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Show I Woman's World, j ;': Speci&IIy Prepared for Our Feminine Readers. WHAT FRESH AIR WILL DO. (By Marion Martineau in' Chicago ' Tribune.) The summer girl has been told to ex-I ex-I ercise in the open air. And she takes S the advice by playing golf, tapping the ! tennis balls, rolling around the cro- quet spheres upon the beds of green I grass, and by hammock swinging and ? novel reading under the trees. But does she get the most good from the fresh air in that way? Prob- ably not. For, undess she understands ' the art of exercising hygienically, she comes home dusty, tired, jaded in spirit spir-it as well as in body. To exercise correctly is a fine art that, once it is understood, comes . within the limits of even the city girl. The young woman who is compelled com-pelled to pass the heated term in town can take her exercise and Improve by it as well as can the young woman ! who is spending, the summer away ' from the city. It is the young woman who can go a to the country who stands the best chance of getting the proper kind of exercise and the proper amount of it. But the girl who is compelled to stay at home can console herself with the 'i thought that the city is healthful and i germ free in the summer time, and 5 that she can enjoy the privileges of home comforts just when other people are doing without them. Move than .- this, the girl who must stay at home i in the summer can revel in the i thought that there are small outings t which are within her easy reach, and I that she has come home every day re- I freshed in body, and perhaps more I jovial in spirit than though she were t away among strangers and far from I I her household idols. " Keeping Well in Summer. But, unless she is a clever girl, she sickens in the heated midsummer air. Unless she understands how to get the most out of the city in the summer time she will pine in the dust and stifle in the smoke, and grow nervous at the sounds. She will find herself longing for green fields will the summer girl who stays in the city and her thoughts, awake and asleep, will turn toward the daisies and the buttercups. On the other hand, the city girl who ( adaptes herself to circumstances can ft feel refreshed at the end of the sum- I mer, and the girl who cannot spend as much as an hour in the country will j: feel better in the autumn than she j did in the spring, j For this wise girl, the first step is the securing of a room on the cool , j side of the house. At night there must be a breeze, and the most healthful health-ful breezes in the summer time come from the south and from the east. With a window facing in one or both I j these ways, the city penned in girl will secure a top sash of gauze and a lower j one of the same material, and will fit I them to the windows so that they can i be slipped in and out at night. By ( lowering the upper sash at night and slightly lilting the lower one, she will : secure .perfect ventilation, and the ; system will be as fine a one as any ever invented by the most astute of i 'i sanitarians. I Remember that in the summer time 1 the summer air is both a disinfectant and a medicine. Its free circulation J drives away floating germs, while its tonic effects upon the lungs and system sys-tem are undisputed. I The Japanese have a way of using V a kind of porous paper in their win- 1 i; dows instead of glass. And the result 1 j is that the Japanese are a healthful F i ; race. The Japanese women are par- 2 ,r ticularly strong and pretty, and they 1 .j owe their strength of body to a large degree to the fact that they never : breathe stale air. f The Japanese windows, being cov ered with a clean, almost transparent paper, porous and capable of allowing the air to circulate, give the women of the family the best of all chances to 1 get good, pure air all the time, waking . and sleeping. ; j j The penned in summer girl should , U t..I,;V. r-V.n..l Ili CL V n tuj ,uxuci nuiu DUUUIU :? ! one that is heavy laden with the rich I ozone of growing vines and plants. , . The perfume is refreshing, and the in fluence of the plants is one that is not to be despised. Japanese Cozy Corner. Here, again, the Japanese example f' ' can be followed, and instead of arrang- j icg ber cozy corner upon a couch or j . in a darkened part of the room, the I summer girl can place it upon the j r floor, where, with the aid of a small I j mattress, a few cushions, and a dozen j pots of plants and some vines, she can j. have an ideal cozy corner spot one 1 j that can be shifted into the sunlight f or out of it, as the summer girl pleases. i -Many-cozy corners are arranged in I such a way that one cannot sweep or ; ; clean under them. They are of the j , stationary sort, immovable, and plant- i ' ' . ed there forever. But this Japanese j cozy corner can be shifted about. And, ; whether fitted with Oriental hangings f and cushions or not, it "will maintain its prettiness and its coziness. It need : not be decorated in any way, for what it lacks in one way it will make up in being snug with its growing vines I ' and cut flowers. , j The penned in girl may possibly 'get away Into the country for a day, which gives her a glimpse of green. Failing this, she may. have a roof garden. Or, ! if she cannot have the roof garden, nor yet. the trip into the country, she can have an open window, and here . she can breathe as much fresh air as her lungs will give her. Fresh air is an excellent tonic for a headache. The stifled feeling and '( ' the summer headache are driven away t by the opening of the window and the - ! . parting of the draperies. The summer t ; - ' H girl, in loose garb, kimono or jacket, can sit or stand by the window and let the air fan her headache away. And here are the rules for getting rid of a summer headache. Put on slippers slip-pers and loosen your clothing. If the day be warm, hang a wet towel in the window through which the air can play. Take down the hair, or arrange it so the pressure will come in another place upon the head. Bathe the wrists with cologne water that is neither too hot nor cold, but just pleasant. ' For a tired feeling that is produced not so much by exercise as by brain fag, there are exercises that will cure the summer girl. Let her put on something loose, be it a gymnasium suit or pajamas, and let her stand at the open window. Then let her bend forward, as far as she can, until her finger tips nearly touch the floor. When she has done this ten times she can rest. Her next exercise will be to take a pair of dumbells, or a flatiron in each hand, and to reach forward until they touch the ground. Let her do this ten times, or until she feels the flatirons or the dumbbells, as the case may be, come down with a heavy thud upon the floor. She will find that there is a certain satisfaction in the physical vigor required by the exercise. Her next exercise can be that of trotting. Let her trot up and down upon one spot upon the floor. But, instead in-stead of standing upright, let her bend slightly forward) trotting with her feet back of her as though she were running. This is difficult, but it gives the lungs good practice. The summer girl who has to stay in the city will notice that she grows tired early in the day, and particularly is this true if she rise early, as one does in the summer time. For this there is nothing as restful as loosening the clothing and lying upon the flat of the back for a while. There is something in the position that rests one immediately, and if the summer girl with a weak feeling across her lungs and a bad feeling across her shoulders, will lie down flat on her back for fifteen minutes, she will rise feeling as though she had slept for an hour or two. It is one of the most restful of al positions one can assume. Another thing for the summer girl to remember is that the warm summer air is good for her entire body, and tttac. she should try to bathe in it daily. And the importance of this sun or air Latll can hardly be fully estimated. In the great sanitariums of Europe, where wealthy invalids go to recuperate, recuper-ate, and where royalty builds up the system for the hard work of the throne, there are great sun parlors, where the patients sit daily, dressed only in loose flannels, and where they ' bask until they feel rested through and through. Answers to Those Who Write. To Letter Writer: Your pimples can be removed by rubbing your face with a cut cucumber. Be sure that your skin is thoroughly clean. Then go over it with a split cucumber, letting let-ting the juice dry on. Before going out use a little face cream, and dust a little powder over your face. To Anxious: Why not let your nose alone? The more you massage it the redder it will be. Wear your clothing moderately loose and apply a pore food to your nose. Dust it with powder. It will not be red long. To Mrs. X.: The adipose tissue melted melt-ed away, did it not? And are you not sorry that you weighed 200 pounds for so long a" time when you might have reduced long, long ago? It is an easy thing, is it not, to reduce the weight? To G. Y.: Rub your lips at night with clover cream, the recipe for. which was recently given. It makes the lips red and smooth and young looking. Shall I repeat it for you? To Inquiring Reader: The massage roller and the electric needle can be bought at any electrical supply house. To Wrinkled: Treat the wrinkles to liberal doses of the special cream recently re-cently advised in this column. |