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nous, and it was considered quite eff

famous, and it was considered quite efIi- cacious.
 Sara Bernhardt was the exponent of the rose bath '-sprinlxling beautiful rose leaves in her morning tub, exaling their | sweet perfume and daintiness. | So the woman who wishes to be beau- | tiful (and is there one so abnormally de- void of vanity as not to do sop, must have her maid give orders for the lemon in large quantities each day. Queen Wilhelmina was the first to give the hint to Paris. and she secured the idea from a lady of waiting who had travelled in the Dutch East Indies and asked questions of the wife of colonial governor until she discovered the real reason for the superb complexion of the Dutch East India women
 For their smooth skins, white and pink as that of an infant fresh awakened from a nap, the women of East India gave all honor to the lemon. They bathe in lemonade. But they bathe discreetly.
 'The lemons are such powerful fruit.' said the lady in waiting. "Five of them are quite enough for the lemonade bath"
 Queen Wilhelmina commanded that she write full instructions for the lemon bath. Here it is the female courier wrote it and as it hangs on an ivory tab let in the royal bathroom in the palace of Amsterdam.
 "Cut five lemons into thin slices, each lemon into at least a dozen slices. Place the cut up lemons in a large bowl filled with cool water. Let the lemons soak in the bowl for half an hour
 Fill the bath tub with tepid water and pour the gowl of lemonade into it while This will stir the lemonade into the Wa This vii lstir the lemonade into the Wa +l,e hoy na1 bly, do by any other method. Let the lemon slices float about in the tub. It would destroy half the good effect of the bath to remove them for they still con- tain half the juice of the fruit"
 The Queen found the bath excellent, but her own ingenuity suggested an improve ment She added the mdest soap to her bath of lemonade, and with fine results. Then the question of the complexion arose. The lemon was too stinging and acrid for the cider skin, and so the Queens originality again asserted itself.
 When questioned by her ladies-ln- wait ing about her lovely skin, which looked like the roses that bloomed in the pal ace garden in June, Queen Wilhelmna laughed and said
 Tt is the lemon bath in the morning."
 For the body, yes said her favorte lady-in- waiting. But lemons are not for the skin of the face, Your Majesty! They are too stringent
 "Ther strength must be tempered" replied the Queen of Holland. AS I re- duce the strength of the lemons by using mild soaps with my bath, so l soften the glass of lemonade with a teaspoonful of rose water before l use it in, my face bowl"
 To Paris quickly the court gossips of Holland sent the recipe for the Queens beauty bath. In a fortnight it was the rule adopted by the mistress of every home of the Faubourg de St. Germain. The charming Duchesse de Rochefou- caud told an American friend of it. The friend was the bearer of the good tidings to New York. And the lemon bath is the latest experiment of some of the very smartest women in America.
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MT. Kipling to "Fighting Rob'

With the retirement of Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans from active service III the limited States navy, naturally much is heinz said and written in regard to this most picturesque figure. Perhaps no man has occupied the center of the staoe more effectively than he in recent vears. and no man has more genuine admirers and loyal friends. Among the most prominent of these is MT Rudyard Kinline. whose unstinted praise of the preat naval hero is remarked by one who knew the twain. In years gone by MT. Kipling inscribed some verses to "Fighting Bob, which will be apropos at this time, and which portray the undisguised admiration of the great Englishman for an American of whom all Americans are proud.
 MT. Kiplng sent Admiral Evans a set the gift:
 "Zogbaum draws with a pencil.
 And I do things with pen, But you sit up in a conning-tower,
 Bossing eight hundred men. "Zogbaum takes care of his business,
 And take care of mine, But you take care of ten thousand tons,
 Sky-hooting through the brine. 'Zogbaum can handle his shadows,
 And I can handle my style, But you can handle a ten-inch gun,
 To carry seven mile.
 'To him that hath shall be given
 And that's why these books are sent To the man who has lived more stories
 Than Zogbaum or I could invent.''
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holiday in Switzerland and later will go to her home in Milan. Before coming to the states for the season of opera she will make a concert tour, which will include all the principal cities of the English provinces
 A SUPERB
 Collection of diamonds is owned bv the erstwhile Neapolitan cafe singer. Lima Cavaleri, now one of the worlds great ar lists.
 Upon the occasion of her last appear ance at Covent Garden she was a blaze of gems and jewels. She wore a superb diamond tiara of Russian fashion, a ser pent of brilliants also was worn in her hair and double chain of diamonds was hanging round her neck, besides numerous brooches, pins and trinkets of all descrip- tions.
 "HAVANA."
 The new musical comedy which the au- thors of "Florodora' have exploited in London, it is said, will duplicate the suc- cess or the last named production. The story pertains to the adventures of a. party of English tourists who reach Ha- Vana during an insurrection and whose subsequent experiences have to do with sunlit market place and quays and enliv- ened tobacco shops.
 A NOVELTY
 In musical circles is the production of an opera In Esperanto" This has been done within the past few days by the Dresden Royal opera. The chosen pro- duction was Goethe's 'Iphigenie in Tauris,' and an American girl, Miss Reicher of New York, was included in the cast.
 THE CONCERT
 Stage will have a distinct acquisition in the person of Blanche Murchese, the daughter of the noted Partisan vocal n- structor, next season, when she will come to thls country for a series of recitals Her voice is said to be very beautiful and her training the best that could be se- cured
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Tiny Citizens

While the City Beautiful idea is at it's zenith, it is not amiss that the little folks should be interested in such things. Civic pride may be inculcated into the juvenile mind as well any thing else. The children have their clubs, dancing classes, athletic classes. and why not a Civic club? A story is told of small boy who recently accepted an invitation to join a little neighborhood literary club. The name decided upon was the "Bijou." He was such a tiny little tot, and could not well remember names, so when his doting parents asked what they called the club, he said:
 "I don't know, but it is cross between a Rumble Bee and Banjo'
 In a New England village a crowd or boys and girls have formed Civic club, the duties of which are not arduous. They consist mainly in "neatness'-ot picking up stray bits of paper, etc. on the street walks or lawns, and refraining iron, depositing thereon what does not be- long there-banana skins, orange peels, etc. Each member takes real pride m keeping the street looking "ship shape
 A 5-year old member got mixed up on names in the club and designates it as the Pacific club" which so far It mas certainly proven itself to be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-23
SUNFLOWER PHILOSOPHY

From the Atchison. Kan. Globe.
 If 1t is girl, and the shoe pinches sbe calls it perfect fit. and buys the shoe
 We wonder it has never occurred to the active managers of a church to charge mission at church weddings.
 When a widow makes the haste to marry again that usually characterizes the widowers the neighbors don't do a thing to her.
 man is worthless as soon as he be- gins to think more of what people are thinking of him than of what he is do- ing
 It makes no difference how poor a mans memory, he usually recall the exact words of his printed compliments, including the punctuation.
 One of these days Peace will climb off her pedestal, tear her Greek robe to pieces in her rage. whip every one who passes with her olive branch, and throw rocks at the dove which has always flut- tered over her head And it will be found, upon Investigation that this hap pened on a Monday. There are things on Monday that will try the patience even of marble statue called Peace.
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the reformation of a bad neighborhood Is to plant in the midst of 1t, not a model tenement, not school, but church.
 With this thought in his mind and heart Dr. Rainsford organized what he termed the Institutional church. of St. George's in New York, of which he was rector at the time. The idea was plant ed in fertile soil, for the Institutional church has now become part and parcel of every church work throughout the country. It Is an answer to the oft asked question::
 aWhat real practical good does the church accomplish?"
 The name "Institutional means a church in which institutes and schools or instruction along practical avenues are formed in connection with regular church work There is no branch of Christian ity which has done more good than thls' : the poor, the needy and the sufterng have been benefited in a way that would have been impossible along any other lines. Dr. Percy SticlSney Grant of the Church of the Ascension, New York, has been a prominent factor in this line; also Dr. Charles F. Aked, the great English divine, who fills the pulpit of the Fifth Avenue Baptist church, popularly known as "Rockefeller's church."
 An article relative to the Institutional Church and What It Accomplishes, by Sara Kennedy Winkler, says of Dr. Rainsford and the work in St George's:
 St Georges church, on Stuyvesant Square, is located in a neighborhood once the center of New YorlS's social life but now occupied by tenement houses, filled with working people, most of whom are foreigners. How to induce these people to become interested In religious affairs was a serious problem, the only solution of which was to reach them not only on the Lords day but also during the work ing days of the week. To this end a commodous parish house was erected where instruction along spiritual, intel 1ectual and practical lines is given. Here the various church clubs hold their meet ings, and a spacious hall is set apart for the use of the young people who meet there on Sunday afternoons and though out the week for social enjoyment. The building contains also a well-equipped gymnasium rooms devoted to special work, such as the daily Kindergarten. the industrial work for women, the cooking school, and the relief department The basement contains the rife range where the members of the Battalion club prac- tice shooting.
 The trade school is also an interesting feature of the work for boys Here they are taught mechanical drawing wood cutting. printing plumbing, manual training, free-hand drawing, cobbling. and electrical work.
 Classes for girls are maintained. in which regular instruction is given in cooking, dressmaking, millinery en- broidery, drawnwork basketry, and other branches. They also have the Use of the gymnasium at stated times
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Fashion In Finger Nails

No item of a woman's claim to being well-groomed Is of more importance than the care of her nails
 The pretty manicurist, who has been designated as ''the divinity that shapes our ends,' has made the profession one which has gathered in many shekels for those versed in the art. The fashion in this line is as subject to change as any other, and the dernier cri is that the pointed nail is now looked upon as a. relic of barbarism Women, it would ap- pear, are becoming sensible in another digital detail, that of not polishing their nails as highly as heretofore. The idea now seems to be to follow nature instead of trying to improve upon it.
 DID YOU? Maid of Athens, tell me please, Did you walk upon your knees, Did you have an au fait chest? Wear straight fronts and all the rest? And, o, Byron's lady friend, Did you do the Grecian Bend?
 Chicago Journal. Some girls are so circumspect they will not accompany young man on the piano without chaperone.-The Smart Set
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sifted flour; mix into if one no,na 70 granulated sugar and one Iarea +ah,s spoonful Of powdered cinnamon; mix if into dough with three well-beatan eggs; roll out into a sheet cut into round cakes and bake in quick oven. They VIII require but q few minutes.
 sMoLAsSES COOKIES.-Two cups of ,Iolasses' one cup of butter, two eggs sv'o s"o teaspoonfuls of soda, two teaspoon fuls of ginger, one-half teasnonr f,, cloves, flour to mix soft. roll thick. hal In moderate oven YAe
 HE PANTRY SHELF.-The greatest care should be taken of the shelves in the pantry, especially during the warm weather Is it necessary. A good idea To tp nave a supply of powdered borax on all .he shelves to keep away ants and papers, it will be quite as effieacions as on top. is
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THE CONCERT
Teetotalism and. Mr. Shaw


 Mr. G. B. Shaw, socialist, vegetarian, de- batter, lycanthrope-this normally abnor- nal man-was the victim of a queer CO., incidence recently. As every one knows, MT. Shaw is a fierce ascetic, a misogynist man who will have no regrets at three score years and ten; no sweet memories' of headaches, for he is teetotaler; no aftermath of indscreet diet, for he sticks to his sawdust menu of carrots, cabbage and brown bread
 It was in London. and a love feast of literary lions was the occasion. Arose a man who said:
 T denounce Bernard Shaw for drinking water only. He is disgustingly sober. We are here to carouse!'
 To the surprise of every one it was dis covered that the speaker who had the Bacchic grievance against MT. Shaw was none other than Mir. H. c. Wells, he> of ''The Food of the Gods'' fame, which is the story of Jack and the Giant Killer only told from the Giants point of view tins time, instead of Jacks.
 MT. Shaw paid very little if any att tention to MT. Wells rema rk-for awhile He delicately caressed his fuzzy, ginger gray beard with one hand while with the other he continued to serve himself min eral water, which he drank with keen enjoyment After imbibing freely of the harmless beverage, the witty Irishman quietly turned to MT. Wells and said: T know nothing more droll in the world than an Englishman trying to be funny"
  "Go to my father" was all that the
 young lady said, And she knew that I knew that her fath-
 CT was dead;
 And she knew that knew the gay life he
 had led;
 And she knew that I knew what she
 meant when she said:
 "Go to fatheri" Life. She-Do you believe a man can love two women at once?
 He-Not if they both know it-The ri Sat
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common sense have made easy the way for comfort and health during the tor rid season, which after all is the most important thing in life. The assertion is yentured that a summer spent at home in this way will make the nor maj woman far happier, and when au- tumn comes, she will be better fitted to meet the duties required of her, tn an if she had been pulled and hauled over the country in search of amuse- ment and diversion all summer long.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-23
Pointers On Pastry

In making pastry care should be taken to handle as little as possible. The surest way to make good crust is to chop it together without putting the hands into it. The water, butter or lard should always be cold
 PIE CRUST NO. 1.-To one pint of flour add one teaspoonful of baking pow der, mix in one cup of butter or lard wet with ice water. Will make two pies
 PIE CRUST NO. 2.-Three cups of flour, one teaspoonful of baking powder, a pinch of salt. one cup of cream, one half cup of butter. Roll thin.
 PIE CRUST NO. 3.-Four cups of flour, one cup of butter, one cup of lard. a pinch of salt, one cup of water. Chop together and roll thin.
 PIE CRUST NO. 4.-One quart of four one-half cup of lard one-half cup of butter a pinch of salt, ice water to wet Chop together and roll thin.
 SMALL CAKES.--Delicious small cakes. served while hot, are always palatable, and a few recipes are given below which are excellent:
 TEA CAKES.-Put upon a pie-board one pound of flour which you have pre- viously sifted, make hole in the cen ter in which place one-half pound of butter, six ounces of powdered sugar and four eggs. Mix all well together and roll out your paste extremely thin; cut 1t out in rounds or squares put in a pan which has been buttered slightly, brush your cakes with beaten egg. sprinkle on top one-half pound of cur rants; put in the oven, and when col ored bright yellow remove them and serve as needed
 THE BEST COOKIES.-Two cups of powdered sugar, one-half cup of butter. one cup of sweet milk whites of four eggs, one teaspoonful of extract of lem on, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. flour enough to make a soft butter Bake in patty tins. Beat the batter hard for ten minutes before putting into tins When cold, ice with soft white icing
 SCOTCH CAKE.-Rub three-quarters of a pound of butter into one pound of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-23
Novelist Deputy Sheriff

MT. Richard Harding Davis no longer knows eff he ever did) literary genius dwelling in a garret-no Crab street, with the proverbial flickering candestick in bottle He is the owner now of an estate of 320 acres up in Westchester, and wears "big badge," can any one imagine Mir. Richard Harding Davis wearing a small one?-and he is his own deputy sheriff. Very little is heard of the big land owner lately. His literary
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Women Who Are Interesting

Mrs Frederick Guest, who was the beautiful Miss Amy Phipps, showed her self possessed of remarkable heroism re- gently when her home Burley Hall, in England, was destroyed by fire. She run in her bare feet and night clothes to the nursery, at the risk of her own life, and got her children put them in a peram- bulator and and went three-quarters of a mile to the rectory with them.
 All the money of Henry Phipps cannot restore the celebrated historic treasures which Burley Hall contained.
 
 pretty tribute to the late Louise Chan dler Moulton is from the pen of gifted writer who said of her:
 with all her gifts, and that supreme one, the gift of ages, of the poets who have been the power divinely bestowed to say in verse things that shall live, there remains one other, the gift for friendship by which those nearest to Mrs. Moulton will remember her with the very tenderest thoughts Into the Unseen she carries the devotion of years, and love that illumines and beautifies all that it touches"
 A female Sherlock Holmes is the way Mrs Mary E. Holland of New York and Chicago is designated, owing to her won- derful ability as a detective. She is ac- counted the greatest living authority on the thumb-print systemSof Identification. M Bertillion, the famous French crimin- ologist. was her instructor, and at the Jamestown and St. Louis expositions Mrs. Holland was placed in charge of the crim- inal exhibit.
 The wife of the millionaire sporting goods manufacturer Mrs. J. Walter Spalding. is a society woman who has taken time to perfect herself in music and also to have her son taught the violin. Today the boy ranks With Ysaye and Thibaud as violinist, and is now only 20. Mrs. Spalding is fine pianiste, and at her home the famous old Palace de Tallyrand, Florence, she has the piano which Liszt used for many years.
 The presidential campaign recalls Mrs. Belva Lockwood. who has the distinction of being the only woman who ever be- came candidate for the highest office in the gift of the people. She Is now living in Washington and is 70 years old. Very little has been heard of her in late years. until she recently denounced the peek a-boo' waist in no uncertain terms, say ing "The girl who will walk along public street with half of the upper part of her body exposed to public gazd and the woman who will wear decollete gown and stick a bundle of feathers in her head, calling themselves dressed, are not far removed from savagery."
 To possess the sobriquet of "The Mother of Five Hundred Babies seems quite re- markable, and yet Miss Virginia M. Walk CT is so known all over the United States. Left penniless, at the age of 12 with an invalid mother for her only protector the child took up the burden of life. and with indomitable energy became a bread winner.
 and her infinite pity and inexhaustible mother love took her into the rescue work. where the homeless children be- come her charge. She has probably ''mothered' more babies than any other living women.
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Latest Complexion Fad

That much derided frriit-"spinster sis ter to the redoubtable orange-the much abused, often" -"handed'' lemon-is tba latest acquisition to My Lady's dressing table. The queen of Holland is responsi. ble for the fad, which fashionable wom- en all over the world are taking up. The lemon bath is the talk of the hou,
 Some years ago that naughty little Paris. ienne, Anna Held, made the milk bath
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-23
To Clean Waste Pipes

A communication from young house. wife to a reliable journal asks for direc- tions as to cleaning waste pipes. She had used without effect, potash, wash ing soda and hot water. but not until the following advice was given did she pro- cure satisfactory results.
 Take boiling (not hoD water, and put into it a generous amount of washing soda and a few tablespoonfuls of am monia. When this is thoroughly dis solved run 1t through the obstructed pipes several times and all greasy ac cumulations will disappear. Of course if the pipes are stopped with other things, plumber is the only remedy for such evils.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-23
Le Mode Musicale

Massenet's forthcoming opera will be called "Le Jongleur De Notre Dame" It is the fascinating legend of the little juggler who lived in the neighborhood of Paris many, many years ago and who won such favor in the eyes of the Holy Virgin that she performed a special mir acle to show her appreciation of his adoration.
 of it's environment makes the period and place of action, and the story is woven admirably
 Luisa Tetrazzini is enjoying a brief
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OF INTEREST TO WOMEN
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE.

So long as We love, we serve. So long as we are loved by others 1 would almost say we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
 Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Exceptional Ribbons

Pure silk taffeta in all eolors, 41k inches wide. suitable for hair ribbons or hat trimming. Regular AF
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The Institutional Church. Dr. William s. Rainsford once said: 'The best thing that can be done for
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Luisa Tetrazzini is enjoying brief
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