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Show Woman's. Wd ES f ! Specially Prepared for Our Feminine Headers. TO OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY. 1 ' A CHAPLKT. Quern of the H"ly Koffry, s f .:'..' ' '; O llos us wli"n we pray, ; 1 - 1 Who offer thee our r'es ; ( In parkmris l;iy by day. 1 Kor from our Father's garden ! With loving hearts and bold, ; 1 1 "We p:ither to thine honor I ' Bud.s v.liitc and red and gold. t ,1' Queen of the Holy Rosary. s ;'; Each mystery blends with thine, f The sacred life of Jesus f : In every step divine. - I ; Thy soul was His fair garden, - Thy heart his virgin throne. Thy thoughts His blessed mirror 1 Reflecting thine alone. I ' Sweet Lady of the Rosary, t ' White roses let us bring. I - : And lay them round thy footstool I 4 : Before our Infant Kinjr, f For nestlinp on thy bosom I God's Son was fain to be s The child of thy obedience f And spotless purity. 1 Dear Lady of the Rosary x Red roses east we down I ,: But let thy fingers weave them Into a worthy crown, f For how can we poor sinners 1 Do more than ween with thee . "When in thv train we follow i! , . Our God to Calvary? I . , Queen of the Holy Rosary The plorv shines above I ; ' The cherubim and seraphim ! . In the court of heaven above. si, 'Twas thine, to share his labor i; And all His bliss untold. J Refuse not then our offering f Our flowers, whije. red and gold. it Si , ; To Remove Freckles From the Skin. ' (Marian Mat tineau in Chicago Tribune) I i Once upon a time this is a-true fairy " ,'.. i story there lived a girl with freckles: I j Her skin was pearly white, one of I : those clear nice skins that invite. Her I ! hair was light, the kind of hair that I : 1 usually goes with fair skin. But she ' had freckles. They were scattered over i . her forehead and her chin and her cheeks. And tney were on her nose. On the i ' .j tip there wan a yellowish blotch that I looked as though you had touched it S with a daub of light yellow paint. Oh, Fuch a freckle: Now this girl knew that she could i go to a skin specialist and have those ; freckles cut off, literally shaved off. 1 That the skin would soon heal and in I a month there would be no scar. But I A he was a timid girl and shrank from I the pain. Besides it cost too much. I t Then she thought of the acid cure. I That is a method by which the freckles t are burned off". . It certainly hurts and' 1 ' the girl was a born coward. i herself, and then she could stop if it hurt. Now she read somewhere that it could be done with a cut lemon. This 1! is what she had read: "Lemon juice is . . the handmaid of the woman w ho would i I have a white skin." I So she procured a lemon and cut it i in halves. Then she took some hot f water and steamed her face. She set the tin basin containing the water on i one corner of the stove to keep it hot S ; and she made a little cone of a towel, 1 I and, putting it over her head, breathed I the warm air. I She did not let the water boil so as I s to injure her lungs, nor did she steam i t her face until she was exhausted. She I merely brought out the perspiration I t and got the face hot. I Then she rubbed the skin with half I the lemon and immediately washed it t off with hot water. Finally she anoint- I od her face with cold cream lightly and J did not wash it off that day, for there S was not enough to show. I Every time the girl went out she I . . ' . wore a veil, and she was careful of her I skin. It took only three applications to i banish the freckles. But, of course, be- ing liable to them, she will probably I . ' accumulate them some day, unless she I is careful and removes them while they 1 are faint. f The little sun spots are annoying, j but, really, they are not a great disfig- 1 urement unless they are large and deep 1 in color. Then, one should remove them, beginning at the simple remedies and traveling through all the grades a ('.. into the methods that are actual opera- " tions upon the skin. One would be sur- il prised to know how many good prepar- V ations can be purchased at drug stores I for removing freckles. Select a good If druggist and put your faith in him. "i But the most important thing is the .. . keeping of them away, the preventing i of their return. This can be done only j by care and eternal vigilance. J ! There might be another tale told of a !' girl who wanted a perfect skin and who was afflicted with blotches and black-; black-; " heads. Her face and neck were rough, and there were those unsightly little f Fpots everywhere. For these she steamed the face and then washed it with hot water. O, the beneficial results of proper steaming ; and the harmful ones of steaming im properly. One should remain in a warm room at least an hour after the steam plays upon the face, and it would be better to lie down and throw a warm J , lowel over the face. By "steaming" is not meant the ae-- ae-- tual putting of the face into the direct f vapor of the steam, but the process of ) holding the face where it becomes f heated from' the first vapor that is : ' , given off as the water comes to a boil. ! . t . It should notjctually boil, for this may . 1 be harmful to the eyes. The putting on of hot cloths, one , after another, will do just as well, but it is tedious and one requires an as- sistant to wring out the cloths. Kindred to the care of the face' is that of the neck. "olor and grace count with the neck, and particular! v color. Now that the vogue for the long neck , is in there are many little exercises for the lengthening of the neck. The fctrctching process is the best. It is performed by lifting the chin as high i as possible and throwing the head as far back as one can. It really does not add anything to the length of the np,.it or at least one does not see how it could really do so. But it gives grace, 1 and this increases the apparent length! i ,. Let a woman be able to turn her head lightly, and to lift her chin v.dl, and her neck will seem to be longer than ' ( the neck of the one who sits with' chin ' rigid and almost immovable. It would surprise you to note how ,v fe' women ever turn the head reallv ' . . . ; and how little you turn vour head 1 yourself. The practice of wearing the high stock has become such a national habit t that the women have stiffened in the . . I10,'k 'ind really cannot bend or turn it i The slightest attempt gives them that distressing malady known as a stiff . , neck. ; So- in trying the beauty exercises be -aroful. Be moderate. Lift the chin i; slowly and do not exert the muscles too soon. Remember that a "crick" in the 1 neck will be the price of any indiscre- ! tion of this kind. There is probably not one woman in a hundred who docs not dread the double chin. This often Begins to show . , itself at the age of SO., and by 35 most women have it in a slight form; by 40 it is pronounced. From that agen"the chins multiply until in later life they 1 are frequently known to lie -in little' folds, disfiguring the lower part of the ! face. 1 The cause of the double chin is two- ' fold one. First, it can be laid to in creasing avordupois. Second, to the j -j habit of wearing the high collar, which ; ; ' ; ; . renders the neck movements impossible 1 ! J '. and a"os fat to accumulate for lack . I exercise. I I I T1e double chin is. at all Mages, re- ! . .- ' ' 1 ' " "" : V :. xr . movable, but it needs patience and massage. It is true that massage is a developer. But if it is practiced in swift, hard strokes it will reduce. A vigorous massage underneath the chin will remove re-move the layers of fat. But with the massage there must be exercise of another an-other kind, and this is the kind of exercise exer-cise which is to be found in the turning turn-ing and twisting of the neck and the bending backwards and forwards of the head. - The double chin will soon give way before this kind of treatment, and the one who is reducing her chin can be as rough as she pleases, for the mass needs vigorous treatment. Fruit is highly recommended at this time of year for the complexion. But there are those who break out and pimple with it. There are people who have a rash after eating strawberries; others suffer from that childish trouble, trou-ble, "hives," on taking the juice of the raw grape. Pears will give many peor pie a decided roughness, and the summer sum-mer fruits, berries, etc., have been known to develop pronounced cases of widespreading blotches on the face. There is something peculiar about the acid of raw fruits that is not fully understood by physicians. One person cannot take the pulp of the pineapple without making the mouth and throat sore; another cannot eat raspberries without suffering from a burning in the stomach. Where there is a constitutional difficulty diffi-culty of this kind avoid that kind of fruit. Shell fish witf give one person a bad complexion, another cannot eat celery. Study your diet, and when you find that which is poison to you, let it alone. You cannot tell what condition of blood may induce the trouble, and it is better net to tamper with an idiosyncrasy. idiosyn-crasy. But there are fruits you can eat. It is claimed that the wonderful complexion com-plexion of Lady Brooke, at the time of her belledom, was due to stewed rhubarb, rhu-barb, which her ladyship ate constantly. constant-ly. Now, as the Countess of Warwick, she lectures on fruit foods. The process of cooking makes fruit more digestible, and apple sauce, stewed berries and cooked foods generally gen-erally seem to agree better with the complexion of the civilized woman than the raw material. There is little logic in it, but it seems to be so. . To get a pink and white skin there is no remedy any quicker than the strawberry juice one. But here, again, there is need for an ounce of common sense. One woman can rub the ripe berry on her face after she has bathed it in warm water. Then she can wash it off again and the result. is a pretty glow. The acid has removed the stains from the face. Another woman, having hav-ing a skin like alabaster, will be too pink from the berry. Work slowly and watch. The strawberry is an excellent cosmetic, taken inside or out. Miss Louise writes: "Will you kindly kind-ly answer a few question in your health talks? How can I rid myself of blackheads black-heads on my nose and chin? I have three deep creases in my throat, caused by my being so fat when I was a baby, I suppose, and I should like to know-what know-what to do to smooth them out. I shall be much obliged if you will advise ad-vise me what to do in' these cases." For the blackheads, bathe the face in hot water in which there is a tea-spoonful tea-spoonful of powdered borax to -a ..half gallon of water. Hold the water on the face, using soap first, then clear water, the object being to get the pores open. Cover the face with white vaseline and let it remain on five minutes. Wash off in soap and water, then clear hot water. Your blackheads will now be J largely gone. If they are obstinate and are not removed re-moved by this treatment, press them out and immediately wash the face with warm water, to which a few drops of tincture of benzoin has been added. The benzoin contracts the pores of the skin a little. Be careful afterward and do not go out into the air at once, and when you do so rub a little good skin food into the open pores of the nose. For the neck that is creased follow the directions given for the double chin, using, however, a skin food for the massage. Mrs. J. asks for a remedy for large, unsightly pimples. For this stewed rhubarb and a spring medicine are advised. ad-vised. Our grandmothers took port w ine and sulphur. Annie R. requests a treatment for white spots on the nails. They are caused by an injury to the growing nail. Do not- nress it at th 1 base or around the "moon" with the cuticle knife. |