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SMART FROCKS FOR LITTLE MISSES TRY TO ALWAYS HAVE SUNNY DISPOSITION Remember That a Merry Heart Banishes Weariness and Wrinkles, Besides Making Your Daily Household Cares a Greater Pleasure, The girl most richly endowed by nature is the one who is blessed with a cheerful disposition. It is im possible to overrate its value to the fortunate possessor. It carries "ier triumphantly through the countless difficulties common to all and It helps to lighten other people's burdens. The woman whose sunny nature calls forth the remark "she's as good as a tonic," is welcome everywhere. It matters not if her means are small and she Is only passably good look ing. She may be positively plain, but people forget the': in the charm of her expression. She cheers them up, and leaves a pleasant memory of her visit behind her, and nothing she says leaves a nasty taste in the mouth of a listener. The girl who is cheerful because it is her nature to be so never thinks it a bother to be agreeable even to the most common-place person. She takes a smiling, pleasant Interest in (everybody, Just because she can't help being natural. Everywhere it is the cheerful worn- n who is popular. In hospital wards the dignified nurse, no matter how clever she may be, is not nearly &o successful as the bright, cheery girl, whom patients call a livlnj sunbeam. Some think it almost worth while to be ill if they are nursed by a girl like this. In a business office the favorite is the girl who does her work cheer fully. She is always obliging and does not think she is cheapening her self by being agreeable. Then, how children love a cheerful mother! Their heedlessness and ig norance are bound to get them into scrapes sometimes, and thrice-blessed are the children who can own up to a mother who, Is "a Jolly goo! sort," as a boy once said: "She never rows a fellow when he doesn't deserve it." Such women bring out the very best in children. If mothers would remember "that perfect love castet.h out *ear" many little ones would be saved the neces sity of fibbing, which is the refuge ot the weak against the strong. Pleasant looks and loving sym pathy are more potent in correcting faults than an outburst of temper and a stern countenance. The cheerful woman Is also a brave woman. Whatever happens she never pities herself. Possessed of Immense vitality she sets about making the best of things. She does not recognize de feat. Hope springs out of cheerful ness, and her splendid perseverance generally has its i "ward. Being friendly, she has no lack of friends who are only too glad to help her over a time of trouble, and so her habit of cheerfulness reacts upon herself. ODDS AND ENDS Worth Knowing. A pinch of salt added to the coffee will Improvo Its aroma. Boil lamp burners In a solution of soda and water or weak lye. Then polish. A salt ham should be soaked In cold wa 01l of sassafras will drive Inseots from shelves and Its odor is very distasteful to files. •Cattails In seed make a vory noft filling for cushions an*d It Is claimed that no In sect will Infest It. The best housekeeper Is the one who passes less time In making; things clean and more thought In keeping them clean as she goes. To remove a stain In a marble basin caused by dripping water, apply with an oil tooth brush a little pulverized chalk moistened with ammonia. Washing Glass and Lacquered Ware. A housekeeper who forgot to tell her new maid that neither renetlan glass nor lac quered ware should bo washed in hot soap suds claims to have had cause to regret this oversight. A beautiful lacquered crumb tray and a Venetian glass bonbon dish were almost ruined. Apply Wax With Stocking In applying wax to hardwood floors, cat the feet oft of old stockings. 61 lp a foot on KEEPING VEILS FRESH AND CLEAN. With relentless summer winds at hand it behooves every woman who cares for appearance to look well to her stock of veils. Many a veil is cast aside which might do further service if it were properly cleaned and pressed. There is nothing more effective over a woman's face than a, good quality of white chiffon, provided it is clean. And there is nothing which so quickly detracts from her appear ance as a mussy, muddy looking veil. Do not allow your white chiffon veil to become too "soiled. As soon as it begins to look tho least grimy or mussy wash it according to these directions: ' The Fashion Magazine Section your hand; rub In the was with hand open flat. • • ¦ ... . • > ¦ . . Oil Stains. To remove from wood, mix pipe clay and water together till It forms a stiff paste, and spread it over the stain. If left till the next day and then carefully removed, all trace of the stain will have disappeared. To Clean Food Chopper. If a piece of suet Is run through before and after It has been used for mincing meat or other material, it can be kept clean and In good condition. To Whiten Piano Keys. When your piano kays become yellow they can be restored to their former whiteness by rubbing them with turpentine. a Cleaning Lace Curtains. To celan a lace curtain which has become mussed and slightly soiled, lay It on a dry sheet, cover with a wet sheet, and Iron It with a hot Iron. The dust will come oft on the wet sheet. Cleaning Cloths. Nothing Is more troublesome! than trying to keep a cloth on the broom while cleaning the dust off the wall. Use the sleeves and legß of old knit underwear. Put the broom handle In the large part of aleeve or log; pull It up well over the broom; no pin Is needed to keep It In place. It can't slip oft: the more you pull down on the wall the tighter the cloth will hold. Prepare in a deep porcelain bowl a hot suds with pyre white soap. Soak the veil without rubbing until this water cools. Rinse in tepid wa ter. Have ready some hot irons and pieces of clean soft sheeting. Do not use heavy towels with pattern weaves. Place the veiling between the two pieces of sheeting, making sure that it is pulled straight, and iron, never allowing the iron to touch the veil itself. Be sure that the veil Is wet and the sheeting dry. In washing a pale blue veil do not allow it to remain in the water long, and it is even better io put it in a large glass jar filled with warm soapsuds, adjust the screw top and shake vigorously; the- rinse and iron as described above. Use a little blueing, thoroughly dissolved, in the rinse water. LOS ANGELES HERALD SUNi)AY SUPPLEMENT. THE SEWING CIRCLE Overcast seams in sleeves separ ately. Overcast armseyes seams to gether and make as small a seam as possible. After sewing sleeves in and overcasting or binding this seam, stretch the seam by drawing it over the point of a moderately hot 1 iron. Fiae darning on linen table nap kins, cloths, etc., can be far more easily accomplished if the hole is first of all tacked on to a piece of dark brown .aper. This forms a background for the threads and makes the dam more even. It also prevents the hole from dragging out of ahape. One of the latest fads Is the mak ing of work baskets out of wide brimmed hats of soft straw. Buy a shape of blue or pink or pale green straw and line it with china silk of the same shade. Sew little bags of the silk around the crown. These will hold silks, thread, buttons and thimble. Finish with broad ribt^ns sewed on either side of the crown to hang it by. The best method of putting on fasteners la to sew them strongly to a stout piece of silk tape, hemming these strips of tape, closely to open ing after all the r'essing is done. The fasteners are ait ¦> ma' i shiny places when pressing is done after they are in place. To finish the edges of doilies or other button joled edges cut the goods a little distance from the line where the button-holing is to go and hem it back to that lino. Then buton hole the folded edge. This prevents the frazzled-looklng edge so often seen after washing and gives it a padded appearance. An attractive and inexpensive dressing sack can be made of one of the pretty shirt waists, which can be bought at a small price at the end of the season. Ruffle the lower edge and the sleeves with white or a plain light color. Make a turn-down collar of the same goods or cut the waist out to make a pretty low necked negligee. If the waist Is cut with a little Dutch neck, or in a point, and edged with narrow lace, the effect will be neat and dainty. COFFEE COAT A USEFUL GARMENT. The mission of the coffee coat Is to give one a garment for dressy wear in the house. And the woman who is clever will provide herself with half a dozen to wear in case of emergency. In the summer time such a coat is positively priceless, for It can be worn with on 9's old waists and odd skirts, and it has the merit of always looking dressed up. In case of a sudden call, one can dash into one's coffee coat and cc:ae into the drawing-room looking cool and well dressed. So much for the fa mous little coat, which is holding the whole of fashionable London in Its spell. Perhaps, If you want to be very fine indeed, you will make yourself a coffee coat of white lace, open in the front, something like a blouse waist, so as to show the vest underneath, and you will belt It with handsome ribbon run through the lace. Or you can make your coat of flowered silk, with ribbon bowa across the front and loose sides and back. The cof fee coats have many pretty patterns this season, and all of them are popu lar. THE KITCHEN SUGAR COOKIES — One pint of sugar, scanted, 1 cup of butter, 1 quart of (lour, « eggs, grated rind and Juice of 1 lemon, 1 teaspoon of soda, dissolved In 2 table spoons of milk, a little salt. Roll thin and sift on sugar before baking. TAPIOCA CREAM — Four tablespoons tapioca soaked In a pint of cold water over night. 1 quart milk, 4 eggs, 1 cup sugar, pinch of salt, Vi doaen bananas. Vanilla to taste. Let milk come to a boll, add taplooa and water In whtoh it was soaked, and salt. Stir till boiling hot; add yolks of a custard. Beat the whites of eggs and mix well. When cold add bananas and set on Ice. RED VEGETABLE SALAD — One pint cold boiled potatoes, 1 pint cold boiled beets, 1 pint raw red cabbage, « tablespoons oil, 8 tablespoons red vinegar (that In which beets have been pickled). Mis. chill, serve with French dressing. POLISH SALAD — One pint chicken or hard boiled eggs, 1 head lettuce. Moisten ly. Beat the yolks to a powder, chop the whites fine. Cut the lottuce leave* In lonr. FROM FASHIONDOM The Very Latest Fancies anJ Ideas From the World's Fashion Centers. Hems of satin If added to plain materials are usually headed with lace or braiding of irregular forms. Of the materials for lingerie gowni of handkerchief linen, the mulls, batistes and dotted embroidered Swisses are the most used. Trimming of alternate rows ot ribbon and lace Insertion are seen r i some of the late summer-silk models. Navy blue is more in favor than it was at the beginning of the sea* son, especially mixed wltl cruda green and mandarin. Some of the new hatpins dan truly be regarded as Jewelry. One of th« novelties was a large head of tortoiflfl shell, set with rubles am: diamonds. Still another was incrusted w~j tur quoise and diamonds. A smart sailor aat has clusters of moss rosebuds in the fofm of floral aigrettes, high on either side of th« front, and a wreath of white hya cinths around the crown. Lace on lingerie, while still much in favor, is less popular than em broidery fdr trimming the corset cover intended for ordinary wear. The latter both lasts loriger and washee better than lace, even the durable German valenclennes. A simple dress may te given quite an air by wearing with it one of the new ruches that are so fashionable Just now. The latest oneg are long and stole shaped. A lovely one re cently seen was made of cluny lace, the design lightly covered with tiny ruches, but not so closely as to con ceal the pattern of the lace. The quaint and becoming cloche shape so much in <¦ idence this sea son may be developed charmingly la a hat of fine chip in a soft pastel pink, with a full wreath of shaded pink roses for the chief trimming. The flowers paBS over the brim to ward the back and are arranged. un- - der the brim in a decorative "cache peigne" mixed with soft choux of tulle and a knot of black velvet rib bon. Chiffon and all the gauze mate rials are even more in rogue than usual this season. Striped gauze in two tones of the one color made up over silk, preferably of -o lighter shade, is always attractive. Many of the very sheer materials have a satin or satin finished foundation, and if it Is desired to make either of the colors more prominent satin will show up much better than any dull silk. The small girl's coiffure will be embellished this year by a coquettish ribbon rosette of four loops and two ends, which may be worn either oa the top or on the side of the head. To obtain this effect a yard and a half of ribbon from three to four inches in width should be first tied in two loops, each three inches in length; when these are secured tie two more loops of the same length. This leaves two ends. Flatten the bows with the fingers, pull out the loops and you have a mushroom rosette suitable for any occasion. These bows are daintiest in Dreadea ribbon. „ Silk Colo. Salt will do a great deal towar« preserving the color in silk that li t 0 be washed. Soak for a time in cold water, to which has been added a Jtnrtf of salt, and there will be very, little danger of the color running. Scorched Lir.en. A scorch mark on linen, If not too brown, may be removed by moisten insr with water and laying in the sun Repeat the moistening two or three times and the mark will disap pear. narrow strips. Arrange chicken on the> leaves and sprinkle the egg over all. DOUQHNUTS — One egg, 1 cup sugar, lit tle nutmeg, 1 oup milk, 1 heaping teaspoon saleratus and 8 level teaspoons cream of tartar sifted In a scant quart of flour. Cv« out and let them rise on the board for about SO minutes or half an hour befor. frying. CHEESH STRAWS— Take a pint of Uour and 1 pint of grated cheese, sprinkle oajr enne pepper, pinch dt salt, mil them and make a paste as for pies. Cut in strips and bake a light brown. DRINK FOR INVALIDS— A nice drlnlC and one often served In sanitariums Is thlsi Put In a glass 2 tablespoons of grape Juice, a little chopped "ice. Sprinkle sugar ove» the top and serve. CINNAMON CAKE— Whites of 1 efts, t butter, IVi cups pastry flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder. When baked spread the top and sides with icing mada at the yolks of t eggs. % of a cup of brown *uaar, I UaiDoon of cinnamon.