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Show : THE home. : What Not to Wear. White petticoats on muddy da vs. Cheap jewelry at any time. Bright red with a florid complexion. Conspicuous bicycle costumes. A broad belt on a stout figure. Cheap trimmings on a good dress, '"heap lace on anything. Diamonds in the day time. Linen collars with dressy frocks. Picture hats with outing costumes. Theatre bonnets with street suits. Soiled while gloves on a shopping expedition, ex-pedition, or any tlrtie. Worn shoes with an elaborate toilet. Dotted veils with weak eyes. A linen collar that is not immaculately fresh. Gloves with holes in, or boots with buttons but-tons missing. Hair dressed hieh with a snuu rose. Hair in a psyche knot with a Roman nose. F'ointed shoes when bicycling. Oaudy colors in cheap materials. The. new tight sleeve on a long, thin arm. Tan shoes in mid-winter. A long, draggling skirt on p. 'rainy day. Lace frills or chiffon ruches for worii or school. Klaborale toilets for church. t'ntidy frocks "or breakfast. Horizontal stripes or tucks on a stout fiS'-ire. A Tew Pointer?. Never be guilty of practical jokes. If you accustom yourself to them, it is probable yon will become so habituated as to commit them on persons who will not allow such liberties. A duel has been known to arise from a slap on the hack. If there is another chair in the room do not offer a lady the one from which you have just risen. Never converse while persons are sinoing. The essentia! part of good breeding is th? nractica! desire to nfford "pleasure "pleas-ure and to avoid giving" pain. Any man I possessing the desire requires only opportunity op-portunity and observation to make him a gentleman. Always take off your hat when handing a lady to her carriage, to a box of a theatre ev a public room. If on a promenade you pass and repass re-pass persons of your acquaintance, it is only necessary to salute them on the first occasion. Never lose your temper at cards, and particularly avoid the exhibition of anxiety or vexation at want of success. suc-cess. Let presents to a lady be characterized character-ized by taste, not remarkable for intrinsic in-trinsic value. Except under decided circumstances it is ungentlemanly and dangerous to "cut" a person. If, you wish to rid i yourself of any one's society a cold i bow cn the street and particular cere-i cere-i mony in tHe circle of your mutual acquaintances ac-quaintances is the best mode to adot. Never introduce your affairs for the amusement of company. It shows a sad want of mental cultivation or excessive ex-cessive weakness of intellect. Vou should not shake hands on introduction in-troduction to ladies, nor at parting: but at the next neting or subsequent ones, if they appear desirous of such a cordial greeting, grasp their hand, for it is at the option of a lady whether Qr not the hands should come in context con-text with each other; but never shake at parting. In writing a. note, a young man should never be careless or familiar. He must make no elisions or contractions, contrac-tions, but fill out every word and Una as if the duty was a pleasant one. His tails should never be too long. One hour was all that Mine. Reeamier granted to the most agreeable of men lor an evening visit. The rule is a good one. It is much better to go away leaving leav-ing your friends wishing you had stayed longer than to stay so long that one's hostess wonders if Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes' suggestion of a ship which could not be launched had ever occurred to her guest. A man should "suffer himself to be desired" rather than make himself too common. Care of the Hands. Many women who do their own house work, or the greater part of it. have long since abandoned the idea of trying try-ing to take care of their hands. We must admit that it is rather difficult and discouraging under such circum-Ftances. circum-Ftances. yet with a little time and care the hands of ihe hard working woman may be greatly improved without in the least detracting from her usefulness. useful-ness. The most hopeless looking and neglected neg-lected hands may be rendered presentable present-able and once they are put in good condition, a little attention each day will preserve the result. First immerse im-merse the hands every night in a bowl of milk and let them remain ten minutes, then dry softly with an old towH and rub with mutton tallow, cucumber cu-cumber cream or vaseline. Sleep in I loose gloves of kid or chamois. If persevered in for a month the hands will be much improved by this treatment. treat-ment. After having the hands in soapy water rinse well before drying and apply the foliwmg lotion: One ounce of honey, one J ee of lemon juice and one ounce of enu de cologne. To soften and whiten bands roughened rough-ened by housework get some Hint sand or white powdered quartz such as is sold for filters. Fill a basin half full i of the sand and soap suds as hot as can be borne; wash the hands in this for five minutes at a time, brushing and rubbing them in the sand. Rinse off the sand in a warm lather and then rub them in bran or tornmeal, lastly applying cold cream. Before I uie sana oatn, remove ail stains from I the skin with' oxalic acid or lemon j juice, touching the spots where the acid has been applied with cold cream, j Where it is necessary to put the hands In sofe soap or soap suds, if they are immediately washed in vinegar or lemon juice they will keep soft and white. The following is a formula for a wash given, by a noted specialist for ladies who do their own housework: One gallon of rain or boiled water, one-half ounce of powdered borax, one package of oatmeal. Let the mixture stand for two or three days, then strain and add a little alcohol to keep it. Eliza R. Parker in Western Watchman. Curing the Blues. j A well known doctor of Minneapolis, who has made a specialty of nervous diseases, has found a new remedy for "the blues." As no drugs are administered, adminis-tered, he has felt safe in axpenment-j axpenment-j lng with at least a half hundred melancholy melan-choly patients, and now declares himself him-self thoroughly satisfied with the .wood ! results of the treatment. His prescription prescrip-tion reads something ike this: "If you keep the corners of your moifJi turned up you can't feel blue." The directions direc-tions for taking are: "Smile, keep on j smiling, don't stop smiling." ft sounds 1 ridiculous, doesn't it? Well. just, tiy I turning up the corners of your mouth, I regardless of, your mood, and see how i it manes you reel: then draw the corners cor-ners of your mouth down and note the effect, and rou will be willing to declare de-clare "there's something in it." The doctor treats his nervous patients pa-tients to medicine when necessary, but when the case is one of pare melan- c'holy without bodily ill. he sinip'v'ree-I sinip'v'ree-I ommends the smile cure. Us has the patient remain in his office and smile: if it isn't the genuine article, it must at least be an upward curvature of the corners of the mouth, and the better feelings follow inevitably. The treatments treat-ments are followed tip regularly, and the patients all testify to their good effect. It takes considerable persuasion persua-sion to induce some of them to apply the cure, and, of course, the greater number of patients are women, for when a man is blue he is bound to be blue in spite of everything, but a woman wo-man is more easily persuaded to try to find a cure. The doctors declares that if persons will only draw down the corners of their mouths and use sufficient will power they can actually shed tears. On the other hand, if they will persistent- j ly keep the corners of the mouth turned up pleasant thoughts will chase away i the gloomy forebodings. His discovery ' grew out of an experiment in his own home. His wife was of a nervous and rather morbid temperament, and when in a despondent mood he would ask her to "smile a little," until the saying came to be a household joke. But it brought about good results, and then came the inspiration to try the same cure on others. The doctor has not patented his remedy, rem-edy, and it is free to all who choose to take advantage of it. Sleeping Hygiene. Physicians declare that one-half the diseases fiesh is heir to are contracted by sleeping two in a bed. It is 'only too true. There is a poison "vonstantly arising from each body, which the other inhales. Away with heavy hangings, either I above or below the bed. Beware of a dusty, musty carpet; better sweetness and a. bare floor. Do not fail to provide some means of ventilation during the night. Keep the head cool while sleeping, but not by a draught of cold air falling upon it. If a folding bed must be used, contrive con-trive some way to keep it aired and wholesome. Let the pillow be high enough to bring the head in a natural position. Thoroughly air the sleeping rooms every day. Air the beds and bedding as often as possible. Authors on Women. . A woman's whole life is the history, of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire. Washington Irving. ;' A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Coleridge. If a wife can induce herself to submit sub-mit patiently to her husband's mode of life she will have no difficulty to man- I age him. Aristotle. In buying horses and in taking a wife shut your eyes tisht and commend ; ! yourself to God. Tuscan Proverb. We meet in society many attt active women whom we would fear to make our wives. D'Harleville. I don't .want a woman to weigh me in a balance: there are men enough for that sort of work. Holmes. Women, like empresses, condemn to imprisonment and hard labor nine-tentjjs nine-tentjjs of mankind. Tolstoi". |