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aw pt Gen |i | OT waa ~f] Ce TaN f heat rye —) . Bo wy Sanpete re | (Cron' Bnnvy ’ ( fen mi? CATER UP ON : 1 Paulin Sap WERE Tot —aoaee / e Furlong’s Daily Article on . Beauty and Health Copyright, 1917, by the Prom Publishing Co, Special Treatments for the Hair HE hair should be parted in small strands and witch hazel or lime water applied to the scalp on a puff of cotton when It {s excessively oily. T (The New York Evening World), This treatment is also cooling to the heated scalp. Very dry scalp and hair should receive an ofl sham- rub a clean, poo the night before shampooing with soap. sweet ol] on a puff of cotton to the scalp between small parts in the hair. This cleans the dandruff completely off in one treatment and leaves the scalp beautifully clear and white even before washing, but necessarily very dank and greasy. After twenty-four hours wash with castile 6oap shampoo mixture, When the hair hi drops of liquid vaseline in the palm of the hands and | stiff hairbrush over through the hair to give a brilliant gloss. This ts bet- ter than brilliantine and is not so greasy, th Apply been well dried place & few it, Brpsh this refore does not collect dust and groase, because it dries almost immediately. Give the hair much air. It is a Breat mistake to sleep with hair- pins or false hair, Take the hair down and brush it at least fifty times with a clean, tiff brush every night before retiring, and let it hang loosely or tie back with a ribbon. Sun the hair, but not when it ts wet. Sit near an open window with the hair down the back at least five minutes each day. Most persons take the condition of,the hair too lightly, and this is a mistake, It is truly woman's crowning glory. and a wonderful frame for the face at any time of life. It is a good plan to let the bair hang without pins, &c., a8 much as possible and caps should be avoided also, no matter, how becoming they may be. Of course, the hair should be protected with ‘a duét cap by women who do their own housework. Massage the scalp until it {s free from the head at least five minutes each day or night, and this {s really more important than brushing, When | the circulation of the scalp {6 impaired a healthful condition of it cannot be maintained. Answers to Beauty and Health Queries. SWOLLEN ANKLES—MRS. G. L. C,:Kidney trouble, heart trouble or impoverished blood may cause this. You certainly need the advice of a competent physician. TOASTED BREAD—MRS, G. B. F. Toasting bread renders the starch in it somewhat more digestible. FRUITS AS LAXATIVES—MIS. GRACE D.: When frults are eaten as laxatives take them between meals, before retiring and on aris- ing 4 follow this with veral glasses of water, GLYCERINE AND BLACKHEADS —MRS. HARRY F.: Yes, plain glycer- ine massage into the large pores and Dlackheads will have a tendency to move the blackheads and contract e pores. Glycerine i# astringent and drying and should not be used on crow’s foet, wrinkles or dry skin. AUCAIRE BUST DEVELOPING TONIC MILDRED Nu: Take two joonfuls of the following mix- ture before meals three times each day: Fluid extract goatsrue, ten grams; lactophosphate of lime, ten grams; tincture fennel, ten grams; simple syrup to make twelve ounces. Have a druggist mix this for you. This 1s a tonic for the blood and en- tire system and is said to have bene- ficial effects on the breast glands. eral healthM&c., and no one prepara tlon ucts alike on all, FRUIT-PASTE FORMULA—Owing to many requests I am repeating the fruit-paste formula for constipation: Stone one pound of prun em up with one-half and then put the frult In a saucepan with one ounce of senna powder (not henna); add two cups of hot water and then lét simmer until it forms a stiff mass, Spread on oiled paper and when cold mark Into squares. Wrap each piece separately in oiled paper and place in glass jars until wanted. Take about a square inch of the paste before retiring and drink several glasses of water also, Small families should mak tity of the paste, be to spoil or get mouldy if left stand- ing too long. DARK NECK—MRS. G. J.: High tight collars may cause this and also strong sunlight. Bathe the neck in hot and then cold water and massage it with cold cream, Then wipe off the cream and pat on some peroxide of hydrogen, CASTILE SOAP SHAMPOO FOR DRY HAIR—FANNIB T.: Take a small square of the soap and shave It. Then let It melt over slow fire in hot water, Do not add borax or soda if the scalp is very dr: BUTTERMILK—MRS, H. G.; But- The amount taken, of course, depends! termilk is not fattening and is nour- entirely on the individual, age, gen- To Clean White Enamel, © not use soap or cleansing pow- Dies on white enamel. Dip a flannel cloth in méthylated erixita and remove all soiled spots, then wash immediately with luke- ‘warm water, to which has been added @ little fine oatmeal. Opening Asparagus Cans. Did you ever think that you could Prevent asparagus tips from Dreaking | ohioroform glycerine. When thorough: when taking from a can if you opened the wan at the bottom? The stalks will blide cut easly with the tips in- tact. To Heat Diy Cereals. If you have the annoyance of al- ‘Ways scorching the breakfast cereal when warming it in the pan try 4 corn popper. You can easily keep this in motion over the flame, and the cereal will heat more speedily than in a pan, When Cooking Macaront, If you butter the saucepan in which ou cook macaroni it will not stick thé bottom, To Crisp Lettuce. Do not try to keep lettuce sub- , Merged in water, Simply sprinkle with cold water, put + igx Nag and The Housewife’s Scrapbook Paragraphs Worth Filing for Ready Ref ishing, It 1s slightly laxative, ‘ence, spot—directly on the ice is best, When ready to serva you will have nice crisp lettuce, To Stiffen Lace, Never starch delicate lace. If you feel it must have a bit of stiffening add a couple of lumps of sugar to @ basin of warm water and rinso in this. Ice Cream Soda Stains, If you spill fee cream soda upon your clothing place a blotting paper under the spots and sponge with place in a cool vt ly dry sponge again with lukewarm water and rub with a flannel cloth until dry, Cleansing Green Vegetables, Those annoying little green bugs so often found on lettuce, cauliflower and cabbage can be effectually re- moved by turning the vegetable, head downward, in lukewarm salted water for a few minutes and then shaking well, To Shine Windows, If you want your windows to shine brightly rub well with kerosene, using newspaper instead of a cloth and pol- ish with a soft cloth To Preserve Rubbers, Keep rubbers in a dark place Bright sunlight and hot air will cause them to crack, T don | ] | {JMPHE® |e t Here Is the Answer to the Question That Every Man Asks Himself, an Answer That All Women Wonder About ¢ ure, Cella herself set out, on a very ha’ | Inadequate Sfeakfast, and in very ‘hat she would select @ place at the Price she wanted, go out to tt and inadequate shoes, to find a flat that rent it, She wasn’t looking for lux- ON be ented for not more than ury. Bhe hoped—or thought she behypeled ns hoped, sitting there comfortably $20 @ month. enough in the train, that it would She had been vague as to what methods she should pursue towant this result, until, coming downstairs to get hor coffee, she had happened upon Marie carrying off the last night's paper that Alfred had brought home. She had never made use of classified advertising) had always thought of it merely as something that added an irritating bulk to the newspapers she occasionally read. prove as uncomfortable, and cramped und mean as possible,” The meaner {t was, and the more destitute of comforts the life they had to live In it, the more, triumphantly could sho demonstrate to Alfred that he had misjudged her—the more completely avenge his insulting belief that now he was poor she would abandon him and begin a bright lookout for some- body else But a memory of the legend—fats to pangom, Puamethinge okey Tene ent an. the head of interminable 4 bbe en would do, and dismissed the matter columns of fine print, came up @ud- from her mind, It didn't eccur to denly inher ménd, and she impound- od the rumpled and disordered sheets Marie was carrying out, A cursory glance at them as she sipped her coffee made her quest look easy. her, until after she got off the train in the terminal, that she hadn’t the least idea where the address was, or how to get to it The morning was half gone when There were millions of flats for rent, she finally found the place. She'd apparently, and they were arranged walked what ecemed miles; her feet according to neighborhood—west side ached excruciatingly, she felt worse flats together by themselves, two or three columns of them. Bho tore this part out of the #heet, and after satisfying herself that it Usted plenty of places at $20, and less, than dirty—contam/inated by the last street car she'd ridden tn, and she couldn't be sure she'd got a cinder out of her eye, But the place she found had at Jeast the merit of making her forgot these minor troubles terrifying thing about tt was was not ao bad, She wan d through it by the tenant of the flat below, who had charge of the key, thin lady praised tt with genuine enthusiasm, Shoe pointed out that the floors weren't at all, and bad rec badly worn t, was forced to conclude that it was, Because {t came over hor in a wave that she couldn't stand It a soul-blighting ugliness in ut it—the shape of each of the four cramped, mean little rooms, the mean little doors by which they opened out, one after another, on a mean I four-foot corridor that strung th together, the artificial oak graining cf the woodwork, the fanciful hideousness of the gas fixtures in the front room, and the water-mottled oak mantel. Cella's cleerone admitted freely that the fireplace this mantel inclosed was not practicable, but pointed out that fires were a nuisance anyway, and that in this flat, with an abundance of the hottest Kind of steam heat, they ware, happily, unnecessary, In the dead of winter, a little cotton tucked Into the two west windows made everything as anug and tight as one could desire la escaped from {it in a good deal of panic, like a fly out of a web, with the allegation of the fictitious necessity of bringing her husband for a look at It before she Gcided anything. Her new friend understood the necessity, but regretted A bargain like this was likely to be snapped up at any minute. What Cella said to herself, when she stood panting on the si (sae | Rasy? / walk, was that she Could stand @ slum, but she couldn't stand that The fact was, of v« slum was simply a iter o her, jea made up of de 8 from two or th “reul novela and th r four lugubr tahe had been lookiog at was lintic. It was réah And it brought down upon her ao ominous ellac; ahe Indic (Coprright. the Bobbs-Merriil Oo.) Penn or the planters Nothing would sickening reallaation of what mar- E: come falling non your head here, ried life a salary oy ae ® ge | even if tho tenants of the topmost MIEht moan; not as the subject o! an acrimonious scene between her flat of all should rouse round bit There was a radiator in each of tho BM4 Alped in the interval betwoer ot town "use ta ooh They, down bolow, frequently had lO ao'a thing to be endured for monthe— ‘a dreugpioman at * from hie new euplyer, who open a window somewhere for @ forever, aoe jumps t) the conelusion that he bas whik It actually got too hot. Ths 2 — a front room had two windows looking ; ao, i eee “4 she crumbled {t into her wrist bag out on the street; the kitchen, at the . im Derore CHAPTER VI. and went on with her breakfast, back, got the benefit not only ef its tinal Atecoura ge 1, but stil (Contiaued,) itrea {hat Is to eay, with her coffer. own back yard, but of the vacant fuga Ok th ae some oa ate 4 T was on Wednesday that Alfred ‘hese had, for many yeara, been lot behind {t on the next street, while Woda BOC On living caine 134 got his job, and that Ruth Col- synonymous terms to Celia. How the two middie rooms. thanks to the Sane. Hinges. tnee nahh Bi, ip a § ler came out to lunch and ce could eat things Dee fact tha the adjoining bulldlay fea Posts jutpert ip wow inuch Rieae : couse, On “Nd oat or even oKes, at this up only two stories, were a Dan ce ks alte hoe oan ,: agreed to take the house, than time of the day she had never been of the Licht well and were almoat as ee? ce, Nut ieee eee ee Thursday morning—not more (80 adie to understand Kood as outside rooms. Bho Was sure! ULNE ted fhod fon ita nee dike. an hour after her husband's depart- Her idea was, when in the train it was a bargain for the money, and Mare in. than han Ne ba. Sead mf she got out her Mat and ked at it, Celia, with a sinking he P Ae hae as an excuse for sitting down, She must have a@ little rest’ before sho could walk another step. She was down to bedrock for the first time in her Ife. If the uncounted apartments shed Jooked at since that first one hadn't by thomselves affected her so strong- ly as that first one had, they had at leant rubbed that feeling in. She'd wasted a good deal of energy climb. ing fights of stairs to plac cost more than her maxi up a bit at @ time, without what she was doing, until # herself on the ed of taking a place that cost thirty-five dollars a month. When ahe dropped back from this, the twenty-dollar places looked — worse than ever. All her fing sensibilities had been scraped and rasped by the sound of voices she had been hoaring caught —the Intonations of specch—-the way people wore thelr clothes. She was more than blue. She was black and blue. Her opening of the street door had rung a little bell, and she had heard through the plain white tion that cut the pl halfway back a grunting yawn. door in this par tition had opened almost Immediately and she'd caught a glimpse of a man | ae ic ood-By!”’ Re Fan ta Bresing World.) 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NVOLUNTARILY Celia smiled at him, He'd evidently had red hair once, but it was now a dusty «ray, and his clean shaven, san- gulne face was finely netted all over with wrinkl And if he wasn't Irish, then there isn't an Irishman in County Clare. When he asked, “What can I do for you, Miss?” she eaid, rather to her own surpried, “I'm afrald i interrupted your map. “Well, an’ (hat's true, too,” he ad- mitted.’ “I've no key for that door, ® and 1 keep the place open day and night, And, as we haven't many de- mands for afternoon tea in these parts, t generally indulge myself ax you have discove Just the sound of bis mellow, ploasantly modulated voice, with the wlig enrichment of its consonants \ suggested u brogue without ac- lly constituting it, was indeserib- ably friendly and soothing to her worn nerves. “L hadn't thought of tea,” she sald, It would be impossible to address hi in any other tone than the on would use for a social equal, see, L forgot all about lunch, 1 late for that, though. » professed huuself ready to pre- 18 elaborate a meal as she 1, but pointed out that the elab oration would take time. Lf instant rellef was called for, he'd suggest @ pot of toa and a fried’ ego nd wich, This was « viand that, as Jt haps pened, she had never heard of, and the notion of it visibly amused her. | But she was @ little dublous about the tea, Not that didn't like tea, but-— “You need’t fear for my brew," he ured her, 4 Upple I thor- understanc | ® minutes later, with a con. tented sigh mor quent than | words, sho acknowledged the justice thia boast. She had kind Words, for the sandwich, He deprecated her praise while visibly basking in it, but admitted that there was a considerable degree of art involved in the proper frying of an egg. Her eyes widened a litle as sho sald, half under her breath, 1 wonder if I could fry one at all." “Weil, there's great folly,” he sala, “In knowing too many things, » Take myself, for example, I'm @ bit of a r, ladies’ matd, farrier, gasfitter and tnfant’s ton a few accomplish. ments that ¢ sme to mind—and bere 1 am!" “How tn the world? she gasped. purteen years in the army, ma‘ain, That's the explanation, Too good an officer's striker ever to be anything elae. | | | ! he didn't know what to say to | this, since in spite of the humorous |melancholy of his voice, condolence be sought. So she fod exg sandwich th ute or two, and Larke You tidn't you're a real estate agent, though, and that’s what I need, I'm looking for a place out here—« flat, | suppose, where two people with any money at all can live.” "he said, “there are plenty of places out here where people with hardly any money at all do live, and more perhaps where they could. |I'a be better able to help you tf I But knew just how mudh money you | meant by ‘hardly any at all." wenty-two dollars and week,” she said with promptness and ; ha tinge of de- © thrown fn, that she made him ell, there's nothing easter than "he told her. “I know of a fine |ittle place just around the corner | that ean be had for twelve dollars a month, The couple could live there as snugly as you please, Three rooms and bath, and one of them a fine ars a month!" shoe I've b looking at bout twenty, and they look at her. “Well, I wouldn't say,” he admitted, “that {t's a place you'd be carin’ to live in yourself. And it's possible, too, atnce it'p besa on ay Is tur oot ha * Trenchea Means Has Been There Page Monday, Sept. 10 ever since my brother-in-law's secdn’ wife married again and moved away to Kansas City, that I exaggerated the good points of I But you migh’ find it worth @ look, and tf you dot mind waiting till my daughter comes back from school, which will be any ute now, I'll take you up there show you around.” In the five minutes or #o that tnt vened late t night between the time when Cella got into bed and the time when she fell asleep the conviction established tteelf in her mind that, if Mr. Lawrence Doyle had not actually hypnotized her, it bad at least been the glamour of Bis personal charms and not the deairability of the twelve-dollar apartment he bad shown ber round, that had led her take it not only promptly but with enthusiasm. It did indeed comprise, as he had three rooms and a bath (though the “bath” required a qualifying foot- note), and it was also true that the largest of the three rooms was, in actual feet and inches, commodious and pleasantly proportioned. Even for the combined functions of eating and “living” it would be ample. What shook Celia's Judgment was the enthusiasm over the absence of the steam heat and the presence instead of a “base-burner” which le would be glad of a chance to sell her for six dollars and seventy-five cents. There was nothing like @ good old- fashioned coal fire for comfort. This steam beat, now; always too much or not enough, and nothing to do about It but pound the radiator with a poker. A good coal-stove you ran to sult yourself—or rather, tt will run itaelf to suit you. She couldn't use any of their furniture, The Colliers would every stick of It. Everything must be bought new. She had, at first, only @ vague idea of how much tals oper ation would cost, But presently, Sut of nowhere, an advertisement tha had once adorned the bill-boards came up into her memory “We will feather your nest," It had read, “for one hundred dollars.” 5 was grateful for the figure, ‘ she ant to do her own fi But where was she going to get hi hundred dollars? She thought for while that she'd exhausted all th» possibilities, and her mind slipped oi: on a new tack. Specifically, just what articles o/ u furniture would the flat nood? mind's eye dwelt once more upon three rooms and bath, a to her that there wasn’ the place. What in the world \ she do with all her clothes? At that she drew In a little gaap excitement and let out a sigh of ¢ Hef, She knew now where she co get ber hundred dollars. It was a per fect solution. Fred wouldn't Lave a keg to stand on. CHAPTER VIII. BLIA began operations Friday morning—early Friday morn ing, be It said, before Alfred had finished breakfast, and he had to take the seven-elghteen these days in order to get down to his jov on time—with @ very careful and de berate tollet, It was the first the she had pald any attention to her looks since she had donned her armor for Ruth Collier's visit on Wednesday At @ quarter to eight, just atter Marie had brought up her coffee and toast, the door bel) rang, “Oh, that's!"—Cella began, then checked herself. “Go down and eee who It 1s,” she directed. She kK @ last swift reassurin, Jook into her mirror as the maid d scended the stairs, then rather care. fully arranged herself in the dig chair behind the slim little table where Marie had deposited her tray. She broke off a bit of toast, but didn’t eat it; gat listening to what was happen- ing at the now open door, A man with a brusk colloquial idiom, and a strongly Oriental accent, was trying to convince Marie that’he had im- portant business with her mistress. Marie, it seemed, was not trying to conceal her misgivings about him, which were of the darkest sort. But eventually she let him in and eame up to Cella with a card. Cella dropped gent glance upon the not immaculate face of it, and sald, “Oh, yes, He wants to buy some clothe: Bring him up. And, Marte, dided as the gtri turned away, “don't leave the room till he doe ‘Then, with a fine ex- terior cal she took the first sip of her cof! BEST NOVELS PUBLISHED PAGE Lere ON THIS EVERY TWO WI