Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 28, 1916, Page 6

Keeping Feet Few tyrannical slave owners ever treated their minions worse than most people treat their feet, the will- ing servants who carry them every- where, run all their errands and bear the entire burden of their avoirdu- is. Just consider for a moment the I-treatment meted out to the unfor- tunate toes. Once the straight, pretty pink toes of the baby, they are crushed by the drawing vanity of sweet sixteen to the high heeled shoes with pointed toes that push the big toe forward and produce that | permanent disfigurement, an enlarged " | joint, which periodically inflames and sometimes develops into an un- sightly bunion, As time goes on the toes are com- pressed into distortions by the in- . sane practice of squeezing a No. § foot into a No. 4 shoe, or a No. 6 into a No. 5, until the foot becomes, in- stead of a thing of beauty, positively repulsive to behold uncovered, with * twisted, overlapping toes, malformed knoblike joints, a plethora of corns and callousities. Yet we ex- claim in horror at the deformed feet of the Chinese woman of rank. One can imagine the eastern lady being equally horrified at the feet of some American women were they exposed to her gaze. What hours of misery are represented by, these maltreated extremities! Pain in the feet is aggravated by the weight of the body and by the pressure of the unyielding footwear upon the in- flamed surface, and this kind of pain has the effect of causing the most HOTELS AND RESORTS. i Condition intense feeling of fatigue and depres- sion of spirits, Mothers are undoubtedly responsi- ble for a great deal of this unneces- sary suffering by not seeing that their growing girls are properly shod. Not for a moment would one advo- cate ugly wide-toed boots which would arouse the derision of school- fellows. Almost all bootmakers keep footwear which is straight on the in- ner sides. Physical exercises and dancing strengthen and improve the shape of the feet. For the woman whose feet are al- ready disfigured the services of an expert in pedicure are indispensable to cure and keep away corns. Women of gouty constitutions are very liable to corns and should be careful to re- duce the amount of acidity in the system by careful diet and by doses| of some harmless saline corrective. One of the most painful of foot troubles is a soft corn between the toes. This may cause, if long neglect- ed, excruciating pain, and even in- flammation and suppuration, and is in many eases practically incurable, though "a clever chiropodist's treat- ment at regular intervals will mini- mize the discomfort. To keep the feet in a healthy con- dition they should be washed ever, night in warm water with a mild anti- septic soap, Gouty people exgerience great relief from foot troubles by soaking the feet twice a week in hot water with washing soda added, which bath is also helpful in the case of hard corns. Any hard skin should be gently rubbed down with pumice stone, and the nails cut squarely across with sharp scissors. Ingrowing toe nails should be treated without delay by a chiropo- dist, as if neglected a painful surgical operation becomes necessary. The small, but extremely painful abscess which forms under a neglected corn, and which occasionally leads to a loss of a toe, can quickly be relieved by a small incision by a surgeon, if the chiropodist hesitates to resort to this drastic method. The soda baths already mentioned will relieve the swellingof the feet in lprin, and summer. For tired and painful feet, immersion in a basinfu of hot water with a teaspoonful of ammonia acts like a charm. The irri- tation and swelling of chilblains should be checked in the carly stages by the soda footbath and vigorous friction with a suitable liniment. Those liable to chilblains are gen- erally thin and of anaemic habits and should take cod liver oil throughout the winter, include plenty of fats and oils in their diets, do physical culture exercises, take a brisk walk every day and never put their feet to the fire. Excessive perspiration should be treated with a daily bath, to which some antiseptic should be added, a little salt rubbed into the feet while wet, and a special deodorant foot powder dusted into the stockings, which should be changed every day, and at least two pairs of shoes or boots should be in use, worn on alter- nate days. : Indeed, if a different pair of boots can be kept for each day's wear in the week it is better, as not qnly does this allow the boot to retain its shape and afford more support to instep and ankle, but it also prevents the | foot from splaying and becoming dis- torted through constant pressure in a boot which has stretched out of its proper and original shape. Do You Know That Sugar is manufactured from raising in practically all of the countries of southern Europe and western Asia? It was possible in the thirteenth century to buy a dozen eggs or a hen for 6 cents; eight pounds of beef or a rabbit for 6 cents; a dozen pigeons or a goose for 18 cents? black apes of Guinea have long lll‘z hair, and their fur is used for muffs and ca&exl)? During the last few years 1,075, skins have been shipped to Paris. How to Judge 2 Woman by Her Hair There are always the well-known and semi-humorous methods, such as ‘saying brunettes are quick-tempered or blondes are keener in their mental activity. But there is real common sense in just noticing whether the hair is well kept to judge a woman's neatness, or in looking at her style of . arranging her hair, to decide whether or not she has good taste. If you are one of the few who try to uuio the most of your hair, remem- ber that it is not advisable to wash the hair with any cleanser made for but always use some best some’ canthrox from your and dissolving a tea- spoonful in a cup of hot water, wh your shampoo is all After its form color. Dandruf dirt are dissolved and . Your hair will cess oil and t it will look much heavier than | th it is. Its Justre and softness will also IS saine the Beatih which Taeere e whicl hair growth.—Advertisement. , élcoholfi;ge annevy Beverage all tion made expressly for | fi%\l can enjoy the very ge entirely dis- be 8o ;lnfl’y A THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1916. By GARRETT P. SERVISS. A rat with a weasel on his track is,{I imagine, a very unhappy animal. His chances could hardly be worse unless his pursuer happened to be that red-eyed cousin of the weascl called a ferret. And yet a rat is a courageous fighter. Get him in a cor- ner and he will fight a man or a dog. But he will not stay in a corner to fight if a weasel is after ‘him. The fierce, swift, sinuous move- ments of his slender enemy confuse him and take the fight out of him. It is like a swordsman fighting with a streak of lightning. And the light- ning becomes zig-zag when it is a ferret instead of a weasel that makes the attack. Both the weasel and the ferret be- long to the family of polecats, and one of their other slender cousing is the stoat, who, when he wears a white coat, with a black tip on his tail, is dignified with the name of ermine, whose fur kings were once so proud of adorning themselves with that they forbade common people, including those more stilted common people Y | called nobles, ever to put it on. All of these creatures are born rat cztchers, but the weasel and the fer- ret excel their relatives in bloodthirst- | iness, rapidity and cunning. When I was a boy I had a great fear of wea- sels, because of the stories that heard of their ferocity, swiftness, abil- ity to go through the narrowest open- ing, and habit of springing upon their prey and instantly driving their sharp teeth into the arteries of its neck. The stories were true enough in substance, only weasels were not so numerous nor so fond of chasing lit- tle boys as I had been led to suppose. The nearest 1 ever got to a weasel | was in taking up, with rather tremu- lous fingers, from a hen's nest some fresh egg shells, which, I was told, had been sucked by a marauding weasel, o Yet the weasel, for all the terror that he inspires, is one of the hand- 1| somest of the smaller four-footed ani- mals. And if you can keep him away from the hen’s nest and the chicken yards, he is one of the most useful allies of man, on account of the cease- less war that he wages on rats, mice, moles and other vermin, The weasel has even been called L"elegmt" on account of his shape. A straw hat and a Palm Beach suit are a great relief from the sum- mer heat, but they will avail you little if your nerves are coqstmtly kept on l{lt rack b: the.pmchmg tor- ture of tight and ill-fitting shoes. shoe may be white and cool and beau= tiful to the eye and yet be an instru- ment of torture to the toes. This is articularly true in summer, partly ecause our feet swell and perspire with the heat and partly because they look so horriblfi ig and clumsy in white or light shades, if we wear our “real” size! As some shrewd observer of human nature remarked, “Some girls are born with big feet, others wear white shoes.” While a shoe should be foot-shlped, it should not be foot-sized, but a little bigger all around. Shoe-room is like ! money in the bank—the only way to have enough is to have a little too much, The reason for this extra lee- way in our shoes is that they are not to stand in, but to walk in, and the foot in walking expands in both direc- tions by the “giving” of the springy arches on whic% it is built, The back- ward-and-forward arch, from the heel to the toes, being the longest, natu- rally expands the most, and the cross arch not so much. Hence comes the practical rule that you must allow about three-quarters of an inch extra in the length of your shoes and half an inch in the breadth above the actual size of your foot. This looks like a disadvantage from the point of view of keeping down the apparent size, but as a matter of fact it is not, because the increase being reatest in the direction of length, it s quite possible to judiciously exag- gerate this a little, and by making the toe an inch longer and the ball of the foot only a third or a half an inch wider, to really create an illusion of i greater slenderness and shapeliness | of the foot. Fortunately intelligent shoemen are coming to recognize this, and when a customer comes in and asks for a No. 8, which would be a blister fif, they take a good look at his foot and tell him that his is rather an unusual- ly graceful shape, which requires a special last that they happen to have Bring Out Your Hidden Beauty Beheath that soiled, discolored, aged complexion is one fair to ercoli wax will gradually, gently ab- sorb the devitalized surface skin, reveali e youthfully fresh, white and beautiful skin underneath, Used by refined wo ‘who prefer complexions of true naturalness. Mercolized wax in one ounce package, with directions for use, is sold by all druggis —Advertisement. faded or On Tap and In Botties ' 1 Omaha Beverage 6002 to 6016 South 30th St. Company fook upon. ' ts. | understand my own unreadiness and THE WEASEL RESTINC. He has the graceful “stream-lines” with which automobile manufacturers have coaxed so many extra dollars out of people’s pockets, and his move- I ments are an eye-lesson for dancing , masters. A full-.grown male weasel is about ten or eleven inches long. in- cluding a short tail; the female is | somewhat shorter. He has a small head, little round ears, a long, flexible neck, short limbs, five-toed feet, beautifully ,curved claws, sharp, white teeth and a finely arched back. He has short, fine fur, brown on the top and sides and white underneath. If his habitation is far north, he some- times turns white in winter, in im- itation of the ermine, but he has not the invaluable black tip on his tail, and he is smaller than the ermine. | He will chase his prey anywhere— iinto a hole, up a tree, through any kind of a labyrinth, and across a| stream of water, for he is a perfect ,swimmer. Only the ferret exceeds him in these exercises. The ferret is a professional, the weasel an amateur, almost as good as a pro- fessional. I have read one plcasingi {ealth Hints -:- Fashions -- Woman’s Work -: THE LITTLE HARVEST MOUSE thing about the weasel—the female. It is said that a mother weasel will fight for her childsren ,against -any possible odds, and will die on the spot rather than desert them. row nine! Get the shoe that feels a comfor- table fit when sitting down and then ask for one-half a size longer and a breadth narrower, that is to say an “eight C” shoe fits you like a glove; ask for an “eight and a half B” or Collecting Memories By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. No man is a failure if he can learn from his own mistakes. No woman has missed her chance in life if she can accept her own blunders quietly and calmly and profit by them. In old age one gazes back across the panorama of life and sees strug- gle that was not rewarded, blunder- ing that was bitterly expiated, suffer- ing that scarred and a series of human experiences good and evil, which, perhaps, had one life to_live over, one would manage very differ- ently. But, after all, each of us is what we are because of what we have ex- perienced. We stand each year as the sum total of all the striving and fail- ure or effort and success which have filled our days up to the point when ! we reckon our own worth. What we experience matters far less than what interpretation we make of it. With idle and bitter regret I have very little sympathy or patience. Re- morse is a waste of perfectly good energy—and I object to waste. Suppose all through one day you| conduct yourself very badly. Suppose you say stupid and awkward things and are conscious that you are mak- ing a very bad impression thereby? Suppose you are mentally and phys- ically “all thumbs?” Suppose opportunity comes and you make nothing of it. What good will it do you to lie awake at night, toss and tumble feverishly on/ your bed regretting all you have done and imagining how differently you might have done it? What possible avail can it be for you to reproach your- self for your blundering and grieve over each ill advised move you have {made that day? All of that will only wear you out and bring you weary and worn to the duties of the next day. The way to accept your blunders is in this spirit: “Well, rmlde a pret- ty bad fizzle of things today. I did 1all the things I shouldn’t have done land T neglected every opportunity n | that came my way. However, perhaps, that's just as well, for now that I {lack of judgment in today's proceed- gs, | shan’t need to go through them again. I've simply learned what not to do and what to seize upon and try to do. So this day wasn't wasted at all.” After all, life is an endless going to school, One keeps having tasks set and doing them well or ill and learning through failure as well as through success. Best Home Treatment for All Hairy Growths (The Modern Beauty.) - Every woman should have a small &ukm of delatone handy, for its mely use will keep the lhn free from beauty-marring hairy growths. Fo remove hair or fuzz, make a thick with some of the powdered tone and water. A to hairy and 2 or 8 minutes rub off, wash the skin 1 be m hair or blemish. avoid renl [ let them stand Shoes and Summer Comfort . By WOODS HUTCHINSON, M. D.|in stock—and then bring him a nar- even a “nine B,” and you will con- sider nine your lucky number all the rest of your life. unnecessary, but is actually a disad- vantage because the broad outer angle gets in the way in the toeing-in move- ment of fast walking. Remember, corns are not a neces- sary affliction, but mean solely badly fitting shoes, nine times out of ten, too tight! A small point, but an important one for comfort is to always have if ossible at least two pairs of shoes or everyday wear, so that you can change shoes every day. The shoes will wear longer and keep thejr shape better, and what is much more im- ortant, your feet will do the same, ecause the linings do not get cracked and worn and irritating from keeping in a sweat-soaked and soiled condi- tion constantly, but have a whole day to ventilate and dry out and “sweet- en” in after each day they are worn. It also helps greatly to have a simple and inexpensive form of shoetree or last, to put into the shoes at night and when not in use, as next after tightness, most of our minor foot troubles come from cracks or puck- erings-up of the linings, or turning up of the toes and warping of the soles of our shoes. 0 The square-toed | shoe is not only not foot-shape and | ‘Who Win Out ‘ By JANE M'LEAN. Some people call it great fun to sit |all day behind the cage of the cash- ier's desk and take in money. Some | people would never dream of calling it an effort to be pleasant, and would iscoff at the idea of it being just as I'hard work as anything else. Often enough you have heard girls remark, “Oh, it's easy enough for her: | all she has to do is to sit all day on a chair and hand out change.” |it isn’t so easy. Helen could tell you {all about it if you wanted to know. | She is a cashier. She sits all day behind the wire of the cashier’s desk and i smiles and hands out change, and she { knows how hard it is and how difficult it is to smile wheén one feels like weeping. . Helen’s day runs something like | this: In the morning she arrives in |time to make change for the early | customers. She eats her own break- .| fast hurriedly, and a good breakfast it iis, too, while the manager takes her place, and then she slips in behind the brass cage and begins her day. She ljkes the work well enough. It would not be hard if people would regard it as a business instead of a recreation. But from the early morn- ing she often has to deal with people who see only the blond braids wound about her trim little head, the red méuth and the soft eyes. Men think that with a face like hers she naturally wants admiration and attention, and while her capable little hands count out quarters and dimes they feast their eyes on her prettiness and ask her when she will be free, and if she doesn't want to go to the 1 movies some night soon. Helen invariably straightens up and whips out some spirited reply, which generally takes effect. Mr. Trask, the manager, usually keeps his eyes on the desk pretty sharply, and the men who stop for more than a pleasant word are generally noticed very | quickly. But when these incidents are | stealthily repeated again and again throughout the day, Helen sighs wearily and wonders if there is not | something else she could get to do. One morning a rather pale-looking {young fellow stopped by the booth tand after he had received his change, looked leeringly at Helen and said: “How’d you like to see a show to- | night? Here’s a couple of seats, meet me at the box office at 8 o’clock.” Helen had not slept well and her head ached a little. It took only those few words to make Ker blind with rage, and she seized the tickets quickly and tore them into pieces. The man stared and Mr., Trask hurried over to the desk. He was a hard man and Helen knew that she would probably lose her position; things couldn’t possibly be any worse than they were anyway, so she raised her head high and looked bitterly at the youth who was still standing at the desk. “Mr. Trask, this man was annoying me,” she said a little tremulously. “I'm sorry to make a fuss, but I couldn’t help it.” Mr. Trask turned upon the man angrily and to Helen's surprise or- dered him out of the place. Every one.was staring and Helen covered her fate with her hands. But what was that Mr. Trask was saying? “And T want it understood that Miss Graham is one of my chief help- ers, and not a decoration in this place, the next time I find any one annoying her, I shall make an example of him That's all right, Miss Graham,” turn- ing to the girl kindly, “ I want you to feel that you can call on me in a case like this; you're a good worker and I don’t want to lose you for any fool- ishness of this kind, not by a long shot.” And Helen threw him a little smile | of gratitude as'she stealthily wiped | her eyes and settled back in ger seat (The next article in this series will |be called’ “The News Girl'.) Dainty Sand S wich By CONSTANCE CLARKE. Sandwich fillings, just a little unlike those psually known, are warmly wel- comed by the woman who entertains very much, and some novel and de- lightful recipes are here offered, es- pecially to this type of hostess, Tongue and Mushrom—Mince cold boiled tongue fine, add half the amount of chopped mushrooms, a lit- tle cayenne pepper and grated lemon peel, spread this mixture between thin slices of bread and butter. Onion Sandwiches—Peel and slice some large Spanish onions, cover them with water, add some salt and t for about one hour, Drain and chop, place a lettuce leaf on the bread, then the onion, another let- tuce leaf and a second piece of bread. Cheese Sandwiches~-Blend together the yolks of one hard boiled egg with one teaspoonful of melted butter until smooth, then add to this half a tea- spoonful each of salt, pepper and mus- tard, blending each well with the mix- ture before adding the others. Then grate one-quarter of a pound of Amer- ican cheese and sprinkle this over all, mixing it in_well. Stir in one ta- blespoonful of vinegar and spread this mixture between tgin slices of white or brown bread. (Tomorrow—Ice Coffee in Glasses.) Yes, but the truth of the thing 1| Household Topics Girl Workers h Womanly Uce for Waste Time BY ADA PATTERSON. There is no longer need, nor ex- cuse, for any woman to fold her hands and sigh, “What shall I do to be amused?” There is a great deal to be,done that will be far more ab- sorbing than any mere amusement. To this Miss Mary Wood points the way. Miss Wood is the chairman of the Social Service committee of the Civic Federation and in that capacity she has at her own expense, and for the public good, visited most of the jails and hospitals in her state. She says other women should perform like service, and gratis, for the public good. “For selfish reasons alone women should visit the institutions in their community,” said Miss Wood, a tall, fair-haired woman with much of the charm of manner of her native south. “For selfish reasons alone, every woman should show this interest in local public institutions. Few know that $100,000,000 are paid every year for taxes in the state in which I live, $10,000.000 of that in one city alone. We have a right, and I should think everyone would want to know, where those taxes go, how they are used. Part of them are used for the main- tenance of public institutions and ev- ery householder has a right, and should have a wish, to know in what manner they are conducted. An hon- est, conscientious official will be glad to have the interest and co-operation of the women of his town. The dis- honest ones will be held in check and the fear of outraged public sentiment planted in their hearts. The institu- tions are open to the public. I would suggest that before making the visit you familiarize yourself with the rules at least so far as visiting days and hours are concerned. A housewife can readily understand how visitors at_all or any hours will disarrange and derange the best ordered home, jand an institution is a home on a vaster scale. | “But there is a broader, better rea- son for visiting the institutions than the mere pyrpose of watching the out- lay of taxes. It is the claim of hu- | manity upon every individual, It was {an event that happened in a large in- stitution that challenged my attention to set my conscience to work three years ago. An old man who had been paralyzed was boiled to death in a bath by careless or vicious attendants. I read of this occurrence and took an interest in the investigation that fol- lowed. It was found that the work of bathing the helpless paralytic was given to three “trusties” who were tired of their task. ‘We'll show him,’ they said one day and turned scalding water into the bath tub. The poor old man died within an hour. “This seems so inhuman as to be incredible. Yet it happened. The superintendent was exonerated be- cause he said he had so many inmates in his charge he could not personally supervise all the work. Two of the murderers were sent to jail, and nearly everybody forgot the incident. For- tunately such incidents are probably rare, yet there should be none. A keen personal interest in, and frequent visits to, an institution would create an atmosphere that would prevent such brutality, Business and profes- sional men seldom find time for such visits. Some women can find a great deal, and their moral support will be of great assistance to a good official Most of these officials are overworked and they would welcome the calls, co- operation and tactful suggestions of thoughtful women. “In my tour of the institutions 1 learned that at one reformatory they never washed the bed linen, but used it until it was impossible to use it longer, then burhed it. Think of that | waste and of the filth that condition suggests. Don’t you suppose that if the women of that town had been occasional visitors to that place nt such horror or uncleanliness could | have existed? “My visits to public reformatories disclosed a fact that should encourage all women to work for their sex. That is that contrary to the usual idea that the women of that town had been one of the great agencies for uplifting humanity proves by its records that 80 per cent, four-fifths, of these women are reclaimed. “Another discovery that is wortl thoughtful - consideration, is that of the class of women, 30 per cent, more than a third, are mentally defective In them is a lack of the moral stamina that every woman needs They are moral irresponsibles. This opens a wide field of conjecture and | study as to how to prevent the com- |ing into the world of a large per- | centage of the unfit, or, having ar revived, a proper care of it. “Nearly all of the remainder of these unfortunates have reached that nearly hopeless state, because of economical conditions. ~Girls fall into evil always because they cannot earn a living wage. Knowing this at first hand, for seeing is believing, the thoughtful woman will return from a visit to such an institution convinced that something must be done, and considering what it should be, “The intelligence of women has been increased thrée-fourths by par- ticipation in women’s clubs. Study of public institutions will stimulate thought and humanity to an incalcsl- able decree, and the results will be welcome and amazing. | “It's the most dreadful thing in the world to be bored,” said a woman in a lace gown. Lest she telephone, call upon, or otherwise pester some busy women with her plaints, I pass on this counsel of a useful woman. Which following, no woman will r useless. Household Helps 1f eggs you are about to boil are cracked, add a little vinegar to the water, and they can be boiled as sat- isfactorily as undamaged ones. Don't throw bones that have been boiled for soup into the dustbin. Put them at the back of the fire, bank up with well-damped small coal, and they will burn for hours. Ink stains can be removed without injuring the most delicately colored material. Mix some mustard into a thick paste and spread over the stain. After twenty-four hours sponge thor- oughly with cold water, and no trace of the ink remains. e, e