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Show I Woman's World - - j "Only a Irivate Killed." I a fa-o upturned to the copper sky, ' tie in (it'iichi'd liand and a glazing err, x i-ivl.Vod splotch 011 a Mouse of blue i ojj'v a private nothing new I 1 '" -only a piivate killed." ! ! : . f A Fuiil't'oivned check that is glassy I rhnkinp ea?p and a half sobbed wail: i .' niii her" his heart to hers must I call. I o!J' a private lost that's all J : " Only a private killed." I j poad with a smile in his clear brown j . eyes. I Gfr.n and motionless there ht lies, I pc.'id for his country's Hag's fair I f;.nic ; Only a private. "What's his name? ("Only a private killed." Only a mother's heart somewhere Torn with Krief for her boy so fair I The boy whose smile she will never see. v i l: was a cheap 'bought victory j ( "Only a rrivate killed." DO UP THE BABY IN" A BAG. I That's the Newest i (Chicago Tribune.) 1 Human beings nowadays have main-, main-, Iv poor and unbeautiful bodies. If tr.e i U children wore correctly dressed for i wo I. .( r o- three pon.Tati.ms human beings niitrlu ufriin become as physically perfect per-fect us the ancient Wrecks. This is 1I10 phi t form on which the Chicago enthusiasts in regard to dress rfcriTi but "correct dress" is the pre-; pre-; foird term to use in this connection ; take their stand. And the correct dress-! dress-! i:;. according- to these child-loving au-? au-? th'i-rities. should begin from fhe first, j Tli'" old-fashioned method of baby j firessinp. still followed by many dell de-ll voted mothers, meets with sweeping I condemnation, from many physicians, t nurse? and students of the physiologi-i physiologi-i cai ami artistic possibilities of the hu-i hu-i ian form. : -One turning, one pin, make a sun- ! Fhir.y baby," is the claim made In be- ha.'f of the newer method of baby I uivssin? by its -devoted adherents. ! AE.iiiist this claim they set this stern f arraignment: i . 'Six turnings, fifteen pins, make a '- lii-pd and cross babv." t "This method of r'r'essing little babies I i;ites back to tr ; '.d when the wa- ter for the ut.-.nn,, . infant's bath J was tested by th n.t :? elbow," says Chicago enthu-i .si n the subject of I dreFs reform fo' babies. "In the old days, you know. U 'iix turnings and 1 fifteen pins' metl..- . was the only one f known, but it by no means follows that s we should now cling to it. The fewer I alike of inns j.nd turnings the better, j as almost everybody now knows." i And now comes the still newer lrteth- O'l in retard to which even the single j pin and turning are declared unneces- l t-ar.v. The new little garments as yet I made only in London open down the j shoulders and sleeves and are fastened I with small, unobtrusive buttons. To dress the baby the garments are ar- i ranged in place, one over the other, I lb" front portions turned down, and the baby laid jn or on them. Then ! the front portions are turned to place, I and his small kingship quickly but- j toned into fuil and complete garbing. i The child is fresh, unwearied, unirri- tatcd by much handling and turning, the little limbs ate free to stretch, kick, I twist, turn, and grow as they will. I The garments lately made are from the wardrobe of tiny Miss Hnxana Mil-A Mil-A laid, the 3-months-old daughter of Mr. i 8!h1 Mrs. George Millard of Chicago. The little frocks, one of fine wool, the I other of fine muslin, and the flannel 1 pf-ui.viut belong to the "Alione" sys- f tfin c"' ised by a knowing baby lover j of L'lH-liin, and the diminutive "djib-biih" "djib-biih" vas designed and executed after a London model also. It is the work I "f the artist designer, who is known ' only as "Sheba," and who was respon- 1 "iliie for the introduction of the djlb- ; kah. originally an Egyptian garment, : tn o -oi.icntal women. Like many oth- i -r brilliant creations,- the full grown djiM'h sprang into being as the result of p-re accident. Tr;iling in Kgypt. "Sheba" S"as I , eiiariiieii with the simple lines and' ' fvls ef the dervish garment. Ret urn -!i z to Kr.qland. slip worked out a sim-i.'r sim-i.'r garment for her small daughter, t this was the oriarinal diibbah. The small robe proved so quaiptly attract-; attract-; !"e that a friend of the wearer's moth- er in.i lored her to make up some beau-j beau-j tiful material in this manner, and : "Sh-ba" reluctantly consented. The ef- f't v.-&s so charming to lovers of ar-j ar-j tistic f'-minine apparel that the feml-1 feml-1 rine djibbah became popular without I d-lsy. The ouaint little djibbah designed for ; the future wear of the diminutive Miss I Mill.i'r was copied from the wardrobe " I ';f a little English baby going out to South Africa. . For summer wear Mrs. I Miliird. herself a correct dress enthu- siust. brieves the infantile djibbah will ir. ;m ideal garment. She is also ; e1 '.;i-i,iMic in regard to the sleeve and 1 "hoijid-T openitig long frocks designed I for her small daughter. It is believed I by correct dress students that no great I tin - will elapse before the most up-to- d-ate and progressive Chicago babies I l.ttle children will all be clad upon I sin ii;tp artisuc and hygienic lines. - ,3 ""hy. it is asked, should not art stu- 1 '!:,: and rising artists turn their at- j tr-;, ;:,,!! to jne problems and difficulties I "f 1; reot and artistic dress for chil- I as well as in the direction of art ; J'ft i.f other kinds? Their trained I l-'iire of anatomy, the building of I ,!" btin;an form, and of the artistic I JJp-i'-s eould scarcely fail to prove j Jiiirh'y !ieii ticial i.i this regard. ! M-s Ilortha I. Coibett, famous as I 'I.- ": i i! lien's artist," believes that j th.. present and future dress of "!'' 'hildrets depends much of the fu- 1 " of th race Miss Corbett's own j j "in.l.-.imet babies" and "overall boys" f all dressed in the simplest and I r-;;,est (,f garments, and prove the j -ted point of attractive appearance I y 'ho merest glance at their fashion- 5 ''s beauty, in regard to the real ba- whom the 'children's artist" love3 f 'iu.;.. ;,s much as tne pictured darlings, i '' ' hich thousands might now b? ! 1'laef-d to her red it, she would go to t ' l"" further extremes of simj.licity and I f i s" many poor little children are j 'dressed u; t the point of misery alii al-ii v'Vs." says Miss Corbett. "Of course trills, atid ruffles, and sashes, and ! ;! ''lens, and so on make of them the 'j : ii:;test little figures imagitiable, but 1 '' '! hildif 11 can't grow or play com- :": la iily dressed in that fashion; and .'-st as soon as they begin to get used ! '' end make the best of the dre."s bond-; bond-; ''-T'- well, then they inevitably begin I '" ;-'t conscious, and we all know how in: fortunate that is for a little child. 1 f "I spent much of last summer in the ! j eountry, on the shores of Lake (Jeneva. i I :.d some of the children in the parly I I v.e,0 so f,-e and so happy. Just over- I "Us they wore, boys and girls alike, f v -ith strong and simple waists to cover ' j 'h'ir arms and shoulders, and -'with I "niy j;oft and pliable moccasins to keep their bare feet from the ground." "Hut how those children did romp. 1R,id grow, and thrive, and flourish. And if every little child in creation had just Kueh a. free chance for its physical na- , 'tire, from the earliest moment on- v'ard. we'd be milch more beautiful, as j I ir.ere human creatures, in the next gen- 'ration than we are now." j I The basic plans of the men and wo- . 4 :'-"n now enthusiastically working and I talking in behalf of correct dress for ; , J children would include loose and pli- j ble garbing garments, touching " the I '""iy closely t no point or portion of I 'he body from the. first days and hours I " the new-born ingant up to the. time I t when the body Itself is laid, like a worriout garment, aside. All clothing, according to the approved theories of these hygienic and artistic thinkers, should be suepended from the shoulders, shoul-ders, no .belts or bands of any kind encircling the body anywhere. The waist line, as now known, is declared unnatural by the correct dress theor-, theor-, ists, merely a physical deformity resulting re-sulting from long years of habitualal-though habitualal-though perhaps unconscious repression. jThe modified medieval style of feminine gowning, which follows and suggests while it does not confine the lines of ' the figure, is admitted a trifle stiff and ' formal, but modern artistic education and talent would make of it the ideal fern mine mode of apparel. Masculine modes of garbing, it is also urged, need reformation no less than the much berated be-rated fashions of femininity, but this would come later. The time, the place to begin the cor- reel dress movement which is presently to transform physical humanity and through the physical reach up and react re-act to work wonders -with mental and spiritual portions of humanity is with the children the little children and the "correct dress for infants" idea means the beginning of the long desired de-sired end. . KITCHEN AND TABLE. The Sunday Menu. BREAKFAST. Fruit. Cereal Cream. Scrambled Eggs. Cream Potatoes. Buttered Toast. Coffee. LUNCHEON'. Jellied Tongue Salad. Krown Bread. Strawberries. Cake. Tea. r DINNER. Rrown Beef Stew. Baked Potatoes. Dressed Cabbage. String Bean Salad. Lemon Souffle. Coffee. Currant Jelly. Get currants not over-ripe and not picked immediately after a heavy rain. Look them over and rinse them. It is not necessary to stem them. Put them over a slow fire and heat them, mashing mash-ing with' a large spoon or potato masher. When the juice flows remove from the fire. Have ready a bag made from strong, unbleached muslin, stitched in the shape eof a cornucopia, with two strong loops on the top. Snip off the point of the bag. Into this put the mashed currants. Suspend this over a stone jar by thrusting a poker or abroom handle through the loops and resting the ends securely on chair backs. Leave this to drip all night. In the morning, or whenever the drip has ceased, measure the juice in pints. Put it over the fire in a porcelain or enameled kettle and bring it to boiling. Look at the clock and let it boil exactly ex-actly twenty minutes. Have ready in the oven, hot on a platter, as many pounds of granulated sugar as there are pints of juice, and add this to the juice when it has boiled twenty minutes. min-utes. Let this come to a boil and take from the fire. Dip it into tumblers. Do not cover until the next day. when melt a little parafine and run over the top of each tumbler. Then paste on paper, or cover with tins. If it is not convenient to us parafine, white paper cut in rounds and wet with hranrlr mn ho silhi-itllted This jelly is the best possible and is translucent. But there is a good deal of value in the pulp, and this musl be squeezed out by hand, unless a jelly press is owned, and this juice must be measured and boiled and given its allowance al-lowance of sugar. It will be clear, but not as clear as that made from the I dripped juice. If the flavor of red raspberries is liked, add them as convenient to the currants when first put on the stove to heat. A jelly so made wilL surely be good. If it is guessed at and fails, no one but the maker of it is to blame. No one can guess exactly at a pint of juice, at a pound of sugar or at twenty minutes of time. Black currant jelly has a quaint, delicious de-licious flavor. It is also very useful In cases of throat and lung trouble. A small basket of black currants .will" make all the jelly that an ordinary family will wish. Look them over and wash, but do not stem them. I have stPTnmed currants for jelly and made jelly without stemming- them, and could not see any difference in the result, re-sult, so it seems useless work. Cover the currants with water and stew them. Mash them with .a spoon and strain through a hag. The pulp remaining re-maining can be squeezed through cheesecloth. .Measure by pints and boll twenty minutes. Allow a pound ot heated sugar for a pint of juice, stir in .and bring to boiling. It never fails to stiffen. . . . a Fruits and Vegetables . Certain foods, and desirable ones, too, which are habitually taken raw, such as berries, fruits, salads, radishes and the like, should bs fresh and clean. The fewer the people that handle them, tha better, and they can usually be washed to advantage. Radishes, celery and anaything of a' similar nature that comes in contact with the soil and is eaten raw should be thoroughly washed and rinsed. While fruits should be fresh, they should not be "green." Ripe fruit is wholesome, but berries that have been "picked over," or peaches that are green on one side, are better for the sty than the table.- Even ripa fruit in excess, or,, in fact, any kind of food or drink- in excess, is had, ; and with the abnormal appetite which, the new outdoor life of summer gives, excesses ex-cesses are not rare. A couple of quarts of berries, or half a huckleberry pie, though it may be fresh from the oven, is rather too much of a good thing for the digestion of even an active 15-year-old boy, says Good Housekeeping. Hct Weather Hints. Delicate forms of nourishing food, like light meats that strengthen Without With-out heating, are best for the summer diet. Beans, peas and delicate cheeses, valuable for muscle forming, should be an important part of the summer fare. It is essential that food for hot weather should be composed of elements that can be easily digested, such as those contained in young chickens, game, lamb and fish. Fruits and berries and some kinds of vegetables supply salts and acids, which are invaluable to the health of this season. Iced beverages should be shunned altogether, or sipped slowly, not more than a tea-spoonful tea-spoonful at a time. Pouring large quantities of Ice-cold liquid into the stomach, where the natural temperature tempera-ture is about blood heat, is contrary to all physiological principles. The shock to the stomach is severe; the pore.-! ot i the body are immediately stopped up. j and it requires some time for the sys- i tern to throw off the effects of this congestion con-gestion so uselessly forced upon It. Iced beverages, sipped slowly, may be taken In moderation without danger, hut the injury coms from the Amen- ', can habit of drinking great quantities , of ice-cold liquids and in many canes gulping them down so rapidly that the ' whole body feels the ill effects of the ' shock. , HOUSEHOLD HINTS. ; "Warm Bath. - , A warm bath with a handful of sea salt in it is about as restful as a nap. , I Paddle in it until it cools, dry with a I rough towel, put on fresh stockings J I and have a change of shoes. If one 1 could take time in the middle of the i day to change the stockings for a fresh pair we should not hear so much i about rheumatism. One relief from fa- ' tigue is to plunge the feet In ice-cold water and keep them immersed until , there is a sensation of warmth. A bandage wet with aluinn water ''and put on when retiring is excellent for tender feet. Drinking Water. People who drink abundantly of simple sim-ple water rarely are troubled with minor mi-nor bodily ills. Water is good for digestion, di-gestion, and when this important bodily bod-ily function goes on aright one is free from headache, biliousness, neuralgia and similar distressing woes. The scalp". The muscles of the forehead and the scalp should be regularly exercised several times a day. It is said that the individual hairs of the scalp can be stimulated by rubbing the nape of the neck with a coarsely woven glove. White Kid Gloves. White kid gloves and shoes can be cleaned with dry pipe clay. Use a stiff brush for the purpose, and rub till the spots vanish. Freshly Baked Bread. Many persons who like freshly baked bread, but cannot digest it, may be gratified and yet spared distress if a loaf a doy or two old is placed under water while sixty is counted and then relakod. The chemical process called ripening takes place in new bread but once. After such second baking hot bread is as wholesome as if it were cold and stale. Falling Hair. Falling hair can often be checked by washing with very strong salt water. Bathe the scalp with this every day until a cure is effected. |