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Show CUKE OF THE DOUBLE CHIN. The First Step Is to Loosen One's Neck Bands. The first signs of a double chin may I he noted in the looking glass. Look at yourself iu profile, hold your head naturally, and count your chine. If you 1 have more than one jui; are in danger of developing a deformity. If you have two full chins, with signs of a third, you have reached the danger mark where beauty ends and ugliness begins. Women who are subject to headaches usually have the very double chin. The aching head must be held in one position posi-tion and there is no such thing ae ex-el ex-el cising the muscles. Therefore the superfluous flesh accumulates. The woman with a double chin who w ishes to regain the lineri of beauty has a. hard task before her, but she ran work out her own salvation. She must begin by loosening her neckbands and work with Jut throat exposed. Her first task is that of massage. She n.uist massage with the reduction move-j move-j inent. The strokes of her hand must j be vigorous and downward. They must j be heavy and quick. I The reduction massage is carried on with the palm of the hand, which is barely moistened with bora ted cold cream. This has a dying property. To make it. take an ounce of cold cream and work into a teasnoonful of borax powder. Let it harden and use it for the massage, but do not use very much. Pla.ce just enough in the palm of the hand to keep it moist. More will fatten the neck. Now try this massage movement. Strike the double chin with the palm of the hand, giving swift, hard strokes downward. If you find you cannot do it yourself, get some one to do it for you. Strike hard and do be afraid of hurting the flesh. The second movement Js with the , left hand. Massage vigorously from left j to right, giving the chin a dozen hard j blows where it is fattest. Now repeat , this with the right hand, striking from ; I right to left. You will find that you ! have made the flesh redder and sof ter i than it was. j It is now time to rest. Take the neck movements. j There are four in number and you must take them with vigor as well as with discretion. They consist in bend- i ins the head away back: in throwing it forward: in bending it to the right until un-til it almost touches the shoulder, and in bending it to the left until your ear almost touches your left shoulder. Then come the twisting motions. The head i.- twisted to the right and then to the left. Twist as far as you can, but do not strain your neck. When you were a child you constantly turned you head this way and that way. And, until you were 18 you wore long dresses and came out in society, you had full use of the neck and throat I muscles. Rut then came the high stock, the etiff linen collar and the metallic bands, and you lost the freedom of your neck and throat. Your little girl," if you will observe her, never accumulates a double chin. No matter how stout she may be, her chin is single and well rounded. And ; the. reason for this is not very far to. discover. j Watch her a few .minutes and you will I see. Nottce how freely ehe turns her j head. See how continually she moves her chin this way and that way. She looks behind without turning her shoulders, shoul-ders, but pimply by a motion of the head. She keeps all day a wonderful neck practice. ' Now. you. on the other hand, seldom Tf vn.l l-o.-,t .-. turn your head. If you want to look J'ehind you it is necessary- for you to turn your shouldere. If you wish to pick unan article, to search for anything, you do it not by motions of the hfad, but by movements of the back and shoulders. You keep your neck rigid. "I could. not move my head if I wanted want-ed to do so," protested a woman with a double chin. "My collar is too high. I It catches me back of the ears." Another woman said: "'It is a torture tor-ture for me to turn my head. My neck I ii? stiff. I have not for years twisted ; my head about. The muscles are soft and I have contracted the habit of tarrying the head stiffly. I don't believe be-lieve 1 could turn my head if I wanted years of keeping the neck and throat rigid, the double chin begins to j appear. J The natural neck should be long and slender. It should be smallest around the middle, or just where one buttons! one's collar, tapering slightly toward the head and toward the shoulders. The chin should be round and firm, .and it should not be crooked and prominent, promin-ent, and it should certainly not be fat. The crooked chin is another story. It comes from missing teeth, which in time will cause the mouth to draw to one eide. The chin grows crooked until the face is three cornered instead of oval. Women who wear low necked gowns usually have perfect throats. The reason rea-son is plain. They spend the greater part of the time with the throat exposed i and it has a chance to be exercised and to keep its shape. In the morning r?uch a woman wears a negligee that is neckless. In the afternoon af-ternoon she puts on a neckless dinner gown, and if she goes to ball or opera she dresses in a low necked gown. Her throat is exposed almost ali the time. Only for a few hours in the middle of ih rJ.j- rlnev: she wear the tailor marie gown with its high neck or the choking reception dress. There is a loud protest against these choking gowns for the time of day, and not few women are wearing the Dutch neck, which is finished without the very high i?tock and which permits of the loose flying boa, or the little silk ruffle, or something trivial in the way of neckwear or the lace fichu. There are ways of letting your throat breathe without being unconventional in dress, and women are studying them out. The woman who feels a double chin coming must learn to carry her head up. This is difficult. She must lift her t hin and keep it lifted. At first her nack will ache, and she will feci ua though she were going through the world star gazing.. She will have an awkward, even uncomfortable feeling, as though she were holding her head far loo high. But there never is any danger of carrying car-rying your head too high. The minute you look down, the minute you let your thin sink on your breast, that minute your chin grows double again. Keep you head up. That is one injunction to the woman who feels herself creeping along w ith .her double. chin days. There are bandages which are said to assist in the cure of the -double chin. IJ you want to make such a compress, cut out. a heavy piece of cloth to fit your chin. Fass. the piece of -cloth under un-der the top of the hed,. pit (wo. slits for the ears. : - ' - r i This will make a compress which will keep the flesh from accumulating. It j should be worn only at night. During j the day exercfee the chin and keep the i fat away by natural methods. j Fat forming foods are something to do w ith the formation of a double chin, j Candy makes the chin grow double. So does excessive water drinking. j Sewing or sitting with the head bent down i3 sure to result in a double chin. New York Sun. B-onst Goose. Select a young goose and prepare it i for roasting. Stuff it generously with ; sauer kraut and place it in an earthen roaster is possible. Rub the goose with salt and pepper: lay it in the pan and i pack saner kraut well around it; add i one pint of boiling water and roast, covered, in a moderately hot oven, ; b;:sting frequently with the pan driping until it is brown and tender. Dish the kraut with the goose. Boil the giblets ! and make into a separate gravy, hh the j pan gravy will not suffice: too much of the juice is absorbed by the kraut. Old Time Doctoring. When the country was young and ' doctors were few and far between no I plant or herb seemed to have been made i in vain. It behooved the head of a fam- ily to know the medicinal value of every shrub and weed. Now, when the average aver-age person sends for a pryslcian at the faintest premonitory symptom it in interesting in-teresting to know what our forefathers did when, say, little Jimmie had the colic. For the colic catnip tea was given. Blackberry juice and blackberry root tea were given for dyentery. Pokeberry juice and plasters were said to do wonders at curing cancer. Burdock leaves, applied to the feet, allayed fever, w hile tea from -the root cleansed the blood. Sassafras root and flowers served to thin and purify the blood. Tonics were made of the inner bark of the oak and the wild cherry. Elderberries served as purges. Our elders sat over steaming mullein leaves to relieve bowel diseases. Oedar tree berricw strengthened a weak spine. Consumption and agues were relieved by boneset. Colds were sweated off after a dose of pennyroyal tea. Grape wine sap was believed to make the hair grow. Beech leaves were supposed to add to the value of hot foot baths. Jimson (Jamestown) weed . was smoked in a pipe by way of relieving the asthma. Besides these numerous plants and herbs were cultivated in gardens for the sole purpose of relieving suffering. Green Tea and Black Tea. The difference In color between green and black tea has been ascribed to various va-rious causes. Recently Mr. Asco of the agricultural college at Tokio. has investigated in-vestigated the subject, and he offers in substance the following explanation: In making green tea the leaves are steamed as coon as gathered; in the case of black tea the leaves are allowed to ferment before dying. The. result is that the finished black tea contains much less tannin than the green contains. con-tains. The original tea leaf possesses an oxidized enzyme which is destroyed in the green tea by steaming. In black tea, during fermentation, the enzyme oxidizes the tannin and gives rise to a brownish-colored product. Mixed Marriages. It is seldom that women are quoted as authority in matters of the heart; but we have rarely seen in so few words the question of mixed marriage j so well handled as in the following passage from an article in the Ladies' Home Journal, by Mns. Margaret Sangster: "Your indecision about your suitor who is of a different and opposite creed from your own is very natural. You say you cannot be of his religion, and he is equally determined not to accept yours. If, a heads", you have discovered that in a matter so vital ae religion you differ in an irreconcilable degree. I think you would far better not try to go on. There can be no happiness hap-piness in marriage when one subject of great importance must either be ignored ig-nored or must be the occasion of continual con-tinual argument. Say good-bye to one another now, and let your suitor seek a wife of his own faith." Blushing. Blushing is not an art, neither is it a eign of ill breeding, as some unkind people, maintain. The fast is, it is i just as natural for some persons to blueh as it is for others to turn pale. The same laws of nature which govern the one rule governthe other. The capillaries, ca-pillaries, or small blood vessels which j connect the arteries and veins of the body, for particularly over the cheeks, ' a network so fine that it is necessary j to employ a microscope to distinguish ! them. Ordinarily the blood passes I through these vessels in normal quan-j quan-j titles, leaving only the natural com- plexion. But when some sudden emo-j emo-j lion takes possession of the heart its i action increases and an electric thrill instantly leaps to the cheeks. The thrill is nothing more than the rush of blood through the invisible capillaries just beneath be-neath the delicate transparent surface of the skin. The causes that bring j about this condition in the circulating j system are called mental stimuli. They j ' consist of joy, anger, shame and many other emotions. Sudden horrer. remorse or fear, on the contrary, influences the nerves which, control the blood vessels, ' and the face becomes w hite. Blushing j (and pallor result from the sudden action of the mind on the nervous system. So if the mind be forewarned and prepared for emotions both habits can at least be partially overcome. But when the nervous system ir? highly strung it would be a lifelong, if not a futile, task to endeayor to effect a perfect cure. It is the sensitive, nervous girl who blushes blush-es easily, w hile the girl stolid in nature, or who by conventional education has her nerves under perfect control, seldom sel-dom blushes. Carnegie's Gift to Maryland Institute. The announcement during the past ' week that Mr. Andrew Carnegie has made a present a New Year's present of ?i!63.0O0 to the Maryland Institute comes as no small surprise to the peo- j pie of Baltimore. J Somehow or other we had come to regard ourselves as being beyond the pale of Mr. Carnegie's or any other millionaire's beneficence. Not that there wa.5 any special reason for this, because Mr. Carnegie's charities are numerous and widespread. Baltimore has always prided herself, however, on being able , to look after her own institutions, and j her ability to do so had no severer or : more suceessful tfpt than the great fire j of a year ago. . . j But this magnificent gift, coming j as it does in response to an appeal for ; aid made by the trustees of the insti-i tute. will arouse nothing but feeling of! grateful appreciation in the hearts of; our people. " j The Maryland Institute suffered I heavily in the fire. The building which it had occupied fcr years together to-gether with a costly collection of drawings, draw-ings, works of art and models of all descriptions were completely swept away. In this seemingly helpless condition con-dition the trustees of the institute did not despair, but left no stone unturned i in order to put the institution on something some-thing like Its former footing. Notwithstanding Notwith-standing the fact that both the state and city were under heavy expenses an appropriation of $175,000 was secured from the former and with this an endowment en-dowment of $18,000 and insurance amounting to $70,000 brought the total assets up to $263,000. Mr. Carnegie has duplicated this amount, thus bringing the total to more Chan J.VM.OOf. - i What this means for the Maryland Institute and for the future of the artistic ar-tistic and technical work in the city can well be gathered from the past history of the school. With the limited means at its disposal the Institute has won an enviable distinction among schools of a similar character and wttn the present material addition to its resources, re-sources, Baltimoreans may look for a school thoroughly progressive and abreast of the times a credit to the tity and to the state. Importance to Cold Water to Health. One' of the most interesting developments devel-opments in modern science is the certain cer-tain proof of the immense importance of cold water to health, both as a remedy for and prevention of disease. But cold water should not be confounded con-founded with ice water, that is almost as disastrous as stomach, heart and liver as a liquor or drug habit. Cold water means the temperature of spring water of an October morning, just a crimp of freshness about it, but no shock. For drinking purposes water wa-ter should be cooled in an jee bos, just bottled or tinned, but never with ice in it, which is unhygenie -as well as j unesthelic. Physicians declare that few Americans drink enough v.-ater: that the bad dirgestione, bad complex. I ions, bad nerves of our city and town I j people are largely due to the result of ! not drinking sufficient cold water. The I system demands its full allowance of i ciear, cool, natural fluid in order to J do its work properly, and breakfast, coffee, luncheon chocolate and dinner coctails are not only a bad substitute, but worse than none, when the body-it body-it is calling for water; at least half a pint before breakfast, another before be-fore going to bed and three half pints during the day preferably at pieals. K is an excellent plan every morning morn-ing and night before drinking the water wa-ter lo rinse the mouth with a solution i of warm water and borax. Just a 1 pinch of powder in a half tumbler of j water. It gives the water a deliriously fresh taste, besides sweeting the mouth, j hardening the gums and cleaning the i teeth. A course of this cold water treatment is worth trying, if .just for the sake of a hearty appetite and rosy cheeks. To get the best value of your j effort you should accompany lhe cold J water drinking with a daily morning j cold bath. The bath should be taken I j before the drink, t?o there is not the ' I faintest chance of arresting even the ! I simple process of digesting water. A ! cold bath is only a success w ith an I empty stomach. While the water is runnii.if in the tub prepare for the slight shock of the finst plunge by tak-I tak-I ing lo-" breaths at an u;ien window. I Wrapped in a woolen bath gown, there I will be no danger of catching cold, and I two or three minutes long, slow inhaling inhal-ing and exhaling fresh air will start the circulation,' so that there is no hesitation hesita-tion about a cold water bath; rather a sense of enjoyment of it. But if at the very start you should etill be at a.11 sensitive to the straight, cold plunge, stand at the edge of the tub, lean over and dash cold water over the face, arms, neck, chest and throat. Dry thoroughly with a crash towel and plunge n first one leg and then the other. After a week of this sort of temporizing you will be able to take the straight plunge. That i. of course, if the room is warm. A cold bath in a cold room may be fine heroism for athletic boys, but it is more than likely to prove dangerous to the average person who has not much power of reaction. The daily tepid bath usually taken by women in winter may be luxurious and cleansing, but it is no subs' it ute for the health-giving power of the cold water. lt the sting of the cold that starts the blood ionising through the lungs and heart, that warms the hands and ftt and sends a fine color lo the cheeks. A cold bath should he taken quickly, always followed fol-lowed by a crash towel rub and always al-ways in soft water. Much of the value of the cold bath io lost if the water is hard, the nores are clotrsed rather I than opened it is impossible to dry I the skin quickly, and it is left with a j clammy sensation that is depressing, i It also makes sensitive skin rough, and i so coarsens it. When rain water can be I had nothing is better. It is an emolient as well an stimulant to the cuticle, but in town and city the water sunnily is artificial, and it is the exception to I find it soft. Fortunately, hard water i3 not an irrevocable misfortune. The worst mineral water can be softened with pure borax. Two tablespoonfulls of pure borax will soften the tub of j water to the mellowness of rain water. And in additional to ids beneficial effects ef-fects in Ihe water, it has medical properties prop-erties that actually stimulate the action of the skin and whitens It. In fact, there is no simpler, more economical, really enjoyable way of keeping or improving im-proving one's health than this daily conscientious use of cold water. It will actually cure purely nervous indigestion, indiges-tion, it is the best modern antidote for hysteria and is the finest honest cosmetic cos-metic in the world. |