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Show : - 1 : ' N Woman's World Conducted by Helena Valeau. HELENE VALEAU'S ANSWEES. f Miss Valeau ill reply to all ques- tions asked by the feminine readers of the Intermoiintatn Catholic. The well known character and authority of. her replies need no Introduction to those M already familiar with her ability. Miss n Valeau will take a kindly and personal interest in those who write to her, and will 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 Helen valeau. Intermountain Catholic The renter parting of the hair with the wide Reeainier chipnon and wide ; puffs at the sides comport well with the bip millinery of the day. Women vwtl. email, delicate features find it especially becoming;. The ears are hid- , den under the side arrangement, and i ; the hair at the back is loosely twisted at the nape of the neck or else just below the crown, according to its bc-cominpness, bc-cominpness, sfc 2f ac To the open ;:ir girl the difficulties connected with the preservation of the complexion during the summer months are many, but they are by no means insurmountable. With a little care and forethought one may play tennis and boat and yet keep a peachlike complexion, com-plexion, but day by day each little ; blemish caused by exposure to the sun ; rriust be removed, for it left until the ; reason is over the chance of entirely f removing- it will be much smaller, the progress much longer. The surest way of preventing- the i tkln from becoming permanently tan ned is the use of the following lotion nlgrht and morning;: Take two ounces of fresh lemon juice half a dram of powdered borax and one dram of fcugar. Mix together and allow it to etand for twelve hours: then rub on the face or hands as required night and morning, after washing. Let this remain on the skin for a few minutes, v wiping off. carefully with a soft cham-I cham-I ois leather and dusting lightly with a good toilet powder. Bathing the face frequently with elder flower water is an old-fashioned remedy. J ' A girl who suffers much from tan. ' f-Tf vhich. instead of browning her to meerschaum tints, makes her look bil-lious, bil-lious, finds that she can keep her skin comparatively white and also remove tan after a day in the open air by bath-. bath-. ing with water in which enough ben- zoin has been used to give it a milky look. The cure of freckles is by no means fo easy as tr.Lt of sunburn, but an inexpensive in-expensive cream can be made at home which, if persevered with, will remove freckles of long standing. . Take four ounces of pure olive oil, two small cucumbers and clise up the latter without peeling them. Place the oil in an earthenware jar and heat it thoroughly. Put the sliced cucumbers ; In the oil and let them stands for twen-; twen-; ty-four hours. Strain through muslin and pour in small ointment pots, cov-? cov-? ering with preserve paper. When us- ing rub carefully into that portion of " the skin where the freckle's appear and : leave on for a few minutes while I dressing in the morning, wiping off afterward with a cloth. Apply at bed-; bed-; time and leave on ail night. ; Sunburned hands may be bleached at night by the use of a paste made by ? mixing two teaspoonfuls of almond oil with the same quantity each of finely fifted oatmeal and powdered borax. ; Eeat all into a paste and smear over t the hands, covering them with a pair of old. loose-fitting gloves. Although the sun and wind have an ? injurious effect upon the complexion, they act as an excellent tonic to the ' hair, and the summer girl who wishes 1 to brighten her tresses and increase their growth will do well to expose them as much as possible to the rays of the sun. A celebrated beauty whose hair is much admired confided to me the secret of her treatment of it. Every day, weather permitting, she sits with , her hair loosely shaken down and her ; back to the open window, allowing the 1 i sun and air to play upon her hair for ' si least a half hour, often longer, and ; to thrs she attributes its growth and i the beautiful bright lights in it. To free a use of water has been known to cause baldness. Immersion ! t in sea, water is especially bad, and a 1 certain young woman who had ? long. 1 i delightful summer of bathing t.year ! ago is mourning the loss of her hair, ' A which literally roted off through being i 1 so constantly soured. 1 t Bu6y Children Happy. A buej' child, like an older person, is a happy one. Observation will show I the youngster who whines and is miserable miser-able either really has nothing to do or having a task, pleasant or otherwise, i is not obliged to do it. There will be not the least Difficulty in getting a c child to provide its own amusement if f-he or he is given disciplinary games J when "don't know what to do" is said. f When the small child first spoken of J says this she is given an extra spelling I Wson or something of the kind that re- quires real work on her part. She Is tf-ldom heard to make the plaint of hav-' hav-' ing nothing, because she prefers to pro- vide pleasant diversions rather than de-' de-' veloping ones that will be set by her mother or nurse at the first indication of whining. Besides the good th.it is actually done i to the child by teaching her to be resourceful re-sourceful in amusing herself, the mother moth-er is left more freedom to attend to other oth-er matters, and the two meet after a ' little time, each fresher for the hour or more they have been apart, each busy in her own way. NEW THOUGHTS FROM OLD TEXTS ? Don't Monopolize the Good Qualities of Your Friends. ' Women who adopt the- shut-in policy 8 re like the Chinese. They hurt them- selves more than they hurt anyone else. ) ' Don't hesitate to hand a good thing , around, whether It is a friend, a dress-. dress-. j maker or an aocompl!.sh:."."Tit. For cv-' cv-' ' erything you give to o: tiers you get '1 eome exchange, and if ycu ( ive nothing you get nothing. I know women who always want to keep their friends to themselves. They j like to sit in one corner and talk with one person. They frown if anyone else ": comes to interrupt this tete-a-tete, i Now, that is the way to grow stupid. If I, for instance, am fond of Mary X. I ought to want to see all of her different differ-ent sides. She is affected in a certain way by me, but other women bring out different qualities in her; therefore, she I is at her best with several people around, not when I keep her to myself. J The Good of Mixing. ? If I have only a succession of confi dential conversations with the people I like I am practically getting their views of my point of view over and over u?in,. If I want to get away from myself my-self I'-must mix with t.everal people. There ls an age when the bones and muscles grow stiff; there is also an age in which a woman's mind takes on the same characteristics. Do, please, bear this in mind. If you don't keep broadening broad-ening out mentally and exercising those thought muscles there will come a time when your narrowness will be beyond repair. Read Everything Get in the Open. Women should read more, anything and every thing, not merely just the things that appeal to them. How few and limited these subjects are need only be ascertained by reading the average womna's page or magazine. How can we expect our sex to be fitted to grasp the problems of government when it curls itself up in a cocoon of limited thought and refuses to look at the outside world? General information is the thing that makes a woman bright. That helps her with everything she attempts nowadays. now-adays. Get into the open, women, if you would have clever brains. See all you can, hear all you can and remember all you can. THRONGS GATHER TO OBTAIN CURE Expect St, Anne's Bones Will Effect Remedy. Two thousands persons afflicted with many ailments an assemblage made up of the lame, the halt and the blind-gathered blind-gathered at the Church of St. Anne on July 23 to await the opening of the relic of that saint recently received from the Church of St. Anne de Beaupre, in Quebec, whose walls are hidden by crutches of those said to have been cured by the relic. The portion of the relic possessed by the local church the only one in the United Slates is an infinitesimal splinter splin-ter from the temporal bone of the saint, and is set in a chased gold case which has been blessed by the pope. Today being St. Anne's day, the hopes of the worshipping throng ran high that a cure might be wrought. The Battle of Yawns and Gaps. (By Horace Seymour Keller.) On the road to Sleepy Town, When the sun is sinking low, Tousle Head and Curly Brown, In their uniforms of Enow, Storm the steps upon the stair, Fitter, patter up the flight, Making music everywhere In the frolic of the night. There's a station just above Where the little soldiers flock, The tick-tack from the alcove Halts them both before the clock. And the sun upon its face. Sinking low, puts them to flight; Then they scamper in a race To the forts of snowy white. On the way to Trundleville, - : Pretty station fair to see, Stop the travelers who will Soon go rollicking and free Through the magic land of dreams, Where the pixie and the fay Frolic by the crystal streams, Turning nighttime into day. Tousle Head and Curly Brown Fight the battle. Yawns and Gaps, But the sandman will not down, For he holds the tiny chaps In his grasp, and after tales Of the fairies come the pray'rs Quiet reigns -n Sleepyvales In the nursery upstairs. A Meatless Diet. Now that warm weather is approaching approach-ing the careful housewife plans to lessen les-sen her meat bill by frequently arranging arrang-ing a menu minus meat. She has an immense supply of sea food upon which to draw and Eeveral satisfactory substitutes sub-stitutes for meat, which remains very costly. Rice is an invaluable summer dish. It may be boiled in milk, with mushrooms added; in the many Italian "risotto" preparations, with curry a la Hindoo-stanee, Hindoo-stanee, boiled in milk for dessert, with fresh fruit, with jelly or jam. Spaghetti Spaghet-ti is another palatable and nutritious substitute for meat, served with cracker crumbs, roasted in butter, with par-rnesan par-rnesan cheese, with tomatoes or any of the other fresh vegetables. It may be baked in altprnatinir lavon n-itv fiy. with farced ham or hash or with fried onions. Courage. Because I hold it sinful to despond. And will not let the bitterness of life Blind me with burning tears, but look beyond Its tumult and its strife; Because I lift my head above the mist. Where the sun shines and the broad breezes blow. By every ray and every raindrop kissed That God's'love doth bestow; Think you I find no bitterness at all. No burden to be borne, like Christian's Chris-tian's pack? Think you there are no ready tears to fall, Because I keep them back? Why should I hug life's ill with cold reserve. To curse myself and all who love me? Nay! A thousand times more good than I deserve, de-serve, God gives me every day. And in each one of these rebellious tears Kept bravely back, He makes a rainbow rain-bow shine; Grateful I take His slightest gift; no fears Nor any doubts are mine. Dark skies must clear, and when the clouds are past. . One golden day redeems a weary year; Patient I listen, sure that sweet at last Will sound His voice of cheer. Cella Thaxter. Cover Hair When Sweeping. Dust is the chiefest danger to the beauty of the hair, and neglect of this will soon make the prettiest crown of glorv unsightly and even threaten its health. So please remember to put on a sweeping sweep-ing cap for all work that involves dust, and make this of a cool cotton texture that will wash. Remember, too, to remove re-move the cap the moment the dirty work is over, for It is very Injurious to the hair to keep the head overheated for long stretches of time. For the rest, if the hair is in a naturally healthy state, a weekly shampoo Is necessary, not only for beauty, but also to keep the scalp free from disease. I have talked so much of raw eggs and castile soap for a good and. safe shampoo that I hesitate to do more than remind the reader here not to forget i these inexpensive and excellent cleans- i ers, for they are suited to all heads in i a normal condition. - i A shampoo suited to hair perpetually i moist and oily is made as follows: Co ' logne or lavender water, 4 ounces; bo- i rax, 2. ounce; rose water, 3 ounces; 1 tincture of cochineal, ounce. Put the borax and tincture in co- 1 logne; agitate till the borax is dissolved, then add rose water. This Ehould bo i massaged Into the scalp and left to dry. Exchange. ' Homely Women. ( (From the Strand.) 1 Plain women exist, and form a definite defi-nite factor in our social economy. Not all of us are blessed with good features, ( soft eyes, a fine figure and a clear com- ' plexlon. Some of us are born with dull skins, wide mouths and snub noEes. and 1 not all the arts of dress and toilet can 1 make us pretty, or even presentable, i But all the same, plain women live and thrive, and now and then make brilliant marriages. In fact, one has only to use one's eyes to see that some ugly women have for men quite a weird power of attraction. History teaches us this; for we are told, In several instances, of un-comely un-comely women who have ruled the destinies des-tinies of men and nations. Catherine of Russia and Mme. de Maintenon had no looks; and Mary Queen of Scots, who has gone down to fame as a beauty, appears in her picture as thin, small-?yed small-?yed and hard-featured. Indeed, only sne portrait is said to exist in which she is shown as fair-haired and lovely, md this hangs In Dalkeith palace, and belongs to the Duke of Buccleuch. Canvas may be water proofed by covering cov-ering it with finely shaved beeswax and then melting it in with a hot flatiron. The volcano of . Stromboli has been known to emit flames persistently and lava and cinders spasmodically for over 2,000 years. |