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Show I 1 Woman's World Conducted by Helene Valeau. HELENE VALEAITS ANSWERS. I Miss YahfMj will reply to all cjues- T ims nkd by jlir feminine readers o ihi Trnormuimiain Oatholio. The "well known character' and authority of her ;:'l.lies )ipoc1 no Introduction to thus? airfM'iy familiar with hr ability. Miss J Valpfivi will take a kindly and personal I ,:.t'T'st in iliopc who write to her, and j will spare no pains in seeing that their f nxjU'ries ai answered fully and care- I iily. 'rit only on one side of the !:per. Address letters t Miss Helcne Viilt.iu, Interniountain Catholic. ! I 1'ear Miss Valeau: Please tell me ! .'v to cl"itn whj'e kid pjoves. S. CI. i II.. Salt Lak To li an w hii . 'loves, pour some -.aphtliu in a b vas-ii the Rlovea "l" in V . -i are (loan put ''" " the bar. a, i t them remain 5 iln-re until dry. I I"ar Miss Yal.,,'1. Please tMl me : what to use for tii"!. weak and 1n- i ' II 1 eyes. H. T.. fi-den. $ Tli. -re is nothifff s. helpful for the . S A lull lln-.- Ol-n n r.f j tiathiny: them in a weak solution of j i n-n x and water. ! A sud'l'-n hoarseness, or loss of the : v i'-e. iau l.e relieved hy simply taking: i. to the mouth a small lump of horax . tlie size of a poa and allowing it to dis--'Ive in ihe moutn and partially swal- lowing ir. P.orr.x may he used to good advantage in cmso of a scald by simply ousting it on the scalded "surface. . Unfiling the tooth with horax eleans j t th.-m beautifully and sweetens the breath. If a little hoiax is put into hard wa- ''" it will make it much nicer for i ; I'.fihi-.isr purposes. There is no better . r,'m"uy for dandruff than n wash oom- posed of one ounce of borax and cam- I phor to on- and one-half pints of eold 1 water. If tlvre is seurf on the baby's : h",,, it an he removed by rubbing on j a little borax and then washing with 1 --o:ip and water. i In washing woolen fabrics, silk hand- i kerchiefs and gloves, horax may be ' 3 used instead of soap. T" yon want a i ' ckan iiair brush, wash it in borax s water. : In using borax for the eyes, jt is better to make the solution with distilled dis-tilled water. This makes an excellent ; medv for conjunctivitis or inilanima-;ion inilanima-;ion of ;he eye. r TV.-ir Miss A"ale,-,u: What will help : v. ry tired fc t ? V. J. H Pueblo. When one"s feet are tiled, weary and smarting, bathe them in tepid water :o which has been added a small handful hand-ful of table salt. Afterward rub well with n good coarse towel, and then lust with talcum powder. Dear Miss Valeau: Please tell mo a hat to use fw- ,,ily hair. School Girl. 1 ': rk ( 'itjv-..,. Hair t'inie' for the hair that is oily: Forty giatns of resorcin. one-half ounce f. -water, one' ounce of witch hazel, one ounce of alcohol. Apply to the scalp with the finger tips and rub in thoroughly. pear Miss Valeau: -'Don't yru think i; very unfortunate to.be extremely e r ous" J?y rrfends lectiire me ahvays about the matter. Nervous Girl. Gold- tield. The following, written by that clever woman. Madame Qui Vive in the Chi- a go Recoi'd.lTerald is a p-rwvt rrnlv to our quesj;i.j: . ,No matter how clever ::;id bright a woman may be. if she Jumps around and fidgets and waves in r hands and gesticulates, she is sure sr. t oil peoples' nerves to say noth- ,J at all of her own. Her friends overlook the bright things she is say- i i. they are aware only of the flut- ' ' e-ip hands and the nervousness. A -i'l so afflictej should study repose, i . tudy the art of keeping quiet and i aim and composed. Th" best way to I oMii'ire this art is to relax completely. ( allowing every muscle to become abso- lutely limn Hnd languid. Twenty min- I rte of relaxation every afiernoon and t .iitain before goine to sleep will do 'nuh to take the fiddle strings out of I one's muscles and the kinks from one's I nerves. Kest and fresh air are the I remedies for nervousness. The state of mind has much to do with such an j I afflict ion. j HOW LILLIAN RUSSELL j 1 PRESERVES HER BEAUTY 1 i In Knglatid every woman admires' t iiid envies the beauty of the queen, j In America their cousins search for j the fountain of youth at which Miss I ; Lillian Russell drinks. There is no! I secret in her methods by which, after an active career full of travel and hard! work, she still holds the position of be-j the most bountiful woman of her j . y pe i in the staire. Her tlrst advice to her sisters is, Iion't worry." Worry will make more wrinkles in an hour than time j an chisel in a decade. Don't let little M ini's annoy you. Life is made up of j ;ri!Vs. Unce the habit is formed of I i.i.'iklng mountains of molehills, no re- ' i s- rve force is left when big problems I 8 are faet.fi. Fresh air possesses more! 'i curative ami preservative, powers than ill the doctor's prescriptions and beauty recipes in the world. Miss KusseJl spends two hours every :ay iti the open air. She dresses eom-J eom-J " rtably, leaving the face- and throat $ ancovered. If th" weather permits she I 'akffi a brisk walk, breathing deeply and evenly, expanding the lungs to "icir fullest capacity, throwing back : .cr head and stepping firmly and 'rik!y. lOvery morning, as soon as she . !sos. "she goes to an open window and xercises and clears her lungs by deep aihing. t'hn traveling she spends an hour each day or. the observation; flat form of lier car. Walking is her ( ure for irifling colds and minor ills, i r, stormy days she rh esses for protec- j ion. hut wears no veil or tight cover-j MS at the throat. In her diet she makes no restrictions. She eats what she likes, but selects a hnple fare of plain foods, avoiding all j ich sauces arid heavy gravies. In her ; i.-th she prefers one of the same tem- I -,-erature of the 'room, rubbing herself I down briskly with a coarse towel, get- I i,rg as much light exercise as possible i out of a necessity. For her daily exer- ise, if engagements and rehearsals 1 om'ncl her time in the open air to be 1 taken U',i In-driving to and from the ! theatre, she uses the- simpler movements move-ments of -the army -"setting up" drill. This drill Hfl in use in the schools, jj and a mother can learn the movements 1 1 roni her sond and daughter, f 1 The problem is or.e that each woman I oust solve for herself; the rules are I . bnple. bul'they are-not Ironclad. Miss , " i:usell and her sister, Susan Westford, ! followed the same course last summer. They took equal waJks. followed the t vam'e diet and exercised together, yet j ljsS Russell lost weight and her slstej-nned slstej-nned in flesh. However, Miss West- J i ford was never in better health and her weight is less than it would have j been if she had not followed the rules of not worrying, living simple and taking plenty of exercise in the open air.' Some good anil timely advice is given j by iliss Lillian Kussell, who is appearing ap-pearing in her new and successful comedy. "The Butterfly," by Kellett Chambers, in a recent interview. "One I would miss beauty. I suppose, but the tragedy would be to have some dreadful dread-ful accident to lose a leg, for instance, and never he able to go about or work again. I often think of that. If that happened to me I should kill myself. I'.ut why speculate?"' she added. And with this the secret of the smooth brow, the childlike mouth, the beautiful, beauti-ful, nerveless body, the eternal youth, was revealed. "I never think of yesterday, nor of tomorrow. Today is enough."' 1 don't make any plans for the future. 1 never have, perhaps I am somewhat of a fatalist. 1 always think. 'If I make ! such a plan, and it doesn't work out well. I shall be disappointed, so I won't make it;' it is much better. 1 think, to be governed by present -conditions, and do what at the time seems best. Is it not written: 'Do not worry about the future. You will meet it, if need be, with the samo reason that you now employ m your present affairs? " "Marcus Aurelius?" queried the interviewer. in-terviewer. Miss Russell nodded. "He is my constant con-stant companion." she said. "I have all the twelve little books in my room." "And Kpictetus?" The diva pursed her lips as a schoolgirl school-girl ilni-s when her task is hardly tolerable. tol-erable. "Not so : much." she said. "ICpiclotus was lame and poor and unfortunate, un-fortunate, and what he wrote reflected those conditions. Hut Marcus Aurelius was noble, and that nobleness seemed only the natural unfolding of his life. He looked upon everything that happened hap-pened as a part of the development that we call life." And she quoted j further from the Iioman- emperor ! philosopher: "Accept the gifts of fortune for-tune without pride, and part with them without reluctance." "I think," said Miss Russell, "that I could lose whatever I have tomorrow and not grieve for it. It would seem to me to be the working out of natural law." And again she quoted the stoic i hilosopher. The words were strangely j incongruous upon the lips of this vital beauty, but she pointed an earnest, convincing finger as she spoke: "Act, speak and think as one who knows that he can at any time depart from life." The subject of economy was then broached. Miss Russell is understood to be an advocate of economy. She. j was putting on a big, black vehet hat, i a somber frame for a perfect face, while she talked. "Yes, girls should save money," she said. "The girl who earns $25 a week should save $10. When site earns she should save Silo." She put her hat on as Frenchwomen French-women do, drawing it up from the back on the head first, poising it daintily dain-tily at last on top of her head and turning- slowly before the triplicate mirror to see that it was so placed that it was equally becoming at all angles. "She should, but I am reasonably sure she won't," sell added, with charming inconsequence. "The first $30 I saved I spent for a watch. It was afraid of working too hard, and would go part of the time. But it was a watch. Then I ; began saving again, and this time I bought a sealskin sacque. My third pile of savings went for a pair of tur-i tur-i quoise earrings, set with diamonds, j "What should a girl do with her savings? Live on it during the summer when she is not earning anything, j When she has saved enough, she would j do well to invest in real estate in town. New York real estate isn't bad. 1 j have never lost money in that. But I never made a cent on the races. I have won, but I have lost, too. and at the end of the season the story is always the sann I am not ahead a dollar." ! The Airship Hat. I ( Paris is showing a hat on the toque order, which is known as the airship. ! This hat takes its name from its like- ness in shape to an airship. It is made up in soft straw braid, and will be one of the season's extreme novelties. Many sailor hats will also be worn 'al! through the spring-and summer. A very fashionable sailor is a rather large ! shape with the brim wider on one side : and at the hack than on the other. In regard to straws. leghorn n"t only j in its natural color, but dyed in such shades as sage green, old rose, blue ! anl . npricot, will be mucJi .used. A riTossy straw known ;rs ravellrt -svilVLie trade up in many toques, mushrooms and turbans. Smooth, fine chip hats will he fashionable, and also those of Milan straw. Neopolitan will b used a'.l through tl.e season, cleveriy combined com-bined with a firm straw. Grace Margaret Mar-garet Got)! 1 in Woman's Home Companion Com-panion for April. j Complexion. j ( 'mill ioxii n is largely a matter of di-jgestion. di-jgestion. A well-regulated stomach in-! in-! variably proclaims itself in a good-j good-j lo 'kins: face, and to maintain this well-I well-I regulated condition attention to a fruit I diet is recommended. Plums, black-I black-I berries, white and black grapes, oranges orang-es and peaches are among the table fruits, and it is diificult to say which j is .he best for a pretty complexion, j If the skin is kept fresh and the diet is laxative the face will be good to look i:pot!. People eat too much breadstuff's. A pretty woman will be able i- keep her charm if she consumes con-sumes !cs starch, glue and mucilage thfn the gourmand. A mud-colored skin is usuallv an indication of impure blood. Memories. Th-.' liight w ind murmurs in the eaves; The town is still. L'ke whispering echoes from some ! drowsy shore. ! Across the hill The raindrops patter on the leaves, And more and more Palo memory beckons at the open door. I hear the shrilling of the wind Above the surge, Like voices woepirg in the windy sea. Moaning a dirge As through the chambers of my mind the echoes flee The dreamy cadence of a memory. The silence trembles on the night j The winds are still. No more the unquiet murmur? of the j rain Across the hill. But when the western skies are bright, The clouds remain Dim, misty memories of unconquered pain: H. H. Craigie in The Pilot. Pa's Housecleartin'. When the April sun's a-shinin' hot an things is nice an' fresh. , When the willerV droppin' towels an the blackbird's in the bresh. An' pa comes in fr noonin' an t. I'll I'-ll oor.s is wet as souse, t Then it's "Laws-a-massy on us. i' ma's a-clcanin' house!" Th.-n me fin' .Tim is sure to find rag carpets in the sun . When we'd planned to go a-fishm 'l'- the suckers in the run: But while pa takes his noonin' an in bosses eats their snacks. Us hoys can beat them carpets wliii- we'ro restin' up our backs. An- then next day pa's certain sure to have to go to town: But he always leaves us orders, "lit'ip to put them carpets down." An' Vt night, when he gets home again. vow'd think, to hear him groan About the hardship of it, that he'd done tin; job alone. Toor ma! She lias it awful hard, slio 11 work until she drops. An' pound her thumb nails half-wa off. an' wet her feet with slops: She'll get so hoarse that she can i speak, an' sore at every bone: But pa. be says if it was him he'd let the In use alone. An' when that night the kids is fU'k an' has to have a drink. An' mil she can't tret up because her back's in such a kink. If pa shonld ha u the furniture whilst rrropm' fer the' cup. You can feel him get tin' mad enough to fairly eat her up. So me .,n' Tim was sayin', if the time shou'd over come . . When pa an' nut should change then-work then-work an' pa should stay to hum. I wouldn't like to be a tioy, but jest a little mouse To hear what things pa would say it he w-as cleanin' house. -William Futhey Gibbons in Woman's Wo-man's Home Companion for April-Personal April-Personal Beauty. Pors .nnl bennty has always been a great power, and probably always wiil be. It is one of nature's gifts, wlii'ii like ii't:llect may be used for good or ill. If you are indifferent to your dress or personal appearance, you run tlie risk of bringing upon yourself the contempt con-tempt of the world, and thus losing your influence. This has been the fate of good but eccentric people from timc-im timc-im memorial, and some of our best men and women have lost much of their influence because of their indifference indif-ference to. the world. It is the duty of every mother to teach her daughter to have respect for her personal appearance, ap-pearance, as well as her intellectual attainments. Many a, plain girl by her daintiness of dress, and by what is termed her "good management" of her-helf. her-helf. has become a social power, while her sister, more generously gifted by nature, has proved a failure because of her indifference to the influence of social appearance. We feel instict-iveiy instict-iveiy pained by unlovely things. And there is no necessity for any woman to be repulsive; if she dresses herself neatly and becomingly and does not scowl or look cross, but puts on a pleasant expression, she cannot fail to be attractive. |