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ONE INTO the gSTueh' MAUI
Alice, Jane, Peggy. or Flo
If you are seeking the path
OF beauty. for you will find
IT among the homely vegetables and
herbs which nature grows there.
Thousands of dollars are spent an
nually upon cosmetics-some excellent
and some not so fine-when 1t Is posi-
BILE for every woman to make her own
beauty creams and lotions. You need
only TO walk into your garden and pick
vegetable here and there or few
leaves from some pungent herb, and ex-
tract from them their bcautifying quail
ties.
Somewhere in one corner of your gar
den-if 1t is a well-chosen garden
grows sage. You all know that sage
tea is one OF the best hair tonics known
and that il will do much toward re-
storing faded hair to it's original color.
| would not advise blords to use 1t,
however, unless they desire their tresses
to take on a darker. hue and sage
plucked directly from the garden is
much stronger than that sold in pack
ages at the druggists.
Rosemary and Cucumbers.
following proportions:
SlCOlOl Observation-Disclosures. : ounces
Gfeen tea '.....,,..,...... ounces
sage ....................... ounces ,
Take one ounce OF tea to four ounces
OF water; one ounce of sage to four
ounces of water. Allow the tea to
stand for several hours and then strain
and take two ounces of each and mix
them with tho alcohol. Keep this mix
ture tightly eorked. Apply to the naIr
as you would any other hair tonic.
In the same bed of herbs grows
Rosemary. that's for remembrance"
and its soothing fragrance is used 10
scent many an excellent toilet remedy.
1t is used In hair tonics. cold creams
and sachets. Powdered Florentine orris
root mixed with dried English lavender.
rosemary and rose leaves Is a delicate
sachet which deserves to be in generai
use
Leaving the herb gardens, walk to the
beds where the vegetables are growing.
Consider the cucumber, for 1t possesses
many virtues. This vegetable has long
been noted as beautfier. My grand
mother first told me of its magic quail
ties, and her mother before her trusted
in its unfailing power.
o If your skin Is i'll need of whitening
and softening there is nothing which
can compare with a cucumber lotion.
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MANY RED CROSS HOSPITALS

In the war zone have ordered Aliens
Foot Ease, the antiseptic powder. for
use among the COnyalesCent troops
shaken into the shoes or dissolved In
the foot bath. II gives refreshing rest
and prevents the feet getting tired or
foot-sore, Drug and department stores
everywhere sell H. Don't accept any
substitute-AdVI
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What lane Adams Did.

Miss Jane Adams is to be welcomed
home bv a committee of New York
women. There is nothing wrong about
participated in by the men as well as
the women. Miss adams efforts for
peace in Europe concern the entire pop
ulation. We are all In synfHt thy with
the efforts Of this noble woman, with
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Advice To
Girls

Dear Annie Laurie-l am mad
twenty-one years OF age, He
took vacation at Colonial
Beach over the Fourth and
promised to be back Monday. He
sent word by a friend that he
wouldn't return until Wednes-
day. DO you think he was true
TO me to go away and only write
one postcard with two words
oh IL T. s.
WY HY. you ought to be glad
\" that your friend had a
w chance to take a longer
vacation than he Intended
at first. Don't you think you're a
bit selfish to resent it? If he had
intended to slight you, YOU know,
he needn't have bothered TO send
days longer than he had planned,
II he was on his vacation he was
probably too tired when night came
TO devote any time to letter-writ-
ing. | know it's the hardest thing
in the world to write letters when
you are enjoying yourself.
Dear Miss Laurie: I am a mar
ried woman, but nv husband has
been away from me for more
than three years. / have been
keeping company with another
man. who takes me out and Is
very good to me He is a married
man. too. and his wife has heen
away from him for more than
three years. My father objects 10
my going with him because no ia
married. DO YOU think it wrong?
MARRIED
Wrong? Most decidedly So. There
is no excuse for either OF you. and
YOUR father IL absolutely right in
his objection 10 your actions.
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Child Care and War Service.

rropriate use OF the Fourth of July.
New York Evening Mail.
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Training for Citizenship
| In Public Schools Brings
:. Community Cooperation
Bureau of Education Describes Civic Instruction Process
. As Conducted For Pupils in lndiarapolis-The
IA e. Citizen AS Worker the Ideal

: ink. and grounds lin beaut Tying school
grounds: in the taking of repairs and
equipment for lot h SCHOOL, in fact, in
kevely aspect of tn school life.
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Natures Own Beauty Shop
How Ones Garden May Be Made to Yield Herbs
And Vegetables to Help Personal Adornment.
By LUCREZIA BORI.

pyright by New
To
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~ ONE into the garden, Maud
Alice, Jane, Peggy, or Flo
If you are seeking the path
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H1' you ought to be glad
that your friend had a
chance to take a longer
vacation than he Intended
The Washington times., 1915-07-17
Parents and q Child'S Help
Sensitiveness Over Being Old-Fashioned Misplaced.
Look For Comfort and Happiness.
BY WINIFRED BLACK.

pyright. 1915. Newspaper Feature service).
The Washington times., 1915-07-17

4 PRETTY face is a title page TO
~ a whole volume of mysteries TO
~ be solved. Nature and art
both decrea that tho faco eba N
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A WOMAN seventy years oil from an entirely
~ went ride in aero NJ, chuaro, o,.o
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II WIFE'S COFFIN

end Of the key into his mouth he drew
the Irvine backward over his ears and
then attempted to talk. The effect
was indescribably droll, I thought. My
respected tutor could emit nothing but
a very faint sound that resembled
nothing more than the syllables "Og-
gleoggleoggle."
Then he removed the key from his
mouth and, having wiped it upon his
handkerchief, asked me II i did not
wish to know how it felt to be gagged.
I was alacritous to know and pres
entity, the key pressing downward on
my n and paralyzing all power OF
articulation, I found myself trying to
say: Don't pull the Irvine so tight
But all I got OUT was "Oggleoggle-
oggle."
The Rev. Crowles had drawn the
string much too tight for comfort:
1t cut sharply into the corners of my
mouth and I realized suddenly that he
was not holding the two loose ends.
but had tied them at the back of my
head. | put my fingers to the knot.
hut could make nothing Of it. Then
I turned and saw that my tutor was
laughing-but n~ervously. rather than
win amusement trIeu " say LAM
1t on. II hurts me And what l sa'o
was "Oggleoggle."
Jack, ald the rev anu
in no way could account ior MS
manifest Oh Volce anu
expression you nave learned "na'
1t Is to be gagged l am now soinS
to teach you "nat II Is 10 NE ppunu'
And although I began to kick n
nght, ne so twisted ms manu- n'o lne
collar or my Goa 'hat was SUI"
choked 10 pass''''y'
Then still holding me by the collar
he walked me hither and thither
through his little house. while he
looked for something with which to
tie me. The waistcord OF an old dress
ing gown was finally made to answer,
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BY GOUVERNEUR MORRIS

and Uncle Philip. And with him,
bristling horribly. but forbidden to
hudgr or speak. Crouched Juno trem-
bling.
I heard the key thrust into the lock
and turned and then the heavy creak-
ing of the vault door and a
later the slight conclusion caused by
its being warily closed. Then ! heard
n lanthorn being lit and a yellow
ham of light reached me in the cof-
fin. At the same instant a spasm
Of acute fear jerked me from head
To foot. Then I heard the voice Of
the Rev. Crowles pitched in a tone
Of dismay. Fol- he must have seen,
at that instant, that the lid of the
coffin had been unscrewed.
The lid was snatched off, and 7 saw
bending over me. not the face If
'rowles alone, but three faces: his
and those of the two pirates who had
come To my mother for the coffin. How
he had got into communication with
them will never he known. Let II
suffice that he had and was in col,ab-
Grafton with tn IN at that for him i'll
omened moment.
You must not think that the three
stared down at me and | up at them
for an unconScionahle time. During
the brief that it takes t. wink
perhaps. but not longer. In truth. the
awful yell that was torn from my
throat must n V been almost stimuli
tancous with the snatChing off of the
coffin lid. And hard upon my yell
there came the ~detonatlon of Miles's
fowling piece and the horrible attack
ing roar OF the mistiff.
There was no time for the III fated
pirate against whom she sprang TO
open the heavy door of the vault and
escape her, even for n moment. Indeed
and ] must have sat up in the coffin.
for ] saw il all-he did not so much
as reach he door or try to. He leapcd
upward and backward upon a coffin.
screaming. and from that slight eleva-
ton she pulled him downward and
forward by the throat, and then up, II
the mouldy hoo killed him as If he
had been a rat.
Miles with his towing piece had
accounted for the other pirate. but as
for the Rev. Crowles. though he was
dead as n stone, there was not a mark
on him, and 1t was not until the morn
ing when they laid him out for burial
that any n noticed that the most OF
his hair had turned white.
II remains only to say that the
treasure footed $50 600. a huge sum
in those days, and hat at no time
was there any talk of turning 1t over
to the heather. Indeed, only one thing
not delightful came of the nights
work. and this was that at least once
a week until her death two years later,
at the age OF 10+. Greataunt Polina
made me gag myself with a great
brass key and thus cater to her senile
sense Of humor.
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Natures Own Method of Hardening
the Muscles as 1t May Be
Practised by Adults

tense every muscle OF their little
bodies, which forces the blood to re-
mote caplllaiies, and helps the heart
in its pumping work. / have copied
all of the muscle tensing exercises
which l have seen babies practice
with the exception If putting my toes
in my mouth. which all babies do. but
I can't. and don't believe you could If
you wanted 10.
AS TO the time of practice-com-
mence as soon as you are awake. aid
before you rise. II ypu are unable to
sleep, and you toss and tumble. and
hear the clock strike all kinds of un-
canny hours, don't bother counting
imaginary sheep or employ other
standard methods Of inducing sleep.
bu; select any me of the exercises /
describe, preferably one of the arm
exercises which requires as little move
ment as possible.
Practice this very slowly. so slowly
that II may become monotonous. also
slightly %fatiguing. and count the move-
ments very deliberately. as in the time
IGNORED practice OF counting sheep
jumping over a fence: start one-two
three, &c. until you are getting into
the high numbers. You are becoming
a little tired, for 1t is awfully monoto-
u and are getting to be "A little
mixed up and don't know the next
number. So while YOU are foggily try
ing Ia remember il yuur movement be-
m slower and slower. until some
one suddenly 81 :, Wake up. it's :
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o'clock, breakfast Is almost over"
That is the way 1t works with me.
and I think you will have the same
experience. but If YOU don't your di-
gestion may be wrong. This is very
unusual with me. but it sometimes
does occur: so when / find difficulty
in putting myself to sleep by such
exercises l follow nurses methods
with baby-that Is after practising
them slowly / sip warm milk also
very slowly. whereupon after a few
more gentle movements tired Natures
sweet restorer proceeds 10 knit up
the travelled sleave of care"
This is one of The best features ~
| am confident that il is only during
sleep that the repair process of the
worn out tissue takes place. and so
that Sancho PanZa was right when he
said. blessed be the man who in
vented sleep"
That. you may induce this blessed
condition when you TOSS and tumble
about at urcanny hours of the night,
try this remedy. As an easily learned
but very effective method of eNercis-
ing. securing bodily elasticity. a. we'll
as materially promoting your health.
there is not any system of exercise
like 1t. Countless millions of babies
have successfully practised it.. and 1t
is just as much in vogue now as wien
the instinct Of nature prompted the
first baby To- develop It's wonderful
structure by muscular activity.
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or four pulsations. as I have said. be-
ing amply sufficient.
About eighty would be a good. slow
exercising pulse, but five or six beats
faster under those conditions would
probably be safe enough. You will
find that when you awake. and before
exercising, the rate will be say ten or
twelve beats slower.
Regarding baby's exercises. I have
had prepared twenty instantaneous
photographs Of the different positions
assumed by a healthy 3 weeks Old
baby taken during the ten minutes
this active little mite was under the
sensitive eye OF the camera. Thirty
eight snapshots were made. but as
many seemed TO be but repet!tions of
some preceding movement | have used
only those which show some variation
of position.
There were several attitudes in
which all Of the muscles of the little
body were apparently tensed, but these
were unfortunately not taken, as the
operator supposed the body was sim
ply resting. though during it's waking
hours IL never really rested. a state-
ment which only those who nave
nursed or cared for a healthy young-
ster like this n will appreciate.
Afterward. through the kindness Of
the chief nurse Of n maternity home,
| have had frequent opportunities OF
studying the actions of very young
babies and have found hat there
seems to he a we'll defined system in
their muscular activity. all Of them
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up. but loosely. and gagging me again,
but not SO that it hurt. and then he
kissed me and said ! was his own
brave brother and went away.
A long time after I was awakened
by the opening Of the attic trap
and l heard the voice Of Crowles.
care you all right" he said sharply.
"Oggleoggle," said I.
He laughed in n kind of wild. X
cited way and | heard the trap door
close and the bolt shoot.
The next thing I remember I was
running through the night, hand in
hand with Miles. and at our sides
bounded II eamhoil.d Juno, our
great mastiff. There were murky
clouds racing across tn heavens and
now and then flashed forth the moon.
Here and there, far off, shone bobbing
lights. which were l%IuthornS in the
hands of those who were searching
for me. But no one saw us and we
reached the vault and crawled In by
the secret entrance and rested awhile,
painting among the dead.
But Miles had already been In, as
Nh'"' Ni'h' ui'i W. it''i'i'hS'
he found and lighted a l%anthorn.
In the centre of the vault, being as
1t We're but a transient guest, there
rested upon the receiving tresties the
coffin supposed to contain the body Of
Capt, Thorn's wife.
Miles set the lanthorn square upon
the lid and fell to undoing the great
thumbscrews.
His first surprise" said he, shall
ne to find the treasure O n Now.
Baby, take the lanthorn and. as I
lift the lid. you look in. It's your
right to look in first, SO III shut my
eyes"
But If l expected (and I did to be
dazz,ed by an Ali laban display Of
gold and diamonds | was disappointed.
The coffin was full to the brim of little
ieathern packets: some light and some
as heavy as lead. some of old wormy
leather ana some of new and yellow.
But at that time We opened none.
Nay, We worked like a pair Of bea-
vers To remove them all and hide them
about the vault, between collins, be-
hind collins and wherever the light
of a lanthorn from a mira position
could not penetrate and We had the
coffin nearly emptied and most of the
tr"asr"' hid. when suddenly "Sshh!'
said Miles.
W. had heard even through the
heavy door the sound as Of a trodden
twig breaking.
"Baby." Miles whispered with a
sudden inspiration, "let him find you"
And before I could have said Jack
Robinson Miles had me In the coffin
and the lid on. But one Of the screws
held the lid ajar, so that / knew the
precise moment when Miles blew out
the lanthorn. Himself, he told me
after, then lay down, fowling piece
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Sanford Bennett, Who Grew Young at
70, Advises All to Initiate Con-
tortions of Infancy

20 you Will realize why and how /
grew young at 30; also how you too
may improve your physical condition,
and this by the easiest and simplest
methods of physical culture or Of ex-
ercise ever devised or which can be
devised. This is true no matter
whether you are a man or a woman
and whatever your age may he.
1t is not possible that you can be
healthy. strong and elastic Of body
without exercise, for this is natures
method Of assisting the eliminating
system in expelling from the body the
dead cells, worn out tissue and other
debris resulting from the process OF
life. Medicines cannot do this and in
nine cases out of ten are of very
doubtful value. Diet IL undoubtedly
an important factor, but exercise you
must have or surely your mechanisms
will commence to clog up. then your
health will fail and that change which
We term old age will manifest itself.
Again I repeat II is natures law
that IL you do not exercise your
cular structure II will surely deterio-
rate. On the other hand. any muscle
which is systematically and persist
emily exercised, that is alternately
contracted and relaxel. will grow in
size. strength and elasticity, and II
all muscles are exercised there will be
a general increase in these invaluable
qualities.
This is why a baby squirms, kicks
and stretches its little body. and there
fore if you desire to be healthy and
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ercises' became a stock joke among
my friends. Then. as I was certainly
proving the truth Of my theories and
becoming physically younger, / became
the recipient Of a lot of presents con-
sisting of milk bottles. baby garments.
cradles and pleasantries of that ma
ture.
one Of the most p rsistent of these
jokers was n gentleman of about my
W age. who believed in physical cul-
ture but decided to improve upon
BENEFITS stupid. lazy methods" His
Improvement consisted in dilating his
lungs To their fullest extent, and then
going through "A number of rapid tens
ing movements. This dangerous sys-
TEN was taught by "A peripatetIc phys
ical culture instructor who had formed
n class for that purpose in San Fran
cisco.
| warned all Of my friends who were
members of that class Of the danger
they were mourning. but was of curse
laughed down-"jealousy on Benefits
part" The result was that the gentle
man I mention dropped dead during
the second lesson, and the professor"
found It advisable to leave town in a
hurry. .
I had been cautious before, but after
this accident I became doubly so. and
in my exercises I am continually test
ing my pulse; indeed. I have become
so accustomed to doing this that a
touch Of my finger upon my wrist for
only two or three pulsaticns Is all that
I need to keep well within n safe rate.
This pulse testing is easily acquired:
learn exactly where to find the pulsa-
ton in your wrist and the test can be
quickly mae. You do not need a
watch. as you will spe Oily determine
the appro inmate rate by a touch. three
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Continued from Fourteenth Page.

continued from F0urfeenth rage.
iy was the first duty OF a returned
traveller, went upstairs and made my
manners to Greataunt Polina, de-
scrb!rg for her Charleston and the
hanging and whatever else I thought
would be pleasant hearing to a person
Of her years.
But by good fortune I had not to
recount the hanging more than four
times In detail before Aunt Polina fell
ir'o one Of those little opportune maps
which are the solace and recreation
Of Old age; and then I was free to
rush of to the burial vault in the
chapel yard to see that no one had
tempered with the door and that my
treasure, presumably, had not been
lifted.
And whom should I come across
scurrying in the same direction but
tfo Rev. Crowles.
Where are you going, sir?" said /.
NY boy" said he, with (but ! did
not think so till afterward) a disin-
genuous face, the key OF the vault
has d.sappeared.'
Does my mother know" I asked.
No" said he. land no cause to
Tighten her. The matter is best
! oked after by men. My first thought
was the key-naturally. And I went
al once 10 the place where 1t usually
hangs. In the closet of your fathers
library II vas gone
Who IAN have taken it?" / said.
Who said he. why it was in
he library that the pirates waited
while y.ur mother fetched the boys.
Doubtless they made use OF the oppor-
unity 80 'ook for portable articles
o. yalu" ma in opening the closet saw
he kry. recognized 1t and took It.
That is he natural and logical ex-
pdnat.. r"
Then ! said, my eyes wild with
excitement, they will come at night
and Ste. he treasure"
The "Ul try to-" said my tutor.
and his yes flashed; but whether
with 't''r or derision l could not
tel.
W., ,Ight we to do about it?"
! SAID
Th' y s.. Crowles appeared to con-
sider i'"u a..
We t'1nkly, Jack" said he, 81
maven ', answer at my tongues
up S9,'0sc you come to my house
hhi' ,nge my coat and We Will
sk % ..,r."
MAJ. enough I was much fiat
y''1 Il PRESENTLY we had entered
"s .'.. ,Iu shady parlor.
NLI.' .F4. - L.,, .all ha Gao
u f' hey make the best gags
gnaglNa .r"'
!" '' asked. Howl"
~" nd he, "~why--weil. here's
'"f t.t ne Dol out that which
Sn' 10 ' lock OF the parlor door.
,n''' go a bit OF Irvine. Jack?'
m'' fetched 1t from my pocket.
''h.' IN" tw!ne ne knotted it by
w. "''' .o the ring at the end Of the
'S ".u.'. Then thrusting the lock
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strong and to prolong your life l adj
wise you to follow the baby's example.
! do not mean that you should be as
strenuous in your exercises as babies
are. for your heart would not stand
1t. hypertrophy or enlargement Of that
organ would almost certainly ensue.
and II there was ANY tendency to
hardening of the arteries. the in
creased blood pressure, consequent on
the continuous rapid movements.
might result dangerously. Therefore
practise the exercises | describe. but
practise them slowly.
To understand this statement con-
slider the great difference between
your pulsat!ons and those Of a baby
l year old. Twill assume you are
between So and so. Your normal
pulse at those ages would rate along
at about 40. while baby's normal heart
beat would be 1874: that is during its
infrequent periods of quiet: and when
it was in activity, which would be
nearly all the time. u would probably
rise to $50 or more. Now II you were
to ask me to test your pulse and l
should find an exercising rate as
rapid as baby's, I would advise you to
call a halt at nee and not to do 1t
again, for the reason that II you did
your %sorrowing relatives might oon
after he selecting a suitable epitaph
describing your u~ndeniably good quail
tiles. and a lot more you may not
possess.
commenced to study baby's method
of physical culture. and e~ndeavored To
perfect my system Of exercising in
bed. when I was about SO. My inn
provement was rapid and noticeable,
and. being very enthusiastic over my
success. l talked a great deal about il.
SO much so that benefits baby *