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Show Woman's World Conducted by Helene Valeau. Y HELENE VALEAU'S ANSWERS. I Miss Valeau will reply to all ques- tions asked by the feminine readers of the Intermountaln Catholic. The well known character and authority of her replies need no Introduction to those already familiar with her ability. Miss J f? Valeau will take a kindly and personal I Interest in those who write to her. and I N will spare no pains in seeing that their I inquiries are answered fully and care-j care-j fully. Write only on one side of the i paper. Address letters to Miss Helene Valeau, Intermountain Catholic. Dear Miss Valeau: Please tell me what will remove scorch from linen. K. G., Salt Lake. To remove pcorch ftain soak the fabric fab-ric in a basin of water in which has befn placed all the borax that will dissolve. dis-solve. Then place in the sun to bleach. Dear Miss Valeau: Please pive me a recipe for my baby's mouth. Anxious Mother. A supersaturated solution of borarie fu.id in pure warm water make.-: a fine mouth wash for the baby. It should be used two or three times a day. If there is a discharge from the eyes use tin's solution on a little pad or cotton. Never use the same rlece of cotton twice nor for more than one eye. SIMPLE EXERCISES THAT WILL CURE INDIGESTION Any exercises that work muscles and cords about the stomach promote digestion, diges-tion, and for this reason specialists at foreign baths strongly recommend that no person shall sit immediately after eating. Part of much continental stomach treatment is walking slowly for half an hoar, if only about the room. Drawing the body to its full height, which imme- diately brings the digestive organs into .. their proper place, is also excellent. ( Very frequently the stomach is pushed back or doubled up by incorrect poise, v A woman suffering from indigestion will often have immediate relief if she will rise from her chair and stand so r W that her head is well raised. She will 1 t 1 the position of her stomach change, v-t and gases that have been accumulating " will be thrown off without effort. To exercise violently after eating is f mistake, for digestion is then hindered, hin-dered, if not stopped. A beneficial simple motion to go I through for the relief of indigestion is that of trying to twist the body while standing. The movement should be made only by the body, above the hips, when it is readily seen, that the stomach and abdominal cords and muscles are called into play. Tight clothing must not be worn when this exercise is taken. tak-en. A variation of this exercise is to bend far down, first on one side and then on the other, letting the bend come to the stomach, and not from below the hips. Bending back, in the same way, is also good. To sit and do nothing directly after rating is one of the greatest mistakes that can be made by a woman, especially espe-cially if si wishes to preserve her figure, fig-ure, for ' ,, 'm after a meal will often destroy contour of a beautiful body. i , , . -thing is a tremendous aid to o . , J aid as a part of such treatmei.' !t i voman be without restricting re-stricting ;.-ni- md place her hands over the Wy. j-.st above the hins. Then she should 6r:iw deep, full breaths through tr.r n strils. inhaling until she feels the diaphragm expand beneath her fingets. .After several of these breaths digestion will lie greatlv stimulated, stim-ulated, gases will be ejected, and the process 0f assimilating food will become be-come simple. Were deep inhaling done at the first sensation of indigestion much subsequent pain would frequently frequent-ly be saved. Persons who suffer with weak stomachs stom-achs will do well to learn to eat without with-out taking any liquid with the meals The resu'.t of being able to do this is that mastication is of necessity more thorough, the gastric juices are not di-, di-, luted, and there is not so much likeli hood of gases forming. At least three quarts of water must be taken through the day, but it should be sipped slowly v between meals, not sooner than half an hour afterward or later than half an J- hour before. ' The Widow Talks. "I've been reading." said the Widow, "what Rir Horace Plunkctt has to say f , about the Irish." i "What does he say?" I asked. "He speaks about landlordism and agriculture. ag-riculture. You know what a life-and-death struggle it has been for the peasantry peas-antry of Ireland, but now Sir Horace feels that better times are coming. Agriculture Ag-riculture is the backbone of every na-t na-t tion. and when the small farmer is en-k en-k t . couraged. Ireland may well hope for a t . prosjerous future. "But Sir Horace made one surprising r statement. That is. as he is an Irish-vj Irish-vj man himself, it rather surprised me. He I said that Irishmen were nat natural farmers." "Well?" I queried. "Why. of course, they arn t farmers." farm-ers." cried the Widow. "And Kir Horace ought to have known it. Fanners stick to the ground, and everyone knows that you can't keep an Irishman down!" THINKING CAUSES INSOMNIA; A WAY TO BRING SLEEP Sufficient sound sleep is as necessary to pood work on the part of the worker work-er as are nutrition and general health. Thousand!? of nervous person, hmvoiw discover that after goiniL- to bed. tired with a day's work, they arc unable to go to sleep. "How can I get rest until I can get to sleep?" asks the person who suffers from insomnia. But often that r?eon win. suffers from prolonged wakefulnsi which he does not understand is ' allowing his brain to work at sixty miles ar hour He would not think for a. moment .f trying to sleep while dancing around r his bedroom. How can he expect to Meep when he Is lying in bed, thinking 8 bout someth'ng a thousand miles re- ,. moved from sleep? I It is the brain which lapses into sleep. Kef ore it can invito unconsciousness it tnust be rid of th- thoughts which are t-xpressionn of its activity. With the brain Rctive in thought that organ of Fleep is as little prepared for slumber es the body might be in dancing a hornpipe. You cannot hope for sleep fo long as you are thinking earnestly nd deeply. Insomnia Product of Thinking. r How to stop thinking, wh'cn produces Insomnia, long has been a problem with the active, nervous temperament. The fiverage sufferer is Inclined to feel that lie has no power over his vagrant thoughts. He tosses from side to side I in bed, conscious on!.,- of the fact that he can't go to sleep. Occasionally he may have read somcthin-.r, somewhere, telling him that by a process of telf-hypnotism, telf-hypnotism, or by counting fanciful sheep Jumping over a. fvwe. of his fancy, fan-cy, sleep may be produced. With the simplest of practical experiments, experi-ments, however, iluit average person trying to go to sleep may accomplish the end so quickly t)vi he will wonder next morning how h did it. When a person in bed in a dark room closes his eyes and still holds his eyes as if to focus them on a sheet of paper six inches from his face, he may "see" a nebulous cloud of black in movement before them. Under certain conditions these clouds appear to have specks of different shadings moving in them more or less rapidly. Hold the eyes to this "seeing" focus, making an effort to fix the gaze upon that portion of the dark field directly in front of the eye. Finding this section of the dark and fixing the gae, drop every other thought from the mind, using only the mental effort and concentration which win keep you to this task. If an outside out-side thought attempts to intrude, banish ban-ish it to the end of keeping visual track of the central portion of this dark field of vision. You will find after a few moments that there is a certain strain upon the eye muscles necessary in holding them m focus. Also you will find that all the thought activity of the brain is necessary neces-sary to hef'd you to this one task of concentration,. con-centration,. Outside thoughts may try to intrude, but they are shut out instantly in-stantly wl en you return to the imposed duty of "poking" at. the black field directly di-rectly in xront of the eyes. Hold yc'urself to this task and vou will be a:;Ieep "before you know it." That one chief thing in the process will be to banish any trace of thinking on outside subjects of any kind. Cihcago Tribune. |