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Show Woman's World 1 Conducted ty Helen, vaieau. HELENE VALEATTS ANSWERS. a Mies Valeau will reply to all ques tions asked by the feminine readers of hn Intsrmo'ntait: Catholic. The we".l kiiown character and authority of her replies need no introduction to those already familiar with her ability. Mis y Valeau Mill take a kindly and personal interest In those who write to her, and niil spare no pains in seeing that their inquiries are answered fully and carefully. care-fully. Write only on one side of the paper. Address letters to Miss Helene aleau. Intcrrcountain Catholic L".ir Miss Valeau: AVfl! y"? tel1 m what l do for a red j.cse? There seems to be a llttl-brown llttl-brown sput on the tip of my now a jpust like & small freckle, nnd at times the whole tip (rets red they all call jj,e "soak. I am U years old, and the Ll'Mnleh !s very embarrassing. Following U a formula for a lotion which you may apply to your noe It will also have its (Brood effect on the bnwn upot: Powdered calamine 1 drain; tine oxide. 30 grains; glycerine dram: cherry-laurel water, 4 'ounces' This lotion should be well shaken before be-fore Jt is mopped on the nope. It may be used both morning nd evenine Vr Miss Valeau: I would like to rely on you for a rure I for moles. M'ne are not very dark ' but I have a great many and would have a nice complexion if they were Ri'ie. I do Hot like to consult a phy-pu phy-pu Jao, ao if you would please print 'a simple remedy which I think you ran.), I shaJl look upon you as a grateful grate-ful friends. y. After your assurance of my being able to give you something to remove moles, I regret extremely that I ran (rive you nothing. The only way to pet rid of moles la to sa to a reliable skin spciAllat. t7 I hr a recipe for a lotion to remove brown spots, and It may help you. It will do you no harm to try it: Silicylic j-cid, 6fl grains: bay rum. 4 ounces, ii-M. ii-M. Apply night and morning with a soft cioth or sponge. This lotion Boon produces a vl-'sbt roughness of the skin. , which should be subdued by the use uf Kk glycerine or ctarvh. 'f H. Q.. Ogden: This simple tonic is excellent for oily hair: Two ounces of witca haxel. two ounces of alcohol, one oonc of distilled water, and forty grains of rworcln. Apply ewry night. i ruL'Qiuj ji murougniy into tne scalp. W. F.. Park City: To .soften and whiten your hands wear (osmetic gloves at night. Spread the paste ;pon the hands and then draw un a loves to protect them. Here is the formula for a particularly efflkacious paste: One ounce myrrh, four ounces honey, two ounces yellow wax, and six ounces rosewater. Melt the wax; add the powdered myrrh white hot: beat thoroughly together, then stir in the lianey and rosewater. and sufficient glycerin, little by little, to make a i-preajJable paste. Nellie, Ogden: A delightful cream for jour complexion: One-fourth ounce of spermaceti, one-fourth ounce of white vax. one-fourth pound of almond oil. uie-fourth pound of butter of cocoa, and two ounces of lanolin. Melt and stir in one dram of balsam of Peru. After setUjng-, pour off the clear portion, and add two drams of orange ffower water and stir brl&kly until it concretes. After Af-ter exposure to the sun wipe your face ff with the creajn, using; a bit of old i;cen or flannel. Repeat the operation if necessary two or three times daily. KITCHEN INFORMATION. To improve baked potatoes let thein stand In a pan of cold water for about an hour, then put them in the oven while wet. This seems to steam them ajid cook them much quicker. A practloaf cook says: "When food has been scorched, remove the pan from the fire and set Into a pan of cold water. Lay a dish towel over the pan. The towel will absorb all the scorch taate Bent up by the steam and the family fam-ily reed never know It was burned. Give your household a meat shortcake short-cake sometimes the shortcake made as you would for a fruit filling: a rather short biscuit dough and put between the layers creamed chicken or creamed veal, and have it served with plenty of mrv. For hollowing" out a tomato previous to stuffing', a pair of scissors enables a person to remove all the pulp without breaking- through the skin. They are equally useful for fruit salads, as the fine skin which separates the sections of grape fruit and oranges is easily clipped off. Ie!icate fabrics can be cleaned perfectly per-fectly by using gasoline with a teacup-ful teacup-ful of corn meal. The meal scours out all the eplta. Place meal in dish, pour gasoline over it, then press and rub through the hands. Apply to soiled spots, rubbing carefully. Brush out with stiff brush. Removing Scorch. (New ork Times.) An old negro laundress is responsible for the following cure for badly scorched places caused by too hot irons: A half pint of vinegar Is put on the etove in a porcelain-lined saucepan. sauce-pan. To this is added the Juice of a larpe onfon and two ounces of fuller's -arth. The mixture is boiled for five minutes, trained, cooled and bottled. In removing the scorch a little of the mixture is put on a clean white linen rag and rubbed over the scorched place until It disappear?. Several applications applica-tions may be necessary. Storing Winter Clothing. Choose a bright sunny day with a breeze blowing, for airing the winter clothine and such things as need to be protected from moths during the warm weather, advises a writer in Boston Ideas. It is not best to lay the winter garments gar-ments away until all danger of cold davs is past, but. on the other hand, it must not be delayed too long. The moth miller makes its appearance while we are busy with gardening and house- leaning and may do much mischief before be-fore we discover its presence. ea .oats, furs, knitted wraps, etc.. should bp well Ehaken and brushed, then fastened fast-ened to the clothes line and lightij beaten with a small whip or smooth stick. Turn the things so that the sun will have a chance to reach ecery part .f the woolen poods or furs, as it win destroy the moth eggs if any have been deposited in the folds. All under garments and bed blankets that are soiled should be washed before being stored away. There are many methods of protecting protect-ing clothing from moths. The camphor balls arc quite effective, but it is neces-sarv neces-sarv to air the clothing thoroughly before be-fore using, to remove the odor of the walls. Various kinds of oils and spice are recommended and have more or less aiue in driving away moths, but what- ? X Hsed there are a few general rules that may well be observed. First, begin in time, before the moth nas time to deposit eggs on the garments: gar-ments: second, wrap each garment in a. newspaper and tie it securely, labeling label-ing it to avoid confusion in finding what is wanted first in hte fall. The balls or other preventive is to be inside these bundles, and they are to be packed closely in a paper lined box or barrel and closely covered. Paderewski's Diet. Prior to his appearance at a concert adercswski would not thank one for a piece of the finest turkey or for the most toothsome Christmas pudding ever made. On a concert dav he eats nothing until it is over except one solf-boiled solf-boiled egg. v ntai it is over, he takes a hearty meal, which he enjoys thoroughly, as nis appetitite is excellent, although he Is so absteminous. During a concei t he drinks a soda lemonade made without sugar. It need hardly be said that this is not intended as a stimulent. After the concert he permits himself a draught of some malt beverage. Musical Mu-sical America. No Help for Him. Among the passengers on a train winding its way through the mountain? moun-tain? of West Virginia was a testy hypochondriac, who since the train left Washington, hours before, had kept the porter on the jump ministering to his whims, says the New York Herald. At one point the nervous one had fallen into a snooze a fact upon which the unhappy porter was congratulating congratulat-ing himself as being in the nature of a much needed respite. Finally, however, the alleged invalid awoke with a start. "Porter," he said, "am I riding with my back to the engine?" en-gine?" The porter grinned. "Two engines on now. sah." said he. "Two engines: And I with my ba-k to 'em?" "Not exactly, f-ah. Dere's one engine at each end, sah. Steep grade, sah. Must have one engine to pull and another an-other engine to push." "Merciful heaven."' moaned the hypo-ehrondriac. hypo-ehrondriac. "What am I to do? Riding Rid-ing with my back to the engine always makes me dreadfully sick." Juggling a Proverb. He was from down somewht-re or out somewhere and on his first visit to New York, according to an exchange. He had ! often heard of the highball and went to the cafe of an expensive hotel in Fifth avenue to make the acquaintance of this luxury. To enjoy it properly he took a seat at a table. When the waiter brought the tall glass, the visitor said to himself: "Distilled "Dis-tilled water runs deep." ! When he saw the amount on the j check he perverted the proverb still 1 further, thus; J "Distilled waters run steep." j Dressing for Church. j The etiquette of the Vatican pre- ! scribes black dress and veil for nil wo- men admitted to an audience with the j Holy Father, . This decree should have some influence in modifying the church- j going dress of Catholic women every- j where. The exclusive Parisienne of the Faubourg St. Umnain circle, a vision of satin and lace and jewels in her evening even-ing gowns, always dresses as quietly as a nun when she goes to Mass, as she does regularly. Spanish ladies wear black, with niantillas. at church, although al-though they, too, dress resplendcntly for society functions. Knglteii women and Irish women of the "quality,"' who dress with gentlemanly elegance and gentlemanly plainness every morning of their hves, would not dream of wearing wear-ing frivols to church. They leave that sort of thing to the coetermonger class. But here, how few women wear suitable clothes when assisting at the solemn sacrifice of the Mass! Often the priest is obliged to speak from the pulpit in condemnation of transparent blouses, bare arms and monstrous hats. This is a shocking state of affairs, or rather it would be were not the unsuitably clad unsophisticated in good form rather than knowingly vulgar. The first requisite for a church-going costume Is that it snail De inconspicuous. inconspicu-ous. It is almost as bad to be conspicuously con-spicuously 'brand new." Respect for the Presence of our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament requires the purity of cleanliness, clean-liness, the perfection of neatness. At this season a tailored suit in any becoming color may be worn to church. What is called "a tailored hat" should accompany this, and here again becoru-ingness becoru-ingness may prevail. - Exclusively dressed women are wearing medium-sized medium-sized hats trimmed with stiff wings. These hats may be had as "exclusively" as f25. although many deft-handed women wo-men can trim their own tailored hats at a cost not exceeding 13 or $4. The "wings" are not. and should not be, either the wings of a song bird or the feathers of a bird cruelly slain for its plumage. The demand for poultry on the American table more than supplies the demand for so-called wings, which nowadays are nearly all manufactured from the dyed feathers of chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys. The correct blouse for the tailored gown is white or plain colored linen, madras or cham-hrav cham-hrav with immaculate collar and cuffs. or a very severe stock. Trim shoes and gloves finish a tout ensemble which is not only good form for all daylight oc- 4 casion8, but which is first and only cor- , rcct form for church-going. Later, say in June or late May. a linen coat and skirt may replace the warmer tailored J gown. Later still, in the tropical heat , of July and August, what so dainty and modest as a white blouse of opaque linen or cotton with a skirt to match? His Drink Cure. (From the Indianapolis News.) A certain Indianapolis lawyer, who has a good practice now, quit drinking drink-ing Intoxicants two or three years ago, and he didn't take the Keeley cure, either. A German saloonkeeper of whom the lawyer bought most of his liquor administered the cure, and it has been effective. . m For several years the lawyer naa been buying nearly all of his drinks , at this particular saloon. Finally the saloonkeeper bought a house and lot, and he employed another lawyer who never bought drinks, to prepare the ab- , stract and the deed and transact other business in connection with the deal. The lawjer who had been the re guar , customer heard about it. He was hi ed , with rage, and he went at once to dc- . mand an explanation. "Here " he veiled as lie leaned over , the bar'and pointed an accusing finger , at the old German. "I buy all my drinks . here 1 have bought my drinks here . for years. I have spent hundreds of dollars in this plate. And then the very minute you have some work for a lawyer law-yer to do you go and employ some one else. That's what you do. You go and, and " "Veil." interrupted the old German in the midst of the harangue of accusation. accusa-tion. "When I got business, I want it done by a sober lawyer." The offending lawyer turned and walked out, and his friends say he has drunk nothing stronger than coffee since. The Kindness of Lincoln. When Thomas 'Lincoln was moving from Pigeon Creek. Ind., to their Illinois Il-linois home, his son, Abraham, proved the extreme kindness of his heart in at least two Instances. On both of these occasions the kindness was to animals. And that speaks volumes. In those days there was no society for the prevention pre-vention of cruelty to animals. There were next to no schools. let alone refined re-fined teachers to instil in the mind of the little western boy lessons of kindness. kind-ness. But his mother had taught him to be kind above all else. This seed fell on a heart naturally kind. Many a time the wheels of their great moving wagons wag-ons sank hub-deep in the mire. Abraham Abra-ham was first to put his shoulder to a wheel ;and give the long-suffering oxen help. Their liltie dog in crossing the stream got left behind. The puppy set up a pitiful yelping. And. though he wasn't going after. Abraham waded back after him barefooted. He wouldn't even take the cattle back through the icy water. Having waded across he picked up the now happy dog and waded wad-ed back again. This was in the severest sever-est winter weather. His only explanation explana-tion was, "I cannot bear to see even a puppy in d'stress." |