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4 ill rs Mrs. Langtry’s Diet. Wikat a Woman Who Prizes Her Beauty Should and Should Not Do. Plain, simple food, no fluids drunk at meals, except the morning cup ‘ef coffee or chocolate, frésh alr—lots of it—exerciee, quiet, restful Pp earned by out-of-door exercise, soap and water, a ch@erful heart kept young by a good deed or two done each day—that's the summing up jof my guide to beauty. —MRS, LANGTRY. fOW do I keep my ekin sh and clear?’ said Mre, Langtry. “Why, by keeping my blood !n good order by exetcise, a cheerful mind, work, and, last but by no means least, by eating food appropriate to my work and Wy personal neods in every way. “The reason we English women generally have fine color and good skins—and Americans hi 0 Many advantages you can wet afford to admit that, as nation, we have hentthy, rosy skina—is because we treat our ekina with eo ‘uch more consideration than our charming American cousins _ \ "Just as soon as an intelligent woman sets to work to ascertain the cause ut har Ainsatisfactory complexion she discovers the fault is more largely hers than the climate. ait “The indobr Amecican cliimate, which ds to me aad my countrymen so ineuf- ly stifiing, is, combined with unwisely @elected food, the cause of the color Cheeks of young America of both genders, Overheated rooms, of course, keop pexin parchel and dry, and to be beautiful the skin myst ‘be moist and elast'c. * ed with insufficiently ventilated and overheated rooms, nothing more fhecieray cortain to work destruction to the complexion oduld be conceived than the made dishes and the American specialties, such as your hot breads, oakes—lo call them pancakes?—with maple syrups and jellies. Good? Well. rather! ey /are delicious to the taste. I quite dote on. *merican hot biscuits dnd ali the delectables, Suppose really," snid the Jersey Lily, logiing (rrésietibly pretty and‘s0.pro- ly convinced, “that never was anything more delictous Than an American wwherry shortcake, but oh, my dear, what a complexfon-rulner you have there! 9@ I ever ent it? Oh, yew, indeed; hut just a wee bit once in @ while, just as @ < pleat treat. - “The woman who desires to remain young and retain her youthful bloom may @@ well understand first es last that she has nu rosy path to tread. *@he who cannut deny herself when it comes to a choice of food and content- “Pilly eat what it best for her may as well retire from the contest. She is bound {te drop tgnomimously by the wayside sooner or later, * “No one diet or choice of food will serve all women. Short women require hs flesh-forming food , Thin women must eat food specially selected for and tissuemaking qualities. Nervous women ehould not be fed on the }\ Mime dishes as the lymphatic subject and so on. “We all oat too mich, both in England and America, I think, but at home we Beep our houses much cooler and we live out of doors, that Is where we have enormous advantage. In my own case I thrive best and look best on a very iple diet. I believe in the virtues of ripe fruit and plenty of water taken be- meals. “Tt Je hard, especially for Americans, who have the ‘habit of drinking so water during mei to do without it. But df you expect your digestive ap- {is to do perfect work you must depend upon the gastric juices for ald in Ing your food. « "If you swamp your stomach with {ced water you arrest the normal functlon- of the digestive organs. Water drunk during meals will prove a perfect in piling up fat, too, but I am not mow speaking of elther fat or lean Women especially, but of all women oolleotively. Pure water freely drunk “patly in the morning, late at night and between meals is of inestimable value complexion beautifer. I drink it either hot or cool, feed, just as 1 td fancy. “fT am not a vegetarian, but I do not think @ great deal of meat good the skin. A mixed diet is better, except/in very rare oases, where meat jd be quite abandoned, A doctor should decide, I should say, in such cases, <4. "But ene thing is certain, the woman. who wishes to haye a beautiful com- jon must bid a long farewell to cakes, ples, sweet desserts, confectionery M1 pastries, as iwell ns to mixed dishes containing meats, rich sautes with "How about Philadelphia terrapin and lobster a la Newburg?" I ventured in § still, small voice. ‘Oh, never, never," Mrs, Langtry replied, laughingly. “All temptations of ee of bealty?” "If a body meet a body comin’ through the rye or at a friendly dinner might just once in @ whtle call everything off and eat @ few good Pines and "Oh, of course," aaid the Jersey Lily, who began this conversation with t: it weriousness, but grew. merry with me as It proceeded, ‘for of a ¢ruth the to perpetual beauty ts like that of the old Jordan hymn, ‘a hard one to ‘everything one really 1s especinily fond of." “Now,” I said, “this is a heart-to-heart talk, You recollect # is to set down ged fetter to you and yours to me. What do you who have the complexion the “Well,” cald Mrs, Langtry, ‘I live on the very simplest wort of food In my | ag Ienust keep my health, my figure and my looks. The complexion ts of dmportance, as no woman can really be beauttfil Of she have a bad skin és and mushrooms. sort must be treated as overtures trom the demon especially assigned to fine 5 just @ woe glass of champagne?" I shyly asked. and the list of things to give up seems at a fret glance to everybody Mean womarf envies sudsist upon? Riddle me that.”” “T could neither keep my health, my figure nor my complexion If T wee to in- THE AU HAS ed A Tailor-Made Suit of French Suede— the First of Its Kind—Designed for a Member of New York's “550." & ot i Madison Sqdare Garden during the past few days has been thronged with fashionably dressed women whose interest centrés in the various motor cats on exhibition, and others tess smartly attired, whose eyes stray from the vehicle of fashion to the elect themselv: Many of the women of the “Four Hundred” have gone to the show: in their automobit: and some of] | them have appeared in automobile cos- tumes of great novelty and beauty. ‘The proper attire for the feminine motoript {8 more difficult -to determine than any other style of gatment. For there ere no targe social assembinges where they may be seen in aggregate glory. The evening dress has the ball, the tailor costume ‘the street; every other gown, including that for hunting, which fo displayed in all {te amart sever- ity at the suburban “meet,” has its spe- clal function where new fashions may be seen and studied. Yet fashions in motor costumes change with the vary- ing soasons quite as much as other gar- ments more generally worn. ‘The avtomodtile girl of 198 as revenied at the show and on city thoroughfares Aifters radically from her predecessor of 1902. ‘The very latest thing for automobile ‘Wear wan evolved recently by the brain ot one of New Yorkie most fasihtonabje matrons, a member of a millionaire fam. HIS in automobile week. pleted efter a design furnished by her. Heretofore the fashionable Automobilist tas worn @ loose Shokat of French kit or a long @torm coat of the same ma- rial, But the owner of the automobile sult wanted something entirely different from. the accepted garments; something that would be warm and comfortable and at the same time display her shapely fig- ure. The result of this wish—the first auto- mobile gown—was photographed for The Evening World by courtesy of Demmerie & Co. of No. 48 West Twenty-third street, the manufacturers, who made it from @ especial order received from a re- ‘tall house. The sult is made of French suede of an exquisite golden tan, The jacket is cut to fit the figure, is single breast with the extreme long waist of p vailing modes, and is untrimmed save for the small collar, half of brown vel- vet, like that on a man’s overcoat. The ovat is Mined with taffeta silk in the same shade as the collar. ‘The skirt ie unlined, and is romarkably @raceml in contour and light in weigh! considering the material of which it ts built. It is made with a deep-point- ed yoke, extending in front almost halt way to the knees, and narrowing ail OF, Prof hy ute For Mrs: Vanderbi gradually towar dthe back. From this} yoke It falls in nine gores, which in| front open over fan plalts. It Is cut! in the walking length, which dltra- fashionable women adopted some time ego for automobile wear. Quite as pretty, though perhaps not #0 startingly novel, is the loomé auto- mobile coat af white kid, shown In the ilustration, 7 TO GIRb OF 1908 A VERY SMART GET-OP. Kid, Ornam Trench 4 kid with Iniaid B ncadch Jcloth. * y It has the wide storm collar, which 1s a’ Yewiure of mutomobdile coats this year, and is elaborately ornamented With inlaid broadcloths in an exquisite pale blue shade, The Inlaid design or- naments the central portion of the huge collar of. white kid and the Intertor of the coat in front, as well as the cuffs on the loose sleeves. A hovel automobile Jacket of black French kid is made with a high stitched leather collar and loose bell sleeves. It hangs loose from the figure and 1s wnre- Neved by trimming, depending for its beauty upon the absolute correctness of cut. Still another tnteresting garment Is the long automabie ‘coat of, piack dressed kid made with a yoke of un- usual cut and ornamented with'etitching. ‘This coat has a lning of pearl gray bro- dulge my tastes for rich #ood or win “I live of fruits, gRery vegetables in salads or simply cooked. I eat meat about once a day and very iMtie red meat. I eat chickens, game, sweetbreads, oh Jots of very nice things I assure you. I drink one cup of coffee or chocolate in the morning. 1 do like my afternoon tea and always have it. “I eat three meals a day, but you must recollect that I walk from five to ten, often Afteen miles each day, no matter what the weather, and my diet, simple as it 1s, would be far too rich and abundant for a woman who takes less exercise. “Btimulants of ali sorts are bad for the skin, which is especially suaoeptinle? to the condition of the nerves. lor that maitter I ¢hink a woman's somplexion fe a pretty sats record, of her nervous health or lack of health, “Plain, eimple food, no fiulids drunk at meals except thé morning cup of coffce or chocolate, fresh air—lots of it—exercise, quiet, rostful sleep, earned by out-of-door exermse, soap and water, a cheerful heart—kept young by a Good deed or two done each day—that’s the summing up of my gulde to beauty.” - Fireless Cooking Is on Its Way, as Tests Show, and Soon We Shall Not Have to'Worry _About Coal. HB housewife who cooks meals by ' means of $12.50 per ton coal will rejoice to learn that an apparatus « bps been made which renders @uch ex- ‘PEpense unnecessary. & unique port of range, whose heat is plied wholly by electricity Has been Not only, will 1t cook ae thor- rhiy a® will coal, but it will roast a of pork weighing over eighteen in about ah hour and three- quarters. hore 1s no waste, as in burn- ; Ing coal, gas or oll; nor le the food Eainte® by fumes or “smoked,” A com- | Plloated dinner of fifteen items set to ‘Book at 19.06 A. M. is entirely reedy to Few housewives can ap- that fecord for speed and com- nes. “ ‘The apparatus and kitchen appu ‘ences for thie invention are as Tole Pirst—A eoapstone sink for Washing iwhes; and, above this, on a shelf a Gopper water urn, for use in providing water for the sink, In the urn ie electric coll which heats the water to required cemperature, Electric colle cooking are made in all sizes and . J@hapes in order to At any cooking wten- ail. They are clean and give out no Saat, Oeing thus fit for immersion in “ qrhatever tubstance is to be cooked, { Qooking 19 thus done from within Ine 7 tend of from without, and all the heat * the colls generate Is utilized. ‘This pre- Vents the rest of the Kitchen from as- @uming the temperature of @ Turkish » bath and prevents that waste of power _fvbich now causes the economical cook * &© mourn, for much of the coal, ang tl used for cooking is wasted in warm. ide up an already hot kitchen. ‘The electric coil will boll a quart of ter in seven minutes, jenide the sink is a big electric oven. divided into three compartment ry one ‘a for plate warm! two beneath It are for baking. This oven is called oven No. Biand-| on oven No. 8 fe an eleotite proller, {9 algo encased ip w Mute oven of own. Next to oven No. 3 ts oven (18 1-2x17x11 inches inside as Oyen No, 16, In the centre Mts door @ thermometer stands. The may thus know at any moment the cooking inside it is progtessing, ‘the top of oven Yo. 16 ts an "Eng- electric broiier.” ‘This brotier ts! such » Why nat sb Purpose of @ ‘ One of mye stoves te round and inches injyameter. The broiler is ob- jong, as are the two remaiping stoves of the trio, They measure about iéxtd inchs A coffee mill, worked by elec+ trlelty, ie the last item, All of (hese appurtenances are fitied with electric colla connecting with leve: or butions #0 arranged that any one current may be cut off or turned on without In any way affecting the others, A sample dinner was cooked on thia elegirloal range, says the Electrical Age, with the following results: Time of first step in cooking the meal, ree aquare’ Time, oven, And plales put in to warn ip ite place in oven No. 3 wrrent om Wvller to make toast ‘Third lot of ex@plent to fry, Cottep' done, Sauce for cottage padding pur on place of coffee. —owth toi of eggplant to fry 1 done, in current turned off 12, 18—Toast on brotier. 1Z.1b—Toest done. AB.1U—Meat done In oveo No, 3 and current shu off, AB AT-Current aut of colt {BATH ES Sctthing onus of that wlensiie were ia use: A1:LB-Cofteo-atinder started, 1115 grinder mopped 11,1G—Coffee to boll, on end stove walet 10 beat on eame stove. pot of ) WALNUT STUMPS. Old ‘walnut stumps are on a boom throughout Tennessee, Stumps that have remained unnoticed for years and were regarded as worthless are now eagerly sought after at prices that seem almost fabulous, says the Nash- ville. American. An Indiana concern has had men travelling over the coun- try buyting every olf walnut stump that could be foun@ At first the prices pald were smal, but a the eyes of the afick Umber folks began to open the price went higher and higher, until now it's out of sight, afd the funny part about! it is that the ugtier, knottier and more unsightly the stump the more money it will bring, The stimp of @ walnut tree that was cut down several years ago brought more than the whole of the tree, It in stated that the stumps are made into veneering material and used Jn the manufacture of high-grade furniture. é Tooth for.overiajquarte THE OLD RELIABLE A Decided, Novelty Is a Coat of White’ cloth of Pale Blue Shade. Storm Coat OF e Black French Kid. 2 Dr. Lyon’s PERFECT. . ; Used ‘by people of vrefitiement PREPARE tH =e ZDS: MR. FRAWLEY ANSWERS. QUESTIONS © ABOUT MUSCLE: BUILDING. ented with Inlaid Broad- Pw a od Soe ‘ : gongs. = Gauntlets are untysrmay tor automoptte wear and some of them are made with a special elastic band, which insures un- usual tightness at the wrists, thus keep- ing out dust, rain and cold. The jaunty automobile caps for women, with visors and diack silk hoods, nre of white. or black French kid or of tan suede, By James L, Frawley! HREE thoummnd, two: hundred ete T tersshave been addressed tome Ing the five days by, h specially Inte@med in the course sons which appeared in The Ey a Worl under my signature laat weeks ''Te-the writers of all of these, with, te exception of those. specially answered $a this article, 1 answer: ‘ollow the Inatractions hereté= fore given absolutely, Perstet tm them and you will notice imgaeves meht within a month, And do not Imagine, because this 168) eneyal answer, that T have fot our letters special attention. I” tase carefully read each one dnd my le ‘as’ given ‘above. ah Here are special Instructions sor ote oorrespond ALFRED KUBLY and &! HARE —To correct’ the “defect of havihg” “j@houlder higher than the other’ gest that you take a course in a @yiaie nasium., Peralatent dumb-bett, dirpsted to the defctént etoildér Fill course help somewhat, but results take a special ‘edured ve o nasium. G. G. L.—To do away with which seize the muscle® tam knees while stooping to ‘plek dumb-vells, without bending your practise raising and lowering on your toes untill the, meylty pears, eta - “CLOSE ATTENTION twenty years of hae heaithful,. two-pound dumbbell heavy enough. Increase the three pounds after you havé for a yoar, but not before, breathing exercise at all times ih and out. 'T, MAYLOR—Your dumb-bell for fifteen minutes on arising: ee retiring and your Jong we course, denefcta’ Sethe Turkish bath twice a month will do" gbod If you are in vigorous health, CORNELIUS B. 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