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Show Beauty Makers. "The best of all beauty making foods are fresh fruits and fresh vegetables," veg-etables," said Prof. H. W. Wiley, the famous government chemist, who is incidentally a skilled physician. "They contain relatively litle nourishment nourish-ment a woman could hardly live on them exclusively for any length of time but for reasons which as yet are imperfectly understood, they possess pos-sess extraordinary value as heaHh- givers. If you want bright eyes and a clear complexion, eat plenty of them." ' The fact is that most fresh vegetables vege-tables and fruits are nearly all water. wat-er. Spinach is 92.5 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 are 96 per cent water, egg plant is 93 per cent water, onions are 78.5 per cent water, wat-er, tomatoes are 96 per cent water green corn (cut from the cob) is 81.5 per cent water and celery is 94.5 per cent water. Fruits are pretty nearly all water, though the banana is relatively rela-tively rich in starch. A Use for Burlap. Inexpensive rugs for the veranda are difficult to find. Matting rugs are pretty, but they have a tendency to curl up at the corners, which interferes inter-feres with their utility. A woman who has studied the possibilities of veranda decoration a good deal has Binveu mis question to her own mind satisfactorily. "I bought broad green burlap," she said, "and cut it into several rugs of different sizes, which I hemmed to prevent ravelling., Then, with an ivory crochet hook, I made a border of green felting by cutting it into very narrow strips les3 than an eighth of an inch in width. These I pulled through the burlap with my hook in loops. A few rows of these weighted my rugs nicely, and made a pretty bordering, the two shades of green according well together and looking cool and pretty on my vine covered porch." |