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SUMNER VERANDA "DON'TS."

Piled 2lot1 to the scalp every night, rubbing it
GLADYS WALLAs-Try this healing
Three drops of carbolic acid to four
ounces of rosewater. This is excellent
for red nose that Is caused by inflam-
each wart lightly with a lunar caustic
pencil once a day, being very careful not
to get the caustic on any other part of
the SKIN. The warts will turn black and
gradually disappear.
DuENNA-Many, many thanks.
ANXIOUS G. M.-The complexion brush
that l recommend is made of firm white
much more searching than the rubber
brush and therefore more cleansing.
There Is only one wholesome way of re-
and proper exercise. Avoid fattening and
farinaceous foods, such as rice potatoes
turnlpS and beets. Drink plenty of lem
onade and mineral waters; shun sweets:
never sleep more than seven hours and
exercise every spare moment Eat spar
milk
DAISY WESLEY-The hair tonic given
IL foregoing reply to Mrs. J. W. will helm
you. ! am sure. Touching the eyelashes
with castor oil will increase their growth,
spots come from various causes. They are
usually a sign of disordered digestion
Try bathing them in q little diluted lis
terine. l know nothing OF, either of the
medfcated soaps and prefer the pure
white CASTLE to any other for the face.
TRIALS-It is much wiser not to meddle
with any sort of bemish in the near
neighborhood of the eye. Frequently little
red Jumps like sites appear on the eve
lid. These consist of a small sac filled
with gelatinous substance The onIv
cure for them is to have them cut and the
contents of the sac removed. Bathing the
eyes with boracic acid may relieve the
redness of the lids. The bagginess NAV
come from weakness Of the eyes. but It is
usually the kidneys. Red hands are some,
times caused by tight sleeves or a too
snugly laced corset. The best way to
ing cold cream as soon as the Juice is drv
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best way to reduce the size of your waist
IS by general reducing of flesh. You
weigh about twenty-five pounds more
than you ought to weigh for your height.
Mechanical massage might help you
V: NJ. BERRI-I should call the sample
OF hair inclosed in your, letter, very
suggested to Mrs. j. W. will cure dan
drCff l have never heard OF the oil YOU
speak. of, nor, of there being flower pecu-
stones. such as the garnet for January.
the amethyst for February, etc. but /
have never heard of birth flower
ROSAMONDE-It really is very singu-
lar that the moles should have returned
Are they hereditary do you think? That
may account for 1t or, perhaps. YOU only
used enough of the acid to affect the sur
face of the mole. Possibly it would be as
well not to experiment further yourself,
but send me a stamped addressed enve-
lope and L will send YOU the address of
some one who understands this sort of
tEing and who will remove them for Won
SO that they will not return and will not
leave scar; Hurrah for the orange flow
write again
NJ. J.-Resorcin is an antseptic and is
used as an active ingredient in many hair
tonics. Druggists usually keep it. Please
ton about reducing flesh Lanolin and
cocoanut oil are both hair producers i'm
their pure state. but there is such a small
quantity Of each in the skin food that T.
think there is little danger of its causing
hair to grow on the face. However. if
there is an excessive tendency to a downy
growth ! would advise a cream that con-
tains neither of these ingredients.
DISCONTENI ED-Does the name that
you have signed tell the story of those
bothersome wrinkles | wonder? If so,
the Beauty Talk to-day will perhaps help
you. Be cheerful. and make UP your mind
that if things haven't come your way
you'll just hustle around and make them.
Then perhaps massage with little of the
orange flower skin food will help the good
work along. Please read reply to Gladys
Wallas.
ZELLA R.-As long as ordinary meas
ures do not relieve you of the blackheads.
suppose you try the following lotion: One
half pint rosewater, one-half pint orange
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water, add drop by drop, stirring all the
while; one-half ounce simple tincture of
benzoin,. six minims tincture Of myrrh
sponge the surface lightly with the lotion
1t seems to clear the pores of the dusty
particles. Cease using the other lotion for
a while. Try the following cold cream:
White wax, X ounce; spermaceti, IA
ounces: oil of sweet almonds, IA ounces,
rosewater, q ounce; l drop altar of roses,
EMMA think what your skin needs
is systematic massage for a while at the
hands of competent masseuse. When
the skin is in the condition you describe
one can accomplish but little massaging
oneself. The remedy you are now using
is frequently recommended for flabby
skin. You can best tell by using it for
while whether. it will benefit you or not.
/ doubt if the elder flower water and Gu
cumber juice would have much effect in
an extreme case. l should advise the
orange flower skin food in your case by
all means
MRS. j. j. NJ. Cor 81 it F. F. NJ. ?)-!The
rings around your eyes may be caused by
internal disorder; they may come from
weakness of the eyes, from sitting up late
at night or from trying the eyes
by reading or studying in a dim
eyes in in witch-hazei and camphor
water will most always do away with the
trouble unless it comes from within. If
the hair is light brown the following
wash will bring out the golden tints: One
ounce salts of tartar, one quart OF water
and the Juice of three lemons. Apply a
cupful to the hair and scalp just before
department can be put up by druggist,
although. Of course, they can be prepared
more economically at home; Where the
constitution is strong enough to stand 1t
I think the cold shower bath is invig-
Grating and beneficial. 1 should hesitate
to give it to a baby under any circum-
stances. That wee man OF yours must be
Be sure that it does not shock his system.
STRANGER-Her is the formula for
the orange flower skin food Spermaceti,
one-haIf ounce; white wax, one-half
ounce; sweet almond oil. one ounce; lano-
lin, one ounce; cocoanut oil, one ounce:
tincture of benzoin, ten drops; orange
flower water, one ounce.
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but a pathetic witness to the nervous
ceaseless energy of an unnourished and
overburdened woman. The fingers that
pieced the intricate pattern and set the
dainty stitches SO closely together were
knotted and tremulous with toll; the
hands that folded them carefully and
unfolded them so proudly for brief in
spection were brown and hardened from
constant contact with outdoor work. If
only her beauty loving soul could have
learned to know itself; to have expended
its hungry energy upon books, pictures,
something for the eye to see and the
brain to feel while the hands were folded
idly in her lap! If that energy had been
turned upon the soil that needed it so
badly-upon her children, who inhabited
the house and farm with her-what har-
vest she might have reaped!
There is so much beauty and lowell
ness in our lives. as we can live them
on the farm, If we only find them. The
beauty of comradeship, of heart-to-heart
association, freedom from conventionali-
ties. the hearty, healthy outdoor life and
closely allied interest with nature, which
Is our greatest teacher and friend. If
the men and women only have time to
to perfectly appointed lives and homes in
the country; the lack in our belief of that
God-given commodity-time. And until
we realize that time Is eternity we will
always be skimping along trying to live,
and all that the word implies, without
time.-Ladies' Home Journal.
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bloomed in her love for flowers, of which
she always had an abundance growing in
her garden, and where in caring for them
she could combine pleasure with duty.
Her feet long since ceased to keep time
to. the clock: she sleeps sweetly.
She went away not an old woman, but
when she should have reaped the harvest
for which she had sown. The husband
of her youth found time, during his en-
forced quiet, before he left her, to show
to her some of the long-suppressed and
smothered feelings of his heart life. But
hard work, and that friend who some
time will claim US all, carried away even
mis- brave spirit, and the little wife, with
shoulders bent just little more, re-
ceived his load and attempted to strug-
gle on with it alone.
Oh, II there had only been a friend
at court" who could have said to her in
the kindest manner: You are only a
woman; you cannot do the work of man
and beast-and live. 1t is not living
merely to exist; don't cook, bake and
scrub so much. We can live without pie
and cake every meal; we don't need
chicken and dumplings three times
week. If blankets are out Of the ques-
tion for bed covering, make Hght-weight
comforts of pretty Calico"
The work is small compared with quilt
making, and there would be more warmth
in ten such comforts than in the thirty
two solid quilts piled high upon a chair
in one corner Of the bedroom; not mon
ument Of beauty, warmth and comfort,
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and strapping Of ivory satin and appliqnea
of heavy lace. But the f1uffier touches are
also applied to these gowns; chiffon chem
1settes and wide, graceful revers of soft
cream-tnted lace occurring. on many of
them. Exceptionally exquisite little race
coats and other wraps are made from the
pastelle cloths, which somehow look their
best with rich white satin Innings and
trimmings.
Brilliantine of the finest, most silky
quality is the favored material for bath
Ing suits, unless wool is required, and
then French bunting and English serge
are the best fabrics. Cream-colored braid
the collar and belt, is. the favorits trim
ming, but for the sake of variety lace
yokes are one feature of decoration. Black,
blue and white are the popular colors.
sun-plaited skirts of linen lawn are very
good style trimmed the width of hem
from the lower edge with wide band Of
cream lace insertion.
A pretty novelty is the feather boa,
made of plumes delcately tinted with all
the colors of an opal.
1t may be an exaggeration to put under
that are such feature Of the summer
costumes, but they have considerable
warmth when they are made of sufficient
size, and are really between wraps and
fichus A very charming one just finished
is of white chiffon made on a lining Of
white China silk-so thin a silk that It
does rot interfere with the soft look Of
the chiffon. 1t is trimmed with ruffies Of
the chiffon, Gnlined, and edged with VAL
enciennes lace. 1t is rather In the Marie
one bow with long ends that fall down on
the front of the gown.
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Of your face a limpid stream wherein are
rehected all the passing cares and wor
Don't let such minor worries as a. mis-
placed bow on spring bonnet or a
sleeve that will skew, lay. you out with
nervous prostrauon, but brace up and
make the best of 1t. Things can't always
go just as we would wish. as most sensible
tired and wearied with all the rest of it. it.
be plucky and of stout heart Just the
same. Smile and look pleasant" as the
that way
Believe me, it is more than half the bat
tie, for gloom Of countenance is the worst
Sweetness and amiability are as ''catch-
ing as the chickenpox.
Although most Of us have blessings
enough to keep us continually sending up
a prayer of thanksgiving, Few of US rea-
lie It, more's the pity. Our troubles
seem as big to US as the almighty hills,
while the good things of life appear to
be no larger than a tiny little molehlll.
It's a pretty nice old world after ALL and
remember this, all you who idly fancy
never yet was any one in this world so
badly off but that some one could be
found who was more so.
And while you are remembering bear
It in mind also that fretting and worrying
and crossing bridges will hasten the com
ing Of the crows feet, which all the mas
sage and laying on Of cold cream In the
world will then be powerless to chase
away.
Doesn't It seem foolish, when you stop
and think, that half the fretting that We
indulge in, anyway is inspired by our
imaginations over things that we fear
may happen and which, as matter Of
fact. never see the light of day?
The mind, after all, is at the root OF
most physical Ills. and to certain ex-
tent the fountain Of eternal youth is with
in ourselves. Cheerfulness and merry
heart will do more than medicines toward
beautifying the face and retardtng the
approach Of those horrors of the whole
petticoated race known as wrinkles.
For the benefit of the many who have
asked for the formula for cucumber milk
will print 1t again to-day where all may
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Cucumber r1ilk.

Oil Of sweet almonds, 2 ounces.
Fresh cucumber juice, 10 ounces.
Powdered white CASTLE soap, Il ounce.
Essence of cucumbers, 3 ounces.
Simple tincture Of benzoin. 38 drops
Buy the ordinary cucumbers now sold
in the shops. Cut up in small pieces,
neither peeling nor removing the seeds,
and pour on just enough water to start
them to cooking. When cooked soft and
mushy, strain through a piece of muslin.
The essence you can make yourself by
taking one and half ounces of alcohol
and one and a half ounces Of the boiled
soap, and let it stand until the soap has
entirely dissolved. Then put in the Gu
lumber juice. Shake well, so that all are
thoroughly mixed. Then add the oil of
sweet almonds and the benzoin. stirring
for some time. Put in bottle and be
sure and shake well before using
Apply it at night. Let 1t dry on the skin.
rinsing away in tepid water the following
morning.
This Is unsurpassed as a face bleach
and is perfectly harmless.
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~ NE winter, long ago, I boarded
with a little woman-I mean liter
orally little-who was one Of the
l most perfect housekeepers I ever
knew. Her house was small, so
there was nothing to prevent her "going
through 1t" every day Her husband was
an invalid, but a more shining invalid
one could never find. Such dinners as we
had; such suppers as were served to US
day after day; such breakfasts as we got
up to. l wonder that any of us survived
to tell the tale. She washed. ironed and
scrubbed every Monday: she churned,
worked butter and baked every Tuesday;
she worked over butter, scruoDed and
darned every Wednesday; she went eight
miles to town every Thursday; on Friday
everything underwent a general cleaning
up, and she churned again; Saturday
there was baking and getting ready for
Sunday, and Sunday there was the in
evitable company" to eat and praise,
and Monday 1t all began over again.
Besides all this, she MIXED four cows,
raised 200 or 800 chickens each year, did
the family sewing, and could boast that
leach of her two daughters had sixteen
quilts apiece, all ready for the bed"
She could neither read nor write; her
daughters followed closely in her foot
steps. A better woman never lived, and
even in her matter-of-fact life there was
a longing for more beautiful things. 1t
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Cu(1tvate a Sweet Expression for
ReauttH Says Nme. 5fZqe1a

yeu the formula for a liquid soap that
Is sometimes efflcacious.
MRS. j. W.-Never use vaseline on your
face unless you wish to raise fine crop
OF whiskers. The orange flower skin
food is all right and the best thing you
can use for the wrinkles. You will find
the cucumber milk, formula for which Is
splendid as a face bleach. The following
tonic will stop your hair from falling:
Forty-eight grains resorcin; one-fourth
ounce glycerin, and alcohol enough to fiji
q tWo-ounce bottle. This should be ap-
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~ HAWL gowns made "a la Bern
hardt" are the very latest. A
gown made strictly Ia Bern
hardt would not be made at all,
~ but simply pinned together, for
Bernhardt despises needle and
thread, choosing rather to pin and drape
her gowns to suit her feeting but ever
artistic fancy.
OF course the Shawl gowns are made,
only they are made so deftly that they
look just as though they were draped
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case of superfluous hair that has been
have 1t upon exeellep5 authority that If
growth. 1 can tell you of no way of
tightening the hair save to bleach 1t, and
If YOU experiment with anything of this
sort yourself the result Is liable to be dire
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M N attempt has been made to COM
IN bine the two favorites, violet and
II heliotrope, into one color. This new
combination is called "violettrope,"
and comes in dress goods of the mixeA
variety and also stationery in the mot
tied English bond variety. The two colora
are quite distinctly iraceable in eitheP
material, and it takes well with the lovers
OF both shades.
In the stationery, the edge of the paper
IS left In plain border similar to the
Wedgwood blues The envelopes have the
same narrow border The short note is
now folded lengthwise of the paper and
placed in long, narrow envelope with
flap at the end. These envelopes are
unique, the little border following the
shape of the paper In the back in irregu-
lar foldings, which are gracefully artistic,
In making champagne the grapes are
squeezed six times, each pressure making
ina of diffnrarnA
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Answers to CORRESPONDENTS.

! MAYFLOWER-As the growth of hair
fon your face is so very fine 1 think I
should use a little peroxide Of hydrogen
on it. Apply with a bit of absorbent cot
ton or small sponge. After few appli-
cations the hairs will be so light in color
as to be scarcely noticeable. l do not
happen to have personal knowledge of a
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will be worn with cotton, silk, wool and
lace gowns this season. They are made Of
the soft, thin and consequently expensive
taffeta. finely tucked and lined with white
Some OF them are Eton shape, with or
without rounded points at either side of
the front, while others have the scalloped
basque finish or are cut in the form of a
Russian blouse without much of the real
blouse effect.
Automobile red trimmed with cream
lace, is fashionable combination for the
Partisan gown.
Toile. which is a new kind of linen very
popular in Paris, makes pretty summer
gowns, hyacinth blue and ecru being the
favorite colors. 1t is made up over a silk
foundation and trimmed elaborately with
yellow Cluny lace insertions, the linen be-
ing cut away underneath to show the
silk through.
There are beautiful new wool cloths that
are SO light that unless the weather Is
exceedingly warm they may be counted
among the seasonable gowns of the sum-
mer. These cloths are called pastelle be-
cause of their soft smooth surface They
come in the palest shades of blue, mauve,
gray and other tints.' Gowns of these are
particularly lovely trimmed with folds
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Re1mha1,a4 "Shawl Gowus' IRE
the eZatest2H11A Tame Eashlon

and caught here and there to keep them
together.
There Is q perfect rage for these
SHAWL" gowns, said the girl who has
Just returned from Paris. Then she took
two or three out Of her trunk and showed
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WW ing procession of gay dry goods
as 1t tripped up Kearny street
on Saturday afternoon
or truth, our mothers do not arrav
themselves in gowns of darkest hue.
Age has lost it's horrors" say the dress
makers
Youth is being robbed of its own" saw
some OF the mothers when their modistes
insist on ciel blue and primrose.
Inc color scale is no longer graded bv
age rules and regulations One of our
matrons, who acknowledges the sunny
side OF 90 ordered a calling gown and left
the composition entirely to the modiste
1t Is typical of the gowns that are now
made for the clear-skinned bright-eved
white-haired granddame
Ihe gown is of pale yellow grenadine
with rows upon rows of cream lace inser-
ton. edged with a bowknot design in
mauve and white baby ribbon, which trim
the sleeves and yoke.
White guipure over black silk forms the
under bodice, skirt and sleeves of another
costume, while the tunic is of pale ecru
nuns yelling striped with bands of black
velvet. Large crystal buttons fasten the
bodice.
Age and youth are thus amiably clasp
ing hands at the altar of the fripperies Of
fashion.
Manila hats are the swell thing for
morning wear In midsummer They come
in white and colors and are trimmed with
dotted white gauze and quills.
A pretty fan for summer is made of
fancy plated chiffon, giving almost the
effect of feathers.
Both black and white silk taffets coats
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and dreadful. and besides. as the hair
grows out it will be the natural color and
time to time. DON'T do it. You will find
il a terrible nuisance, and it is almost
certain not to look we'll as the shade
that nature provided. Corn starch is per-
fectly harmless a face powder.
MISS VIOLA REED-Use the cucum-
ber cream as you would any cream
Cleanse your face thoroughly with tepid
water and CASTLE soap, and after rinsing
in clear water dry and apply the cold
cream with the fingers. rubbing it well
into the skin. Then with a soft cloth re-
move every vestige of grease. The erup-
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OF cultivation, l assure you.
Cheeerfulness and amiability will redeem
many face of almost hopeless irregu-
larty of feature.
Even though a woman possess the clas-
sic ltneaments of a Greek goddess. she
could not be a beauty with a mouth that
Is forever dropping at the corners. brows
that insist upon tying themselves into
ugly, fretty little knots, and eyes that
eteTnally shift from one object to another
with an utter lack of interest in or toler-
aHce for Whatever subject happens to be
under discussion.
II Is the girl with the jolly, happy ex-
preston that pleases, whom we look at
the longest and with the greatest salts
faction just as it is the young woman
with the fretful. sour visage that we turn
rom to the more interesting study of
wall paper advert tiSements
30, spend some of your spare time cult
Natlng sweet expression. Don't make
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9 . q . . Q O . . 9 Q . 3 . 8 q o 9
# few minutes each day are devoted to
at the base of the nail to adhere, but
keeping 1t carefully pushed back. there
will be no trouble with hangnails. The
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them to me. They brought forth an "ah''
of admiration. But if they were good to
look upon in the hand they were surpass-
ingly beautiful on the figure.
The shawl gown is just exactly what
it's name signifies. Not material made in
a shawl-like pattern, but a real shawl
made into a gown, fringe and all. Scis-
sors are used very sparingly on these
shawls. 1t is not necessary to cut into
them much for the drape effect They
look as though they had been wound
around the wearer and yet there is plenty
or room to move freely.
one gorgeous shawl gown intended
Grape Chinese shawl covered with bril-
llantly soft embroidered flowers, which
the Chinese so artfully execute.
Another one, to be used as a dinner
heaVy raised white embroidery, the long
white silk fringe coming up the front Of
the skirt and then falling away on either
gown.
The third one was delicate combina-
uon or gray and pink, so arranged as to
give a. princesse effect and suitable for n
These shawl gowns were by far the
most novel and beautiful Of all the cos
tunes which this devotee of fashion
brought with her from Paris
So, if you are fortunate enough to pos
SeSS snaWl which is large enough for
lne purpose procure some of Bernhardts
pictures taken in these gowns and have
moulSte who is an artist COPY them
for you, They are graceful and artistic
without being bizarre. Nor have they tha
falling to pieces" effect which one would
A word of warning! Unless you pos
sess a figure almost as slender as that Of
Divine Sarah though you have the most
tpeautltul shawl Of the Indies, do not at
be unhappy.
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POSES by Oracle Plalsted, :
Charlotte Beckwith, Ed :
Stevens, Of the Tivoli.
PHOTOS by Thors.
GOWNS by Magnin,
HAMMOCK from the En- :
porium.
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7OS SWEET expression has so much
Il y to do with the beauty of a face,
XN 1t seems a pity that women do
IN not cultivate this more assidu-
u y ously, for it's largely a matter