Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 23, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 November 1886 — Page 2

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¥011 AN AND HOME.

THE DUTY OF GIRLS TO BE A3 BEAUTIFUL AS THEY CAN.

A Dangferon* Interference With Natan. Children at Table—Parlors That Crujth Oat Home Life—Hints for the

Kitchen—Note*, Items, Paragraphs.

It is quite proper, quite your duty, girls, to 9M as beautiful as you can. Of course, your features are unchangeable, but there is an «very day beauty of demeanor that double Iiscouiits mere featural beauty. Suppose yon are not endowed with a pretty mouth. Although you cannot alter its shape, if the lips be kept fresh and the teeth in perfect •condition, you have made a great gain. If yoar mouth be large you can cultivate a classic repose of feature. Never bite your lips to make them red, or for any other

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son. Bathe them occasionally in water with little dissolved alum or borax and apply 4^ycerine and tincture of benzoins, litis -trill keep your lips fresh. A good tooth beautifler is powdered sulphur, which is also a

preserver. It may be used daily. For occasional use, say one# a week, the follow, ing is excellent: Pumice stone, one ounce bi-carbonate of soda, one-half ounce (powdered talc, one-half ounce. Fresh lips, «clean, white teeth and breath like frankincense and myrrh will make up for many deficiencies in beauty of outline.

If the ear be big and obtrusive, a loose arrangement of the hair or a few curled locks Crushed carelessly back will help the objectionable organ wonderfully. Never comb the liair tight. I lack from an ugly ear.

As for the eyes, better leave tbem alone. Trimmed lashes often refuse to grow again. Dark eyebrows and lashes area great profooter of lieauty, and if yours happen to be slighter than your hair, especially if that is red, you might touch them lightly with a *ponge dipped in black walnut bark boiled in liot water with a little alum, or apply simple walnut juice. The eyebrow may be given a slight arch and the line line so much sought t»y simply pinching the hairs together between the fingers several times a day.

But it is through the complexion tbat you Fhecvo the greatest scope for beautifying. If overy pore of your skin is stuffed full of "lily white" you mux! expect those dreadful pimpies and horrid black specks. The girl with vthe ugly skin must take a two or three mile walk every day must wear shoes big enough for perfect comfort, and, if the skin be thick .-4ind oily, must oschow fats and pastry. In the spring it would be well to try the sulphur remedy, and at the same time you may rub vsuljrtnLr in a little glycerine on the face at night, washing it off in warm water and a few drops of ammonia in the morning. A little camphor in the water will remove all shine. And remember, girls, all face powders arc snares and delusions.—Detroit Free Press.

Their Toss and Gain.

ladies who exixsi-t to remain good singers must not exiwet to have babies. This is well settled. There never was yet prima donna who sang as well diter maternity as before -very few sang ns well after marrying as before. Gerster has had a baby, and is now reported to havo lost her voico. Sembrich Jias a baby, too. Tho effect in the latter ••case may not be disastrous, but it will be deteriorating. Patti made her fame before she was married. Bho is one of the few great «ingers who lias preserved tho freshness of her voico after a matrimonial adventure.

ParepaRosa made her liamo and fortune •before she married her llttlo manager. The flarao is tnio of Nilsson. Neither had chil•drou. Jennie Lind lost her voice when she married and had babies. Clara I^ouise Kellogg, knowing the rink, concluded not tc tnnrry. Nevada, every belly knows, has ifcaby. The result on her vocal oho has not yet been announced. Further illustration is unnecessary. When a woman gets married And has a tmly some of her vocal talent i? •sacrificed to tho youngster. This is one of the moan things in creation, for while tho jmblic may willing to pay *'2,000 a night to hear the mamma sing, it will not give two «ents to hear tho baby.—Chicago Mail.

Children at Table.

From tho time a child is old. enough to sit nt the table, teach him the proper use of the knife, fork and spoon. Never allow a child to lean upon tho table habits such as that will ttecouiiwny him all through life. He should Ixi taught to wait patiently until his ciders are served. It is very important to *arefully observe these minor jtoints. By proper training in the beginning parents are saved annoyance and mortification in the .future.

At this age children should be dieted as carefully as when they were infants. By this it is not meant that their diet should consist aolely of milk by uo means, but do not fall Into the errw so widely prevalent that children having obtained their teeth are capable of digesting all manner of food. This is the chief cause of destruction of life in children between and 6 years of age, their stomachs being totally unfitted for tho rich food they are allowed to eat Potato**, meat, rice, oatmeal, brown bread, ripe fruit and as much milk as tbey can drink is the proper diet for children of that age.—Mrs. Ellis L, Mumrna In Good I housekeeping.

What a Good Dinuw lleaUy Is. What wo mean by a good square meal is not simply roast beef and potatoes, with a piece of indigwtihlo pie and a cup of ordinary coffees but a table covered with snowwhite linen, the china and glassware shining like so many miniature mirrors, with bouquets of fresh blooming flowers in season, and napkins soft and fresh from the laundry, not stiff as pasteboard, so tbat they will slide from your knee. The preparations cost but A trifle, ami are the invariable precursor of a good appetite. No dish should bo served nmieeora od the fish and meat should be surrounded with small piece* of eitlier parsley or beets, carrots or turnips cut by molds into various knickknack devices, not so much for eating as for ornamentation, and also as an appetiser. For puddings, mekih*, etc., pulverised sugar should always be at hand, ami for iced tea a dice or two of lemon with granulated sugar. Cleanliness of thotablo should be co-impor-tant with ckaftliness of the body.—Health •and Home.

nsnrf«« Interfere nee with Nature. All women cannot exactly 145 |tounds without half ung ts a»?htstodo so. All women who war corsets and frilled white jwjt'kvats are w)1 •v invalids, and all women who weigh are not dJ»jjrseeful, ithapcir* nuuere of "wndlgwiSedL, tongK* fatv" Those t® whom tho term applies will douhtkw* do well to the proffered suggestion of physical :tam With l*roper care both of the miliar and vital jwrttet of tlnir bodh nttjf vay pos«riWy get bark their to v'.' uad tboir

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lod fJwpe*" Bot when a woman is big and •arongand healthy and as happy as she can bS it is about much as her health worth to put her through a oomrM of training nffl•Hent to hw law forty or fifty pwitdlOt fc«h. E she has got to starve herself SUK!run UM risk of ruining her digestion foror she has cot to tak« msdtertns or walk

ontfl she is too tired to breathe, day after day and always. What was the result on Fanny Davenport's constitution of he* powerful will and deter* mination to be thin! Many know! She was a star she weighed about 190 pounds. Ned Price, her hu?band and manager, told her that what she wanted to do was to get thin. If she would do that he would ask for no new piece, no new theatre! Only Fonnv Davenport as she used to be! They were in London at the time. Mrs. Price went to Whistler, an American doctor resident in London, and told bi what she wanted to do. He gave her his advice and she followed it exactly. She went to Rome to her sister. She ate no sweets, no butter, milk, cream or fats of any sort. Her diet was crackers, dry toast, tea, lean meat, Epsom salts and sour wine. She deprived herself of every luxury that die had hitherto enjoyed. No goodies of any sort. She took hot baths continually and she walked miles and miles every day. Three months of this stoicism brought her weight down to 165 pounds. Then she returned to America, stilt keeping up her discipline. Soon she weighed 160 pounds, then 155, then 150, and finally the pounds went until there were but few over 180, and theip was no strength in her. W

Then the lamentation was all the other way. Miss Davenport found it impossible to stop wasting away. Her cheeks got thin, the hollows got deep in her shoulders, and there were ugly furrows about her eyes. There was nothing left* to do but entirely reverse her trays of living and try to win back the lost strength and health. It took a long while and any amount of coaxing, but it finally returned in part if not in whole.—WF. B. M." in New York Graphic.

Parlors that Crush Oat Home Life. Did you ever hear of tyrannical parlors! The costly carpets and curtains, the extensive ornaments, give a subdued tone to the room destructive to real hospitality and good times. A neighborhood social met from house to bouse. One of the members was a bright boy his mother had ono of these tyrannical parlors, given up to formality and short calls. The bright boy said at one of the meetings: "I would like to invite you to my house, but we never have good times in our stuck-up drawing room." The little fellow felt the difference between his own home surroundings and that of some others of the social club.

At one bouse tho wise parents made the parlor GO attractive that the boys and girls of tho family said they "would rather be at home than any where else." The carpet was not too nice to danco on or oven to play blind man's bluff. The chairs and tables were not heavy and cumbersome, but were light enough to bo tucked away, leaving a clear space. The children were encouraged to get up charades and tableaux. A magic lantern exhibition added variety, and now and then a card party. "But that was very wrong," says one stern parent. Nol Father and mother took a hand in the game and there was not so much danger the children would seek questionable pleasures in unprofitable places.—Chicago Tribune.

Too Clean for Comfort.

An old lady of my acquaintance was a great woman to scrub and scour and brush and polish and clean from morning until night When asked why she went to such extremes in these directions sho always said: "Because I like to have things half decent." I think that too many housewives have this nam«idea of "decency." I would hate to be the husband of a woman who was thus "decent" at the expense of tho happiness and comfort of the whole household. Men hate cleaning days when they come but once a week, and when every day and every hour is given up to a spirited warfare against possible sr acks of dirt, men are not apt to find home sweotest spot on earth. This is not written in vindication of the great army of the unclean, and they needn't think it is. I hate dirt, and I dont believe it possible for people to reach that "higher life" we all should aspire to when surrounded by the dirt and disorder of many homes.

But let us have moderation In this cleaning business. A man don't want to see his wifo everlastingly flying around in dusting cap and long-sleeved apron dabbing at stray flies and trying to espy infinitesimal specks of dust— Zenas Dane in Detroit Free Press.

Paying for Bridal Presents. In the last two weeks I have paid ICQ for bridal presents, and 1 do not expect to go through the season under $500 for this item of expense. I would avoid it if I could, but the fact is when I was married, three years ago, it was my misfortune to receive about $2,500 worth of presents from my friends and relatives, and I am gradually paying back their valuo to thoce who gave me presents, and to whom I must give in return. I thought such a liberal donation fortunate at the time, but I have learned differently by experience. Whenever I see a great display of presents at a weeding now I say to myself: "There is a debt of so many hundreds or thousands of dollars that this young couple has saddled upon them at the beginning of their career." It is a custom that has grown to abuse, and the only merit I see in it is that tbey pay back on the instalment plan. I havo several years to pay my debt, but still I must pay for many articles for which I have not had tho least use.—Interview with Society Lady.

Steeping cars for women are called for.

Why Children Go to School. We should never forget tbat we send ibese children to school not so much to learn facts as to learn how to learn them. Of course, there are some central facts which tbey must learn as that three times three is nine, and that a spells ab. But the principal business of education is to start boy and girl with aptitude, desire, and strength to follow, each in the right

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ho or she may have to follow, It is somewhat riskv to give them "eleven weeks of botany," "eleven wveks of entomology," "eleven weeks of geology,'' "Spanish in six lessons," Italian in six lessons.'' "French in six tanantt," if we mean that they shall gain in yonfeg life the persistent power of enduring to the end to which only does victory come.—Edward Everett Hale in CUautauquan.

A Convenience for the Kitchen. A little box tacked upon the wall hi some inconspicuous pl ir the kitchen stove and filled wtth bu» of clean cloths, will often ha found a convenience. When one wants to scour a chance off of some kitchen utt' after the --^ur«ng board has been pot aw.- a littte raj, ripened and dipped into ashes will often do as welL And then :1 at disagm'' ring of grease inside the dtJipan aa L_- claadany without cootact the hands by using a tiny hit of cloth. Lii upon floor or tabic that come whii i-r-.'-.i^.ugor cooking food could often be ranoTed without wetting a laigeti fekrth, which most be washed and drkutm* after nse. In fact small scraps may often be put to better use than when •old

The women In Japan, who no longer blaccen their teeth, sow anile in all their attire conriinam.

TBRRE TTAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

Did Not Uke Women Customers. «I hate women customers," replied a saleswoman in a dry goods store. She had been mtlrwl plnmply whether she preferred waiting on men, and. this was her plump answer. "Why do you prefer menP "Because they know what they want, and do not care to keep yon standing an hour while they fumble over and rumple up the goods on the counter. Why, only to-day I was showing a lady blade stockings. Of course they were all the same site and quality, yet die dragged every pair out of that box and then wanted to see more. I handed down two more boxes just like this one, and then die asked if we had any more. I told her no, and then she said I might wrap up one pair for her. The lady next me made nine different sales to gentlemen while I was fooling with this one woman. I am going to try to get a place in a hardware store, or some place where women do not have to deal with women."—Pittsburg Dispatch.

Death In the Cellar.

A was never designed to be the receptacle of all manner of rubbish, yet to this use it is often put Rubbish in the cellar is death dealing. It poisons the air, which finds its way into the rooms above, and it poisons the food stored in the cellar. Warm pastry, milk and butter absorb noxious exhalations very readily, and taste disagreeably. Prudence dictates a close inspection of every part of cellar every few days, and the removal of all decaying fruits and vegetables. Removing these fruits and vegetables will pay in another way—the lengthened preservation of the others. Of all places, the cellar should be clean and sweet. Better have uncleanliness in the parlor than in the kitchen, and better have uncleanliness in the kitchen than in the cellar. Let cleanliness prevail.—American Agriculturist

To Preserve the Tops of Stockings. If other mothers have been troubled as I have been with the inevitable holes made in the tops of stockings by every variety of stocking supporter, they may be glad to learn of my way out of the difficulty. To one end of a strip of elastic four inches long I sew a doubled piece of tape long and wide enough for a stout buttonhole. This buttons on the waist To the other end I sew two narrower Btrips of tape, four or five inches long, and these I tie to corresponding tapes on the stockings. Each stocking is finished around the topon the inside by apiece of tape, from the opposite sides of which come the strings which tie over the knee. At night all that is necessary to do is to unbutton them the waist—Babyhood. wr

Foul Air and Musty Rooms. In many rooms there is always a musty smell on a wet day in summer. Why is this? Because the windows are shut to keep out the rain, while the fireplace is shut to keep out the soot It is almost a note of a good housemaid to close the valve of the stove as soon as the fires are left off and if this remains closed, the ventilation of the room throughout the summer is left to depend on the windows alone. In other words, is suspended at night, and when even there is much wind or rain in the day. If Dr. Parker's rule never to stop up the chimney and never to close the regulator were more attended to, much less foul air would be breathed.— Decorator and Furnisher.

A Pomade for the Hands.

For a very nice pomade for the hands, scrape off equal quantities of spermaceti and pure beeswax, cover with sweet oil, and simmer until it becomes liquid in a smell china pot, cup or jar add a few drops of roeewatcr and mix it with the other ingredients. When well blended, take it from the fire and let it set firm in the cup in which it has been melted. Rub this well into your hands on retiring, and wear a pair of soft kid gloves. In the morning wash them with oatmeal or almond powder, not soap, and you will soon see a manifest improvement in color and texture.—Philadelphia Call.

The Beat Dust Brush.

A soft manllla brush, with handle, will be found the best thing to dust mantle and toilet covers and window sashes. A painter's "dust brush," with which he cleans all moldings before painting, is very useful in keeping books and corners, bed rails and baseboards free from signs of dust. Dust and fancy work were never made to go together.—Boston Herald.

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A West Indian DUh.

A simple and delicate method of preparing potatoes for breakfast is a great favorite in the West Indies. Two pounds of peeled potatoes are washed and grated four ounces each are added of sugar and butter melted, one teaspoonful each of salt and pepper, well mixed placed in a baking dish and put into a brisk oven until done, it shows a delicate brown color.—Philadelphia Call.

Mixture for cleaning grease spots—Equal parts of strong ammonia water, ether and alcohol form a valuable cleaning compound. Pass a piece of blotting paper under the grease spot, moisten a sponge, first with water to render it "greedy," then with the mixture, and rub with it the spot In a moment it is dissolved, saponified, and absorbed by the sponge and blotter.—Scientific American.

To Cleanse Knives.

Cut a small potato in two, dip one half in brick dust and rub the knives, and rust and stain will disappear like magic from their surfaces.

Every wife should be the mistress of her own home. But the grandmother and the mother-in-law should be the most welcome and the most respected of all visitors.

Cinnamon has been successfully introduced ns a fashionable perfume by social leaders in Ne -v York.

Two Iowa girls are successful paper hangers, and earn as high as $12 a day.

Cats In Great Britain.

The numbec of cats in the United Kingdom is estimated at fully 7,000,000. A change this from the olden days when cats were so scarce in Britain that stringent laws woe passed for the punishment of persons who killed or stole tbem. In those times the cats belonging to royalty were specially protected, and if any one killed one of the moosera tbat guarded the prince's granary he bad to pay a fine of as much wheat as would cover the cat when bong op by the tail, with its bead touching the floor. Any cue who has ever had occasion to make a heap of wheat will know that, in the case of a good sized cat, this would mean no small quantity.—Chicago Tttbone.

The Wroqg Title.

The phrase, "Liberty Enlightening the World,* is a mistranslation. What Borthoidi called it in French is "liberty Lighting the WcrkL* The idea was illumination, not in* strucUoo. Bat the falso title got oat, and it Is now impossible to stop ft—Washington Bast. lmirortlos In XsrksnUtUp.

Hereafter the students at the New Jersey State Scientific school, in addition to the military drill, will receive instruction in marksmanship an a range in the suburbs at New Brnmwick.—Chicago Times.

WHAT SHALL WE WEAR?

JAUNTY COSTUMES FOR WOMEN WHO GO RIDING AND HUNTING.

Men's Evening Dress Jast How to Wear It and Not Feel as If Something was tfronpaA Good Walking Dres»—Hunt•"iaf Costumes.

There is not much change in the makeup fef riding habits. Horseback exercise promises to be more and more popular. The illustration'shows about the regulation style of habit, though many ladies now wear round derby hats, with or without veils, instead of the old fashioned high stiff one. Why the stiff, high silk hat ever was invented for a riding headgear is a mystery. Nothing could bo more ill adapted to its purpose.

Any quiet, soft toned cloth may be chosen to make the habits The great Paris tailors are at present in£ ':ing riding habits of light gray, sergelike cloth. Tlie skirt is always rather narrow and short, while the short jacket waist is buttoned diagonally and bound with silk braid. A horse's hoof with an interlaced monogram is embroidered with dark silk on the left shoulder. The high gray felt bat i? surrounded by a gray gauze veil.

White kid gloves and patent leather boots belong to the 1finishing touches of this costume. Huntrather a novelty in

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»iil« country, though very popular in Europe. Hunting and shooting for women grow in favor every year, perhaps because the empress of Austria set the fashion. Regular dresses have been devised as hunting garments, and very pretty and jaunty they are, too. Doubtless the fair nimrods will fall into the habit of wearing them for walking dresses as well on long country tramps. If so, nothing more is to be desired. The era of reform in woman's dress will not long be delayed. The costume in Fig. 1 is made of light and dark brown checked oloth, trimmed with velvet The bodice opens over a leather waistcoat, leather gaiters and checked t*veedhat In such a light, loose dress as this a woman might tramp all day and not feel HUNTING DRESS,FIG. 1. fatigued. In England it is quite the custom for ladies in high life to go with their husbands and relatives on long shooting and hunting trips. Aristocratic parties are regularly made up for a month or six weeks' shooting. 'W

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Fig. 2 shows another pattern. It is made of ash gray homespun, tho pettidoat being buttoned at one side with dark gray fancy buttons. The drapery is arranged to leave the buttoned side visible, and has a pattern of birds down tho front, which in large and small sins and blue gray shade, stands off in effective relief from the tone of the dress. The bodice opens in front over a ribbed velvet waistcoat Cloth gaiters and gray felt hat, bound and trimmed with gray braid, complete the costume. For Fig. 8 either ribbed velvet or strong Vigogne can be chosen. The plain skirt has no other trimming a row of broad, dark brown silk braid. The bodice is similarly trimmed, has a postilion basque behind, rounded in front it is cat oat shaped, and open at the top over a chamois leather waistooat Felt hat with jaunty feathers. High leather boots.

Men's Evening Dreas.

Many men who are the salt of the earth don't know exactly what to do in evening dress, or when it is to be worn, or what kind of a necktie to wear. In England evening dress is proper everywhere, even at home, after 6 p.m. In America, wbere this costume is often called a "dress suit," the question is not so easy. In a broad, general way, in this country, evening drew is proper an all "swell" occasions at night, at dinner and sapper parties and banquets, at parties and in the tyvy— and front rows at the opera. The New York Tribune has same farther hints on the subject which may be useful it may be mentioned that shirts to wear with a dress •ait an specially made. They are open in front to display tho modest white or tiny gold studs that are worn, and they have the collar ard caffs made fast to than. The Tribune remarks:

Dont wear a shirt open behind. This crime caimot be concealed. Have your collars and cuffs on your shirt or stay at home.

Dont wear a low hat with evening divas or a Prinoe Albert coat nor a high bat with a sack coat Die first

Dont wear yoor watch chain to show with evening drees. Pawn it ftret Dont wear a white or black silk or satin tie with evening dress. White lawn, aboat threequarters of an inch wide, tied by yourself, is tbo correct thing.

Curtains Strang on potee without lambrequins are liked for dining room windows. Entire bonnets are composed of ostrich

THE HOUSEHOLD.

Yarlety In Eating and the Food of the Future. The race Is becoming more sensitive, and gradually developing a finer, more high strung nervous organization, it is said. Physicians note that while the normal pulse-beat is put at seventy to seventy-five by the medical authorities, there is scarcely one person in ten in whom it is not quicker than that It proves that we are developing more and more the nervous organization.

But that need not necessarily mean that we are growing weaker, or that the race is running out A nervous man need not be a sickly man. It may mean only that the line is becoming more and more distinct between man and the hog, ox and elephant And it certainly means that if we are beginning to have a finer nervous organization that we should change the character and quantity of our food. The finely strung, dec trie nerved man of the future cannot eat messes any moro, as our fathers did before us. Those monstrous "biled dinners," consisting of huge mounds of green pork and cabbage, those piles of fried bacon, swimming in lard, will disappear. Their place will be taken by more fruits, cereals, eggs and milk—lighter foods and smaller quantities.

Already the change seems beginning. People who have triod it declare that they can sustain life on half the quantity of food considered necessary in the old. times. At the same time they are in better health than they were before. There are persons, writers and others, among the most intelligent members of the community, who live on one solid meal a day. They are in good health and work constantly.

The fasting men and women—those who live eighteen, twenty and forty days without tasting anything but water, are becoming so common that they cease to attract much attention. Certain scientific men say they have discovered that mingled in the atmosphere are to be found all the elements necessary to sustain life. The fasters noted in the newspapers spend much time in the open air, in the fields and among thetreeB. They say it nourishes them.

Signs seem to indicate that the grosser, heavier foods are to be discarded by the coming race. The good housekeeper will therefore begin to lay before her finely organized family the food which will suit their nervous systems. Variety will be secured not by having a great number of heaping dishes at once, but by two or three dishes of appetizing, healthful food. One dish of something one likes is better than ten piled with rubbish that one cannot eat Then good-by to heavy messes. The real, refined way to secure variety is to have only two or three different dislics at ono time, changing next day or next inonl to something else. The food set before the family should be sufficient in quantity, of the best quality to be had in the market, carefully and daintily cooked and put upon the table in the most attractive way known to the housekeeper. Finally it is to be eaten by a clean, neat, cheerful family, who are always polite to each other.

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Save Time and I»bor.

Much tune and worry can be saved by busy housekeepers by "having things handy by," as my Yankee neighbors say. If the pantry is across tho room from the cookstove, & shelf or table besido the stove, having on it at lenst salt, pepper, knife, fork and spoon needed in cooking, will save miles of steps in a year. Sugar, flour, spioes—plainly labeled—baking powders, flavoring extracts, etc., kept in one place, and molding board, rolling pin, cako cutters and baking dishes In another group, rob baking day of half its trials. Broom, dustpan, duster and floor cloths hung side by sido, help sweeping day to "start fair." If at some distance from a store, a slate banging in the pantry, with a pencil tied to it, on which to jot down needed supplies as soon as exhausted, is a real help. An emergency corner in a closet, where rolls of warm linen and muslin, sticking salve, sweet oil 'for burns, ammonia for bee stings, arnica for spraius, etc., are kept, and another corner where paper bags, wrapping paper and strings can always be found, prove treasures indeed. Mrs. Fisher onco said that "every room in the house ought to contain needles, thread and scissors." A scrap bag hung on tbo sewing machine—fancy or plain —will save a deal of sweeping threads and bits of cloth from the carpet. Last, though not least, a cushioned chair kept "handy by" in the kitchen to rest in, if only for five minutes, when one is so tired, and a good book or paper within reach to pick up at odd minutes will refresh both body and mind. Many other things will suggest themselves to quick witted housewives intent on making the most of everything, themselves included. —Rural New Yorker,

Taploea Puddings.

Two kinds of tapioca pudding, very delicious, are thus made: (1.) Pare and core sufficient apples to fill the pudding dish soak a half pint of tapioca in a quart of lukewarm water for ono hour add a little salt, flavor with lemon, pour over the apples. Bake until the apples are tender. Eat, when cold, with cream and sugar. (8.) Four tablespoonfuls of tapioca soaked for two hours in tepid water. When the tapioca has softened add a quart of cold water, pinch of salt, tablespoonful of molasses and two large apples, peeled, cored and sliced. Place in a covered dish and buk* in the oven for two hours, stirring occasionally then remove the cover, still stirring. In half an hour the pudding should be a deep brown. Pour into another dish »nH serve hot with hard sauce. The hard sauce is made by beating to a cream one cup of sugar, one heaping teaspoonful of butter and one teaspoonful of boiling water. Flavor with lemon or vanilla.—Good Housekeeping. *:h

To Make White Candy

Nice white candy is easily made thus: Take one quart of granulated sugar, one pint of water and two tablespoonfuls of vinegar. Boil like molasses candy, but do not stir. Yon can tell when it is done by trying it in cold water. Pull it as if it were molasses candy have a dish near by with some vanilla in it, and work in enongh to flavor as yon pall it put it in a cold room and the next day it trill be found delicious.

Renovating Black Silk.

Black silk can be mado to look almost as good as new by sponging on tho right side with a tfrirk flannel between the silk and the iron. When the silk is very much wrinkled sponge on the wrong side with weak gam arabic water, said when nearly dry iron between two woolen clothe.

A little kindly courtesy goes a good way fn busy boosehoki, and if in our home wo use the —n™ politeness we offer our guests we •Jw.li no ill-fitting "company manners."

It fe claimed for certain that tea drinking mains women nerroce and irritable.

Married men do not serve as oshcrs at wed* Bandd IwtS* fart cannot be made J{__ sweet again.

DYSPEPTICS' FOOD.

A PHYSICIAN THINKS COMMON SENSE IS THE BEST GUIDE.

A Chapter of Chat on Eating—Every Person Should Be Guided by His Own Experience—A Popular Delusion—Moderation. "As with reading, so with eating. It is noft what a person reads or cats that benefits him it is v. hat he digests."

This was an eminent physiologist's reply to a reporter's questionings this morning, when approaced on tho subject of tbat great Amei^ ican complaint "In tho matter of diet," he said, "every person should be guided by his own experience, and not rely on the experience of others. I know a newspaper man in this city who lives on brown bread and apples and drinks nothing but water, and there is no man of my acquaintance who enjoys more robust or perfect health. I have heard also of a composer and dramatic author whose favorite dish is a compound of potato, oatmeal and Spanish onion, on which he thrives and does much good work."

Richard A. Proctor, the astronomer, suffered for many years with sick headaches, and after trying every remedy under the sun ho set to work experimenting upon himself. Exercise or rest had no effect upon his malady. They availed him notbing against persistent attacks. Then ho tried stopping his customary glass of wine or beer, which he took with his dinner. This produced no change. Pastry was next taken off his food list, and he seemed to be benefited by the nmicginn Then he cut down on his tea and coffee. Still he did not get the desired relief. Finally he stopped taking sugar in his drink, but the effect of this abstinence was unfavorable. At last he determined to let butter alone. The effect of this change was instantaneous and decisive. He had no more beadaches, and to this day you cannot prevail upon him to eat butter or anything that he knows contains the article.

CONSULTING PHYSICIAN.

"To consult a physician in matters pertaining to diet, except in conditions of disease, is useless. While one will toll you to abstain from certain things, another will advise you to eat only those things which the other ouee have denied to you. Take cheese, for example. Most authorities are of the opinion that it is not easily digested. I do not believe it is any more indigestible than meat and many other articles of food. Suppers are, as a rule, condemned by the medical fraternity. They assort that, late meals are not only unnecessary, but positively harmful. To my mind, I do not believe that a man who goes to bed hungry con sleep. After eating, blood is drawn towaiil tho stomach to supply the juices needed in digestion. Tims the brain is relieved of tho pressure exerted on its ceuters during tho hours of fasting, and becomes pnlo and dormant, and sleep ensues. "A doctor was oneo called to attend a lady at an early hour in tho morning, whom, he was assured, was in a dying condition. When he reached her bedside ho found the body warm and the heart doing honest work. Ho proscribed buttered toast, to bo oaten at once, and the dying woman was soon Burprisod by a return of life and a desire to live. Milk, regarded by most people as a jwrfuct food, and said to be nature's own provision for animal life, is to my mind a most mischievous drink. For tboso who have attained their full growth and can thrivo on solid food, milk is altogether superfluous, if not harmful. The principal object of drinking is to allay thirst What can bo found moro desirable to this ond than water, when employed free from admixture with any solid material I Cocoa, chocolate, or oven milk are not near so efficacious in allaying thirst as water.

A POPULAR DELUSION.

"It is a popular delusion that dyspepsia is caused by eating indigestible food only. If this were so, and nil tho articles of diet enumerated as indigestible wero placed on the index expurgatorius, 1 tremble to think what the poor dyspeptic would have left to livo 8u. The first, essential to wan! regaining health to lie noted by a dyspeptic is to live regularly and abstain from all thoso foods that experience shows are injurious. Many persons who are supposed to have heart disease, an enlarged liver or softening of the bruin are really hypochondriac dyspeptics. Oftentimes such persons have their worst foar* realized by consulting dome medical encyclopaxliu. I know of no moro pitiable object than tho young man or woman who 'reads up' for tho purpose of tindfng out from what complaint he or she is suffering. "When you are ill go at onco to a physician instead of a book, and when ho tells you you are suffering from an attack of dyspepsia aid him in his work of repair by following his directions to the letter and remomler bis advice as to what you shall eat and drink. By doing this you will have little noed to consult numerous books and make a note of the delightfully conflicting paragraph in the household column of tho daily pajxirs in order to avoid a recurrence of tiro same complaint Moderation is a good thing to observe, not only in what you eat, but as to when you eat. Choose the food and drink that will best (111 your stomach, and jiartako of such quantities as can be easily digested. The ago, condition and business of a man must also be considered, and none are more capable of determining how much, when and what to cat thon the individual most Interested.—Now York Mail and Express, 'j -J

Tho Sorghum Sugar Industry* The last number of Science contains some interesting notes on the sorghum sugar Industry, as baixl upon the report in bulletin Na 7, chcmical division, department of agricul- i. tore. This details tbo methods of studying sorghum cano arid its products as employed by the United States last year at Ottawa, Kan. The process differs radically from the old method of pressing the cano to extract the juice, as tho cane is first clipped and then subjected to the process of diffusion, whereby the easily crystailired sugar is recovered. This iTH'tbod promises to work a revolution in the •Tijar industry, b:th by admitting to the market a first-clam product from sorghum cane and also cheapening the manufacture of, sugar from the ordinary "outbern cane. Tba Parkinson Sugar company at Fort Scott has already adopted the method exclusively for making up the crop from 800 acres, and

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representative sugar planters from the south are at present studying its applicability to tbeii^iudusftry.—Chicago Tribune.

Catarrh

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