Middletown transcript., 1906-05-05
OUR WOMAN'S COLUMN

with onion dipped in salt.
A glass OF cold water is tonic such as
no doctor can prescribe.
We can neither set hen nor marry a
wife unless she is in the lIumor.
1t is alleged that pretty women are be-
coming very scarce in New York.
To build up the tissues of the body sip
a glass of rich creamy milk before retir-
ing.
1t is the greatest of all mistakes to do
nothing because you can only do little.
Do what you can.
The average family does not need a
coat -oi arms, but it needs a motto
"United we stand; divided we fall"
DON'T find too much fault with this
world. If you do, you may be sure that
heaven won't exactly suit you.
Smiles lead you back to your youth;
tears drag you toward old age. 1t takes
no more time to laugh than to weep.
Make the girl i'll the looking-glass as
sweet as you can. She's a good friend to
you, and you want to treat her we'll.
Most of us count up everything else but
our blessings. Right there our adding
machine stops. 1t isn't right, though.
A woman in Collidge, Kan, tackled
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she wouldn't have to be bothered receiv-
ing calls.
Every time married man has to pay
dressmaker's or milliner's bill he Won
ders If Adam knew good thing when he
had it.
Pet dogs in sunbonnets and blue glass
spectaces may be seen following their
owners through the streets OF Berlin in
hot weather.
Whenever a girl wants to find real
hero she looks for him between the cover
| pages of dime novel-that was written
by man.
A physicians remedy for burns is made
from equal parts of linseed oil and lime
water. This mixture should always be in
ones medicine chest.
| The woman who is not busy is so rare
that she ought to be labeled and exhibited
in museum as an obsolete specimen of
the daughters OF Eve.
Money may not bring happiness, but
it's good enough to notice when it passes
by. 1t is also worthy of keeping when
once you get your hands upon it.
While extravaganza is absolutely
wicked, to be miserly is worse, for then
your money does actual harm. Put away
little "rolP' as a safety umbrella for a
rainy day.
Miss Esther Whitman, the strongest
woman in New York, has married Her.
man Hyama, Harlem real estate man,
whom she rescued from drowning three
years ago. She is an expert swimmer
and can lift dead weight OF six hundred
pounds.
The fashionable idea will be the white
suit trimmed with touch of color.
White and brown are particularly modish.
White with bright blue or with roses
the color introduced in velvet bands and
embroidered trimming-represents the
high-style idea.
The people who win their way into the
;.,,osk rooooeoe If oFharo' baorfs ora NOT
you will find, usually the most brilliant
and gifted, but those who have sympathy,
patience, self-forgetfuIness and that inde-
Enable faculty of eliciting the better ma
tnre of others.
We have many friends who are more
beautiful and gifted, but there is not one
of them whose companionship We enjoy
better than that of the plain-faced man or
woman who never makes witty or pro-
found remark, but whose simple quality
of human goodness makes up every other
deficiency.
! 1t is to the girl who laughs that man
is drawn at all times. Be she his friend,
sweetheart or wife he finds her company
acting as tonic on his state OF mind and
constitution. She seems to have fund
of nIerriment and humor which drives
away all cares and lightens the heaviest
burdens.
The best way TO keep the love OF your
husband is to make him hustle to keep
your love- By this it is not intended to
worry or try him, but instead to make
Yourself so charming. so fascinating, so
interesting and really superior and lovable
that you have all the other women beat
to finish.
The boy who saves his money some da
owns farm or becomes the banker, the
!. ercFant, the professional man. Tie
boy who never saves cent makes the
man who learns his bread by the sweat
of his brow" wl.o never owns a home or
enioys the Injuries of life. He thinks l.r
always has kick acoming and never le;s
chance to kick go by. Everything goes
wrong with hinl-when he is man.
Parents should try to make graduates OF
Industry and economy of the boys and
girls if they desire the good things of life
for their children.
An ingenious woman has given the fol-
lowing directions for homemade substi-
tute for linoleum on the kitchen floor:
Take any old carpet that is whole, but too
shabby for use, clean thoroughly, and
tack it down smoothly on the kitchen
h ,or. Then make a good, thick boiled
starch OF -four and water. Rub coat Of
the starch on the carpet with white
wash brush, and in about twenty-four
hours or when the starch is thoroughly
dry, give it coat Of paint--any color de-
sired Dark red is desirable color for
the kitchen When the paint is dry,
give second coat and you will have a
cheap and durable floor covering, equal
to Iinoleum at about one-fourth the cost
By giving it coat of paint once year it
will last for wears