July, 1913 



THE GARUEiN AND FIELD. 



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Children's Hair. 



The arranonem^nt and care of the 

 little jrirl's hair has lonji been a 

 source of anxious thouj^fht to the 

 loving mother. A wise woman 

 no lon<Ter clips her little daugh- 

 ter's hair, nor keeps it short all 

 thro'iyh her school days. She lets 

 it s;ro\v in the natural soft rin^r- 

 lets that .seldom come in after 

 years, and relies on her skill and 

 care to maintain a luxurious 

 irrowth. She brushes the tender 

 hair carefully ever^- day, makinj^ it 

 soft and glossv by this process. 

 The beauty points are trained by 

 painstakinjr labour. If the hair is 

 scant about the brow, then a little 

 cocoa butter is rubbed in. She 

 uses no washes or bleaches, but 

 lets Nature take care of the colour 

 herself. 



It is a mistake not to change 

 the dressing of a child's hair fre- 

 quently. A parting must not be 

 allowed to become too wide, yet 

 the hair must be parted at times 

 to prevent its becoming untract- 

 able. 



For very little girls the "granny 

 curls " are about the daintiest way 

 of arransfing the tresses. The hair 

 is parted, and a curl on either .side 

 is tied with some delicate shade 

 of ribbon. The curls fall furward 

 oyer the ears, forming a most deli- 

 cate and fitting frame for the wee 

 bab-<- face. 



Often a very plain bttle girl may 

 be made quite prett-v- by a studied 

 arrane^ment of her hair. If her 

 hair is dressed cjuaintly it will im- 

 prove her immensely. 



A child's hair .should be washed 

 eVery two weeks, at least. A good 



.shampoo and a simple one is made 

 as follows : — 



INIelt a cake of pure olive oil 

 soap in a quart of boiling water. 

 \Mien the soap is dissolved the '•e- 

 sult will be almost a jelly. Take 

 of this jelly, say, two large table- 

 spoonfuls, and a small lump of 

 common washing soda about the 

 size of a filbert. First wet the 

 hair thoroughly with hot water, 

 then rub the shampoo mixture well 

 into the roots. Rinse thoroughly 

 in several waters, and then care- 

 fully dry. 



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Colour and Its Influence. 



Not many people perhaps under- 

 stand the importance of a wise 

 selection of colours in planning a 

 scheme of home decoration, vet 

 there are sound scientific reasons 

 why very careful consideration 

 should be given to the subject, for 

 so much has the value of colour 

 come to be recognised in the scien- 

 tific world, that prominent psy- 

 chologists have made extensiye 

 study of its effects on the minds 

 of school children and in many 

 places lessons are given designed to 

 teach the students chromatic har- 

 monies. It is found that color 

 may not only be attractive and 

 produce a pleasing, restful or quiet- 

 ing effect, but may .serve the op- 

 posite purpose of exciting, irritat- 

 ing or wearying. Kdgar Allen Poe 

 in one of his noted tales, "The 

 Fall of the House of Usher," used 

 the color effect of the rooms and 

 of the lightning to produce the 

 wierd, gho.stlv effect of his story. 

 Many color effects have been tried 

 on folks, sick and well ; and while 

 yellow proves m.erelv cheery and 

 sunny, colors that are strongly 



red have been found to be some- 

 what exciting and those that arc 

 strongly blue to be depressing. Con- 

 sciou.sly or otherwise we react to 

 their influence and confess to this 

 in such expressions as " red with 

 anger " and " having the blues " ; 

 while a thoughtful mood we char- 

 acterize as a " brown study."— Ex- 

 change. 



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Making Home Pleasant. 



How many mothers realise the 

 full meaning and importance of 

 those words. It .should be the aim 

 of every mother to make the home 

 pleasant for all ; the one place to 

 which each and every member of 

 the family may returji with feel- 

 ings of happiness. 



The place where the little dnes 

 may safely bring their little com- 

 panions, knowing well mother will 

 not care, but will take an interest 

 in their childish sports, even per- 

 haps joining with them in a quiet 

 way. 



The place where the daughter 

 can come with her little troubles 

 and confidences, always sure of 

 mother's ready ear and mother's 

 gentle words of comfort. 



The place where the young man, 

 just starting out in life, meeting 

 with so many temptations and dis- 

 couragements, can come, where 

 the mother, with her kind words 

 of sympathy and wise cotmcil can 

 do so much toward helping him in 

 the right way and strengthen his 

 character for the coming years. 



The place where the huisband and 

 father turns as to a haven of rest, 

 where all the vexatious care of the 

 day are thrown aside, and with 

 his wife and children gathered 

 roimd him he is content. Pleasant 

 indeed is such a home, and no one 

 in the home is so loyed and rev- 

 erenced as the dear mother who 

 makes it so. 



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