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Show 1We ill jgM HE clever girl who makes So W laundry books for presents leyl selects a neat rice papei for the leaves and cuts the double cover from red paper of a heavy variety, va-riety, then ties the leaves' together with red baby ribbon. Between the leaves of white paper aro blue carbon car-bon paper slips, so that a duplicate copy is made when one marks off her laundry. This makes a handy booklet and one that would be appreciated by any woman who must send a list of laundry to her laundress and keep one lserself. Ipra WASHDAY shower was the Wi 2 name of a unique affair given fa&d iu honor of a bride-to-be. She was ushered into the ,parlor, in which a clothes line was suspended after the manner of washday, and on it was hung the various gifts. She was provided with a big "sure-enough" clothes basket and ordered to "take in the wash," which was neatly piuued on the Hue. The "wash" consisted of various articles needed for dally do-nestic do-nestic tasks. There were dish towels, dust cloths, ironing blankets, kitchen aprons, a clothespin bag in which she had to collect the pins and a frame on which to roll the line when she had taken it down, and as a climax thp. tin tubs stood In one corner. they thrive best in winter, but a sick : H fish is almost equal to a dead one. ; ffH wM ifffHl emergency bag Is a very con- 8' jH Iwi W venient addition to the medi- lM IfaS-al cine closet; it should be made ; :H of two strips of heavy linen j H or denim, about six or seven inches ' H deep, the back piece to be made about i jH eighteen inches long and the front il twenty-seven inches; the two strips ! iH should be bound together at the ends jj and across the bottom, then stitched, i ill to form several pockets (8' or 9), a j Hl flap should be buttoned over the top ; 1 and each pocket labeled with indelible iM ink. One pocket should contain rolls jl of bandages, another bits of old soft j H linen, another lint from worn-out nap- 'j M kins, other pockets should be made to j 1 hold bottles of arnica, witch hazel, '! Il carbolic, Jamaica ginger, absorbent 'j M cotton, a box of healing salve, a piece i jH of castile soap and one-half dozen fin- j H gcrs cut from old large kid gloves. ' jFjjl OSSIBLY the English women j IH 3 SJ and those of France love the ) M Ei5l colored handkerchiefs more ; .H than Americans. American ) 1 women will wear the colored ones H with tailored frocks, but leave them t ' H severely alone for other purposes. H Where one does not care to have a col- ; tM ored one of solid effect, there are some j j styles in white showing barred lines of mauve, brown, purple, red and bluo H outlines. There is no denying the fact M that the pure white linen handkerchief M has established Itself too firmly to be , H ousted by the faddish little bits of l .H color, though why must one hang so U1 M tenaciously to a certain style, for to Ijl take up with a fad makes one appre- f jH ciate all tho more the simple styles j , jH when they are again adopted. 5' jH ifja F one portion of a vegetable is j WM IK Ml cooked in pure water, the oth- I H 1 1-58 1 er half in Baited water, a de- cided difference is perceptible j IIH In tho tenderness of the two. Those j H boiled in pure water are vastly Infer- j jjH lor and in many cases will bo almost 'j 1 H tasteless. Salt brings out the dolicate j ' H flavor of cauliflower, cabbage, pota- ' M ,toes, peas, beans and practically all j ) H vegetables. : Onions cooked in water BH .ifv.ntrsalttoan be rendered almost tM -laoicicas.- o int. inr.rHB tho cn- H pcraturc of boiling water above rye J' JVH average temperature of pure boiling 11 water Its cooking advantage Js at 1 VH once apparent Salt in cold water is IH used to drive Insects from vegetables j M growing abovo ground. They instant- H ly release themselves from the leaves I i H when they are plunged In salty water 1 ) H and can bo rinsed off. Celery ia Im- fH proved by standing it In slightly salted jj I jH water for one-half hour before It i? H served. H frm DISTINGUISHED bearing is j'1 H WtM the greatest asset a woman can I J IH PMJ have. It counts more than H beauty. It counts more than t M flno clothes, for fine clothes worn by l) jH a woman with a Btooping, uncertain , H carriage loso all thoir effect- There U jH was a time when a woman was taught H to carry herself well. Sho was taught if J H to walk: juBt as she was taught tho 1; 1: H other fominino arts and graces; it was Li fiH part of her education. Sho practiced jj H boforo a long mirror, with a book on jj jH her head to acquire tho propor poise, ft ijH Up and down, up and down, until by ( H forco of habit she had attained a H H graceful bearing. The French woman f H Is taught to show the top of hor ool- i H lar; in other wordB to hold her head (H high. One clever woman In New "Sork M J makes a specialty of teaching women Hi BH to see themselves as others boo them. f IJH She ia a paid critic who tells a pupil h iftVBJ all her faultB with the frankness of a jj Vpfl member of the family, for which flhe l 'AVBJ charges a good round feo. When Bbo BJ has finished tho pupiL-walka well and jhH has a flno carriage. Hj 'J M |