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Show HINTS ON KEEPING HANDS PRH Simple Methods Will Aid Housewife During the Fruit and Vegetable Season. One of the bugbears of the fresh fruit and vegetable season Is the resulting re-sulting stainec appearance of the hands. However, says a writer In the New York Tribune, I have one very canny friend who Is "chief cook and bottle washer" and everything else for a large family of boys, doing the entire baking and brewing and housework (with the good help of the aforesaid boys), whose hands are, to ray constant con-stant amazement, always not only Immaculately Im-maculately clean, but white and soft, with well-kept manicured nails, seldom showing a trace of grime or stain. "How do you do It?" I asked. This Is her answer: "To begin with, always keep a cut lemon in a saucer over the sink, and 1 use it immediately (hot in an hour or J even five minutes) after scraping car- rots, peeling potatoes or cutting apples. ap-ples. Keep the other half on the bath- I room shelf, cut side down, of course, i or use whole lemon punctured, and let j It stand In a little water to prevent J hardening. This gives, when used with I a hard, good soap, besides, cleaning, a j soft texture to the skin. A dependable and expert druggist told me, when a5pd 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 vegetables or fruit I pour a few drops In of one hand, rub the flngi other in it, and the stains vi by magic. Add a few drops and be sure that the liquid around the nails and tips Hun a little more water into use a nail brush and pumlc only hands but nails will ass wonted appearance. "Caution : Be sure and any of the liquid, however V on a coloretl dress when was hands. Carelessness In thi before I had learned by Rad resulted In covering the cuffs of a lavender dress wit. spatters." Fashion Skirt Fad6 A professional dancer at Tarls cafes caused much comment among the experts appeared In a gown of he: voile printed In a design white flowers. The skirt hat! in from the waistline down, dcidedly circular flare. The a New York actress appen circular skirt of light oxford ture, smoothly fitted over the gored with some fullness at Many designers have contei the circular skirt would fall Truhu, Name of New J A new silk known as Tr being fashioned Into under Is heavier than crepe de c lends Itself admirably to tin type of garment which Is fa hold In temlnlne wear. |