March, 1910 
For the Ladies. 
Just Tell Them So. 
There's much to do the whole day through 
And little use complaining, 
For the darkest night will change to light, 
And the blackest cloud quit raining, 
Tf worth you find in weak mankind, 
“Pwill do all good to know, 
That someone thought they nobly wrought 
And frankly told them so. 
Enough will remain of bitter pain, 
With all the aid you lend, 
Some will be sad, and others glad, 
On down to journey’s end. 
As in the throng you pas: ‘lon ¢, 
With rapid strides or slow, 
If virtue you see in band or free, 
Just stow and tell them so. 
There are many cares in home affair:, 
That wear the brain and heart, 
And many a way, “most every day, 
In which to bear a part. 
Tf you love your wife as you do yout life, 
Tt will keep your heart aglow, 
And make her feel your Jove is real, 
To often tell her so. 
Tf on the road you see a load, 
Some pilgrim downward pressing, 
A willing band to help him stand, 
Will bring you back a blessing. 
So in the fight’twixt wrong and right. 
That’s waging here below, 
Should praise be said, don’t wait till dead, 
Before you tell them so. 
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Silver and Semi-Precions 
Stones. 
The passion just now is for all manner 
of antique looking brooches, pendants, 
ear rings, buckles, and girdles. 
Silver, despised a few years ago, now 
oxidised and curiously wrought, is more 
prized than the gold chased to dist raction. 
A gew-gaw even of base metal, showing 
fine workmanship and set with some 
precious stenes, is more beloved by your 
dainty and fastidious dame, than a con- 
ventional gold or silver ornament set with 
rubies or diamonds of twice its value. 
Notions for enamels have been culled 
THE AUSTRABIAN GARDENER. 
from the sarcopnagi of Egyptian princess 
and priestesses. Museums, and the tombs 
of ancient kings have been ransacked for 
wonderful and rare designs. 
So we have medallions of heavy Mus- 
covite pattern, gemmed silver embroidery . 
beaten silver set with moonstones, garnets 
embedded in blackened metal, and pieces 
of rough opal and torquoise matrix stung 
and worn au naturel. Jewels that 
Solomon in all his glory may have worn, 
or the Queen of Sheeba borne upon her 
dusky shoulders, are reposing inthe win- ~ 
dows of our gold and silversmiths 
As the breoch will be the cachet of the 
gown, and in many cases its only orna- 
ment, women had better search out and 
confer betimes with their jewellers con- 
cerning winter decoration 
Using the Toothbrush. 
So many parents are careless regarding 
their children’s teeth, especially the milk 
teeth ; but the better these first teeth are 
cared for the more even and sound will 
the second ones come in. 
Teach the boys and girls the importance 
of brushing them after every meal and 
just before bedtime. 
If they are to be neglected at all, donot 
let‘it be at night, for the tongue keeps them 
half clean during tke day; but at night 
the mouth is in repose, and any particles 
of the food that are not removed, unite 
with the stagnant saliva and form an acid 
that eats away the enamel. 
The correct way to clean the teeth, says 
a prominent dentist, is to brush down- 
ward upon the upper teeth, and upward 
upon the lower teeth ; brush the inside 
and the crown just as carefully as you do 
the outside, and use a good powder oncva 
day. 
Watch for the first permanent molars 
that come behind the milk teeth; they are 
sometimes mistaken for the first teeth and 
allowed to decay. Watch, too, when the 
new ones are coming in to have them 
regular and even, for bad teeth are a great 
disfigurement. 
Madame Melba’s hint to-~- would be 
singers is that sixteen is the age at which 
to commence practice. No one should 
begin earlier. 
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Cleaning White Gloves and 
Shoes. 
The keeping of glovesand shoes white 
s one of the problems of this summer. 
The woman who wears lily white, dreads 
‘the snows of yesterday” effect. She 
knows that white is comely only in its: 
spotlessuess, and that an exquisitely 
laundered frock will not compensate for 
dingy gloves and shoes. 
White silk and lisle thread: gloves can 
be prevented from yellowing by washing 
them in Inkewarm, not boiling, water, and 
by rubbing them witha lather of soap, 
rinsing in cold water with a drop of blue. 
in it, and quick drying. 
A little Scrnbb’s ammonia or borax in 
the water, occasionally is benificial, but. 
used too often, either has a yellowing 
effect, 
Very attentive treatment has to be meted 
out to canvas shoes if they are to retain 
their freshness. They should be brushed 
with an old clothes brush after they have: ~ 
been worn, and re-whitened with blanco. 
The clay is made into a thick paste by the 
addition of a little water. The shoes 
‘having been thickly coated with it, turn a 
light grey color, but put out in the sun to 
dry, soon assume a perfect paper white- 
ness. 
Everybody knows 
gloves with benzine, but washing -Icather’ 
how to clean kid 
gloves are often spoilt by careless treat- 
ment. 
It is best to use very hot water to wash: 
them,in. A teaspoonful of olive oil 
and some Castile soap should be added to- 
it, and all whisked into astifffoam Into. - 
this the gloves must 5e dropped, and al- 
lowed to remain for a few minutes. The 
soiled spots should be rubbed with a piece: 
ofold flannel, The gloves then rinsed in 
fresh water, and the moisture squeezed. 
ont. of them. Leather gloves should 
never be wrung. 
The cleaning of white kid or suede shoes 
is a more complex matter. Benzine is 
the simplest purifier. It may be used as: 
itis for cleaning gloves, care being taken. 
not to work it near an open fire or un- 
covered light. A reliable cream should 
be used to preduce the finishing gloss or 
polish. 
