November 1, 1909 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
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For the Ladies. 
Make Home Happy. 
‘Though we may not change the cottage 
For the mansion till and grand, 
Nor exchange the little grass plot 
For a boundless strech of land; 
Though we have no means to purchase 
Costly pictures, rich and rare; 
‘Though we have no silken hangings 
On the walls so white and bare, 
‘We can make home heppy, we can make 
home gay; 
Where the will is, always there will bea 
way. 
We may fill our homes with music 
And with sunshine brimming o’er, 
If against all vain intruders 
We but firmly close the door; 
Yet the shadow, should it enter, 
Must sincere affection find; 
‘Then we'll reap the choicest blessings 
From the qoorest lot assign’d. 
We can make home happy. we can make 
home gay; ; 
Where the willis, always there will be a 
way. 
Women and the Men. 
‘Men‘s only books are women’s looks, 
‘in effect, eaid the old poet, and there is 
much truth in the axiom, Recognizing 
this, many women were they pinned down 
to verity, would plead guilty to dressing to 
please the men, for the eternal feminine 
hungers after the admiration of creation’s 
lord. 
Women’s clothes and women’s adorn- 
ment, from the crown of her head to the 
tips of her boots, are planned with this 
View—to please the men. Perhaps 
it would be more accurate to reverse the 
‘order and say from the tips of their boots 
to the crown of their head, for it is a fact 
that most men -notice a woman’s boots 
‘Sooner than her headgear. 
Men like little feet; but as all feet con- 
Not be little, they also admire well shaped 
feet, and all foot can, an authority on the 
‘Subject avers, can be well shaded. 
A pretty foot is a well dressed foot and 
itis easy to dress a foot well. 
It is 
curious to see with what unsightly foot- 
wear some women provide themselves, 
when they could with the same outlay be 
so daintily shod. 
Men like dainty manicuring. They are 
exceedingly sensitive to the appearance of 
the fingers, and if a woman can present a 
well-kept pair of hands, she has donea 
grea) dealin the battle for admiration. 
Men like bare hands. 
thing babyish about a pair of bare hands, 
The sight appeals to 
There is some- 
all devoid of rings. 
a man’s chivalry. 
Men like :eposeful hands, They hate 
hands that twitch and play with this and 
wilh that. They like little childish hands 
full of dimples—hands that like to lie in 
the lap and rest. 
Auburn is supposed to attract many 
Next to that they like jet-black 
tresses. The medium shades are less 
attractive, though gold-coloured hair is 
very acceptable toa man’s sense of the 
beautiful. 
Men like nice hair dressing. It is 
really the hair they notice, and not the 
style of the coiffure; it is the condition of 
the hair itself that they observe. 
Neglected-looking air aS notice at 
once. 
They like hair that bine hair is in 
place, with each hair, in studied repose. 
They like hair that look as though it had 
been prettily arranged. 
Women with hair of the famed Titian 
tint are fortunate. Men admire them; 
so those who possess such tresses have 
no need to regret it, as one so often hears 
Men think such hair is 
men. 
them doing. 
beautiful. 
Men like red cheeks, and the red- 
cheeked woman has become fashonable. 
A doctor says the way to get red cheoks 
is to pinch them with the finger tips until 
the blood comes to the surface. 
Ask aman which of three women he 
admires most, and he will unhesitatingly 
pick out the one who is the trimmest as 
to boots and apparel generally; he ad- 
mires the well-groomed woman, A man 
likes to see a perfect-hanging skirt, and 
he does not stop to ask whether the gown 
is plain or costly. What he likes is the 
look of extreme neatness. 
Home Hints. 
— To Cut New Bread. — 
It is easy to cut new bread if the knife 
be dipped in hot water, dried, and used 
before it has time to ccol. 
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— Cooking Vegetables — 
A great deal of the unpleasant odour 
from boiling vegetables may be avoided 
by putting a bit of bread into the water 
with the vegetables. 
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— To Cleana White Fur Boa. — 
Put some ground rice into a large 
bowl, then put in your boa, and gently 
rub all over ground rice till clean. Then 
shake well to free the fur from powder. 
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— Eat Fresh Fruit.— 
Fruit, particularly acid fruits, act so 
directly on the digestive organs that 
unless forbidden on account too great 
acidity of the blood, it should form a 
generous part of the daily menu. 
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— Care of Nickel plate. — 
Nickel plate must be frequently 
cleaned and polished. Clean it with a 
mixtare of ammonia and washing soda, 
and ‘then polish it with a little thin 
whiting paste on a leather. If cleaning 
of this kind is given every week it will 
be easy to keep the nickle bright, but if 
it is once allowed to get dull and shabby- 
looking, it will take some time and 
trouble to restore it to its original 
brightness. 
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— Cleaning Fancy Shoes. — 
Shoes with white leather tops and 
black patent leather tips must be treated 
first as white materials and cleaned with 
benzoline before the liquid leather 
whitener is applied. satin slippers or 
shoes that are too dirty even to be cleaned 
can be transformed by painting, water-— 
colour paints. Chose a paint a little 
darker than the darkest spot on the 
slipper, and you will be able to get a 
uniform colour. 
