The Washington times., 1905-03-17

Inc woman with perpetual colo
counts herself an accursed creature
Nothing can mar a woman's beauty SO
quickly and effectually as a good. old
fashioned cold in the head; nothing can
make her more unprepopssessing. I'M
aniable. and uncomfortable. The very
word brings with it visions OF red
nose, fever sores, parcked lips, a hoarse
voice. and a crumpled handkerchief.
A Worth gown and a Paqgin hat are
wasted on the woman who has a cold.
Everything is wasted on her. She is a
bore to herself and an unsightly object
to all the world. Yet there are some
women who from November until May
are stepped in colds. They try a hun
dred cures and moan and complain of
their misfortune TO every friend-and
then proceed to go out and catch cold
again. On the other hand. there are
many women who are SO sensible that
they never know the feeling of fever
blister nor the agony of a ruby nose
which defies power and rivals rouge,
An Ounce of Prevention.
No woman need ever have sold If she
you'd but expend just half the time in
preventing it that she now spends in
curing it. Draughts and wet feet are
most often the cause of colds. 1t is a
crime next to suicide for any woman to
sit in draught anywhere and at any
time. Yet every morning the sensible
housewife filings open all the windows
and goes about her work with the four
winds of heaven blowing upon her. To
ar a house properly and vet not take
Of the room where you are working.
When you leave this room, open the
windows, but close those in the room to
which you go next.
II you find yourself sitting near a
draughty door in a theater or church,
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not accomplish this. go home. You can
get along better without the sermon or
by any chance your boots become wet,
hurry home at once and change not only
the wet boots, but the damp stockings
Then take hot cup of tea or table
spoonful OF whisky, or both, to check
the cold which may have started in your
system.
Colds From Skating.
The girl who skates takes cold oftenei
than any one else. Skating is the
healthiest sport In the world, bgt COM
mon sense should teach a woman that
after such overheating exercise she
should either throw on a heavy outer
wrap and run all the way home or
should go at once into q warm room and
remain there until the perspiratioll has
dried and her blood becomes normal
But the girl who sks ties seldom thinks
OF these things until she finds herself
down with the grip or a mild attack of
Once you have allowed yourself to
eaten cold the only thing to do is to
race and hight it. A cold may be cured
in one day by the old-fashioned method
strong. hot lemonade and remaining be-
tween the bed covers for at least
eighteen hours. A laxative should be
taken the moment you discover that
you have a cold. a red nose should be
rubbed well with cold cream or mutton
tallow before going to bed at night and
bathed in witch hazel in the morning.
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irritate the inf1amed nose by rubbing
the pows1er on with chamois cloth
ed: or at least nipped in the bud, by
rubbing the spot with a piece of alum
dampened in alcohol the moment the
blister begins to form.
If you feel yourself catching cold or
feel chilled drayv in a dozen long. full
breaths This NJ send the blood blood pull pull
will warm up the whole body.
The Little Girls Teeth.
If more mothers would take care of a
child's first teeth fewer girls would be
made unhappy by mouths full of crowd
ed, crooked teeth. The baby teeth cut
the path for the second teeth. II they
are III kept the gums become unhealthy
and weakened, and the second teeth
have a bad start. In order that the
front teeth may come in evenly. a child
of five or six should be taken to the
first show signs of loosening, the in
cisors should all be extracted, so that
the second set OF incisors may ma
Mothers dread seeing the little one S
baby beauty marred by CAVITIES IN the
mouth but they should remember that
baby beauty must be sacrificed TO
groWn-up beauty by a careful cutting
Of hair trimming of eyelashes. and ex-
tracing of loose or decayed teeth.
For the Round -Shou1dered Girl.
Perhaps nobody suffers greater ag-
onies OF modification than the round
shouldered girl at the growing age
She feels that the Eiffel Tower would
shrfvel up in comparison with her. and
looking down upon her little sisters
and brothers, she becomes the shape OF
her hoop The girl of fourteen can
easily avoid round shoulders and Guilt
vate an erect carriage II she VIII. First
of all let her get used 10 sleeping with
out pillow. A pillow pushes the snoul-
ders forward; Using pillow at nlg9 fal T.
an unnatural habit which civilized foik
have cultivated Babies do not require
pillows They rather object to them
All day long the round-shouldered girl
should walk as though she were Dalanc-
ing a book upon her head. II she can
not keep this thought in mind let heI
remember to keep the back or neF neck
pressed against her collar This vii!
keep the head and shoulders erect and
strengthen the shoulder muscles. and
broaden the chest take this exercise
every day, fifty times in the morning
and fifty times at night:
Standing in a doorway, spread both
arms until the hands touch the door
ledge on either side a level with the
shoulders. Grasp the ledge firmly and
then step forward as far you can
without removing the hands from their
position. Now step backward as far as
you can. Walk back and forward this
way the given number Of times. Each
time the muscles Of your chest are
stretched and brought into play When
you sit at your desk in school be sure
that you are well back on the seat, not
Sitting on your spine. II the fourteen
year-old girl would remember these
things and watch herself constantly she
would have no need for gymnastic ezer-
cises when she grows up.
The Fine Art of Painting the Face.