Middletown transcript., 1905-09-30
OUR WOMAN'S COLUMN

The latest skirt model shows draped
effect in front.
A greater number of fancy shoes are be-
ing worn than ever before.
Mohairs have taken vigorous new
lease OF life for shirt-waist suits.
Woman holds her own when she can
not afford to keep nursemaid.
Elbow sleeves are coming in for every
thing but the more workaday styles of
Dress
The newest silk stockings have their
owners monogram embroidered Just
above the knee.
Celery is an acknowledged nerve tonic
and is more and more used in medical
prescriptions.
No chemist will ever discover the secret
of beauty, yet every woman may find it in
| her own heart.
Rev. W. A. Quayle of Chicago advises
all those parents who are without children
| to go out and borrow one.
1t is perhaps just as well to teach little
girls fairy tales for then they won't sound
strange when their husbands tell them
later in life.
Editor Box, of the Ladies Home Jour
nal, says that women dress to please
men," There are others that assert that
they dress to anger other women.
To remove wart dampen it and rub
with piece of common salt. Do this
three or four times day for a month and
the wart will drop off, leaving no mark on
the skin.
Four months ago telephone girl in
New York hotel at So a week, Miss Anna
Bennett is now the widow of Millionaire
E. R. Whitney, and heress to fortune
of 500, 100000.
Sadie Mac, owned by Miss katherine
Wilkes of Canada, dropped dead in a race
recently. She was valued at $4,000.
She had won nearly 800 900 for her owner
so far this season.
If you will drink plenty of water be-
tween meals you will find that your
nerves will become quieted. Go to bed
early, get up late, be regular in your
habits and take quick bath every morn
ing with moistened salt, cool water and
flesh brush.
Housemaids in livery are the latest in
novation in smart London houses.
One fashionable woman has attired her
maids in neat skirts, tight fitting bodices,
with natty, double-breasted waistcoats of
yellow and black, tiny brass buttons on
either side.
If you have covered pan in which to
roast meat, never open it to baste the
meat. Keep covered from first to last.
The idea is that the pan is full of steam,
which penetrates the fiber of the meat.
II desired to brown the outside, leave
the cover off short time in a quick
oven.
w Hell luOIucIS Will tcdCu tliclE SOHS
that all men are brothers, and that the
only enemy they have is the man who
wants to rule and exploit them, then we
will have the women the world needs
who will raise sons with higher man.
hood than the world has ever known.
Do not be troubled because you have
not great virtues. God made thousand
spears of grass where he made one tree.
The earth is fringed and carpeted not
with forests, but with grasses. Only
have enough of little virtues and common
fidelities, and you need not mourn be-
cause you are neither hero nor a saint.
There is one little trick which the tired
woman should learn, be she society
woman or working girl. She should
learn to change her clothing. Nothing
rests one like this does. Take off the
shoes you have been wearing all day, and
put on other shoes. The pinch will come
in different place
In kitchens where cockroacles are
found, borax is invaluable. Powdered
borax should be sprinkled round the
stove and about all the corners and cram
nies so infested. When the borax is
swept away, it should be replaced with
more at once; if this remedy is steadily
persisted in, the kitchen will be free of
the pest in a surprisingly short time.
The gospel of happiness is one that
every woman should lay to heart. What
it means to man to come home at night
to cheerful wife no one but he who has
had to fight the hard battle of life knows.
If he is prosperous it is an added JOY; but
it is in misfortune that it shines like
star in the darkness. A complaining
wife can kill the last bit of hope and cour-
age in a sorely troubled heart, while
cheerful one gives new courage to begin
the fight over again.