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Show 1 1 Woman's World ' Conducted by Helene Valeau. i ; J HELENE VALEAU'S ANSWERS. ! j j . M'ss Valeau will reply to all ques- I - tions asked by the feminine readers of I tli Intertnontain Catholic. The well j known character and authority of her replies need no introduction to those already familiar with her ability. Miss - Valeau win take a kindly and personal s Interest in those who write to her. and . eparc no pains in seeing that their inquiries are answered fully and care- fully. Write only on one side of the Paper. Address letters to Miss Helene Valeau, Inlermountaln Catholic (-'an "ou Plvc me or tell me soma-thinp soma-thinp to bleach piano keys stained bv t smoke? They arp quite yellow and I understand you have a formula for same. jj j Wash the keys with alcohol and Mipe .dry. Then lay on them strips of anton flannel wet with oxalic acid. Cover the wood below the keys care--ully that the ac'd may not drip upon ' La' oiled 8ilk over the wet strips lo the acid from too rapid evapo- i Ration, and leave thus for some hours. fiepeat the process if necessarv. , P. S.: What is the best way to take j aTe of the eyebrows so they may be shaped well end be thick? ' There are eyebrow brushes for sale! i '. 1r the shops, but a small, fine tooth-1 i brush answers the purpose. With It 1 lhP eyebrows should be brushed night j nd morning to promote their gloss i iia-ui mem 11110 snape. ji tnin. a 1 drop of almond or olive oil or a little ! vaseline should be rubbed into them I berore bruhingr. The eye needs the I protection of dark lashes and brows and is strengthened by them, so th s I is care which the health dictates as well as beauty. I m m j 1 have used preen soap treatment I with success. Now I would like a lo- I tinn for refining my skin. Ha the your face with the following lotion two or three times a day: 125 (trams of rosewater. 50 grams of Rly- ) cerin, i.0 grams of alcohol. .".0 prams of tincture of benzoin, and U5 grams of boric acid. Dissolve the : boric acid t- first in alcohol, acid the glycerin, tben the rosewater, and last of nil the tinc-k tinc-k . ture of benzoin. This will not only close the pores and make the llesh firm ? and smooth, but it will remove much - "f the oil from the cuticle, so that the blackheads will not return. My nose is red niojet of the time. Is t there any cure for this? I am in good health, do not drink or coffee nor lace, r Your red nose is due to lack of proper circulation of the blood. You should exercise in the open air. Walk- j ing and horseback riding are both pood. Walking as a means of locomotion locomo-tion and walking as exercise are two i different things. In order to make f walking beneficial as an exercise it I should be done quickly and brisklv. with some vigor, so as to bring into riay the muscles of the upper part of ; . the body; the arms should swing, so ; that the circulation may be stirred. i The skin of noses which become red is usually delicate. You may toughen the t skin : using cologne and water in equal parts. Tannic acid in glycerin twenty grains of the tannic acid tonne to-nne ounce of glycerin) applied night i and morning will often relieve the red ness. A Prayer. Iyird! let me dwell In sweet content ? Wherever I may be; 3 And take th sorrows to me sent ! As precious gifts from Thee. j Tet me not live in shadowy gloom ' Because some cloud is near, t But let me look beyond the hour And see the sunshine clear. Help me within my Eoul to keep Of love so great a store. That some sad soul in sorrow steeped May find sweet hope once more. Dear Lord, po many joys are mine, Of Ills so few appear I must be happy In my life And feel that Thou are near. C. A. Winternitz, in the Springfield Republican. At the Neon Hour. L j ' Mollie is the busiest of busy .girls. She is a stenographer in a city law office, and is at her desk from- 8 x o'clock in the morning until 6 at ; night, with an hour's nooning. Yet In her crowded days she somehow finds opportunities to do countless little kindnesses some trifling in themselves :t is true, but representing, even In a week'G time, a total which should put to shame many less occupied people. She went into the public library at the noon hour the other day to exchange ex-change her book, and her eyes fell at "nee upon a slim girl standing near j -me of the tables. It is characteristic of Mollie to notice immediately when j people are embarrassed or perplexed. I and in this particular instance she wasted no time. Stepping up to the stranger, she said with a quick, bright smil: "You want to return your book, don't you? Just hand it in at that left-hand left-hand window. The girl looked up with evident relief. re-lief. "Oh, thank you:" she exclaimed, "I've never been here before, and I didn't know at all what to do." A moment later she came back to the table where Mollie was seated, looking over a catalogue. Mollie thought she detected a tinge of wist-fulness wist-fulness in the glance bent upon her, Mnd shf turned her head wit ha smile. "Have you made out a list of the book9 vnu want?" she asked. The girl fingered the yellow card nervously. "No. I haven't." she admitted. ad-mitted. "This is my aunt's card, and fhe's going to let me use It. I've never read many books, and I don't know what to get." She turned the leaves of the catalogue in a d scon raged way mid 8dded. "Seems as If it would be easier if there weren't so many to V 'hnose from." "Perhaps T can help you." Mollie -uggeted. thinking oxer the books she " l ad read which would likely prove of I ' interest to this plain, rather Jull-look- . ? i:ig girl. For some minutes the two I head hent together over the long list . of nooks and authors, while Mollie asked questions and set down one numbrr after another on a sl'p of pa- per. ! "There! " she eaid at length. "You are sure to get something good from all these. They are interesting, and besides that I found they helped me. A real good book is like a good friend, don't you think so? Now. all you have to do Is to take your place in that line and hand your slip to the attendant. Good-bye." 1 "Good-bye." the girl answered: and i then she added, awkwardly enough: "I'm ever so much obliged to you." And there was an earnest light in her eves that wan eloquent. It was five minutes to one. Mollie, i looked at the clock, smiled and shook her head. "I shan't have time to get another book today," she said to herself. her-self. "But never mind; it will do Just as well tomorrow." And at one o'clock she was back al her desk, never dreaming how much her simple sacri- j flee had brightened a life that had ex-j Pericnccd sadly little of helpfulness or kindness. The Girl's Companion. I You'll Win Out. You'll win out if you don't give up. When you're called on to drink some bitter cup. Drink it and smile as a brave man should, But don't retreat. Life is a game that you've got to play; it is not all worry and not all gay, Borne of it's bad and some of It's good, And the bitter is mixed with the sweet. The world is kind to a strong man when He fights when he falls to get up again; But it has no place for the- man who fails And stands in his tracks and moans and wails. Never bow down to the weight of the yoke: Laugh at a knock as you laugh at a Joke. Cut out the worry and cut out the doubt. And you'll win out. Alfred H. Lowe of Philadelphia, president pres-ident of the Universal Peace union, was talking on the topic, peculiarly congenial congen-ial to him, kindness. Said he: "I once knew a remarkably kind boy. He was a great angler. There was a trout stream in his neighborhood that ran through a rich man's estate. Permits Per-mits to fish the stream could now. ;ind then be obtained, and the boy was lucky enough to have a permit. "One day he was fishing with another an-other boy when a game keeper suddenly sud-denly darted forth from a thicket. Ti'e lad with the permit uttered a cry of fright, dropped his rod and ran off at top speed. The game keeper pursued him. "For about a half mile the game keeper keep-er was led a swift and difficult chase. Then, worn out. the boy halted. The man seized him by the arm and said between be-tween pants: " "Have you a permit to fish on this estate?' " 'Yes, to be sure,' said the bov quietly. quiet-ly. " 'You have? Then show it to me.' "The boy drew the permit from Ms pocket. The man examined it ai'd j frowned in perplexity and anger. " 'Why did you run when you had this rermit?' he asked. " 'To let the other boy got away.' was the reply. 'He didn't have none.' " Harper's Weekly. Technique. I take a little bunch of words and set em in a rcw, I take a little bit of ink and mart; 'cm down Just so; I take a little time and pains and then I have, a verse That starts about as this" one does or maybe slightly worse. And then I go back to the start and crlss and cross and scratch, I vaccinate my words until 1 find me some that match The pretty thoughts that dart about like silver fish and shine. But need a patient, watchful hook to get 'em on the line. My thoughts melt Into words sometimes not always now and then. And I can feel 'cm coming down my arm and through my pen, I only have to push it o'er the paper and it spells For you and all my other chums the things my fancy tells; Just like a boy with building blocks, I move my words about When I have something in my mind and try to work it out. Until in orderly array I get 'em in a row just as I think they ought to be and j wrue em down just so. And so just with some words I paint the pictures that I think The boys and girls who live in me and set 'em down in Ink, And sometimes there's a tear in it, and sometimes there's a smile. And there is many a grassy bank and many a. vine-grown stile: And many a lane that you would know if you could be with me, To look right where my pen is now and I could help you see; I merely take a lot. of words and place 'em in a row And build such pretty, things if I can get 'em down just sot J. W. Foley. Bee Stings to Cure Rheumatism. Dr. Arthur W. Swann, a surgeon at Roosevelt hospital, for the last two weeks has been experimenting with success suc-cess on rheumatic patients in. the hospital. hos-pital. The treatment consists simply of a sting or stings from a good old honey bee on that part of the anatomy arflicted with the painful complaint. Dr. Swann comes from Stockbridge, Mass., and when a boy he learned all about the superstitions and legends so dear to the heart of New Englanders, especially the farmers. Among them was one that a bee sting was a sure cure or preventive of rheumatism. Two years ago he wa3 graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and since that time has been attached to Roosevelt hospital. The number of inmates there suffering from rheumatism rheuma-tism led him to remember the story of the bee. After thinking it over for some time he determined to try an experiment. ex-periment. He wrote to his mother, Mrs. John Swann of Stockbridge. and asked her to send him 100 choice honey bees each week. The second consignment consign-ment arrived a day or two ago. How the treatment is given was explained ex-plained to a New Tork Times reporter report-er recently by Dr. Swann. He pointed point-ed out that it was merely an experiment, experi-ment, and was based on nothing more solid than the old New England superstition super-stition mentioned. "I have so far tried the bee treatment on four obstinate cases, said Dr. Swann. "and at least it has resulted in a temporary Improvement in each case. I had nothing to back up my belief as to its efficacy except the New England belief. However, I think this Is based on the. fact that the sting causes a counter irritation, or that the peculiar poison of the bee sting acts as an antidote anti-dote to the uric acid which causes rheumatism. "I picked out four of thr worst sufferers suf-ferers from rheumatism, those whose Joints and limbs were stiffened by the disease. After washing the afflicted parts with alcohol, so as to insure perfect per-fect cleanliness, I put two or three bees into a glass and then inverted the glass over the limb, which 1 had covered with a piece of thin gauze. "After a while the bees got busy, and when the patient had been stung once or twice they were removed. The patient pa-tient is watched very closely, and the treatment renewed daily, the number of bees being increased until I have seen as many as ten bees under the glass at a time. "As I said, the results have been most satisfactory, but it Is too early yet to say anything about the ultimate result of my experiments. I hope to try it out on some 60 or 70 patients before I come to any definite conclusion, but so far as it has gone I am well satisfied with the experiment." It is a well known fact that people keeping bees, and those who come in contact With them, are seldom afflicted afflict-ed With rheumatism, although there are those who prefer the latter to a good sting from a yellow jacket or bumble bee. Food Value of Alcohol. (The Hospital.) That alcohol does something both teetotalers tee-totalers and drunkards are agreed, and any medical man who. wants a desired effect in a patient can clearly Judge by hia clinical sense whether it is or is not obtained by a certain dose of alcohol. These considerations apply to the so-called so-called dietetic as well as to the purely medicinal use of alcoholic beverages. In the former case, however, we must never nev-er lose sight of the fact that a certain quantity of fluid must be taken by the body during the day. and that the taste and flavor of this fluid may considerably consider-ably influence the nutritive value that a given individual can extract from a given diet. There are certainly many people who take the lighter forms of alcoholic beverage, bev-erage, as, for instance, wine and beer, not because they want or they like the alcohol, but because they can digest and assimilate their food better with a drink of a specific flavor, only to be obtained as a by-product of alcoholic fermentation fermenta-tion under certain conditions. In these cases the flavor is the essential active principle and the alcohol is the adjuvant. Don't. Don't bite thread. Ladies who do much sewing frequently suffer a great deal from soreness of the mouth, and are at loss to ascertain the trouble. Half the time it is simply the result of biting off thread instead of using a pair of shears for cutting. In the case of silk thread the danger is qu te marked, because it is usual to soak the thread in acetate of lead, partly to harden it, and also, perhaps, to increase its weight somewhat. If this practice is followed regularly, and very much silk thread is used, the result may be quite serious, and even lead to blood poisoning. What Pleases Her. It pleases a (woman to be called sensible. sen-sible. To be pronounced well dressed. To be told she Is fascinating. To hear that she improves a man by her companionship. To depend on some man. and pretend all the time that she is ruling him. To be treated courteously and with respect, re-spect, and to be talked to reasonably. To be treated sensibly and honestly, to be considered and questioned, and not treated as a butterfly, a woman with no head and no heart. It pleases her to be loved and admired by a man who is strong enough to rule and subdue her, and make his way her way. to lead and protect her. Finally, it pleases her to find happiness happi-ness in being ruled by an Intellect that she can regard with admiration, and one to whom her mind bows in respect. Desperate Man Under Temptation. "When a social'upheaval takes place the established order is momentarily dethroned de-throned by riot, the law disappears, property is plundered: but what harm can befall the man who has nothing?" asks Father Polling, the Jesuit economist. econo-mist. "Will he be robbed? Misery-tempts Misery-tempts cupidity. But he will find no work; hunger will be his jot. But do you not see that he gambles at a high stake, and there are hundreds of thousands thou-sands like him? He realizes that many of his fellows will suffer; he may himself him-self be unfortunate enough to be caught, but he can hardly be worse off than he is. Put him into prison; it is not much worse than his usual condition. Give him prison fare: it is as good as his ordinary diet. Deprive him of his liberty; lib-erty; he was never anything else but a slave of toil. Fling upon his shoulders shoul-ders the convict garb; it is as good as he has been accustomed to. That is the way the desperate man reasons. While he is in a rebellious mood against man and God. a tempter comes and says to him: 'Imbecile, coward, fool; why have you allowed yourself to be stripped; what prevents you from recovering what you have lost; what are you afraid of; you can lose nothing but your chains? With such advice ringing in his ears, what is to be expected of the disinherited fortune, who has no hope' or fear to check him, no moral law to guide him, no religion to comfort com-fort him, no God to fold him to His compassionate heart." Alcohol and Insanity. Perhaps it is without the province of the layman to enter a controversy on" a subject of which he is illy informed. The president of the state commission in lunacy is credited with the statement that 55 per cent of the cases in Manhattan Man-hattan hospital were caused by alcoholism. alcohol-ism. Dr. William Gaertner of this city challenges the conclusion. Referring to the head of the commission, .he says: If he were a man of scientific Inclination, Incli-nation, he would not have made such a misleading statement to the public a statement which will be used by the prohibition fanatics as a welcome argument argu-ment In their crusade against the personal per-sonal liberty of our citizens. For this reason the public ought to be informed about the facts. We are not Interested in the "prohibition "prohi-bition fanatics," which seem to frighten the good doctor. He may be entirely right in questioning Dr. Ferris' report. It would seem, however, that German ; hospitals are reaching the conclusion that alcohol Is not good for their patients. pa-tients. In 1905 Dr. Delbruck of Bremen , published the result of a circular of In-qulry In-qulry sent to the insane asylums in German-speaking countries, which showed that in thirty institutions the patients received no alcoholic drinks. In ninety-two institutions patients suffering suf-fering from alcoholism received none. Since then the movement has been spreading, and there is now a larger number of the insane asylums in which alcohol Is not only withheld from the i patients, but is entirely removed from the institution. In Wurtemberg asylum, Schussenried. alcohol is retained only for medicinal purposes. The business managers of one institution even went i so far as to offer for public sale the entire stock of cider in order to banish all alcohol. If the stimulant is deleterious to the patient after he becomes insane, as would appear from the action of the German institutions, surely it is not good for him prior to his incarceration. Alcohol may not be the direct cause of insanity in anyone, but the hilarious individual' Avho persistently punishes liberal potations sooner or later becomes incompetent for any purpose. . My Wish. Lifet we have been long together. Through pleasant and through cloudy weathers 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear; Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear. Then steal away, give little warning. Choose thine own time; Say not "good night" but in some happier hap-pier clime Bid me "good morning:" THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD. What's the best thing in the world? June rose by May dew impearled; Sweet south wind that means no rain; Truth not cruel to a friend; Pleasure not in haste to end; Beauty not self-decked and curled Till its pride is over-plain: Light that never makes you wink; Memory that gives no pain; Love when so you're loved again. What's the best thing in the world? Something out of it. I think. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Essentials of Oratory. (Washington Star.) "I have my speech nearly completed." complet-ed." "I suppose you have marshaled your arguments in serried ranks?" "No: I haven't taken up that part of it. But I have selected my anecdotes." Women's Whims. (Atchisrn Globe.) A woman always gets cross when she has to get up to let her husband in, but she doesn't mind it at all to get up and let the cat out. IT SETTLED IT. The late A. J. Cassatt, at a dinner at the Philadelphia Country club, was asked his opinion of women riding horseback astride. "I don't altogether favor it." said Mr. Cassatt. "It sometimes leads to confusion. confu-sion. "I was driving one afternoon on Lancaster Lan-caster pike when a rider was tin own violently vio-lently from a spirited bay horse. Luckily the accident happened in front of a pharmacy. phar-macy. The proprietor ran forth with his clerk. He propped up the head of the unconscious rider and, seeing a sold cigarette cig-arette case lying on the ground, lie took it up and road: 'P. S. Browne, 1S3S Walnut Wal-nut street.' " 'Jack!' he shouted to his errand boy. 'telephone to Mrs. Browne, 1SCS Walnut street, that her husband ' "But just then a tiny gold hand mir- ' ror. with a powder puff attachment, fell ' from the rider's trousers pocket, and the ' pharmacist called: ' " "Jack, t mean telephone Mr. Browne that Mrs. Browne has fallen ' . "But at this point the clerk, who had -been burning a feather under the rider's nose.' tickled her lips with It, &nd sho smiled and murmured, 'Jim.' " 'Telephone Mr. and Mrs. Browne that Miss Browne has fallen off her horse.'" |