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Show Woman's World Conducted by Helcne Yaleau. HELENE VALEAU'S ANSWERS. Miss Valeau will reply to all ques-y ques-y tions asked by the feminine readers of the Intermountain Catholic. The well known character and authority of her replies reed no Introduction to those already familiar with her ability. Miss d Vateau will take a kindly and personal 1 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 Helene aleau. Intermountain Catholic G. "ft. The gooseflesh you complain of is very probably a form of nervousness. nervous-ness. Try this formula of a salve for the gooseflesh: Boric acid powder. 90 grains; glycerine, two fluid ounces; dis- i tilled water, two and one-half ounces; lanollne anhydrous, one avoirdupois ounce; paraffin white, 14 av. ounces; oil of roses, six drops. Heat together the first three ingredients until solution iF effected (one hour). Melt" together the lanoline and paraffin, incorporate the solution so-lution by rapid and constant stirring. Then add the oils and mix again. After a warm scrub with the flesh brush dry the arms thoroughly and apply a very little of the ointment. Rub it in until no oily substance is left on the surface of the skin. J- G. Fourteen months is rather early to begin training a baby's hair, since she is not likely to have very much to train at that age. But as her hair begins to grow thicker and longer vou may encourage en-courage it to curl by fluffing it with the fingers or a very soft brush. Never roll it on papers or curlers if you don't want to take every particle of natural wave out of it. Also do not use anv sort of cosmetics on a lady's hair, which is as tender and delicate, as possible. Her second hair may come in curly at any rate or by a little encouragement may at least be induced to be fluffy. Take the crown out of a hat brim and try .N bleaching it in the sun, wearing the i brim to tliade the face. This is the tonic for a dry scalp. Resorcin, three drams; fluid extract of pilocarpin, three drams-tincture drams-tincture of cantharides, four drams; glycerine, four drams; spirit of laven-, laven-, -JT lkr (compound), four drams; castor oil, .-ne nram: bay rum, one pint. Add the astor oil to the bay rum and shake thoroughly. Afterward add the other ingredients. v- V. If you have been in the habit Jof chewing your lips you must over come it before you can expect to reduce thrm. Here is the formula requested for reducing thick lips: Melt an ounce of any of the cold creams, add one gram enrli of pulverised tannin and alkanet thij-o--: lot macerate for five hours, then si ruin through cheese cloth. Apply to the lips when necessary. A Woman's Timi 'Rcntzto.vn Bard in Ealtimore Sun.) V. oman begins in the morning With worry and trouble and care, Th;it end when sh3 wanders only To h earns through the gates of prayer. M-nding and patching and planning, Tiil night brings the weary feet, AViih the sound of a song through tho shadows ' Just to help her keep things sweet, t the belongs to the long-houh union. And her pay it's the best we can do Is the way that we tell her we love her And the way that we show her we're t rue. What Every Husband Knows. (From Life.) That it isn't safe for him to invite ; any old college chum home to dinner without sparring for time and the priv- ileee a week or so ahead. That it is wonderful how even the i simplest gown has advanced in price, compared with what it was last year, i That it isn't safe to mention, even In a whisper, the altogether desirable and inexpensive place he has selected on his own account to have the family go this : summer. ! That it takes only one to make a scrap. That the day is coming when he will f r3c up in his might and assert himself, f not suddenly and undignifiedly, but calmly and permanently. That the household expenses could easily be cut in half If he only had the time to put his gigantic intellect and business experience upon them. That one and one make four or five. That there is always one room In the house that simply cannot wait any long-I long-I er to be decorated. I That the "little affair" in which a ! "few friends" are to be Invited means i in the end about two weeks' hard work, a house full of people and an expendi- ture of hundreds. That his own ideas about disciplining f children are always too radical to be ' t arried out. That everybody works father. Correct Sitting Attitude Develops Graceful Figures. S The ungraceful way many women sit is frequently the cause of ungainly figures, fig-ures, for unless the weight Is properly ' poised the lower organs are thrown out .f pear and shapeliness is impossible. To avoid ruining the figure, every j woman should regard her spine as an i upright post, the shoulders being a I cross piece. And this structure she ' must guard so it will not bend, for as soon as a bend is permitted the balance is destroyed. Sitting in a chair seems a simple matter, mat-ter, yet rarely is it done properly. I do : not now mean crossed foot and other ungraceful positions, but the fact that the Fpine is usually bent. Let the woman who is reading this see, at the moment, if she cannot push further , hack into the seat not with her shoul- ders, but so the end of her spine Is nearer the chair back. If she can ac-i ac-i complish this she will find herself ln-Y ln-Y voluntarily sitting straighter, because a tf kink has been removed from her ver-f ver-f tebrae. ; In my opinion no one position does ; more to make or preserve a good figure fig-ure than to practice correct sitting for at least five minutes three times a day. For this I would use a chair with a straight back and get on to it, leaning forward a little and pushing back until the spine, about three inches from the tip, feels the chair back. Then, with the shoulders thrown back, a position Is attained which is best for all proportions propor-tions and will soon be held unconsciously. uncon-sciously. Whenth is is accomplished, the danger of protruding abdomen and large hips is greatly lessened. j Besides this straight spine movement, chest expansion should be cultivated. This is difficult for an cider woman, yet worth an effort. One such exercise Is to try repeatedly to make the elbows touch each other behind the back. Another good and by no means diffl- cult movement is to straighten the arms out at the sides and, without bending bend-ing the elbows, put them back as far as they can be made to go. Deep breathing has much to do with having a good figure. If the chest is fiat and contracted, as must be if the lungs are not filled, a woman cannot make a good appearaace. It is astonishing that, with wearing very tight stays, the diaphragm may be expanded when the lungs are filled to the lowest depth. That is, in spite of lacing, there is still room for the lungs to be inflated. To breathe deeply does not mean a large waist line, and such practice may reduce the hip measure. The lower lungs cannot be inflated unless un-less one is standing correctly. I think that each night before going to bed a woman should try to touch the floor with her finger tips without bending bend-ing her knees. If she can accomplish this the exercise will keep her supple and if she cannot do it she certainly needs practice. For this movement the hands are held high above the head and brought down with a sweeping motion while the knees are kept stiff. Should they bend there is no benefit to be derived. de-rived. By their remaining rigid pull is made from the waist and hips and long and constant practice will reduce the measurement there. The work must never be done while wearing tight bands. Don't Talk Before Children. Keep it up! Don't mind us! "We don't hear you! The children do; but what does that matter? They're too young to understand. They go home with cock and bull stories sto-ries to you about school and the teachers teach-ers and their companions; and you listen to them and take their part and sympathize with them and pet them. You won't stand it; that's all! The way your child is treated and discriminated discrim-inated against and abused! What kind of a school Is it? You'll send him to a school that is a school. Is it the public school? You'll send him to the parish school. Is it the parish school ? He'll go to the public school next year. Meanwhile the boy is nursing a grouch. He won't study; he won't behave. be-have. His companions shun him; or, boy fashion, they tease and ridicule him. Meanwh'1" the boy is being thoroughly thor-oughly - The - ours. Entirely. Pa" fools to talk and air their ,re the children. Chili. ; too much in evidence with tht-ii aiders nowadays. They must be corrected and disciplined disci-plined at school. It is the parents' duty to uphold the rules and regulations of the school and to support the authority of the teacher. Monitor. On Answering Letters. (Providence Tribune.) "Apropos of the lost art of letter writing, writ-ing, owing to the advent of the typewriter type-writer a$d the picture post card," said the man who sometimes remonstrates mildly, "I'e been reproaching myself for several years for neglecting my personal correspondence. On occasions it really got on my nerves. I'd wake up in the night and promise myself that I'd not only answer all the letters that I'd ignored, ig-nored, but that I'd write to people to whom I knew I could write. But when daylight came and things looked different differ-ent I'd put it all off again. "Finally I did make a desperate effort ef-fort and kept my word to myself, or partly kept it.. I wrote to a lot of people, peo-ple, expecting to receive prompt replies, but I'll be blessed if I've had a single line from any of those acquaintances and friends, and that was months ago. They were every one of them as bad as I had been, or worse, perhaps. If there's anything I hat it's to go around abusing myself for sins of commission or omission omis-sion convinced that I'm far more culpable cul-pable than the rest of the world and then suddenly discover that I'll measure up to the standard of the average man or woman, that I've been suffering inwardly in-wardly for no cause." Old Geronimo's Man Hunts. One of the few white men who ever gained the confidence of Geronimo and his bloodthirsty band of Apache Indians Indi-ans Is S. M. Barrett, author, Indianol-ogy Indianol-ogy historian and Oklahoma educator, who is attending the N. E. A. convention conven-tion here. With the aid of Theodore Roosevelt ! and President Taft, who was at that time secretary of war, Professor Barrett Bar-rett was able to spend two years among the Apaches held prisoners at ForfSill. Okla., that he might obtain the material for his story of Geronimo, which was published with the sanction sanc-tion of the war department. Through a long chain of circumstances circum-stances Professor Barrett gained the confidence of the old warrior, and it was at the prisoner's request that he should attempt to compile the story of his life and of the years of warfare carried on by the Apaches in Mexico and the United States in which hundreds of settlers and soldiers were killed. Professor Pro-fessor Barrett mastered the Apache tongue under the tutorship of Geronimo himself, who never before had been known to converse with a white man to any great extent. "When Geronimo went out to hunt and kill human beings it was with the same feeling that we have when we hunt big game," Professor Barrett said Tuesday at the Brown Palace hotel. "A part of the Apache religion was to kill from ambush. His campaigns against the human race were prompted by revenge, as his mother, first squaw and two children were murdered by Mexican soldiers in Sonora, Mexico. "At the death of Magnus Colorado, one of the old chiefs of the Apaches, Geronimo became chief and led the band In the years of bloody warfare, at the close of which he was captured by the United States government at a cost of J5, 000,000. Geronimo once told me that he could not estimate the number of persons whom he had killed, but that it would reach Into the hundreds. This statement the old chief once made to me before his death a few months ago at Fort Sill military reservation: 'I am now an old man, and will never follow the warpath again; but were I again to take up the war trail It would lead me and my followers into Mexico, for I have always found them treacherous and unreliable, and would take great delight in torturing them to death.' " Denver News. |