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Show I Woman's Page How to Fight the high Cost of Living Kimonos and Sacques Never Intended For Wear Outside of Bedroom Bed-room or Dressing Room Hot Weather Comfort Stenciled Rugs Post Card Pillow About Gray Hair For Thin Eye-lashes Eye-lashes Kitchen Keynotes. I KIMONOS AND SACQUES Kimonos and 9acques wore never intended to be worn except in the privacy of one's bedroom, and It certainly cer-tainly ie derogatory' to tho looks of a neighborhood when tho occupants get Into the habit of appearing In loose garb on porches and out of window p One-piece frocks are- every hit as cool as dressing sacques If you get the right kind and they are the blessing of the woman who does her own work and yet wants to look neat enough to go to tho door or sit down at her own tablo Adapt an easy coiffure for hot weather, one which will rest the head, be cool and yet be eaally put In order or-der after lying do-wn or getting blown about during a trolley hide. MOT WEATHER COMFORT. The least possible exertion with the greatest possible oomfort Is an excellent excel-lent rule to follow In hot weather, and I do not think that In this busy world where things have to be done, I need warn my readers against being Indolent. Indo-lent. The women who have no duties at all suffer more from the heat than I those wno have a certain amount oi mental and physical occupation, however how-ever Irksome it may seem We need a ocrtaln activity to keep our muscles and other organs In good working order or-der and this fact remains even In hot weather Of course that exercise should, if possible, be taken in the cool part of the day, but as I have Juat remarked, there are generally women who are busy perforce and tho number of molluscs tied to veronda chairs l& comparatively small. The hair should be shampooed rather rath-er more frequently in summer to keep the 6calp free frWh the accumulation of perspiration and dust, but do not neglect the dally brushing and tonic once or twice a week, even though it seemed to make the hair oily. Hot weather is trying on the hair and It must be stimulated to keep the scalp in good condition. The hair should net be washed oftener than every two week6 even In summer Th nnrcc nf ih aVIn tp morp oren I in hot weather so dally baths are essential to carry off the accumulation accumula-tion of perspiration and also to freshen fresh-en one up a bit. The comfort of a tub is so obvious that It seems scarcely scarce-ly necessary for me to urge you Into It every day. STENCILED RUGS. Rugs which are especially nice for summer use can be made by stencil - ing short strips of matting. Any kind of plain matting can be used for these rugs and after It Is cut the desired length, the warp threads can be tied securely thus preventing pre-venting any fraying. Either dyes or artists' oil paints can be use, and the color should be scrubbed Into the material so that it i j will soak into fhe fabric and be last- ' Ing. The color for this work should be rather thin These rugs If decorated with an animal ani-mal or Mother Goose pattern would make most attractive rues for the nursery, a small child s bedroom or playroom POST CARD PILLOW. The leather post cards can be fash-toned fash-toned into a pillow by lacing them if with narrow strips of leather, over- handing them together with narow thread or by feather stitching togeth-l togeth-l er with brown silk. When lacing the cards together lace them all in one direction, which should be the short ends of the cards. then lace In the opposite direction, but do not go Into the corners twice I When lacing the long ends of the CBrds together draw the laeers through the cross stitch at the corner, or carry It underneath and begin to lace again after the corner Is passed Long brown shoe strings are often substituted for the leather strips, as they are more pliable and on account ol the metal ends, much more readily read-ily handled, while the effect Is very good Indeed. When an over and over 9titch is used the sltches arc taken loosely so that they can be prosaed flat, showing show-ing a narrow brown line of thread The feather stitching is more difficult, diffi-cult, as the cards must be held so that the edges come together, but the actual act-ual stltchery is not hard, as the post cord leather Is usually thin and quite easily handled. ABOUT GRAY HAIR. Gray or white hair shoulr be clipped, clip-ped, not singed, on the ends, the haot from the taper 1b apt to give a yellow yel-low cast. To make white balr a clearer clear-er white use bralng in the rinse water wa-ter the ball bluing Is best FOR THIN EYELASHES. When the eyelashes are thin and weak a simple treatment for strengthening strength-ening them Is to moisten one of the fingers with lnnollne. close the eyos and run tho greased finger along the edges of the eyelids taking care that the grease does not get Into the eyes themselves. Weak eyebrows may also be treated with lanoline, which should be rubbed gently into them KITCHEN KEYNOTES Never throw away pieces of lemori after they have been squeezed with the lemon squeezeT, for they come in, handv for removing stains from the , hands and elsewhere Dipped Into i salt they will scour copper kettles ! nicely and remove stains from brass-work brass-work Lemon like this will take I stains, dirt and odor from pans and kettles as nothing else will The odors of fish and onions can thus be easily removed. To wax old floors that were never I polished, the following method Is good The floors should first bo washed thoroughly, and then, when dry, coated with some floor oil. such as linseed oil This should be at once rubbed with sawdust, which removes all surplus oil and polishes the floor After thl6 any wax may be used ae-' ae-' cording to Its directions and then. I after a weighted brush Is used, the old floors will be as smooth as new oaken ones. It is very undesirable that anyone should go to bed with cold feet In any kind of wf-athr. because sleeplessness is generally the result Women suffer with cold feet even more than men. i probably bcause they wear lighter boots They may come In from a walk, warm their feet before the fire, and have a hot-water bottle in bed. and still have Icy-qold feet. In such circumstances, before going to bed the , feet should be dipped Into cold water 1 and then rubbed with a rough Turkish Turk-ish towel until they glow Cold wa-ter wa-ter with a liberal amount of salt added add-ed Is an excellent dally footbath for ! the person whose feet perspire too freely. |