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Show M: .1 ; p ! ; - Woman's World ?! j. Conducted by Helene Valeau. : SELENE VALEAU'S ANSWERS. Miss Valeau will reply to all questions ques-tions asked by the feminine readers of ; ; the Intel-mountain Catholic. The well I known character and authority of her i I L replies need no introduction to those j J already familiar with her ability. Miss valeau will take a kindly and personal j Jnterest in those who write to her. and 'ill spare no pains in seeing that their inquiries are answered fully and care-1 care-1 1 fully. Write only on one side of the ! Paper. Address letters to Miss Helene ; valeau. Intermountain Catholic. iS. G., Salt Lake: At your ape vou J ran either year your hair high or low Ij as you prefer. lj ,M- S.. Butte: A mixture of 'tannin. glycerine and rosewater will- harden the skin and have a slight astringent ef- J. feet. h ) '' VS" EurPka" Vr, not use the al- j ,oho1 dear, but wet a washcloth of i Turkish towelinp in cold water and then your a little alcohol on it and rub lnls over the fare. This will rem- ' ody the greasiness and have a tonic effect on the .--kin. I should also ad- s i vise you to use a little good powder occasionally. IMary G., Oprden: Authorities differ on the best means of removing pimples pim-ples and blackheads, but all agree that f i 1 th? diet should be simple and great nj 1 care be taken of the digestive system I An application of a good coal tar soap ! and hot water every day to the face oftcn remove the blackheads I which can then be squeezed out by a I hairpin and a few drops of eau de ' cologne used on the spots. Steaming j the f-kin once a fortnight to soften the ,'. I blackheads is another remedy advised " an3 the spots are then squeezed out V by the fingers. A little dusting over , j the pPcts with boracic acid powder is , j advisable, and the face may be washed I every day in this powder, dissolved In hot water. I sfc sjc :je i f s- f.. Butte. It is a goodShing to rest tnP hair from the constant use of .) the curling iron. If you must have a ' wave, you can get it by doing the hair on curlers that are sold in the shops, f i These are two small pieces of whale-: whale-: ; bone, riveted together at one end. Take . J thick strands of the hair close to the : head, wrap three or four times around ; ,) one of the whalebone, then fasten down ! (t flat with the other piece. These are not j ; uncomfortable and may be worn at I Jiiffht, although they do not enhance a ! I woman's appearance while they are ; being worn; it is afterward that they : i make her beautiful. When the hair is taken down it should be brushed well, and it will fall into large regular waves. , The very short ends may be curled with I the iron. ? ROLL YOUR EYES AROUND. . Simple Exercises That Will Improve .; Muscles and Otherwise Benefit. j f (New York Press.) i Quit using your eyes as if you were a chicken. Some poet very prettily Jir Mi the eye is the window of the soul. i He, of course, did not know where the soul Is situated, but r- . "Itrjs the poet's pen that gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name." The chicken's eyes are on opposite i , sides of a flat head, and like the eyes of f j some fishes are flat, instead of round or f oval, having absolutely nothing in com- " mon. When the chicken looks at the Fky it turns its head to one side, seeing I up above with only one optic, while the other watches the ground, i The almost universal habit of turn- j ing the head in whichever dirction you look deprives the eye of the exercise to I which it is entitled. The law of vision j is such that, when your eyes are set j straight to the front, you can see in al- I most every direction, except behind j your head. Every now and then you ! pee a woman with eyes that Beem to I roll in their sockets, taking In every- I thing without a suggestion of head I movement. Those are the eyes that : drive men to distraction. Ox eyes, j Honest eyes. Usually brown eyes. I Open eyes. Although different from the : .rnall, ferret eyes of the detective, i ; which pretend to be looking at the $ ground, yet see sidewise out of both ! I slits. j Eight is God's best gift to man. The I J other senses amount to nothing in j comparison. We get along very well j without taste, smell, hearing, feeling; ; j hut when the eyes are dead the soul has I no window. The light of life Is gone. I Exercise your eyes. Hold your head I still, as if in a vise, or one of the steel crotches of the old-fashioned photographer photog-rapher (when it took three minutes to take a picture), and roll 3-our optics sj around. Look in every direction up, 1 1 down, to the right, to the left, and ev- ! ery style of oblique without moving if "he head. All the nerves, veins, and ar- j teries will be strengthened. The mus- t ies will be improved a thousandfold. I The lachrymal glands will be excited I sufficiently to wash the ball perfectly j and peeing will be a delight. Good-bye to glasses. Get on the housetop once a week and s-pend an hour looking at magnificent distances. The trouble with all of us f city folk is that me never see beyond ! our noses. Possibly a few shrewd fel- (lows sharpen their glances across the street: but you can number them on the tips of your fingers. They are grafters. Look into the ey of the commonest com-monest sailor. It seems a mimon miles !eep. Take Captain Watts of the Lusi-tania, Lusi-tania, his eyes are wells as deep as the ocean, as high as the sky. Take a policeman po-liceman on a long beat, who wants to be promoted by General Bingham. His "-yes are glorious. And Bingham can s-cHrcely see across his desk. The eye that merely looks In the direction di-rection the head is facing is but little better than a pane of glass in the face. Mothers, impress upon your girls the !Jieed of eye cultivation. Teach them the fd vantages of the Alexandran eye. The queen of England has a half-timid way of rolling her ocular orbs over an entire assemblage, taking in a whole roomful at a sweep, as it were; and -ach person grapples the happy thought that her majesty is sharpening her glances particularly at him, or her. This is done without a movement of the head. Mrs. Grover Cleveland had the same way with her when in the White . House, and it was her chief charm. f aside from her beauty, for it flattered 1 1 all who attended the levees. Shoes to Be Worn With Short Skirts. Since short skirts have come in so universally for street wear, many girls j J are inclined to dress their feet in high heeled shoes, fancy ties and other Inappropriate In-appropriate footwear for street use. If you are in a short skirt made in the J walking length, then the only shoe that you can wear within reason is a heavy boot. A shoe with a Louis heel can ? only be worn with a fancy dress, and 5A never for walking the streets of either have one pair of shoes, then strike a happy medium, such as a military Oxford Ox-ford tie with military heel. Little Virtues. Few of us get opportunity to do great things or to attain great perfection. per-fection. Wc are so cumbered with cares, we are so sure the world will go to smash if we let go for a minute min-ute that we forget to strive after little things. A priest now gone to his reward once write of the little virtues: vir-tues: "Humility, patience, meekness, benignity, be-nignity, bearing one another's burden.?, softness of heart, cheerfulness, cordiality, cordi-ality, forgiving injuries, simplicity, forgiving for-giving injuries, simplicity, candor, all of the little virtues, like violets, live the shade, and though. like thm, they make little show, shed a sweet odor all around." Priestesses of the Home. May the Lard God bless the noble women of the Catholic Church. Their constant work for good is evident at all times and in every place. They are barred in our church from officiating in the service, but that does not In the least trammel their grand achievements. achieve-ments. They are the priestesses of the sanctuary of the home. They are apostles in the broadest sense by thr-ir prayers, good example and sacrificing sacri-ficing work. The work of the Church socceeds by being watered by their tears and fostered by their thought and prayer. Cardinal Gibbons. Why Don't He Ride? It takes a plucky womin to run through the streets on a bL-yclo nowadays. nowa-days. Because nobody dos it, and none of us want to do what nobody does. In England it's different. There the roads are thick with wheels. Some of th ; wheehvomen are white-haired old ladies nice old ladies, too. The Englishwoman reasons it this way: "I want to get somewhere. It's too far to walk. I have no motor. Bicycles Bi-cycles are cheap and adequate. Therefore, There-fore, why could I not wheel?" And she wheels. You see her constantly spinning spin-ning through the lovely country, the picture of health and enjoyment. You see her guiding her wheel through the intricate maze of the traffic of London, with the most confident assurance and perfect safety. Over here we have dropped the bicycle bi-cycle for no particular reason except that we once overdid it. Physicians have lately been urging its return, in moderation, as an ideal form of physical phy-sical exercise. One physician suggests that if a few sane rules were observed cycling woud be revived and it would come to stay. The sport has been known to work wonderful cures for those engaged in sedentary occupations and to ward off such dreaded diseases as paralysis and congestion of the brain, and it seems a great pity it should have been shelved. Tips on Teeth That Gleam. (New York Press.) "Once upon a time," said a friend of Mrs. Almeric Paget recently, . "I used to think It largely a question of luck whether one had good teeth. But have you noticed that there are fashions in teeth the same as in hair and eyes, and that gleaming pearlies now have the vogue. Bless you, no! I don't mean what backwoodsmen call 'store teeth.' I'm talking of the natural kind. Every woman can have good teeth. All you have to do is to make up your mind to it. It used to be that when your teeth were out of order you could have gold caps slipped on over your natural teeth and some fillings tucked in here and there, but in these days of cosmetic dentistry a great deal more is expected. But it is not enough to have nice teeth. It is also Important to know how to display them. To show your teeth, practice a pleasing expression. Force the mouth to bow. The mouth, if properly prop-erly treated, will lift at the corners, making a pretty Cupid's bow, and when the mouth is bowed the teeth will show plainly. There is a trick in lifting the upper lip. Stand in front of the glass and practice it. Try till you discover just the right amount of smiling to show you teeth. The teeth are peculiar in that they light up the whole face." MANNING'S SYMPATHY. His Interest in the Poor and the Lowly Some Recollections. Wilfred Wilberforce, a kinsman of the great cardinal, writes the initial article in the Catholic World for July, "Manning's Domestic Side." His manner was apt to be cold, and this alone never shows a person at his best. Again, strange as it may sound, he was essentially a shy man. It needed need-ed a certain fearlessness on the part of an interlocutor to enable Manning to break through his shyness, and as step by step his position became more and, more exalted, the number of those who were likely to break through the barriers of distance, restraint, and therefore of shyness, became fewer and fewer. He never forgot that he was a leader of men and, though possessed of the saving sense of humor, he never allowed al-lowed others to forget it either. But, after all, the ice was very thin. Close beneath the "marble" of the archbishop beat a big, warm heart, absorbed in youth and early manhood by home affections, af-fections, the love of a devoted husband and brother, and by the sympathy with which the minister of a parish shares in the joys, sorrows, struggles and temptations of his flock. In the later years of his life the great outside public, pub-lic, that had known nothing at all of Manning in his home life, began to realize that his heart could feel deeply and act strongly on behalf of his fel-lowmen. fel-lowmen. Indeed, it is only a truism to say that philanthropy was the ruling passion of his life. Nor was it any mere armchair philanthropy, but hard and constant labor. Intellectual and physical. First his object was the poor, untaught un-taught children for whom there were no schools those destitute infants of the streets, who lacked the good things of the present life, and were running an immense risk of losing those of the life eternal. "Not a stone of my cathedral ca-thedral shall be laid," was his noble resolve, "until there is school accommodation accom-modation for every child in my diocese." dio-cese." Then the housing of the poor engaged his thoughts; then the protection protec-tion of innocent girls; and just before the shadows of life's evening clouded around him, his large, fatherly heart went out in sympathy toward the dock laborers and their families. For eleven days of 8. sultry summer the old cardinal, notwithstanding his burden of eighty year, toiled in the close, airless streets of the East End, hour after hour, never for a moment - - -t- , , losing patience, arguing, pleading, explaining, ex-plaining, and using the great authority of his name and office. "If you do not listen," said the cardinal, addressing the employers, "I will go into the streets and speak fac to face with the men. Twenty-five thousand of them are my spiritual children. They will listen to me." His auditors, spellbound by the eloquence of his presence and office no less than by his words, recognized recog-nized that he spoke the truth, and the labors of the aged prelate were crowned at last by the "Cardinal's Peace." Not a single movement of any importance can be set on foot for the benefit of the human race and the alleviation of, suffering suf-fering without its attracting the cooperation, co-operation, or at least the blessing and approval, of the hard-working cardinal. Some, indeed, thought that he carried this policy too far. "Take care, your eminence," said one of his friends, "this is socialism." "To you," he replied, re-plied, "it may be socialism; to me it is simply Christianity." LONG AGO. I once knew all the birds that came And nested in our orchard trees; For every flower I had a name My friends were woodchucks, toads and bees; I knew what thrived in yonder glen; What plants would soothe a stone-bruised stone-bruised toe Oh, I was very learned then But that was very long ago. I knew the spot upon the hill Where the checkerberrles could be found I knew the rushes near the mill Where pickerel lay that weighed a pound! I knew the wood the very tree Where lived the poaching, saucy crow. And all the woods and crows knew me But that was very long ago. And pining for the joys of youth, I tread the old familiar spot Only to learn this solemn truth: I have forgotten, am forgot. Yet there's this youngster at my knee Knows all the things I used to know, To think I once was wise as he! But that was very long ago. I know 'tis folly to complain Of whatsoe'er the fates decree, Yet were not wishes all in vain, I tell you what my wish would be: I'd wish to be a boy again. Back with the friends I used to know; For I was, oh, so happy then But that was very long ago. Eugene Field. WATER KING OF BEVERAGES. "Water," says What to Eat, "is the king of beverages; it is the beverage to which all turn when they would cure themselves of the injurious habit of consuming other beverages. But water that is not pure may be more harmful than tho most harmful of other drinks. "Water is the basis of all beverages. All the beverages of man's manufacture are water that has been adulterated by admixtures and chemical treatment. "Pure water is the one beverage which has stood the test of science and come clown to us unscathed through continuous use of countless ages. It is nature's chiefest blessing to man. Other beverages undergo many changes with time. Each age brings them forth in new styles, new methods of manufacture, manu-facture, new processes of chemical treatment, aging and keeping. Foods change with each successive generation. genera-tion. We eat different kinds of food from time to time; each generation prepares pre-pares them differently; there are different dif-ferent methods of compounding them, different methods of cocking them. Pure water is the same yesterday, today and forever." Another paper, Good Health, says: "Warm weather naturally leads to thirst; let the latter be satisfied bv pure .wholesome drinks. Home made lemonade is one of the very best, barley bar-ley water is excellent; so also are orangade, grape juice and the juices of other fruits, diluted with water and slightly, sweetened. Distilled water is a very wholesome drink, and absolutely! safe. Pree drinking of pure water is healthful in keeping the system in good running order. Children sho!d be encouraged en-couraged to drink freely; preferably, however, between meals. A drink is also (in order the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night." |