The National tribune., 1899-03-23
FOR THE BETTER R-HH4F.

Lillian Russell commends to all beauty
seekers soap which is made by melting up
a pound of good CASTLE soap and stirring
into it a half cup of ordinary oatmeal When
the mixture has been we'll stirred and is
taken off the stove to cool, q perfume may
be added if one wish. When the soap begins
to harden it can be cut and moulded into
cakes. Lillian Russell is no advocate OF the
dry-cleanipg process for the complexion, but
advises plenty of soap and warm water.
There have been from time to time accounts
published of Adelina PATHS beauty, wherein
it is said that that lady has not washed her
face for 10 years. The sensible woman takes
statements of this sort with grain Of salt
and washes her face well. after day in the
dusty streets of our cities. Many advise the
Use of some fine cold-Cream to assist in the
cleansing process; some rubbing it in the
skin after washing; Others rubbing it in and
taking out again with soft cloth just before
using hot water and soap. A woman who
earnestly desires pretty skin must, above
all, sleep with the windows open at night,
90 out for awhile each day, battle every day.
eat light and digestible foods, sleep long
anu WILL ilJLit dS utI tOuSlicuSc
will let her.
One reads continually in fashion papers
that frocks for little girls are miniature copies
of styles for their ,nothers, and vet one sees
everywhere that the best-dressed children
are always very simply dressed; that straight,
full, hemmed skirts with either Spencer
waist or one fuled TO short, round yoke,
are the rule. Gored skirts and elaborate
waists are rarely put on children, and never
on the children of the well-t0-do.
Belt clasps are rather excluding buckles
from favor these days. and even the Is and
% cent ones found in department stores are
of very lovely design.
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Apropos of the Suffragists, the statement
is often made that to give women the vote
would only double up things. That for
every ignorent mans vote there would be
that of his ignorant wife; for every criminal
mans vote, would be the criminal woman's,
and we would be worse off than ever. The
Suffragists urge figures that say that Of all
our criminals less than one-ffth are women;
and Of all our churchgoers more than two
thirds are of the gentler sex; but there is a
multitude who do not wish to be convinced,
aud converts come slowly, despite the logic OF
the cause. Many men and women both are
loath to turn from their carefully-nourished
notions of woman's proper sphere.
In making up white skirts for wear with
shirt waists, it's well to bind those of white
wool with a narrow silk binding, or face
them with an alpaca braid. Either finish
is easily taken off and replaced with fresh
edge. White skirts grow black along the
hem very quickly.
That sweet potatoes may be boiled IN their
skins, peeled, mashed, seasoned with milk,
butter, salt and pepper, and set in the oven
10 brown, even as white potatoes are, is q
fact not generally known to the housekeepers
who are pining for variety in their bills of
fare.
Skirts for the Summer are as sheathlike
as ever.
Tucks stitching and fringes are promised
for the Spring. Tucks are in high favor, and
is always neat finish, but fringes
are awkward and unheautiful, and probably
will only be worn by a few who will wear
anything 50 that it be new.
Shirt waists this year are very much like
last years, the fullness of the fronts is some
times tucked to short yoke. and sometimes
a group of fine tucks is run across the full
ness of the front The yoke of the back is
often made with two points instead of one.
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Mrs Lew Wallace. in recent article,
makes an earnest protest against the 'Mur-
der of the InnocantS ''-as she calls the mod
ern system of crammng." She prays for
sunny playtime and careless days for the
little folks; for short study time and no night
work She calls attention to the fact that
little children are rushed through complicated
studies and required to work
out problems that no ordinary business man
could pnssibly work-problems that the chill
dren will forget and have no use for in a few
years. She says this time is worse than
wasted-the child might have been gaining
health. happiness and profit from the fields.
Mrs. Wallace says that we have too long
abOred under the deuson that mathematics
are an uniailipp mental good