Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-08-06
FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS

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| Do we ever realize how initiative chill
| dren are! It is a great and solemn
thing to realize. and it should make Us
| very careful of our behavior. II chill,
dren are so quick at aping words and
| manners. how much more must they ab-
sorb ones opinions and expressed
| thoughts!
There is no excuse ror the untidy, dis
| orderly woman-she who leaves odds
and ends wherever she goes. 1t is
sad fact that great many husbands are
| far heater about their belongings than
their wives. and many man has de-
| cided that matrimony was failure be
cause the house resembed a rag box
rather than a home. Every neat man
with orderly habits ought to be such d
repr0ach to the opposite kind OF woman
| that she should retire from society until
she changed her ways. If we are not
neat and methodical in our ways we
are lacking in the chief attribute OF
woman. She meant to keep the World
in order and to make life beautltul,
while man his whole time to work; MOI
! all the good qualities in the world can
redeem the sloppy woman from beng a
! failure as a woman. She can be Drill
| liant, witty and good, but she is poor
creature if she is slovenly III appearance
and if her home is one tumble OF dust
have rich and beautiful things around
US. Some of us must go clad in cotton
and eat from pine boards. But those
| boards should be scrubbed until they
glisten like snow, and the cotton dress
should be as fresh as the morning
And madam, there is no need OF your
wearing cheap jeWelry that needs re-
pairing, cheap laces that need washing
and cheap feathers that won't curl, and
you don't have to use in your house
| spotted tablecloths- dust covered brlc-
a-bGac and broken furniture. Better an
empty room with four bare walls.
The right way to bring up child IS
by good example. Furnishing the little
one will do very little good if she sees
the grOwnups doing the same things I'M
! reproved. Parents who have slovenly Ia
| bic manners need not expect anything
! different in their children. The little ones
are natural born imitatOrs and would
rather copy any day than carry out alb
| stract illustrations. Can you expect
your son to be honest when he hears
you put off tradespeOple on the ground
! really have it, but don't want to pay
the bill just then? And can you ex-
pect that your daughter will not deceive
| you when she hears you tell the maid
repeatedly that you are not at home
and you are? How about teaching self
!
at the slightest provOcation and NOPE
over every little bad turn that happens
to you? And what about self-respect
and neatness when you go about the
house in a soiled wrapper and gossip
over subjects which belong to the vel
low papers? Can child form the right
ideas Of life when it sees you reading
trash and wasting your time! Can 1t
| learn to be sensible or high minded when
all you think about are display and the
| latest fashions? No, indeed! Hours OF
lecturing do not count against one min
ute of bad example. Be the things your
self that you want your children to be.
! That is the only kind of teaching that
will make any kind of impression on
! them.
Outing Magazine gives this hint for
women campers. The question of under
| clothes is very simple. No corsets of any
kind should be taken and no lingerie.
| Mems or boys style underwear should
| be worn, preferably in two pieces. Three
suits will be plenty, and in general it
is advisable to have two of these medium
weight. This is warm enough for the
average cool day in summer, and two
suits may be worn at the same time if
necessary. The third should be either
very heavy winter weight or the ightest
| summer weight according to the time Of
year and the climate. Both will never
be necessary.
A Milwaukee woman who knows, says
that one of the best ways to hang a
| skirt to keep it from wrinkling, is to
fold the skirt at the band three or four
| times, and thrust a strong hatpln
| through it. 1t may then be hung from
the pin, over a hook in the closet or
wardrobe. The pin will be found strong
enough to hold the heaviest skirt, and
,lor, fol For hn tn
be free from wrinkles. This woman
claims that her way is better than the
wire or wooden skirt holders.
A laundress gives this advice about
| removing grass stains: If they are
new stains, wash them with cold water
| and ammonia, but if they are stains of
| long standing, wash them in alcohol
| If the stains are on coored goods that
may fade, apply molasses before wetting
70 remove stains from white goods, use
a paste made of soap and baking soda"
"a woman's work is in the home"
| This remark whether true or false, is
| certainly very old. but scarcely less old
is the male conviction that after all there
is really no work worth mentioning to
| be done in the home. In southern Nige-
ria, however, they know better. An ex-
plorer in those parts has brought back
| the information that the reason given by
the natives for the practice of polygamy
| which prevails among them is that it is
| impossible for one woman to do all the
work of the house.
The pretties bathing dresses this year
are in pricess model, with tights sep
arate, buttoned to a stiff piece of betting,
which is attached to the gown at the
| waist line.
1t is mistake to think that for swim
ming anything at all will do, and that
the fit really does not greatly matter.
On the contrary, everything depends
upon whether or not the suit fits trimly
and the headgear is a becoming shade
and prettily adjusted. It is as. impor-
tant, therefore, for a bathing suit to be
! made to measurement as any party
frock, and it is worth while to procure
good material, for there are certain
textures which will wear several sum
mers. while the poorer grades of silk
and alpaca are scarcely worth the max
ing up. Peau de cygne wears perhaps