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Show p WOMAN'S WORLD S ; - 1 ; ''I THANKSGIVING KE2TUS. ! ' jlhode Inland Clam Ohowder... -. J Rpjist Spare-rib. Koast Turkey, j I Apple Sauce. Cranberry Jelly. i Steamed Squash, served in shell. ' Buttered Parsnips. Mashed Potatoes. I Cider. . Chicken Pie. . Celery.. . 1 yiiu-e Fie. Indian Pudding. 1 Tumpkin Pie. Cheese. Fruit. 1 CoiTee. The Delineator. 3 BREAKFAST. I Apples. Cereal with Cream. Eggs. Toast. . I Coffeo. I DINNER. 1 Oyster Cocktails. Consomme Julienne. Roast Turkey. 1 Mashed Potatoes. Baked Squas-h. Cranberry Jelly. Celery. Nut Salad. Orange Water Ice. Mince Pie. Steamed Pudding. Nuts and Raisins. I coffee. 1 SUPPER. I Lettuce Sandwiches. 1 Cream Cheese. ! Olives. Cocoa. . . Good Housekeeping. 1 SECRET OF LOVELY WHISTS AND TAPERING FINGERS ? (Marion Marlineau in Chicago Tribune v The girl who wants to play pat-a- cake these winter evenings, or who I t-njoys a game of peas porridge hot, f must have pretty hands, j lTgly hands are disagreeable to gaze I upon, thrice disagreeable to touch, and !inany times more disagreeable to possess. pos-sess. They are ugly to the eye, clammy clam-my to the fesl, and a source of discon-f discon-f tent all around. f Hands that ure not clammy are f sometimes too dry and they have a hot feeling which makes one uncomfortable. uncomfort-able. Such hands are apt to resemble parchment in being crinkled and out of all semblance to flesh and blood. Hands that are neither too moist nor too dry. hands that are pink and white, hands that show the proper tones of flesh color, and which are of the right I shape, should be the undisputed por- tlou of every woman; and when they are not such, it is sure to be the fault I of the woman herself, for there is noth. I lng- in the worid as easy to control as I the hands and their shape. I Physical Culture Keeps Hands Nice. Physical culture will keep the hands nice and will prevent them from growing grow-ing out of shape. Give your hands - physical culture treatment every day. j and at the end of a month you will notice the change. They will have be- gun to plump out a little, and you will notice that the skin which was- yellow i is now bleached white; the nails have 1 changed from their brittle estate and I no longer crack. You will see that the veins are disappearing under a pad- Is cling of flesh, and the hands are pretty I apain. j ; Even at the age of 70 a great deal can ; bo done for the hands: though it is ad vised that a woman begin long before she is TO years old to make her hands j attractive. If she will start out while she Is young and will keep them pretty ; she will be sure to have them nice when j she grows old. Bleach the Hands First. t The first step in the treatment might he the bleaching of the skin, and while this is going on the hands can be plumped out a little. I The skin of the hands can be bleached by the mittin which is worn ) f nightly. This mitten is filled with a bleaching paste and is slipped on the hands and worn until morning. The i paste whitens the skin and softens it, ; and makes it fresher to behold. Oatmeal is a great whitener of the ' skin, and enough oatmeal to make the j water milky can be used as a. rinsing v. a ter every morning. Bran is also a ; whitener and all the meals act as cleansers and softeners. j A little piece of pumice stone, tied to the dressing table with a ribbon; a soft nail brush, a stiffer brush for the 1 palms of the hands, and a good soap I are among the essentials for a pair of I pretty hands. Of course there is the dish of bran; and there should be the ' bottle of perfume to give the hands i that final scent which makes them so f tttcctly charming. Th- whitening of the hands is a thing j which might keep a woman constantly I "employed. It cannot be done today, 'n last all the season, but each morning 'he hands should be treated with the : mealy mixture and the soap and the I suftened water; and each morning they I should be rinsed and rinsed and rinsed icain, until the skin is soft and white. Vaselire is good for the hands, if one ''as no othtr creamy mixture, but a I good soft cold cream is much better. It can be so well rubbed into the flesh lbat the hands will feel like down. j Olive Oil Softens Flesh and Nails. j Those who are troubled with hard fin- i Ff-r tips and whose nails have flesh giowing up around then and whose "moons" will not show, can remedy this defect or this illness f the nails by dosing them with the pure oil of sweet olives, pill a bowl half full of olive J oil and soak the finger tips fifteen min- utes in it, night and morning, or only s a i night, until the nails are soft and ! Mia bio. ! j Soft nails are usually considered a ! I'oor feature of the hands, for it is sup- I 1'ost-d they will break easily. But this j is not the case. Nails that are properly ; shaped do not break at all; and, if one's j occupation is of a nature which breaks j the nails, they should be kept short. Uut if properly shaped, curved as they ; should be curved, and properly treated, I they can be kept nice and long. A great many persons prefer the ; closely clipped r.aii, the nail that' is so ' fhort that only a little white rim is I j visible. But there arc others that like I ' ' the long nail, the fashionable nail, and i who think the longer the nail ihe fcet- ter. j ) To keep the nails long is one of the : finest of the fine arts of physical cul- J turr-. You must not only let the nail i grow, but you must know how to taper j it. It must point, yet it must not have h sharp tip, and never under any con- j (iiikm. must it be sharp enough to j Scratch. Its point is a rounding one, I something like the tip of an almond ! nut. I The business woman and the athletic j Rirl alike arc inclined to favor the round nail. Particularly is this true of ihe golf girl, who cannot play with long j nails, .Tie cuts them rounding and a Mile short, yet long enough to support the iiiigt-r tips. Fingers that are too fat' on the ends ere almost always made so by some fault or eccentricity of the owner. Perhaps Per-haps the habit of biting or fussing with the finder tips has become inherent and cannot be broken. Perhaps there is the habit of dipping the nails at the corners cor-ners which causes the finger to fall and makes the finger tip pudgy. The nails should be allowed to grow at the corners and it is not desirable to touch thern with the scissors until they are long enough to support the fiiiger tips. The arms and the hands are associated associ-ated closely together and must be treated treat-ed together. Good wrists are necessary to the proper showing off of the hands, 'and it Is so impossible to see the hands without considering the wiists that the woman who goes in for pretty hands must not forget to treat her wrists also. ' Exercise Hakes the Hands Supple. The hands and wrists should have Jeir physical culture movements. The nands should be opened wide and then rjPped tightly, and then opened again and then gripped again, to make a series se-ries of strengthening exercises. The hands of those who have passed 50 are rarely supple. Middle aged women wo-men do not exercise enough with the: fingers and the result is a stiffness that is unattractive. Often the hands will no longer be capable of opening wide, but only half wide, in a tense, fixed sort cf way. To remedy this the hands should be frequently opened and closed again. To do this, bare the arms, lift thm over the head, and open and shut the hands as many times and as rapidly as possible. possi-ble. Do not forget that it is an exercise exer-cise which is beneficial not only to the hands but to ' the wrists and to the whole arms and to the chest. Open and shut the hands, and stretch the arms at the same time. It is gorgeous exercise. exer-cise. Arms that are too fat must.be reduced by diet, for they are susceptible to foods. Fat will settle on the arms and aroimd the shoulders soon in. the gain of adipose tissue, and the woman who wants nice tapering shoulders will have nothing but lleshy cushions. The arm exercises are simple, being merely a lifting and lowering of the arms, but they should be practicecL half an hour every day and a great deal longer if possible. LETTERS AND ANSWERS. Mrs. G. I wrote to ask you how to enlarge the size of my bust. I am far too thin to be pretty. Do not despair. Bones are fashionable. fashion-able. Still, you can increase the bust by rubbing cocoa butter into it. Heavy Reader I weigh entirely too much. Is there any way of reducing without dieting? Yes. If you will exercise enough. Golf players are never fat. They run on the golf links for hours at a time and It takes the llesh off them rapidly. Walk and run. if you get a chance, in I the open air. It will do you a world of good. f Miss T. I am unmarried and heavy and you know it makes me look old. Is there any way of looking younger by getting thinner? You can diet and you can exercise. Exercise will reduce you quickly. But you will have to do a great deal of it. Do not drink -water while exercising, but try to get into the country for a month of outdoor life. -- Faithful Reader You do not tell me just how to take the superfluous hair off my upper lip. Get an electric needle and try electrolysis. elec-trolysis. It is not a difficult thing to perform at home. If you puncture the skin you will be all right as far as killing the hair is concerned. D. H. How can I use the electric needle on my own face? Get a needle, attach it properly to the battery, take a hand glass in your hand and gently puncture the skin until un-til you touch the root of the hair. Grace J. I pulled out the hairs on my face with the tweezzers. Then I applied weak 'ammonia. If seemed to kill the roots of the hair. I must thank you again and again for your advice. G. D. C. Mary T. I would be a pretty-girl pretty-girl if my hair would curl. But my forehead is hie-h and mv hair haners as straight as a piece of thread. You can make your hair curl by washing it well to get the oil out. Then do it up in metal curlers and let remain up over night. In the morning press with a hot iron. -- H. G. Please give me a curline. A good curling fluid can be made by boiling quince seed and adding a little of the syrup to warm water. Moisten the hair with it, but do not, use too much or there will be a white, scaly look to your hair, which is not pretty. Miss Y. I like to wear a stiff curl in the middle of my forehead. How-can How-can I keep it in shape? You might wet it with glycerin and water. This will often keep a curl in shape when nothing else in the world will do so. Ventilation. Middle-aged and old persons and those with weak hearts and impaired lungs have often experienced a feeling ; of suffocation when there is too much water in the atmosphere. Those who breathe it are, to a certain extent, deprived de-prived of their due supply of oxygen. The air of bedrooms is exceedingly liable lia-ble to be overcharged 'with watery vapor, va-por, the most obvious reason being that many bedrooms are never warmed with fires, and that their windows are often of-ten left open until dusk, and sometimes some-times even to the hour of going to bed. A delicate or an aged person leaves, say at 11:30, a sitting room in which the temperature was 68 degrees, and enters a cold, damp bedroom with a temperature of say 38 degrees. The air in the sitting room was dry, perhaps a little too dry. The air in the bedroom is loaded with cold, watery wa-tery vapor. So soon as the person en- j ters the bedroom he chokes and gasps and oaughs for half and hour at least, j and sometimes brings on such an attack 1 of asthma, or, as he calls it "stuffiness"' i the chest, that he can hardly breathe j at all. He may even lose his night's j sleep, and be ill for some days after such an exposure. Common sense says: '"Make an effort to bring the atmosphere atmos-phere of the bedroom nearer in point both of dryness and of warmth to the atmosphere of the sitting room, and then the occupant will neither gasp nor choke nor cough, but will go to sleep with ease and comfort." About Little Folks. An infant should be given no food containing starch until it cuts its teeth. Starchy foods include biscuits, corn flour, tapioca, sago, rice, potato, etc. An infant can not digest any of these until its teeth are cut. Violent noises and rough shakings or tossing are hurtful to a baby, and should be avoided as much as possible. Infants shou!d never be put into a sitting posture until they are at least three months old, when they will probably prob-ably sit up of their own accord. They should be carried flat in the nurse's arms, as i the little back is at all curved it may lead to curvature of the spine or chest disease. Fntil children are 6 of 7 years old they should have twelve hours' sleep every night. In addition to this, a nap for two .hours either In the morning or I afternoon especially in hot weather 'will do" a great deal toward keeping them bright and welL j Flowering Shrubs For Fencing. If it be true that November days are the saddest of the year, there are ( bleak days in the early spring which i would seem equally urear were it not for the consoling thought that tney the forerunners of the most joyous sea-I sea-I son. It Is a very simple matter to emphasize em-phasize this substantially by the presence pres-ence of flowering twigs. Branches of apple cherrv, peach, lilac and cyclonia may be forced into bloom in a week r two by placing them in water in a sunny window. The forsythia is especially es-pecially adapted to this method, its wealth of golden bells making a glorious glor-ious surprise to the uninitiated. Many native shrubs willow, hazel, alder, bladder nut, etc., may be forced in the same wav. Indeed. I suspect that any tree or woody shrub, the buds of which are formed in autumn, may be thus hastened into bloom,. - . Home-Kadev Ficture Frames. Various kinds may be manufactured at home at very little expense, cut pasteboard into any desired size and shape; cover with gray canvass; violets., vio-lets., anomones or any, chosen : small blossoms may then be:planted upon the surface, or they may be worked upon the canvass previous to its being stretched upon the frame. Another inexpensive in-expensive frame may be made , by having hav-ing a carpenter make a frame of plain pine; cover, this with a coat of varnish, and while the varnish is still . wet, ; sprinkle it lavishly with either sand, ' oatmeal or rice.' When thoroughly dry cover the whole surface with gold or silvera paint, using two coats if necessary. Cuts may be mounted upon thick felt paper, and may cover two large sheets of pasteboard, in the manner man-ner described above for frames, tying the two sheets together with satin ribbon. rib-bon. - i Bauty-Making Foods. "The best of all beauty-making foods are fresh fruits and fresh vegetables," said Professor H. W. Wiley, the famous fa-mous government chemist, who is incidentally inci-dentally a' skilled physician. "They contain relatively little nourishment a woman could hardly live on them exclusively ex-clusively for any length of time but for reasons which as yet are imperfectly imperfect-ly understood they possess extraordinary extraor-dinary value as health givers. If you want bright eyes and a clear complexion, complex-ion, eat plenty of them." The fact Is that most fresh vegetables and fruits are nearly all water. Spinach is 92 per cent water, cabbage is 77 per cent water, beets are 88 per cent water, carrots are 91 per cent water, cauliflower is 91 per cent water, cucumbers cucum-bers are 96 per cent water, eggplant is 93 per cent water, onions are 7SV& per cent water, tomatoes are 96 per cent water, green corn (cut from the cob) is 8141 per cent water and celery is 9iVs per cent water. Fruits are pretty nearly near-ly all water, though the banana is relatively rela-tively rich in starch. Fruits and vegetables, then, are of no great use in supporting the human body. Their value is mainly medicinal, and as beauty makers they are the chief among foods. It is almost impossible to eat too, much of them in a fresh' state, though, of course, the diet must include a reasonable proportion of those substances, such as meat, which furnish fur-nish blood-and muscle tissue. Kerosene For the Hair. A woman recently asserted that the fine appearance of her hair was entirely due" to a persistent and thorough treatment treat-ment with the familiar kerosene of the corner grocery. It was applied regularly regular-ly once a fortnight in the following way: A little was poured into a saucer and rubbed with the fingers into the roots of the hair. The application was slow and thorough, the gentle massage of the roots with the finger tips being needed to open the pores for the absorption ab-sorption of the oil.- The treatment was usually made at night, and the hair afterward tied up in a silk handkerchief. handker-chief. The silk handkerchief is recommended recommend-ed by hairdressers as usefrl in retaining retain-ing the natural electricity of the hair. By noon of the following day the odor of the kerosene -has disappeared, and in another twelve hours the olliness that followed its use had also gone. The effect of this treatment on the hair was promptly noticeable, the falling out stopped, and some new short hairs were found. all over the head. . As the kerosene kero-sene application was continued the hair became thick and smooth. When, after several months, it was finally discontinued, discontin-ued, abundant glossy locks replaced the dry and lusterless hair the former condition con-dition still existing, though no kerosene had been used for several years. New York Post. Letter Writing. The letter of a gentlewoman reads exactly as she would talk, gramatic-ally gramatic-ally and pleasing. Misspelled words and disregard to the rules of punctuation punctua-tion betray a lack of the rudiments of education . and leave an unfavorable impression of the writer on the recipient's recipi-ent's mind. The courtesy of correspondence corre-spondence demands that all letters be answered within a week. This applies to business letters as well as social ones, for politeness is needed in every phase of life. Letters written while laboring under emotion are the cause of much regret. No woman of refinement refine-ment would portray either love or anger on paper. Invitations should be accepted or declined as gracefully as passible. In writing letters of congratulation or condolence, a few well chosen words are much better than three or four pages that do not show the necessary delicacy of thought for such occasions. A pretty monogram is an acquisition that enhances the appearance of a letter. Better Than Leap Year Proposal. The following incident is told of a popular and well-to-do west end bachelor, bach-elor, who is a friend of the free library: "I am going to the country. Miss Blank," he said to a young lady friend whom he met m the library the other day, "and I want to take a couple of interesting novel?, but I can't make up my mind which two to select. Could j-ou help me out?" "I'm afraid my selections might not prove interesting to you." replied Miss Blank. "Just pick out two books for me and I'll guarantee to like them," he rejoined, re-joined, gallantly. "Have you read Barrie's or Read's novels?'' she asked.- "No: get me one of each and I'll be satisfied."' he replied. ' ' She. selected two and handed them to her spouseless acquaintance, who, after warmly thanking her for the favor she had done him, turned up the backs of the books and"Yead these titles: "When a Man's Single." "It is Never Too Late to Mend." |