Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 17, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 October 1886 — Page 1

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Vol. 17.—No. 17.

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

Notes and Comment.

Less than three weeks will end the campaign. Aren't you glad there isn't any more of it? _____

It is said that Wiggins fsgofng to leave Ottawa for good. This is probably a soft way of saying that the OltyWARp, "have fired him oat." -./•'

Grace King, the new writer, is said to be both eccentric and untidy in her dress. Bat what does It matter how she dresses if only she writes well?

The new 91 silver oertifteates are handsome enough for anybody but they lack the "staying qualities." They escape from one's pocket about as fast as the "buzzards" do. _______

Sunset Cox says he had a pleasant time in Turkey but can get more fun out of Congress, where he would like to be again if the Democrats of his old district will have him. _____

Neeld, the fugitive pork-packer and speculator, of Chicago, says he regrets the past. We venture that there are some other people who regret it a good deal more than Neeld does.

And now a Pennsylvania doctor has discovered away of getting along without eating. We suppose the restaurants and boarding houses might as well be preparing to suspend business.

The prohibition movement in Georgia is having an unlooked-for effect. A glass bottle factory is to be started in Atlanta, Whioh, according to a dispatch, expects to supply a large local demand.

Signor Succi wants |20,000 for fasting 80 days. But who cares whether Signor Sued fasts 80 days or not? People are a good deal more concerned to get something good to eat than to learn how to fast.

It is said that Gen. Lew Wallace is writing his romanoe of Turkish life at the rate of 280 to 800 words a day. What a pity it is that some others of our novelists do not imitate Gen. Wallace^ urely industry. ______ J-

The Canadians have «|raMgized to the State Department for hatmn# down the American flag on one of our ships. Tls well. It saves the Stat© Department from apologizing for permitting the ship to carry the American flag.

Indianapolis is really to, have a new union depot, which she needs nearly as much as Terre Haute needs one. Terrc Haute will have one at the fabled time so popular in poetry and romance— "when the cows coine home."

A party to a suit in our Circuit court has asked for a now trial because his opponent's attorney asked one of the jurors to toko a drink. Rash manl does he want to overthrow tho superstructure upon which rests modern law!

The traditional "dull thud" is as nothing compared with the suddenness displayed by Envoy Sedgwick in dropping out of public sight. Can that adroit Mexican diplomat havo crawled into a hole and pulled it in after himT

A party of railroad officials out on an inspection of their different lines, sat down to a dinner In Indianapolis this week, which consisted of twenty-two courses. They were, of course capitalists. Tho difference between capital and labor Is twenty-one courses.

The Philadelphia News and to some extent the New York Herald, have adopted the system of side heads in their editorial columns. It is English, you know. But it has not been supposed that America had anything to learn from England in the profession of Journalism.

The Kokomo gas well is reported give grout promise. It is thought the pressure will rise to 500 pounds to the square inch and that tho flow will be over 2,000,000 cubic feet per day. If Indiana is to have natural gas, we don't know of any town In the State that Is more worthy tb pioneer the movement than ^jKokomo.

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t. V. l'owderly has been re-elected General Master Workman of the Knights of i.«hor. The more the country sees of Mr. Powderly, the belter it likes him. He is level-headed and tempernt?, with a whole handful «f brains, and will be able to do a great deal of good for the organised workingmeti if they will submit to his guidance.

Mrs. Howe, who will be remembered a* having fleeced a number of Boston women out of their money several years ago, by running a "Woman's bank" and promising to pay enormous rates of interest on deposits, is back to her old trade •gain. Emerging from a term in the penitentiary, she has started up her Boston bank and boasts that she has all her old customers in tow. There are no fools like women, but there will be no sympathy wasted upon these lunatics when they get burned in the same fire a second time.

A Salvation Army captain over in Illinois has become discouraged because some of his enemies have expressed a desire to "cat bis heart oat." He has evidently mistaken his calling. A man who is not willing to give up that part of his anatomical structure for the honor of training with the Salvation Army had better change his vocation.

The laundrymen in national convention assembled have resolved to boycott the Chinese, and will inpose a fine of five hundred dollars on the first member of the association who lifts the boycott. It isn't called a boycott, but that's what it means, as the fine is to prevent the members from having any dealings with the almond-eyed invaders whose cheap labor cuts prices. The Chinese mast go.

Georgia is the banner State of the Union, for there the first punishment has been inflicted on the mnnipalator of the chestnut bell. A prominent citizen took one of the inferna^oontrivanoes to church, and it was very good fun to ring it when the minister touched familiar ground or announced a well-known hymn. He was arrested, charged with disturbing the peace, and he is likely to get a heavy. floe and imprisonment. Who says the South is not progressing.

Kokomo's gas well seems to be of real simon-pure variety. The blaze is fiftyone feet high, "by actual measurement," and the roar of escaping gas can be heard for three miles and the scene around the well at night is awe-inspiring. No wonder the citizens of Kokomo are in a state of wild excitement. New wells are to be sunk, though one would think the town has already more gas on hand than it well knows what to do with, for Kokomo is not a second Pittsburgh,—not yet.

An officer of the Pullman Car Company, of Chicago, says the company has of late reoeived many and varied requests for a reduction of its rates, but that it sees no reason lor doing so. Yet the dividends of the company are so large that it is a matter of some difficulty to know what to do with all the money that comes In. The charges for sleeping berths are extortionate and this should be reason enough for making a reduction. The pablle might, however, afford another and more cogent reason by refusing to patronise the Pullman company until it does make a reduction in its exorbitant rates. .a*

A Newport correspondent writes |bat although that fashionable watering place has been full of pretty girls this season, there has been a remarkable dullness in the matrimonial market. No engagements are announced and none have been consummated. The pretty girls and the fashionable beaux go back to single blessedness, from which they come. The reason given is that every man nowadays means to mnrry a girl with money. Every girl intends to marry only a man who possesses the same delightful qualifications, and the sweet old fashion of loving and being loved has long ago passed out of the world with the flowers of Arcady. Well, not entirely so, we trust. Newport is not "the world," though the rich and fashionable who go there may think it is. There is still such a thing as loving and being loved, and many blessed matches are made which do not have a commercial basis. But doubtless they are not made at Newport.

Not long ago ex-Senator Tabor wearied of the woman who had stood by him in poverty, and managed to obtain a divorce from her. She had been true and faithful, but alas! Rhe was just as he found her in the days of courtship—plain, simple, womanly, without love of display or desire to be fashionable. He was vain and ambitious. He built a costly home and had servants In livery and pomp and splendor without limit. He sought notoriety, wooed the upper circles of society—exhibiting his suddenly acquired wealth in every conceivable fashion and to the disgust of all sensible people. The old wife was not good enough for him in this new sphere, and so he put her aside aud took to himself a now and more stylish consort. But his life has been wretched. The second wife is a failure, and now, as if to cap his misfortunes, bankruptcy stares him in the face. The old wife, on the contrary, has taken such admirable care of her allowance that she is now a millionaire, and getting richer every day.

Does this wife of his youth and poverty rejoice in her condition? Yes, she does. But it is because the old love is prompting her every hour of her life to fly to his relief. When the crash comes, as it surely will, and this man Tabor finds himself ruined in name and fortune, she will take him back, love him as of old, and pat into his hands the last dollar she possesses. The world will honor this woman's fidelity, of course, but there are few who will commend her judgment. It seldom happens that love and reason go together, and here is a beautiful illustration of It.

The chestnut bell has been superseded in Bufffelo by the liar card. When the story-teller becomes too enthusiastic in his exagtsrmtion the listener hands him a card on which is printed: "I am somewhat of a liar myself.w

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The fair Lily, if report be true, has unwittingly thrown a flood of light upon the means by which certain tradesmen secure the endorsement of prominent people of the stage, and their signatures to testimonials of their wares. A journalist was sent by his employer to interview Mrs. Langtry, and get her consent to write a column about herself for publication. It was to be a gossipy article, full of her personal goings and comings, her social triumphs, her hopes, fears, and future plans. The fair lady demurred at first, but finally consented, and then asked: "What did yon say I was to be paid?" "One hundred dollars, Madame." "What!" exclaimed the Lily, "only £20!" and her eyes opened wide with well affected surprise, "why only yesterday I was paid J£120 for just putting my signature to a testimonial for some Philadelphia brand of soap! Dear me! I couldn't write a whole column for only £20," and the negotiation fell through. We wonder if Ifeany other people In the profession are sd? well paid for signatures to soap, cosmetic and corset testimonials.

The good people of Warsaw, this State, are deeply agitated over an event which occurred at the local opera house, last Friday. It appears that a Miss Maud Card, daughter of a local influential hardware merchant, who was caught up and sent to the penitentiary for forgery, last term of oourt, was seized with hysterics during the fourth act of Mrs. Riley's Comedy Company, in the prison scene. She had just returned from a visit to her father, and the situation reminded her so forcibly of her father's unhappy condition that she broke down. Her moans were heart-rending, and many of the ladies in the audience were similarly effected. The curtain bad to be lowered, and Miss Card was carried from the theater. The sympathy of the people of Warsaw Is so strong that a petition for the father's pardon is being circulated.

Don't let children go to funerals. Even if the funeral is in one's own home, we believe it better to send young children away to some (feasant plaee, if ppfeaihle, and let thipn stay until the hetttae has again assumed something of ifa usual cheerful appearance. Put out of sight all the trappings of woe, and place flowers in their stead, put up the curtains and let in the sunshine, before the little ones oome home and when you are .composed enough tell them briefly tfo* fcefcatiful p»*ee-whsM tip lovi one has gone, and Where all are going meet him by and by. Let children see as little as possible of death and funerals till old enough for reason and religion to take awn^r their horrors.

Women should stndy pharmacy, and become druggists, in this country. Young ladies who may have to snpport themselves, or wish to learn a business, should give the subject consideration* It is a clean, neat business, and one for which women are eminently qualified. Let some of our young ladies try a course at college. In Holland women are succeeding admirably in this department, and are displacing the men. In a recent examination thirty-one women out of fifty-five candidates passed, while but eight men of tw^jty-four vtere sue cessful. "How do you do?" That's English and American. "How do you carry yourself?" That's French. "How do you stand?" That's Italian. "How do you find yourself?" That's German. "How do you fare?" That's Dutch. "How can you?" That's Swedish. "How do you perspire?" That's Egyptian "How is your stomach Have you eaten your rice?" That's Chinese. "How do you have yourself?" That's Polish. "How do you live on?" That's Russian. "May thy shadow never be less." That's 1^-ian—and all mean much the same

A Siongold papers in the county clerk's office in Freehold, N. J., is the death sentence of a negro named Cassar. It reads: "Therefore, the court doth judge that thou, the said Caesar, shall return to the place from whence thou earnest, and from thence to the place of excution, when thy right hand shall be cut off and burned before thine eyes. Then thou shalt be hanged up by the neck till thou art dead, dead, dead and then thy body shall be cut down and burned to ashes in a fire, and so the Lord have mercy on thy soul, Oesar."

And now the "water cure" has broken out in anew form. This time it is colored glass bottles. The advocates of this theory claim that divers wonders are worked by giving patients a teaspoonful of water which has been acted upon by the sunlight through blue, red, yellow, green and other colored bottles, as often as the case demands. Fortunately, water is a very innocent remedy, taken internal or externally.

The Worchester, Mass., Spy pleads for a change of Thanksgiving day from the cold and discomfort of the last Thursday in November to an earlier date. "It onght to be," says The Spy, "in the splendid days of October, when the world is brilliant, when the outdoor games are a luxury, and there is a moon to make the night almost as light as day.

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TERRE HAUTE. ESTD., SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 16,1886. Seventeenth Year.

WOMEN'S WAYS.

Many New York girls smoke cigarettes on the sly. Judging from the tightness of the article, isn't every girl who can laugh in her sleeve nowadays. "A handsome woman is dangerous," says an exchange. Perhaps this is the reason why so many men court danger.

A woman in Boston stole a cork leg from a crippled soldier. She was bound to ba#t something new to put on her bonnet.

A f&hionable item says: "The bustle is rapidly coming to the front." Weil, all we have to say about it is that it will loolr^jghty queer when it "gets there."

Thd Women's Christian Temperance Union of Burlington, N. J., has raised )50 and offers it as a premium to the saloonkeeper who will exhibit the best specimen of the confirmed drunkard at the ceming county fair at Mt. Holly. it&L Fred Grant, like Mrs. Grover Cleveland^believes in a woman keeping her ffunily name as a middle name after her marriage, and while Mrs. Cleveland alwajqi signs herself Frances Folsom Cleveland, Mrs. Fred Grants signature roada Ida Honore Grant. "Jjjj.fmyone waiting on you?" inquired a polite salesman of a maiden. "Well, I cant hardly tell," she blushingly replied^ "sometimes I think there is and then again I ain't certain but Will's so sort Of funny, you know," and then she blushed again and asked to look at lace collate.

A^aterson Justice aHer repeating the formula of an oath to a young woman end*$ as usual by sayiug, "Kiss the "I will not," was the unexpected r#ply. "The last witness that was sWom was chewing tobacco, and the one before him had fever blisters on his lips." She Waa "permitted to affirm.

The prohibition women of the West seem to be in earnest. Mrs. Samuel Warren, of Maquoketa, In prohibition Iowa, stopped into a saloon where her hustend was drinking, grabbed a glass of beer from his hand, and captured enough of the beverage to convict the t*aloti!nta&per, who paid 960 and costs.

Mf. |towells is said to be indefatigable in ^p|^ing "material." He even goes shtigmM with the female members of

This, then, is the secret of

the unreasoning imbecile usually figuring in his novels as lovely woman. N"tj||ing 80 tends to convince a man that

attend her in her periodical "bargains." "My dear," said a father to his daughter, as she appeared upon the porch of a Saratoga hotel in her fifth costume for that day, "if you indulge in such extravagance, do you think the angels will watch and wait for you?" "No," interrupted the old gentleman's wife, "of course they won't, but the men will, and that's what we came up here for. Don't hosilly, John."

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One of the most justly popular of London physicians, Dr. Thomas Chambers, in hig classical work on "The Indigestion," prefaces a chapter on the effects of tight lacing with a story of Hiram Powers. The sculptor with the doctor had spent the morning together in the studio of the former, discussing the perfections of female beauty, illustrated, no doubt, by frequent reference to "The Greek Slave," "Eve," and those other marbles by which the Vermont clockmaker apprentice won his title to a seat in the Pantheon of art. In the evening they met at a hospital palazzo, and under cover of the waltz music, from a quiet corner of observation, saw whirling by them in the flesh much that they had been discussing in the marble and the clay. Both were especially attracted by one particular face, famous for the assistance its once great natural beauty received from art, and upon which the doctor made some unrecorded comment After a short silence, during which the sculptor's mind was penetrating deeper than the surface, Powers exclaimed: "That's all very well, but I want to know where Lady puts her liver!" If the puzzled artist were alive to-day, he would be still more at a loss to know where a woman puts her liver.

Why don't your mind cure brethern go a step further and say: "Think you are not in trouble, and you will not be." There is lots of imaginary trouble in the world as well as disease and the best of us are inclined to magnify small troubles into great ones. The "will cure" might work wonders in this respect.

THEY CAN'T~BB.

A fashion journal says that ladies' hats will be no higher next year. We thought so: in fact, we thought the limit had been reached last spring. Hie only explanation offered as to why ham should be so high is that the milliners wanted the bills to resemble the hat.

Cellars are usually damp because the walls are cooler than the air, which causes condensation of moisture. To prevent the condensation of moisture It is recommended that the windows and ddora of the cellars be closed during the day and opened at night.

1HE GIRL THAT EVERYBODY LIKES. Girls, you needn't be beautiful to become general favorites. The plainest girl I ever saw was the favorite in my native town. Everybody liked her. Beautiful! O no, she is not beautiful— that is outside, but inside she is an angel. Nobody thinks of calling her beautiful. Not one of a dozen can tell whether her eyes are black or blue.' If you should ask them to describe her they would only say: "She is just right," and there it would end. She is a merry-hearted, fun-loving, bewitching maiden, without a spark of env^or malice in her composition. She enjoys herself, and wants everybody else to do the same. She has always a kind word and pleasant smile for the oldest man or woman in fact I think of nothing she resembles more than a sunbeam, which brightens everything it comes in contact with. All pay her marked attention, from rich Mr. Watts, who lives in a mansion on the hill, to negro Sam, the sweep. All look after her with admiring eyes and say to themselves, "She is just the right sort of a girl." The young men of the town vie with each other as to who shall show her the most attention, but she never encourages them beyond being simple, kind and jolly, so no one can call her a flirt no indeed, the young men all deny such an assertion as quickly as she! "Do girls love her, too?" I asked. "Yes, wonderful to relate, girls like her, too for she never delights in hurting their feelings or saying spiteful things behind their backs. She is til ways willing to join in their plans and assist them in any way. They go to her with their love affairs, and she manages to see Willie or Peter and drop a good word for Ida or Jennie, until their difficulties are all patched up and everything goes on smoothly again, thanks to her. Old ladies say "she is delightful.'' The sly witch, she knows how to manage them. She listens patiently to complaints of rheumatism or neuralgia, and then sympathizes with them so heartily that they are more than half cured. But she cannot always be with us. "Then she finally gets married?' "Yes. A young man oomes from a neighboring town after a time and marries her. The villagers crowd around to tell him what a prize he has won, but he seems to know it pretty well without telling, to judge from his face. So she leaves us, and it is not long before we hear from that place. She is there the woman everybody likes.

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The foolish and the dead' tftoif* never change their opinions. There is no killing the suspicion that' deceit has once begotten.

Depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good Happiness is made np of so many pieces, that there is always onCWanting.

What we believe is right la more often so because it grinds our axe than otherwise.

Let us be content, in work, to do the thing we can, and not, presume to fret because it's little.

If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the persfen of whom you should never speak.

If you let trouble sit upotf yottr soul like a hen upon her nest, you may ex pect the hatching of a large brood.

Time is so precious that there is never but one moment in the world at once, and that is always taken away before another is given, ws

There are three°rtiodefl 6f bearing the ills of life by indifference, which is the most common by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious and by religion, which is the most effectual.

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ARTIFICIAL DIMPLES. [New York Journal.] "Is the operation of having an artificial dimple made very painful?" queried a reporter. "Yes I should think so, because a piece of the flesh is taken right out of the chin or cheek, and that operation is not painless but I have known girls to stand the operation without a murmnr, when they would scream at the sight of a mouse, and faint if a spider touched them. Women will suffer a great deal of agony for the sake of beauty, and a girl knows that a charming dimple will add ten times to her attractiveness, and will also be a lasting beauty if it is only rightly made." "How much do you charge to make a dimple?" was asked. "well, that depends greatly on the

rson, whether the skin is tough and and other accidents. My lowest charge for a single dimple is fl5, but when I make several on one face the bill is. of course, somewhat reduced. It takes about two weeks to make a proper dimple. For I must get the cuticle in proper condition then the operation, removing a part of the flesh and putting back the skin, is accomplished, and that is, of course, the most difficult part of the process. About ten days are required to completely heal the dimple, and during that time the patient must be very careful not to smile at all or the dimple may be entirely ruined."

COME AROUND AGAIN. The newest shirts have got back to the old plan of buttoning in front.

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CONGRESSMEN AND OTHERS WHO CARRY REVOLVERS.

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"Do members of Congress carry pistols? Well, yes, a majority of them do," said a dealer in arms as he leaned across a case full of revolvers and talked with a Star reporter about belligerent Congress"It would astonish you to know how many go armed, particularly the men from the south and west. They carry some pretty big 'guns,' thirty-six and thirty-eight calibre. They go armed as much now, if not more, than in the early days, when the oode was recognized. In those times when statesmen used to go to the Spa at Bladensburg to settle their difficulties, they used to have case? of dueling pistols. They did not carry pocket pistols. The house has its code of rules and the members have their code of honor, which was more effective and more respected. A great many members always carried their case of pistols in their trunk. They formed apart of the outfit of a man in public life. There is commonly an erroneous impression to what tnese pistols were. Some people havo an itiea that a dueling pistol was a little weapon that would not kill ten feet others like mortars, that make an awful noise and kick way up in the air when you shoot them. Now in reality, they were that long—he marked off a section of his arm nearly up to the elbow—and carried a ball liko that of Colt's navy. They have heavy wooden handles, coming up under the barrel like the stock of a musket, and flint looks. They were brutal looking things—regular heavy artillery. It was with one of them that Burr shot Hamilton. They were of French make. You never see any of them now. Since dAeling has gone out of practice carrying pistols on tho person has become more common. Mon who are in the habit of being out late, or of going into bad company, carry pistols for self-dofenco. It is very common. A majority of the gentlemen you see on the streets of Washington in the evening are armed. Carrying pistols Is by no means confined to rough or criminal classes. The better class of men, and even a large number of ladies carry them. But in particular members and senators from tne south and west go armed. They carry the latest improved weapons, double action, folding hammer and of the best make. Western men want them all large and offective. The Smith fe Weston, and the Marwin, Hulbert A Co., latest improved are most carried. The latter is particularly popular. Ladies, of course, carry smaller 'guns.' Yes, sir, 'guns' are carried more now than they ever were before. The quietest and most respeotable people in tne city—the business man and the solid citizen—are the most apt to have weapons in their pockets. And here's a paradox. The more pistols carried the less shooting occurs. ..You won't find one man out of a hundred who carry pistols who has evQr used it. Gent la men carry for defence against footpads and ruffians into rotfgfi* knowing they are armed let thank alone. There has beeti much said about Washington ladies going about alone after dark. Most of them are armed. Some people are averse to carrying arms, but there is hardly a house that has not a pistol in it." "Are knives and sword-canes carried as much as formerly?" asked the reporter. "No they are carried scarcely at all. Footpads and assassins may carry knives or blackjacks—they are afraid of the noise of a pistol—but gentlemen all carry pistols. Negro roughs, as everybody knows, carry razors. They cut ana slash with them in a villainous manner."

WHEN TO COOK ME A T. [Maria Parloaw In Good Houwkcepinx.] During the summer people in the country depend largely upon poultry, veal and lamb for their meat supply. There is one thing which is not generally understood by butchers and housekeepers. It is, that while the fibres of the flesh of an animal are set, as they are as soon after the animal cools after being killed, the meat is much harder than at any other time. For this reason it should not be cooked while in this state. The meat should hang at least twelve hours after the fibres become set. Chickens, however, can be dressed and cooked while yet warm, and the meat will be found tender, juicy and of fine flavor. Let the same chicKens stand until the fibres get hard and rigid and then cook them, and the meat will not be nearly so tender and juicy. This is true of all animals: the meat should be cooked either while it still contains the natural heat, or not until after tho muscles have relaxed the time of relaxation being from twelve to twenty-four hours after the animal is killed. This time answers very well for poultry, veal and iamb. Mutton and beef, to be in perfection, should lie hung for about three weeks in a place where the temperature is low. This, of course, is not possible in warm weather or in a warm country except where there are large refrigerators. But all first-class butchers hav^such refrigerators.

RULES FOR LIVING WELL. The Caterer, in an article on "Good Living" considered from a culinary rather than amoral point of view, sums up the matter in the following sensible WAV

If iiving well consists in living neither luxuriously nor expensively, in what, then, lies the secret? And how may the man of moderate means take advantage of it? The question is not a difficult one to answer, and we will put thatquestion in the shape of a few short rules: 1. Buy with judgement. 2. Buy the best, for the best is always the cheapest. 8. Let your economy regulate the quantity, not the quality. 4. Let your COOK be a cook, and one that knows how to utilize what is now thrown to the dogs, or otherwise wasted. 5. stndy simplicity in the number of the dishes, ana variety in the character of the meals. 6. Let the honsewife be watchful enough to trace the leaks that are liable to spring in every larder. 7. Let the mistress be indeed the head hi of her own household and of her own gg kitchen. I.

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