The National tribune., 1908-01-02
BY SENIOR SARA.

When destroying your barrels do not
throw away the old hoops. These should
be saved and cut in pieces the length of
the regular coat hanger and covered
with a crossway piece of cotton mate
rial and a loop sewed on in center Of
hoop. These are much lighter than
ordinary coat hangers, and are Just as
satisfactory for hanging up shirt waists.
coats and skirts
The woman with old-fashioned ideas
of housekeeping who sees to the wash
ing of her blankets at home should
know this formula:
Shave half bar of good laundry
soap, turn over in boiling water, stand
it on the stove and stir it until 1t is dis
solved into jelly. When it is thoroly
let them soak for an hour. moving them
around and turning them over occa-
sionally.
At the end of the hour run them
thru the wringer. rinse them until the
soap is gone, wiring and hang them in
the sun to dry
Most housekeepers say the blanket
must be shaken after ringing and again
when half dry.
The art of happiness consists in be-
ing pleased with little things. People
with great wealth or great power are
seldom happy The leaders of the
world, great men or great women. are
seldom satisfied. The society leader,
with millions at her command and the
homage of many men and women, rare
ly knows the happiness that comes un-
asked to the young wife or mother in
humber circles. The possession of
money decreases the power of enjoy
ment. A child gets more pleasure out
hon mil fra
does from a $1,000 yacht. Six-pence
has greater value to the child than a
thousand has to the millionaire. The
joys of life belong to the little people
the quiet men and women who are satis-
fled to live their own lives and make
little mark on the lives of others. 1t IS
in the power of the least of US to be
happy and to make others so.
There would not be so many failures
If girls would not attempt work be-
yond their powers. The great object
is to make a comfortable living, and
you get rid of the "genteel'' idea 1t
matters not what work you do, but how
you do it. No work is well done that
is not done intelligently. You will gain
more respect and consideration for q
well-cooked dinner than for all ill-spelt
typed letter, and the master of a house
will have higher opinion of his chill
dren's trustworthy nurse than for his
not-too-reliable shorthand copyist.
If girls about to leave school are
wise, they will ask for training which
will enable them to enter the home,
rather than the office.
Lemons are very useful in health and
sickness. Hot lemonade is one of the
best remedies for the incipient cold. It
is also excellent in cases of biliousness.
For malaria the Roman cure" is pre-
pared by cutting the rind and pulp of
lemon into pint of water, then boil
ing until there is only half pint One
teaspoonful is taken before each meal.
This has cured obstinate cases when
quinine failed. Lemon sirup made by
baking lemon 20 minutes and then
squeezing the juice upon half cupful
of sugar is excellent for hoarseness and
to break up a cold. Tie piece of lemon
On a corn at night for five nights, leav-
ing it on all night. Soak the foot in
warm water, and the corn can be easily
removed. When the root of the corn
is taken out, cover the toe with collo-
dion OF some other preparation to pro-
tect the skin, which will be sensitive.
Unless the tender skin is protected it
will soon form another corn. A piece
of cotton saturated with vaSeline and
put over the toe will doubtless protect
it just as well.
One of the skin troubles easiest to
cure is "ringworm." 1t comes in two
forms, one on the scalp, the other on
the skin of small babies The best
treatment for it is iodine. If the skin
where the ring exists is painted two or
three times the scales will disappear en-
tirely, while if the same plan is followed
in caring for ring on the scalp it, too,
will come off, leaving the skin free and
clean.-
Sulphur and iron are the natural
foods of the hair. These are the prop
critics found in the egg yolk, thus max
ing it an excellent tonic as we'll as
shampoo for the hair The white of the
egg is mild alkali which assimilates
with the natural oil of the sebaeeous
glands, making in conjunction a heavy
lather. Two eggs are sufficient for the
shampoo. Break them first into a cup,
then pour them on the hair quickly.
rubbing them well into the scalp. The
hair will need four rinsing waters at
least, but no soap is to be used. The
eggs foam up under the friction, acting
like soap.
Stair rods are cleaned easily when
tarnished by washing them in soap and
water, and then polishing with slightly
oiled cloth busted over with finely pow-
dered rotten stone
A shoe which congresses the foot re-
tards circulation of the blood much as
the compression of a rubber hose re-
tards the flow of water
1t is as foolish and unhygienic to wear
such shoes as it would be to sleep in
poorly ventilated room, in bed several
feet too short to accommodate the full
length of the body. Can you imagine
any greater discomfort or one more cal
culated to destroy the health and cause
the most distressing of Nightmares?
To squeeze a foot into a shoe a size
too small is worse than squeezing the
head into a stiff hat that is too tight.
You cannot think we'll with your hat
pressing your head, and you scarcely
can think at all if your shoes are pinch
ing your feet. A great amount of nerve
energy is required to endure pain caused
by a pinching shoe, to say nothing of
the distraction the continued conscious
ness of pain causes your thoughts.
Try to get shoes that fit your feet in
such manner that you hardly are con-
scious that you have shoes on The size
of the foot is rarely out of proportion
to the body it is intended to carry. So
why, from a mistaken sense of pride.
sacrifice physical and mental comfort
by trying to disturb the proportion?
This trying to live UP to false stand
ards of fashion and beauty-a veritable
tyranny of fashfon"-fs disease which
seems to affect not only individuals but
communities. and even some Nations,
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