The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-06-17
For the Women to Think About
Written Especially for The Reformer BY Lydia Eliot

sions. including church, and a pretty
evening dress A trunk upon which you
can pay the express yourself relieves
from excessive hand-baggage. If visiting
friends. be willing to have your trunk lett
in storage room if that is more con
venicnt than taking up to your own
room. so that its weight may not be q
trouble to those unaccustomed TO hand
ling heavy pieces.
IL your means are at all limited, and
you are to have an outing at hotel or
boarding house. find out in advance Just
what the expense will be. Women with
a certain amount laid aside for trip
have been unpleasantly surprised to find
their bills ten dollars apiece for a day
at hotel, previously considered quite
inexpensive. II must be remembered
that there are places where in summer
everything is charged as an extra, IN
Guiding transfer each way for every
piece of baggage. Hence it is well to
know in advance just what to depend
upon unless your purse expands with
the occasion.
Bright red jackets with buttons, collar
and cuff facings of black satin, are used
for jaunts in the woods and while
roughing it,
Gallons spots on the feet are the
cause of unnecessary discomfort, since
they are removable. Instead of endur.
water in which is little borax or soda
When softened rub or scour with
pumce stone. Should this treatment
frequently repeated fail, wrap at night
in absorbent cotton, saturated with olive
oil or crude oil and use pumice stone in
the morning. 1t is wonderful how many
discomforts are effectually disposed OF
by gaining what knowledge we can, and
then applying it.
If any disease has been prevalent in
your family and is supposed to be hered-
itary, resolve that this is the generation
in which heredity should be overcome
by education and environment, and then
work it out successfully Nearly every
disease is durable in the twentieth cen
tuw and it would be far better to claim
inheritance of good qualities and abun
dant health rather than evil tendencies
and disease. Five months of summer
and autumn weather stand ready to co
operate if you will only take the trouble
to receive the assistance.
The men find necktie rods which are
fastened inside the closet door or In
other suitable places, happy conven
fence. Similarly mounted they are equally
convenient for women for their belts
Try them and see.
The chanticler style has strong hold
throughout the range Of clothing and
household accessories. The heroes Of
the barnyard'' flew into fashion with the
French play and still gain ground. The
rooster may be seen hand painted upon
parasols hidden away in lace and but
tons, embroidered upon gowns, belts and
jackets. The head is a popular design
to embroider upon the instep of stockings
of silk or Isle, upon centerpleces and
table doilies. Cockscombs, owls, pheas
ants, creamy eggs are also chosen fol
designs. The work must be deliberately
done and the shades correctly selected
They need not necessarily be too gay
Golden browns, soft yellows, and mahog
any shades, as well as brighter colorings
serve admirably. The best of wash silks
are used on some materials. For naural
eolored linens mercerized cottons are
used.
One of the latest fads for reducing
flesh is to abstain from eating. This is
one of the most dangerous OF practices
The results are said to be more profitable
for doctors and undertakers than the
former methods of reducing. Starvation
is a serious matter and even in modified
form should not be tried except under
physicians direction and observation.
Colored embroidery on the backs Of
gloves, exactly the. same in color and
are occasionally seen. Any thing te