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make harmonies. and the chords
known as minor chords are the re-
suit of certain peculiarly combined
shades. The deep tone and color
combinations correspond with the
physical being the middle ones to the
mental being. and the higher and
finer vibrations correspond to the
spiritual being Therefore it can be
easily seen why music which would
appeal to one individual would not
appeal to another IN the same way,
but that which belonged to his
special manifestation of being
would have special message for
Also, musical composition which
combines a balanced proportion of
music In all three planes. possibly
reaches the greatest number of
people. since 1t would have some
thing to say to each. although the
message would scarcely be the same
in the same instance.
Effect of Color.
las far as the effect OF colored
light upon human beings Is concern
ed we can take the chart which ply
sicians use. Blue stimulates the brain
and nervous system; then soothes: /:
overtaxes; and brings on exhaustion
followed by anesthesia- Purple de-
presses; causes melancholia; then
suicidal tendency; and lastly suici-
dal mania. Red to scarlet, excites:
irritates; and finally produces homi-
c'day tendency. This color Is very
efficacious In exanthematous dis
eases.
Green is restful and soothing and
cannot be voer done except on the
optic nerve weakening the power Of
discerment of other colors. Yellow
produces hypnosis; mental sluggish
ness; and lastly lunacy. Some yell
lows are very soothing depending
upon their hypnotic effect White.
rapidly vibrating. produces hypnosis.
Steady white light Ia irritating and
will produce conjunctivitis and lastly
blindness.
These colors are graded in effect
according to the time Of vision, vary
Ing Of course with the individual.
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skin clear. If not. there Is some
thing wrong with your health, and
you should begin Immediately to
correct its faults. as we'll as to i'm
prove the surface skin.
You ere well aware of the fact
that the surface a machinery re-
auires oiling and polishing to keep
1t In a perfect condition. and your
skin, nails. hair. eyes and teeth need
surface attention even more.
II your system needs tonins up.
consult your family physician and
follow his advice to the letter. The
surface you can improve yourself.
The face should be scrubbed
thoroughly with complexion brush
at least twice week, and steamed
once, every week or ten days 1t is
absolutely necessary to keep the
pores free from dust, so that the i'm
purities of the skin can find a way
to escape.
The use of face powder has a ten
dency to clog the pores. and for this
reason the skin must be kept per-
fectly clean.
Four Excellent Recipes.
l. After washing the face, If tho
skin feels tight, apply this lotion:
Powdered borax. x........... u ounce
Glycerln .'................. y ounce
Camphor water,........... ! pint
This lotion will make the akin firm
and pliable. When this has dried into
cold cream, and massage 1t with
brisk rotary motions to stimulate the
tissues as we'll as strengthen them,
?. The following recipe is an ex-
cellent skin food:
Sweet oil Of almonds. 2 ounces
Orange flower water..... ounces
White wax. ax............... drains
OH OF sweet orange....... l dram
Spermacetu ............... 2 drains
The hair should be brushed we'll
each night before retiring and
should be summed for at least a half
hour each day. 1t is impossible to
have healthy hair without allowing
the air to circulate through 1t.
3. Massage the scalp three or four
times a week with a reliable hair
tonic, for the roots must receive
nourishment.
This tonic is one Of the best for
this PURPOSE:
Tincture OF cantraides.... dram
Iincture of capsicum..... u dram
Ilncture OF nuX Vomica....2 drains
tNcoa tGc oil .'''''.''.'...:..''' ounces
AlcCHOl ..........s........ IN ounces
Rub this tonic into the divisions
made along the scalp with the finger
tips.
4. To keep eyes clear and bright
use this lotion morning and night
bathing them in an eye cup:
Boracic acid. ounce
Boiling er...............,....1 pint
Place the boracic acid in a basin
and over 1t pour the water Allow
the powder to dissolve before bot
tling the lotion.
The nails and teeth should be
given daily care. The teeth partic-
ularly should be cleansed after each
meal.
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therapeutic agent cannot yet be
precisely stated, but 1t Is no quack

a therapeutic agent cannot yet be
precisely stated, but 1t Is no quack
nostrum.'
Value of Music.
I'm institutions for the imbecile.
on both sides of the ocean, results Of
positive value have always attended
the use Of instrumental music. The
stolid are mentally awakened, the
morose are Modified and humanized
and In some instances the abortive
soul comes to its real birth and a
life among men.
In those diseases which are en-
tirely mental. the curative qualities
OF music are unquestioned. The
harmonies for every person can be
discovered. and from that tone the
When 1t has been proven that mu-
sic has a direct relationship to the
welfare of human beings, it is incom-
prehensible to me that human beings
submit themselves at such great
length to discord. 1t Is entirely un-
necessary and uncalled for.
In color. the same Ninciples hold
true. and there are countless exam
pies OF the effect Of color on the mind
and following on the body. 1t is
essential that the individual see that
harmonious color and sound sur
round him.
THE composite tone Of the indi-
vidual corresponds to a certain note.
and this note to a color. The sound
originally comes from the human
being himself; In studying harmony
we find that the scale of seven
notes. as we have 1t today, corre-
spends to the color scale or pris-
matte combination Of color. The half
tones make the melting In or har-
morizins of these colors, and form
the rare shades so beautiful in color
and tone.
Balance and Proportion.
Even the language of music and
Of Aainting is like, and We speak of
tone. color. line. and so on indis-
criminately.
"All the Complementary colors
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ADVICE TO GIRLS

dinner with crackers, knife is
used. OF course. American cheese is
never erVed after dinner, but
Roquefort, Edam, Camambert or
something of the sort.
Small cakes may be eaten with the
finger, but large slices should be
eaten with a fork.
Worried School Boy-You expected
that girl friend to- be a saint, didn't
you? But don't you suppose she is
just as remorseful now as you are
because you feel that you cannot
break your word? Surely she has
learned a lesson and l hope that
you have. too. You do not seem to
be engaged, yet you presume to die
tate terms to her, as If you were
the only man she ever knew. What
right have you to behave as You
did? Even If she were engaged
to you, there is no law that gives
you the right to order her about.
You will spend your life being a
Worried School Boy IL YOU can't
learn that tact goes much farther
than domineering where a woman
Is concerned.
If the girl means So much to you,
let your silly pride 80 and apologize
10 her for your suspicion. You
won't gain anything now by holding
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Carefully Equipped School
Library Important Factor
In Nezv Education Plan
International Text Book Methods May Be Replaced in
Time by Vocational System to Bring Zeal Zest and
Interest to the School Room.
Vocation Series, No. 10.
Bv ANNA BOGENHOLM SLOANE
,conyrisbt. 1915. by Mrs. Anna q. sloaneD

D.
The intimate heroes with whom he lives
will nfiuence. his aspirations and shape
his character. Almost every great man
and woman has entered his career or
usefulness because he had been awaken
ed by reading some good book.
We can do no better service for boys
and girls than to bring thm into contact
with good books. Rut it is important
that desire for reading should be slim
ulated not imposed as task Too much
school teaching Is done with text books.
Children leave school acquainted with
no books save the few which have been
used as instruments of torture. Books
and unwelcome tasks become syn
onymous terms in their minds. An
interesting teacher, nature. food books
and doing something are the things that
will bring zeal, zest and interest into
schoolwork.
Rightly equipped and rightly used, the
ual workshop, the very heart of the
school A good teacher, freed from the
tryanny of an iron-bound school sys-
TEN, with a good library and a manual
workshop will turn out an enthusiastic,
aspiring and healthy class of boys and
can think and do and take JOY in both,
instead of the listless, incapable and
yitality-lacking graduates of today.
The school library must be as care
fully planned as any other part of the
school equipment Every volume should
purpose in view. Every book should be
wholesome in tone. written, in good
mother tongue and contain information
or beauty and inspiration abundant
enough to make 1t worth while. A
library of a hundred volumes we'll Sc
material than another many times its
size.
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seem to be welghty enough to COM
pensate the summer martyr for his
crown of loneliness. inconvenience
and upset routine, One can think of
many men not wealthy enough to
belong to any club; not caring, per-
haps to go nightly to Brother wills:
tired and fatigued from stuffy work
In heated offices, who will go back
Into the empty house. the dismantled
apartment night after night. Well,
that's ali there Is about It,
If vacation Is to be taken, why
shouldn't father share it? The most
pleasant vacations are those in which
father played the leading role. ter-
haps 1t was camp or fishing trip
or just a shack in the woods or on
the shore. but father was there, and
he seemed much closer and more
hero-like at such times. Can any
one take the piazza-rocking-c chair
female-vacation seriously2 Is 1t al
ways the best kind of chaperoning
for young girls. or. especially the
most noble educational chaperonage
for a growing boy? Even the civili-
cation seems to be squeezing out the
father, except as a biological ne
cessity, father must not too soon be-
come a mere appendage to the fam
lily.
Vacations for fathers.
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Vacation Without Father Is No Vacation
Summer Homebreaking and Temporary Divorce to
Be Deplored For the Sake of Son and Daughter
By MRS. CHRISTINE FREDERICK,

Copyright, 1915. by MIS- Christine Frederick
and earn money. What else are
fathers for? He may steal week
off in September or a few days in
August, but this year the firms
aren't paying for vacations and per-
haps father feels that he can't af-
ford a vacation after all. But mother
goes and the children, and father
stays-at home.
Does He Need Rest.
1t is to deplore this temporary dt-
vorce and homebreaking over an ex-
tended period such as frequently
happens in many families, and which
is almost unquestionably accepted
as the right and proper course. No
one seems to question but that moth
er and the children should be gone
two four, six or eight weeks 'in the
country" while father remains two,
four, six or eight weeks alone in
the city. But is 1t quite fair? Doesn't
father perhaps, after an exceedingly
stiff winter, after cut in salaries,
perhaps after earnest effort to keep
the pace-doesn't father need a rest
as we'll as mother or the children?
oh" you say, he'll be happy at
the club. or Lizzie is going to cook
his meals Just the same" or He's
going to board over at Brother
Wills" or even Hell enjoy bach
ing it, you know" But, seriously.
does he? The comic papers have
great sport. and make te much copy
when his wife is nicely packed off
to a summer resort for the season.
But we believe that such men are
more numerous in the cartoonist's
mind than they are in real life, and
that many a man, perhaps, uncom-
plainingly, but. pevertheless, as cer-
tainly is a summer martyr. and not
either that It isn't good thing for
husband and wife to be separated
for short periods in order that they
appreciate each other more on their
return. And not either that a man
shall not find out how good a house.
keeper his wife is and how he needs
her.
These NAV be worthy results, hut
neither they nor similar reasons
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buy literature. information
was scarce and difficult to obtain Then
Il was good reason to store children's S
memories with as much of this pre-
cious article as they could hold. The
international mode of education was
right and proper.
But conditions have cahnged. Every
city and town and nearly every village
has at least one library Newspapers
and periodicals are rolling from print
ing presses by the carloads every hour.
1t is no longer rational for any COM
munity to spend so much of It's good
money and SO many of its children's
precious years In obtaining informa ton
that can be had almost without cost at
any time 1T is needed.
Schools should do something more
for children than experimenting their
information gathering on history, geog-
raphy and English literature. 1t
should stimulate their interests in these
subjects instead of killing the children's
natural curiosity with dry lesson-task SKIS
A school library connected with every
school is only a thing of tomorrow. 1t
should not only contain International
and useful books Gt might be possible to
have such library so full of useful
should contain all kinds of good, con-
structive. insprational, and enjoyable
books adapted to the intellectual ca
pacity and interest of every age of
childhood with plenty Of fiction.
AS child reads, so will he think.
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oul W NoHbNoSSio W
return at length.
Dear Annie Laurie: ! am nearly
eighteen years old, and have been
engaged to man for a year. We
both love each other devotedly,
any my parents do not object.
have been working and supporting
myself and helping the family for
nearly four years. This man makes
a good salary and can take good
care of me. Do you think l am
too young to marry? SUSIE.
Four years of working and helping
the family and supporting ones
self isn't calculated to turn the
hands of the clock of time backward,
Susie" and II all else is propitious
your age should be no hindrance to
your MARRIAGE | hope you will have
long and happy life to repay you
for the four years taken out Of your
youth. You've had the pay" for
them a thousand times over, though,
! know in the JOY OF helping"
Miss Laurie will welcome letters of
Inquiry on subjects OF feminine interest
from young women readers of this
paper. and will reply TO them in thess
columns. They should be addressed 10
her care. this ctriCa
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SLEEP.

SLEEP.
To 'the child in us that trembles before
death.'-Plato.
Say. hast thou never been compell-
ed to lie
Wakeful in nights impenetrable
Counting the laggard moments that
so creep
Reluctant onward; till, with voice.
Enduring, thou hadst willing been to
From life itself, and in oblivion
steep ~
Thy tortured senses? To such
longed-for sleep
Death is g way; and, dost thou fear
to die?
Nay, were it this-just this and
naught beside
Merely the calm that we have an
guished for,
The wayfarer might still be glad to
hide
From grief and suffering!-but how
much more
Is death-life's servitor and friend
the guide
That safely ferries us from shore
to shore!
Florence Earle Coates, in London
Athenaeum.
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Danger In Popular Music.


The popular music of today comes
under this class. and If 1t is allowed
to penetrate into the homes and the
minds Of the young children It will
in time come to be a serious enemy
with which civilization must cope.
The melody itself has an undesirable
effect, but its greatest evil Is that 1t
is the means of attracting coarse,
foolish, or morbid words as a setting.
Every social weakness with which
popular song, and, made as attrac-
tive or as coarsely humorous as pos
slble, SO that to an ear unframed in
harmony and nature primitive in
the extreme, these constant sugges-
tions are bound sooner or later to
have their results.
"Melodious sounds are curative and
have been used many years for
physiological purposes. AS long ago
as 1855. the London Lancet, the Of
fetal British medical organ, stated
that: Music influences both brain
and heart through the spinal cord,
vibratory or wave motion which
stimulates the nerve centers. The
idea of mind must be eliminated
and only the physiological action on
tissues considered. else a clear sc!en-
tific idea cannot be gained
In 1888, the same journal said:
Music acts as a refreshing mental
stimulant and restorative. There
fore it braces depressed nervous
tone and indirectly through the
nervous system reaches the tissues.
It is of most use in depressed men
tai conditions. The value of music as
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also so many serious things that eause
this that you need hospital diagnosis,
- Reader-o. p) AS the result Of a
fall have six black cinder scratches
on my face. Is there any way to rid
my face of them? =
A. The cinder marks will disappear
II you use the electric needle.
F. F. F.-Q. What can I do for a
rash on the back of my neck? I have
had II for number of years.
A. Apply the following each night IA
the affected parts:
Oil of cade. Observation-Disclosures. I dram
Salicylic acid ................ 20 grains
Nasenne .''.'.''.'''..'...... " ounce
Lanolin ....:.........-....... " ounce
Kali chloratis ............... 20 grains
N. I. No. What causes drowsiness
when I am concentrating my thoughts
such as church concert or Lecturer?
A. This Is due to fixation auto-fyp-
nosis. Bad air. overeating and lack Of
sunlight help it along. ~
Anxious-o What can do for poor
digestion?
A Eat figs. baked apples, cereals,
spinach. stewed pears, prunes. prune
Se psSF two easss Of and s5 sfsf
water half an hour before meals Take
seven grains Of oxide Of magncsia before
meals and six charcoal tablets after.
Sleep In a well-ventilated room, and get
more sunlight and fresh air.
f. NJ. N-Q.-Please tell me what to
do for puffs under my eyes and dark
circles around them?
A.-Eat figs, baked sour apples, ce-
reals, prunes. prune juice, carrots, clear
SOUPS. clam soup. watercress, hominy,
dates, currants, plain puddings,- Ice
cream, mush, cornbread. gingerbread,
fresh meats: chicken and beef broth.
wheaton frits, grapes, boiled spinach,
stewed pears. oranges, game. and poul-
try. Drink two glasses of distilled wa
ter half an hour before meals, Take
one teaspoonful of milk Of magnesia be
fore each meal and six charcoal tablets
after. Exercise severaY hours daily in
the open air. Have your bedroom well
ventilated Avoid peas, nuts. beans,
cheese, tea, coffee: gin, brandy, milk.
milk compounds.
D. No. VIII you please tell me
| what to do to remove superfluous hair
permanently?
A. There is no known remedy to re-
move superfluous hair permanently Try
| this powder carefully:
Sodium sulphhydrate. ..... dram
Quicklime powder ........ drains
Starch crushed ......... Oh drains
! When ready to use take enough dis
titled water to make some of It In q
paste. Apply it with a flat stick to- the
! overgrowth of hair. Allow 1t to remain
| on for five or ten minutes, but test 1t
at intervals. As soon as the hair can be
easily removed. wash II of fquickiy and
| massage ounce seed jelly, six parts;
glycerine. one part in to the redeemed
spot fnr three minutes.
DR.. Htrshbero toiH dnstcer questions
| for readers Of The Times on medical
| hygfenic and sanitation subjects that are
Of general interest He tDflI mot .under-
take to prescribe or OTTER advice Jor in
dipfdudl cases. Where the subject is not
Of general interest letters toiH be an
swered personally, II stamped and ad-
| dressed envelope Is enclosed. Adress oil
inquiries to DR.. L. K. Hirshbero, care
4 this office.
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Mrs. j. ]. CA. The reason your
other letter as well as this one receives
no answer is Your omission of a stamp
ed. self-addressed envelope. cannot
treat such private matters publicly.
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or lake resort, Who? Why, mother
and the children, of course. Mother,
you know, Is so worn out after the
winter season working for the Pink
Cross and charity balls, and the chit
dren, you know. are worked to death
at their studies, 50 Of course they
need a good rest and quiet. That's
1t. quiet.
But what about father? Isn't he
going. too? Oh, dear, no. Why.
he has to stay in the city and work
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Dear Annie Laurie: I am twenty
one years old and am engaged to a
man who is thirty-eight. My girl
friend does not want ME to marry
him. as she thinks l will tire of him.
My mother likes him, but she also
thinks him too old for me. He Is
living away from here now. and
is travelling most of the time. He
tells me he is true to me. but also
tells me about taking girls to
dances. What would you advise me
to do? ADA ].
My Dear Ada: If the man to
whom you are engaged and who is
SO much older than you does not love
you enough not to take any one else
out to dances while he is away, why
should you keep YOUR engagement?
Your mother thinks he is too old for
you to marry, so If | were You
would think very hard and very long
before l married him. certainly
would never see him again If Re
continued to go out with other girls.
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Popular. Song Exhausts vi
tality and Coarsens Fiber
of Individual, Says Mrs.
Estelle Willoughby Ions,
Teacher and Composer.
Harmony of Color and
Sound Has Direct Influence
Upon Human Welfare and
Progress, She Asserts.
By FLORENCE E. YODER.

BY FLORENCE E. YODER.
~ o YOU know your own musi-
cal equivalent? Every one
L. is more or less familiar with
the taken for granted theory
that we look we'll" in some colors,
and always feel happier when wear
Ing them. In children this is very
pronounced. bright colors making
them laugh at even a very early age.
But few people realize that there
1s more to the subject than mere ira
dition. and that not only have we
our colors. in which we are sad or
happy. but that we have our musical
harmonies. which really determine
our colors!
These are a few Of the principles
underlying musical psychology which
Mrs. Estelle Willoughby Ions,
teacher of music and composer, be-
lieves should be understood by every
one.
The necessity Of being surrounded
by the proper sounds and colors,"
she explains, lis incalculable. This is
especially true of children, and with
auults who are sensitive to any de-
gree. The best color for this globe
ls green, and that, therefore, is one
OF the best colors for the inha bitants
or this globe. The tone to which the
color green corresponds Is F.
Sounds lacking in melody, crude,
and inharmonious are destructive.
while melodious sounds build up.
The human organism Is SO extremely
delicate that everything which does
not build 1t up, tears II down. There
Is continual process going on, and
no middle ground.
Hearing sounds OF low char
acter, inharmonious, and lacking in
melody. not only destroys in time the
very ear for music, but will coarsen
the fiber of the Individual and under
mine the health and exhaust the vi
tality
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II. H.-Q. My heart action is skipping
beats; no pain but very unpleasant,
What do you suggest?
A. There are so many trifiing and
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Ignorance-There is a special fork
made for cheese. which nay be laid
on the cheese-dish when it is passed.
II eaten with pie, the cheese should
be eaten with a fork. II served RitsT
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By ANNIE LAURIE

out and pretending to condescend to
return at length.
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HAT Of the familys vaca-
~ ton plans? It's not deci-
y ded just where they will
go vet. but to some beach
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Troubled-Q. 0D What would cause a
small blue lump on my lip? Is 1t
pierced vein? II so what can I do for
It?
(0 What can do for excessively oily
hair?
A.-Q) 1t is not a pierced vein but
twisted or enlarged vein. A surgeon can
stitch 1t up.
~ Apply to the scalp three times a
week; Glycerin, drains: benzoin, /
dram, and distilled water.
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:
~vy HEN libraries were few and
Nf"' far between and only the
" well-to-do could afford to
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1T H TIMES DAILY. MAGAZINE PA E
DR.. HirShberg Answers
Pertinent Health Queries I,
From the Times Readers
BY DIR. LEONARD K EENE HIRSHBERa.
Copyright 1915 by Newspaper Feature ervice

also so many serious things that cause
this that you need a hospital diaRnosis