The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-04-20

the affairs Of the day she is better versed
than the wife of any President we have had
since Mrs. Polk.
She is lady somewhat under the medium
size, we'll made and we'll proportional,
belonging on the whole to the order of little
women. She has face well composed ex-
pressive and harmonious features, with fair
and bright complexion, black hair and eyes
Her manner is little shy, yet piquant. and
she has marked and cheerful laugh, q
sense Of the humorous and of her own digni-
ty, and cheerful, happy nature, She is
fond of housekeeping, afectionate, yet de-
cided in her rules of household government,
and withal a well balanced, sensible and
interesting women. She enters the White
House with the good wishes of the whole
country, and there is no reason todoubt that
she will make the Executive Masion home
as well as palace, and inculcate in it the
private as well as the public virtues which
should adorn it.-Boston Journal.
Hints to Women on Taking Care OF Their
Hands,
This weather is apt to be hard on hands
that are in and out of water, hot or cold, or
soapy, as are the hands of most busy house
keepers. The girls, too, look with regret on
their own shapely fingers, growing red and
perhaps dingy with the days work and ex-
posture. Such good servants as these same
two hands are worth taking care of, and
their efficiency is largely increased by such
system. Don't put them into very hot
water, even though they stand it. 1t spoils
them and is entirely unnecessary. Don't
carelessly use an excess of soap about your
work where less will answer just as well.
1t eats away the outer skin and makes it
rough and cracked like an old plaster cast
Use fork and dish-cloth in washing
your dishes, if the water must be very hot
and soapy; or better still, provide l,tle
mop" for the purpose, one for the dishes
and one for the stoneware. Some of the
best housekeepers I know do this always
They wash their own dishes and yet can sit
down at the piano and play with the grace
and ease of one who does nothing else. They
can work in woods and silks without having
the fbers stick to their fingers in such a
fuzzy way that it CRATES on the nerves like
filing saw. You know how it is if you
have tried fancy work after big washing.
Cover your hands when you go out into the
cold. Make cloth mittens out of anything
soft and light you happen to have. Stitcn
them of on the machine, and it will not
take you ten minutes. Use them in sweep
ing snow paths and in all exposing work
If you build fires be sure to keep pair OF
gloves for that purpose. 1t will serve you
more than it will cost A drop or two OF
vinegar rubbed over the hands takes away
the disagreeable feeling they have after
washing. 1t is good way when the day:
work is done to wash them in warm water
rubbing well with teaspoonful of Indian
meal, then wipe them thoroughly. 1t will
leave them as white and soft as can be under
the circumstances. Indian meal is great
cosmetic, and was once sold in England at q
guinea an ounce for that particular purpose
alone. No one thinks of using il thought
is so cheap and so common. Just try it once
before going out TO party or to church, and
you will be sure to use it again.
If, after all, the hands become chapped, as
a delicate skin is apt to do, just keep always
handy box of lard and beeswax, melted TO-
gether, andSub over them at night. 1t is al
excellent simple remedy, and always access
ible. If you will add to it the green inside
bark of elder, scrsped off and boiled up in
the lard, you will have a specific for more
small, domestic ills than any application OF
the kind know, and the expense is almost
nothing. Like patent medicine, sit cures
everything"
Take good care of your hands, girls, and
you may perform mountains of hard work
with them and and yet keep them compare
lively soft and supple. Tits neglect and bad
usage which makes the hands of so many
working-women hard and knotty and rough,
like flea misery to themselves when they
go about any lighter work, and not half SO
helpful and useful as they might have been