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The Commoner.
gist to put a drop each of all his
fragrant oils and a grain of musk to
gether for you, adding two drops of
camphor; add these to the jar, and
stir the mass well. Keep it covered
a week or two, then open for half
an hour when required, and the room
will be delightfully perfumed. Add
more rose petals as you have them,
drying before using, and occasionally
adding a teaspoonful of orris root or
rose sachet power. It is expensive
to prepare a jar in this way, but it
will last for years. Selected.
For the Fade
If a woman wants a pretty face she
must wash it; not wipe her face and
neck with, the corner of a wash cloth
and then dry it with a towel. Have
a pure vegetable oil soap and plenty
f warm water. Use the hands and
plenty of soap for the face and neck;
a bowl full of warm water and two of
cold; a soft towel to dry the skin.
Take a wash towel, crash or cheese
cloth are good, and finish the bath.
Any cloth that is used for the bath
should be regularly laundered, and all
toilet belongings should be kept sweet
and clean. After each using, all
cloths or towels should be well
washed out, rinsed and hung in the
sunshine, if possible. Rainwater is
the very best water to use for any
bath; when rain water can not be
had, use the bran bag for softening
the water. This is merely a cheese
cloth bag of suitable size filled with
wheat bran, and can be made at
BREAD DYSPEPSIA
The Digesting Element Left Out
Bread dyspepsia is common. It af
fects the bowels because white bread
is nearly all starch, and starch is di
gested in the intestines, not in the
stomach proper.
Up under the shell of the wheat
berry Nature has provided a curious
deposit which is turned into diastase
when it is subjected to the saliva and
to the pancreatic juices in the human
intestines.
This diastase is absolutely neces
sary to digest starch and turn it into
grape-sugar, which is the next form;
but that part of the wheat berry
makes dark flour, and the modern
miller can not readily sell dark flour,
so nature's valuable digester is
thrown out and the human system
must handle the starch as best it
can, without the help that Nature in
tended. Small wonder that appendicitis,
peritonitis, constipation, and all sorts
of trouble exist when we go so con
trary to Nature's law. The food ex
perts that perfected Grape-Nuts Food,
knowing these facts, made use in their
experiments of the entire wheat and
barley, including all the parts, and sub
jected them to moisture and long
continued warmth, which allows time
and the proper conditions for develop
ing the diastase, outside of the hu
man body.
In this way the starchy part is
transformed into grape-sugar in a
perfectly natural manner, without the
use of chemicals or any outside in
gredients. The little sparkling crys
tals of grape-sugar can be seen on the
pieces of Grape-Nuts. This food
therefore is naturally pre-digested
and its use in place of bread will
quickly correct the troubles that have
been brouglrt about by the too free
use of starch in the food, and that is
very common in the human race to
day. The effect of eating Grape-Nuts ten
days or two -weeks and' the discontin
uance of 'ordinary -whiter bread, -is
very marked. The user-will gain rap
idly in strength and physical and men
tal health. --. ' - '
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home. Let it soak in the water a
little while before using.
Woman's Work
The number of school teachers in
the United States is more than a half
million, of whom nearly four hundred
thousand are women. Few realize
the enormous power women hold
through their majority in the schools.
Few stop to consider how public sen
timent has gradually placed in femi
nine hands the larger influence in
school affairs. Only four American
Btates have given full suffrage to
women, but more than twenty Ameri
can states have special provisions by
which women can vote in school mat
ters. More than half of the states
in number and fully two-thirds of the
United States in territory give women
school suffrage. Canada confers the
same privilege, and in other parts of
the world the record is even larger.
Women in England. Scotland and Ire
land, in New Zealand and Australia
and in Cape Colony and Tasmania
have, through the ballot boxes, their
say in the management of schools.
In France women teachers vote for
members of boards of education; in
Sweden and Norway they have school
suffrage, and it thus runs until we
may say with safety that, with some
exceptions, where civilization rules
women rule the schools, which, it
must be admitted, do more to make
civilization than any other agency.
Delineator for May.
cover it; if the heads are small, use
whole; if large, halve or quarter them,
keep the water boiling briskly for half
an hour; then lift into a colander to
drain, after which slice finely; sea
son with pepper and salt to taslo.
While the cabbage is cooking, pre
pare, in another vessel, a sauce made
as follows: One teacupful of vino
gar (if very strong, weaken a little
with water), add butter the size of
a hen's egg; two tablespoonfuls of
sugar; bring to a boll, set off the
fire and stir in a well beaten egg.
Pour this over the cabbage, stirring
thoroughly with a fork, and servo
hot.
The water in which cabbage is
boiled should not bo poured into the
sink unless you flush the drain at
once with some disinfectant, as the
odor Is so strong and lasting. If you
have a garden, the better way is to
pour it on the earth. To get the smell
out of the kitchen, keep .the windows
open and roast a few coffee beans
on the stove.
and the hands well rubbed with it
after each washing. Use gloves about
tho garden work as much as possible.
For trimming, this season, hand
work and self-trimming Is much in
vogue. Ribbons and braids will bo used
largely, and in many cases, tho braid
ing designs will bo carried out in folds
or bands of tho material, or of silk.
The wide bias fold is used with good
effect in graduated widths on the bot
tom of the skirt.
Query Box
For Summer Wear
In finishing the backs of skirts of
thin fabrics, such as silks, linen or
cotton, an inverted plait at 'tho
placket hole is undesirable, for the
reason that in hooking the material
across, the hooks are too heavy for
the material and it usually pulls
away, showing the fastenings, giving
an ugly appearance at this place. For
thin materials the fullness should be
such as to entirely conceal the placket
close without any fastenings.
In summer material, the trimmings
run around the skirt, in many cases,
with clusters of tucks extending from
the top of a deep hem to well above
the line of the knee. In cotton gowns,
it is best to put the tucks in the ma
terial, but in a silk or thin woolen
skirt which is to be tucked in sev
eral clusters, with three to five tucks
in a cluster, the skirt should be cut
in three sections, and each section
put in with a slight fullness under a
tuck. In this way, the skirt will fall
with increasing fullness toward the
lower edge.
The deep tucks on a circular skirt
are. .really formed by hemming the
lower edge of circular sections and
joining them to one another where
the hem is stitched. This sounds
complicated, but it Ib something which
a home dressmaker will be wise to
take up, as the fashion for the next
year will probably necessitate tuck
ing on circular lines. It is a fashion
that is coming to supersede the some
what waning popularity of the per
pendicular plait.
The broad collar of lace and em
broidery as a separate trimming for
waists and blouses is again in vogue,
though not the .same kind worn a
few years ago; the new one is more
on the order of a well-shaped yoke
with stock collar attached; often times
this is combined with a front panel
or with bands, in bretelle effect, which
join the yoke to a belt of embroidery
to match. These collars are deserv
edly popular for. they are the most
economical little devices for trans
forming a. simple -gown into quite' a
dressy, little .affair. .., Cuffs to match
the collar . should be worn. Ladies
Home Journal.
, . , 4 ..Serving, Gabbage
. Drop -Mile- prepared cabbage - into
enough water(boiling) to1 completely
Mrs. F. Answer by mail, as re
quested.
Josie D. See article for The Toi
let. Anna G. Directions for making
rose jar given in another column.
Ella H. Grey or green nun's veil
ing may be trimmed with baby Irish
lace.
A. R. Heavy linen may be used for
the skirt and pony jacket suits, with
cuffs and collar of linen lace.
Ella S. White serge or mohair
Sicilian will be very much worn with
or without colors. The collar and
cuffs may be ornamented with fancy
stitching.
Sadie M. A good hair tonic is made
of one quart of bay rum and one ounce
each of castor oil and cantharides.
Shake well. If the hair is very oily,
use but half the amount of oil. Apply
night and morning.
Orange Blossom Darned net is
again a very popular form of hand
work, and is adaptable for trimming
for many articles handkerchlers,
dresses, underwear, collars, cuffs, cur
tains, pillow slips, scarfs, etc. It is
very easy to do, -and the material is
inexpensive.
A Mother For curtains for the win
dows of the living room, where chil
dren play, a straight length of yard
wide muslin reaching to the window
sill, with a ruffle at the top above
the casing for the pole, will answer;
this may be laundered as often as
necessary.
Mother's Girl To cleanse the hands
from the stain of soil, rub well with
lard when you come in, getting the
grease well into the creases and
around the nails, then wash well In
quite warm water and a good, pure
soap, rinsing well with cool to cold
water. While still moisf after drying,
apply a little lemon juice and glycer
ine (equal parts), rubbing it in well.
Clean the finger nails with a wooden
tooth pick, rather than a metal in
strument. Hanna J. In cleaning with turpen
tine, the resin held in solution by
the turpentine frequently remains in
the material, after the volatile oil has
evaporated, leaving an ugly spot. Al
cohol will dissolve the resin and thus
remove the stain. The spot should
be moistened with the alcohol and al
lowed to soak for a minute, then
sponged with a slightly rubbing mo
tion, using a clean sponge wet with
alcohol, then wiping clean and dry
in the open air.
H. G. When the hands have be
come very much soiled, rub into them
thoroughly -a good cold cream, or
clean lard. This softens the dirt and
loosens it from the pores. Then wash
them in soft warm -water, using pure
soap -and lry thoroughly on a soft
towel. A dish of bran or corn meal
Bhould -be kept on the wash stand.
System Spells
Success
A quitter never gets
started except down
stream. For him a log
to drift on and over the
falls.
A light - weight can
never do anything but
paddle a canoe with a
pretty girl in it on a
backwater. For him
stick in the mud on the
bank.
A fool you can never
count on. He may dive
over the falls in despair
"or rock the canoe, for
fun, get tangled in the
bow line and drown in
shallow water.
But if you are a real
man, or a
real
woman,
young or old, there is a
secure place for you, on
a sincere, serious, system
atized sales staff that
simplv won't let vou fall
out or fail the sales I
staff of The Ladies
Home Journal and
The Saturday Even
ing Post.
One man made 1950, com
missions, bonuses and prizes, in
three months recently. A woman
made 1810. Neither worked a
hard to earn it as most men do to
get less.
How did they do it ? System
sober, earnest, sincere, determined
system. They were working with
us on a basis of sincerity and system
and, being a real man and a real
woman, tfiey just (ouldn't fail,
Wc can't afford to let good human
material go to waste. W.c believed
in them. We helped them. And
they just bad to succeed.
Write if you'll let us help yew.
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2972-E Cherry St., Philadelphia, Pi.
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