Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1905-07-01
OUR WOMAN'S COLUMN

Eat plenty Of spinach it acts as tonic
and beautifer.
When wiping the face never rub the
eyes. Pat them gently. .
/ Crown Princess Cecilia can do house,
work as skillfully as the most trustworthy
servant.
Taffeta silk is good choice for the
bathing suit, not having the clinging pro-
pensities Of softer silks.
Kerosene will cut the grease in the
drain pipe OF sink and should be used at
least once month.
The plump woman's lot is certainly a
hard one, especially now, when all styles
are designed for snaky figures.
It's always "What will the world say?"
And all the time the world is beautifully
unconscious of our existence.
Soap shavings or small lump Of yellow
soap tucked into mouse hole prevents
the temperance of the mouse.
Russell Sage warns women to keep ont
Of Wall Street. Apparently "Uncle
Russ is not too old to be partial to the
ladies'.
There is no man SO hard-hearted or inn
possible that a clever woman cannot
manage according to her own sweet
will.
/ Insufficient exercise is one Of the causes
Of wakefulness. Sleep is designed to re-
fresh not only the brain, but the muscles
equally.
| Any one can have clear complexion.
There is a simple remedy at hand, and it
is water, which should be drunk freely,
but not at meals.
The Empress Dowager Of China has ex-
pended thus far S., 100000 on her mauso-
leum near Pekin. Her majesty must ex-
pect to he long time dead:
Powder is bad for enlarged pores.
Twelve drops OF tincture of benzoin in
basin OF water used after washing the face
will tend to contract them.
The old saying that Zone hour Of sleep
before midnight is worth three AFTER
should be taken to heart by every woman
searching for health and beauty.
A poultice Of soap and sugar will draw
a swelling on the finger to head in few
hours and the same poultice will draw
splinter from the finger or nail.
At the convention of the National
Woman's Suffrage Association, to be held
in Portland Ore, this summer, Sioux
Indian, Miss Gertrude Simmons, will de-
liver an address.
In reducing flesh the one thing to re-
member is that fat is carbon and that
oxygen destroys or burns out carbon.
Consume the carbon by the oxygen you
take through your lungs. The more
exercise the more oxygen, consequently
greater loss Of fat.
They marry early and often in Japan.
A man age forty, living in the province Of
Bizen, has married and divorced thirty
five wives and is now married to a thirty
sixth. Tie reason he assigns for his ex-
traordinary tickleness is that lie has a
younger sister Of extremely rancorous and
jealous disposition, who from the mo-
ment new bride enters the house, insti-
tutes system OF persecution which soon
drives the unhappy woman to ask her
husband for divorce, which is an easy
and inexpensive process III the land Of the
Rising Sun.
A - girl Of Is gets up in the morn
ing, eats breakfast which her mother pre-
pared, goes upstairs and takes care Of her
room, and then goes downtown, some
times taking two hours to buy spool Of
thread. Size eats dinner which her
mother las prepared, wears clothes her
mother has made, spends the afternoon
reading story books or gadding with lier
friends, eat~ supper her mother has pre-
pared, aad spends the evening with her
girl friends. Size has done nothing
wicked All day, and her mother il satisfied
that she i bringing her up right. But is
she?
Jewels, d ginally the property Of Queen
Isabelle Of Spain valued at Sl,0tU,O0', |
we're left BY Mrs Leland Stanford, WHO |
died in Honolulu of arsenic poisoning
The gems were given in her will to LELAND |
Stanford, Jr, University, in Calilnrnia.
III few weeks they will be sold, and Il |
proceeds will 90 toward a library bti ldng |
FIR tie university. The jewels are iii
vided into tivesets and include some Of |
tile most famous diamonds in the world. |
They were taken from Spain by Queen |
Isabe la in her flight in the early thirties.
Mrs. Stanford paid 81 ,000,0 600 for the jew
els at private sale.
The women's club as it exists to-day |
will doubtless pass away, or give place to
some other line OF work and study and |
recreation. 1t will some time have filed |
its mission, then will like many other |
things be dropped for some better plan Of |
development. No one contends, unless |
it is Mr.. Cleveland, that the women's
club has done any harm. Indeed, the |
evidence is plain Of the very contrary re-
suits. Remember that the women's club I
proper is not to be confused with card
clubs, as the latter have no recognition in
the federation of clubs The real |
women's cInb does not cause men misery
or to walk with aching hearts. They
may have done much to prevent men and
women both from suffering such things.
Who knows but women's clubs may lead
to better morals in men and then that
will mean much, for as fast as men be-
come better, women will be less wicked.
New CASTLE COUNTY, IS.
The STATE OF DELAWARE.