Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 29, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 8 January 1887 — Page 6

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TACT AND COOLNESS REQUIRED TO MANAGE A HOUSEHOLD. *Vfif

Dolled and Warped Spirits—Simple Life Best for Children—Cheerful Homes. Xames of Women—Headache—Physique—A Senator's Wife.

The affairs of the household are seldom •ei'y simple affairs as much tact and coolness as it needs to manage a great business, with books and clerks and customers, is often required to keep the system itic working of things in the family, and accommodate that to all the interruptions and interferences that daily life is sure to bring to keep the differing tempers of the persons composing the household in any degree harmonious to stand, between master and cook and remain uncrushed, between cook and housemaid and retain both in service to havo sickness in the house and a nurse, and retain anybody to do one's own work and bo ready with smiles and cheer and a decent front on occasion for company.

The unprejudiced observer might well ask what manner of woman is it that a man has married, when ho has so poor an opinion of her that he does not beliovo she would feel his interests as keenly as he himself feels them, does not perceive that their interests aro mutual and that thoy are working to the same end does not want to save a dollar for the common good as much as he does, and is not willing to work as hard and go without as much in her own way. Tho unprejudiced observer might also ask if the husband, who is so close with his purse, considering it his and not the family purse, is actuated by no meaner motive than distrust if his own outside and purely selfish pleasures would not bo interfered with in tho abstraction of funds if tho wife were allowed to spend as sho pleased. She lias no cigars to buy, no drinks to take, no billiards to play, no expenses beyond those of her own and tho children's apparel, according to her idea of propriety and what is really a trifle in tho way of his own expenditure is a vast sum of money to her.

Women do not expect a great deil, speaking of them in the mass, and not of tho scattered few who aro tho children of luxury. •We havo known a wife to burst into tears of joy at being given $25 to propare her family of four with clothing for the summer, going without anything new herself we havo known ono to take the monoy given her by a brother for a needed article of clothing, and to buy with it a barrel of flour rather than tell her husband tho flour had come to an end and we have known another to cut up every gown but ono that sho had in order to keep her girls fit for school, wliilo the husband appeared to know nothing of what was going on, and sho sat in the chimney corner, never going out by day, growing old before her time, knowing and seeing almost nothing of tho world through the want of decent apparel. And if these are isolated instances of their kind it is only because most husbands aro not really mean, although they may have to be askod for what is wanted, and then may give it as a gift, considering themselves generous, whilo the wives feel that thoy have a right to the necessaries of life, if no more, and that it should be theirs without asking.

But in tho most frequent cases there is no expressed community of interest, no saying or implying that there is just so much available income, and how can it best bo used but in tho majority of instances, if the wife wants an articlo of any sort to wear she has "to appeal to him. giving him a statement of her wishes and reasons, and convincing him of tho necessity of it sho has to do the same if it is only a pair of new boots and at the thought of anew bonnet sho has to dread hearing a homily on female vanity and the idlotiess of fashions, whilo sho would be surprised at herself if sho had a 50 cent piace in her pocket with which to answer a call of charity or buy a spool of silk. Nothing could have lieen devised to make her more surely fool her inferiority or to teach it to the children, who see money doled out to her as it is doled out to them. If, under such circumstances, the wife supplies herself with small chauge in a surreptitious waj', filching from his ixjckots a dime or a nickel at a time till sho can, at any rate, take a ride in the street car without asking, and if by means of that it happens that his children are the children of a thief and are perhaps born kloptomaniars ho has himself to thank for the baseness that has been achieved—himself and his habit of making tho handling of money tho criterion of sense and authority. —Harper's Bazar.

Dnll«(l and Warped Spirits. To prove myself right I have only to ask any of my readers to go with me into houses whero hard work, dull, plodding care, a monotonous existence, unrolieved by the gratification of any of tho finer tastes, is the order of the day through a monotonous stretch of years. Are not most perceptions dulled? Aro any of those unfortunate people alive to tho capacities of life? Is not the spirit, if not warped into a critical carping querulousnoss, at least dulled and made heavy, incapable of appreciating tho more deliciA shades of feeling, and, what is -worse, ready to crush out by its warped condition all sjiontaneity in another? It is not enough to pity these people nor to condone their faults by saying that tho hardships of a life they have tried to livo honestly havo made them what they are. There are so many ways of being virtuous and surely the virtue that is accomplished by dulling and warping the spirit is an unlovely one.

Moreover, when ono thinks of tho evil effect produced on others by people who are unduly absorbed with material cares, the responsibility becomes a grave one. The best, and sweetest in one's nature is too often crushed out and killed by having had its flrst expressions suppressed or repulsed by peoplo too busy, too preoccupied to pay heed. Tito little child who runs in eager joy to its father's study door, holding oat to him some trifle ifchfll brought with all its love and enthusiasm to make the father happy! Docs any o»io think that child's love will ever be as spontaneous again, or as sweet-, its little acts aa lovely or as swest, if that father simply pats tho child on the head with a preoccupied, indifferent manner, or nods and shuts the door, but half regardful of tho Dhildf

We are told, indeed, to beware of wounding the spirit of a child, but how many of us realise that in the spirit of every one there is something eternally childlike, an element as delicate in its susceptibilities as that in the unsullied spirit of a child, to be killed or crushed or waaped in older as in younger people, an element that is always being barn •gain through every exercise of one's best impulses? Yet for all that, in how many households doos one find it a part of the domestic creed to let tho spirit, have its growth, to accomplish all the duties, the material cares of Bfe, but when aceomplishcd to subordinate them, and not let them rise uppermost and mar the expression of cither the courtesies or affections of a family? Husbands and wives, mothers and danghtara, are alienated by no greater causes. Many* member of a household, coining home full of a desire to impart some of the pleasure gained from outside things, has ^eea received, when sk* with actual indiffersoos, yst with tarn

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detail of anxiety thrown out in one's face as it were. What can be said after that? Now, of course, it may be asked what remedy is to be suggested for people who are obliged to live hard, self denying, plodding lives? There are many answers I might give, since the plodder, the carewornspirit, the unduly anxious soul, live in luxury as well as in want. But to ono and all I can say that there is at least the sky over your heads, with its beauty of stars at night and its glory of sunshine by day. Look up at it away from the earth. Merge yourselves in something outside of yourselves. Take pleasure as it comes. Rise above your cares as you would, were your body painracked, rise abovo your pain. More than all, remember that, though you have your own spirits in your keeping, you have some responsibilities, and grave ones, about those of your neighbors. Do not crush out spontaneity in the young, and where ones ties are close leave the way open and clear for the perfect and untrammeled expression of all impulses of the affections. Be alive to what lies of the best in another's spirit. And do not let the dull routine of life, its cares, its worries or its hurries, rob you of all time for other things. Watch out in yourselves for the first hard pressure that tho finger of adverse circumstances imprints on your soul, and break away for a breathing spell.—Rachel Hamilton in New York Star. 1 k.%1

Simple Life Best for Children. Happiness is the natural condition of every normal child, and if the small boy or girl has a peculiar facility' for any one thing it is for self entertainment with certain granted conditions, of course. One of these is physical freedom, and a few rude and simple playthings. Agreeable occupation is as great a necessity for children as for adults, and beyond this almost nothing can be contributed to the real happiness of a child. "I try so bard to make my children happy 1" said a mother, with a sigh one day, in despair at her efforts. "Stop trying," exclaimed a practical friend at her elbow, "and do as a neighbor of mine does." "A.nd how is that?" she asked, dolefully. "Why, she simply lets her children grow and develop naturally, only directing their growth properly. She has always thrown them, as far as practical, upon their own resources, taught them to wait upon themselves—no matter how many servants she had—and to construct their own playthings. When she returns home from an absence they await but one thing—their mother's kiss. Whatever has been brought for them is bestowed when the needed time comes. Nothing exciting is allowed to them at night, and they go to bed and to sleep in a wholesome mental state, that insures restful slumber. They are taught to love nature, and to feel that there is nothing arrayed to finely as the lily of the field, the bees and the butterflies, that there is nothing so mean as a He, nor anything so miserable as disobedience, that it is a disgrace to be sick, and that good health, good teeth and good temper come from plain food, plenty of sleep and being good." In order to thrive, children require a certain amount of "letting alone." Supreme faith in the mother, few toys, no finery, plain food, no drugs and early to bed are the best things for making ttaom happy.—Quiver.

The Names of Women/'

Give your daughter but one name in baptism. Sho will be perfectly content with it. Her lover never requires, never uses, more than one of her names if she has half a dozen. In the height of his tenderness he never exclaims: "Amelia Jane, come to my arms?" He simply extends his arms and cries: "Amelia!" When the girl marries let her always keep her surname. Then whenever we see a woman's name we shall know whether she is married or single, and if she is married wo shall know what her family name is. If she has earned a reputation as a writer or a doctor or an LL.D., as Mary Brown she will carry that with her as Mary Brown Johnson and in all cases there will be spared infinite amount of talk and inquiry as to who sho was before she was married. The system is essential to the "cause" of woman.

It may be said that it lacks perfection in two respects we could not tell from the three names whether the bearer of them might not be a widow, and it makes no provision for a second marriage. These are delicate questions. In regard to the first, it is nobody's business to know whether the woman is or is not a widow, unless she chooses to make that fact prominent, and then she has ways enough to emphasize it. And iu the second place, it does not at all matter what becomes of the name of the first husband. It is the woman's identity that is to be preserved. And she cannot be required to set up milestones all along her life.—New Orleans States.

She Indulges the Senator.

The wifo of a certain senator in Washington, having for many years past suffered from tho knowledge of her husband's frequent flirtations, has within the past season or two adopted a novel plan, which in every instance so far, has boeu crowned with success. As soon as she becomes aware of the latest flame about which tho attention of her errant spouse is fluttering, she invites tho lady to visit her. This invitation, of course, the husband—falling at once into the trap—warmly seconds. Having accomplished so much, the senator's wife now contrives upon every occasion, whether or not it bo in compliance with tho mood of her liego lord, to throw him into tho society of the gw&L

Ficklc and superficial by nature, it takes but a brief season before he wearies of the constant companionship thus thrust upon him, and his ardor cools in proportion as he sees tho obstacles in the way vanishing out of sight. It would seem to a dispassionate observer as though the game were hardly worth tho candle, and that there could be but a small amount of pleasure extracted from tho repetition of such performances but if tho wife is satisfied and blind, in a measure, to the senator's imperfections, it is of smiall moment in what esteem outsiders may regard his conduct, at least in so far as it affects the maritil congeniality of the two.—Baltimore American.

Excellent Heating Arrangement, fife

An almost perfect arrangement for warming a room would be an open fire, and the entire surface of the walls and ceiling formed of a reflecting material. Then the least possible fire would vrarm us, because the halt would be kept alive, active, radiant being reflected constantly from sido to side, and up to ceiling ami back as quick as lightning flashes and so, impinging upon the body on all sides, would give it a lively, glowing warmth, whfle the air might be at almost any lower temperature. It would be like having a firs on every side of the room.

Of course this could not in practice be perfectly carried oat, bat it might easily be carried ont approximately. Common tin plate is said to reflect 88 per cent, of the rays of heat that strike it. This might be stamped with some pleasant design, impressing it very slightly, to break up any distorted reflection of images. Frr?:. s.-rv~^\ paper might be made with a f!

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face. For a hosts? this would be a great improvement, as it would reflect the light beat from every sfcle, mfl to

prevent distorted postions of sitting, which are often found to prevail where the light is only on one side of the pupils.—Popular Science Monthly.

Hints for Shoppers.

One or two really fine jewels are in far better taste than a quantity of mediocre ones.

Colors near th* face should be soft and indescribable. A dark *hm stuff is infinitely cheaper than the cheapest pale material, though its original cost be double.

A purposeless chaos of millinery is not beautiful from an artistic point of view, and probably mischievous from a sanitary one.

True skill in making up materials consists not only in fitting the dress, but in giving to every morsel of stuff its due value.

It is indspensable in buying dresses to remember what your wardrobe contains, as two dresses can often be combined into one nowadays if the colors are happily chosen, which is a great economy.

Ladies who study economy will never adopt tho outre in anyth jig, for outre fashions never last long.

Women of taste are content with a few things—and those good—in lieu of a quantity of cheap finery.—Dry Goods Chronicle.

Physique of American Women. Americans used to be thin and scrawny, and were well laughed at by less nervous nationalities because they were so now all this is changed and the typical American is getting to be actually corpulent. What does it mean that our women should suddenly take on fat to this degree? Where are the delicate, fragile types, that looked as though the wind would blow them away? If you will observe the average woman, whether in the street or at some place of amusement, the increase of her weight, the size of her generally will be a surprise if you haven't given the subject previously any thought. Once on a time it was believed the climate acted as a kind of Bant to the system, but either this climate is losing its asperity or the art of living has become less wearing, for fat women abound, and what is more, the flesh looks as though it had come to stay. Tha question also arises, Doss this increase denote less mental fret and worry? Are people happier for being stout? It looks jolly and good natural- but which is cause and which is effect? —Boston Herald.

Where the Colleges Fall.

When will our women's colleges turn out a race of graduates who will devote themselves to literature, even as faithfully as many men now do, making it an object for life to do thoughtful and serious work? I am told by editors that you may almost count on the fingers of one hand the women in America to whom you can assign a subject for a magazine paper, requiring scholarly effort and labor, and have the work well done. This is the gap that needs to bo filled by literary women at present. Tho supply of second grade fiction—and by this is meant all fiction inferior in grade to George Eliot's—is now tolerably well secured. But the demand for general literary work of a solid and thoughtful nature^ demanding both a scholarship and a trained power of expression—this is never very well supplied among men, and is, with few exceptions, unsupplied among American women. It is to meet this demand that we have a right to look to our colleges.—T. W. Higginson in Harper's Bazar.

Sleep a Preventive of Headache. A scientific writer says: "Sleep, if taken at the right moment, will prevent an atr tack of nervous headache. If the subjects of such headaches will' Watch the symptoms of its coming, they can notice that it begins with a feeling of weariness or heaviness. This is the timo a sleep of an hour, or even two, as nature guides, will effectually prevent the headache. If not taken just then, it will be too late, for, after the attack is fairly under way, it is impossible to get sleep till far into the night, perhaps. It is so common in these days for doctors to forbid having their patients waked to take medicine if they are asleep when the hour comes round, that the people have learned the lesson pretty well, and they generally know that sleep is better for the sick than medicine. But it is not so well known that sleep is a wonderful preventive of diseases—better than tonic regulators and stimulants."—Scientific American..

The Influence of Cheerful Homes.. See to it, then, that their homes compete with public places in their attracti. eness. Open your blinds by day and light bright fires at night. Illuminate your homes. Hang pictures upon the walls. Put books and newspapers on yojir tables. Have music and entertaining games. Banish demons and dullness and apathy, that have so long ruled in your household, and bring in mirth and good cheer. Invent occupations for your sons. Stimulate their ambitions in worthy directions. While you make home their delight, fill them with higher purposes than mere pleasure. Whether they should pass happy boyhood and enter upon manhood with refined tastes and noble ambitions depends on you. Believe it possible that with exertion and right means a mother may have more control over the destiny of her boys than any other influence whatever.—Omaha Daily Republican.

a pew Laundry Hints.

A spoonful of oxgall to a gallon of water will set the colors of almost any goods soaked in it previous to washing. A teacup of lye in a pail of water will improve the color of black goods. Napkins should lie in lye before being washed it sets tho color. A strong tea of common hay will preserve the color of French linen. Vinegar in the rinsing water for the pink or rreen calicoes will brighten them soda answers the same end for both purple and blue. To bleach cotton cloth, take one large spoonful of salsoda and one pound of chloride of lime for thirty yards dissolve in clean soft water rinse the cloth thoroughly in cold soft water so that it may not rot. This amount of cloth may be bleached in fourteen or fifteen minutes.—Scientific American.

Medicinal Value of Honey.

It is said that those who have suffered intensely from ngfthma. have found almost instant relief from a single teaspoonful of warm honey. A professor of medicine has declared that honey disturbs the formation of fungoid growths, and has, therefore, been of great use as a preventive of thrush in babies. It is also claimed that an ointment made of honey and floor is an excellent remedy for boils. The medical authorities claim that its internal use cannot be too highly praised.—Chicago Tribune

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The retention of decomposing materials in furniture, says Dr. George Derby of Boston, is a squrce of danger to health. Dining room carpets receive a great de 1 in the debris of food. It is carried about in the air, and, in combination with vapor, attaches itself to woolen and cotton textures of every kind, to paper hangings, to whatever will absorb moisture. A bouse wboae entry smells musty is dangerous. Avoid lb Dant live in it Keep your children oat

WHAT SHALL WE WEAR!

COSTUMES DESIGNED BY REDFERN FOR OUTDOOR WEAR.

Jaunty Walking Jackets Ornamented In Hussar Style—English Stockings That Are Popular With American Women.

New Designs in Jewelry.

The present season has been very properly termed a "woolen season," because of the prevalence of walking dresses of wool fabrics. Dark soft colors are the sort selected as a rule for these gowns, which are most stylishly made in what is commonly known as tailor finish. In the figures illustrated are models designed by Redfern, the ladies' popular tailor. The first cut represents two walking costumes, the one trimmed with fur, and the other with revers, collar, cuffs, etc., finished with velvet.

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In the second cut- are represented a military cloth jacket, trimmed with black Persian lamb fur, and a skating costume. The flrst named is an exceedingly popular garment with misses and young ladies, and may be of any color desired. The first is ornamented in hussar style, with cord and buttons.

Ml LIT ART JACKET. SKATING COSTUME.

The skating costume, as will be seen in the remaining figure, is admirably adapted for tho purpose for which it was designed. Thero aro no loose draperies or trimmings to fly and flop in the wind, or in any manner interfere with the free movements of the wearer. 4 I s'j-

Specialties In Hosiery.

Black hose still retain the flrst place in popular favor. The special novelty in hose is known as English walking stockings. These are described in Demorest's Monthly as follows:

The feet are of fine sea island cotton or of silk in the natural color, while the tops, above the ankles, are of fine silk. They are brought out in order to supply a demand made by ladies who are devoted to pedestrian trips, and who do not find pure silk hose sufficiently durable for their purpose. These hose are very thick and soft, and very fine, with double heels and feet, and are, doubtless, the most economical hose for wear that have ever been put upon the market. This style is known as the boot pattern, and is, of course, intended only for wear with high shoes. The reverse of this idea gives black feet and ankles, and in somo now styles the hose are black about half of their length, the tops being white or Balbriggan color. Another style, that is meeting with special favor, has Balbriggan tops for about two inches, and heels and ankles of the silk spliced weave with Balbriggan soles.

These silk spliced goods are made by running in several threads when the hose are made, thus forming a very thick and durable heel and ankle, in which, instead of a single thread, as is usually the case, there are several threads. The thick portion extends well up at the back of the ankle, and will be specially appreciated by ladies who wear ties, and whose hose in consequence are destroyed by the contact of the skirts with the backs of the AnltlwL The best black hose are now brought out in the Anchor dye, which has already become well known for its reliability.

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Novelties In Jewelry.

The late craze in the floral world for chrysanthemums has not been without its effect in jewelry, the chrysanthemum having appeared aS a model in many of the holiday goods. One of the prettiest examples seen of chrysanthemum jewelry was a brooch simulating the flower in form and throwing its shades in variegated golds, a brilliant in the center acting as a dew drop.

The fleur-de-lis is a popular design in fine jewelry.

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ants, brooches and hair ornaments, and in gold and silver brooches. A beautiful silver brooch seen in fleur-de-lis pattern showed the nialirt finish with applied gold decorations.

In silver brooches and cuff buttons are to be seen many valuable antique coins, as well as admirable copies of these and other antiques in niello finish.

Bracelets were never more worn than at the present time, all styles and kinds being admissible. The present fashion still calls for gem necklaces, while pendants set with gems are in as great demand as ever, and are fashionably worn on a slight gold neck chain. Some very pretty silver necklaces enameled and set with small gems in rococo effect represent Persian contributions in this direction in addition to being exceedingly attractive.

Silverware for Table.

In silverware, both sterling and plated, oocur many old ^English forms and styles of decorating. Repousse, chasing and etching appear to be equally popular modes of finish. The fluted pattern in bright finish that runs diagonally, is a popular one in both sterling plated wan and bids fair to have along ran. The many new patterns in small casters an attracting attention at this season, and are open salt cellars in mslqae designs to tsks ths place of shaken.

ALL AROUND THE HOUSE.

Up Stairs, Down Stairs and in the Lady's Parlor. In every household occurs more or less waste. A great deal of coal is lost by some people who think it does not pay to sift ashes. From the furnace, perhaps not, especially if you have to hire a man to do it, but in a small house where the work is not very heavy, tho cinders from the kitchen are so well worth doing that a scuttle nearly full of good fuel will result from the morning sifting if the sifter is fixed on a barrel and covered, it is not disagreeable work, nor will it take ten minutes to sift cinders from two or three fires.

Another source of waste is the fat. In some houses everything is put away for soap fat, which is sold to tho junkman for a trifle, and lard bought for cooking in others, beef fat is kept and all else thrown away. As a matter of fact, most families would have little need to buy lartl, and soap only for laundry purposes, if all fat was saved.

It is needless to say, perhaps, that the fat of beef is as wholesome as butter, or that hog's lard is one of tho most unwholesome ingredients of our food, yet, in spite of this acknowledged fact, it is tho beef fat that is often thrown away and the lard that is purchased for use. There aro two

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Table Cloths and Napkins

The attractiveness of a table depends as much upon its napery as upon the dishes and viands served thereon. Breakfast napkins are of smaller size than dinner napkins. Very pretty ones are of fine double damask, with a simple design, such as a snowdrop or a mathematical figure, to match the table cloth. A young housekeeper's truest economy is to invest in the best of napery—double damask, good Irish linen. Poor, cheap napkins wear out very quickly with washing. In a large family, where there are children, coarse, heavy linen table cloths are more oconomical than colored ones, as they wash so much better. Children's napkins may be coarse wnd heavy and tied around the neck with tapes.

Colored napery is a luxury of fashionable tables indulged in for the sake of making a littlo unlikeness between the breakfast and lunch table, and the dinner table. A particolored cloth is never used for dinner. Country housewives can always keep their table linen pure and white by letting it lie out on the grass and bleach.

Dinner napkins ore large and handsome, carefully ironed and simply folded. With the finger bowl is brought a colored napkin. The fanciful little dog legs putupou the plate under the bowl are simply for ornament. The folding of napkins into fancy shapes, such as a swan, a ship, etc., is by no means a dainty fashion, as they must be handled when half wet to accomplish it, and should be left exclusively to tho hotels where it is practiced.

jc *"2** A, Sweet Herbs for So apt For soups, sauces, stews and braising, one wants sweet marjoram, summer savory, thyme, parsley, sage, and the like, always on hand. Tive cents worth of bay leaves from a drug store completes the list. Sleep the herbs tied together in a large paper bag or a box, where they will be dry. Mint and parsley should bo used green, and the former is best used only in the spring and summer. Green parsley is very useful for garnishing meats and other dishes. To keep it through the winter, plant two or three pots with healthy roots in the fall. Or a still better way is to have large boles bored in the sides of a large tub or keg then fill up to the first row of holes with rich soil put the roots of the plants through the holes, leaving tho leaves outside fill up again with soil and continue this till the tub is nearly full then plant the top with roots and keep in a sunny window. ^-5.

Chicken in Jelly.

Cut the meat from the bones of chickens left from dinner—about one pint of cold chicken is sufficient. Pat the bones on to boil in water and boil down to a cupful of stock. Soak one-fifth of a bos of gelatine in onefourth of a cupful of cold water. When the stock is reduced as much as is necessary, strain and season it and add half a teaspoonful of curry powder and the chicken. Season with salt and pepper, and simmer ten minutes thm add the gelatine and tike until it is dissolved. Turn the whole into a mold and set away to harden. This provides a very nioft relish for lunch or tea.

To Bestore Color.

Pinsh goods and all articles dyed with aniline colors, faded from exposure to light, will look bright as ever after bring sponged with ddqroform.—Scientific American.

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this, no doubt. The laid comes ready rendered and in neat shape, and although it is high in prico and largely adulterated (even when nothing is added to it, it is said that what wo buy as lard from the grocer has had lard oil already made from it), it is bought for convenience. The second reason may be that, although it is known beef fat is wholesome, it is not known so widely that every bit of dripping, every bit of fat steak, the skimming from water in which beef has boiled, can be tried out and clarified into the purest and sweetest beef lard.—Good Housekeeping.

Parlor Furniture.

In parlor furniture two styles prevail. In ono tho wood framework is exposed in the other it is entirely covered with the upholstery fabric. While some choico designs show the wood, it is considered that tho highest class of work and finish is furnished in the all over covered goods. Some extremely attractive mahogany frame suits aro made those are richly carved, and show a great diversity of Bhape. Spindle work is in high favor in all furniture that is not covered.

Very attractive parlor suits in favor show tufted backs and plain seats. Others have backs made of bands of fancy material, with plain plush above and below, and the seats mado of a squaro of fancy goods, with a plush border all around it. i,

Separate chairs are out iu great variety. Tho Decorator and Furnisher describes some massive designs in solid carved oak or mahogany, also in the mahoganized cherry—which has many points of excellence. A large chair has heavy carvcd front legs and massivo sido pieces that aro but thrco or four inchcs wide at, the front end, but grow widor until they form the (jack legs of tho chair. They are carved in open pattern and carved in imitation of antique styles. Mahogany singlo chairs aro cither heavy and ri^Llj carved or are very light, artistic and graceful, being made of spindle and fret work and hand carved, somo of them with heavy curved backs. Some handsome rocking chairs aro also noted. They are almost exclusively in the patent rocker style, and are finished in spindle pattern, fret work and, finely carved lattice work.

Somo of them havo spindle or lattice backs, and cane, leather or upholstery stuff seats, others have leather medallion backs, surrounded with lattice and carved designs. Others have back, arms and seat in plush, brocatelle, or any of the popular cover stuffs. Small, light chairs have spindle backs, half arms and seats in leather or other cover goods.

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GOOD HEALTH.

In the Sick Room—Valuable Suggestion In Regard to Many Ailment A gentleman subject to severe attacks nervous headache relieves them entirely four or five minutes by the use of the follow ing prescription, and has seen the same sue cessfully employed by many of his friendv Take a dessert spoonful of common sodLa such as is used in making bread, and dl^ol+ it thoroughly in a quart of cold water. Wit this shampoo the head for about flvo minute scratching the skin of the head and back o. tho nock with the finger nail. Then rinse tb head with cold water. This remedy is nervous headaches and not for those arisii from a deranged stomach.

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A recent, writer gives tho following set sible suggestions on this subject: Each person in a room should be supplif with 8,000 cubic feet of air per hour a: this should bo done, whero possible, withoi. creating a perceptible draft, for the nervo irritation induced by drafts is liable to pr duce internal inflammations.

As a patient can bear a greater degree cold when in bed than when out of it, cl valescents from severe disease, fevers ospc ally, should have the temperature of th rooms higher than that maintained di ing the height of the attack. Disease? air passages, as croup and diphtheria, quires a high temperature (80 to 85 dc Fahrenheit) and a moist atmosphere. best method for heating the sick room is the open grate fire. The room should not darkened by blinds, except whore there disease of the eyes, with photophobia, when the patient is very restless and cam sleep then strong light must be exclude Otherwise the sunlight must be allowed enter and act chemically by decomposing noxious gases, and thus purify the air. 1 course it is not advisable to place tho patit under a strong uncomfortable glare of su light, nor in summer to allow tho sun's to shine into the room and raise tho temper ture too high. Artificial light .has no usol effect, but does harm by burning up oxyg

1. How to Treat Corpulence. A physician of Germany, who objects the Banting system of reducing flesh, insi upon abstinence and active exercise, a gives a middle aged man who has been o\ stout for twenty years the following bill faro: Breakfast—A large cup of black without milll or sugar an ounce and a I of white bread or tohsted brown bread, ,w plenty of butter. Dinner—Soup four tt| ounces of meat, boiled or roasted, wifclW gravy, fat meat 'being preferable a sm quantity of vegetables, particularly logun* ous, and all kinds of cabbage. Turnips potatoes are hot allowed. Fresh fruit, wl in season, as dessert salad or baked

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without sugar. Soon after dinner tak large cup of black tea withou*. milk or sug Supper—In winter regularly, in summer casionally, a large cup of black tea with milk and sugar an egg or fat roost me sometimes fat ham or fresh fish about ounce of bread with butter occasion! .^heeso nnd iresh fruit.

Soothing Drops.

Wrinkles on the face aro much under j* sonal control. Knitting 1 he brows perpetu produces an ugly wrinkle between the brows. A habit of half closing the eyes, cc mon to near sighted people who do not glasses, makes wrinkles at their outer cor

If neither vaseline nor pure glycerine your skin, try a mixture of equal parts of glycerine and ordinary camphor in solu

Dr. William A. Hammond advises tho of black pepper, mustard, vinegar and condiments in the diet of nients suffe from lowfevera of typhoid eandinaln all malarial disorders.

We are not amphibious' animals, as might infer from the persistency with we ore urged to bathe—bathe—bath morning plunge, the morning sponge shower may work mischief as well as

The best way to prevent a baby from after a bath is to wrap it at onco iu a cotton sheet or towel placed on a blanket.

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Manners and Social Usages Fraetlr* Polite Society. It is an accepted rulo in New York sc. that no gentleman should be introduced lady unless her permission has boen and she bo given an opportunity to In making an introduction the gentlem presented to the lady with some such mal speech as this: "Mrs. A., allow met sent Mr. or, "Mrs. A., Mr. B. desir. honor of knowing you." In introducii women, present the younger to the woman, the question of rank not ho good in our society, where the position husband, bo be judge, general or set does not necessarily give his wifo a ftv able position. She may be of far portance in the great world of societ some Mrs. Smith, who, having nothin. is set down as of the highest rank in tiu published but well known book of hen which is so thoroughly understood in 1 ica as a tradition.

In this country it is the fashion to hands, and most women, desirous of cordial, extend their hands even on a traduction. But it is, perhaps, moi gant to make a bow only at a first duction. In her own house a hostess .? always to extend her hand to a brought to her by a mutual friend and duced for the flrst time.

At large gatherings in the count* proper for the lady to introduce her each other, and it is perfectly prop this without asking permission of parly.

A gentleman, after being introdi lady, must wait for her to bow flrst lef rlniirm her as an acquaintance.

Visiting Cards and Cases.

For some reason, not apparent, the| card case is no longer popular. In it are earned cases of fine leather, beauf decorated with gold or silver trimmii way of corners, center pieces, monogn| niHn1« Some of the newer card casc»C in or am el others are made of Japanese decorated 1« ornamented with gold bronze trimmim

Block edged cards should be used pie in mourning. There are six wid borders on mourning cards. The known as "double broad" is seldom, us ing an extreme style. "Extra broad" ployed for extra deep mourning, as ir where several deaths have occurred n« gctlier. "Broad" is used by widoui widowers "medium" for parents a:ig dren "narrow" for brothers and sistt "Italian" for relatives other than the af

Yes, Sir, and Xo,

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The Expressions "Yes, sir," "yes, nr" "no, sir," "no, ma'am," are no longc« among equals. They are employed fvants in speaking to their employers, otherwise The fashion of making use tliem forms is even nearly dried ot wisely so. "Yes, mamma," "Yes, papa,r infinitely better. In England peopk mj "Yes, ma'am," to the queen. 3#