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Show f Woman's World I ! I I I coME POINTERS ON I 0J HOW TO LOSE FLESH J' j I jjarian Marlineau n Chicago Tribune. ; f .., j, iVf bocn abroad to reduce," said I' ' ho l-'udor woman, triumphantly, "and I 5 ' l luivp i-ome home lighter by more I 1 .,,',, is thMii I dare to count. II ' l don't want any one to know what I ! hi elephant I was! You would not be-f be-f I v, it now to look at ine. I -! ' went to Europe and spent $1,003 I f K.-uinr; thin." continued this formerly j j;jt woman. "I ould have staid at f I v.unc and got thin without spending a I .1 tni. i : I went determined to get thin, and ! j ,ju' never worked so hard as I did 1 '! fluims' ihofe months. I went to bed i I i;y night so tired that 1 fell asleep ! ,..s !-"ou as I touched the sheets, and I j i hko a log until morning, which, I v li' ii you are reducing, means daylig'ht. yi mu.t get up at 5 o'clock. You Vii'i nut on the promenade at 5:45, i j , 1. 1 u your constitutional and drinking ,!,. U3t iv. I --.v .' - that 1 am home I am going to I ,. p the treatment, for a while at Kaeh morning I am going to rise i o'clock. I shall take a salt bath. j , iuick tubbijig, followed by a good i r-jh'iow ii. " ill furnish .the salt water :! -j'ired. : Drink Water While Walking. "Thi n 1 shall drcss in light, loose I ljth.f.g. There are few people out at f .? h i:i t,if morning, and one does not have ; io d !.-.- up. While dressing I shall sip ' ' H filiift :l spring water. This I cannot ?: fr.-.:n the spiing. of course, but I vati r.ike it out of a bottle. I ! Miall start for my walk promptly !; ; ti r, , lot k. and 1 shall walk until &, F:'.p:i'ig tuico for a glass of ppriry? i v"-r at a drug store. This is one of ibe keys to reducing. The water j I tiii:f- t:p the system and supplies the I kw p with the necessary moisture. !' ; can he cold and sparkling, and. taken i i s:n-iil ghisses at intervals of half an v,.iur !'-fore breakfast, ft relieves the j ; : throat and wakes up the brain. Of ; ,,.orrr-. one must exercise all the time I w.i the water taken is more as a re- 1 :r.-l''Hi,'nt than a medicine. ; 1 ".v. 8 o'clock one comes home feeling ! ( r:jrm;s and ready for breakfast. A I vsik f two hours, early in the morn- I ' jr.sr. before the world is awake. Is a ; fin.- thing in every way. As a reduc- j tinn a cent it cannot be overestimated, j j I: is much better than a walk during j j Hi" day. The weather is better, the air ! if i!i;t!cr, and cooler, and one feels f mere like taking exercise then. ; , Light Breakfast of Plalin' Food. ! ; 'l!"':i you come back you can take a j licht l irHkfnst. Let your food be light ; ji!hI easily digested. Fresh air breeds i vigor--us appetite, but it is appetite i fr g-J. asily digested foods. It is I i"t th" "liiical, pampered appetite of f t!i"' "-l'l' l'ie. ' T!i" "man w ho is trying to get thin , n i "A go about her daily tasks as though nothing had occurred to break the u-mi! monotony. And, if she be jT"ss. "1 for time, she need not think of j. in' wz again until the next day. But if :!! an enthusiast, she can continue con-tinue h v exercise during- the day. ; ".,! Hi'- c ures they keep you up late. Tiie ,,i joct is to give you as little time in li - i as possible. They -time, your slo ping hours to seven in number and t k"ep you awake and moving they j j.--v," ynu music in the evening and they r:i'"i!:-."ce dancing. i "I " miiig is the best thing in the : verl.i for the woman " ho wants to re-j re-j ; .lii'f. It gives her unconscious exercise. : ' xen ises and she d"es 'not know j Tiir.i she is doing so. She perspires 1 I ! ".; .i:d piie gets all in a glow. Her ' foaUii is belter and her spirits rise. 't ittin": Conducive to Fat. , The "Miian who is reducing, accord- 1 i '.'?;' tii'' Uadon Laden method, must J i x sit a great deal. Digestion depends i i Ja-C'ly upon gravitation, and the wo- . f r.;m who sits will have indigestion and t I :'' fat. i-Mie must walk, and. if she ! ' ar.r...i pr-t out to walk, she must stand. I ' U! " s feci are made to support one's I ; i'"dy. Iook how the shop girls stand j i ai! "hi.y and see how slender they are. I Tii' v do not grow stout. They are on I ; lh ir ! ' t tor, much. Xor do they get i i t'". ni" l. Sitting a few minutes will I I :'-' ili-.i'i ainJ i hoy can stand an hour. ;. j ' I'"n't be afraiij to deny yourself the f g'ws iiiines of life. Learn that you i h " happy with a slice of brown j Ir'i ;n:'J a glnss of milk. This will I 1:" i' th stomach comfortable half a I iii. i'; ' 1 : wr man v ho is trying to reduce hy i.'..i!:s without eating will be hungry a'i lime liut she can take the ) "'uiishii foods that will keep her ; li'i'-'i upand yet not add to her weight. - T'oii't drink anything with your ; ti "a is. A cup of coffee at breakfast is ;i u-r.' vd. but no more.' At other meals-'vin meals-'vin eat ste wed fruit, li-i'- are the best foods: Brown h:. ;h" wtdte meat of fowl, white tis'i "f a i' us kinds, broiled or boiled. -i i f r veget ablets, spinach and sal- j '!' ssed with good oil. Let the fried ' ' : h 1 1 r-s alone. "Kut g'-t up in the morning. Walk hours before breakfast. Come back . ii' .l nd ready for the tasks of 'i'- day. Don't think you can liei in I-'i until sunup and after and still re-fh-J your weight." Karian Martineau's Beauty Letters. - T.: My face feels dirty all the : . tl know it is not a good thing "' ''h.-h it so much. How can I treat it f. v it has a grimy feeling? Hi;h'- it with witch hazel and 'rice " ; "-: ni equal parts. To four ounces ': lotion add half an ounce of bo- : a. id. I -V'- .!.: What wouid you advise me " f t down on my aims? They are ..",.,, H fino thick growth of I ''''. it is dark, and hence conspicuous. I vv.-.fh (ur arms well with soap and S ;':, ..f water. Dry thoroughly. Now ' p. r.-xhle of ammonia pure, with ? ' ' .i'"j.s of ammonia ndded to the T' ' This will bleach the down : : ,-.r. it less conspicuous and the nti; in time, kill the hair. ' ' imiio: y nails arc short and There is not the sign of a , tiTf.rr, ond thev break when M l .r.g enough to be pretty. I ' '': i. 1 have the worst nails in the v . i ; s :..iir finger tips fifteen minutes :.ight in pure almond oil. If you r" ' ::ke the odor or the oil. scent it ' drp of rose. ,You can use the t:' - ".I . verv night for weeks by keep-'x keep-'x : , ",vo.r. during the day. Press ;h- flesh after soaking the finger i:.s. . A' :.: Tell me how to make soap 3 ' ; 1 would like to use it on my facc r H of s?ap. ' , .i iii'l ajiother reader have both B'"'i tins question. To make a good .i.iiy take the odd ends of soap "" : . c thev be j.ure and dry them. l tiKm 'in an old cloth. There fh' '"hi he a full cup of the soap powder " h.rgo. nfr,.,. c up. Put this into a quart r,f r and let come to a boil. Stir l!; a ' "I'lesi.oon of powdered borax. I ( tho'stove and pour into a clean j rar'h'i, jar. When cold it will be a j r''"f- soft soap or s-oap. jelly. I hlious: I a"nTalways looking for I "'!; I'. rfume which is not exPen I :v"- I nfortunately I cannot. afford to 1 en liph toilet water to- make the I bth sv.c t. Have you any suggestions ;m might take spirits of cologne one ' ''on and add to it an puuee of oil of cranium. This wpuld be expen- I vi!' 1,ut would last a long time T j JJjjP'N.ns would nicely scent the I i OFFICE WOMAN AS A STRONG BUSINESS GETTER. (Mary Todd in Chicago Tribune.) An impression prevails among the better class of young women who look longingly toward the commercial world that its ranks are filled and overcrowded over-crowded with women already. That they are overcrowded to the bursting point with "incompetents" is the wail that goes up at the Business Women's exchange. It is a tale of woe, however, that can only be construed as a message mes-sage of encouragement to the intelligent intelli-gent young woman who rtirns to office work either front natural taste or from lack of special adaptation to anything else. It is the experience of the exchange ex-change that the general education and versatility which is usually the despair de-spair of the girl who is suddenly thrown upon her own resources can be i applied to commercial work better than anywhere else, and that there Is no business upon which they can be so directly focussed by a special training train-ing which takes as small an amount of time and money as does the training train-ing for the better class of oflice work. It is also th experience that out of fifteen or twenty applicants who have already acquired the usual foundation by taking a course in stenography, there is but one who possesses these qualifications even in a moderate degree. At the exchange now is a little Polish girl named Annie. Annie, although only thirteen years old and scarcely able to speak English, even though she has been through the grammar -school, is a "would be" stenographer; or. rather, a thrifty and ambitious parent insists that she shall be' a stenographer whether or no. "Annie, quiet girl. She bright. She make you no trouble," says the fond father. Others, too, are determined de-termined that Annie shall make a stenographer, and five schools are already al-ready after her, promising to teach her the much coveted knowledge. The small Polish maid in the meanwhile is engaged in a desperate struggle to even become a fair typist, and. as she studies, she holds her book up high and energetically whispers her lessons after the fashion of a small school girl. It is believed, however, at the exchange that her persistent teacher will soon turn her over to a "teach it while you wait" professor, and that some fine morning Annie will be foisted upon a long suffering employer as a stenographer stenog-rapher full fledged and finished. Surplus of Incompetent Help. That the commercial world is crowded crowd-ed with girls who are but little above the average is believed by the exchange to be the . strongest inducement to women of the better class for entering a field in which more than any other-there other-there is room at the top if there isn't room at the bottom. The good education, edu-cation, general intelligence, adaptability, adapta-bility, and, by no means, least of all the good appearance of the young woman is shown by the reques'ts on the part of the employers to be her chief asset. The list of qualifications said .to be oftenest asked for by the average man who comes into the exchange, ex-change, is one in which good appearance, appear-ance, with the power to approach people peo-ple nicely, is emphasized as strongly as the technical equipment. "Mv work isn't heavy," he often says. "I have only from fifteen to twenty letters a day, but I want a good speller, a good grammarian, somebody who can punc-tute. punc-tute. and. there is a simple system of bookkeeping and a card cataloguing which he must take care of. as well as the stenography. I would rather pay J30 a week than ?6." he not infrequently adds, "for somebody who is thoroughly competent." This class, however the exchange finds it the most difficult thing, to supply, and it reports as the more common applicant the voung woman to whom "respectively" and 'respectfully" mean one and the same thins. ' Educated Girls Best Material. "The better class of inquiries in whom there is good material," said Miss Cleveland, the manager, "are high schools girls who come either f from necessity or choice, teachers ( who are anxious to get into the ! business world, and society girls who are suddenly thrown upon their own resources. The first thing I always ask 'them, is what salary they want to. start with.. 'Well, you know, Mi.-?s Cleveland. I couldn't live pn less than J12 a week,' is the answer, and this of course without special training they are unable to get. It is this class, however, who if well trained will best fill the demand as it is now. Anybody with a mind that is simply quick can be made into a good mechanical stenographer. But what is wanted now is a much broader equipment. equip-ment. The stenographic secretary not only needs to take dictation, but fhe needs to be able to compose and edit the correspondence. If she is of broad enough intelligence to grasp its import im-port and relation to the business as a whole so that she can correct it technically techni-cally if necessary she has a' chance to become valuable immediately to her employer. She must anyhow be enough of a mathematician to understand statistical complications."' Stenography and Bookkeeping. As summed up and expressed by Miss Cleveland, the office woman is now a strong factor as a "business getter" and it is in this capacity that most employers are looking for her. The special, training which is advised by the exchange as the best preparation prepara-tion is 'the combination of bookkeeep-ing bookkeeep-ing and stenography. The call for the two together not only is now made most frequently but it usually comes from those offices in which only one , woman is employed, which are deemed the "choice places" in chances of advancement. ad-vancement. "The instances in which . positions of this kind," said Miss Cleveland, "have led directly to a salary above that received by the . average woman are almost too nunier- f ous to remember. "We started a girl the other day in such a place who had only been out of the high school long enough to take thus course, and w ho., if she can adapt herself to what is needed, will soon be -given $100 a month. Opportunities . ,. .nn in most nnexnected ' ways. Sometimes it is through the in- 1 competence of the employer. I had a f friend of recognized ability who sud- denly had a young man put over iier who was new to the business. His t dictation was generally Interspersed S with: 'What'll I say?' or "W hat 11 I S. nay next?' He depended on the know!- r edge of the business that she had al- h ready acquired, and soon the whole t; correspondence was turned over to her. In another large manufacturing firm t in Chicago a woman who started as t general office woman has lately been - elected cashier at a salary of $3,000 a , vchi and in a firm that does business r with Cuba the-office woman -Ha -been : put in charge of all foreign cor- j remoiidence. because she saw the , necessity for it and learned the ,. Spanish language. And one more that I think of started in a bank w ith only the usual equipment for stenography g work in addition to a well educated ft a,?d accurate mind, and she is now n the bond department and looks up the . rates on bonds. . . .' Good Pay For "Filing." ? "Another thing which is. receiving atteA5eat Se School. aexchangeB t as a specialty and ff .X-1!1 je E $10 ot ?1- per wt- only Outside of this a gin accurate ' $3 or $6 per w:eek, A good typist gets ?6 or 57, while of the eo-called 'easy' positions, 'reception work, and the position at the switchboard in certain offices for the girl who has had the previous telephone training, pay, respectively, re-spectively, on an average of $6 per week. Work for which there is frequent fre-quent inquiry on the part of applicants but for which there is comparatively little demand at the exchanges is advertisement ad-vertisement writing. The best approach ap-proach to this work is also to secure an office position with a firm which is in the business, when it follows that any originality which would result in good advertisement writing will develop de-velop by acquiring familiarity with the every day needs." For Sunday, Aug. 14. BREAKFAST, v . Fruit. Cereal. ' Sugar and cream. Fried cucumbers. Delmonieo potatoes. Muffins. Coffee. DINNER. Chicken fricassee with dumplings. Mashed potatoes. Summer squash. Corn pudding. Tomato mayonnaise. Wafers. Cheese balls. Ice cream. Rolls. Coffee. " SUPPER. ' Lobster salad. Cress sandwiches. Cake. Fruit. Coffee. For Friday, Aug1. 19. BREAKFAST. Fruit. Cereal. Sugar and cream. Eggs in tomato cases. - Philadelphia potatoes. Popovers. Coffee. Lunch. Corn chowder. Fruit short cake. Tea. nix N Kit. Onion soup. ' Salmon loaf. Sauce llollandaise. Boiled rice. Squash. Lettuce. French dressing. Wafers. Cheese. Jelly. Whipped cream. Coffee. Hot Water for Headache. A medical authority advocates the use of hot water in cases of headache, claiming thatthe ache almost always yields to the simultaneous application of the hot water to the feet and the back of the neck. A towel folded, dipped in hot water, wrung out rapidly, and applied to the stomach, acts like magic in cases of colic. There is nothing that so promptly cuts short congestion of the lungs, sore throat, or rheumatism, as hot water. ' A towel folded several times, and ( dipped in hot water, quickly wrung out, and applied over the painful part in toothache and neuralgia, will generally gener-ally afford prompt relief. f For Abused Feet. Wear the softest slipper always in the house. To wear the street shoe after you come inside your front door is to imprison your foot much longer, and the more it is exposed to the light and air the healthier and more comfortable com-fortable it will be. ' Patent leathers are ruinous to the feet, especially when they art- built with high heels and narrow toes. The feet perspire, the heels throw the weight on the toes, and the poor little thingf, all huddled up in a bunch, are utterly miserable and make you weak. Soak your feet in cold water not ice cold, ! but coolish. Warm weather draws the ' blood to the feet. You wish' to reduce : the inflammation and. fever by driving it away. 'Chiropodists -- say there is ; nothing like cold water: for sore, tired -feet. Cold water, besides, toughens ( the skin rather than makes it softer. ; After you have brushed your pedal extremities ex-tremities with a stiff flesh brush cos-moline cos-moline then comes into play, to be well rubbed into the collouses and joints, t With this sort of treatment your feet are kept in such' good condition that t they are a positive joy. and that, you know ics worth living for. j . r |