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Show ! Woman's World I Conducted by Helene Valeau. HELENE VAIEATI'S ANSWERS. Miss Valeau will reply to all questions ques-tions nsked by the feminine readers ot the Inteimountain Catholic. The well known character and authority of her replies need no Introduction to those already familiar with her ability. Miss Valeau will take a kindly and personal interest in those who write to her. and will spare no pains in seeing that their inquiries are answered fully and care-I care-I fully. Write only on one side of the ij paper. Address letters to Miss Helene it Valeau. Intermountaln Catholic. Dear Miss Valeau: Kindly tell me how to remove warts. Grace M., Salt lake. To remove a wart, dampen it and rub with a piece of comr in soda. Do this three or four time? 1 y for a month, and the wart will . ;.r ff, leaving no mark on the skin Ogden, U;. .1, pt. 24, 1907. .j Dear Miss Valeau: "S ' l you please pive me a euro for v lr "Lieads. I am troubled terribly wit.'i th'm around my nose. They are starting, to spread, but I want to stop tho.i. T cannot put nny kind of salves oi my face for they I jret all rod. I just v.ant a simple cure for them. I squeeze them, but they Feom to come in thicker, so I will just let them alone until I pet a cure for them, riease answer in the Intermountain Intermoun-tain Catholic. Yours, Friend B. C. 1 answered another correspondent from Ogden last week about this same trouble. Try the r.dvice I gave her and write me if you do not pet relief. Do not hesitate to write. I am only glad to help you. Try also bathing- your face in diluted alcohol. Kemember I say, diluted, meaning mixed with water. Salt Lake, Sept. 29. I Dear Mi.s Valeau: Should not wo- Inien always leave a car by stepping in the direction in which the car is coin?:? co-in?:? Mrs. M. K. All women have the common sense to do this, but they run the risk of being considered men in disguise of women's eloth.es. AMERICA'S NEW WOMAN. The Type as She Is Seen by James Huneker. Whether it is the climate or the tradition tra-dition of independence, which ruins in forty-eight hours after landing, the best servants in the world, or the mental men-tal training in our schools, certainly the American woman does not think in the same way as the women of other races. She reads the newspapers more frequently. Mr. James questions her pronunciation, but he continues to dis-cuss dis-cuss every problem of creation with unfailing un-failing volubility. As to her outward appearance, writes James Huneker in Everybody's Maga-I Maga-I zine, we believe that she will approx- I imate more to the Slavic and the Ital- I ian In fifty years than to Anglo-Saxon ! or Celt. But there is the solid foun dation support of Teutonic and Dutch health, sanity, common sense, thrift More marvelous still is the racial con-nf con-nf "Semitic. In no country ave Hebrew physical peculiarities been Ipo profoundly modified as in America. A quarter of a cetnury ago or half a century the German Hebrews were in Ihe majority of emigrants. Today it is the Russian-Polish. Haggard, persecuted, persecut-ed, exploited even now on the east Bide, nevertheless they struggle toward the Jlght. They educate their children. They develop their artistic gifts. Who knows? They may be the artistic leaven leav-en in the huge loaf of prosperous American Amer-ican philistianism. The children of the men who reached our shores poor and ambitious a few decades ago may be seen at the Saturday theater matinees, at piano recitals, Wagner operas and Picture galleries. They are dressed like Parisiennes. but their eyes and coloring are of the east. Their children will not be puritanic. America will profit, has profited by this exotic strain; or has been benefited. In this conglomerate we recognize Italian, Semitic, Celt, Slavic, little English or French, much Scandinavian. Where Is the American type? Ask a century hence. The original orig-inal Yankee man and woman, the descendants de-scendants of those who fought in the Revolution, will soon be aa extinct as the dodo. Even the directory is losing its familiar American names. . I Couldn't Fool Her. 'There are still a few honest men left I in the world," said Mr. J. J. Hill, the f financier, at a banquet. "It is well to ' be cautious, but we should not suspect I everybody. If we are too suspicious we I make ourselves absurd. I "I worked in St. Paul in my youth I and they still tell there about an old I farmer and his wife who started for St. 1 Paul on a visit. I "Before the couple set off they were I cautioned frequently by their friends J to beware of the St. Paul sharpers. They replied that they would keep their eyes open. And they started on their journey with a nervous determination to look out for sharpers and confidence men. "Well, on the way, the old farmer got off at a junction to buy some lunch, and the train went off without him. It was a terrible mishap. The last he saw f his wife she was craning out of the 'ar window shouting something reproachful re-proachful at him which he couldn't hear on account of the noise of the train. "It happened that an express train came along a few minutes later. The old farmer boarded the express and heat his wife to St. Paul by nearly an hour. "He was waiting for her fit the station sta-tion when she arrived. Ha ran up to ..her and seized the valise. " 'Well, Jane,' he said, 'I'm glad to e0 you again. I thought we were separated sep-arated for good.' "Cut the old lady Jerked the valise from him indignantly. I " 'No, ye don't, Mr. Sharper,' she J cried. -I ..ft my husband at the junc- I tion. Don't be comin' any of yer con- I Jiflencc tricks on me, or I'll call a po- I lur-man.' " Minneapolis Journal. I Use Vegetables for Complexion. 1 It looks as though the beauty doctors must be in league with the market gardeners gar-deners this summer, for they are down on cosmetics and evidently trying to kill them off. Patent complexion powders pow-ders and face creams are almost en-i en-i tlrely neglected by them in favor of various common vegetables, such as cucumber, cu-cumber, lettuce, potatoes and carrots. "There is at present a perfect craze for vegetable cures for complexion blemishes." says a prominent beauty doctor. Freshly cut cucumbers laid i against the face until the Juice dries make the skin soft and velvety, she 1 says, and grows enthusiastic about the I result obtained. Potatoes and carrotE are used in the same manner. I ' V , , , . , ., - Don't Worry. Has the day been dark and the sky been gray? Never you mind, my lad, Whistle a bit a cheery way; Don't take the time to be sad. Oh, Worry's a spectre of visage grim, First imp on the fiendish list, But smile in his face when you look on him. He fades like the morning mist. Did the dream that you dreamed go somewhat wrong? Never you mind, my dear. Out of the shadow will float a song, If only your soul will hear. Aye, Worry's a phantom, and Worry's a ghoul. And Worry's a goblin of night. He fleea from a smile, but he comes at a scowl, And a sigh is his cruel delight. I would fain hold your head on my comforting breast Till a smile glimmers out through the tears, But the battle of each Is for each, and the rest Know little that gladdens or cheers. So we'll both do our best, whatever It be, And we'll smile through the pitiful rain Till the phantom of Worry forever shall flee And we know that e'en sorrow Is gain. The Languid Girl. She's languid either by temperament or by design. If it is the former there's some excuse for her; if the latter, none. And it is generally the latter. She's invariably pretty, be it noted, for it would be risky for a plain girl to assume such airs. The languid girl maintains an attitude atti-tude of studied indifference upon all occasions. Everything is "such a bore." She moves dreamily from place to place, she answers most questions in monosyllables, she reclines frequently, and her poses are carefully considered. Men she makes into slaves. They must play the undignified roles of beasts of burden and carry on all the conversation conver-sation as well. Do they submit? Yes, providing that she's sufficiently pretty, pret-ty, but even then they are apt to get a little tired. That is where the other girls get a chance a sort of compensation compen-sation of nature. The languid girl is dying out as a type. By a curious irony the times that created her have to a certain extent made her impossible. impossi-ble. These are strenuous days, md to men the hours are precious. They cannot afford. If they want to make money, to waste time lavishly, and the languid girl is a terrible "waster" In this respect. She expects nay, demands unremitting attention atten-tion from her admirers. There is to be no rapid lovemaking to her. The languid girl's languor Is, dispassionately dispassion-ately judged, an uncomfortable trait. It may be graceful, and it is perhaps picturesque, but It does not, somehow, answer in this terribly matter of fact old world. Brightness", ' companionship and sympathy sym-pathy are the great keynotes of earthly earth-ly happiness, and beyond all price is woman's sympathy. Not so much sentimental sympathy, if the term may be used, but the intelligent, in-telligent, brave sympathy that upholds a man In stress and trial and tinges dark clouds with unspeakable sweetness. sweet-ness. A woman's power in life is wonderful, won-derful, almost supernatural. The languid lan-guid girl fails to realize her own possibilities. pos-sibilities. Languor, it must be remembered remem-bered also, may frequently be the cloak of a small mind. GOOD NATURE. It Is a Very Valuable Asset in This Vale of Tears. Good nature is one of the best assets as-sets a woman can have. A good na-tured na-tured woman is always welcome, even when she is rather slow witted, and a woman of the opposite class is to be dreaded and shunned, because whatever what-ever brightness she possesses is of the personal and cutting kind. Many a woman brilliant and entertaining is feared quite as much as she is admired because ever her closest friends are not safe from ner wit ana satire. Many a social engagement Is broken on account of such women. Good nature, na-ture, like other desirable attributes, can be cultivated; One can be educated edu-cated to acept little annoyances with complacency. The victory over one disagreeable thing gives strength to meet the next two. and when the philosophy that teaches one to remedy ills when a remedy rem-edy is possible and accept the incurable incura-ble ones with fortitude and good nature na-ture is learned life is comparatively smooth. Do vou sometimes wonder at the un necessary annoyance human beings court? The woman who has been carried car-ried beyond her destination by the carelessness of a car conductor gaina nothing by rebuking him. He may not be rude enough to answer her, but he and the other passengers will find visible vis-ible amusement in her wrath, and she loses in dignity and self-respect. Fault finding does no good, and the best disciplinarians never indulge in it. They find the best remedy for mistakes mis-takes others make for them and say as little as possible on the matter. The parents who say the least are the most respected. Men are given to few words, so fathers are regarded with respect and awe by the average child. Good nature that can be depended upon at every turn is hardly a desirable desir-able attitude, but it is not sufficiently common to be a matter of great solicitude. solici-tude. ,Few of us are tolerant of the acts and speech of others, as tolerant as we should be. When we have the ability to put ourselves in the place of those who annoy us we can call up a supply of good nature that will tide over any feeling of annoyance and allow us to dismiss the matter as trivial. THE IRON GRAY FEELING. A Symptom Which Must Be Attended to to Keep Young. This does not refer to the hair, by any means, although the expression "iron gray hair" is always dreaded by every woman. It refers to the mental wear and tear which all of us feel with advancing years, and it is a symptom which must be attended to promptly if you would keep from contracting a chronic habit of looking at life through the dull gray of a November evening. "The iron gray feeling." It is not exactly old, but it is tending that way. The blush is off the rose. About the I "" 1 """ " 1 " "' mmuwmm if""""'-" "ij"wj best recipe is to hunt up all the young people you know and enter into their joys and pursuits and endeavor to make them happy, to play their games and sing their songs, to know what they are talking about. Turn about is fair play, and what you gave to their ycuth their youth must repay to your declining years. As you reap, so you will sow, and it's wonderful how these young people like to have an older person per-son enter into their little games and sympathize "with their small woes, which seem very real to their limited experience. Make them love you, trust you; trust them and love them. Why there is so much you can do for them, and the person never yet tried to help another but he derived more help than he gave from the effort. So if you feel really selfishly inclined think of this, for believe it, before you have gone far you will have forgotten in absorbing absorb-ing interest of the game you are playing play-ing to think of yourself at all, and then you will begin to be truly happy. Walk with them, talk with them, make them tell stories encourage them to talk to you. You will be surprised to learn that you soon will feel "just as young as you used to be." Old-Fashioned Remedies for Coids. In spite of patent pills and powders, warranted to break up a cold in less than twenty-four hours, the old-fashioned remedies are by no means a back number, and it is rather a comfort to resort to one of them when one's faith in patent medicines beings to weaken. For breaking up a cold there is nothing noth-ing better than hot lemonade taken upon up-on retiring. This Is made by putting the juice of two lemons in a pint of hot water. Boil one minute. Sweeten to taste and:dring as hot as possible. Old-fashioned onion syrup, which is especially good for hoarseness and sore throat, is made of minced onions, a ta-blespoonful ta-blespoonful of cider vinegar and half a cupful of boiling molasses. The fumes of burnt camphor will instantly in-stantly relieve a cold In the head. Put a piece of camphor the size of an egg in an old saucer. Set It on the fire, and, after burning for a few moments, blow out the blame and Inhale the fumes. To make boneset tea take one table-spoonful table-spoonful of boneset and put in a pint of hot wafer, letting it dry for fifteen minutes. Sweeten with molasses. When cold take two tablespoonfuls every half hour. This old-fashioned herb may be obtaine.d at any drug store. Abuse of Ammonia. Many women find washing the hair such a nuisance that they put ammonia ammo-nia in the water to make it dry quickly. quick-ly. The violet ammonia prepared so pleasantly for toilet use is very good in moderate amounts, but the lavish way it is sprinkled in bath water for the hands, the face, the hair and so on does more harm than good. Too much of it dries or parches the skin and sometimes Irritates it greatly. great-ly. It is especially destructive to hair follicles. Weak solutions of it are sometimes used to destroy superfluous hair. It is even unwise to use it as a cleanser for toilet brushes. Never under un-der any circumstances should it touch the hair of the head. A good way to hasten the drying of the hair, If haste there must be, is to twist the strands tightly in hot towels and to briskly rub the whole head in towels that are kept continually hot. A warm dry room also helns. Mr. Knowitall. ' There once was a boy who knew everything ev-erything ' That ever was known by man (Or at least he did if you believed his word); V He was made on the knowitall plan, j If anyone asked a question Or wondered if thus were so, He'd tell you at once your thought was wrong, That he was the one to know. He knew how to run an engine, A house or an automobile; He gave his father and mother advice At every single meal. He told his sisters and cousins and aunts, His uncles and teachers, too, The very best way to do their tasks He'd tell either me or you! He contradicted his mother; Said apples were healthier green; So proceeded to eat a qaurt or two With confidence quite serene. His father summoned the doctor; His mother nursed him through, And now the boy works all day long To pay for what he knew. Washington Star. |