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THE GIORGIANS MAGAZINE PAGE—
The Story of a Young Girl"s Struggles
The Fortunes
of Fanny
By Virginia Terhune Van de
Water.
(Copyright, 1814, by The Star Company )
1 do not wish to discuss the mat
ter further,” she sald at last. “What |
do I my own bhusiness and mine
only "
After which she switched off the
m and returned to her bed Put
an exclamation of anger, Della
bounced up, turned on the light and
shut the tmansom. with a hang 'hat
reverberated through the sllent
house,
*You'll leave that be!” she declared,
shrilly. “1 gness I've got as good a
right to do as I please as you have
you white-faced, red-headed
A sudden knock on the door stopped
her in the midst of her tirade
“Delia! Delia!" called Mrs. irwin
sharply. “What is all this noise
about? It's disgraoceful, and 1 won't
stand it! Open the door!”
For Delia had turned the key be
bind her when she came up to bed
As she obeyed her mistress orders
she stood revealed, flushed and an
BTy,
‘“What is all this noise about ™ Mrs
Irwin repeated.
“.wqmun Della started to ex
plain; “it's.freezin’ lam with so mu n
&h the room, but Fanny will have
transom open and I'm just after
teflin’ her that I'll not have it open.”
“Good heavens!"” exclaimed the ma
tron as she stepped into the room.
“1 don't see haow either of you can
breathe in the atmosphere In here
Why, it's actually foul-—that's what it
is—foul! Fanny might better wshut
the transom and open the window and
. let out some of thiz awful odor. This
is enough to make you both ill sul”
—with a shrug of her shoulders and
::nmat the stlent gir! Iving on her
—*“do as you please! I don't cam
a whit about my servants' quarrels
but they've got to keep them to them- l
- selves and not disturb me Under
stand-—both of you!”
. Mrs. Irwin Orders
~ Silence and Departs. .
' _And with another disgusted sniff
‘she went from the room and down
,?c siairs with as much dignity as
‘as compatible with an elderdown
m'n robe and a palr of large felt
! m was silence, during which
Fanny turned her face to the wall and
closed her eves. She was too sick at
heart to argue further. Talk did no:
good.
Delia, after waiting for a moment
for m of hostilities, put out
the and got back into bed. She
had won the battle, she reflected, for
the transom was closed.
80 soothing was this thought to the
tired cook that she was soon asleep.
and snoring loudly. Fanny lay mo
tionless for a long while untll the
nerve-racking proof of her compan
jon's unconsciousness of her present
surroundings had persisted for almost
an hour. Then, slipping softly from
her bed, the unhappy girl set the
transom ajar
But even then Fanny could not
ud:'p. Anything was better than this
of life, she told herself. It was
bad enough to be a mservant—but it
was worse still to be with another
servant such as this one. Now she
understood what was the most ab
‘:M.NO part of domestic service
a refined girl. It was the enforced
!.4 unavoidable companionship of
| "m_:" e
. events of the evening had de
clded Fanny Hedden as to her course.
She would seek a place as general
housework maid. She would tell Mrs.
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| Irwin to-morrow morning that she
was going to leave her when her
month was up, two days hence. And
with this decision she fell into an un
cary sleep.
CHAPTER XL
FTER breakfast the following
' ‘A morning Fanny knocked timid.
ly at her mistress’ door. When
| she obeyed the summons to “come In”
she found that Mrs. Irwin was not
Jalone, but thut Mr. Irwin's sister was
sitting there sewing
“What Is it, Fanny?™ Mrs, Irwin
arked kindly
With downcast eyes and a volee
that trembled, Fanny sald that she
had decided to leave when her month
‘mn up, day after 10-morrow,
“1 think I'd better look for another
place,” she explained
Mrs. Irwin flushed indignantly. 1
suspected all along that that was
what vou meant to do, ' she declared
“That's the way with all of you inex
perienced girls. You take a position,
give the lady no end of trouble teach
ing vou, then, as soon as yon think
vou know a little something, you try
to get a place with higher wages"”
The girl ventured a gentle remon
strance. “Oh, no, ma'am,” she pfo
tested, “indeed that is not my idea.
You have taught me a great deal and
I am grateful to you for it—for I
know | was very ignortant when [
came here. But lam not thinking of
the wages at all”
*“1 should hope not, indeed!”™ Mrs.
Irwin retorted. “For you certaiply are
not worth a cent more than you are
getting—although 1 did intend to pay
you $2 more next month if you did
well. 1 suppose, then, you are leaving
because you and Delia have guar
reled.” |
Fanny did not reply to this charge
and her misiress changed hersaccu
sation to a question. “You are leav
ing because of a quarre]l with Delia,
aren’'t yon?"
“l think,” Faony bvaded, “thatyl!
would be happler if 1 could go where
1 could have a room to myself”
- wxnder." Mrs. Irwin sald sar
castically, “that you have not sug
gested my giving up my guest room
for your use! Yes—you can leave,
and weleome! But— rimember—l
shall give you no refercice. Since
vou are leaving me in this high-hand
ed and ungrateful way, | will treat
yYou just as you are treating me, and
consider my own convenience before
youre. Moreover, | would not recom
merd to any lady a girl who Is so un
settled and as discontented as you
are. Understand? Do not give my
name to anvbody to whom you apply
Miss Trwin O '
Her Own Name. :
An hour later, as Fanny was dust
ing the lower hall, Miss Irwin came
g:wnnuln and paused to speak to
r.
“l am sorry,” the spinster said,
“that you are going away-—but [ think
I understand your attitude. | have
often thouglt myself that if I were a
girl in service I would find it hard to
have to share my room with anyone
elge—and relinquish all chances of
privacy. But Mrs. Irwin has not per
haps thought the matter out as fully
as 1 have. And she has reaily been
very kind and patient about teaching
you.” <
“Yes, ma'am, indeed, she has"|
Fanny acknowledged. “And, really, ||
am grateful for what she has done.’
And I'm sorry she feels as she does
ahout my leaving.”
Mrs, Irwin hesitated. “You never
lived out before—did vou, child?" she
asked, abruptly, at last, I
“No, ma'am,” Fanny confessed, :
“I thought mot” Miss Irwin said.|
“Perhaps,” she added, in a low mnp,l
“if vou want a reference you would
like to glve my name ang address.”
“Oh, thank you!" Fanny exclaimed.
“You are very kind, Miss Irwin.” |
“Not kind at all,’ said the lady: |
“only I can imagine myself in ,\'nur!
place-—~that's all. But, vou know, all
employvers don't understand.”
A night's sleep secemed to have
sweetened Delia’s temper, for she
spoke pleasantly to Fanny that morn
ing and made no reference to the
trouble of the previous night. Fanny.
glad to be spared the humiliation of
further quarreling with he rhot
blooded and loud-voiced fellow work
er, met Delia's overtures halfway, She
could afford to be magnanimous now
that she was going to leave. She did
not tell Delia of her intention unti!
late that afternoon. The cook looked
almost shocked at the news.
“Sure, Fanny,” she asked, anxious
ly,, “vou'll not be after leavin’ on my
account, will you? It's a very bad
thing for one girl to be the cause of
another girl’s leavin'”
Fanny smiled reassuringly at the
cook's evident uneasiness, and evaded
a direct answer to the question. The
ethics of Delia’s class were too puz
#zling for her to attempt to under
stand them, .
“1 am going to try to get a place as
general houseworker,” she informed
her. I know now a good deal about
waiting on the table, and I've learned
quite a bit about cooking from
watching you since I came here. Of
course, I knew how to cook some
things even before that.”
“Oh, it's higher wages you're after,
is it?" Delia looked relieved. “Well,
1 don't blame you. She sure don't pay
you much.”
Delia had the habit, peculiar to her
kind, of speaking of her employer as
“she.” rather than by her name.
Fanny Starts Out
For a New Situation.
“The safest way to get a good place
is to go to a first-class intelligence
office,” she told Fanny. “Then you're
pretty sure of gettin’ with decent
folks. Of course, you'll have to pay
a fee at an office; but it's dangerous
answerin' advertisements. You can't'
ever tell what Kkind of rough place
you'll get into through adverflsa-l
ments.”
Fanny remembered how many ad
vertisements she had already an
swered, and yet had come through
safely But, now that she knew she
had incurred a risk, she was afraid to
do so again,
Thus it came about that the next
day, after transferring her trunk
from Mrs. Irwin's to the basement of
a lodging house in which she was to
spend the night, Fanny Hedden regis
tered at an employment agency and
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T rect fashion, choosing Cupid for his counsel. Although the verdict
must come from the girl he loves, whose bright eyes have so be
witched him, he realizes that the jury is most important. In a masterly
tashion he wins over her friends, one bir one. Yet at the last moment,
when victory seems near, wild panic seizes him. In vain does Cupid assure
'g.ne Miss Irwin's name as that of a
person who would vouch for her good
‘Nmrm-lrr and ability.
CHAPTER XLIV.
HE position which Fanny Hed
den secured as general house
work maid was with a Mrs
Abbott. She was a widow with three
children—two boys, aged. respective
ly. 14 and 16, and one daughter, 20
yvears old, All the washing was “put
out,” and Fanny was sure that she
would have no difficulty in perform
ing the work of the eight-room-and
bath apartment. As there were no
stairs, up and down which one must
g 0 many times a day, the place should
not be a hard one,
Her room was small and insufti
ciently lighted—yet she had it all to
herself. It opened directly off the
kitchen—a fact which had its disad
vantages as well as its conveniences.
The odors from the cooking had a
way of lingering in the small cham
ber and among the mald's clothes.
But Fanny tried not to notice these
trifling drawbacks to her general
fort.
She had not been long with Mrs,
Abbott before she learned that in
many ways the position of general
houseworker was not a simple one.
Her new mistress was fastidious
about her maid's appearance and In
sisted that she look neat and dainty
when she opened the front door or
waited on the table, It was not easy
to remove a large gingham apron and
slip on a white one and get ddwn the
long hall to the front door before the
person who rung the door bell once
rang it a second tlme. Nor was it
easy to have one's black dress, white
apron, collar and cuffs immaculate
when one must cook the dinner, serve
It and wait on the table,
¥anny did her best. Mrs. Abbott
was not strong and did wo housework
herself. Her daughter—whom Fanny
was told to address as “Miss Emily"
—went Into society a great deal and
did not even make her own bed. The
two boys had never been trained to
be careful about the condition of their
reoms, and, as they were untidy and
careless, they Increased the maid's
work.
But Fanny had determined not to
be discouraged. As she had no friends
whom she could visit at present, she
went out seldom. She had a morbid
fear that Nellie and her companions
would wish to aveid her now that she
was in service, so she did not ‘make
her whereabouts known to them nor
go to see them. Mrs. Abbott noticed
her disinclination toward sociability,
but did not suggest that her maid rest
in her room on her Thursday after
noons and evenings and her Sunday
aftrnoons and evenings Y.y
No Counsideration
At All for Her.
“If you want to go out,” the mis
tress would say, "of course you can
gO. But if you are going to remain
at home you might as well get din
mer and wait on the table as usual.”
At first Fanny was not wise enough
to resent this suggestion, but after a
while she discovered that she was
growing pale and losing energy. She
reached thig decision at the end of
several months in Mrs. Abbott's em
ploy. It was one Thursday morning,
an® her employer informed her that
Miss Emily was expecting two guests
to dine that evening.
“l know,” the lady said. “that yvou
will give us a good dinner.”
“But,” Fanny ventured mildly, “this
is my day out, yvou know.”
Mrs, Abbott looked surprised. “You
haven't been in the habit of taking
vour daw off since yeu came here. 1
did not suppose you wanted to do so.”
“Surely,” the daughter of the house
interposed, appearing in the doorway
at this juncture, “vou're not going out
to-night, Fanny-—just when I am go
ing to have especial/company.”
Fanny looked at the graceful figure
of the speaker, and a sense of resent
ment assailed her. Why should this
girl have pretty clothes, a happy home
and a servant to wait on her, while
she, Fanny Hedden, must work and
toil? Yet, she replied politely.
“] know I haven't been taking any
time off lately,” she acknowledged,
“but I really think I ought to, for I
need it. But since you are having
company to-night, I ean go out to
morrow afternoon and evening in
stead.” >
“Good!" exclaimed Emily, smiling
with, relief. But her mother objected.
‘ “That won't be . eonvenient,” she
said, “for the young gentlemen are
expecting friends to dinner to-mor
row night! You see, it will be Friday,
and they will have no studying to do
—so they like to have company then.”
Fanny remained silent. In her
breast revolt was surging. Why, just
because she was in service, should she
have no consideration? Were she in
a store, factory or office she would
have her evenings to herself.
“Well?” asked Mrs. Abbott, looking
at her. *“Are you going to insist on
taking an afternoon and evening off
this week?" -
Fanny Decides She Must
Stand Up for Herself.
Fanny spoke with enforced calm
ness, “No,” she said, “at least not
to-day or to-morrow-—since the young
gentlemen have invited friends here.
But T must go out either Saturday or
Sunday night—whichever time suits
you.”
Emily Abbott flushed with annoy
ance. “Really, Fanny.” she said, “vou
have chosen a very unfortunate time
to make this stand for your rights.
You know perfectly well that I expect
an old school friend from Boston to
spend Saturday and Sunday with ‘me,
and that if you are away on etther of
those ev:nings It will upset my plans
to have some people in to meet her,
and will spoil all my pleasure.”
Fanny spoke impulsively, her re
sentment getting for the moment the
better of her discretion. “But, Miss
himp he has won, and black gloom settles over him like a mantle. Well
he realizes that for his happiness this is the court of last appeal, and in
despair he throws himself on the mercy of the court. If«he could only see
her eyes, and the little smile hiding in the sweet curves of her lips, how
quickly would his suspense and misery disappear!
: —STELLA FLORES.
Emily, you forget that 1, too, have a
right to my pleasure!”
“Fanny,” Mrs. Abbott expostulated,
“l am surprised at your impertinence
to Miss Emily.”
“l 1 beg vour pardon.’ Fanny said,
controlling herself with an effort. “I
did not mean to be impertinent. But
a working girl has to look out for
herself. If she doesn’'t, nobody will
look out for her. 1 will stay in for
the rest of this week. But after thls
I must have my days ofi regularly,
please.”
Emily started to reply, but her
mother checked her by a warning
glance. @ '
“Very well,” Mrs. Abbott said to
Fanny. “l will arrange it hereafter.”
‘“What a fool I've been,” Fanny
!muttered later.to herself when alone
‘in her room. “That's the way with
|empl(),\'t~r's. If vou give them an inch
hhpy will later be angry because you
don't give them sn ell. I've learned
my lesson all right!”
, CHAPTER XLV. |
| N spite of Fanny's having “learned
{ her lesson,” she felt ill at em;e‘l
l when the next Thursday came and
Mrs. Abbott reminded her that it was
her day out. ‘
“I do not want to Interfere with
vour taking the recreation which you
iseem to feel you need,” she said,
sternly, “and 1 wish to avoid a repe-
Itmnn of last week’s discussion.”
Fanny knew this speech was in
tended to convey a subtle reproof, vet
at heart she had the consclousness
that she herself was right. Why, she
wondered, was she always at odds
with .the mistress in whose house she
worked? And when, having washed
her luncheon dishes and set the din
ner table, she started out for the aft
ernoon, the same thought was in her
mind. So absorbed was she in it that
she scarcely noticed that one of the
maids employed in the house was on
the elevator with her until the girl
bade her good afternoon.
“I've seen you onte or twice be
fore.” the mald said, “so I thought I
might as well pass the time of day
with yeou." : |
“Thank ,vm,," Fanny replied. Then,
as the pair reached the street, she
added, “My name’s Fanny Hedden.”
“I'm Ellen Gaines,” said the girl.
“We may as well walk as far as the
elevated together, if that's the way
you're going.”
Ellen had a fine face, and, before
Fanny knew it, she was telling her of
some of her perplexities. ‘“Don’'t you
find it hard,” she asked, “to do your
duty and yet not be imposed upon?”
“Ne¢,” Ellen replied. “Indeed, I don’t.
I've been in one place for four years.
I'm always treated right. As I'm a
New Englander, I'd be sure to notice
if people weren't fair with me. Amer
icans know what's what!”
“You must have a wonderful em
ployer,” Fanny remarked. “l 1 always
feel that I'm being despised, and that
I'm doing work for which I'm not fit
ted.” ;
Her companion looked at her keen
ly. “I guess you're not used to living
out—are you?" she questioned.
Fanny shook her head. “No," she
replied, flushing., *“I am not.”
“That's what's the matter, then,’
said the other. “You don’t understand
the rules.”
She Gets Some Advice
From a Friend.
“The rules?”
“Yes—the rules. You feel all the
time that you're too good for your
work, I guess, and you wouldn't be in
it if you could get something clse.
Isn’t that the truth?” '
“Yes,” Fanny acknowledged. *“I do
feel that.”
“Then you'd best change your job
or change your ideas,” Ellen advised.
“Now, see here—l'm older than you,
and I've seen a lot. 1 tried factory
work for a month once. I was next to
a girl I wouldn’'t be seen associating
with anywhere else; the boss swore
at-me once; one of the men scared me
by following me home nights. or
course, ] had all my evenings off—
but 1 was teo tired to do anything but
go to bed. I was unhappy all the time.
1 had been used to living out and
being looked after. So I came back to
a safe and comfortable job.” |
“Safe?” Fanny repeated. “And com
fortable?"
“Sure,” the girl averred. “I've learn
ed that if a maid does her dyty and is
in a nice family, it's about the most
comfortable job gcing. Her pay comes
in regular; she has the bést kind of
food: her room and her bed don’t|
cost her anything, and she is with re
fined, decent people. Besides, her
only expenses are her clothes. What
job is safer or more comfortable?”
“] hate it!” -Fanny exclaimed.
“Then get out of it,” her companion‘
counseled. “If you are too good for
it, the job’s too good for you. 1 don't
mean to be cross with you; but you
girls who are ashamed of living out |
make me tired. It's a business mat
ter, after all. If you do your part,
and respect yourself, your lady ‘will
appreciate you and be nice to you—
unless she's meaner than most. But,
of course, there's mean ones in all
classes. But the trouble with you is
that you don’t respect your work.
That's why you hate it.”
The words recurred to Fanny sev
eral hours later, as, with a fast-beat
ing heart, she went into a telephone
booth and called up Madame Ridet
ti's establishment and asked for “Miss
Benson.” A moment later Nellie
spoke.
“Oh, Nellie,” Fanny called, “this is
Fanny.”
“Why, Fan!” Nellie exclaimed eag
erly. “I've been so anxious about you!
Why haven't you let me hear from
vou and .what you've been doing?”
“Because,” Fanny tried to steady
her voice, “I thought that when you
knew what I am doing yvou might not
want to see me.”
“What do you meéan?” Nellie de
manded quickly. “What are you do
ing?" !
(To Be Continued To-morrow.)
Dancing as the Best
o Exercise §
As Practiced To-day Is the Most Effective Road to
‘ Good Health. .
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX,
ECENTLY a' young man who
R found himself worn out from the
exacting work of beilng secre
tary to a big corporation, went to one
of New York's cleverest specialists to
be, as he put it, “bullt up.”
The doctor looked the young busi
ness man over thoroughly and an
nounced that he was suffering from
nothing in the world but lack of exer
cise. “You need at least three hours
of strenuous exercise a day,” sald he,
“But, doctor, how am [ going to get
three hours’ exercise” My work keeps
me at my desk from 9 to 6.30, with a
possible hour out for lunch. Precious
little chance for fresh alr in that six
days-a-week schedule.” ;
“I'm not insisting on sunshine :nd‘
fresh air,” replied the physician. *“I1
'lold you to exercise. Do it at night.
|Do it in an attractive environment,
with music and laughter and pleasant
t companions to spur you on. Dance."”
And this great specialist advocated
[n course which is coming more and
' more to be respected by physicians
[and laymens Dance. There is no more
healthful, stimulating and altogether
pleasant exercise in all the list of
body builders.
Have you never wondered why the(
dancing craze swept the country so
broadly and gathered in citizens from
117 to 707 |
The best way to figure the thing out
is to dance a fulf four-minute phono
graph record to the steps of the old
fashioned waltz or two-step. Repeat
ithe same step over and over, Wwith no
| change in tempo or accent, for four
minutes. At the end of that time you
have had a period of strenuous exer
cise, and unless you are young and In
the prime of condition, you are likely
to be red-faced, panting, excessively
warm and much too worn out to look
forward to the next waltz or two-step
with any enthusiasm.
Here is the answer as to why the
dancing of our early youth was never
as populd¥ as that of the present dec
ade. The waltz and two-step were
“too much like work” te “zcome pop
ular for parents and grandparents, as
well as lusty young children. They
were good exercise, but you couldn’t
use them to put yourself ifi condition;
you had te be in condition before you
could venture into these overstrenuous
whirls.
Present-Day Advantages.
The dancing of the p:esrm day per
lmns combinations of steps, changes
of positions, variations from half time
to double quick, glides and walks
which combine into a whole in which
in each new position you rest and
readjust yourself from the last. The
followers of the new dance may begin
with simple steps which are pleasing
and enjoyable and exercise them
selves gradually back into a condition
of health or forward ihto a condition
of strength, where the most strenu
ous dips and evolutions are possible,
The new dancing is self-adjusting.
You fit it to your desires, to your lung
capacity, to your ability to keep cool,
[nnd to the nimbleness of your feet.i
Each personality may be fitted, So
grandfather and grandson both rise
joyfully tp the measures of fox trot.‘
canter waltz or one-step, and, to the
gels-same tune, dance joyously ac
cording to their conception of how to
“take a step.”
~ “Everybody's doing it” does not
quite explain the new dance and its
popularity. Everybody can do it—
this is the main reason for the spread
of the craze—and there are several
very good minor causes.
We all tire easily of the same thing
over and over again. There is no mo
notony to the new dancing. The mu
sic to which it is performed has a
swing and syncopated catchiness that
fairly express the mood and tempera
ment of our nation and generation.
Rhythm is a very natural expres
sion of feeling, Out of rhythm grew
poetry and music. Primitive peoples,
when they met for joyvous festivals,
lsvmyed naturally to their own chant
ng.
f)ancing is a splendidly perfected
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expression of rhythm. But when
dancing was a hard and fast one-twao,
one-two, one-two, it did not allow the
individual much chance for self-ex
pression.
A Real Blessing.
The man who comes out of his office
at 6 o'clock and who fairl~ drags his
feet along as he sets out mechanioally
to “walk home through the park” for
the splendid exercise it affords, misse
es anything splendid in the exercise
he takes because he thinks he ought
to. Where is no joy, no uplift in the
sodden way he Urags himself along
or lashes himself to proceed on the
balls of his feet perforthing dull and
uninteresting deep breathing exer
cises the while.
Exercises to perform its functions
in the way that is best for the body,
ought to be crisp and joyous. I
ought to fill the mind. “The tired
business man” who takes his exer
cise at walking, at driving home in
his motor car, or with some mechani
cal exerciser, may get fresh alr ar
movement or both. But all the while
he is probably going over his busi
ness problems and missing the re
laxation of tired nerves and stimula
tion of feeling which would make his
exercise wroth while
The man who can go out early in
the morning and ride horseback oe
have a good game of tennis or can
follow a golf ball over the undulat
ing links for hours is getting splen
did exercise.
But for the average business man
who hasn't a chance at the outdoor
world, excopt on Sundays or at va
cation time, the dance craze is a
blessing. The lazy society woman
whose most violent form of exercise
Las hitherto been to let her masseuss
work at flabYby tissues, now rises to
the ocecasion and joyfully whirls In
the dance. Men and women who
thought themselves too old for active
enjoyment, ind youth and light hearts
rising up from their own tripping
feet.
The doctor who advised the young'
businels man of frazzled nerves was
wise in his day and generation.
Exactly what will this tired man
find In dancing? First, his one chance
of exercise. Second, his one chance of
irelaxation and forgetfulness of all
his business problems, together with
stimulation of stagnant blood and
outworn muscles. Then joy and plea~
sant companifonship, And finally from
the music, the lights, the laughter
and the gayety in his own heart
which will renew him for the grind
of the next business day.
Dancing in moderation and with
sanity is probably the most healthful,
as well as the most pleasant, form of
exercise. And dancing is within the
reach of all—rich and poor, young
ana old.
Regard it on the high plane where
it 18 meant to be, as sane, healthy,
pleasant exercise. Reéemember that
once it was held in such high repute
that It was a religious rite. Respect
it as a fine chance for muscles and |
lungs and heart. Then this splendid
chance for self-expression will be
kept on the high plane its health
giving qualities and joy-promoting
ability deserves.
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§ WHEN YOU WASH YOUR
! HAIRDON'T USE SOAP.
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0 Most soaps and prepared shampoos
contain too much alkali, which is
very injurious, as it dries the scalp
and makes the hair brittle.
The best thing to use is just plain
mulsified cocoanut oil, for this is
pure and entirely greaseless. It's
very cheap, and beats soaps or any
thing else all to pleces. You can get
this at any drug store, and a few 3/
ounces will last the whole family for
months.
Simply moisten the hair with water
and rub it in; about a teaspoonful is
all that Is required. It makes an § |
abundance of rich, creamy lather,
cleanses thoroughly and rinses out
easily. The hair dries quickly and
evenly, and is soft, fresh looking,
bright, fluffy, wavy and easy to han
dle. Besides, it loosens and takes out
sver‘}v particle of dust, dirt and dan
ruil.
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