The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-02-20
DESIGNED FOR THE WOMEN.

a Boston girl has made a quilt out Of
old stockings.
A womans brain declines in weight
after the age of thirty.
Turpentine will remove ink stains on
linen or other fabrics.
kissing a woman's lips is considered
great insult in, Finland.
Brush the bottom crust of a fruit pie
with white of egg and it will not be
soSgy.
weaVes are back again in all sorts of
new effects.
Put borax and a tablespoonful of kerr
osene in the water in which you wash
wooden blankets.
tablespoonful of vinegar put in the
the meat tender.
There are 100000 women in Chicago
that have the right to vote; and only
1913 registered this year.
The 5000 women employed in the coal
mines of Lancashire, England, work ten
hours day for so cents.
Equal parts of peraffine and white wax
put in the starch will give clothes a bril-
liant polish when ironed
Before washing for the first time soak
ginghams and calicoes in strong salt or
vinegar water to prevent fading.
Slenderness, not to say slimness, is
now the 60, and thin women who are
tall, but not scrawny, are at the top
notch OF fashion. ... &. ..>
When Queen Victoria assembled the
education; now the amount expended is
$65, 600, 000
If SCOT should fall on the carpet cover
it with salt before attempting to sweep
it up. It will then be removed easily
and clearly.
Mrs. Julia A. Carney, who wrote the
popular rhyme, Little drops of water,
little grains of sand" will be eighty
years old next April.
When grease is spilled on the kitchen
floor pour cold water upon it at once.
This will harden it and prevent its soak
ing into the boards.
If you have a bad headache rub slices
of lemon along the temple. The pain will
not be long in disappearing or at least
| in growing easier to bear.
Fringes are slowly but surely gaining
fame, and entire skirts of satin are COW
cred with fringe with a netted beading
which may form the hip yoke.
Mrs. Phoebe Hearst's gifts for arch
sity of California amounted to Sill, 600
! during the last academic year.
The wives Of Siamese noblemen cut
their hair so that it sticks straight up
it is about one and a half inches.
The girl who poses as street flirt, or
lounges about in public places during
evenings, is the girl whose name may be
heard where men congregate to revel in
idle words.
Miss Estelle Reed, federal superintend-
ent Of Indian schools, has probably the
most important and highest salaried Of
nee OF any woman in the employ Of the
government
migrant inspectors to board incoming
ocean liners and make a thorough can
vass of the women passengers in the
first and second cabins.
look almost as fine as cut glass if it be
washed in hot suds, dried on linen tow
ell, and then rubbed while still warm,
with tissue paper.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward, the authoress,
lives on the estate of Stocks, Scotland,
where once the poet Waller lived in
the seventeenth century, and which is
| referred to in the Domesday Book.
The greatest benefit perhaps that wom-
en- derive from clubs is that they must
learn to control their emotions. They are
gradually learning this. The intelligent
| ones also learn parliamentary usages.
The death of Mrs. ,Cady Stanton leaves
9ng fGgr Gf the Old gna5rd Of
Beecher Hooker, Henry B. Blackwell,
and Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell
kissing is a delight unknown to the
Maori women of New Zealand. When
monst1ate their mutual affection they
grasp each other by the shoulders and
/ rub their noses together.
If girls would take more milk, their
skins would grow velvety and resemble
| more the peaches and cream complexion
| that every one Of them would so dearly
| love to possess. To make permanent
| flesh drink milk, cream and cocoa.
Feminine beauty is no longer it's own
and only reward. Pretty girls are now
! in great and growing demand. There is
/ a score of different and legitimate mark
| cts for their charms of face and figure
with offers of remuneration that can be