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Show I Woman Page ; Natural Gayety a Sign of Youth A Sense of Humor Over-n Over-n ' C?lreS , n Trac Circumstances- Don't Let Your Mind Dwell on Unpleasantries How to Make i Boudoir Cap of Wide Lace New Carriage Straps Birthday Present for Baby Novel Idea Shapely Feet and How to Care for Them. ACQUIRE A SENSE OF HUMOR. Natural gayety ,is a Bign of youth. ; -Those who have it are veritable bless- Jngs in a household. People are : too prone to let their minds dwell upon up-on the unpleasant duties and troubles of life. I A joyful nature can he cultivated , as readily as memory you can force j yourself to think only of the pleasant things In life. Morbid people are I , always unpleasant and uncompanionable. uncompanion-able. "When troubles gather in your mind drive them out by recounting1 , some joyful blessing that has come ' to you in times past and be sure : that such blessings can be repeated again and again. If you must dwell upou your trou bles, keep them within the privacy of your own room, and when you leavo that room leave them well locked therein. Face your family and friends with a smile. There is far . more power for happiness in a smile than most people realize. There Id , conviction of truth; there is confl-1 confl-1 dence, trust, and, above all, youth. A wife and mother should always smile. , I do not mean in such cases as a hus- band's infidelity or the death of a -' child, but in the ordinary everyday life. A smile is the salvation of an entlro household. What a joy one finds in a friend s who is youthful, gay; one whose out-. out-. look on life is optimistic, who is look- ing for the best in everything and every one; one who does not always ' need the gift of wit to be merry! In : fact, the gift of wit sometimes puts gayety to flight. But to nttain in : one way or another a Joyous outlook ; on life, to accept the Inevitable and ' cherish the best of it, to smile with ' real joy in the midst of domestic wor-. wor-. ries and tragedies, to put aside an- S- noyanceB and display only a pleas-' pleas-' ant exterior, in spite of all, will be ; the means of giving more happiness to those with whom you come in con-; con-; tact than untold gold combined with 1 sour looks and angry words. Remember: A sense of humor can ' overcome the most tragic circumstan- CCS. (Copyright, 1914, by Lillian Russell.) I WIDE LACE BOUDOIR CAP. I li ' One Of the shops shows a dainty lil-M lil-M tie boudoir cap .made of wide lace, E which can be easily duplicated from I this description: jj ) Buy n yard and three-eights of lace j that is nine or 10 inches wide, From j one end cut three-eighths of a yard I .' and cut the rest a yard in two B j pieces. Join the two scalloped ed-;2J ed-;2J ges and stitch them securely together. J From the resulting square cut a cir-IM cir-IM 'ifio Turn un fh edc on the right 'I 'side for an eighth of an inch and 'I? ; stitch a piece of three-quarter inch AM ' wide valenciehnes insertion around it. t Edge the circle with inch-wide edging. Run an elastic through the casing made with the insertion. From the extra three-eighths of a yard cut two triangles, as big as you can get them. Run a tinv hem on two aides with the edging. Gathei the other side slightly and fasten one triangle, along the gathered side, to each aide of the cap, above each car, under the edging, to make little tabs. Bend the wire to make them stand t properly. Decorate the cap with bows or ribbon. BIRTHDAY PRESENT FOR BABY. If you know of a one-year-old whose natural anniversary must bo remembered, remem-bered, a dainty gift, acceptable to both baby and baby's mother, will be a new sort of carriage strap, to which fascinating playthings are attached. The strap is -made of elastic, covered with shirred satin ribbon. blu0 or pink, according to the color of baby carriage or pillow cover. At each end Qf the shirred ribbon strap is a big rosette of narrow satin ribbon, in the same shade. From undpr the rosettes several long, narrow ribbons are brought to the center and braided braid-ed together in lattice effect, stitches disguised with crystal or colored beads catching the latticed ribbons together. At the ends of the loose ribbons arc attached small toys, such as tiny rubber dolls, small woolly animals, whistles, rattles and other things that appeal to babj. If snap buttons are attached to toys ant) to ribbons, a different set of toys may bo provided for every day "in the week and baby need never become bored by his or her playthings. SHAPELY FEET AND HOW TO CARE FOR THEM. Aching and unhealthy feet are deadly dead-ly foes to beauty; they make one ill-tempered, ill-tempered, and bring ugly wrinkles to the forehead, besides resulting In a jerky, ungraceful walk, and destroying destroy-ing the natural poise of the entire body. Tight shoes arc sometimes the cause of enlarged veins in the hands and arms, and are often responsible for the hot flushes from which so many girls isuffer needlessly. Many physicians trace trouble in the eyes and nervous ailments to some difficulty diffi-culty in the patient's feet. If you are flat-footed, or your arches arch-es have become broken by wearing ill-fitting r,hoes, consult a chiropodist, chiropo-dist, and follow the treatment he prescribes. pre-scribes. Steel arches can be worn inside the shoes, but these should bo a last resort, as, once adopted, they can never be laid aside. If care is observed in fitting shoes to the arches, toes, heels, and length. somo part of the trouble may be overcome. over-come. Stand squarely upon tho two feet. You cannot expect to havo a well shaped foot If you allow yourself to stand first on one foot and then the other. Dragging the heels and twisting twist-ing the ankles out of place Is extremely extreme-ly unbecoming, as well as tending to destroy the natural beauty or tho foot. on |