The Commoner.
volume 11, number 21
tempting to use them. Test them' by
filling with hot water, screwing down
the lid tightly on the rubber, then
turning the jar top end down, to test
for leaks. This Is extremely impor
tant, and must not be neglected.
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The Booster
rather be a booster
than
I'd
I'd rather be a
knocker any day.
rather tinge with hope than
doubt the words I have to say.
I'd rather miss my guess
On another man's success
Than to view his bitter struggle and
prophesy his fall.
I would rather say "he's com
ing" Than "he's going," when I'm sum
ming Up the labors of my brothers. I
would rather boost them all.
i would rather speak the kind thiags
than the mean things any day,
I'd rather swing a baton than a
hammer, let me say,
I would rather sing my rhyme
In a sort of two-step time
Than to let it drag in dirges In a
gloomy, heavy style.
I would rather say "God bless
you!"
And with words of cheer Impress
you,
Than to preach about your follies all
the while.
I would rather bo a booster than a
knocker any day.
I'd rather praise than criticise in
what I have to say;
I'd rather not bo wise,
At the cost of others' sighs,
I would rather seo the good things
than the evil that men do;
I would rather far be wrong
When I boost a man along
Than bo perfect In my judgment, but
make everybody nine.
Detroit Free Press.
urged that the "newly-weds" should
not board, even with relatives, but
should go to themselves. Even ono
room, arranged for light-housekeeping,
so they are alone. is tjetter
than a finely furnished mansion oc
cupied in community with others.
They may think they know each
other before marriage, but they
don't. There are sharp edges, rough
corners, and little irregularities of
temper and disposition in each which
the other has never even suspected,
and all these mu3t be toned down by
associations not interfered with by
others.
Our Juno Brides
The first year of married life Is
made up of trials, tears, mistakes,
perplexities, protestations, little
quarrels and loving make-ups, for
during this first twelve-month a new
existence must bo accepted by both
the parties. The new cxlateace is
full of disillusions, clashes of tastes
and tendencies, and the modifying
or putting away of preconceived
Ideas of tho fitness of things. But
of this, every girl must be sure
when a man marries, he wants and
expects a home, and if he Is the
man ho should be, he will expect to
make tho living while tho girl he
marries will be expected to make the
homo. Whether tho work, or the
drudgery of the home shall be per
formed by the wife will depend very
much upon the "living" the man can
make; but tho new home will never
bo a real homo unless tho wife learns
to make and keep it, not being mere
ly an ignorant figure-head over
which contemptuous servants may
make sport. Before marriage, few
men stop to acquaint themselves
with tho woman's ability In the
iousokeeping or homo-making line,
and many girls either know nothing
of such work, or, having spent their
young years in the shop, once, store,
r factory, have acquired a dislike
to the work, And their ideas of what
a home should be are vague in tho
extromo. The theory of "keeping
house for two" is very alluring to
their Inexperienced eyes; but the
hard, prosaic experience of actual
facts is a difficult school for many
of them. Because of the mutual
ignorance of the realities of life,
mistakes on one side, and impatience
on the other, many couples make a
ad wreck of the newly-launched life
boat. For this reason, it is strongly
"Tho Boy Scout Movement1
Several requests have come to me
for information as to the object of
"the boy scout movement." It can
hardly be plainly set forth in a few
words, but the leaders emphatically
Insist that they have no wish to pro
duce a generation of soldiers; that
the military cast has been almost
entirely discarded In America, tho
boy scouts having no drill and are
prohibited from carrying weapons
otherwise than pocketknives. The
duties elaborated in the scout law
are such as forbid lying, enjoin
courtesy, obedience, loyalty, kind
ness to animals cheerfulness, and
even thrift. Disobedience to the
law may cause a scout to be expelled
from the order. Tho following is
given as the boy scout law: A
scout's honor is to bo trusted; a
scout is loyal to his country, his
officers, his parents and his employ
ers. A scout's duty Is to be useful
and to help others. A scout is a
friend to all, and a brother to every
other scout, no matter to what social
class the other belongs. A scout
must never be a snob. A scout is a
friend to animals. A scout obeys
orders of his parents, patrol lead
ers or scout master, without ques
tion. A scout smiles and whistles
under all circumstances. He never
swears when put out; tho punish
ment for swearing or use of bad
language Is a mug of cold water to
be poured down the offenders' sleeve
by the other scouts. A scout is
thrifty; that is, ho saves every penny
he can and puts it into the bank.
Ernest Seton, tho originator of tho
movement, says: "Partly through
tho growth of immense cities; with
the consequent speclallzatln of in
dustry, bo that each individual has
been required to do one small thing
and shut his eyes to everything else;
partly through the decay of small
farming, which would offset this con
dition, for each mixed farm with a
small college of handicraft; and
partly through the stereotyped forms
of religion losing their hold,, wo see
a very different type of youth grow
ing up in the country today. Tho
boy scout movement is intended to
combat this system, which has turned
such a largo proportion of our robust,
mssuy, seii-renant Doynooa mto a
Men with fine brown hair, light or
dark, make the best husbands; they
are quick, thoughtful and less apt to
bo selfish than the very light-haired,
or very dark-haired brothers. Those
whose hair turns gray prematurely
are nearly always good fellows; are
a little nervous, but brainy, sympa
thetic and very honorable. A pre
maturely gray-haired person Is gen
erally very scrupulous in money mat
ters and in friendships, and very
tolerant of one's short-comings.
Nearly all red-haired persons are
smart, whether the hair is coarse or
fine, but the finer the hair, the finer
tho smartness. Pale, blond-haired
women, of the colorless, ashen kind,
are impulsive, loving and fickle; not
to bo depended upon, but usually
good company while they like you.
Women with very dark brown hair
are loyal, sympathetic and usually
of tireless patience where they love;
they are full of sentiment, emotional,
enjoy keenly and suffer in like pro
portion, are easily touched by the
woes of others, and are to be trusted.
Women with fine black hair, touched
with brown, are high-strung, loyal,
and brainy. Those with very black
hair, if it is coarse, are usually mean
and suspicious. All women with very
dark hair are quick tempered, and
where dark eyes and dark complex
ions go with the dark hair, they
.have strong feeling. The dark haired
women are more faithful than the
light-haired, and if finely organized,
just bubblQ over with sentiment.
"Gathering Up the Fragments"
The fruit season is now with us,
and in order to have plenty of "good
living" when the dark days shut us
in next winter, time must bo put in
and advantage taken of tho plenty
tho gardens, fields and orchards are
now preparing for us. If possible, a
canning outfit should be had; but if
this cannot be, then, there are the
new ways of jarring, canning and
preserving, which are generally
much less troublesome than the old
ways. Housewives are learning that
fruits need much less cooking than
has been given it by the old-time
housewives, and there are so many
new devices and labor-savers that
xthe work need not be so much of a
DugDear as it nas formerly been.
New methods and labor-saving de
vices nave simplified the work, and
every housewife Bhould acquaint her
self with these new methods. The
seeders, peelers, slicers and stoners,
simplify the preparation of the solid
fruits, while the vegetable choppers
and slicers make relishes, pickles,
and sauces easily prepared. Jellies
are now made by heating the juices
to boiling point, or even boiling them
for a few minutes then adding tho
hot sugar, heated to such a degree
that the slipping it Into the bubbling
juices does not stop the boiling, then
letting xne syrup just froth up well
For tho Toilet
For those who spend much timo
at the seashore, and especially for
those who go into the water, a few
words of caution will be welh Be
fore going into the water, rub Into
the skin, face, neck, arms, and be
hind the ears a plentiful supply of
cold cream; rub it in well. One
can hardly use too much, as it
cleanses the pores beautifully. Re
member to rub the cream behind the
ears, all over the face and throat,
and over the arms; cover the cream
with a powder made of equal parts
of French chalk and rice powder.
The water will not take it all off,
and it prevents Mistering. The hair
must be well protected from the salt
water, as it ruins the hair, leaving
it sticky and stringy. After leaving
the water, use warm water first on
tho skin.
An excellent lotion to follow the
bath is prepared as follows: Four
ounces of alcohol, two ounces of
glycerine, half a pint of orange flower
or rose, or elderflower water, two
ounces of powdered almonds, or the
almond meal will answer, and half
an ounce of salicyclic acid. Dissolve
the acid in the alcohol, add the gly
cerine, and add very slowly to the
flower water in which the almond
meal has been shaken. Use freely
on the skin after the warm bath, to
keep it soft. After severe exposure
in the water, fill the burned skin
with cucumber cream and leave on
for half an hour; then bathe and
use the above lotion.
Rose cream for sunburn is made
as follows: White wax, one-half
ounce; spermaceti, one-half ounce,
sweet almond oil, two ounces: Melt
all together in a double boiler, and
mix well by stirring. Pour into a
heated bowl and add very gradually
one and one-half ounces of rose
water, one-half ounce of witch hazel;
beat to a cream and put Into a cover
ed jar. Apply freely before and af
ter exposure to the sun. A harmless
face po'wder dusted on the cream will
benefit.
rrtrlAiyMlZaa i " S is dissolved after
lot of flat-chested cigarette smokers, Mnh ff la , r,-" t
Iwitt shaky nerves and doubtful vi- tumblers, let cool and IcoVered wtth
telf' J "I ?. 25!?!?, ? Paraffin wax, when it will Sblau-
of arena baseball, football and rac
ing, by substituting the hotter,
cleaner, saner pursuits of woodcraft
and scouting."
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Character is Half
Men with fino, Jignt hair, aro smart,
conceited and, If they do not marry
until late in life, are apt to grow
cross and selfish. If a Ir! wishes
to select a husband, she anould learn
to read his disposition 'by his hair.
tifuBy. For canning fruits, most
housewives have now accented th
method of boiling around tho full.
jars, ratner than boiling the fruit
before filling the jars. Tods tms
j rubbers as well as jars must be ster-
uxed by dipping in boiling hot water;
the rubbers must not be allowed to
He in the water; they must be just
dipped in it two or three times, then
To Remove Tan and Freckles
Vegetables and fruit juices are
much more to be recommended as
bleaches than are drugs, as they are
usually harmless and close at hand.
Strawberry juice not only bleaches,
but gives a pretty pink tinge to tho
skin. Rub the ripe fruit over tho
skin, let dry on, and in an hour or
so, batho with rosewater or witch
hazel.
Orange juice is strongly recom
mended for face bleach, and has the
advantage over lemon juice that it
does not injure the delicate texture
of the skin, as the strong acid of
lemon, unmixed with some soothing
liquid, is apt to do. If lemon juico
is used, strain the juice into oatmeal
water, made of boiling and straining
the oatmeal. A ripe tomato is a
favorite bleach with many. Slice,
and rub the cut side over the skin,
letting dry on; do this at night, every
evening. The pulp of a ripe water
melon is also very good, indeed.
Nothing is hotter than the cucum
ber for bleaching. It is not neces
sary to make up into an expensive
mess to get results. A rapid and ef
fective bleach is made by just slic
ing n the encumber and binding
the slices om the discolered parts of
the face and neck, leaving for an
hour and renewing. Tho juico,
which contains the Moaching mat
ter, may be extracted by cutting up
tne cucumber, skin and 11, very
applied to tho jar necks. Be sure tfcfniv .Mi.t m.ti
to fit the tops and jars before at-1 add a little water, and set where it
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