Middletown transcript., 1905-05-20
OUR WOMAN'S COLUMN

Ii ideas were as plentiful as words wha
charming conversationalists we all would
be!
Nothing is prettier than the spectacle
of a laughing trio or quartet or mother
and her da tiers.
Nine-iei.t!ls of the things people quarre
over do not make any difference one way
or the other.
| Blessed with love for the good and the
beautiful, no woman can make really
serious mistake.
| Good nature is beautiful except when it
is used by lazy folk as means of making
others do their work.
A man keeps his wife in hot water most
of the time when she is forced to take in
washing in order to support him.
Life is too short to nurse ones misery.
Hurry across the lowands that you may
linger longer on the mountain tops.
Rather than become spinster the aver
age girl will marry man without very
close inspection of his pedigree.
Don't forget to pinch the ends of the
fingers now and then. This will do a
good deal toward making the fingers
| taper.
No stains are more common than those
made by coffee, tea and cocoa. Boiling
water is the one sure application that will
get rid OF them.
The eyes OF the pretty girl are OF the
shining variety, beautifully clear and of
the kind which can open widely and look
one right in the face.
With genuine affection in your heart
and plenty of work in your mind you can
be tolerably Indifferent to the unpleasant
matters of life.
Out in Chicago council of women has
declared that to three deadly d's-dissipa-
ton, desertion, divorce-are due the de-
linquency of truant children.
Nine. Modieska says she has indig-
nantly refused an offer of 81, $50 a week
to go on the vaudeville stage. Hetty
Green will regard that as sheer madness.
Do not allow white gloves to become
too much soiled before having them
cleaned. They have to be rubbed so hard
to remove the soil that the kid becomes
roughened and stiff.
Never neglect small repairs-a stitch in
time saves not only nine, but ninety!
Don't let buttons hang by their last
thread, darn small holes, brush off mud,
and bind frayed skirts.
Colored stockings-silk and otherwise |
require good deal more care in their
laundering than the usual black. And
colored stockings are promised very def
nitely to be used during the spring and |
summer seasons.
A mother should endeavor to remain as
young in disposition as her children.
When they are infants she usually does
make herself childlike in her ways in or
der to amuse them, but as soon as they
are able to play at their own games she is
apt to let them 60 by themselves and drift |
away from her.
Before tea became cheap enough to be
considered drink it was largely used as
medicine. A familiar advertisement in
the Tatler used to proclaim a "famous
chymical quintesence of Bohea tea and
cocoanuts together, wherein the volatile
salt oil and spirit of both" formed ''the
highest restoratiyes that either food or
physic affords"
Mrs. Fairbanks, now the second lady of
the land, is woman OF the home type
in that she loves her five children, one
daughter and four sons, devotedly, and
has shown her fine instincts and training
in the lovely home so we'll known for its
hospitality and comfort. But she has
been more than that-she has gone with
her husband into public life.
The Sunday papers and the illustrated
are filled with articles on ply
sical culture and all kinds of appliances
and inventions are recommended for
girls and women. Still it remains to be
a fact beyond dispute that the operating
Of the broom affords opportunities for
physical culture that should not be
neglected.
The Japs excel in cooking rice and
their method is exceedingly simple. Put
one cup of rice, which has been
thoroughly washed, over the fire, with
Eve of fast boiling water. Add salt, and
when it has boiled fast for fifteen minutes
set the SAUCEPAN uncovered in a moder-
ate oven. In fifteen minutes the water
will have completely evaporated and
every grain be distinct and fluffy. Not a
grain will stick to the bottom of the {
Rice cooked this way is rev.
,lation.
SERVICE
BY ANNA H. BRANCH
If could only serve him,
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