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Show 1 ) mMsmmM MOTHER'S CORNER. j the ruddiest glow of the western light SVk- f"-'s in '1Pr favorite nook; I Ti'i,'- a-iir hand busy, the dear face. S rioted f With :ty tender mother-look. 1 fbr- pmile that softens the quiet mouth ! Vo evil pang embitters; na the sunlight touches the fingsru -eft. f Till the thimble gleams and glitters. ' Oh, the tranquil moon of the mother- life That sways our human tide; How the household good and the j , ' household HI - ' In her splendid hands abide! J Tis a little ripple of broken toy?, I Or the wreck of a strong existence. I 'Tis a timid yearning of childish j mouths. Or a deep cry in the distance. ( 'Tis the clinging clasp of a baby's handi Or the kiss of the new-made bride: Or the groping wail of the last white ; one j Who turned to the wall and died. J TJttle or great, she meets them all. S With the seal of her trust upon her; I And the sobs are stilled, and the tears? j are dried j ; In the light of the mother's corner. j Alas! for the homes where the bride j must wait, ' And the strong man cry in vain; Where the sick one turns to the vacant v chair. And dies in his unsoothed pain. ?Co tender touch from the quiet lips. No balm . for the heart-pierced mourner; O Christ! by the cottage of Nazareth! Despoil not our mother's corner! Eleanor Donnelly. COMING GIRL WILL BE AS RUDDY AS A POPPY j (Marion Martineau in Chicago Tribune.) , The brilliant girl is coming in vogue and the fair skinned type is going out. This means that the new girl will, be ruddy as a poppy and that her face wili shine with color as well as with health. ' Color is not always the sign of health. A lily is quite as healthy as a rose, yet it is much paler. And so with the white skinned girl who may be just exactly as healthy as her redder sister, but 1 whose color Is much fairer by nature. : Rut the fair skinned girl will not be ? as popular; and she who has a fair, white skin must go into training to make it red. She must pink her ears ; and her chin, tint the delicate white of s her temples, and must bring out the brilliant lights of her cheeks. Fancy going into training to make your face bloom. Yet such is what you mut do. You must bring out its high lights and its own natural tones until your face is as rosy aivi as smiling, as dimpled and as natural as it was when you were a child. The old-fashioned way. so our grand-: mothers will tell you. was to rub the . I cheeks with a crash towel; and many a , girl of the 1830 days was compelled to ' , go over her face vigorously with the. j towel at least twice a day, rubbing the j Fkin until it was a bright, glossy red. The result was good enough for the time being. But, O, so bad in the long run. The vigorous rubbing coarsened ; the skin and brought the blood vessels to the surface, and at the age of 30, ar1 sometimes even younger, the skin I was hopelessly gone. I Hard Rubbing Is- Harmful. j I Hard rubbing will cause those blue f lines to come to the surface of the skin, I those little blood vessels which are I sometimes made of red blood and some- I times of blue. , TtK-y are not pretty, and when, they cover the cuticle., Vs with a s heavy network of veins, they are posi- i tiv-ly disfiguring. Strange to say, the nose is the first to J become coarsened by this heavy, rough ? treatment. The blood vessels seem to i f-nlarge quickly and the nose has a I heavy, blowsy look that is unspeakably : awful. k A great many women- coarsen the nse unconsciously. They wash the fa- with a rough cloth and dry it on a rouph towel, scrubbing the face with the hands buried in the towel. The piirt of the face which receives the severest se-verest treatment is the nose and the too of the cheek bones. These are s. -rubbed until the surface of the skin :f injured and the cuticle irritated. The : 'csult is a congestion of the little blood vfs.-i? and a ivtwork of tiny red lines iri'st lHow the surface. Xoses are hope- -';- injured in this manner. Another cause of a florid, rough and m t tied face is the habit of going out ( into the cold air directly after washing ; th' face. A woman whose skin was so rouph that she could not use powder upon it and so mottled that she looked as if Jibout to go into a stroke of apo-1'li-xv found that the entir? condition was caused by her habit of throwirv; i o;-n her window shutters in the morn- t inp. It was her custom to rise, bathe and then go to the window, throw open the blinds, and look out a minute. The ; -o.l air striking the sensitive skin. S still warm from the morning ablutions, ; fut.-d as a decided irritant and rough - ? erer. j The face must be made to glow in i j;iite another way. It requires a physi- r al culture of the skin, a certain treat- I i mnt. which, while it makes the face ; pink and even red. does not injure it. -i Foe bleaching and face skinning! ' j often have this result, but there ;ire i j other ways of obtaining the same cf- i fe.-t without recourse to such violent -i mpsns I i Pure Fruit Juices a Great Aid. And one of these is the face treatment, treat-ment, which includes the application of 1 fruit juices and the care of th-? uticle. - ; Jn face skinning you remove the outer ; surface, but in face treatment you so car for the skin that you make it delicate and pretty without destroying or removing it. If there are cucumbers in yo-jr vicinity vicin-ity you cannot do better than to procure pro-cure one. even at this time of year. and apply it to the face. There H a certain bieaching property about a rn- j comber which is only equaled by the f r sli strawberry. Those who can procure fresh straw- I be-ris have at their disposal the best i cosmetic that is known. The' berries. I with their acids and their -bleaching ! properties, will make the skin near perfection; and if the cuticle be sallow , find dry the strawberry juice will make i it plump and pink and pretty. J Cucumber juicevis best applied in the perfectly natural state. The cucum- , hers, which should not be peeled, are split lengthwise and the strips.applied to the face. They are bound on and the juice is allowed to dry there. Hut the complexion must be prepared for this cucumber treatment. A famous fa-mous Parisian beauty applies a hot. ;. soapy lather to her skin. She puts it I on with a man's shaving brush, and she i. t uses a pure soap and plenty of it. II j must be as hot as possible, and it is a , good thing to let it remain on the face '' ; a few minutes, just as though' one were ! . shout to shave. I A good soap is in itself full of curat- Ive properties. Tt acts not only as a j ! softener, but as u bleach, and if it j were analyzed it would be found to ; ' contain many ingredients that are r- ' 1 tually good for the skin. A good soap, ; liberally applied as a hot lather, will help any skin, and certainly will do no harm to any. i It is important, however, to take the -i "oap off thoroughly, anfl this almost 1 requires another and a clean brush. 1 Men have facilities at the barbers' i hops for cleansing the face which wo- i pipn at home do not always possess, but ony beautiful womaft of fihe com- f "'exlon will tell you that the soap must be taken out of the skin religiously j and with, vigor and thoroughness. Bleach by Using Strawbarries. The time for" the fruit bleach comes-'next. comes-'next. If fresh strawberries are scarce, there are always canned ones, and if the juice be fairly pure it will do quite . well. The face can be covered with the juice of strawberries.- or with the juice of cucumbers, and the whole can j be left in that state until the skin is 'softened and bleached with it. A hot dash of water will remove this, and the skin is now ready for its treatment treat-ment of benzoin. There are herb washes which are good for the skin, and the southern cosmetics with their steeped bark ant? leaf decoctions are some of them good, indeed. P.ut in the absence of these a good substitute o?n be prepared with the benzoin of commerce. Take a basin of hot water and drop into it a few drops of benzoin, say j about ten drops to a gallon of water, j This makes a nice milky face bath, i and it is one which tends to-close the pores and make the skin hard nsain. A treatment of this kind will tend to bring out the natural tones of the skin and to make it a pretty pink rather than a pa?ty yellow. Proper Activity Beneficial. If the woman vhb Is pasty in skin and who desires to get a. pretty aom-plexlon aom-plexlon will resort to regimen for a few weeks she v.-ill soon show a great improvement. One woman whose face was -thin axid whose body was fat. resolved re-solved to reverse the order of things. Being advised to diet and exercise, she resolved to lead the life of a man. For one whole month this woman rose at 7 o'clock, which was her husband's time of rising; she dressed fully, ate a light breakfast and, when he went, to his place of business, she went for a walk. She walked until noon, in and out of shops, calling, sightseeing, always al-ways on the go. At noon she ate a lisrht and almost hasty lunch. And all the afternoon she kppt up her round of walking, calling and sightseeing. By 6 o'clock she vas worn out and ready for the dinner hour. In the evening she rented. Her household tnsks went undone, but she grew slender and pretty and full of health. After a month her husband hus-band told her she looked like the girl he had married fifteen years before. It was the life of activity which restored re-stored her color, her figure, her beauty and her youth. As a rule women grow gross long before their husbands, and sallow long before their time. They live active lives, but it is not the sort of activity which preserves the good looks. The woman who rocks and sews, who hangs the curtains and cooks the dinner, whose duties are confining, will not stay young; the woman who embroiders embroi-ders and worries, the woman who cultivates cul-tivates headaches, and whose aches and rains engross her mind, will not remain youthful. It is the woman who acts young, who tries to be young, who gets out !n the open and enjoys herself, this is the woman who retains her youth and her spirits. This is the woman whose complexion com-plexion is as rosy at SO as it was in the heyday of her youth. LETTERS AND ANSTVERS. Mrs. Q. I have tried peroxide of hydrogen hy-drogen for superfluous hair on my face, but it does not kill the roots of the hair. No. Peroxide does not kill the hair. In fact, it makes it grow. But it bleaches it light, so that it is less noticeable. no-ticeable. If you mix a little ammonia in with the peroxide the ammonia will gradually kill the constitution of the hair, making it die. Mrs. T. Where can I purchase a bottle bot-tle of your eyebrow grower? I would (pay anything to get it. Make it yourself. It is not for sale, and this is the nly way of getting it. If your eyebrows are thin and scraggy, take a 5-cent bottle of red vaseline and melt it in a double boiler. Thin it with pure almond oil until it is aUDUt the consistency of cream. Apply'at night with a camel's hair brush. ' f Mrs. X. I want your advice and will do just as you say. Tell me what can be done by me to make my hair grow stronger and to keep away the gray hairs. For you and the other correspondent? there is this advice about gray hair. Wet the finger tips in. cold water and massage the scalp, picking it up in little lit-tle pinches until the roots are completely complete-ly agitated. On alternate nights run a little pure olive oil into the roots, using little oil and just enough to moisten the roots. Miss G. My hair is so fine and so straight that I cannot dress it becomingly. becom-ingly. Give me your advice. I would like to wear it in a waved pompadour. You can do so. Shampoo your hair well and dry thoroughly. Do it up in metallic curlers and leave up over night. Xext morning have an assistant press the curlers with a warm iron until the hair is perfectly dry. The trouble with fine hair is that it holds the moisture too long. It must be as dry as a bone or it will not curl. Mrs. O. Give me your treatment for superfluous hair. There is no one treatment that will ber.-fit everybody. The salve stick is good in common cases: in others powdered pow-dered pumice stone is better, scrubbed on the hair until the lip is clean; others find that tweezers will do the Work. Apply diluted ammonia afterward. Still others have.aeoomplish-ed the feat of removing re-moving the hair with peroxide of hydrogen hy-drogen and ammonia mixed together. 4. Mrs. K. Tell me about electrolysis. Is it expensive, and is it painful? It is generally regarded as expensive, though it is not necessarily painful. Mrs. L. How can I darken my eyes? I know of no .way to darken the eyes. You might rightly pencil the rims. H. G. My neck is yellow from wearing wear-ing an open lace waist all summer in the sun. Can you advise a bleaching cream? They say that lanolin, with a little peroxide of hydrogen mixed in, will bleach the skim snow white. You might try it. Miss T. 1 am immense around the hips, though not unusually stout elsewhere. else-where. For the reduction of the hips exercise is best. Bicycling is good and you can place an. exerciser in your own room into which a bicycle will fit. To Bleach a Sallow Neck. To Woman's World, I. M. C Please answer the following: How can I whiten a sallow neck? What is a good remedv for making a person long waist ed? Sincerely, C.TRALDIXE. A sallow neck may proceed from de- i ranged stomach or liver. In that case, consult your physician. If it Is the result re-sult of exposure to sun or weather, massage with cold cream. Lanolin, with a little peroxide of hydrogen mixed in, is recommended to bleach the skin white. There is no remedy for making a person per-son long-waisted. Consult your dressmaker. dress-maker. "Women. Who Deny Their Age. "I think it is a foolish fashion that so many women indulge, thaf of telling their age wrongly," said a woman with I the prematurely gray hair. "I can ; honestly say that I never practice it myself." "Xo?" said her friend, with many meanings in the monsyllable. ; "Well," said the first speaker, with a Fmile she was a. woman with a sense -of humor "the fact is. I don't have to. I I have a way of making myself out. younger than I am, if I wish to, without with-out telling a fib about it." "Really?" replied the other., curiously, "in what way?" "I put the burden of the fib all upon the questioner. You see, when one of my dear women friends it is , always women who are curious on this ! point asks me how old I am, I say ' "Oh, I am a year oi two older than you, you know, my dear at least a year older. Let me see, how old are you?" And then she always knocks more off my age than I should ever have the nerve to do myself." Words That .re Universal. In Germany a discussion has started urging that German children drop the words "mamma" and "papa" in favor of "mutter (mother) and "vater" (fa- ther). "How," they say, "can anybody ! prefer the unmeaning 'mamma' to the de?p and impressive 'mutter?' " Xoth-ing Xoth-ing can replace for a German the word "mutter," certainly rot the French "mamma.'' A certain philologist, however, asks how it can be suggested that the word "mamma" is derived from tr.3 French, seeing that it is probably to be found in all languages of the world. In the numerous dialects of Africa and in India the word for mother is "mamma," which is given as a title of honor to every elderly dair.3 deserving of esteem and respect. "Mamma" and "papa" (baba) are so generally used in all parts of the world that they probably proba-bly date back some thousands of years. Length of Days. A quaint old recipe for attaining great old age runs thus: "Xo pies or cakes, no pains or aches. Most men dig their graves with their teeth." Mr. Bradbury, a former governor of Maine, gave the following as the secret of length of days when he was standing near the brink of his hundredth year: "Get an incurable ailment in your youth and nurse it until your death." A somewhat some-what similar experience minus the "nursing" fell to the lot of the late pope. When ncaring his twenti?th year he fell into a long drawn and painful malady that almost shriveled up the life in him and threatened to dig him an early grave. Pain drove sleep fror his pillow and in long watches of tl-weary tl-weary night he wrote in Latin verse: "Wakeful till latest night, thy limbs in vain Court needful rest; Yet pain, when charmed by verse, Seems half allayed." He himself felt that his coffin and grave-colhtse ETAOIX ETAOIN X grave-clothes should soon be ready. Yet he lived far past the ordinary span of human existence and died at 93 with his great mind clear to the last. And ever through life he found that "Against diseases here the strongest fence Is the defensive virtue, abstinence." |