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quite still. Then perform a sort of
circular motion with the face moving
In the circle. All these motions must
be made slowly at first, and care must
be taken not to fatigue the muscles,
which will grow stronger with the re
petitions. The neck and chest should
be bathed with cloths dipped in warm
water, dried with gentle friction" and
massaged with some good skin food,
- using the soft ends of the lingers- in
rotary motion. Then, after ten or fif
teen minutes massaging, wipe off any
oil that is not absorbed, bathe with
cold water, and dry with soft, warm
clothes without rubbing."
It is hardly worth while to com
mence ,such exercises unless you In-
.. tend keeping them up for some length
of, time months. The only way to be
supple and graceful Is to exercise oil
the muscles of the body, to be regu-
lar with the exercise, and to keep the
body well cleansed with regular bath
ing and intelligent massagd. '
"The New Woman"
N "A Reader" says women should bo
i advised to always be provided with
. some little "catch-up" work for their
.odd moments, and evenings, as it
seems "so domestic," while the man,
coming in from his labors, reads the
papers and the children study their
lessbns around the lamp-lighted table.
He says a "man likes to see the little
wife's fingers busy fashioning dainty
articles . f or the family wear." He
says nothing looks "so lazy as to see
v the mother of a family sitting in their
midst with folded hands."
No! Is "it possible! Now I think
tills reader certainly is "funning;1' or
just sending me "suggestions" ',for
filling my lazy think-box. Surely, he
is not in earnest? Ho is trying to cul
tivate a sense of humor.
Wei, here is what N his letter sug
gested to me: The housewife, if she
be,.the mother of a family, should have
the. most comfortable chair, in the
, r cosiest corner, the best book, and the
best side of the lamp; and she should
either read, or sit with her hands fold
ed, as seems best to her; or she should
be entertained with the brightest sto
iries of the day's experience "by the
, whole family, the while she is catch
ing every stray hint of character
( thrown out by the chatter and actions
'of her young brood for which "get
ting acquainted" there is no better
-time than the-evening hour. The girls
and boys should "do the dishes," and
get things ready for morning; and
they will gladly do this, if attention
is directed to the fact that this should
be mother's rest hour-. It may look
lazy, but many a woman has killed
herself by the "last straw" in the form
of "catch-up" jobs, the, doing of which
lasted many times until long after the
family was in bed and asleep. Then,
when this busy woman is laid away,
one widower chirks up and sets about
hunting for "next," and -he does not
always look in the kitchen for her,
either.
The cheapest servant In this world
Is the wife, and the easiest to get;
but wives, nowadays, are studying
economy; specializing, she finds, is the
order of the day, and -she begins to
., practice what is preached. - "She ho
ggins to economize herself.
tablespoonfuls of French rice powder;
put it In a box or bag with theJace,
shake and rub well together, then take
out and dust out all the powder that
will leave the lace. The powders
should be thoroughly well mixed be
fore using.
For a good cement for glass, china,
etc., dissolve half an ounce of giim
acacia in a wine glass of boiling wa
ter; add plaster of-paris sufficient to
make a thick paste, and apply with a
brush to the parts required to be ce
mented together.
White kid shoes ciln be cleaned by
dipping a perfectly clean white flan
nel cloth in a little ammonia, and then
rubbing the cloth over a cake of pure
white soap; after doing tills, rub the
soiled places gently and they will he
white again. As "the flannel becomes
soiled, change for a clean one.-
To clean white plumes, wash througli
two changes of warm soap suds with
your hands, then rinse in lukewarm
water to which one tablespoonful of
made laundry starch has been added,
then draw 'through thumb and finger
and hang out In the sun. when near
ly dry, draw the feather through the
fingers the wrong way, shake out well,
and when dry curl with a silver knife
by taking a small bunch at a time,
curling under. This is recommended
by L. M.
For the Laundry
For laundering silk stockings, soak
first in water in which a little borax
has been dissolved just enough to
give the slightest "smooth" feeling to
the water. Then make a suds of pure
white soap, turn the stockings inside
out, wash, rinse and hang to dry. -For
colored stockings, soak in salt "water
for an hour to prevent colors from
"running."
Fine pieces ofi.Jace may ,be-washed,
btretched on some smooth surface un
til dry, then placed between the leaves
of some large book, a weight put on
it, and this will save ironing.
Clothes that have grown yellow
with lying long, may be whitened by
boiling them in water to which has
been added a tablespoonful of the fol
lowing emulsion to half a boiler of
water: Paraffin, lime water and tur
pentine, mixed in equal parts, well
shaken before using. Bottle the mix
ture for use.
Delicate colors, embroideries, etc.,
should be washed in bran water, or
thiru starch, rinsed well, and let get
dry; dampen, roll up and iron with
a moderately hot iron. A very
hot iron will Injure colors.
To wash ribbons, great care must
be exercised, as "they seldom look as
well after washing as before. If gas
oline will not clean them, place the
ribbon on a board .and brush gently
with a very soft brush dipped in mild
yoap suds. Rinse the ribbon in the
same way, washing the soap dut and
iron without drying, just as they are
taken from the last water.
slht brush; rinse well with a "strong
salt water to revive the color, rub
bing as dry as possible with pieces of
woolen cloth. When dry, go over ilia
matting with a quite thin glue, and
let get thoroughly dry before using.
Enamel paintEnamel paint on fur
niture or wood work may be satisfac
torily cleaned with Spanish whiting.
Wring a piece of flannel as dry as
possible from clear, warm water; dip
into powdered whiting, and rub the
paint Use plenty of whiting, awl
rinse well with clean water, dry with
chamois skin, or soft, old silk.
Cleaning Rugs
Hang the rugs on the line and whip
all the dust out of them. Then scrub
with the following mixture: One bar
of white soap, shaved; one-half pint of
ammonia, three-fourths pound of pow
dered borax; melt the borax and soap
in a quart of hot water, then add tlio
ammonia and a half teacupful of
chloroform. Bottle tills mixture tight
ly. When ready to wash the rugs or
carpet, have a large pail of warm
water, and put several spoonfuls of
the mixture in the water enough to
make a thick lather. Scrub a small
piece of the rug with the soapy water,
ana rinse with clean tepid Water, rub
bing out all water with a dry cloth,
changing as the cloth absorbs the wa
ter. If very delicate colors are In the
rug or carpet, do not use the am
monia. This work must be done carefully.
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' - Some Home Helps
To color artificial- flowers, .use stain
for burnt wood, dilute with -alcohol
.until the desired shade is obtained,
then apply with a brush.
To clean a white felt hat, brush all
dust from it, and then, rub well with
plenty of hot corn meal, using a per
fectly clean white cloth, and when'
clean, brush, thoroughly.
A good green ink Is made by rub
bing three and one-half drams of Prus
sian blue with three drams of gam
borgc and tvea ounces of good -mucil
age, then add one pint of water, stir-
thorough ly. .
lEogive lace a-deep cream -color,-use
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For House Cleaning
For windows and mirrors Tie up
.some finely powdered Spanish whiting.
which may be had of any .large grocer
house for three or four cents ii pound,
using thin muslin. Dip this into tepid
rain water and dab all over the glass;
allow this to dry; then, with n piece
ot old cloth polish until all powdeiis
off. Old soft newspapers, or tissue
paper is fine.
For cane-seated chairs Wash the
chairs with a strong solution of borax
and soft water, and let get thoroughly
dry in the sun to stiffen the cane; then
go over the whole surface with a coat
ing of white varnish. Salt water will
clean willow furniture, but a mild al
kaline suds (borax, or mild soap) Is
.needed to remove the stains of hands
and head. When clean, rinse with salt
water", dry thoroughly and varnish
with white varnish.
- .Glean matting Wash with a warm
Some Good Recipes
Chocolate Sponge Cake Beat the
yolks of six eggs with two cupfuls of
good sugar; add a little flour gradu
ally until a cupful and a half is used;
then stir in half a cupful of grated
chocolate and the stiffly beaten whites
of, the eggs, If preferred, -the choco
late can be made into Icing and spread
between the layers of?hc cake, and
this recipe will make four layers. Cook
the chocolate to a smooth mass with
the yolk of one egg and sugar to taste,
and C90I before using. Flavor with
extract of vanilla.
"Milk Bread" Scald two quarts of
sweet milk, take from the stove and
add five teaspoonfuls of sugar and a
heaping tablespoonful of lard or but
ter; when tills gets cold, add a couple
of teaspoonfuls of salt, one and a half
yeast cakes which have been dissolved
in a little warm water, then stir in
flour until very thick; let stand over
night, then work up with flour, lenead
and let rise for two hours. Knead
again thoroughly, form Into loaves and
let rise a half hour; bake, and when
done rub the crust over lightly with
butter to prevent hardening.
For Meat Sandwiches Rub smooth
a quarter of a cupful of mustard with
a teaspoonful of olive oil, a teaspoon
ful of onion juice, a teaspoonful of
sugir and one of paprika. Blend thor
oughly, then add vinegar to make it
the consistency required, then bottle
and cork tightly.
Cocoanut Loaf Cake Beat one
quarter pound of butter to a cream;
add the yolks of five eggt?, beating
thoroughly; add gradually while bear
ing one pound of ' granulated sugar.
Add slowly, beating, half a pint of
sweet milk. Sift two and one-half
cups of flour, two teaspoonfuls of
baldng powder. Beat the whites of
the eggs and fold into the mixture,
adding one-half package of snredded
cocoanut. Bake In loaf.
low of the butcher, as neither of tlicao
Is expensive In country places. Crack
lings, old meats, otc, cannot be used
whole, but the greaso can be fried out
of the old meats, and the cracklings
can bo boiled and set to cool, when
the grease that rises to the top can no
taken off and used. To every five
pounds of grease allow one quart of
water, In which dissolve one pound
can of potash (concentrated lye), and
to every forty pounds of grease add
one and a half pounds of borax. Dis
solve both lye and borax In tlio water
before using. Melt Uic grease and, If
dirty, or full of "crumbs" of meat,
strain; then pour all the ingredients to
gether and stir over the fire for twen-"
ty minutes to half an hour, then turn
Into something to cool. Before it gets
quite cold, cut into convenient sized
bars, and when It Is quite cold It will
be very hard. This makes a nice, In
expensive white soap for all household
purposes. For tlio laundry, the
amount of soap required for the wash
should be shaved or broken Into a ves
sel and boiling water poured over It
and set on tlio back of the stove to
dissolve, as it does not dissolve fast
enough for washing unless this Is done.
It Is claimed Unit it will not roughen
tlio hands as the ordinary lye soaps
will do.
The lye will cost you ten cents per
pound cail, and. the bornx-from twelve
to twenty. cents per pound, according
to your merchant. The grease will
cost whatever the butcher or mer
chant asks for it; of you may be ablo
to buy It, of your neighbors. V. M.
"Rompers".
These little "play clothes" are worn
by both girls and boys, not only ou(
of doors, but while confined to the
house during bad weather, and are a
great saving for tlio laundress. The
waist portion may be made on the
"Motlier-Hubbard" style, while the
bloomers are full, so that the little
girl's skirts can be pushed Into tin
legs. The legs should be closed belovr
the knees with bands and buttons, 01
bv elastics run in the hem. Make tliem
large enough for comfort. Any strong
wash goods may be used. One waist
portion will outwear two pairs ol
bloomers.
FRIENDS HELP
Inexpensive Home-made Soap
Some of our friends still make sonp
for their own use, and others would
do so, if they knew how. One of our
readers sends us a formula' for making
an Inexpensive soap for all household
purposes, but not for the toiletT She
tells us the outlay for soap is greatly
lessened by making it at home. Here
Is the formula:
After saving all the waste grease
suds of mild"soapand-borax,rscrub-, possible, make -up the deficiency oy
yellow ochre, one tablespoonful to two - biug, if much soiled, -svith a rather buying either strong butter, or tal- pkgs.
St. Paul Park Incident
"After drinking coffee for breakfast
I always felt lanquid and dull, having
nos ambition to get to my morning du
ties. Then in about an hour or so a
weak, nervous derangement of the
heart and stomach would come over
me wjth such force I would frequent
ly have to lie down.
"At other times I had severe head
aches; stomach finally became affect
ed and digestion so Impaired that I
had serious chronic dyspepsia and con
stipation. A lady, for many years
state president of the W. C. T. U told
me she had been greatly benefited hy
quitting coffee and using Postum Food
Coffee; she was troubled for years
with asthma. She said it was no cross
to quit coffee when she found she
could have as delicious an article as
Postum.
"Another ladv. who had been
troubled with chronic dyspepsia for
years, found immediate relief on ceas
ing coffee and beginning Postum twice
a day. She was wholly cured. Still
another friend told me that Postum
Food Coffee was a Godsend to her,
her heart trouble having been relieved
after leaving off coffee and taking on
Postum.
"So many such cases came to my
notice that I concluded coffee was the
cause of my- trouble and I quit and
took r.p Postum. I am more than
pleased 'to say that my days of
troublo-have disappeared. I am .well
nnrt hrinnv." "There's a' Reason.'
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