Middletown transcript., 1905-04-15
OUR WOMAN'S COLUMN

women.
The day is intended for work; the night
for rest.
Keep tea i'm crock or covered China
dish and moi in tin as tin ruins the flavor.
Nearly MI # the advertised "work at
| home" offers are swindles. Beware Of
| them.
Every sweet girl graduate expects to
marry and rule some ioost herself sooner
or later.
Few women chefs are found in the
large hotels in Chicago Men are taking
their places.
To appreciate Your blessing just i'm
agine someone else enjoying them for
day or two.
Princess gowns, SO impossible to many
figures, are now made available by
bloused effect.
Going without meal now and then is
very valuable aid to and overtaxed di-
gestion.
Last summers dresses have possibili
ties. Sleeves, however, must be turned
upside down.
All the old weaves and patterns of lace
curtains, popular thirty, years ago, are
being revived.
Don't wear tight shoes; they make
young face look old, drawn and wrinkled
in few hours.
A lady said the otherday 81 don't con-
gratulate couples any more; | just say l
hope he has enough to support her."
When mother goes to visit her daughter
she takes no party dresses, but you bet
she takes her kitchen aprons.
If you are feeling blue, talk to someone
who is SO much worse than you that your
troubles amount to nothing.
A bachelor physician declares the mi
crobes in kisses are often fatal-at least
they often develop matrimonial germs.
You can talk about physical culture,
but if a young lady wishes good form
let her get down to doing house work.
1t gives You exercise and trains you for
a good wife.
A Chicago Judge says that ii woman
is so unfortunate as to marry brute of a
husband, she is justified in taking his
life in defending herself.
When girl is l6 she refuses to wear
old clothes, and when she is go she re-
fuses to wear her new ones, putting them
away to save them.
Milk will Immediately and effectually
extinguish the flames from gasoline or
any form of petroleum, since it forms an
emulsion with the oil, whereas water
only spreads it.
When a girl is two, her father is
pleased when she goes into his pockets
when he comes home nights; when she
is ten, he is irritated, and when she is
thirty, he gets mad.
Mrs. Chadwick's household property
was recently sod for $25, 200. 1t cost
100000 and is to be displayed in
museum. DIR. Chadwick has been hired
at 500 per week to play the pipe org an.
Attainment of the hourglass figure is
largely question of poise-the art of
holding oneself properly and walking
properly. Walk on your toes-this is
the chief secret of both poise and walk.
ing. Use the heels merely to aid in
balancing, but place the weight of the
of the body forward on the toes.
The West Side Mothers Council in
Chicago declares that the old song of our
childhood:
"Now lay me down to sleep.
pray the Lord my soul to keep;
Ii should die before / wake,
pray the Lord my soul to take.''
Is simply horrible. The idea of death at
night should never he used to shock the
infant mind. Instead of that, the presi-
dent proposes to use:
"Father, we thank Thee for the night
And for the pleasant morning light,
For rest and food and loving care
And all that makes the world SO fair"
Which are said to be eminently tran
QUILTING. However, the fact remains
that most people do die in the night and
all the traEqulizing hymns in the world
cannot obliterate this fact. There seems |
to be an ebb and flow of the vital forces |
and at this period they are at the lowest
pitch.