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WOMAN’S WORLD
MINDING OUR OWN BUSINESS.
Every now and then I am forcibly
reminded of the fact that the mtllen
ium will have arrived when we learn
to mind our own business.
But it will be an Eveless Eden,
without a single woman in it.
No woman has yet arrived, or shows
signs of arriving, at the point of grace
when she can behold another person
making a pie, without putting her fin
ger in It. It has always been that
•way. And it has always been her
bane. She has broken her heart over
other people's sorrows. She has lain
awake nights, and lost sleep, over oth
er people’s worries. She has brought
on more nervous prostration trying to
run other people’s affairs, and stirred
up more heartburnings and jealousy,
and bitterness and strife,,than all oth
er causes combined, just because she
would not mind her own business.
It is a distinctly feminine mania,
the end whereof is trouble and tribu
lation. The average man feels he has
has got about all he can manage with
his own affairs, and trouble enough of
his own, without borrowing his neigh
bor’s. The average women attends to
her business in the intervals she isn’t
speculating about why the Browns
don’t send their children to the pub
lic school when Brown is only on a
salary, and how the Smiths, across
the street, can afford new carpets
this season. And the queerest part of
it al] is that, by some quirk of femi
nine logic, this unwarranted meddling
with other people's affairs is account
ed a virtue. A woman's definition of
another woman who was a selfish
creature would be one who attended
strictly to her own business, and
didn't interfere with some remedy of
her own when the children next door
had the croup.
This inability to attend to her own
business, and leave other people to
run theirs without any assistance
from her, goes a long way towards ex
plaining many of woman's failures. It
is one reason why so many women
break down. They try to carry the
universe on their shoulders. They
could manage well enough with their
own work, and bear with sufficient
fortitude their own troubles, but when
they add to that the accumulated af
flictions of everybody in the neighbor
hood they collapse under the nervous
strain. It Is doubtless a pity that Mrs.
Jones should be such a poor manager,
and so wasteful and extravagant; It
is much to be regretted that young
Blank does not go to work and sup
port his widowed mother, possibly it
is a crying shame that the Gray baby
should be fed on sauerkraut and beer
instead of sterilized milk, but, after
all. we are not responsible for these
affairs, and there isn’t a blessed thing
we can do about them. The Jones, and
the Blanks, and the Grays of our re
spective neighborhoods don't want our
advice, and wouldn’t take it at any
price, and we merely wear ourselves
into frazzles with unavailing worry
over something that doesn’t in the
least concern us.
Of course, when there is any real
need for a Solomon we all feel cap- j
able of speaking right up, but it is
well to occasionally reflect that other
people are almost as capable of run
ning their own affairs as we would be.
This Is Alvmy ß a surprise to us. There
was probably never a marriage when
everybody in the community didn’t feel
that they could have made a much
more judicious selection for both par
ties than they made for themselves,
yet divorce is comparatively rare.
Every one of us Is dead sure that we
could bring up every body else’s chil
dren much better than they are doing
It, yet the children go along turning
out all right In spite of our predictions
to the contrary. We really afflict our
selves about these matters. We are
reduced to tears because Sally So-and-
So is going to marry the man she
wants instead of the man we think
would suit her, and we aggravate our
souls in vain because little Mrs. Some
body else lets her babies play in the
back yard with the cat instead of hav
ing them folding paper mats at the kin
dergarten. If the sympathy we lavish
on people who don't want it and don’t
need It, and the amount of wasted
energy we expend on other people’s af
fairs, could be applied to some useful
purpose it would revolutionize the
world.
It sounds a bit contradictory to say
that a woman’s fondness for having
a finger in every' pie is at the root of
the servant girl trouble, but it is a
fact, nevertheless. In trying to at
tend to her own business a woman
often overdoes it. She attends too
much. When a man hires a clerk or
a bookkeeper he permits him freedom
to do the work within certain lines,
pretty much as he pleases, in his own
way. If he accomplishes satisfactory
results it is all that is necessary. No
one nags him continually, or aggra
vates him with petty and infinitesimal,
hair-splitting details about the way he
does It. When he Is In the midst of
making out a bill, or adding up a col-
STORK
TIME Twi
to most women is a term of V \
anxiety, serious thought l i >A
and sweet anticipation. uji '
With the cessation of pain
necessary t o childbirth,
there comes calm nerves,
sleep and recuperation.
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FRIEND
does diminish the pain accompanying
maternity. With its aid mothers can and
do bring healthy, sweet dispositioued
and ideal babies into the world.
Morning sickness, sore breasts and ex
cruciating pains caused by the gradually
expanding organs, arc relieved by tbu
penetrating and reloxiug liniment.
Among the manifold aids to childbirth
Mother's Friend has grown in popularity
and gaiued a prestige among rich women
as well as poor; it is found and welcomed
in the mansion as well as in the cabin. •
• By lessening the mother’s agony of mind
anddimiuishuigpain a l>*auli/ul influent e
is wrought upon the child, and instead of
peevish, ill-tempered and sickly forms you
nave healthy, laughing humanity, remain
ing a bit rasing ever to you and it* country.
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umn of figures, the proprietor doesn’t
rush in with a few suggestions, or take
a hand just long enough to knock the
other fellow’s system silly. On the
contrary, he knows it would simply
put the clerk out. But that is the
helpful device we use towards our
servants. We never let them plan any
thing out, or do it in their own way.
or have a chance to use any mind and
judgment if they happen 'to have any.
There is no reason a servant shouldn’t
be treated as rationally as any other
employe. It Is but right the mistress
should require that certain work should
be done by a certain time, but. after
that, why not leave them free to do
it in their own way? Every one who
has ever tried it knows that the most
aggravating and nerve rasping thing
in the world is to have someone stand
over you while you work, with a con
tinual flow of suggestions. "Put a
pinch more spice in,” “Don’t use quite
so much sugar,” ‘‘Roll the crust a lit
tle thinner.” It is enough to drive
one crazy', and there is no wonder
too many cooks spoil so much good
broth. If the mistress would attend
to her business a little more in the
house, and let the cook run hers a lit
tle more in the kitchen, we shouldn’t
have to get up so many mornings and
cook breakfast because a servant lady
had taken herself and her outraged
feelings to some other woman with
other "ways.”
One of the saddest effects of our not
attending to our own business is the
perennial family row. We speak of it
as lack of sympathy, of unfilial con
duct, we give this and that high flown
reason, but the plain truth of the mat
ter is that at the bottom of nearly
every one of the family quarrels that
are so pathetic and so cruel in their
estrangements, is some woman who
wouldn’t mind her own business. A
man marries, and the woman he brings
into his family has been reared differ
ently, and has different ideas about
cooking, or politics, or religion, from
the women of his own family. It
might be thought that the world was
big eiough and wide enough for them
all to find occupation and amusement
without attempting to interfere with
each other. But not so. First thing
anybody knows, his mother or sisters
begin to try to regulate his wife’s ta
ble or wardrobe, or manage her chil
dren for her. Or perhaps she starts
out on a missionary campaign to try
to educate her husband’s people up to
her blue china standard. Anyway,
trouble begins right there, and peace
packs Its grip and departs on the
lightning express for parts unknown.
Every living woman has seen this
thing happen over and over again, but
no woman has learned anything from
it.
Just think of giving up a brother’s
love, of being separated from
him by a 'barrier more cruel
than death, of having a son’s
door opened to you only on
suffrance, and to know that you are
the most unwelcome guest that ever
crosses the threshold! Isn’t it a pretty
high price to pay for the doubtful priv
ilege of trying to run another woman’s
business? And isn’t it strange that
women won’t be warned, and remem
ber that "hands off” is the motto on
every woman’s door, and that one de
fies it at her peril.
Of course, we shall have no more
gossip when we learn to attend to our
own business. We shall be oeccupied
in paying our own bills, Instead of
wondering how other people can pay
theirs. If Mr. Clubman Is out of
nights, we shan’t spend the time in
pitying his poor wife, and speculating
if her cooking or temper drove him to
drink. We shall merely presume the
clubman knew his own business and,
at any rate, it isn’t any of our affair.
We shall be able to come and go as
we please, without taking the neigh
borhood Into our confidence, or •offer
ing explanation or apology, for so long
as we Infringe on nobody else’s rights,
no one will trouble themselves about
our movements And what a peace
ful, easy, restful time we shall have,
If only we can learn to mind our own
•business and let other people’s alone.
Dorothy Dlx.
EXPENSIVE TO BE ENGAGED.
Lovers, says the New Orleans Pica
yune, are enthusiastic creatures be
cause they see everything through
rose-colored spectacles, so they often
become engaged before the prospective
bridegroom has attained a position that
will warrant marriage, and he lives in
hopes that this desideratum will be ful
filled in the natural course of things
in due time.
Asa rule, disappointment awaits him
him, the struggle is very keen, and a
position is attained only as a result of
hard work and the display of consid
erable ability.
Instead of devoting his time to the
acquisition of knowledge, he spends It
with his adored one, and so decreases
his chances of securing the position.
So much for his time; now for his
cash.
You cannot take a young woman
about two or three time a week
without considerable expense, and
money spent is, naturally, so much less
saved.
The result is that marriage has often
to be delayed because there is not
enough in the bank to purchase a fit
ting home—or it may be that an ill
furnished home has to do for the start,
or a loan may be negotiated to make
up the deficiency.
In any of these three cases the start
Is a bad one and does not tend to make
things smooth during the first portion
of the married career.
SIGNS OF LONG LIFE.
The woman who desires long life,
says the Chicago News, must have
eyes round and wldty rather than long
and narrow', and if they are brown or
hazel life will be longer than If they
be black or violet.
The brow must be ample and slope
back slightly from an absolute per
pendicular. The head must be wide
•behind and over the ears.
The brow must be wide and full and
well set and the chin square and thin.
The nose must be wide and full
through Its whole length and have
open, easy, dilating nostrils. This In
dicates a good heart and good lungs.
If the orifice of the ear Is low. indi
cating a deeply seated brain, there is
a better chance of long life.
The woman who appears taller In
proportion when sitting down than
when standing has a good chance to
live long. If the body Is long In pro
portion to the limbs, the heart, lungs
and digestive organs are large.
THE WIT OF WOMAN.
Women are the Inheritors of the
oldest, most universal human wisdom.
They have more sense that men, for
the simple reason that a man has to lie
a specialist, end a specialist has to be
a fanatic. The normal man all over the
world la a hunter, or a fisher, or a
hanker, or a man of letters, or some
silly thing. If on, he has to he a wise
hunter or e wise banker. Hut nobody
with lh emetlce! knowledge of profes
sional Ilf* would ever expei t him to be
a wiee men. But his wife has pi he s
Mis* rnuutmu. Mb* has to have an eye
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. DECEMBER 4. 1904
on everything, an eye on the things
that fanatical bankers forget. If the
banker is melancholy, she must teach
him ordinary cheerfulness. If the
banker is too convivial, she must teach
him ordinary caution. If she had four
husbands (like Chaucer's Wife of
Bath), she would be an optimist to the
pessimist, a pessimist to the optimist,
a Pagan to the Puritan, a Puritan to
the Pagan. For she is the secret health
of the world.
Surely, then, it is absurd io test the
“brain power” of women by asking
how high they figure in examinations
or trades; that is to say, how dexter
ously and powerfully they work as
sweeps, or parsons, or Journalists, or
emperors, or innkeepers, or what not.
For the very great “brain power” if
women in the world is largely poured
out in an attempt to modify the exces
sive sweepiness of sweeps, the undue
parsonity of parsons, the Journalistic
feverishness of journalists, the imperial
vulgarity of emperors, and the moral
difficulties that arise from the keeping
of an inn. Our sanity is built up out
of their agonies. Our stillness is made
out of ti.elr straining. We have not
much to pay them back with for thus
unholding from the beginning the ut
terly unattainable ideal of common
sense. We have made one attempt to
do it; we have called Nature “she.”
THE SECRET OF MY MARRIED
HAPPINESS.
When I got married, says a writer In
the New York American, my friends
rallied around me and gave me a good
sendoff. I didn’t need to ask them;
they got wind of the wedding date, and
came along without any hesitation, and
I dare say each one now believes that
but for her support I should never
have weathered the storms of matri
mony.
My wedding day was just ten years
ago. A fortnight before the ceremony
my second cousin, who was twenty
nine and unmarried, dropped in to con
gratulate me.
“And now, dear,” she said, turning
serious, "let me give you a few hints.
Whatever you do, stick up for your
rights. George is a very good fellow,
I’ve no doubt, but men are very dif
ferent after marriage. Don't be bul
lied or browbeaten. Fight for your
freedom and an equal footing In the
home. Give back blow for blow. Set
your teeth, and show what you are
made of. Marriage is a terrible un
dertaking, and not the perpetual hol
iday most silly girls think it is. Keep
a good heart and a strong arm, and
you may weather it.”
I must say that I was glad when
she went, though I began to look much
more seriously to the future, especially
when my other friends started to lift
the veil and show me married life in
its terrible reality.
My bosom chum, who was also unwed
but from whom I expected comfort,
rather upset me in her efforts to be
kind.
“Of course, dear,” she said, “you
will quarrel; everybody does that.
The best thing to do, I’ve found. Is
never to give in. Charlie Watkins and
I had the most fearful tiffs, but I won
every time, for I never would give in.”
Then I went to dear old dad, and
cried and confided my doubts. He
laughed at all they had said.
"George is a good fellow," he said.
“You go along in your own way; treat
him well and he’ll treat you well.”
That’s the advice I followed; and
here I am, after ten years, as happy a
wife as there is In the land.
George has not wanted to put me
on the footing of a slave, nor to as
sert that he is master of the house and
I am “only his wife.” He has never
wanted to cut down my housekeeping
money, nor to go out playing billiards
all the evening, nor to quarrel with me
over nothing.
But I have taken pains to “treat
him well." He has earned an income
for both of us, and I have done my best
to be a loving companion and a good
housewife. I have practiced economy,
worked well and cheerfully, and kept
a smiling face.
THE DUBUTANTE’S GOWN.
It must be becoming, says the Chi
cago News.
It must be youthful.
It is best not too elaborate.
Chiffon is soft and becoming, but
perishable.
Brussels net is more durable and as
attractive.
Net needs a quantity of lace trim
ming.
Crepe de Chine is unequalled for real
serviceableness.
It cleans very well and can be dyed
for a second year.
Satin-finished crepe is as soft and
pretty as the new crepes and less ex
pensive.
White liberty satin is extremely ef
fective and a youthful-looking fabric
Liberty silk is pretty, but a poor in
vestment where economy Is a factor.
Peau de soie in white may be worn
but the colored silk Is too old.
A white cloth costume will be useful
for many occasions later, and may
be draped softly, so as not to appear
stiff.
HIS PERSISTENCE.
“There is no denying the fact that
the Americans are a people of wonder
ful resource and assurance,” remark
ed, says the New York Tribune, an
Englishwoman recently, half envious
ly and half disparagingly “.They ven
ture in 'where angels fear to tread’
with perfect aplomb and audacity, and
once there, I must admit, they act as
If to the ’manner born.’ and rarely
commit any solecism or mistake. In
England, even the upper middle class
of good birth and position seldom as
pire to alter their condition, and are
content to remain in that state of life
in which it has pleased Providence to
place them.’ Americans, on the other
hand, although they might be born In
the slums, would feel that so long as
they had the stamp of the golden eagle
on their belongings they might aspire
to the society of royalty Itself; and
not only desire to have the position,
but would find means somehow or oth
er to get It. I heard of a characteristic
Instance of this truly American trait
only the other day. A man from one
of the Western States who had mnde
an immense fortune In the manufac-
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ture and sale of boots and shoes, set
tled with his family for the winter at
A , the ‘residenz stadt’ of one of
the most aristocratic little court in
Europe, which, in lieu of territory
and power, kept up Its prestige by an
ultra ex-'smart.’ When Mr. X. took a
very grand ’hotel,’ and arranged ev
erything on a magnificent scale for
the season, he expected, of course, that
he would have the entree to the high
est society, and was greatly chagrined,
and for the time being discouraged,
when told that selling boots and shoes
would effectually debar him, together
with his wife and daughters, from be
ing presented at court or attending
ont of the best functions. ‘But the Z’s
go to court,’ he argued, speaking of an
American who had made his money in
trade. ’Ah. but he is entered in the
court records as a philanthropist,’ said
the Baron M , who was explaining
the difficulty to the millionaire. A
few days after that all the newspapers
in C announced that boots and
shoes would be given away to the
needy at the various establishments of
the X brothers on a certain day
every week for a certain length of
time, and the papers were filled with
the pralces of their generosity.’l think
I have earned the title of philanthro
pist,’ said Mr. X, showing the file of
newspapers to Baron M , who was
the arbiter elegantum of court eti
quette, and was only too glad to find
cause to admit the wealthy and at
tractive Americans to the innermost
circles.”
T RIM 0 F MOURNING.
“English ideas in regard to mourn
ing differ considerably from those
generally entertained on this side of
the Atlantic,” said a matron, to the
New York Tribune. “Not only is the
length of time prescribed by custom
and Mrs. Grundy of wearing very deep'
black much shorter, but the period of
seclusion from the world is almost in
finitesimal. according to American
ideas. It is not, however, that Eng
gish people feel less intensely, or that
they forget their loved ones more
readily than do American. It is sim
ply the philosophy of King David,
who, after having lain prone in ag
ony before his child’s death, refusing
to be comforted, arose and returned
to his worldly duties as soon as all
was over. Sometimes, however, their
acceptation of irrevocable conditions
is somewhat startling. At a large
subscription dinner given at some
German spa by the guests of one of
the hotels, one of the women present
appeared in the deepest black, draped
from head to foot with a huge crepe
veil. ‘As my husband has only been
dead six week.’ she explained to the
women who were acting as hostesses
of the occasion, ‘I thought it would be
disrespectful to his memory to discard
my veil.’ So, having shown her loyalty
to his memory in this peculiar fashion
she proceeded to enjoy the feast with
as much zest as the others.
ADVICE7OR BACHELORS.
Agree with the girl’s father in poli
tics and the mother in religion, says
the Chicago Journal.
If you have a rival, keep an eye
on him. If he is a widower, keep two
eyes on him.
Don’t put too much sweetstuff on pa
per. If you do you will hear it in
after years when your wife has some
especial purpose in inflicting upon you
the severest punishment known to a
married man.
Go home at a reasonable hour In
the evening. Don’t wait until a girl
has to throw her whole soul into a
yawn that she can’t cover with both
hands. A little thing like that might
cause a coolness at the very begin
ning of the game.
If, on the occasion of your first call,
the girl upon whom you have set your
young affections looks like an iceberg
and acts like a cold wave, take your
leave early and stay away. Woman In
her hour of freeze Is uncertain, coy
and hard to please.
In cold weather finish saying good
night in the house. Don’t stretch It all
the way to the front gate, and thus
lay the foundation for future asthma,
bronchitis, neuralgia and chronic ca
tarrh to help you to worry the girl aft
er she has married.
Don’t lie about your financial condi
tion. It is very annoying to a bride
who has pictured a life of ease in her
ancestral halls to learn too late that
you expect her to ask a bald-headed
old parent who has been uniformly
kind to her to take you both in out of
the cold.
TO HAVE PRETTYIHANDS.
It Is no easy matter to keep the
hands in good condition at any season,
says the Philadelphia Ledger, but now
that cold weather is coming on, they
require special attention, for nothing
Is more distasteful than to see a wom
an, well dressed and lady-like, but
with hands cracked and red from the
cold.
Even when a woman is subjected to
manual labor, she should be able to
do away to a great extent with the 111
effects of her work, and as for young
girls, there Is no excuse for rough or
untidy-looking hands.
Of course, It is an expensive mat
ter to consult a manicurist very often,
but a visit now and then does won
ders. and with a little practice it is
possible to treat the hands at home
the rest ot the time.
In the first place, a silver or any
sharp-pointed instrument should never
be allowed to touch the fingers, and in
order to do away with the encroach
ments of the cuticle around the nail,
the hands should be soaked in hot
water anil good soap for ten or Of
ten minutes, and when the hands feel
soft and pliable, take a blunt orange
stick (which may be procured for a
few cents at any druggist’s) and press
the offending skin gently back until
the pale half moona at the bases of
the nulls are uncovered, taking care,
however, not to press so hard as to
cause an appearance of the little white
blemishes that are apt to appear after
harsh treatment.
When the hands have been thorough
ly dried with a molt doth, It Is an ex
cellent thing to press ths nails deep
into the half of a lemon until the nails
sre thoroughly wet with the add,
which Is a good cleanser and beautl
her. When ths lemon juice has been
*•’fitly wiped off, the nails may be
polished with a wad of toweling. If a
regular nsll polisher Is not at hand.
This treatment should be undergone
gvsry week, but the cutide should be
pressed back every time the bands are
snM.
If the nails are brittle, a little vase
line or cold cream, well banked in at
night, and protected by a pair of old
gloves, will soon remedy this.
If the hands chap easily, a few drops
of pure glycerine and rose water, ap
plied while the hands are wet with hot
water, and well rubbed in and then
gently dried with a soft cloth, will do
much to prevent the evil, or cure it if
the mischief is already done.
Sometimes, but not often, glycerine
does not agree with the skin, and if
this seems to be the case, aply at a
good pharmacist's for some pure prep
aration that will answer the purpose
and not cause irritation.
Children should never be allowed to
to get their hands in bad condition. It
Is all very well to excuse it on the
ground of their youth, but in years to
come the child will bitterly regret the
neglect of former years, when the
hands will .become red and unsightly
in winter. There is no doubt but that
playing jackstones to excess enlarges
the knockles, and snowball making
with the bare hands is ruinous, some
times permanently, unless the poor lit
tle frosted members are carefully
treated at bed time, in spite of youth
ful protests and nodding heads.
MAXIMS FOR MENAND WOMEN.
When a woman says she wouldn’t
marry the best man alive she speaks
the truth; she couldn’t get him, says
the Chicago Journal.
“To-morrow” is the reef that has
cost the life of many a business man.
If every woman’s face was her for
tune there would he a run on the veil
market.
Justice might take your part, but
Injustice takes your all.
Too many irons in the fire eat up
much expensive coal.
Don’t take a polite acknowledgment
for an encore.
The man who jumps at conclusions
usually falls with them.
Curiosity ofttimes hides behind the
mask of solicitude.
Everything comes to him who waits,
except the waiter.
When you are arguing with a fool,
just remember the fool is doing the
same thing.
SOME FAVORITE”DISHES.
Queen Victoria is said to have given
mutton the preference in the line of
meats, and was nowise offended if of
fered "the cold shoulder.”
Queen Elizabeth, says What to Eat,
was very fond of roast goose. She was
dining on this when the good news was
brought to her on Michaelmas day
that the Spanish fleet had been driven
back. And ever since that fowl has
been to the English feast of St. Mich
ael what the turkey is to our Thanks
giving Day. Henry VIII was extreme
ly fond of beans, and imported a
Dutch gardener to raise them, as in
his day they were only used by the
upper classes—“a dish to set before
the King.” Napoleon’s favorite dish
was a bean salad, much cheaper in
his time, but equally good. Louis XV
was “extravagantly” fond of a dish
made of the eggs of various birds,
which cost SIOO.
George Eliot, while at Brookbank,
used frequently'to walk to the farm
where she bought her vegetables, and
chat with the farmer’s wife on gar
dening and butter making, who was
somewhat surprised at the great novel
ist’s conversation on such homely top
ics, and afterwards remarked: “It
were wonderful. Just wonderful, the
sight o’ green peas that I send down
to that gentleman and woman every
week.” This was the summer “Mid
dlemarch” was written.
George Sand not only liked sauces,
but excelled in making them. Lincoln,
in the days when he did his own mar
keting, often stopped at a certain shop
for his favorite—gingerbread. He used
to say, "It swells up and makes me
feel as if I had had something...
Stonewall Jackson delighted in buck
wheat cakes—in season and out of sea
son.
Charles Sumner’s private secretary
tells of the statesman’s sweet tooth
for chocolate creams. Andrew Jack
son surrendered to Ice cream, at first
taste, .when it was introduced into
Washington, and swore his usual oath
—"By the Eternal!” —he would have it
at the White House, and he did—at
the next reception. Washington was
noted for his fondness for hickory
nuts and the amount he could con
sume.
IMPROVING THE PROFILE.
If one’s profile Is not all it ought
to be, one can go to work and reform
it. The profile, says the Brooklyn
Eagle, Is not immovable, as many per
sons seem to think, but, on the con
trary, it can be decidedly influenced.
One can change It so that it looks en
tirely different from the profile as it
now is.
To change the profile, take the de
fects first and remedy them. If the
teeth protrude, have them straight
ened. Straightening the teeth is not
at all difficult these days. There come
certain appliances which can be fixed
upon the teeth in such a manner as
to bring them into line with the rest
of the mouth.
The next thing to do in reforming
the profile is to straighten the nose.
If the nose is crooked in the bridge,
and there are many people with
crooked noses, have it straightened.
The nose is built upon a soft carti
lage, or muscle, which Is easily
shaped with the fingers. The opera
tion of straightening the nose Is not
at all a difficult one. By all means
have it attended to at once.
If the nostrils are distended, giving
the nose an ugly, wide appearance,
have them treated. Distended nos
trils are caused by a defect In the
breathing apparatus. Asthma and
a cold in the head, and all the kin
dred ills, will have the effect of dis
tending the nostrils. Oct the breat^-
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ing apparatus in good working order
and the nose will be 100 per cent,
prettier.
Sharp eyebrows never make a pretty
profile. Get a small bottle of pure
olive oil and put It in a dish of hot
water. Let the water remain hot, and
add a teaspoon ful of red vaseline to
an ounce of the oil. Stir while it
cools, and the result is a very soft
pomade, which is just the thing to
use as an eyebrow grower.
Take a small camels hafr hrush
and go over the eyebrow's every
night. Outline the brows Just exact
ly as they are desired to be. Next
morning wash the face w'ith hot
water. Do this every night, and the
reward will be abundant and pretty
eyebrows.
Many people have ugly profiles be
cause they have ugly eyes. The eyes
are blinky and watery, and it is im
possible to open them wide. They
must be treated until they are clear
and pretty.
To treat the eyes successfully, take
a bowl of warm water—say a pint of
water, and dissolve into it a teaspoon
ful of powdered borax. Set the bowl
where it will keep hot, and then
bathe the eyes with the solution. Use
it every night before going to bed.
The beauty of to-day, or the home
ly woman of to-day, could not put in
an hour better at bed time. If she
will take a full hour for the prepara
tion of her face for the night she will
be rewarded by a greater measure of
beauty than she has ever before pos
sessed.
The wrinkles between the eyes—
and all women of 30 have this wrin
kle—must be massaged away. Then,
too, all the little querulous lines in
the forehead must be brushed away
with the finger tips. Besides this, the
chin must be nicely managed to keep
away the crow’s feet from around
the mouth.
Steaming the face is a process best
done at night. Wet the face with
very hot water, and let the skin be
come smoking hot, but not so hot as
to blister it. Don’t allow the steam
to play directly upon the skin, but
rather apply hot cloths until the skin
is warm through. lit takes a little
practice to know just how hot the
water should be.
Now is the time to wash the face
well with soqp and water. Only the
very best of soap should be used, and
for this purpose the highly advertised
brands are generally best. Shaving
soap is pretty sure to be pure, and
many women use it in preference.
Wash the face thoroughly and rinse
well. Rinsing is very important.
Finally apply a little cold cream to
the face, rubbing it well into the
skin. Next morning wash it off.
This course of advice, if carefully
followed, will certainly bring about
its own reward in an increased de
gree of beauty.
And particularly will it benefit the
profile, for it is when seen in side
view that facial defects are most
plainly evident.
Varied Economies
Hidden in Cheese
The housekeeper of economical
mind should not fall to make a thor
ough study of cheeses. They go far
toward giving zest to a meal and are
really nourishing. They contain
nitrogenous matter and are. therefore,
a muscle or tissue building food.
Cheese is a concentrated food, how
ever, and should 'be eaten in small
quantities as a relish rather than the
fundamental element of a meal.
The common American cheese is
generally supposed to be the most
digestible of its family. In reality it
is not so easily digested as those
which are known as rips or old
cheeses, such as Camembert, Roque
fort and Brie. The housewife of sys
tematic habits will stock up her pan
try with different cheeses for different
purposes. For flavorings, making rare
bits and for cooked dishes, she will
use a good grade of American cheese
or Parmesan. The latter can be
bought, ready grated, in bottles.
The best cheeses to serve with salad
are the medium rich, such as Pine
apple, Edam. English Dairy and
American full cream. The Neuchatel
or Philadelphia cream cheese is also
served with salad, but is less easy to
digest than the medium rich cheeses
mentioned before.
The most popular after-dinner
cheeses are Roquefort, Camembert,
Stilton, Limburger, Brie, Schweitzer
and Gorgonzola, all very rich and ripe.
Presumably they are all imported
cheeses. Quite often, however, they
are made in America, and dealers
claim that they give Just as good sat
isfaction as the imported articles.
When cheese is served both with
the salad and with the coffee course
a very dainty accompaniment for
green salad with French dressing is
this: Spread thin saltlnes with a mix
ture of grated American cheese and
butter in the proportion of two table
spoonfuls of cheese to one of butter.
Dust lightly with cayenne pepper and
stand for a moment or so In a quick
oven. For cheese served with the
final dinner course, there is nothing
more appropriate than hard crackers,
split and toasted a golden brown.
The resourceful housewife will find
cheese an ever-present help in time of
emergency. If company arrives un
expectedly for dinner, a roll of Neu
chate! cheese with a glass of Guava
Jelly or the imported Bar-le-Duc (cur
rants or strawberries put up in honey)
served with crackers and coffee, is
an elegant substitute for the more
elaborate pudding or ice. If the Guava
or Bar-le-Duc are not counted among
her pantry supplies, -any preserved
small fruit will do, strawberries pre
ferred.
But it is as a flavoring or garnish
for some simply made dish that
cheese plays its most Important part
in culinary economics. With an other
wise cold supper on a winters night
melted cheese on toast is a welcome
hot dish. Lay squares or triangles of
buttered toast on a thick stoneware
platter and cover over thickly with
grated cheeae. Have the oven very
hot, slip the dish upon the top rack
and close the door. If the cheese is
rich it will melt quickly. As soon as
it Is melted place the hot platter on
another of larger size or on a tray
and serve the toothsome dainty direct
ly from the platter on which It was
cooked.
Cheese balls are delicious when
served hot with salad. They call for
one cup dry cheese, grated; three
dropi, of Worcestershire sauce, whites
of two eggs, well beaten; pinch of
salt. Mold into soft balls, roll in
break crumbs, Jill wire basket and
cook In hot lard until brown.
Cheese cakes to be used for the
same purpose are made as follows:
One cup flour, pinch of cayenne. Mix
with melted butter, roll out as thin
as pastry, cut In muni rakes and
bake In quick oven a light brown.
A standard dish may sometimes be
varied by the Introduction of a dash
of cheese. For Instance, a plain broth.
su<4i as mutton or veal. Is Improved
by the addition of grated cheese. The
latter is not added to the soup while
it Is In the pot but a pretty dleh. Oiled
with grated •heese stands nest to
the tureen and a tableepoonful or two
Is added to the service of each piste.
Herr sre tw# ways of giving mm to
Hi* regulation potato recipes Crsagi
• old bolted potatoes in the usual man
ner. Fla os in a Olak and oo esr woU
Make the side face pretty and on*
will have added a certain attractive
ness to the face which it did not pos
sess before.
POTATOES AS PENWIPERS.
Homely, ugly, without beauty of any
kind, yet serving a purpose and serv
ing this purpose so well that no sub
stitute can be found, says the Louis
ville Courier-Journal, which wifi pe;.
form the same task as well, the Irish
potato, that protector of the hungry
and standby of the poor, is still bet
ter than any penwiper which can fi
de vised by the ingenuity of man. u
is used not only by a small country
hotel, but also by the most fashion
able and costly in the cities. it j s
simply plain potato, too, in all places.
No attempt is made to disguise its ap
pearance. In the Galt House and in
Seelbach’s Hotel the potato is the
main reliance. The Louisville hotels all
use them, and the bill at the end of
the year for potatoes which, are used
for this simple purpose is not small.
Just w-ho discovered that the Irish
potato is the best pen receiver which
can be found is not know. The mar
remains unfamed and his name is not
written on the long list of American
iniventors. But he deserves some
thing. Some historian, delving into
the past and endeavoring to dig up losi
events of the past which are important
in the present, should find the name of
the man who first jabbed a pen into
a potato and found that it would
cleanse and preserve the pen without
attaching to it small fibers which
would smear the ink if the pen was
put to use.
Louisville hotels have been using
the Irish potato for years, and they
still use it. On the desk in each office
is a large potato and ip it a bristling
array of penholders, and points stuck
deep into the inky sides of the tuber
Many substitutes have been tried,
but all of them have been found want
ing, and the potato rules supreme. At
Seelbach’s Hotel recently anew desk
stand was bought. It had an arrange
ment for holding the pens, but a few
days’ trial soon convinced the clerks
that it was no good. The steward was
called up, a potato was hurried to the
front office and soon was occupying
the place of its aristocratic substitute.
“There is a peculiar acid in the po
tato which neutralizes the ink on the
pens and prevents them from rust
ing.” explained H. M. Secor of Seel
bach’s Hotel, “and that is one of the
main reasons for using them. They
keep the pens clean, too, and there is
nothing hanging to the pen when it is
drawn out. It is the best thing we can
find, and I suppose the potato will be
used for a long time to come.”
with grated cheese. Dot with butter
and brown in the oven.
Baked Potatoes With Cheese —Select
potatoes of uniform size and bake.
When done cut the skin lengthwise of
the potato, remove some of the Inside
and crowd grated cheese into the cav
ity. Cover the opening with white of
egg and brown.
Cheese souffle is an extremely dainty
luncheon or supper dish. It is also
used as an entree for dinner. Have
ready a quarter of a pound of rich
American cheese grated. Put a pint
of milk into a double boiler or into a
thick pan where it will not burn. Stir
in a quart of stale bread crumbs. Beat
until the mixture is smooth. Now add
the cheese. Cook for a minute, no
longer. Season with a dash of cayenne
and a little salt Remove from the Are
and add the yolks or four eggs, mix
lightly and stir In the well-beaten
whites. Pour Into a stoneware baking
dish and bake ten minutes in a quick
oven. Serve directly it is removed from
the oven, from the dish in which It was
baked.
Very few housekeepers have master
ed the art of cooking macaroni with
cheese. The article generally offered
on the American dinner table is heavy,
dry and tasteless. If a good creamy
combination of cheese and macaroni is
desired, fry this recipe:
Take a quarter of a package of
macaroni, break it into lengths of
about three inches and drop it h)to
boiling salted water. Cook rapidly for
twenty minutes, drain and throw into
very cold water for ten minutes more.
This will 'blanch it a pure white and
prevent its turning the ugly grayish
hue which spoils the appearance of the
complete dish. While it is blanching,
chop a quarter of a pound of mellow
American cheese, or measure out a
quarter of a pound of grated Parme
san. Rub a tablespoonful into the
same quantity of flour, add a coffee
cupful of hot milk and stir over the
fire until it reaches the boiling point,
gutter the enamel or china lining of
your silver pudding dish and cover
the bottom with macaroni. Dust with
salt and pepper and sprinkle thickly
■with cheese. Then add another layer
of the macaroni, and so continue until
the dish is full, having cheese for the
top layer. Pour over this the white
sauce, add another sprinkling of
cheese, and bake in a moderate oven
twenty to thirty minutea It should
be a golden brown color when served.
For luncheons, the macaroni may
toe cut into smaller pieces after being
boiled, and then baked with its creamy
cheese dressing in individual dishes
or ramakiu shells.
Never throw away the shell off a
pineapple or Edam cheese. Fill It
with boiled macaroni and cream sauce
and set Into the oven on a baking dish
lined with heavy white paper and bake
In a moderate oven fifteen or twenty
minutes. The shell will provide the
necessary cheese flavor and no <diopi
ped or grated cheese should be added
to the cream dressing. Serve this
shell on a paper lace dolley or folded
napkin.
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