The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-02-27
By SONORA SARA.

If girls would but stop and think
| reasonably, when worrying about being
| thin, they would at once realize that
here was one of the chief reasons for
| their so-called Disagreement. There Is
nothing which has more effect upon
ones gaining weight than worry. Don't
worry is not foolish advice, for as soon
as you break yourself of the habit you
will find that your physical condition
will also improve steadily and surely.
| This is the first step on the road to
| health of body and mind. The second
| step consists of moderate and beneficial
| exercise in the fresh, open air.
| In washing silk handkerchiefs care
should be taken to prevent their turn
ing yellow. One should never be boiled
nor have any soap rubbed on 1t.
Make a lather of finely shredded
white soap and water. wash and squeeze
the handkerchiefs in it, press out all the
moisture possible and dry quickly in the
sun. Iron them while they are Still
damp, bur not wet.
| White silk handkerchiefs used as
neckties are sometimes cleaned very
well with dried and powdered starch in
which a little powdered blue has been
mixed.
| The handkerchief is spread over
clean linen cloth. with pad of clean
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silk, then busted out.
| Iron with a moderately hot iron. Two
folds of slightly damped linen are laid
over the silk on the right side. This
brightens it considerably.
/ We keep our houses too hot, dry and
close for both plants and people. In
steam or furnace-heated houses unless
air is let in from the outside on every
h ~iN
This should be done indirectly, as the
outside air directly over the plants is
apt to be too cold. open a window or
| door at a distance and let the fresh
cool oxygen from out of doors mingle
with the warmer air of the room.
If you air them and at the same time
give your plants plenty Of moisture,
they will do well for you in the house
despite pessmists. who think nothing
can be grown outside a greenhouse.
| Nothing weakens a face more than a
retreating chin. Unfortunately, COM
paratively little can be done for it. 1t
can be remedied to a certain extent in
| childhood by rubbing from the throat
up and out, holding the head well up
during the process.
| Sometimes too, the trouble may be
caused by the way the jaws close on
account of the position of the teeth,
and q good dentist may often be of help.
Pandages worn around the chin at
night, so placed that the lower jaw is
forced forward, will sometimes remedy
the defect slightly, especially when be-
gun on quite young children.
Learn to carry the head up and
slightly thrown back. and study the
style of hairdressing best adapted 10
conceal the receding chin.
|
We all like home made candy, and
here. are some excellent recipes:
/ For cOcoanut candy CRATE the meat Of
a cocoanut and have ready two pounds
of graduated sugar and the beaten
! white of two eggs, also the milk of the
cocoanut Mix them all together and
make into small cakes. In a short time
the candy will be sufficiently dry to eat.
To make peanut taffy take one pound
of brown sugar, quarter of pound of
butter one quart of peanuts toasted a
light brown.
| Put the sugar and butter in skillet
with two tablespoonfuls of water, let
this boil until the taffy is clear, dark
color, then stir in the peanuts, boil for
i Is minutes
Have ready the griddle on which
breakfast cakes are baked and drop
one spoonful of taffy on at time; it
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cakes. Soapstone griddie is the best.
as it cools the taffy quickly and does
not retain heat.
The jolly man slapped his friend on
the shoulder and said: Come and go
, with me to my club and have dinner.
would take you home with me for
dinner, but the chances are that they
will have nothing but bean soup" And
the chances are he was telling the
truth. Too many men give their wives
bean soup allowances on which to pro-
vide food for the table and are ashamed
to take anyone home for meal. Some
men speak of this as the wife'S allow
! ance. 1t is nothing to her, and it is
something apart from an allowance. Too
many men think they are actually con-
ferring a favor on the wife to hand over
s. to buy household necessities, and
wonder that she can't get everything
she wants with that amount. also dress
/ the children, herself, get new articles
for the house and put money in the
bank, No wonder girls go in offices
and work; too many are afraid Of mar
rying these bean-providing lords. 1t is
not conducive to very much happiness
to sit at home and eat bean soup, know
ing that ones husband is taking five
course dinner down town at one of the
: most fashionable clubs in the city.
81 Now the artistic dress reformers, who
2 cried for Greek styles till women began
) converting their flowing negligees into
ball gowns, don't like it. It's the Gre
/ clan couture that they object to. They
say this style of hair dressing either
l does not fit the American woman's head
= or her clothes. Still, the fashion is
gaining recruits by the hundred, and
already the same extravaganza is to be
observed which in the end meant the
death of the marcel wave. 1t is a Win
: ter of eccentric hair dressing, and the
I Grecian knot is the most eccentric of all
? Women whose features do not lend
: themselves in the slightest to the style
affect it, and thereby lose their CHIEF
chance of attractiveness. Still, there is
p no reason to grumble over this, for the
+ always with us. But there is evidence
on all sides that even the woman oil
good taste has been led into error by
this Grecian knot.
ii Do not patroniZe n milkman whose
: milk, after standing for an hour or two
has a sediment at bottom of bottle. II
shows that the care of the milk is oper
to suspicion. Illness may result, Sc
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