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Show . eve HINTS ON KEEPING HANDS PRE! mm Simple Methods Will Aid Housewife During the Fruit and Vegetable SeaBon. One of the bugbears of the fresh fruit nnd vegetable season Is the resulting re-sulting stained appearance of the hands. However, says a writer In the New York Tribune, I have one very canny friend who Is "chief cook nnd 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 my 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 use it immediately (no( in an hour or even five minutes) after scraping carrots, car-rots, peeling potatoes or cutting apples. ap-ples. Keep the other half on the bathroom bath-room shelf, cut side down, nf course, or use whole lemon punctured, and let It stand In a little water to prevent hardening. This gives, when used with i a hard, good soap, besides, cleaning, a S soft texture to the skin. j A dependable and expert druggist told me. when nsVd If there were not something to really take out stains, that chlorinated soda was sure.. We purchased some at once and since t lien 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 . 'ies fruit I pour a few drops In " of one hand, nib the fingers other In It, and the stains vanl. by magic. Add a few drops o and be sure that the liquid g( around the nails and tips of Hun 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 dilui on a colored' dress when wnshln hands. Carelessness In this iIES before I had learned by sad exp resulted in covering the wnis cuffs of a lavender dress with fin, sputters." Fashion Skirt Fads. J A professional dancer at one oi Torls cafes caused much favoi i comment among the experts when i appeared In a gown of heavy !-j !-j voile printed in n design of 1 white flowers. The skirt had gore: in fnirn the waistline dtvn, givii dcidedly circular flare. The same a New York actress appeared i circular skirt of light oxford gray i tore, smoothly fitted over the hips, gored with some fullness at the si' Many designers have contended u. the circular skirt would frill of fnsi it Truhu, Name of New Silk. U A new silk known as Truhu, i being fashioned into underL'armeti is heavier than crepe de chine 1( lends itself admirably to the folio'; type of garment which Is fast tn hold In Temintne wear. |