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Show I ;Mi Woman's World. ZZ I - : ' I i Specially Prepared for Our Feminine'Eeadera. I : j BOW TO BE PRETTY I ' . ! THOUGH WORKING HARD. I ' . ' Marian Martineu in Chicago Tribune) S i - ' ; i I have received so many letters from ' I ' i f roung women who are so situated that I ; they must be at work during the day I 'hat 1 eel as thouh were time to I i ' ; : j Sevote a special talk to them, i ; ' i ot only are my correspondents 11 I numbered among the younger class of ; I I workers, but it is from older women ? ! is well that numerous letters have ' ! some, j ? They want to know how to keep up I their general health though at work I j S j Jaily, and they wish, above all things, I ;j to learn how to keep pretty and free I from wrinkles though occupied at work I w hich is more or less nerve racking. I , , I I have always been of the opinion I ; I that the woman who goes out to work j '. ! flaily is not so tired at night as the 1 ' ; u nman who stays at home and works. 1 : : ' ' j The stenographer has her noon hour I BnfJ her mornings and evenings, so j ' 1 'r wiln tne bookkeeper and the girl who I ' f Is in the trades. The dressmaker, mil- I 1? liner, manicure and professional j , 1 poman all have hours of work and I s ; hours of play. I . The school teacher has, perhaps, the I , ' ' ;' , j hardest work of all, for during the ' ' ' I it hours of duly there is a great nervous ' ' ' strain combined with physical effort. i j The school teacher must use all her !1 j ; senses at once, and keep her body and I' I bi"ain moving. If she stands at the blackboard she must use her arms, . ; i keep her head turning, her ears must . j be acute, her eye looking in front of ! ! her and behind her at the same time, j ; and her mouth must be busy talking. ; : i There is nothing more trying than this. ! ' ; ! KEEPING YOUNG AND PRETTY, i The woman who stays at home has I one advantage. If she is ill she can I humor herself. If tired she can ad- 1 ' Just matters to suit her muscles; if she I wants to work she can do so or she I 1 can rest. Should the light in the room I not suit her she can darken it or I brighten it, she can open and close I the windows, and she can sit in a rock- I i 'ng chair. ! - . , So, after all, perhaps the balance is , against the woman who works, for fluty with her is stern and she knows i i - , that she must do her work steadily or , drop it. Now the question of hpw to keep young and pretty, healthy and lithe, is I one that interests her, for she feels j that not only her comfort depends 1 upon this, but her success as well. The I w oman who is slender, active, comfort- ably healthy and good looking has a 1 ! much better chance than the woman I , who is fat and heavy, sickly and dys- 1 peptic, with a poor complexion. 1 The woman who is employed most j , j exerts her minds and her judgment in ' ! . . She must let the brains that are mak- I ing a living for her be of assistance I ' to her in the beauty quest. I , ; If she is obliged to sit at a type- j writing machine all day she will find ! herself exhausted at night, with a pain i In her side from too much exercise, f j Her legs will feel cramped, though her f ' i arms will be tired. Walking is not the right exercise, nor is sitting of any I ' : avail. I A private gymnasium in New York ! City, which is patronized by profes- sional women who are earning good salaries, makes it a rule that all shall ! begin the night's practice with Indian club work, but it is surely the strangest strang-est exercise with the clubs you ever Baw. Instead of swinging the clubs the pupils use them in other ways. The I first exercise calls for a resting of the I weight upon the clubs. These are i ' placed upon the ground and the pupil ! leans upon them, bearing the full I weight. J INDIAN CLUBS FOR TIRED I WOMEN. I Next the pupil throws aside one of I the clubs and rests upon a single club I ! with one arm, while the other arm is I thrown into the air and the foot and f leg are thrust out. This is restful for the back and gives one a pleasant, ."- , clear, light feeling, as though one had : begun to breathe again. For the woman who has been over a desk all day and who is tired with Ftooping and writing, the swinging of the clubs is more beneficial. The clubs , are not, however, swung violently. ! - ' , They are lifted into the air and tapped j t together over the head, then lowered j and tapped again. They are held out ) j at arm's length, and the simplest of all 1 movements are described with them. I Now, in Indian club swinging there I is a science. The learning of the movement is a task fraught with difficulty, dif-ficulty, and those who attempt it will tell you that fencing is mere play compared com-pared to the learning of the art of Indian In-dian club swinging. Do not, therefore, irf your quest for beauty and strength, i go into the intricate and trying task of V the true club swinger, but be contented I with using your clubs as gymnasium j implements, rather than professional ' weapons. j The lungs and chest grow narrow in : the case of the woman bookkeeper or the woman accountant or writer of any kind, and even though the bust may' Jberome fat from going so long without I sufficient exercise, at the same time 'I the lungs are contracted and often painful. I Let the woman employed over her "books get into a gymnasium suit at I ' night, and let her exercise for fifteen minutes with the windows open, be it winter or summer. Throw back the j .shoulders, swell out the chest, lift the f ' arms, and breathe full, deep breaths. t" . Professional women are rarely of f S3 figure. They are too full in the abdomen and this is caused by their Fitting proclivities. They are pudgy in the hips, and the belt line is too high in front. For this the evening exercise will be a sovereign remedy. Begin by putting on the suit and skipping around the room. Do not ston to rest until vnn have been around the room three or four times, and then, when out of : breath, pick up the clubs and begin to lift and lower them in an amateurish : 1 attempt at swinging them. The girl who is busy all day in a close atmosphere must do something I in the evening to counteract the effects I of the day, or she will grow old and wrinkled before her time. , She must take a beauty bath in cold j ' cream every night. She must sleep in a well ventilated room with the fresh air entering in a way that does not strike the bed. She must either walk every night pr x fit by the open window. She should enjoy some distraction in the way of the theatre or pleasant, di- 'verting society. Her food should be just to her taste, no matter what that may be, and she should not be compelled to eat what she does not like. Eating what you dq not find enjoyable often leads to In-) In-) digestion, for the stomach continually revolts against the food which it did not welcome. Foods that regurgitate should be avoided, and the woman who is busy during the day should take sassafras tea, catnip tea, and boneset if she likes i jt- There is always some hot good tea which a woman can take at night for ; 1he etomachs sake, and which will thrw her into a refreshing sleep. ,; The professional woman, and many another woman, sleeps too long. She wakens with a stupid headache, which she would not have had if she had i been UP Practicing for fifteen minutes I with her Indian clubs. J The woman who is employed during ! he day and who comes home ex- kausted will find immediate relief if she ' will put on loose clothing, bathe her forehead and wrists in toilet water, throw open the window, and seat herself her-self in a steamer chair, with the breeze" blowing over her. She should sip a cup of chocolate, and, if inclined to headache, head-ache, she may hold a bottle filled with hot water under her nose with a few drops of lavender thrown in. That will cure a nervous headache quickly. FOR THE ANXIOUS. "What can I do for a red nose? It is a bright color and is so annoying. I would be a good looking girl except for my red nose," writes Mayflower. Loosen your corsets and do not wear a tight belt. Eat no fried food. Take a teaspoon of phosphate of soda in hot water twice a day. Eat no candy for a month. "Dear Miss Martineau: I am to be married in November, and my complex-" ion is bad. I have taken everything and have exercised in the open air. I do not see how I can appear at a church wedding with my face all pimples, and they are of the big red and yellow kind. Anxioujs Girl." It is none too soon to begin upon that complexion. Begin by washing your face in cold cream every night, using the formula recently given. Use no less than a tablespoon, putting it thick on your face. It will not make the hair grow. Every morning take a dose of sulphur, such as your druggist will prepare for you. Let the dose be small. Wash your face with hot water in the morning, but do not again wash it during the day until you bathe it with the specially prepared cold cream at night. If this does not help you inside three weeks write again. "My nose is oily on the outside, as though there were perspiration upon it. What can I do for it?" asks Sufferer. Bathe the nose in hot water in the morning and dust it with a good powder. pow-der. At night use the drying cream advised ad-vised for greasy faces. Addie R.: I take pleasure In repeat-ig repeat-ig the formula. To an ounce of orange flower water add three drops of tincture tinc-ture of benzoin. It should be milky. Will the correspondent who did not want her name mentioned try this for darkening the eye brCs. Take strong sage tea and paint them with a brush in the morning. At night apply vaseline. vase-line. Remember that light eyebrows are an affliction which you can remedy without dyes. Shoestrings in Fancy Work. One of the latest fads In woman's fancy work Is the use of shoestrings. They may be of cotton or silk, and the brown or russet ones are used, as well as the ordinary black laces. They are braided, singly or in strands composed of several strings, into basket work or bags for shopping and other useful Seventeen pairs of the usual length are required to make one of these pretty pret-ty receptacles. The lining is of silk, satin or mercerized cotton. They are woven or knotted like heavy fringe over two pieces of pasteboard, which serve to keep ' the shape and may be I drawn out when the bag is finished. The ends left hanging along the lower edge are either trimmed even and the strings fringed out to an inch or two of depth or the metal ends are left on as an irregular finish. A work basket of shoestrings is made with a cardboard foundation covered with silk in some bright shade, then a thick braid of many strands of shoestrings shoe-strings tacked around the entire basket bas-ket Three Etrands of five strings each length, then braided and the ends joined under a loose knot made of the must bt sewed together a sufficient raveled ends. . 1 . . |