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FOR WOMEN FOLK. Homely Hints & Dainty Dishes. WITH PARS. INTERESTING TO THE MERE MAN. Don't reject a thing merely tiecatise it is cheap. Host eatables are cheapest when most plentiful-that is. in their proper season, when they are naturally at their beat. It is not everyone who knows that a fish- hook, once well imbedded in a finger, can best be extricated after thrusting the point out through the skin and then breaking off the barb. To remote the smellJ of new paint lay a bunch of hay in the room. and sprinkle it with a little chloride of lime; shut up the room for several hours, and when it is again opened the smell will have gone. Do not test the freshness of fish by the smell. Ice-packing has long since neutralised the characteristic odour of stale fisk. Un- cooked fish should be bright pink at the gills; when cooked, stale fish is invariably as flabby as fresh fish is firm. A little salt in raw or boiled starch will prevent the irons from sticking and make the starch whiter. If the irons are rough, put some salt on a piece of brown paper, lay a piece of muslin over it, and rub the irons on it until they are bright and smooth. Long Gold Watchains. These chains are very much worn, and when sufficiently long are twisted twice round the neck. In many cases a number of small charms are attached to the chain at short intervals apart. Hat and Gloves for a Bride. A hat should most certainly be worn when a bride is married in her going away drees. A travelling costume would look very incom- plete without one. The gloves may be omitted if you do not care to wear them. When the Nose Bleeds A surgeon advises that the patient should sit with his or her feet in very hot water. This plan he has found effective. In any case, to lean with the head over a basin, in the very position to favour bleeding, is entirely wrong. Better far make the patient lie down, with the head flat, and plug the nos- trils with cotton wool dipped in hazeline, and pinch or exercise pressure on the nose, juat ax, its root near the forehead. A cold sponge applied to the nape of the neck is also a good remedy, supplanting the old-fashioned "door- key down the back." On Being Photographed, Remember That, unless there is any urgent reason *or it, it is a great mistake to be photographed if you are either out of health or in low spirits. That it; is unwise to wear a. new dress. It always falls in awkward folds. That a white dre-s, or one that takes "white," gives a ghastly effect, and one far from becoming, unless the sitter is young and pretty. That a feather boa or a. lace fichu ha-a a wonderfully softening effect on the features. That the head and shoulders make a fat prettier picture than a full-length portrait. That a. veil imparts a. patchy appearance to the face; also. that gloves make the hands appear larger than they are. Food for Consumptive People People with consumption almost invariably eat too little, even less than those in health, whereas they should eat vastly more than the well. Nature seems to be aware of this. for usually a tuberculous patient can assimilate a much larger quantity of food than a healthy person. The food should be taken in fairly large quantities and at frequent inter- vals. Not more than three or at most four hours should pass without the eating of some- thing, if it is only a milk biscuit, a sandwich, or a banana. A pitcher containing two glass- fuls of milk should stand on a table near the bed, so that a glass may be taken in the night if the patient wakes, and again before dressing in the morning. As much milk as possible should also be taken. Never Lose Your Head-or Your Pedals A writer gives a few useful hints to the lady cyclist. He considers that women are speci- ally subject to the grave sin of losing control of their bicycles. He says:- There is one danger in cycling which women are often liable to, and that is to lose control of their machines on down grades. "Sometimes the reason i3 quite unforeseen. The brake may act properly, and the rider may be cycling quite comfortably along, when suddenly she ioaes her pedals, and, forgetting her brake—everything— in a sudden panic, her machine runs away with her downhill at what seems to her a terrible rate, until with an un- interrupted coarse the bottom of the hill is reached, and she is able to breathe freely, and to regain her pedals and her scattered senses. "Should there happen to be sharp turn or brick wall at the end of the decline, the inci- dent does not always end so favourably. On this point advice does not do much gcod. If the wheel-woman knows that upon occasions she is liable to lose her head she should not attempt to ride downhill. With practice and a greater knowledge of cycling foolish fears and nervousness are soon swept away. It is the novice who invariably suffers from loss of control"

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