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The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-17
Spring Fever
and Some Hints
on Comfort
BIZ BEATRICE FAIRFAX.

By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
"HESE first spring days put Joy
into our hearts, but, physically,
= they are most depressing.
A shoe that has been perfectly COM
Portable for weeks now feels three
sizes too small
Children suffer because they are too
warmly dressed, and yet the careful
mother fears to run any risk by any
change in dress The thing to do Is
10 be guided each day, but not 10 re-
Change the heavy winter under
clothing for lighter weight.
See that the ehildren's shoes are large
enough. remembering that the little feet
are never at rest from morning until
night.
Some Hints for the Change.
Change your own stockings every
day and at night battle your feet in
warm water, in which a tablespoonful
Of bOrax has been dissolved.
If you wear large enough shoes. and
a loose corset, you will not suffer
greatly from the spring change.
We all feel the first warm days Of
spring more than the heat Of summer.
Eat lightly and drink plenty or water.
If you have a dog, see that there Is
always a pan of water where he can
Put a fve-cent bar Of sulphur fin
the. water; that is doggie's spring
All women want to have small feet.
and, with that end in view, they
squeeze their feet into shoes much too
small.
Nature will not stand the insult. and
revenges herself by producing all sorts
of foot troubles.
Wear d shoe that is long enough and
wide enough and forget your vanity II
the shoe is neat, the size makes little
difference.
1t is very poor economy to persist IN
wearing an uncomfortable shoe.
Tn~f chi Fuh ma ri nHrNu snnIT "a
in buying shoes for the children TO ses
that they do not squeeze the tender 1T
tie feet out of shape.
Enlarged joints come from tight
shoes.
Don't wear tight corsets.
A famous dressmakeF told me, not
long ago. that well-dressed women no
longer lace.
waist" she said, "and women have
grown very sensible regarding their
cOrsets."
Every bit Of work is an exertion these
DAYS To be out Of doors. and just SIT
and look a the growing things, is about
all one feels up TO.
An Appeal to Shoppers.
Il you have spring shopping TO do be
merciful to the girl behind the counter.
She is on her feet ali day. and you know
how feet feel these days.
You can't expect her to be madly IN
terested in your new hat, or a shade or
ribbon, when all her tired body Is de-
handing rest and relief from her aching
uains You know how far away and
fanguid you feel yourself; well, she
feels worse than you do, IN all prob
ability.
Spring fever is disease Of many
symptoms.
them glad and sad by turns; It makes
them hate work and long for outdoors;
it makes sentimental young people fail
in love II works general havoc.
And yet. in spite Of it all. spring IS
the time of year that every one loves
0est-poets, children. s0ber-hea{ka men
and women; they all love IL.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-17

Ivy OW'S my Evalina this bright and
beautiful mOrnin?" inquired the
- grocery boy, as he opened up his
order book. and perched on the kitchen
table.
Anybody give YOU a bill of sale for
me?" inquired the pretty cook. with an
air of disdain. Seems TO me somebody
ought TO put you back in the brine tub"
My tongue trips up on me sometimes, .
explained the grocery boy. Il 'spose l
oughta said, Ny bright and beautiful
Evalina this mornin2' That's what ]
meant, honest TO Moses.
You're one of those well-meanin' young
men; any one can see that sneered the
pretty cook. II look 10 see you wind up
the way they all do"
I'D sooner be wound up than run
down." said the grocery boy.
Then you'd better dodge when YOU see
me comm down the street" returned the
pretty cook.
Il see you amt out of pepper and mus
tard yet" remarked the grocery boy.
'I certainly amt got enough on hand
to make you smart" retorted the pretty
cook. I wish had, for the sake of your
friends"
Don't you worry about my friends,
EvaIins." said the grocery boy
The Grocery Boys Repartee.
4 won't" replied the pretty cook.
There amt enough of 'em to worry
about Have you got any Pitaires chloe
olate? ''
'sorry. but We don't keep Pitaire's" an
swered the grocery boy.
Il knew you wouldn't" declared the
pretty cook.
Then why didn't you ask for what you
thought we might have?, demanded the
grocery boy. You didn't think I'd lie
about il, / hope No we haven'l got
Pitaires, but we've got something
whole lot better"
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-17
The Choosing Of a Husband
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX.

If you are but eighteen, and feel that
you have found your ideal, be very sure
of yourself before you marry him.
Use your head as well as your heart;
try to look ahead; try TO imagine him ten
years from now.
Marriage, you know, is the most i'm
portant thing in life, the best and most
natural life for all men and women.
Every Woman Has a Chance to Wed.
Every woman has the chance to marry.
even il she never has a proposal. BY that
l mean that no woman goes through life
without some man loving her and wishing
to marry her.
II he never reaches the proposing point
It Is the womans fault, not his.
Don't mar your chance Of happy mar
ried life by taking the wrong man
Marry a man who has not stopped
growing yet, one who is developing his
brain every day.
If you marry a man whose mind il all
on clothes and style and sport he won't
have much time to spend on you.
Also remember that the man with very
handsome face is often exceedingly vain,
a fact for which he can thank all the
foolish little girls who have laid their
hearts at his feet.
1t is far more important that he be a
mans man than ladies' man.
When other men like man, il means
that he is square"
Women may not like him. because he
Is not very good looking nor very ready
with compliments.
But this need not concern you.
If you like him and he likes you, no
one else need count.
If you were buying a house that you
expected TO occupy ali the rest of your
life you would spend endless thought and
care on the selection. wouldn't your
Can you afford TO spend less care on the
selection of q life partnerg
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-17
Like Playing with Dynamite.
What Makes Life Worth Living? By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

ING IF GAVE UP ALL THOSE
THINGS"
The Pleasures of the Table.
Ask any of your friends to give up the
luxuries of the appetite; the things which
appeal to the taste and which do nothing
toward sustaining health, but rather un-
dermine it; and you will find how much
the mere temporary pleasure of the table
means to them in making LIFE WORTH
WHILE.
You will begin to think perhaps that
most of your acquaintance live to eat
and drink instead of eating to live. There
are people who can meet great tragedies
and great dangers braveiy, but cannot
give up coffee without acting like mar
tyrs.
The National Conservation commission
in 8 recent report says;
Since the greatest OF our national as
sets is the health and vigor of the Amer
lean people. our efficiency must depend
on national vitality even more than on
the resources of the minerals, lands, for
ests and waters.
1.-THE average length of human life in
different countries varies from less than
twenty-five to more than fifty years
This span Of life is increasing wherever
sanitary science and preventive medicine
are applied. 1t may be greatly extended.
"Our annual mortality from tubercu-
Iosis is about 10000. Stopping three
fourths of the loss of life from this cause
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-17
The Grocery Boy Beat 1t
The Pretty Cook Could Take Care Of Herself.

What's thatg" inquired the pretty
cook
Imported sardines," answered the gro
Gerry boy. There's no comparison. Fifty
cents a large sized can to the general pub
lie, but to Evalina we offer them at forty
nine. net"
"Oh, stop your fOOlishness!' admonished
the pretty cook.
About you, do you mean? I can't, -
said the grocery boy. II keep thinking
that I will, but just as soon as i see
your fascinatin' face again, it comes over
me worse than ever. Don't you want any
thing else besides chocolate? Wouldn't
you consider a loving. honest heart, only
used few years? No? How about fresh
pieplant them"
"Pn take a bunch of that" said the
pretty cook
Now we're getting right down to bust
ness" commented the grocery boy, as he
scrubbed in his book. What kind of pie
mince p"
Curry powder?-'' began the pretty
cook.
Hot stuff" said the grocery boy. "Oh.
pardon me, pansy blossom, go on"
IF you will be so kind and obligin
as to let me know when you are through
actin the Silly clown, I'll go on with
the ORDER said the cook, with chill
severity Five pounds each graduated
and powdered sugar. q small sack of flour,
a medium size bottle of Queen olives,
pound of starch
Il could listen to you all day when you
talk like that murmured the grocery
Two dozen of eggs, three-pound tin
Of coffee and q pound or taploca- Have
you got any honey?"
Amy tapioca? Bushels of it, sugar
lump" replied the grocery boy. "All you
want. and then some"
cook.
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whether their husbands come up to their
ideals or not.
If you are g lonely woman, a rich old
maid, or childless widow, and life is
as gray and drear to you as a winter S
over the dreariness and lovelessness and
lack of interest in your life. The great
work of humanity is waiting for you to
put your hand to it, and you can fill
your days so trimming over with exciting
and absorbing interests that you will
never have leisure in which to shed an
other single tear for yourself
There is settlement work to be done In
the Sums, there are little children to
be mOthered. there are young girls TO
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-17
HAT makes he WORTH HVlngI
w Have you ever asked yourself
that question and ansWered II


ing Journal Publishing Company
WHAT makes life worth living2
w Have you ever asked yourself
that question, and answered it
satisfactorily?
Is it love, friendship, home, success,
money, that makes your life worth liv-
ing?
A young woman of artistic tastes and
with high aspirations was suffering from
a variety of small ailments, and a friend
informed her that she could cure herself
by a fast of two days, living on nothing
but water and then drinking four quarts
of milk daily, for three weeks, partaking
of no solid food during that time.
The young woman followed the regi-
men and came out well and radiant at
the end of the month.
But if I had to live on nothing but
milk continually" she said. no matter
how well I might be, LIFE WOULD NOT
BE WORTH LIVING"
Another talented society woman, whose
beauty was showing the inroads of ill
health caused by indigestion, was urged
TO diet. Take no meat, coffee, tea, wines
or cigarettes for three months" her
friend said, Eat sparingly of vegetables
and fruits grown III the sun. Drink much
water, two quarts or more each day. At
the end of three months you will look like
a new being and feel we'll"
But" protested the society woman,
LIFE WOULD NOT BE WORTH LIV-
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-17
The Muchraised Sensitveness Of Woman Responsible for
Many Social Wars and Is Responsible for Her Failure in Business

The sensitive woman is also the great
I bar to hospitality, because you can't al
| ways have her, and you dare not leave
I her out in your invitations. Your dining
room may be sc small that six crowd it.
but If she Is not one of the six she gives
you frigid deal when you attempt in
/ vain to explain
-'oh. of course, y she says. IT,. with an
vited when you have anything real smart.
I don't pretend to be fashionable etc,
She Dotes on Getting in Trouble.
And so it goes, until you get tired of
1 apologizing. and pass her up for Some
one who has fever feelings and more
sense.
woman is the firebrand that has started
the confiagratiOn that cremated many a
good cause. Argument is simply out of
| the question with her So is justice. So is
any consideration of anybOdy's else rights.
Everything resolves itself into matter
Of feeling with her, and her feelings are
in state of chronic inflammation.
Anyone might think that, just as a
blind man would not undertake to cross
the trestle, or a lame one get IN front OF
a racing automobile, so the sensitive
woman would be careful about taking
her precious feelings into a place where
they would be liable to get hurt But
she goes on doing it, and then, when the
expected happens. she gathers up her
doll rags and goes home, no matter how
much she puts other people out by it,
The sensitive woman also shines with
peculiar brilliancy in the domestic sphere.
Marriage is one long picnic to her. She
simply bristles with opportunities for get
ting her feelings hurt If her husband
is busy ana preOccupied, she Weeps be-
cause he has ceased to love her. If he
refuses to chase around to balls and
parties with her, after a hard days work,
she bemOans herself as a poor, neglected
wife.
If her husband is unwary enough TO
praise any other woman, she filings into a
jealous rage and demands to know why
he didn't marry the other woman, IL he
admires her so much.
Sensitiveness is not recognized as a suf-
ficient cause for divorce, but chief among
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-17

Consume only two or three things at
one repast.
Eat slowly and masticate well.
Drink a glass of water two or three
times at intervals between meals.
Then THINK HEALTH.
Imagine yourself looking radiant and
blooming. Keep this picture in your
mind a. you fall asleep. Say to your
other SELF (the self that keeps watch
over your whole system while your day
self sleeps): Work for me tonight: help
to fashion a strong, beautiful body, a
body worthy the Divine Self that Occu-
pies It," Refuse to talk about sickness
and disease during the day.
Live in Your Ideal.
Say health, and strength. and vitality,
and youth, over and over when one talks
Of disease, and death. and old age.
Whenever you see Il sick or ugly OF old
face, Immediately picture one that is full
of health and beauty and youth in its
place.
Live persistently in your ideal of what
you desire to be. When you feel craving
for food or drink. which is not healthful,
eat an orange or some other simple fruit
and the abnormal craving will pass. YOU
CAN BE WELL, AND KEEP WELL, If
YOU ARE WILLING TO WORN
TOWARD THAT END WITH MIND.
BODY AND SPIRIT.
Are yoU2
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be protected, there is disease to be fought
and there are rights to be struggled for.
Did you ever notice the faces of the
women who are engaged in philanthropic
work? They are the serenest, the most
beautiful, the cheerfulest women that YOU
will see anywhere, and they are that Way
because they are too busy to think about
their own little, petty personal griefs and
worries.
Tie smile that won't come off is worn
by the hard worker every time
IL you would be happy. keep hustIing.
Fill every hour with some absorbing &C
cupation. Keep going. Get excited over
something, and before you know il, you
will have forgotten that you were miser-
able
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IT heard you. darling" said the gro
Gerry boy You don't think I'd let any
thing like that get by me, do your
s'I-Want-a-i ar-of-strained honey, the
pretty cook enuneiated, with great dis
finctness. And that's all / do want" she
added finally.
'sEvalina." said the grocery boy, I'll
tell you something that's hard to beat,
and that's an egg that's been boiled tor
twenty minutes
well. if that's the case, 'sposen you
beat it," said the pretty cook, reaching
for the broom.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-17

MOT one woman in twenty marries the
M man, whom, at the age OF eighteen
she feels she could die for. 1t is q
fortunate thing that ideals change, other
wise many couples would be sadly mis-
mated,
We are easily pleased at eighteen; a
handsome face ana figure and good
clothes go a long way toward the making
of our ideal.
At twenty-five something more than
good looks is required
I know one woman who. had she mar
ried her ideal at eighteen, would have
been. by now, a most thoroughly I'M
happy woman.
As it is, she has been for several years
blissfully happy as the wife of a man
whom, at eighteen, she would have
scorned She would have thought him
to see the real man under the simple man
ner and somewhat dowdy clothes.
1 wish girls would learn to appreciate
how unimportant the cut Of mans coat
is.
Beware Of the stylish Man."
It is of the utmost Importance that his
linen be immaculate, but stylish" man
is an abominatiou. 1t is bad enough for
a woman to spend most Of her time think
ing about dress, but for a man to do so is
dreadful.
The girl over twenty demands, first Of
all. that man be manly.
If his face is honest and healthy. she
does not care whether he is handsome or
plain.
The best-looking man know would not
appeal to a girl of eighteen. She would
not understand the wonderful strength
and power of his face.
Look for a man you won't grow tired
of. girls--a man who will hold you by his
strength of character. one who won't let
you grow tired of him.
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SenSitiveness

and diluted quantities. sensitiveness is a
valuable quality. Ii Is the salt that sa-
vors e1istence-and that, also, when we
get too much of it. spoils it for us.
woman whose soul was covered with a
pachyderm cutiele would be as little al
mirable as one with sole-leather COM
plexion: but, on the other hand. II is
possible to pay too highly for pink ard
white cheeks, and our admiration quickly
turns to lOathing for the woman who Is
nothing but nerves and feelings.
Yet, thanks to the ove,lauda4iOn of
sensitiveness, and the consequent eiLt'ya-
ton of it by women, society is overrun by
the lady who is nothing but a qutVering,
throbbing bunch of emotions.
Like Playing with Dynamite.
She it is who renders conversation as
hazardous an amusement as playing with
dynamite. No topic is safe when she
is around. She scents hidden innuendoes
and covert criticisms in the most casual
statement.
Let some one, for instance, speak of a
current scandal, or corruption in politics
or any other matter of every day gossip,
and she turns pale and bristles up; and
you recall with horror that her aunts hus-
bands third cousin is divorced from his
wife, OF her grandfather was a justice of
the peace and that she has taken your
remarks as a personal slight.
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ALL IN A Lifetime.

If we all lived within our means it
would be a sad blow to business.
Aristocracy. under the microscope. is a
vacuum entirely surrounded by nothing
ness
The reason why so many shows fail
nowadays is that paying g a seat for
poor show has ceased to be a joke
Life.
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and from typhoid and other prevalent and
preventable diseases would increase our
average length of life over fifteen years.
There are constantly about 5O0O,OOO
persons i'll in the United States, of whom
10000 are .eOnsumptiVes. More than half
this Illness is preventable.
IF we count the value Of each life lost
at only 81, 700 and reckon the average
earnings lost by Illness at 500 per year
for grown men. we fJnd that the economic
gain from mitigation of preventable dis
ease in the United States would exceed
ST. 500. coo 900 a year. In addition. we would
decrease suffering and increase happi-
ness and contentment. among the people,
''This gain, or the lengthening ana
strengthening of life which 1t measures,
can be secured through medical inYe5ti-
CATION and practice, school and factory
hygiene, restriction of labor by women
and children, the education Of the people
IN both public and private hygiene, and
through improving the efficiency Of our
health municipal, state and ma
tional The national government mas now
several agencies exercising health func-
lions which only need to be concentrated
to become cO-Ordinated parts of a greater
health service worthy of the nation.
The Best Preventive.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-17
IT HE fifth secret Of happiness is:
/ TO KEEP SO BUSY YOU VIII
oD @
%FS

NOT HAVE TIME TO KNOW
WHETHER YOU ARE HAPPY OR NOT.
The best way to get rid Of trouble is
to crowd it off the map. You can't 90
two things at once, and it is physically
impossible to fret and whine over the
disappointments of the past If you are
hustling after something that looks good
to you for the future.
If takes leisure in which to be miser-
able. and that is the reason why women
as a class are so much more melancholy
and take so much more doleful view
OF existence than. men do. The majority
cit up with their fingers on their pulses,
counting their heart beats, and searching
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trance of woman into the arena of public
affairs, on the ground that It viii harden
her and dull her exquisite sensibility."
Let us trust so. 1t is the most hopeful
the future.
The world will be a cheerier and more
comfortable place in which to live when
women take down the Keep Off the
Grass" signs by which they now sur
round themselves, and one can dispOTt
ones self in the pleasure Of their society
without fear of setting a devastating foot
on any sensitive plant
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the saints and martyrs are the men who
are doomed TO live with wives OF ingrow-
ing feelings.
For the working woman constituencies
spells failure every time. Let every girl
who is thinking of going into the world
to earn her own living first examine her
self on this point.
It she's going to be ashamed of her work
and take mortal offense every time any
body refers to her as a working woman
II she is going to insist on everybody in
the store and office treating her as if she
were a debutante at a pink tea, if she is
going to feel cut every time the rich
woman to whom she sells gloves over the
counter fails to bow to her in the street
If she is going to get hurt and weep every
time the man she typewrites for corrects
her mistakes and swears al her spelling
in a word, if she is thoroughly armed
with fine susceptibility at every point.
then, for goodness sake, let her stay at
home and protect her feelings and keep
out of the way of busy people.
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Why the Men Recuperate.

It is observable that, in cases of be-
reavement in a family. the men recupe-
rate much more quickly from the loss OF
a loved one than the women do This is
not because the men are less devoted
than the women, but because the exigen-
cies of life thrust natures great panacea
the men, whereas, the
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their systems for symptoms of unhappi-
ness. And they always find them.
Men. on the other hand, are mostly
kept on the jump making a living, and
they haven't minute to spare to cOnsid-
er whether they are as joyful as they
expected to be or not and the result is
that they are cheerful under creditable
circumstances
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ItIs slmpIy EXCESSIVE Vanity.

The TACT IS that oveTsensitiveness is
nothing but superabundant vanity, and
have cultivated it to its finest
flower, because heretofore they have
lived in a walled garden, where this Pc
culiar form of exotic could be cherished.
A great MANY people deprecate the en-