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Show Rome 01 rele j EASILY GIVEN. It was only a sunny smile. And little it cost in the giving. But it scattered the night Ivike morning light And made the day worth living. Through's life dull warp a woof it wove, In shining colors of light and love: And the angels smiled , as they watched above. lei mue u cost in giving. It whs only a kindly word. And a word that was lightly spoken, Yet not in vain. For it stilled the pain Of a heart that was nearly broken. Tt strengthened a fate beset by fears. Anil groping blindly through mists of tears For light to brighten the coming years. Although it was lightly spoken." It was only a helping hand, . And it seemed of little availing. Hut its clasps were warm And it saved from harm A brother whose strength was failing. Its touch was tender as aneels' wings. But it rolled the stone from the hidden springs, And -ointed the way to hieher things Though it seemed of little availing. A smile, a word, or a touch, And each is easily given. Yet one may -"-jri. . mum irnm sin Or smooth the way to heaven. A smile may lirhten the failing heart. A word may soften pain's keenest smart, A touch may lead us from sin apart How easily each is given. Care of the Teeth. One of the commonest causes of bad teeth is taking food too hot. When you Miih. a cup oi very not tea the enamel covering cf the teeth expands, and afterward, aft-erward, when y..u breathe the cold air, it contracts. This alternate swelling and shrinking makes the enamel fall to pieces, and once the hard covering goes the spongy inner substance crumbles away in no time. , Everyone knows the injurious effects J of acid on the teeth. Yet many foolish ! girls drink vinegar to make their faces pale; the teeth pay the penalty. A young girl who consulted a leading dentist den-tist lately had lost almost every tooth in her head from sucking lemons, and some of the most profitable patients are people given to eating pickles. It is not necersary altogether to avoid acids, hut a little jar of bicarbonate of soda should be kept on everyone's wash-stand, wash-stand, and the teeth should be rinsed in ater in wnich some of it has been dissolved. This, by the way. is a never-failing cure for that kind of tr othache that attacks the whole jaw at once. The best way to clean your teeth is to wipe them with a bit of sponge attached at-tached to a handle, using tepid water containing a trace of some mild antiseptic. anti-septic. It is a mistake to think that the child's first set of teeth need little or no attention, and that nature will care for them, writes Maria nna Wheeler in Harper's Bazar. As a matter of fact from the moment the first little teeth make their appearance, care of the teeth should commence. The strength -! tne second or permanent teeth depends de-pends largely on the good and sound condition of the first. As the decay of the teeth always commences from the outside, the first care is the mouth. U should be kept clean and none of the germs which cause decay be allowed to remain there. Acid is one of the first causes of decay in the early teeth, and the cause of acid in the mouth is often that after each meal a small portion of the milk is allowed to remain in the mouth, where the warm temperature tempera-ture causes fermentation. In a small baby the mouth should be washed with I i water containing a pinch of borax or boric acid solution after every meal, and at least two or three times a day in an older child. A soft bit of linen or a little absorbent cotton wrapped around the finger is sufficient for this process. When the child's double teeth come, a small, soft tooth brush should be used. Be sure to use the brush gently, employing the horizontal motion mo-tion and the perpendicular as well as by doing this the bristles of the brush I get between the teeth and dislodge any little particles of food which cling there. The mouth also should be opened, wide and the crowns of the teeth well brushed. After the teeth are washed, the mouth should be thoroughly thorough-ly rinsed. It is not necessary to use soaps or tooth pastes or powders. Plain boiled water, or water with a pinch of ; borax, or a saturated solution of borate bo-rate acid wash, the last being mildly antiseptic, can be used. j Hints to Housewives. To remove the odor of fish or onions from a frying pan, put a little vinegar into the pan and heat it over the fire. Clean the sink with kerosene, applying apply-ing the oil on a cloth, and you will find that dirt and grease are removed as if by magic. Don't waste old velveteen. Wash it and then use it- for polishing silver or glass. It is an excellent substitute for wash leather as a plate cleaner. i To clean japanned trays, rub with a ! cloth on which a few drops of oil have been sprinkled, and then polish with a soft, clean piece of flannel. For cleaning enamel baths, take one , tablespoonful of dry salt, moistened with spirits of turpentine. Rub this well in the bath, which must be quite dry. I Then rub over with a clean cloth. It is very difficult to dry the inside of I a mincing machine to prevent rusting, j .me Ltrs.L nuy 10 ciean it alter using is to grind some stale pieces of bread through it. This will be found to collect all grease, fat and skin from the small knives. Then wipe with a clean cloth. Many of the best housekeepers have foresworn the use of stove polish on the kitchen range, excepting once or twice in a season, and grease the monarch of the kitchen instead. Once a week the stove is washed off in greasy water, and on the days between is merely wiped with a greasy cloth. To whiten linen, a little pipe-clay dissolved dis-solved in the water used in washing linen saves a great deal of labor and soap, and cleanses the dirtiest linen thoroughly. This method is specially useful in towns where outdoor bleaching bleach-ing is generally an impossibility. The cleaning of cut glass carafes is an operation which, if left to the maid, is apt to be half done, and a cloudy waitr Dottie me result. tana is cleansing, cleans-ing, but it is apt to scratch the glass. ; Shot is effective, but darkens the surface sur-face of the bottle after a time. There is really nothing so good as eggshells. They should be broken up, a handful added to hot soapsuds and well shaken in the bottle. Atfter another rinsing ni a second suds and then in clear wa-te wa-te the glass will be brilliant. I If you have silver that is not in daily use. the best plan is to thoroughly clean it, then wrap it in flannel and keep it in an airtight box, with a lump of camphor. Kept in this way it will be beautifully bright and clean and ready for use at any time. A rug that is getting old should have a stout backing of canvas sewed on it. This will keep it flat and greatly enhance en-hance its wearing qualities. If. after frying fish, a slice of toast is put into the fat for about two minutes min-utes and then taken out. anything may then be fried in the fat and will not taste of the fish. Sneezing Superstitions. There is a quaint old rhyme about sneezing which runs as follows:. Sneeze on Monday, sneeze for danger, Sneese on Tuesday, kiss a stranger, Sneeze on Wednesday, have a letter, Sneeze on Thursday, something better. Sneeze on Friday, sneeze for sorrow. Sneeze on Saturday, see true love tomorrow. to-morrow. A sneeze on Sunday meant a visit from the parson the next day, and a good old English housewife set everything every-thing in order against his coming. The sneeze has certain unfailing traditions tra-ditions attached to it, especially among the old English peasants, and handed down to our day, they have become superstitions. su-perstitions. ' The number of times any one sneezes was always noticed, and the . meaning proclaimed with a serious or cheerful face as the case might be according to the number of sneezes. Nowadays even the least superstitious will say "Bless you," or pat you on the back three times or four or five times, according to the number of sneezes. Sneezing was considered very healthful, health-ful, and for this reason snuff became a fashion, which grew to be harmful, as snuff takers found it hard to break j away from the custom. Home-made Soap For Scrubbing. Several years ago the writer made a test, whether it .was worth while to manufacture soap at home, and I have never thrown away a bit of fa tsince. That fall I had twenty pounds of grease on hand, made up of all sorts of odds and ends: fat that had grown too brown for frying, mutton drippings, which we don't like in our house, scraps of fat off beefsteaks, corned beef, roasts, stews, chicken, turkey and suet. Nothing was considered too small or mean to add to the soap fat stock. I did not allow it to grow stale and mouldy. Once in ten days or so I tried out everything that had collected and strained in into a deep stone jar kept in the coolect part of the cellar. Thus no rendering process was required of nasty-smelling fat when I began the soap-making process. For this quantity of crease two cans of lve at 10 cents each were required, and from the kettle ket-tle I poured twenty pounds of strong, excellent coap, which we used constantly constant-ly for floor scrubbing, dish washing and occasionally in the laundry. Mr family is not large enough to affo.d fot for our entire soap supply, so I buy our laundry and toilet soaps. The older soap is, the more economical it Is, so I make a fresh lot about four months before it is needed and lay it to dry spread on shingles on the attic floor. Good Housekeeping. MARRIED TWENTY YEARS, NEVER HAD A QUARREL. Pueblo Chieftain: Many peculiar people peo-ple come Into the union depot, but th- greatest curiosity in the shape of a human being to pass through the depot was there yesterday. He is a traveling salesman and has been in the business for over twenty .years. His home is in Colorado Springs, and he resides there with his family, consisting of his wife, two girls and a boy. This man ha3 been married for over twenty years and in all that time he and his wife, he says, have never had a quarrel. This remarkable man never drinks anything stronger than Manitou water, and every week he computes the amount he would naturally spend for booze, if h indulged, and lays it by. When he goes home on Saturday he purchases with it flowers, which he takes to his family. Saturday he came int- Pimhin while waiting for the train strolled up town to a florist's store on Fourth ! street to purchase his flowers. He was gone a moment too long, and when h again arrived at the depot he was tottering tot-tering under the load of two big boxes of cut flowers, and the train was just rounding the curve on its way out of town, and because of the load of flowers flow-ers he was unable to run and catch it Ho spent the night in Pueblo at the Southern hotel, where he registered as William Smith of Colorado Springs Mr. Smith said it was the first time he has been away from his family on Sunday Sun-day in years. Only once does he remember, re-member, and that was during the enormous enor-mous snowstorm in May four years I ago. Advice From a "Wife. Don't marry a man to reform him. If he needs to reform and does not before be-fore marriage it is a fallacious hope to expect to change him after. Don't marry a man who has only his love to recommend him. There are other qualities requisite in husbands quite as important as this. Don't marry a man because you mistake mis-take sympathy for love. It is a thousand thou-sand times better for'both that the "yes" should be changed to "no" before be-fore the wedding day unless you truly love him. Sympathy is a poor foundation founda-tion for marriuge. Don't marry a man unless he has a head as well as a heart. Household expenses are not met with anything j except a bank account. I Don't marry a man for a home. You deserve to be unhappy if you do, and you usually will be. There are many ; more honorable ways by which a self-respecting self-respecting woman can accomplish this end. Don't marry for looks. A good-looking man is no more able to provide for the necessities of life for his family than any other man, and frequently less able because of his vanity. Don't say "yes" to your first pro-! pro-! posal unless you are sure of yourself. Never to receive another proposal is not the worst fate that can befall a girl. There are many old maids who ! are happier than some wives. j Don't marry for spite or out of pique 1 or because he says he can't live without with-out you. But do not remain unmarried unmar-ried if the man you i0ve is good, brave and industrious, even though he be poor as the proverbial church mouse, RhollM V oelr -,.,. i Viit. n-lfa Tho ..... ..v. - juu HJ UC ma !-. iiit right sort of wife can exert wonderful wonder-ful influence for good or failure over her husband. By a gracious general manner she can win hosts of friends for him and help him along in nearly every walk of life on the road to success suc-cess and prosperity. The right sort of wife stands bv her husband when business busi-ness and other troubles depress and worry him. She infuses hope into him and points the way to a new start, however small. She works with and for him, helns him plan and save and provide for the future, and is indeed a helomate, chum and wife all in one, and when so married her life is ideally happy. Useful Men. A well known Philadelphia society woman said the other day: "I have come to separate the. men of my acquaintance into three classes. There are the dancing men, the dinner men and the corner men, and each has his own place on my list. For instance, I would never think of depending upon dancing men for a dinner. The dancing danc-ing man is generally callow, and he doesn't know much else besides dancing. danc-ing. On the other hand, the dinner man seldom dances, but he is a good ! talker, is superficially informed upon the lighter topics of the day the opera, drama, the latest novels and can more than hold up his end. He doesn't allow conversation to lag, and consequently conse-quently he is an important factor at a dinner. Men will accept dinner invitations invi-tations quicker than invitations to other oth-er kinds, but don't think from this that they are all dinner men. Far from it. "The corner man? Oh. he is the one who has the knack of making himself generally useful and is quite in a class by himself. He looks- after the comfort com-fort of the chaperons, runs handy little lit-tle errands and can even be depended upon at afternoon teas. The other men dont' think much of him, but he has his own value from the feminine point of view." Beauty in "Women. Beauty in women depends in part upon the proper carriage of the body, and this can only be secured by the correct action of the limbs. If they are not well developed and properly trained there is a proportional loss of beauty. So, too, jf the body is unsymmetrical-ly unsymmetrical-ly developed the carriage cannot be even and graceful, but uneven and ungraceful. un-graceful. Almost all women have some slight curvature of the spine. This causes one shoulder to be lower than the other, and the result is that the whole body is more o? less deformed. One remedy for this 1s the corset, but this only hides the ;det)rmity does not cure it. The body Should be kept straight . by its muscles by its own strength, not by that of steel or whalebone. whale-bone. Beauty is, in part, at least, the result of fullness of physical life, and sho who has this will be in good health and happy, and far more beautiful. Ill health is the great foe to beauty. r. How to Keep "Well. The will has much to do with preserving pre-serving good health. It is a wonderful force. It can be made to almost completely com-pletely 'control that, delicately marlf. machine the humansbody. Many a person has been saved from severe illness ill-ness by putting forth a determined effort ef-fort to throw off the first symptoms. Of course the will cannot control accident acci-dent or cure a genuine heart disease, I oythe germs of the air. But the germs in the air, water and fcod have not al-I al-I ways created such havoc as is now I laid to their charge. The body was I created so that, when rightly used, it could resist these germs drive them out of the system. The will may refuse re-fuse to fear the germs and thus help nature to make a strong fight against them. Then the habit of resisting will grow, until the body will unconsciously refuse to yield to the attack of disease in many instances. |