The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-08
Of Interest to Women
WHEN THE DAY GOES WRONG.
Many Little Omissions In Personal
Care Often the Result.

WHEN THE DAY GOES WRONG.
many Little Omissions In Personal
Care Often the Result.
How often have you heard woman
say, "Oh, everything has gone wrong:
somehow did not start the day
right" The teacher hears her pupils
oner this as an excuse. The fore
woman In the factory, the floor walker
In the store, both catch 1t amid tears
over lily performed work. And many,
many husband listens to the same
plant when he comes home at night
and finds the supper half prepared,
the wife In tears, and all because she
started the day wrong-just how she
cannot explain.
Perhaps one difficulty lies in the
fact that the average girl or woman
trusts too much to the invigorating
effect of sleep. Healthy sleep relaxes
and rests and recreates, but 1t does
not directly invigorate the system. And
1t will do these three things only when
properly taken, with pure air circu-
lating freely through the room, with
light weight bedding instead of heavy
feather beds and cotton clogged com
forts, SO called. The single bed is in
itself a remedial agent and, above all
things. no young person should sleep
with an aged one. If after having
slept In restful, sanitary fashion you
still awaken with draggy feelings or,
as one woman expressed it most
tersely, as If everything were slip
ping out at her finger tips and toes"
find out what is the matter. II you
have heavy headache and an un-
pleasant taste in your mouth, be sure
that your stomach is in need of at
tention. Drink at once cup of boil
Ing water in which teaspoonful of
phosphate of soda has been dissolved
Or a simple laxative like cream of
tartar and salts mixed, which any
druggist will compound for you in
proper proportions, say 10 cents
worth of rochelle salts with half their
weight in cheam Of tartar. Keep the
bowels open, for nothing can so upset
you for the day as the heavy feelings
incident to constipation. Perhaps the
headache may come from q catarrhal
tendency, in which case be sure that
the rising. hour is the time to treat
this annoying trouble.
For so cents or even quarter, you
can purchase nasal douche which
sends forth gentle spray. A solu-
ton of simple salt water, neither too
cold nor too hot, or water into which
has been poured one of the patented
antiseptic washes, which any drug
gist will recommend, should be spray
ed up either nostril until the passage
ways are clear. Next comes the body
bath, and this must be chosen accord
ing to the physique and temperament
Of the woman. know one girl who
nearly wrecked her health taking very
hot baths night and morning. She
would lie in water hot enough to emit
steam, not because she enjoyed it, but
because she was supersensitive about
her complexion and some one had
told her that hot baths opened the
poresof the skin and cured blackheads.
Hot baths are exhausting, debilitat-
ing and reducing. The thin girl should
always avoid them. The girl who is
going out in the cold should shun
them as fruitful sources of cold. They
are the privileges of the woman of
leisure. who can lie down for an hour
after taking one. The ideal bath for
almost any woman is warm, not hot,
with the cold faucet left open in a
small stream to gradually reduce the
temperature of the water, SO that when
she steps out it is almost cold.
If you must share the bath room
with other members of your family
or are boarding and you cannot take
a daily bath, do not fail to buy a
bath mat, a big sponge and a rough
towel for use in your own room, and
Hot, aching feet tell on the nerve
force and cause headache, irritability
and score of nervous ills.
The girl with any skin disorder
must avoid the really cold bath and
content herself with warm or tepid
baths. Sea salt, which can be bought
in small bags or wooden boxes con-
venient for bath room or dressing
room use, should be added to the cool
bath by the girl who has that tired
feeling. 1t is most invigorating. A
few drops of toilet ammonia or a
pinch of borax will be comforting in
the bath of a girl who has an oily
skin. Oatmeal bags, to be tossed into
the water when bathing, give the skin
most delightful velvety feeling. Make
cheese cloth bags four inches square,
and fill them not full, but just lightly,
with the following mixture: Five
pounds of oatmeal, one pound of pow
dered orris root, one pound of almond
meal and one-quarter pound Of pure
CASTLE soap scraped to powder.
For rug collect about twenty-five
pounds OF flannel rags and dye them
the desired shades, and tear into
strips about an inch wide. These
must be nearly sewed together, over
tapping about half an inch, so that the
Joining is strong. Now procure a
length of clothes, line rope and COM
mence to crochet the flannel strips
like any crochet wheel for a chair
back. A large wooden crochet hook
may be obtained from needlework
shop. The stitch of double crochet is
used to cover the rope with the
crochetel flannel. AS you go along
the crochet Is inserted into the previ-
Gus row, SO that the circle grows with
every pull of the needle. In using
two cOlOrs the paler shade should be
used until the circle is about q foot
across. Then use the darkey shade
until you have gone five times around
the ring. Return again to the paler
color. repeating the alternate colors
until the flannel is all used up. or the
rug is the desired size, leaving the
darker shade at the edge of the rug.
These are very economical to make,
and are very quickly done, and are
along the most durable of any of the
homemade rugs, as the rope makes
such hard, strong surface before 1t
is covered with the flannel.