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Show HINTS ON KEEPING HANDS PREl"" ,. mine Simple Methods Will Aid Housewife During the Fruit and Vegetable Season. One of the bugbenrs of the fresh fruit and vegetable season Is the resulting re-sulting stained appearance of the hands. However, says a writer In the New Tork Tribune, I have one very canny friend who is "chief cook and bottle washer" and everything else for n large family of hoys, doing the entire baking and brewing and housework (with the good help of the aforesaid boys), whose hands are, to my constant con-stant amazement, nlways not only Im-mnculately Im-mnculately clean, but white and soft, with well-kept manicured nails, seldom showing n trace of grime or stain. "How do you do it?" I asked. This Is hor answer: "To begin with, always keep a cut lemon in a saucer over the sink, and ' use it Immediately (hot in an hour or j even five minutes) after scraping car- ' rots, peeling potatoes or cutting ap- I pies. Keep the other half on ihe bath- I room shelf, cut side down, of course, or use wliole lemon punctured, and let i it stand In a little water to prevent i hardening. This gives, when used with i a hard, good soap, hostile, cleaning, a i soft texture to the skin. J A dependable and expert druggist told me. when ased If there were not something to really take out stains, that chlorinated soda was sure. We purchased some at once and since then I have never let my little bottle get empty. It stands conveniently on the bathroom shelf and after a particularly particular-ly stalny season with vegelables or 'les a fruit I pour a few drops In fl of one hand, rub the fingers other in it, and the stains vani by magic. Add a few drops 0 and be sure that the liquid gf around the nails and tips of Run a little more wnter into th use a nail brush and pumice a only hands but nails will assum wonted appearance. "Caution : Be sure and do any of the liquid, however riilui on a colored' dress when wasliin hands. Carelessness In tills LES before I had leanied by sad exp( resulted in covering "the wais cuffs of a lavender dress with fin. spatters." Fashion Skirt Fads. y A professional dancer at one 01 Paris cafes caused much favoi comment among the experts when appeared in a gown of heavy voile printed in a design of I white flowers. The skirt had gore: in frnm the waistline down, givit dcidedly circular flare. The same a New York actress appeared i circular skirt of light oxford gray 1 tore, smoothly fitted over the hips, gored with some fullness at the si Many designers have contended u the circular skirt would fall of fas- it Truhu, Name of New Silk. LL A new silk known as Truhu, 1 being fashioned into undergo rnutt. is heavier than crepe de chine id. lends Itself admirably to the tnllc'y. type of garment which is fast tn! hold in Teminlue wear. |