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Show I Woman's World Conducted by Helene Valeau. HELENE VALEATJ'S ANS77EE3. 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 no Introduction u those already familiar with her ability. Miss Valeau will take a kindly and personal Interest in Those who write to her, aiid will ppare no rains in seeing that their Inquiries are answered fully and carefully. care-fully. Wriie only on one side of the paper. Address letters to Miss Helene Valeau. Intermountain Catholic. . Dear Miss Valeau: "What is the best way tn shampoo the hair with'rpgs? Arc the preparations that are so'd ;,P (pr shampoos as Rood for the hair as tlx- eprg itself? IMARY J. Salt Lake. The Fn-oalled egg shampoo - may be very beneficial, but the simplest and best way to use this vt ry satisfactory shampoo is the use the crr with warm water. Beat the yolk of an esp first, i hen gradually add to. it a pint of warm (not boiling) water; wet the head and hair and then pour the mixture on or have someone do this, using both hands to rub it in. My Dear Miss Valeau: I have been reading your department with great interest in-terest in your valuable paper and make bold to ask you what I may do to get rid of freckles. After the least exercise they make my face look like a patch of daisies. Thanking you in advance, ad-vance, I am, respectfully yours. IV D. CHEYENNE. Don't be disturbed about your freckles. freck-les. Freckles are a good, healthful sign and freckled girls are nearly nl-ways nl-ways good substantial girls, not given over to "flirtations" and "white wash" complexions. If you are greatly distressed dis-tressed try buttermilk, the good old fashioned buttermilk, the only beau-tifier beau-tifier besides honest soap and water, that the sweet beautiful girls of old Ireland use. The Irish girls have he most beautiful complexions of any women in the world. English women look like wax-works when near them and act "wax-worky" too. Dear Miss Valeau: "Is there anything that will take stains off the hands? I am troubled with deep, dark stains upon up-on the backs of my hands and on my finger tips." M. H. PUEBLO. It is too bad that you have these stains. Use peroxide of hydrogen upon up-on your hands. And then put a great deal of soap jelly upon them and let it stay on for some minutes before washing it off. Use soap jelly once a uay a-nu peroxiue 01 nyurogen aooui once a month. Make This a Day. Make this a day. There is no gain j In brooding over days to come; The message of today is plain. The future's lips are ever dumb. The work of yesterday is gone For good or ill, let come what may; But now we face another dawn. " Make this a day. J Though yesterday we failed to see g The urging hand and earnest face r ' That men call Opportunity, We failed to know the time or place For some great deed, what need to fret? The dawn comes up a silvery gray, The golden moments must be met, Make this a day. This day is yours: your work is yours; The odds are not who pays your hire. The thing accomplished that endures, I If It be what the days require. He who takes up his daily round. As one new armored for the fray, Tomorrow steps on solid ground, . Make this a day. The Talisman. GOOD MANNERS. No Better Evidence of Breeding i.; Should Be Cultivated. I ; There is no better evidence of i 11 I breeding than the practice of interrupt-'i: interrupt-'i: Ing another in conversation while I speaking, or commencing a remark be-T be-T fore another has fully closed. No well- i lu ed person ever does it, nor continues f conversation long with a person who j does it. The latter often finds an inter-f inter-f esting conversation abruptly waived, I ' closed, or declined by the former, with-? with-? out even suspecting the cause. ! A well-bred person will not even interrupt in-terrupt one who is in all respects great-it great-it ly his inferior. If you wish to judge the h good breeding of a person with whom '.'I you are out little acquainted, observe f him, or her, strictly In this respect and i you will not be deceived. However in- I lelligenf, fluent or easy one may appear, this practice proves the absence of true I politeness. Tt is often amusing to see V persons priding themselves on the gen- ttility of their manners and putting forth all their efforts to appear to ad- vantage in many other respects, so I readily betray all in this particular. I Kefined and graceful manners are f worthy of the most careful cultiva- tion" The Courtesy. Has had a revival in a curious little i dip. a slight, quick bending of the ?' knee that in EnEgland is known as the " charity bob, since it long has been there the usual acknowledgment by a bencfiiciary in accepting alms or favors, fa-vors, and is a somewhat wooden jointed joint-ed reference. In France the courtesy has had place always among the social traditions of the ladies of the Faubourg St. Germain, Ger-main, that stronghold of Parisian ex-clusivcness ex-clusivcness whose reverences show the nicest Gradations of etiauette. With a French woman salutation is an art. From the low sweeping courtesy cour-tesy at a first int rodunction to a woman wo-man of higher rank than her own down to the familiar nod and extended hand with which without rising from her sofa she greets her men friends, the exact degree of permitted intimacy is Indicated. Louis XIV. says history, had fourteen different degrees of bowing. bow-ing. Any little mark of deference from youth to age Mrs. Burton Kingland, one of America's social authorities, would encourage: but there is among us a rampant protest against artifl-riallty artifl-riallty in any form, which, theoretically, theoretical-ly, is commendable. Even the manner of shaking hands is regulated by convention. Both hands held out at a distance from the body expresses the extreme of intimate cor-dialitv; cor-dialitv; and the hand opened wide, palm" upward, with the arm held almost al-most straight marks a degree of familiarity fa-miliarity that the bent tlbow and part-Iv part-Iv closed hand does not suggest. At a presentation to court one accepts the hand of royalty by receiving it on the upper side of one's open hand, thus supporting it while one bends and kisses it To clasp the august mem- her would be the extreme of bad form. Time was, and not long ago, when women kissed each other habitually on meeting and parting, even in the street, if intimacy warranted. The custom now is regarded as provincial, except among close friends and in private. pri-vate. Mechanical perfunctory kisses cheapen one of the few modes of expression ex-pression inspired by our tenderest emotions. The custom seems curious enough, when analyzed. Tn the Society Socie-ty and Friendly islands they rub noses. Other lands, other ways. MAKE THE HOME HAPPY. Everyone Should Help and There'll Be Little Trouble. It is possible to make the humblest home bright and happy. A hearty welcome wel-come to the guests; music, if possible; games, and the happy knack of making the young feel that their opinions are worth listening to; and that you are enjoying their company that is the secret. se-cret. Mothers should remember that their daughters' matrimonial chances depend a good deal on the kind of homes they live in. When a man calls on a girl and finds her in a bright, attractive home, with everything happy and sweet about her, he naturally thinks, "This is the kind of a home I want; there is love between be-tween the parents and the children; everything is comfortable and happy, it is the ideal home." Of course, the boys and girls have just as much to do with the home-making. They must do their share toward the happy atmosphere. The girl must help to lift the burden of household care from the mother's tired shoulders, and the ljov must be a companion to and help father with the responsibilities of keeping the home. When a mother and daughter stand on proper terms with each other there is a firm friendship underlying the natural nat-ural love. The mother, with the memory mem-ory of her own girlhood days in her mind, is not too' severe on the faults and mistakes that the young daughter is sure to make. And the daughter, sure of a ready sympathy and comprehension, compre-hension, is not afraid to confide in her mother. The same rule applies with father and son. Most fathers love their sons, but they forget they were boys once themselves them-selves and that youth cannot be staid and wise and never kick the traces. Perhaps confidence between father and son is quite as important as it is between be-tween mother and daughter, and the ex-perienceof ex-perienceof the oarents can often save the young people from many mistakes. I Catholic ' Mirror. She Wouldn't Hardly. A certain bishop, very fastidious about his toilet, was especially fond of his bath, and exacted extreme care of his tub. Once, when about to leave town, he gave strict orders to the housemaid about the care of his "bawth." and said that "no one was to be allowed the use of it." The temptation grew on her, and the girl took a plunge. The bishop returned unexpectedly, and. finding traces of the recent stolen bath, he questioned the maid .so closely that she had to confess that she was the culprit. Eyeing her sternly, he said: "Mary, your using my tub is bad enough, but what distresses me most is that you would be willing to do anything any-thing behind my back that you would not do before my face." A Dozen Better Things. Tact is better than talent.. Common sense is better than circumstance. circum-stance. A minute ahead of time is better than a second behind time. An approving conscience is better than an applauding world. It is better to tell people of their virtues vir-tues than of their faults. It is better to secure the confidence than the advantage of others. It is better to receive cricism than flattery. It is better to think of the blessings you have than of those you do not possess. pos-sess. It is better to overlook a wrong than to be suspicious of one. It is better to do with less than you can use than to want more than you need. It is better to be a good failure than a bad success. It is better to have faith in the mysteries mys-teries than to believe in doubts. The Inter Ocean. Things to Ponder. The girl who would be beautiful must take two words as her motto through life "self-denial" and "perseverance." Possibly the latter is the most important import-ant of all, and it is lack of perseverance persever-ance that has caused failure in many a beauty quest. It is useless to deny one's self a certain cer-tain dish, which means indigestion and muddy complexion, for six days in the week, and then indulge in it on the seventh. It is just as useless to devote a half hour daily to improving the appearance ap-pearance by exercise, massage, etc. for several days in the week, and then utterly neglect this care for as many more days. The following extract from a letter written by a famous beauty of the court of Queen Marie Antoinette shows how necessary was" systematic perseverance persev-erance in the pursuit of beauty considered con-sidered in those days. It will, no doubt, amuse thee, dear friend, to learn how curious are the methods at which I am at present employed. em-ployed. Not only must I use various pomades, lotions and ointments, but the queen has been graciously pleased to inaugurate the "hundred system, in which her maids have been initiated, and I instructed. This system is to insure in-sure regularity in the treatment. It is remarkably tedious, but promises vast improvement of the hair'and complexion, com-plexion, and consists of applying the numeral TOD to all rubbings and brush-ings brush-ings of the skin and scalp. It Is easy to grasp the importance of the "hundred" system, or instance. 100 strokes of the brush constitute quite a thorough brushing, and the hair that receives this number regularly each day will surely shine like satin after a few weeks' continued treatment. The same thing applies to the face. If every portion of the skin is gone over 100 times with a sponge and clear water, it is quite safe to say that there will not be left a particle of foreign matter to clog the pores. Not only that, every tiny cell will have received an amount of friction that will tone up the skin. So many weomen ask me. "What shall I do to prevent a double chin?" Let me tell you that if you would determine de-termine to throw back your head or go through the head -rotation movement move-ment 100 times each, day, the chances are nine out of ten that you would have no further trouble in this direction. direc-tion. Take the matter of broadening the chest. I firmly believe that 100 deep breaths of good fresh air. taken every morning, would broaden the chest perceptibly per-ceptibly and, in addition to this, would be of the greatest possible benefit to the whole system. Of course, it will not be advisable to take 100 breaths at first, but take as many as you comfortably comfort-ably can, and gradually increase the number. The principal thing to bear in mind is thoroughness and regularity, and t he woman who perseveres and will keep the "hundred" times her goal is sure to accomplish gratifying results. Gowns Are Made to Match Eyes. It is an artistic dressmaker who says that some part of the dress should be matched to the spots of the eyes to bring out their color vividly. "Blue eyed women should wear something blue at the throat and women whose eyes are not quite blue enough should make them bluer by turquoise earrings and chains. "The brown eyed sister also can emphasize em-phasize the beauty of her eyes. Her colors should be golden brown and she should bring out her amber tints by jewels of goldstone amber, or those that show the browns that can be found in semi-precious stones like cairngorm. She would wear Indian trinkets, too, with gems of several colors col-ors in them. "The black eyed sister is more difficult diffi-cult to treat, for the reason that she looks like a gypsy when she tries to emphasize the color of her eyes, although al-though corals are as becoming to her as they are to the blonde, especially if worn with creamy ivory laces and mulls." With her again the dressmaker dressmak-er changes her tactics and dresses one or two of her customers of this type in deep blue with beautiful results." This dressmaker objected to a small toque which another curtomer was wearing. For it she substituted a wide brimmed hat and the effect was magical. magi-cal. Eyes that had seemed small were intensified by lovely deep shadows. The pupils seemed larger and looked darker, dark-er, and there were pathetic little shadings shad-ings at the corners of the eyes. "Always "Al-ways wear a hat that shades your eyes," the modiste said to this dark eyed woman." Courtesy Brings Success. Cordiality costs nothing. Its value as a business asset is incalculable. incal-culable. Every one is ready to help the willing, will-ing, smiling worker. And who is there that has any time for the other kind. The gruff mailman who handles out his bunch of letters without as much as a smile or a cheery "good morning" does not realize that he is working against his own interests. The pert salesgirl and the dyspeptic grocer are living enemies to their own bread and butter. But they don't realize real-ize it. Yet they themselves will make a bee .line for the most cordial and smiling smil-ing of the tradespeople. The trouble is that so few people realize the great value of cordiality as applied to bettering their own conditions. condi-tions. What is it that causes the evolution evo-lution of th3 owner of the push cart into the successful merchant? Sobriety, honesty, sticktoitiveness counted for something, b it the pusher who knews how to make friends and how to keep then is the one that spells out "success' "suc-cess' for himself. Cordiality requires such a little effort ef-fort to become habitual. It is worth more than a snug bank account to the man who would succeed. Cultivate cordiality. It is one of the best paying investments in the business world. Chicago Tribune. |