are boiled until soft, rubbed through a colander and added to the stewed meat. Thicken with a little flour rubbed smooth with cold water. Rye Mush. ) The most toothsome ryo dish is the old-fashioned, simple mush. Boil salted water, and slowly, carefully stir into it fine, unsifted rye flour, not letting it lump. Serve with molasses sauce molasses mo-lasses and butter, with whatever spice or flavoring is preferred. I like it with only, butter and molasses, though a lemon peeling boiled with it is no objection. ob-jection. Still more delicious is this pudding, cold, cut in slices and fried ' in butter. Milk is the best drink with a meal of rve. A noted doctor once said that a diet of rye, with buttermilk as a between-meals beverage, would almost al-most make a new liver. - , Tor Spring Fever. One of the most popular simples "for spring fever" formerly was hop tea a. pungent but by no means unpalatable drink. One cupful just before going to bed was said to both insure good sleep and rouse the liver to action so clearing clear-ing the clogged system the "treaU luent" to be continued a month or six weeks. A trial of the remedy is decidedly de-cidedly convincing. To make, to one "good pinch" (one-third of a cupful) of loose hops add one pint 'of cold water; Kteep in a granite saucepan fifteen minutes; min-utes; strain. . For' Tan and Freckles. Kind Editor I wilj send a tried rem Cdy for tan and freckles: Mix two ta-blespoonfuls ta-blespoonfuls of grated horse radish in a teacupful of buttermilk and rub on the face and hands at night, and wash off In the morning. Repeat until tan and freckles disappear. Cure for Eczema. Kind Editor Someone inquired about Cuban itch. I would like to send a recipe for cure. It Is not Cuban itch; it is eczema. I will send a sure cure for it: Take a tablespoonful of gunpowder, gun-powder, two spoons of sulphur and half a cup of lard; dissolve gunpowder in a little water, then mix together. Apply Ap-ply to afflicted parts every, two. days. Will Kmart a little, but will sure cure. |