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VOLUME 6, NUMBER 4
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I
"Might Have!"
lived my Hfo, and I faco tho
hnv
end . , . ,
, Bui iluit other llfo 1 might have led.
Vyioro lay tho road, ,and who was its
' H'rioud; , j .
wiui l Vi& Iho goal, wnen uiu
Hod?
And
years
were
tho road? Did I miss tho
Our greet-
VVhoro lay
turn V
Tho friend unknown?
ings unsaid?
And tho goal unsought? Shall 1 never
learn
What was thnt life 1 miglit have
lcd?v
As tho spring's last look, for one
dear day
From skies autumnal on earth may
1)011(1,
So lures mo that other life but, nay!
J Jmvo lived my Jifo, and I faco the
end.
Edith M. Thomas.
but none
cstcd. or
success as
to find a
husband's
r And the Price We Paid
Wo danced and sang through
sylvan glado
Ah tho piper played, as
played.
With nover a thought of the joy
made;
For ills squeaking pipe was quaint
ly small
And tho rasping notes would break
and fall.
tho
ho
We thought it quite
thojight at all,
As the'' piper played.
wore long in tho sylvan
dance while he
Tho shadows
glado
As tho prico we paid, as the price wo
paid,
Wo had littlo to give, olso he might
Jmvo stayed;
But others must
must play,
Yot it seemed so strange he went
away,
For wo didn't then know wo had
lived our day
And the price was paid.
T. S. .Tones, Jr.
Social Chat
Here is a letter from one of our
good friends whose address did not
reach mo, but her mossace is so son-
llln in) r ...-. ..1 .
as a
that
text,
T must
thankin:
quoto a few
her for her
words and interest In ,11m Hnmo
work: She says, "If a farmer and his
wife live harmoniously, there is no
need of either being so overworked;
each should recognize the needs of tho
other and bo willing to help lighten
tho other's load, and a kindly smile
and a few jolly words will make hard
work easy. If each would take an
interest in the work of the other
whatever it la, it would have a ten
dency to draw them together, and no
where can this bo better done than
on tho farm." As this friend says
she has been n fnrm wnv v... ..
years, wo know her words should
carry weight.
I commend these lines to tho con
sideration of our friends, whether
farmers or not. I am not an advocate
of the doctrine that each should
11 o the r separate interests alone,
ino husband's success or failure is
.also tho wife's; the wife's failure is
often due to the indifference to her
Interests shown by tho husband. The
husband may have many confidantes)
of them are so true or inter-
will work so hard for his
his wife. It is a rare thing
wife working against the
interests. If the wife is
shut out from her husband's sym
pathy, it is not strange that she shares
her trials and worries with the gos
sips about her. Her closo confine
ment to homo duties makes her long
for relaxation in a wider knowledge
of tho affairs of the day, and if she
must be restricted to tho potty gossip
of ill-advised neighbors, who, like
herself, arc driven to this by social
starvation, it pushes her further away
from her rightful companion, and a
lonely, overworked wife soon becomes
a discontented one; a neglected wife
sometimes seeks her rightful sym
nnfhv from a harmful source. A
starved mind is a sick mind, and a
diseased mind seldom stops short of
a sick body.
A husband should make it his busi
ness to know that his wife i3 happy,
or sick, or lonely. He is her guide,
her protector, and very few women
1ir i.rtfllnrt r oltf?aft wrltll Hiolt' llllQ.
tho piper ' and on matters of interest to either.
So far as the outside interests are
concerned, it is a very trivolous or
foolish woman who will not rise to
tho estimate her husband places upon
her counsel. He should consider her
more than a servant; if ho does not,
he is not wise. Nowhere can he get
such service as she is willing to
render him from a wage earner.
Money cannot buy it. She is entitled
to more than tho so-called love that
is given to so many wives: sho is en
titled to respect, esteem, confidence,
affectionate treatment, and a consul
tation upon all the matters of the
business and household. If she is
treated like a companion and busi
ness partner, few men ever regret
the confidence they give her. If she
knows she is expected to be wise,
few women will be satisfied to , dis
appoint their husbands by their ig
norance. In this earnest counsel in
all things, they will be drawn closer
together along lines that will "hold,"
even though, as is so' often the
case, they have no other bonds of
syinpatny. Many an unhappy mar
ried life has its cause in this separa
tion of interests, in which each grows
further away from the other their
lives held together by the merest
thread soul-hungry ; heart-hungry ;
each alike an easy prey to the false
sympathy of so-called friends. And
then? A life of wretchedness, or the
divorce court, shameful desertion, the
felon's cell or the suicide's grave.
poor, if wo
lines
kind
an OLPANn wrciTninn rkmicdy
cot. hhomi always be ,i Vr chUdrS 5 Shn!
It'othliur. Usoftons tbo hums, allays a t i?. "n
vrlndcollo nncllstho best ron ody fii'aiiffi0'
aVouty-Uvocontsa hottlo. 4UU,ouy I0r uaho5a.
For the Home Dressmaker
The Ladies' World tells us: The
professional dressmaker has a very
simple way of allowing for tucks in
dress skirts. Before cutting into her
iiuuurmi, sne nrst measures off the
immi lengm or the skirt, plus the
width of the hem, and sticks a pin
into the cloth at this place of course
she is always very careful to lay on
the pattern of the breadths them
solves as she goes along, since some
of them round out at the bottom
and then she determines how much
extra length will be needed to he
'""",, wunu nn number of tucks
and allows this in her material in the
actual cutting out. She then bastes
her skirt together and fits it around
ito iLa,mlSeams Ifc im and CteS
it to the belt, and then she is readv
in iY, ,,mi,"i wnicn she
n the following manner: She
fKi ' . - ." s U1C- out on
does
lays
aMon
chalk and marks a line entirely
around the skirt twelve inches from
the top, and she is Very careful to
have this line exactly the same dis
tance from the top for the entire
distance around. After this is done,
she draws another line lower down
on her skirt exactly, parallel with tne
first line, eight or ten inches below,
according to the number and width
of the tucks, and then she makes all
this surplus up into one deep tuck,
being very careful to keep it exactly
even and to baste through both of the
chalk lines. She always takes a fine
baste, sufficiently strong to hold this
extra material firmly in place, and
after this tuck is evenly basted J
around the top of the skirt, the
dressmaker once more tries on the
skirt and turns it up at the bottom,
evens it off and bastes the hem in
place. In the case of a skirt which
is to have wide tucks at the bottom,
the hem of the skirt Is always made
to look like ' the lower tuck, and is
generally the same width as the tucks
above it; that is, if the skirt is to
have three wide tucks around the
bottom, only two real tucks are
needed since the hem itself furnishes
the third tuck.
Then, when the proper length of
the skirt has been determined, and
the hem measured and basted into
place, the broad tuck at the top is
taken out and the extra material is
made into the desired number of nar
rower tucks, and it is very important
to be careful and exact in this pro
cess and work by a gauge or tape
measure, and not trust too much to
the eye. Of course, bias folds, simu
lating the tucks, may be applied with
much less difficulty, and may look
yery well, but if the skirt is to be
renovated, or let down, the bias bands
are not nearly so useful as the extra
material in the tucks.
good cold cream, going over the neck
and ears, also, then dust well with a
good powder and rub off all loose
powder with a soft old silk cloth.
This does not necessarily cover up im
perfections, but It protects the skin,
from the wind, to which a woman's
face is not sufficiently accustomed
not to suffer from the effects of it.
The hair tonic ascribed to Sir
James Wilson is made as follows:
Three drachms of tincture
tharides, one ounce of oil
mary, one ounce of olive oil,
nmin.es of hav-rum. Tt. is
that an ounce of rock sulphur, broken
into small pieces, "but not powdered,
and added to this lotion, will arrest
the coming of gray hair the claim
being that tho sulphur strengthens
the bulb of coloring matter at the
root of the hair.
of can-
of rose-
and six
claimed
life burnt out
to renew it is
and windows
sweep through
selves stirring
The various hand-made laces, honi
ton, battonberg, point and other
braid laces, are nearly always in
vogue, and are by no means difficult
to make. Many of the simple, easily
worked patterns give the most satis
factory results, and those with but
one stitch throughout, with the kind
and width of braid, with few cuttings
and fastenings, if a good pattern is
used, usually make a good effect, In
many of the new braids used for lace,
a thread is woven at one side which
may be pulled when any turning is
necessary to fit the curves of the de
sign. If one is skilled in the use
of the needle and exercises good
taste, many beautiful accessories to
tho toilet can be supplied at small
cost.
For the. Toilet
To prepare almond meal to be used
on the hands in place of soap; mix
four ounces of the blanched and
powdered almonds with two ounces of
powdered cuttlefish bone, two of
powdered castile soap, one of pow
dered orris root and half a dram of
oil of lavender; a quarter of a dram
of oil of cloves may be added if liked
First mix the orris root and the
almond powder. ncliHm n, n
nnrnfiilW. 1. r7 "" w very
.....,, , uiuii mix cue
with the soap, and put all
sift several times through
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w. , v. ivU 1ULU IrlNS !MD nvt.l -
"',",? mJ ff? of lie -taS. toeg
.w.. una lB excellent for the skin
hat will not bear soap w thout get
ting rough and chapping, and for one
who has to wash he hm i nfS
while about ninn wo, n ?nIs fren
It is hetifiiv wi,0 "? 'V111.0'
cuttlefish
together;
a coarse
a
Fresh Air
During the cold, stormy days, we
often find the air of the living room
unsatisfactory, seemingly with all the
of it. The best way
to open up the doors
and let the cold air
it freely, keeping our
busily the while, and
after a few minutes half an hour or
so, according to the degree of cold,
closing the apertures and letting the
atmosphere get warm again. The
living room should have plenty of
fresh air let into it every morning
when we first get up, even though
we have to take ourselves to the
kitchen, meanwhile. We should es
pecially have it flushed with fresh
air if the room is kept warm over
night with a furnace or baseburner,
or, in fact, any coal fire which "keeps"
all night.
Caring for the Hands
In caring for the hands, remember
that it is most important not only that
they should be thoroughly clean, (but
that they should also be properly
dried. Imperfect drying is the cause
of so many rough looking hands, and
in order to prevent them from chap
ping, one should have some sort of
emolient which is to be applied every
time after washing. Press back the
cuticle from about the nail, very gen
tly with an orange-wood stick, or with
the back of the thumb nail, in such a
way as to give them an oval shape.
Do not cut or pull off hang nails, but
rub the rough edges off with a toilet
pumice, or let them alone until they
of themselves grow out smooth. A
good cleansing preparation which may
be used instead of soap, is made of
four ounces of almond oil thoroughly
heated in a water bath, six ounces of
rose water in which has been dis
solved one dram of borax, one ounce
of powdered castile soap; as soon as
these ingredients unite, take from the
stove and stir briskly until nearly
cold; then add four drops each of, oil
of roses, bergamot, lavender and
cloves, and beat it into tho mixture
thoroughly. When finished, it should
be soft and creamy, and should make
the skin smooth and white.
Largo knuckles cannot be reduced,
as it Is the bone that is enlarged,
but a large hand can be made very
nice if one is " willing and has the
time to give it a few minutes work
each day. After thoroughly cleaning
the hands, a simple preventive of
chapping is two-thirds rosewator to
one-third glycerine, rubbed well into
the hands after drying them.
For a Sachet Powder
Equal parts of powdered rosewator,
sandal, citron, calamus root, gum
benzoin, cloves, and half as, much
cinnamon; add double the quantity of
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