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Show I Woman's World. 'JTJ. Specially Prepared for Our Feminine Readers. J;i j , , - I PHYSCAL CULTURE HINTS v'5Vf FOR BUSY WOMEN. rtf; I . 7 'VY '.' f Marian Martineau in Chicago Tribune. ' till . They say that the working woman j , is not necessarily the woman who I j goes out to an office every day, or to " a shop, or to a factory, but that the j ; woman who stays at home and toils yj may be a working woman just as 1 f truiy. At any rate, whether a wo- 1 f man be what is called a working wo- ! man, .or a business woman, or a wo- man who spends her time at home. there are facts which she should f know, and without which., she cannot r ; ' be as healthy as she should be. ' It can be taken for granted that the business woman is a woman who If , comes home tired. At night she is as ! : . ' weary as is the stenographer who as- sists her. And it can be taken as a matter of fact that every woman who I, , ; is employed comes home at night as ' " tired as she can be. Often she re- .; ! : turns to her home with all her men-tal men-tal as well as all her bodily strength j gone, sapped out by the nervous ten- I sion of the day. j Sometimes, more is the pity, the j working woman returns home preter- I naturally alert in brain. She cannot f -quiet down. And when she lies down 1 , to go to sleep her mind is still work- ing. She carries insomnia with her i j late into the night, and when she 2 . awakens in the morning it is with a ;i tired feeling that does not wear off ven after a good breakfast. ) . Way to Coax Sleep. The woman who is employed must get a good night's sleep. And for this I , a London physician advises a tepid s bath and a cup of cocoa. He also ad- f vises light calisthenics. And he ad- I ; ; vises the business woman not to go to I " bed early, but to stay up until she is J j sleepy, be it 11 o'clock or later. Go- t I ing to bed too early is bad. :? I The tired out woman should take a i j; ' mild sedative. It need not be any- J I '. thing stronger than catnip tea or a ; f light 'dose of some soothing bromide v , I , powder, or something that could be Jjjf l given to any baby. But it will act f j upon the nerves, quieting them and I I soothing them into that first sweet - yK slumber which leads to a long, restful I f sleep. I .;, The tired out business woman is ' l like a baby. To a certain extent she IV, must make her own diet. She must I find what agrees with her and she ( must stick to it. Above all things she 1 : must not eat that which she does not ?! like- f ;' When it comes to bathing, the nerv- t ous woman should take Punch's ad- f vice, which is, "Don't." Water is not j I good for the woman who is nervously i exhausted, for it robs her flesh of its oils and exhausts her too much. If she , can capture a tub of water which is just the temperature of her body, well v ; and good. But if it is hot enough to !;",4V ; shock her or cold enough to chill her, I f then it does her more harm than good. f ; The nervous woman should exercise, ! but she should exercise not her tired muscles, but her rested ones. Her I knees are not tired, therefore she f I should exercise them. If she will do a r t; series of chair execcises she will find I that they do. her good. j f I Healthful Chair Exercises. She can step up on a chair and step i i down again until she is out of breath. I She can stand upon a chair and trot, f , going up and down first on one foot I and then upon the other, until she I . feels that she has been bicycle riding, i " Wheeling is good for the nervous I woman, but she. is often too tired to j venture out too nervous to face the r street sights. I For the woman who is too nervous I , to so out upon the thoroughfares for f a spin there are simple chair exercises i ! which she can take at home. She jf t needs no other apparatus than a stout L seated chair, and she can jump up and f lown, trot, bend, and twist without i . in anv way overtaxing her strength. I , Jne nervous woman will find that ;. " ' exercising upon a chair takes some I ' skill, for she must keep her balance all the while or the chair will tip. And this effort to keep her balance will in-i in-i " terest her so that she will like -her t 'I task aE(J will look forward to her ex- . ercise time. I Pretty soon she will become so ex- pert that she can hop up on the chair ' without touching the back, and when ; : she is able to do this she can be sure that she has learned to breathe properly. prop-erly. Deep breathing is necessary for the tired, nervous woman, but unfortunately unfortu-nately deep breathing is hard work. ' : l' It tires her to draw the deep breath t ;'!t that comes from the pit of her abdo- I ; ' men, and, after one or two trials, she 1 if gives it up. I ; J But the chair exercises will help her 4, i and when she jumps up and down she ' I unconsciously breathes more deeply j than usual and so she gradually gets i. f into deep breathing. f For the Woman of Weight. There is another story to be told . for the chair exercise. It is a story (; for the woman with too much adipose j " ;-' tissue. ' And the story is that the chair exercise will reduce the weight, and it certainly will. : : Now, to tell the woman who weighs "-'" 200 pounds to hop up on a chair and , . to hop down again is nonsense. She could not hop up on a foot stool, she could not jump over a string; she could not perform any kind of an ath- letic feat. It is all she can do to navi- I gate her weight along, i t But she can try the. chair exercise I I slowly. She can begin with a stout. I I seated wooden chair and can climb up ! j into it and stand there, and she can i" climb down again. She will pant ter--j I , ribly after the exercise. But she can "" " . t keep it up, climbing up into the chair - s j! t and down again until she has exer- ! cised for fifteen minutes. ; The fat woman, the woman who , J weighs 200 pounds, will be lame after ? ' this exercise, warm and short of j j I " breath, and thirsty. But she must not take a drink of water. On the con- L.l! 1 ' " ....... 1 ' trary, she must abstain from fluids. She can take a bite of fresh fruit or can eat a whole sour apple. But she must not drink the glass of iced water which she craves. The next day she will be lame, but she must go through her stunts again. And this time, if she be lame indeed, she can rest for a day. The chair exercises are excellent for the fat woman because they teach her the art of balance. As for exercise with Indian clubs and dumb bells, they .are impossible for her, because she tires far too easily. She must content con-tent herself with leg and hip exercise which does nbt greatly fatigue the heart, and which is less apt to "wind" her than a"rm exercises. It is no fun to be stout and no fun to be nervous. And the woman who suffers from either condition must go to work and find a remedy. Letters and Answers. Fern Jones: Will you please tell me a good face food for removing wrinkles wrin-kles and lines in the face? Use glycerin cut with rose water. . Constant Reader: Here are a few of my defects. Roughness on the upper arm, hollows in the neck, three brown spots on the face, a few white heads. For the brown spots on your face take any good liver remedy and use the cucumber lotion. For rough arms use a skin scrubbing brush and an oily soap. For hollows in the neck massage mas-sage with clover cream, .which was the remedy our grandmothers used. Clover cream. will also remove white heads from the face. Gray Hair: I am sorry for the correspondent cor-respondent who writes about her hair, which is turning gray so rapidly. The latest advice for those whose I hair is growing gray is that they touch the roots twice a week with the tips of the fingers. Moisten the finger tips with sweet oil. Margaret C: I am 4 3-ears old and fnr the lucf- VAar mv honrlc Vi 0-10 Voar I covered with brown blotches. The blotches are now coming on my face. They are not freckles, but they are large spots. You have liver trouble. You should take a regular course of treatment. Multum in. Parvo: I notice in one of your answers to correspondents that deep wrinkles between the eyes can be removed. Kindly confer a favor fa-vor by letting me know the method. I have tried to lessen mine with but little success. Use benzoinated vaseline. Questioner: Please tell me how to make benzoinated vaseline. I notice that you advise it in many cases. To make benzoinated vaseline take red vaseline and heat it in a double boiler. To an ounce of vaseline, melted, melt-ed, add five drops of the tincture of benzoin. Massage the wrinkles between be-tween the eyes, letting your fingers run across the eyebrows at the same Wrinkled Face: Kindly tell me the way to massage wrinkles in the forehead. fore-head. ! A wrinkled forehead corresponds to a wrinkled piece of paper. If you will lay a piece of tissue paper on your lap and will smooth out the wrinkles with your finger tips you will notice the method. You must not run your fingers fin-gers in the creases, but across them, so as to gradually smooth them out. "Mrs. Gray Hair": You recognize that I mean you. Shampoo your hair once in two weeks with a tonic shampoo. sham-poo. Tonic Shampoo: Take two ounces of wiiite castile soap and dissolve in a quart of boiling water; when cool add one pint of bay rum, one table-spoonful table-spoonful of borax, thirty grains of bi-sulphate bi-sulphate of quinine. Add a table-spoonful table-spoonful or two when you shampoo. Young Girl: Here is a curling fluid : Take of powdered borax one-half ounces; gum arabic, fifteen grains; spirits of camphor, three drams; warm water, ten ounces. Dissolve the bo- iaA tmu me gum in me water, when cool add camphor. Moisten hair with lotion and roll in small ringlets, pinning pin-ning with invisible hairpins until dry. Pimpled Face: Local treatment will cure pimples, but you must attend to the laws of hygiene. A daily bath with a flesh brush will stimulate the functions of the skin. Once a day wring a towel out of hot water and lay it over the face, keeping it there until the skin is steaming hot. Witch hazel is a good application for facial eruptions, especially when followed with a sponging of eau de cologne, to which a pinch of borax has been added. add-ed. Freckled Face: Do not fret; freckles freck-les invariably show a clear, fine, white skin, and usually disappear after one reaches middle age. Be careful not to use soap and water on the face just before going out in wind or sun, or directly after coming in. Protect the skin with a chiffon veil and a dusting of pure antiseptic complexion powder. At night sponge with this lotion, afterward using cold cream freelye . Borax, one dram; diluted acetic acid, one fluid ounce; rose water, wat-er, one fluid ounce. Advice of a Successful Belle. "Yes, my dear, one could law down rules for the charming of the other sex," said an old but very successful belle to a debutante who, in spite of a beautiful face, is, it must be admitted, admit-ted, a failure as far as popularity goes. Ardent admirers she has, but of temperate admirers and men friends she has none. "One could lay down rules a hundred and three of them, all good rules, too. But there are two I'd remember if I were you, and you can afford to let the others take care of themselves. The first Is when talking talk-ing to a man never 'run down', another an-other woman. The second and even if you forget the first please remember remem-ber the second is never praise another an-other man!" Philadelphia Inquirer. To Wash Corsets. If it is necessary to wash, corsets take, out the steels in front and sides, 0 then lay them on a flat surface and with a small brush scrub them thoroughly thor-oughly with tepid or cold lather of white castile soap. When quite clean let cold water run on them by holding them under a running faucet until the soap is all rinsed off. Pull them lengthwise length-wise until they are straight and shapely shape-ly and let them dry in a cool place, pulling them again when partly dry. By this treatment they will retain their natural shape and wear for months after. Economy and Laundry Work. It was demonstrated in a household economics exhibition held recently that with a little care in selection of material women could become in a measure independent of the laundress and at the same time save a considerable consid-erable sum of money. Unironed and sun dried underwear was recommended recommend-ed as being both economical and healthful. ' There was also a demonstration of the money saved by wearing plain rather than fancy lingerie, which was based on laundry prices for washing and ironing. 1WO SU11S BCIB SilUHU Ul mice pieces each. One was of longcloth, edged with convent embroidery, the prettiest being trimmed with plain ruffles only. This cost $4.50 and could be laundered once a week for a year at a cost of $32. The other was nainsook, nain-sook, made elaborately and trimmed with lace. It cost $13.50, and the laundry work for the same time amounted to $83. This estimate was made on the actual ac-tual pieces which had .been charged for doing the suits at a "first class laundry. As an accurate estimate of the time spent is made when grading laundry prices. $5 is the equivalent of the time saved by the laundry on the plain suit. At home, with fewer facilities fa-cilities and less expert work, which are most needed in doing the lace trimmed wear, the difference in time wo.uld be even greater. Bubble Blowing for Beauty. Physical culturists saj that blowing blow-ing bubbles is the most entertaining way of doing the deep breathing exercise ex-ercise now so widely recommended to improve health and figure, and also that the practice, if adhered to, will round out hollowed cheeks and improve im-prove the contour of the scrawny or too chubby throat. To blow bubbles seriously take a clay pipe, dip it in soapy water and blow as large a bubble bub-ble as you can while seated. This must be done slowly and gradually or the bubble will burst. Then stand and do the same exercise when it has become be-come quite easy. Now lie flat on your back on the floor, with shoulders well back and chin as high as possible, and blow your bubbles in this position. Another exercise is to lie flat on your face on a small square table, with feet extended and head and shoulders well back, then blow your bubbles. In both the last exercises it is well to first blow the bubble slowly and then bubble bub-ble after bubble as quickly as possible. |