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Show I Woman's World. ZZ. I Specially Prepared lor Oar Feminine Readers. j Conquer Yourself, j It's no use to grumbW and sign, I It's no use to worry and fret, It is Tisfless to proan or to cry. I Or liins yourself down in a et. I You'll never be wise or be great, I If you bluftr like bees when they I swarm; I Tis folly your wos to berate, I And pitch like a ship in a storm. j Don't pet in a tantrum and shout J When obstacles rise in your path, I And don't let me bes; of you pout, j By way of displaying your wrath; I ' Dnn't butt out your brains just to spite j Some fancied injustice of Fate, For time will set everything right, I . If you only have patience and wait. The blustering wind cannot chill The lake, though he ruffles its face, But the frost, with his presence so still. Loek6 It fast in a silent embrace. o you may win fame beyond price And conquer the world with its pelf, If you only will heed this advice. And learn to conquer yourself. Helen Whitney Clark. The Rest Cure. Almost everybody is tired. The rea-j rea-j on for this is not far to seek its J cure, alas! seems impossible. There I ere but twenty-four hours in a day and I tme-;tbird of these are devoted to rest; iilao the other hours too much is packed. Women are urged to be industrious, in-dustrious, to be occupied, to study, to attend to social duties, to work deeds of charily. What does this mean? Most women are confronted by the problem of making one dollar do the vork of five. The time has gone by v hen a best dress would serve year after aft-er year and then be decent enough to lay its wearer out in when her chance to rest finally came. Nowadays the summer hat and the winter hat do not alternate, but new hats must come with the change in seasons. Children's clothes are more of a study since Bprons went out of fashion. In old times, the sewing society meeting was I the annual function, now well it isn't row. f a woman has to economize, fhe has a good deal to do. The only way for hr is to make her clothes and j fipr children's, to make them and make tli-m over; to do more or less of her iK'usewo? k, for everything goes farther when the owner is the measurer. I wish every woman who is working hard to make both ends mept could carry 'a. pedometer and count the miles Flip walks each day. Is it any wonder he is tired? Is it any wonder if she is a little short of amiable? If there is a. dpbt. she does the worrying. If there is a wayward child, it is the mother's heart that breaks. If there is rnhappiness, her pride strains to cover It. And this woman is urged to attend mothers', meetings, to join reading clubs, to take manual training, to visit the poor. She would better take the I rest cure and save herself from an ut- il ter breakdown. I I fancy I hear the exclamation of Fcorn at the foolishness of the suggestion. sugges-tion. Rest cure! Who would take care f the house, who would see to the children, who would do the spring sew-. sew-. ing. who-would run her legs off. as she J d"es, to wait on a helpless family? Who 1 will do it all when she is in the insane I asylum or in her quiet grave? As well take thought of herself while there is i time. By and by she will be gone and I forgotten, by and by her place will be fi lied by some one who has taken care of herself, and so remains usefully alive. Try the rest cure. If you were ill, you could have a day in bed have it before you are ill. Arrange to stay 1 quietly in bed. Be fed. be left alone, j Do not get up for anything short of a i conflagration. Do not read, do not crochet, do not see callers. Lie quietly I in a shadtd room. Sleep if you can. at I all events stay in bed. A quiet day j once a month may save your children ifrom the orphan asylum, may save you from nervous prostration. An office clerk went to her physician when almost al-most a nervous wreck. "Take a vaca- Ition at once." But that was impossible; impossi-ble; so he ordered her to go to bed every ev-ery Saturday afternoon and to remain there until Monday morning. In a month the tired woman was again in perfect health. She took her rest cure just in time. So much is expected of every woman, so little allowance is made for the frailness of her make up. that the wonder is that she is able to accomplish what she does. A woman cannot hedge herself in and say, I will do just one thing. A man is a lawyer and cannot drive a nail to save his life I personally know 1 him; he keeps a store, but hp orders I his clothes from a tailor, he does not even make his shirts or necktip.s; he f 1 is a, shoemaker, and yet he buys his i boots and shoes: h does not wash his ploves in gasoline he does not plaster his mirror at night with damp handkerchiefs, hand-kerchiefs, washed to save laundry bills; he doesn't cook a bit of break- ifast over a spirit lamp and wash up I the dishes before going to business. There are a thousand things he does not do which a woman would do and which everybody would think she ought to do. She cannot do her day's work and stop. She cannot spend three 1 hours reading the paper, she is denied I the solace of a pipe, she seldom falls I asleep in her chair. Therefore she I ought to take the rest cure, and take 1 , It now. Union and Times. I Hints For the Toilet. f A TONIC FOR THE HAIR. Half a pint of bay rum, thirty drops of tincture of oantharides, half a tea- spoonful of salt. Shake well before using. Rub well into the scalp every i night. For dry hair add a little castor cas-tor oil to this recipe. DELICIOUS TOILET VINEGAR. One pint of best white wine vinegar, two drachms of each of the following: follow-ing: Rosemary, rue, lavender a.nd camphor. Let the herfcs soak in the vinegar several hours; then strain. A i little of this added to the bath wa ter imparts a delightful perfume to the skin. j BRITTLE NAILS, s A little almond oil well rubbed into I I the nails every night makes them less j ; brittle and less liable to break. If your f nails break easily, always slip on an I old pair of gloves before stirring any thing over the fire, as the heat makes thorn more brittle than they otherwise would be. COLD CREAM FOR THE FACE. Take twenty gains of powdered gum p. ruble, one ounce of pure white vaseline, vase-line, half an ounce of pure lanoline and half an ounce of rosewater. Beat up the gum arabic with a little of the rosewater. Then add. by degrees, first I ; a little of the vaseline, then a little 1 cf the lanoline. then more rosewater. I end so on, till the whole is beaten to a smooth cream. This cream is I Invaluable to thos whose faces are i Inclined to be rough and crack when I ; past winds visit s. It should be well ? rubbed into the skin after the night's I vi ash. . A TONIC FOR THE SKIN. I Scald two ounces of sweet almonds; I Fkin and pound in a mortar with a I little rosewater till you have a creamy I , liquid When the almonds are thor-I thor-I oughly pounded, squeeze the whole I through coarse muslin or strainer f cloth into a glass receptacle. Dissolve ! twenty drops simple tincture of ben- , roin in half an ounce of rectified spir-i spir-i Its of wine. Pour this on the al- I itionds, add eight ounces of rose water. I mix well together, and bottle and cork I tightly. Shake the bottle before using; j J This inay be applied to the face with the tips of the fingers two or three times a day, and the skin then wiped with a c!-an, soft chamois leather. This tonic gives tone to the skin, keeps it soft and helps to ward off wrinkles. It will only keep about six weeks. American Herald. Practical Education For Girls. The benighted Englis.h girl u in a fair way to be made wiser, if not happier. hap-pier. A gentleman who evidently feels competent to instruct her proposes through the London Daily Mail a school for her education in the practical prac-tical details of everyday life. The pupils at this projected institution institu-tion are to be taught how to alight from an electric car without endanger-I endanger-I ing their own safety and that of in-I in-I nocent pedestrians. They will be taught how to open a window and j put up a shade in a railway car; what kind of shoes to wear to foster their health and comfort, and when to ear them; how to tie a knot other than a "granny" knot, and how to fill a fountain pen. Says the enthusiastic promoter of this newy educational venture: ven-ture: "We shall teach the art of folding clothes, both women's and men's. (How many women can fold a dress coat.) We shall teach the proper method of doing up umbrellas and trimming lamps, and opening pack-I pack-I ing cases and tin cans, and driving nails and pulling corks and lighting fires. "This last, by the way, is an accomplishment accom-plishment that should be taught in every school in the country, but of course, is not. The comfort of millions mil-lions of persons depends on it every day. "We shall also instruct in the care and feeding of dogs and other animals, and show, for instance, why it is wrong to give dogs chicken bones. The theory of sanitation also we shall teach, of which most women know nothing at all, and we shall give practical prac-tical demonstrations of the effect- of grease on the lining of pipess, and the reasons for keeping it as far as possible pos-sible out of sinks. "We shall teach economy, false and true. We shall have lectures on the prices of all household things, and of the quantity required for so many of so few persons, and we shall show that in most cases the best is the cheapest. And every girl in my school shall have a pockef. Purse-carrying in the hajid will be forbidden." No one has dared to suggest that the American girl needs any- such schooling. school-ing. If any rash man did. she would probably retort that she had a few little lit-tle accomplishments of her own, and that she ciould teach him as much as he could teach her. This might be true, and yet it may be that even Amerfcan girls could learn some things at such a school as our English friend has projected. Catholic Transcript. Some People "We Meet. It takes all kinds of people to make the world, but there is one kind that believes the world owes them entertainment. enter-tainment. These people, without noticeable no-ticeable appreciation or reciprocation, sit calmly down to be entertained. Have you ever had visitors who favor you jvith a lengthy, sometimes lengthened visitation and allow you to wear out nerve tissue and strength in their entertainment without moving an appreciative muscle? They obligingly oblig-ingly inform you of a list of places or sights they expect to see, and your hospitably carry out their programme to the letter. But you cannot see ethat I they have enjoyed themselves. It was dusty in the park; the Shakespeare play ought to have a Booth or at least decent actors, etc., until you ere out of patieaice but try to be charitable char-itable for it may be that coming from i out of town they may fear to express j admiration or appreciation lest thev be suspected of being unsophisticated. Then there are the selfishly silent people who attended every social function, but never put themselves out to keep the conversation ball rolling. They may be moody or absent-minded persons: they may be reticent or undemonstrative un-demonstrative in temperament, but they are uncomfortable people to meet. They make one indorse a woman's wom-an's rendition of Franklin that "if we must give an account for every idle word, so must we for every idle silence" with this additional epigram: "If the silent people more frequently asserted themselves, the chatterboxes might have time to improve their minds in occasional listening." |