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Show Bcme 0frcle. ij GENUINE BEAUTY. Beautiful faces are those that wear Whole-souled honesty printed there. Beautiful eves are those that show Beautiful thoughts that burn below. Beautiful lips are those whose words Lean from the heart like songs of birds. Beautiful hands are those that do Work that is earnest and brave and true. Beautiful feet are those that go On kindly ministry to and fro. Beautiful shoulders are those that bear Ceaseless burdens of home-life care. Beautiful lives are those that bless Any that want or care may oppress. Fulfill Your Promises.. A story is told of a gentleman who visited President Lincoln and was in the habit of making promises more freely than he kept them. In order to induce one of Mr. Lincoln's , boys to sit on his lap, the gentleman offered to give him a charm which he wore on his watch chain. The boy climbed into his lap. Finally the gentleman rose to go, when Mr. Lincoln said to him: "Are you not going to keep your promise to my boy?" "What promise?" asked the visitor. "You said you would give him that charm. 7 "Oh, I could not," said the visitor. "It is not only valuable, but I prize it as ' an heirloom." "Give it to him," said Mr. Lincoln, sternly. "I should not want him to know that I entertained one who had no regard for his word.? The gentleman colored, undid the charm, handed it to the boy, and went away with a lesson which he was not likely soon to forget, and which others may profit by learning. ; Recipe For Happiness. "Women are too prone to accept unnecessary un-necessary evils with a ready resignation, resigna-tion, while men have a better under--standing of the art of happiness," said Mme. Sarah Grand in a lecture on "The Art of Happiness," recently. Idleness, she sajd, is one of the worst enemies of happiness, and among wo-men wo-men the desire to work is not so com mon as to be discouraged, the ineffectual inef-fectual life of many women being one of the saddest features of the. present i day. Mme. Grand strongly advised J parents to give their children, sons and daughters alike, the opportunity to follow their instinctive proclivities in the way of life work, because there is Joy in congenial work and congenial play. The chances for happiness, she said, outweigh the chances of misery, every function of mind and body inclining in-clining toward pleasure and to the avoidance of pain. Happiness is to be found in the simpler modes of life, not In excitement, which is only Its imitation. imi-tation. In all recipes for happiness, goodness must be the principal Ingredient, In-gredient, the others which go to form a truly happy life being ' fidelity In friendship, love and marriage, affection affec-tion between parents and children, moral courage, courtesy and perfect sincerity. ' - In the Sick Room. Nerves of the sick room are very acute, and it is positive torture to them to see the door open silently and a figure fig-ure creep in on tiptoe. No one would dream of bursting the door open, or even turning the handle with a rattle, but there is a medium course , to pursue. pur-sue. Walk in quietly, but without any undue un-due and ostentatious silence. Go straight up to the bed, and speak in an everyday tone, and, without asking any tiresome questions, commence speaking of matters which you know will inter est, but not irritate, the patient. Let your visit be short, and when you rise to leave the room say your "good-bye" briefly, and go at once, avoiding any of that lingering which is both annoying annoy-ing and wearying to the invalid. When visiting a sick friends dress with a certain amount of care and forethought; do not put on your dullest dull-est and shabbiest clothes, and, on the other hand, avoid anything that rustles rus-tles and fidgets the patient. Some people peo-ple like to take flowers into the sick room. It is as well to ascertain beforehand, before-hand, from some member of the family, fam-ily, what kind of flower is liked by the patient. A powerful perfume sometimes some-times causes a headache, and even nausea. nau-sea. Understanding and Believing. Years ago Dr. George P. Hayes told the story about that old German in Pennsylvania who, meeting the young infidel who was to speak at the school house in the" evening said: "Is you the young man vot Is to speak dis evening?" even-ing?" "Yes, sir, I am." "Veil, vot you schpeak about?" "My subject, sir. Is this: "Resolved, that I will never believe anything I do not understand." "Oh, my! Is dot it? Veil now, you shoost take von leetle example. There, VOU see that field mv nnstnrp. over there. Now, my horse he eat de grass, und it come up all over he's pack. Then my sheep he eats shoost de same gras und it growr wool all over him. And vot you think? My goose he eats de grass, too, and sure's . I tell you, it comes all over him feathers, you understand un-derstand dot, do you? Heigh!" Habit of Nagging. Disagreeable as the habit of "nagging" "nag-ging" undoubtedly is, it originates in a virtue. It is not the slip-shod, happy-go-lucky people that are annoyed by the faults of others the shirking, the want of consideration, the total disregard disre-gard of every plain duty. It is, on the contrary, the painstaking, conscientious conscien-tious souls who are sorely tried by the negligence of others, the waste of time, and opportunity, and substance it may be. And then the danger of acquiring the habit of nagging. Nagging is fatal to happiness. It destroys confidence, the basis;' of all contentment. Better that the faults of the children should be lightly reproved than that they should learn to do without with-out their mother's sympathy and love, which will most likely be the case if she pursues toward them a course of perpetual and persistent-faultfinding: better that the husband's petty failings be passed over in silence, than that he should learn to seek his happiness away from his own home. Babies Who Suck Their Thumbs. If baby persists In sucking his thumb here is a way to induce him to stop. Make a white flannel bag, considerably larger than his hands, and when he begins be-gins to suck his thumb put the little hands inside the bag, tie it round the wrists, and fasten with a safety pin to the sleeve. Baby won't like it, of course, but It will cure him of the habit hab-it quicker than any other method. To Make Stockings Wear Well. Children's stockings are an expensive item of dress, so that any plan that will make them wear well is welcomed by the economical mother. It never pays to buy cheap stockings. But a good quality and mark each child's i stockings with his or her initial. These ! can be purchased ready to be sewed j on. On this tag, in addition to the letter, let-ter, mark the number one, two or three on two stockings, so that the same twqi I will always make a pair and .will rei ceive the same amount of wear. TheH. turn the stocking wrong side out and run the heel and toes up and down with good darning cotton. Use a long stitch and a short one, and do not draw them tight, as the stockings will stretch with wear and will pull away from the darn, causing a tear. . Well-kept Hands. - Over my sink are two bottles and a nail-cleaner. One bottle contains five parts of lemon-juice to one of alcohol, which will keep indefinitely. The other contains the following lotion: One-fourth One-fourth of an ounce of gum tragacanth, added to one pint of rain water, which has stood three days, then one ounce each of alcohol, glycerine and witch-hazel, witch-hazel, also a little good faint perfume. After washing dishes or preparing vegetable I apply a little or the lemon-juice, then the lotion, and In a moment my hands are dry, soft and very smooth. All stains dappear as if by magic, and the nails are cleaned easily. The time required is not over 1 two minutes. This process, repeated five or six times daily, will certainly repay re-pay housekeepers, for what is there more indicative of refinement than well kept hands? Then, too, the expense of these lotions is comparatively nothing. Be sure to have them in a handy place. August Woman's Home Companion. Com-panion. A Determined Ally. A woman stopped at a cloth counter-in counter-in one of the large department stores recently and asked to be shown some dress patterns suitable for early autumn au-tumn wear. The salesman began on the lower row of shelved compartments and pulled out and opened box after box until the counter on either side of him was piled as high as his head with goods. Three times he climbed a ladder lad-der to the "upper rows and staggered down under a weight of box patterns, until, when the woman took a survey of the shelves, but two patterns remained re-mained unopened. Then she said, very sweetie: rtI don't think I'll buy any today; I'm sorry to have troubled you; but you-see I only came in to look for a friend." ' . , : "No trouble, whatever, madame," he replied, politely; "indeed, if you thinfc your friend is in either of the remaining remain-ing boxes, I don't mind opening them, too." Philadelphia Ledger. Recipe For Tooth Powder. A receipt for a good and pure tooth powder is the following: With four ounces' precipitated "chalk". "mix two. ounces pulverized borax; add one ounce each powdered myrrh and pulverized orris. Sift through a fine bolting cloth, and It is ready for use. A Remedy For Insomnia. It is a well known physiological fact that the eyes are turned upward during dur-ing sleep. A simple way to overcome over-come insomnia is to select the most comfortable position and then feeling the eyes are turning upward, which is said to have a wonderful soothing effect ef-fect on, the nerves, let the mind be a perfect blank to everything. The dreadful habit of taking drugs to induce in-duce sleep only makes matters worse. A prominent physician has said that "drugs have destroyed more lives than war, pestilence and famine combined." Nothing could be more pernicious than dosing the system with medicine. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes has affirmed the evil consequences of medicine in the following words: "I firmly beiieve that if the whole Materia Medica,' as t now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes." |