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Show I I Woman9 $ World. DCZSJL j I Specially Prepared tor Our Feminine Readers. "' THE TIRED WOMAN AND HER WRINKLES. . : A " . A little poem keeps humming through my mind. It Is about an old woman vho always was tired, and who lived in a house where help wasn't hired. Her ist words on earth were: "Dear ? ; friends, I am going where washing s ain't done, neither cooking nor sew ing." There is a deal of pathos in this verse, which winds up by saying that s the old woman hoped some time to lie still a couple of hundred of years and rest. The tired woman of today cannot lie still and rest; she must be up and doing. do-ing. If she be a Newport society leader the must plan her next tea pouring and must select the musical numbers for her coming ball. . If the tired woman is a home woman phe does not hope to rest, for rest with . , : her would mean the stopping of the i ', ' household machinery, a thing of which, . ehe would not think for a moment un- less compelled to do so. Nor, of all j i , women in the world, can the profes- . pional woman rest. It is she who must ' work not only from dawn until night ; " but often from night until morning, J 1 and, no matter how weary she may be, ; she must keep right on. J Now for all tired women there comes i a. punishment, and this is in the shape , of wrinkles. Tou can tell the faded out body by the creases between the eyes. There will come deep lines that ";;' tell of long hours, anxious care, dark ; ' j worrisome thoughts, and trials galore. ,; Wrinkles tell the story of a woman's ; , life quickly to an observant eye. The woman who has worried twenty hours '. : : i ; out of the twenty-four and women ' can worry in their sleep as well as wak- !ing will have lines to tell to the world the tale of ceaseless care. I WORRY WRINKLES. J ' This is not a sermon on worrying, because the woman who worries will keep on worrying. She cannot stop just because you tell her to do so. Worry is a habit, and one that cannot be broken up. The worrying woman will ; be a worrying woman all her days. , But there are ways of preventing the worry from showing on your face means by which the lines which worry brings can be obliterated. I know a woman who worries all the time: she is also the victim of a bad temper. She freely says that she cannot can-not control either tendency, and that she is the unhappiest woman alive. Often she declares that she does not 1 want to live. Now, this woman has not a line upon ' her face, strange to say. And she takes j . ' out the lines herself by working upon j ' them day by day. ' She is a woman of exquisite neatness, end in spite of the fact that she frets j a great deal she finds time for the daily complexion bath. Each day she goes I over her skin with complexion cream, f bathing it freely. After she has re- moved the cream she dusts her com- j plexion with a good powder. When she t has finished the skin is as clear and ; smooth as that of an lS-year-old girl. ; Sometimes she delicately traces her ' eyebrows with oil and a brush, and thus makes a most attractive picture j of herself. She has studied the art of : making up to a limited extent, suffi ciently to improve her appearance and to heighten her natural beauty. In spite of worry she has found time to do this. The outlining of the eyebrows is done with a camel's hair brush just touched to the oil bottle, and the change it makes is instant. . The eyebrows are glossy, smooth and dark, and apparently apparent-ly much heavier. It is a question, of course, how long f ! this woman can keep up the worrying process and retain her satiny skin, but Fhe is doing it with much success just now, and she is considerably over SO. ! At night she massages her forehead with skin food and pays much attention atten-tion to the little wrinkles that come between her eyes. She rubs them out by pressing them gently with the finger a crumpled rose leaf. FOR THE ANXIUOS FACE. The anxious face is different from the worrying face, for the lines are t more numerous and deeper. If the mouth Is pursed up anxiously for hours at a time there will come lines shaped like semi-circles, and these will ex-lend ex-lend around the mouth and half way across the cheeks. The remedy for this is not only a fkin cream, but a skin treatment. Tou must actually steam your face to get It soft and pliable before you go to work upon it. Steaming the face is a delicate oper- ation and must be left to professionals. The skin can be injured quickly, as it takes steam no time at all to scald, end the steam breathed into the lungs is also bad. Why not try an amateurish way of steaming the face? Wet long strips of linen in boiling water. Drag them out of the water, run them through a wringer as quickly as you can and apply ap-ply the strips of hot cloth to the face. You can, with the aid of an assistant, wind the strips around the head in puch a manner as to cover the forehead, fore-head, the cheeks, the mouth, and the crow's feet and rabbit claws that come , around the ears and nose. Cover all ' veil and let steam. Repeat the opera tion. The cloths will cool in the wringing wring-ing sufficiently to heat the--face with-,: with-,: out scalding. When the face has been well si earned the first part of your w-ork is done. J A correspondent "who signed herself ! "Grandma," wrote that she had taken I out deep furrows by following the I treatment. If a woman of 60 did this 1 there is no reason why a woman of I half her age should not succeed in I making her skin clear and smooth. I While the face is hot rub in the skin I food, using the formula given in the face steaming directions some time 1 ago, and letting it remain on over 1 night. If this is impossible, leave it I on all day, wiping off the superfluous I cream with a bit of cotton and dusting 1 the face with powder. There is no need of trying to use i powder without having first used cold ' cream. The powder will surely show ; ' i upon the face. Take a pot of ordinary cold cream and wet the face with it. Take off with a piece of soft cotton , and then apply your powder. At night, before you go to bed, bathe the face again with cold cream. Remember Re-member that powder is drying and will make the skin rough unless it is pre-? pre-? viously prepared. Powder does the skin no harm and is really better for the face than street dust. ' i Women who have never used cold cream and powder and who go into the f street with the delicate cuticle all px- posed are the ones who have rough, ' red, masculine complexions. Men's j faces are coarse and they show a ' ' heavy grain. This is noticeable in i women's faces if the latter have been neglected. But if a woman will care for her face she will find it fine and soft, and soon it will begn to show the peachy tone. Before going out. or when dressing I yourself for evening, anoint the face ! with cold cream, and then apply a , j little good powder. At night remove with cold cream, j , The object of using the cream is to soften the dirt, just as vou soften it : ,. i when washing clothes. Soup contains f il and greasy substances, and the principle is the same, whether one is washing a piece of cloth or a piece of ekin. Both must be softened and the dirt taken out with other agencies than pure hot water,, though water is certainly cer-tainly necessary also. The prejudice against face powder has worn away with the prejudice against hairpins, which were at one time among a certain religious sect thought to be sinful; and the woman who understands the art of artificial whitening has secured a valuable aid to daily beauty. . MILK- TREATMENT. . . Deep wrinkles are often no more than dirt. And this can be taken away by the hot milk treatment. If you will, take the deepest line in your forehead and examine it, you will see that a row of tiny black specks lies in the wrinkle. The wrinkle is not so deep, but appears to be so by the numerous though tiny blackheads which line it. Remove the blackheads by cleansing the skin and the wrinkle will fade away. The hot milk face bath is one that can be recommended. Take sweet milk, heat it, add a third of the quantity quan-tity of hot water, and use it as though it were common face scrub, without soap, and without the scrubbing brush. Wash your face well and let the milk dry on the skin. Cold buttermilk is almost as good, and sour milk can be used as a substitute for sweet milk, but do not in that case heat it, but use it lukewarm. The scalding hot facial bath of hot milk and hot water is a cleansing thing and whitens the skin wonderfully. How can I darken my eyebrows? They are light and thin. A. Apply sweet almond oil and vaseline, vase-line, half and half, to the eyebrows every night with a camel's hair brush. I do not think you need a" dyeing substance, sub-stance, as this will "darken them. . Q. My hands are tanned and almost rtepn rpH T wash thorn arrt irsch tViorv-i and nothing seems to help them. I am out a great deal and do not want to wear gloves. Bella. A. Take a fresh cucumber and slice it lengthwise. Bind this upon your hands, using strips of white cloth. Let the cucumber dry on the skin. Wash off with hot water with a little oatmeal oat-meal stirred in. Use plenty of oil soap and soak the hands daily for fifteen fif-teen minutes in tepid water. Q. Can you tell me of a good soap for the skin? Soap roughens my skin and does not bleach it. Mrs. Grace. There are perfumes that do not cost a great deal, and one of these is suitable suit-able for use as a chair sachet. Take of glycerin half a teaspoonful and add to it a quarter of an ounce of oil of geranium. Place a few drops of this upon absorbent cotton, incase in fresh cotton layers, and make into sachet bags for the back of the reclining chair. A most delightful jar for the use of the woman who comes home from work or from shopping with a nervous headache can' be prepared by throwing into a rose jar the brokenup stems and petals of enough scented flowers to half fill the jar. Shake up twice a day the year around to keep the petals from molding. Pour into this jar one drop of attar of roses, ten drops of oil of geranium, three drops of glycerin, ten cloves, broken into bits, and twenty drops of violet water. Hold this jar under the nose when that exhausted feeling comes on. Take of rose leaves, maple leaves, the leaves of pine and oak, enough to fill your jar. Mreak into bits the size of rose petals. Add twenty-five broken cloves, six. crushed cardamon seeds, two tablespoons of toilet water, ten drops of ammonia, and ten drops of any good perfume. Shake daily and sniff when feeling exhausted. "Dear Miss Martineau: Do you put up any of the face creams and lotions you advise? I would like to buy them of you, as it would save .me a great deal of trouble. I have made several and found them good. Specially the blackhead cream, and wrinkle lotion. Appreciation.' I am sorry to say that I do not put up the creams and lotions. But they are so simply prepared that you can do them tor yourseir, can you not? None requires cooking more than heating over hot water. I do not sell toilet articles of any kind, nor can I recommend any one who does. Chicago Chica-go Tribune. Depends on Point of View. This tale combines the elements of tragedy and comedy: If you ask the woman to whom the incident happened, it was tragedy pure and simple. If you ask the neighbors, it was comedy of a high order. The occasion was one dear to the heart of woman, the annual bazar given on behalf of the local church. At this emporium, articles bought for sixty cents might be had for as low as $2.50. Mrs. Blank had small respect for anyone whose donation dona-tion cost less than $5. Hers had cost $15. It was a statuette, more than two feet high, of Mercury. When the local expressman called, Mrs. Blank, who had not yet left her roof by reason of a headache, leaned out of the window and told him to go right into in-to the library, take all the packages on the table (she was sending some fancy work things in addition to the statuette)' and go up to the church. All of which he did. About 8 o'clock the generous donor started bazarward. She knew her Mercury, flRnked by her doilies and her shaving mug. would look extremely well, and the bad humor she had been in earlier in the evening in consequence of the non-arrival of a new hat vanished van-ished as she drew near the building. When she entered her reception was almost equal to an ovation. Such expressions ex-pressions as "How original!" "Whatever "What-ever suggested it to you?" "The idea is taking like wild fire." "We are charging charg-ing fifty cents a chance and some women wo-men have taken four." "Where did man. "Oh, we are keeping it in the box. There it is." Mrs. Blank looked into the box wherein reposed her new hat. Then self-preservation induced her to murmur weakly: "I am glad you liked it." The explanation was simple sim-ple enough when it came. It seems that on the arrival of the hat from the milliner's the daughter of the house had opened it. Having inspected it, she placed it on the head of Mercury. Here the expressman found it, and with rare stupidity placed it back in the box and carted it off to the church. N. Y. Evening Sun. One Housekeeper's Good Duck. Miss Katie Burns, housekeeper for James Bell, a Brooklyn millionaire who died recently and left her his fortune, came to the United States as an immigrant immi-grant in 1882, her possessions being a trunk containing a little clothing and a few dollars. Last week she sailed for her old home with a fortune of $1,000,000 and a collection of jewels worth several hundred thousand dollars. dol-lars. Katie Burns "became housekeeper for James Bell soon after her arrival in this country, and by her devotion and care for the aged millionaire earned his grartitude. Bell disinherited his sons, since dead, for leading wild lives and marrying without his consent. After they had left his house the aged millionaire mil-lionaire came to look upon his housekeeper house-keeper as his only friend, and after giving away a great deal of his fortune he made her his heir. She accompanied accompan-ied him to Europe, where she sat at his side at dinners he gave to distinguished distin-guished men he had met in his extensive exten-sive travels of years before. The death of her aged master's blood heirs removed any contestants of the j will, and when she sailed for Glasgow she was in full possession of the estate. ' It is said she will marry a man who has been twenty years waiting for her. |