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Show 1 1 LOTrcj A DISTURBING question often coming up in remodeling old garments gar-ments is how to remove sewing machine marks, and this has been found success: For wool goods use af damp cloth on the wrong side of the goods and press with a hot iron; then gently rub with the thumb nail. For velvet it is necessary to steam the cloth in the usual way, rubbing gently. For silk there is no help. MANY persons arc planning to plant Jerusalem artichokes this year because seed potatoes arc scarce and high. These artichokes contain about the same actual amount of nutriment as potatoes, although the average av-erage man docs not like their flavor so. well. They can be boiled or pickled or used as a salad and they are much j easier to grew than potatoes. m t ERE is a comb cleaner minus any drawback: Pour into your wash bowl about four tablespoon fuls of toilet ammonia (the household va-ricty va-ricty must be diluted a third) ; take an old toothbrush and scrub vigorously between be-tween the teeth of the comb for a moment mo-ment or two. Rinse in clear water and wipe dry. All dirt and discolorations 1 of every sort will be gone and the youth of your comb, especially if it be a white one, will be restored as if by magic The ammonia continues its good I work when turned down the drain, as nothing cleans the pipes any better, ION'T become a slave to the coffee I habit. Coffee is a stimulant. To be sure, its effects arc mild. You j might drink coffee all your life and not notice any especially serious symptoms , as the result of its use, but you will be I in better health without it your nerves I will be in better condition, your diges- I live organism and your muscular sys- tern will improve in nearly every case if j the use of coffee is discontinued. Cof fee is a very frequent cause of biliousness bilious-ness and various other digestive disor-! disor-! ers. 1 LEEPING without plenty of fresb j air is to take just so much poison into your system. It means thai i you breathe the same air over and over j again, and then you wonder why you J feel so heavy and languid in the morn- ing. No matter how cold the night, j open your window as far as it will go If you wrap yourself up properly you I will not feel the cold. Wear a flannc I gown and something over your head mUfc : The last thing before going to bed, fill a bottle with hot water, cork it tightly and place it in the bed If you have plenty of bed coverings you will be as warm as possible all night YOU'LL Jind there is no more sure cure for an attack of faintness than a hearty sneeze. It immediately imme-diately stimulates the blood vessels of the brain In many persons fainting never goes so far as a loss of consciousness consci-ousness or loss of control of the limbs. And in these the sudden weakness is often brought to an end by a sneeze caused by nature herself, without any external aid. A grain or two of pepper, pep-per, snuff or tobacco introduced into the nose or tickling its interior lightly will usually insure a sneeze. These simple procedures, or others similar in character, may prove invaluable when smelling salts and other elegant aids arc absent ALTHOUGH the use of spices for the purposes of heightening the flavor of food is almost universal univer-sal it is generally recognized that their influence on digestion is detrimental. Some experiments recently carried out tends to prove, according to the Indian Lancet, that while spices stimulate the motor functions, of the stomach, they Progressively impair the secretory functions func-tions and in the long run inhibit the production pro-duction of hydrochloric aad On the whole, therefore, the ingestion of spices hinder rather than accelerates digestion, though an exception may be made in respect re-spect of persons in whom slowness of digestion is due to a deficiency of muscular mus-cular activity on the part of the stomach and 'also possibly of the victims of hyperacidity. hy-peracidity. RELAXING Is an art not difficult to acquire. Just flop, limbering every joint in your body, as a baby does. Don't allow any stiffness to remain anywhere in your anatomy. Begin Be-gin with yoifr neck and think about every ev-ery joint from there down to your toes, until they are loose. Then try to think i of nothing whatever or of something : trivial and pleasant Fifteen minutes passed in this way will rest you more 1 than hours of restless troubled sleep. Your nerves will regain their tone and , small troubles will be easily passed over; . your expression will be cheerful and at-1 at-1 tractive, and ugly lines will be smoothed I out and driven away, making you ap-. ap-. pear years younger. |