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Show Woman's World Conducted by Helene Valeau. HELENE VALEAU'S ANST7EKS. Miss Valeau -will reply to all questions ques-tions asked by the feminine readers of The Intermountain Catholic. The well known character and authority of her replies need n. Introduction to those already familiar with 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 Taper. Address letters to Miss Helene Valeau. Intermountain Catholic. Dear Miss Valeau. What is good for falling: hair? J. M., Salt Lake. Half an ounce of camphor with one ounce of borax, dissolved in a quart of water makes a very efficacious wash Jor falling- hair. Heat the water before adding- the camphor and borax, as this will facilitate the dissolving of the ingredients. in-gredients. Apply freely to the scalp two or three times a week. Dear Miss Valeau. Please give me a tonic that will help scanty eyebrows. SCHOOL. GIRL. A tonic that is said to be excellent for increasing the growth of the eyebrows eye-brows is made of five grams of tincture of rosemary, one gram of tincture of cantharides. fifty grams of spirit of camphor and fifty grams of plain co-lugne. co-lugne. Mix and apply at night and morning to t lie brows with a piece of cotton. Be careful not to let any into the eyes. Dear Madame: Please tell me what will prevent my Iiair from turning gray. MRS. S. McK., Salt Lake. If premature gray hair is hereditary in your family it will be difficult, if not impossible, to cure it, but you can try rubbing a little lanoline and sulphur into the roots of the hair. First mix just enough powdered sulphur in the lanoline to make it a stiff paste. Dear Miss Valeau Please give me some good recipe for my hair. MISS R,, Salt Lake. Alcohol invigorates the hair, but when used by itself it is said to have a tendency ten-dency to turn it gray. The following excellent hair tonic is made of four ounces of alcohol, one-half ounce of tincture of cantharides, one-quarter of fi dram of oil of lavender and one-quar-ler of a d' 1 of oil of rosemary. Mix the oils ; . M the two other ingredients. ingre-dients. i'pi;. the scalp at night, with the i r, i :ips, massaging vigjr-ously vigjr-ously for i n n):nutes. Dear Miss Vj..u: How often would you advise a woman wo-man w ho !iis freckles to use a cut lemon lem-on on her face' I use it daily, and ray tkin is rough md red. I cannot put on powder because it shows so plainly, j J. M. S., Ogden. Lemon i.s apt to chap the skin if used clear; use it half and half. Wash it off with cl?ar, hot water, then rub fesh food into your face. In a few days your skin will be smooth, so that you can use powder upon it. TJpar Miss Valeau: What can I throw into the water so as to whiten and soften the hands. Please do not toil me to use anything expensive, as I am a working girl with little money to spend on hand whiten-ers. whiten-ers. SARAH S. P.. Bingham. Take a handful of common oatmeal finely ground, the kind you use on the table. Throw it in a pint of hot water it night. Next morning pour off the vater and use it on the hands. It will tend to bleach and soften them. You can be regulated after one trial as to the quantity of oatmeal required. A cut lemon is good for blemishes of the hands. But you probably will have to use skin food afterwards. I tear Miss Valeau: Is ponder injuiious to the skin? I have tiled to use it. but it always shows so that it can be seen across the room. I would like to use it if I only knew how. I have deep wrinkles in my forehead and the powder looks terrible v hen it s'ts into them. C. Ma, Denver. Massage your face first with hot wa-t'jr wa-t'jr and then with wrinkle cream. 1 will mail you the formula for a good wrinkle wrin-kle cream which costs little indeed. You can use it for your entire face. After a few days your skin will be so smooth that the powder will not be visible. In buying face powder be sure to get some that is the color of your skin. If you fare dark do not try to use a blond face powder. Good Ventilation. ;ood ventilation is an absolute necessity ne-cessity for perfect health. I sometimes some-times go into houses where I should like to open all the doors and windows, find let in a free current of air, if only for half an hour. Half the nervous ailments from which women and children chil-dren suffer are caused by living in dose, stuffy houses, where fresh, wholesome air is almost entirely excluded, ex-cluded, owing to the fear of draughts. Breathing never ceases, night or day, and therefore pure air should not be excluded from the living rooms, cither by night or day. It is strange that so many people have a dread fear of the night air. Teach Children Economy. Teach the children not to waste Irifles, which they often throw away without thought, and which, if saved, might be of use to others if not to themselves. Wrapping pfper, pieces of siring, odds and ends of various kinds, may do service a second time if put away until the need for them arises. The habit of economy is one that ought to be cultivated, for careful savings makes lavish giving possible. Hoarding Hoard-ing is not a vice of childhood, nor should it be encouraged, but the wise husbanding of resources for future expenditure ex-penditure is a valuable lesson that cannot can-not be learned too early. The Plain Girl. The plain girl was "tired to death" of being mentioned as "that plain girl over there," and looked long and scru-tinizingly scru-tinizingly at her figure one day in the glass. After this . scrutinizing process v-' she determined to kill the faults of "plain Mary Brown." First of all she began some exercises for rounding out her figure. The one she used most frequently fre-quently was this: Stand c-ect. with the head held easily easi-ly arms at the side. Taking in a full breath very slowly, lift the arms tlioulder high, at the same time rising on the toes; now bend the knees very slowly, keeping the body in a well-poised well-poised position; then rise very slowly, still on the toes then sink back to po-fciiion. po-fciiion. This exercise the found developed a i habit of walking, standing, sitting and I rising correctly, straightened the shoulders shoul-ders and rounded out the hollows. Bending the knees did away with the stiffness, and with that the awkwardness awkward-ness disanpeared. Her face, neck and arms she bathed in very hot water every night, rubbed in a good cold cream and rubbed out every suggestion of a line or wrinkle. In the morin? she washed her face with hot water, making a lather of soap on her hands, not touching a cloth to her skin; this was followed by a good dashing dash-ing of clear hot water, and that, in turn, by a vigorous spatting with the fingers dipped in cold water. She practiced smiling to make the corners of her mouth turn up, and soon she found the forced smile had become be-come a natural one, that the contented content-ed spirit within generated by the "smiling "smil-ing habit" was beginning to show itself in a happy expression, brightened bright-ened eyes and an utter routing of all the old lines erstwhile marked her face. Woman's Life. The Girf Who Smiles. The wind was east, and the chimney smoked, And the old brown house seemed drear. For nobody smiled and nobody joked. The young folks grumbled, the old folks choaked. They had come home chilled and weary. Then opened the door, and a girl came in: Oh, she was homely very; Her nose was pug, and her cheek was thin, There wasn't a dimple from brow to chin. But her brow was bright and cheery. She spoke not a word of the cold or damp, Nor yet of the gloom about her, But she mended the fire, and lighted the lamp. And she put on the place a different stamp From that it had without her. They forgot that the house was a dull old place. And smoky from base to rafter, And the gloom departed from every face, As they felt the charm of her mirthful grace. And the cheer of her happy laughter. Oh, give me the girl that will smile and sing. And make all glad together! To be plain or fair is a lesser thing. But a kind, unselfish htart can bring Good cheer in the darkest weather. To Walk Well. Don't drag your feet or fling them, not lag, nor stride. Learn to glide into a room gracefully. It is impossible for a woman to be awkward in her walk if she walks, straight and keeps her knees stiff. The act of swinging the feet out gives one a graceful gait. Walk slowly. Skirts wind around your calves when you walk rapidly, and all semblance of grace is lost. Walk in leisurely manner as if you were a princess, not a hurried, worried, overworked over-worked woman. Don't swing your shoulders. Don't swing your arms. Don't twist yourself in sinuous motions. mo-tions. Don't contort. Don't wriggle. Hold your chin in. This is the most important thing of all. Don't walk, nor look, nor act like an old person. There are no old persons in these days. Touch the ground first with the balls of your feet, with the heels striking an instant later Learn also how to be seated. Don't sit with your, clothes wound up around you. Don't sit on the ragged edge of : things. Be seated squarely. When you walk consider the style of your dres3. If you are dragging a train, don't forget it. The longer and heavier the gown the slower you must walk. And first, last, and at all times, be dignified. An ungraceful walk will spoil the most elegant gown that the dressmaker's dressmak-er's art can design. A Cure for Nervousness. An American scientific journal published pub-lished recently timely remarks on what is called "house nerves," that is to say, the low spirits and brooding, irritable, morbid habit of stay-at-home or sedentary seden-tary people. Women, especially women wo-men who are delicate and afraid to go out owing to the weather, are those who suffer most from this malady. They grow anxious for their husbands, and conjure up accidents, analyze their feelings and lose their power of will. "A woman who studies herself, her wants and desires, her ailments and loneliness, is on a fair road to an asylum, asy-lum, did she but know it. Imaginative children have a tendency in the same direction, and should be sent to play with merry companions. The cure of "house nerves" is very simple if people peo-ple would only follow it. It does not lie in medicine or doctors, hut in visiting visit-ing others, long walks in the open air and sunshine, repression of every morbid mor-bid thought as it arises, or expulsion of it by thinking of a necessary duty, and gaiety, t innocent amusements. Girls Men Dislike. Men dislike a self-opinionated girl. Not that they object to the opinions exactly, but the ideal woman must be yielding and willing to be instantly converted when her error is shown her. Men object to a cold girl, or one whose manners give them the impression impres-sion of coldness for in nine cases out of ten it is-merely. a manner. Sometimes Some-times it arises simply from shyness, sometimes from a too whole-hearted desire to be coy. Coyness is delightful. The masculine heart rejoices in it. But a cold girl! The most beautiful face ceases to be attractive to tne woum-be woum-be lover when he begins to suspect its owner has little else to bestow. Men at least those whose opinions are worth anything dislike the gir! who is the least bit rapid in her manner man-ner or speech. They may talk to her, flirt with her perhaps, but in their hearts they dislike her. Men are far from fond of the untidy girl. The girl whose buttons are forever for-ever coming off, whose hair is always ill-dressed, and who habitually wears a half-finished air, never finds favor in their sight. A dainty freshness possesses posses-ses a potent charm for the mascuine beholder He cares little that the gown may be of the year-before-last's fashion, fash-ion, so that it fits perfectly, and all the little details of the toilette especially boots and gloves be above reproach. Men object to the affected girl the girl who is forever pretending to be something she is not. Such a transparent transpar-ent pretense as it invariably is, too, deceives no one. Men like the girl who. has sufficient originality to form opinions, yet is intelligent in-telligent enough to be convinced against her will, who loves fun, yet, does not dirt; who has courage enough to be herself, yet is never self-assertive, who is gentle, affectionate and un-. selfish, and whose outward appearance is an indication of her personal refinement. refine-ment. Shun the Tale-Bearer. The fault-finding woman is ill-bred and is to be avoided. She is the one who, while she criticizes her breakfast, break-fast, eats heartily of it. She objects to the style in which dinner din-ner is served, especially if she happens to live at a boarding house. Then she complains of the attention paid her bedioom. She is disgusted with the general appearance, ap-pearance, and yet she is confidential with the landlady. She is usually a tale-bearer, and unless un-less you wish to be mixed up in numerous nu-merous quarrels you had better avoid her. Think how pitiful it is to see women of the fault-finding type women who are making life a misery for everyone, but more particularly for themselves. Ask yourself if you are one of the faultfinding fault-finding type, and, if so, reform. She Was in the Wrong Church. A nicely dressed woman entered the First Presbyterian church of German-town German-town last Sunday and, walking down the aisle, took a front seat. She joined In the services vigorously, and when the collection basket was passed to her she took a coin out of her purse and laid it in the basket... Then, looking about her, casting glances in every direction, di-rection, an unmistakable look of surprise sur-prise and amazement overspread her face. Suddenly getting up, she gathered gath-ered her parasol and gloves in her hands and started on a rapid pace down the aisle. Overtaking the young usher who had passed her the collection collec-tion basket, she electrified him and every one nearby by reaching her hand in the basket. Taking out the coin she had put in. she leaned over and whispered whis-pered to the usher: "I'm in the wrong church." By the time the usher had recovered the door had slammed and the absent-minded one had gone to hunt her own house of worship. Philadelphia Phil-adelphia Record. Deadly Effects of Fatigue. Fatigue lowers all the faculties of the body, writes Dr. Luther H. Gulick in Good Housekeeping.. The effect on the other part of a man are just as important. im-portant. It puts a chasm between seeing see-ing and acting: it makes a break somehow some-how between the messages that come in to the brain from the outside world and the messages that go out. It de-. stroys will power. In every direction it decreases efficiency, forcing the personality per-sonality down to a lower level. Fatigoie is a destructive agent like sickness and dea h. It is a condition which in the nature of things we cannot can-not avoid; but it is important for us to know what it means and how to deal with it if we want to keep out of costly blunders. ; When we are , tired out we are not ourselves. A part of us has temporarily tem-porarily gone oiit of existence. What remains to something which belongs to a more primitive state of civilization. Our personalities are built up in strata, one laycJr added to another. At the bottom lie the savage virtues and vices of our remote1 ancestors. The code of morals of cliff dwellers and hunting tribes still holds there. At the top lie the higher attainments of n advanced society the things that have taken hundreds of centuries to acquire. In men patience is one of these, modesty is another: chastity and a fine sense of justice and personal obligation ob-ligation belong in the list, too. Now when fatigue begins to attack the personality, it naturally undermines these latest strati first. When a man is exhausted, he finds it difficult to be j patient. That is not his fault. It is , because fatigue has forced him back a few hundred generations. His self-control is at a low ebb. The smallest annoyances an-noyances are enough to make him lose his temper. The same holds true of all the list of recent charter acquisitions. Many temptations are. more violent and harder to resist when a man is fatigued. fa-tigued. His moral sense is dulled. He loses the vividness of his distinction between be-tween right and wrong, honesty and dishonesty. Try Them Yourseif. (McCall's Magazine.) Do you want some very good tongue exercise? You can get it by reading, or attempting to read, rapidly the following fol-lowing sentences. For those who may have in future life to read or speak in public, there is more in such exercise than mere fun: "Six little thistle sticks. "Flesh of freshly fried fish. "Two toads, totally tired, tried to trot to Tedbury. "The sea ceaseth. but sufficeth us. "Give Grimes Jim's great gilt gig whip. "Strict. strong Stephen Stringer snared slickly six sickly silky snakes. "She stood at the door of Mrs. Smith's fish sauce shop welcoming him in. "Swan swam over the sea; swim, swan, swim; swan swam back again; well swam swan. "A haddock, a haddock, a black spotted haddock, a black spot on the black back of the black haddock. "Susan shineth shoes and socks, socks and shoes shineth Susan. She ceaseth shining shoes and socks, for socks and shoes shock Susan." You know the tongue twister Peter Piper, but there are others which are harder. One of the worst is, "mixed biscuits." Try saying that rapidly, and if you succeed, say this, "Stop at the shop at the top of Sloane street." . Then try saying over and over again, just as fast as you can, "Six slender saplings," and see if your tongue doesn't get nicely twisted. Some people contend that it is extremely ex-tremely difficult to say even such a simple thing as "Troy boat" fast and many times over without getting the words mixed. Cultivate Laughter. Learn to laugh. A good laugh is better bet-ter than medicine. Learn how to tell a story. A well told story is as welcome wel-come as a sunbeaVn in' a sTck room. Learn to keep your own troubles to yourself. The world is too busy to care for your ills and sorrows. Learn to stop croaking. If you cannot learn to see any good in the world, keep the bad to yourself. Learn to hide your pains and aches under a pleasant smile. No one cares to hear whether you have the earache, headache or rheumatism. Don't cry. Tears do well enough in novels, but they are out of place in rea life. Learn to meet your friends with : smile. The good humored man o woman is always welcome, but the dyspeptic or hypochrondiac is not wanted anywhere, and he is a nuisance as well. ) ' V ; , , n imn i) II - |