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WOMAN AND HOME.

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HIGHEST TYPE OF WOMANHOOD IN THE ENGLISH MIDDLE CLASS.

Cookery for Children—Kl*»Injj Games. EaU at the Theatre—Comfort the Mother lleart—Nourishment in an Egg.

Kitchen Dignity—Stray Paragraphs.

In the great middle class of England we find the highest type of womanhood and her saving grace. In health and physique these women are models worthy of our admiration and emulation. It is with rare exceDtiods that the tourist sees a pale faced, puny, sickly looking, spindle waisted, panting, fainting Englishwoman. The pink and white complexion, the clear eye, the well rounded waist, the firm tread, bespeak perfect bodily health. Many of these women take their summer outing in long walks across the fields, that they may view nature in all its grandeur and simplicity, instead of rushing from sHbp to dressmaker and packing Saratoga trunks for dayB or weeks before "taking a rest." They don a tidy flannel walking costume, fill a hand basket with a few toilet articles, and Start on their walking or tricycle tour over the charming roods, making detours, as they fancy, over the heaths. It is not uncommon to see a double tricycle with husband and J. wife riding through the country for their vacation. Doubtless the good health of these •women is due largely to their outdoor exercise. In this class will be found the best of bomemakers, the broad minded philanthropists and reformers aud tlio happiest and most useful wives, mothers and spinsters.

Tho English wife in this class is no drudge she commands a retinue of servants that would appall the American husband on domestic pay day. Tho standing of a family socially depends somewhat upon tho number of servants employed. "We could easily manage our household service with one servant,r said a model mother to me, "but son and daughters would rather economize in other ways und keep two maids for the appearance of the thing." The irregularity, tho timely luncheon of the English household would make a drudge of the head were it not for tho numbers of servants usually employed. I liavo been most delightfully entertained in several charming, perfectly ordered homes of men engaged in large manufacturing interests, and find that tho usual reunue of servants consists of a cook, bouse maid, nurse, governess, gardener, groom and valet. Tho scarcity of labor keeps these servants respectful and attentive, and their "character" depends upon tho length of time they serve one master. This makes commanding and serving much less annoying than with us in America, where tho help expects to rule or ruin. If tho mistress of this manse is given to benevolence, as she usually is, she employs woman philanthropist to read the Bible and visit the sick, the afflicted or the fallen with messages of consolation, the loaf or the bunch Of flowers, as the cuse may require.

The zeal and magnitude of charities carried on by this class of womon in the cities of Eugland is loautiful to contemplate. Considering tho great demoralization of the masses throughout tho British Empire, it appears to me that these women, and their hearty co-laborers, their husbands, fathers and brothers, are holding up by main force the whole structure of British society. They are usually dovoted to church duties, the church leading rather than following in works of reform and charity. I am pleased to note tho absence of religious cant in their conversation and methods they do not expect the Lord to aervo them as their apprentice, but with an executive ability born of real and common ssn9e thoy apply the law as laid down in His word. There in an entire absence of silly small talk and affectation among them, which gives place to genial, philanthropic or political subjects. Altogether the women of the middle class of Eugland are charming to study and to know.—Home Journal.

Cookery for Children.

Too little attention is paid to the food prepared for children tho care and arrangement is left to servants who are either incompetent themselves or care so little about the matter as to cook it in the manner they find the easiest to themselves. It is of great consequence to fix the times of taking food as well as to regulate the quantity given to a child. The mother should, unless she has servants who can be thoroughly trusted, personally attend to theso arrangements it is her province. There is groat danger that an infant under 8 years of age will be overfed if it be left to the discretion of the nurse. These persons, generally, to stop tho screaming of a child, whether it proceed from pain or crossness, or repletion vas it often does), give it something to eat—often that which is very injurious, to tempt tho appetite if it will only eat and stop crying they do not care for the future inconvenience which this habit of indulgence may bring on tho child and its mother.

Arrange as early as possible the regular time* of giving food to children, according to their age and constitution. Young infants require food every two hours when awake after 3 months old they may go three hoars, then cautiously lengthen the time, as the child cau boar it But remember that all temperaments are not alike. Some of the same age may require more food than others. One rulo, however, will apply to all—never give food to amuse a child or keep it quiet when it is not hungry, or to reward it for being good. You may as rationally hope to extinguish afire by pouring on oil as to cure a peevish temper or to curb a violent one by pampering the appetite for luxuries in diet— Chicago News.

Kitchen Dignity.

An exceedingly ludicrous and also exasperating incident of the complaint about household service is the statement that the maids are not treated with sufficient dignity. One of the loudest complaints we have beard Is that a well bred person, who, deciding to take service, was driven from it through humiliation occasioned by the master of the house standing up before her, without a word, to be helped with his greatcoat, taking the help fur granted, as if die were an automaton.

Yet in such a case the maid fails to realise that tho more she is treated like an automaton by the gentlemen of the house, the better it is for her. She does not, or she should not, dftdre to be either a lady—using the word technically, and with no reflection on her good manners—or an individual with them, aud the prouder and more high spirited she is, the more readily she should perceive this. With the women of the household it is a very different matter, and it would be a household so far out of the common sort as to have escaped our notice where the female members did not put their serving women on a friendly fo ting, take a personal interest in their affair*, help them through their difficulties and respect their individuality.—

Kissing aa aa Amnseoaeat.

It may be asserted in a general way, that wherever in the United Statics you do not find dancing, you find kissing. In oommnnitis* where dancing was disapproved I have «mo •string games* called for and carried into practice at entertainments held in school teases and even at church sodahlee. In sack f|torn church siiwbin and, far aagfck 2

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know, deacons, take part in the amusement and I have seen it develop a riskiness, so to speak, in grizzled men, which made them, one would say, anything but seductive or beguiling to the young and fair. Among those of earlier yeara kissing becomes in such communities a systematic pursuit, like hunting or fishing. Young girls whose parents object to it are neglected or disliked a young man in such a village told a friend of mine, with some indignation, that die was the only girl in town whom ho had not kissed.

It is of no use to object to it as immoral where the church members are committed to it. Perhaps it cannot be called immoral, but when society has reached a certain stage of refinement these games vanish. The symbol of that increased refinement is usually dancing. Dancing, whatever its drawbacks, serves practically as the antidote to timing games where one begins the other dies out. They do not seem to flourish side by side at any rate, people rarely go back from dancing to kissing. Granting, for the sake of argument, that it is necessary to have some amusement, the choice lies, in our villages and scattered families, between these two forms of relaxation. Which is the better of the two?—Harper's Bazar.

Charming Tricycle Itlders.

Two very pretty and very stylish looking young ladies have been making a decided sensation on the avenue by their dexterous riding of the tricycle. Both are remarkably pretty and wear handsome street costumes. One of them wears a gentleman's high silk hat, the only difference being thatit is turned up on one side and has a little black feather in it Her cloth dress fits her trim figure exquisitely, and on her wee, pretty foot she wears a long boot, like a backwoodsman. The top of her boot hides her pretty ankle, but the convenience obviates many of the obr jections raised to ladies riding tricycles. Her companion wears a Tam O'Shanter cap, which falls prettily about her head. Both the high silk hat and the Tam O'Shanter are kept on the ladies' heads by long, flat pins, and they go flying up the avenue without fear of losing their headgear. They each own a single tricycle, and use these in the morning, but in the evening, when the avenue is crowded, they ride a double tricycle, and cause many of the congressmen's hearts, and senators', too. by the way, to go pit-a-pat in unison with the girls' daintily booted feet on the pedals. Washington Cor. Baltimore American.

A Censure Partly Undeserved. Thore is a good deal said about the idleness and so on of American young women, the daughters of parents who are well to do in the world, which is undeserved. Because a girl is fond of life and its active pleasures, because she dances, is deeply interested in dress, goes to many entertainments and has what she herself calls "an awfully jolly time," in no wise is this evidence that she cannot mix with all those lighter undertakings real hard work. We do not refer altogether to the endless little things which occur at home and which would cause growling and grumbling if they were left undone. But no one who has not been on the inside has any conception of how much the girls do to help their mothers and ease the burdens of th^ir elders. The gayest and most popular of society girls are not free from these duties, and they are usually taken as a matter of course. They are undertaken without a thought of lazy, discontented repining as a general thing} when this rule does not apply I pity the man, though he be fifty times a millionaire, who marries the girl Life is not all rose leaves to them by a very great deal.—Toledo Blade.

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Dangerons Practice.

The practice of allowing children to go out at night to find their own companions and their own places of amusement may leave one in twenty unscathed and without danger bat I think that nineteen out of twenty fall down wounded or destroyed. And it there is one thing that should be more imperative than another, it is that your children shall be at home at night or that, if they are abroad, you shall be abroad with them. There may be things that it is best that you should do for your children though you would not do them for yoursolves but they ought not to go anywhere at night, to see sights, or to take pleasure, unless you can go with them, until they are grown to man's estate and their habits are formed. And nothing is more certain than that to grant the child liberty to go outside of the parental roof and its restraints in tho darkness of night is bad, and only bad, and that continually.—Henry Ward Beecher in New York World.,'

The Cooking Stove Apostaey. The religious papers are taking up what some of them call the "cooking stove apoetar cy." The point of their complaint seems to be that the caterer is gaining ground at the church sociable, and, like the political parties, they call on the country to "view with alarm" a ministry of three order*—pastor, deacons and professional cooks, the last in white vestmen U, manipulating the ritual of pies and cakes. Well, good brethren, and why not! Did you ever view with alarm the flushed faces of the sisters of the church who have wearied themselves out from time immemorial, bent their backs and risked their tempers preparing the simple meal "for whose restoration you clamorf If the caterer, with his white vest and white gloves, can relieve some measure of fatigue and worry on the part of the feminine portion of the congregation the ehurch social will serve a better end than it ever has before.—Kansas City Journal.

Busy Men and Women.

A busy woman who must think, who most care for others, whose heart i* in her work for others, and whose life cannot be confined within four walls or any narrowing conventionalities, seeks her kind and saves her precious moments by receiving her friends upon one day in the week. The busy man, shut in his office for long hours, harassed by many cares and often flagellated by foes, fiuds it sweeter and better for the few moments' chat in some attractive home, where beauty, music and flowers give him the neekd poetry to mate with his prosaic cares. —C'oi-ago Tribune.

Awkward Horns.

A bright and busy little woman, who was asked to some entertainment from 3 to 5 the other day, sent back word she couldnt go, for •be couldn't go to heaven between those hours in U» afternoon I And they are awkward hours, when you come to consider it. Only the idlers, the butterflies and the gadabouts truly like this afternoon tea and chocolate visiting. For the workers it is destruction bat then, what right has a working man or woman to play before 6 at night?—Boston Herald.

V«us as Missionaries.

At WeUeskor college eighty young women have expressed a desire to work aa foreign missionaries at Oberiin, about 100 signified the same purpose, and, including all thess and other colleges, there are about 400 young women willing to work in the foreign field.— Public Opinion.

The last edict famed by the cottoned suiM| of Baton is that the use of pet names sboold be abandoned Mamie is BOW plate Mary, Lain becomes Lmaetta. Baffle rteriwii tarmW ie awl is si Hit,Sarah, eta.

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Nourishment in an Egg.

"Eggs are indigestible," the landlord tells you in rural New England, and offers you fried beefsteak and saleratus as a substitute. "Don't raise 'em round here except accidental like," was the report of a western landlord, while in the south delicious fried chicken may be had, but how seldom the egg, the beginning of all chickens. "They're not substantial enough," is the verdict in other directions. "If I could afford them, I dont suppose the boys would think they had made a meal unless they ate five or six."

For this conclusion die herself is probably responsible. If "the boys" had been taught in the beginning that the amount of nourish" ment in an egg is equivalent to a quarter of a pound of cooked beef, they would have learned to feel that four could hardly be yffpynta'nl, and that two were really a good meaL As to their indigestibility, it is not the egg that is in fault, but the manner of cooking it and the variety of incongruities that are taken with it. We boil and fry and* turn out leathery omelets when required, but know few of the possibilities of really well prepared eggs. The poorest peasants of southern Europe, France, Spain, Italy, Greece, can prepare an omelet, juicy, savory and light, or serve you eggs in a dozen other ways, and there is every reason why we should follow their example dispense with the inordinate amount of meat we eat, and thus with some of the diseases produced by too much meat, and make breakfast less of a problem to the anxious housekeeper. With fresh fruit, wheat in grainlet or some other form, good coffee and eggs, there is certainly both variety enough and nourishment enough for even a hard working man, and the cost at most & no more than that of meat, and for much of the year far less.--—Helen Campbell.

Her Side of the Question.

Still there is one condition on which they, even they themselves, will go bareheaded to the theatre, will compromise on a Spanish lace scarf about the head, ou a low bonnet, on a Marie Stuart cap, on nothing. They will take the time and trouble to dress their hair before going, they will offer themselves an oblation to curiosity to the extent of letting the women behind them gloat over the special defect of their eked out back hair, they will hold thoir best hats in .the lap tho evening long, they will sacrifice the last scene of the play, be it the fires of Woden playing about Brunhilda, for the sake of getting to the check room in time to find their cloaks and reach the cars they will meet any and every demand in relation to the high hat—as we say —on one condition.

The condition is far simpler than anything proposed to them. It is merely that the male part of the audience shall keep their seats throughout the action of the play, that they shall not be allowed to go stepping and striding and pushing and squeezing past the feminine part of the audience in order to go out between the acts, obliging every woman either to be stepped over or else to gather her cloak, her furs, her scarf, her muff, her programme, her opera glass, and erect herself and push back her seat, and clutch her properties again and hold them breathless for another rise when the miscreants come back and oblige her to do it all over again, and have their breath blown in her face the while. These women say, then, that when managers make a regulation obliging men who wish to go out between the acts to take certain seats by themselves they will acquiesce in one obliging them to sit without their bonnets and it is their belief that when no man in the theatre forces a lady to endure this annoyance and outrage every lady in the house will be willing to leave her bonnet at home.—Harper's Bazar. y^

Comfort for the Mother Heart. It is so little we can really do for one another in the march of life. We are all under marching orders and have burdens to carry. There is no halt for noonday dreams nor twilight rest It is step, step, step right forward through dust and commonplace, without music or banners or present glory, and yet God has given to each soldier a canteen full of never failing water, a cup of which we may proffer with no fear of a diminished store all the way through to the end of the long march to the sea. Is our comrade tired and discouraged? Do his feet fail and his heart grow heavy? A tender word, a smile, a thoughtful suggestion born of helpful love, will revive him like sparkling water in the desert heat Is the mother heart, that makes the beauty of our home, bushed and well nigh crushed to earth with accumulated uresf Do the sweet eyes sometimes grow cloudy with shadows and the dear tones fail, like the notes of a rifted lute?

Oh, see to* it children, that you surround her with loving words, that shall fly into her heart like white doves flocking home to rest I Kiss her, love her, comfort her I So doing, you shall revive and uplift her as showers uplift the flowers, so that her way shall brighten like a landscape in the rain. And by and by, when her gentle presence shall have vanished from your home, when the grave shall have hushed her tired heart in its long repose, you will be so glad to remember that you never withheld this expression of your love.— "Amber" in Chicago Journal.

Dellghtfnl Little Tables*

A college girl makes delightful little tables, useful and artistic, by using as supports two saw horses, with a table top of plain board. The horses are painted blade nnd etched with gold paint the table top i* covered with doth or felting, plain and simple, bearing in the corner the owner's initial or college colors knotted into a loose bow knot—New York Graphic.

Women as Clerks.

A dtizen who knows Wall street, informs us that women are very popular as clerks and copyists hi that neighborhood, because employers are not afraid of their divulging the secrets of the shop. They can be trusted better than can be the ambitious male employes not to give away points."—Public Opinion.

Mme. Isabel, the famous Bond street milliner, wasa graduate of Girton another successful milliner was known as Lady Granville Gordon before sbo became a London milliner.

Scrap baskets are made of birch bark, the borders finished with strips of young birch, twisted into the desired shape and held in place by huge rows of ribbon.

Apiece of zinc placed on the coal oitabot stove will dean oat the stovepipe. The vapor produced carries off the soot by chemical decomposition.

The yelk of one egg, three drams of glycerine and fifteen grains of carbolic add make an excellent mixture for softening the hands.

Vienna bread such as we have here is undentood to be materially different from that they enjoy in Austria.

Bent whalebone can be restored and ussd again by simply soaking In water a few boors, then drying them.

Boston womsn call cranberry tarts "Thackmj poflk," because they are so and

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TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

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WHAT SHALL WE WEAR!

A LACE SEASON IN PROSPECT. 3 FINE LEATHER GOODS,

Attractive and Fashionable Styles of Kilt Salts for Little Boys—Ladles' Watches in Highly Decorative Cases

Richly Set With Valuable Gems. There is no more convenient or becoming style of dress for little boys than kilt suits.

Of these suits tBere exists a great variety of patterns. The cut here given represents two kilt suits at present much worn by juvenile New Yorkers.

POPULAR KILT 8UITS.

The first figure hi the cut shows a popular stylo of two piece kilts that will be much worn this spring. It is trimmed, as will bo seen, with four small plaits and fancy straps of the same goods as the suit

The second figure is that of a now style of two piece kilt suit, with trimmings of different goods in contrast to the material used in the body of the garment

Silver Trimmed Leather Goods. Pocketbooks, card cases, blotters, portfolios and purses are popular objects when mounted with old silver carvings in elegant designs. Sometimes the corners alone are decorated, while at others they are bordered nil round. Very beautiful are the articles ornamented with enamel upon silver in Moorish and Oriental colors, presenting in appearanco a handsome illumination upon the kid surface. Occasionally these leather objects are decorated with little gold flowers or insects in repousse work, and occasionally a Christian name or initials hand written or cut out in gold, appear upon it. Many colors 01*0 expressed in these leather goods, such as gray, brown, verdigris, porcelain, blue and a cream of leather, very attractive when bordered with old silver carving.

Lace Dresses and Lace Honnets. The coming season is to be what dressmakers and milliners term a lace season. Black lace dresses are to bo worn on the street again, and naturally lace bonnets will be in high favor. Indeed at the present time lace dresses are largely worn for evening receptions and entertainments by women of all ages.

Black lace dresses are not only worn over black, but over an under dress of any color that may be desired. Black lace bonnets with garniture of flowers or gay colored ribbons, are at the present time favorites for theatres and evening wear.

-j, ladles* Watches.

The present fashion is for smaller watches for ladies, with dial and case more or less decorated. In the finer goods the semi-hunter case is the preferred one, and there is a strong tendency to Louis XIV styles in the decoration of both dials and cases. A very pretty watch is one showing a blue enameled dial with gold numerals and hands. Enameled cases are much used, and there is a disposition to ornament with gems again. A popular case isagold one withadover leaf in the center, set with three different colored stones. The raised wire work is used with good effect on both gold and silver watches, and, in this connection, it may be told that artistic silver watches are much carried by both men and women.

DECORATED WATCH CASUS.

The accompanying cut shows two styles of decoration. In one appears about tho edges of the case net carving, with here and there a ma.ll gem, set to enhance the effect In and around tho center are designs made up of raised wire work, gems and chasing. The other figure in the cut represents a simple but elegant stylo of case this shows a groundwork of fine chasing on the back of the case, with a decoration in the center that simulates a star. As may be seen, this effect is gained by a bright cut star set with a large fine diamond.

A novelty in watches for mourning consists of watches set in black enamel cases with black dials on which appear numerals in white enamel.

Vivid Tones of Color.

The fancy for yellow in the dress and its accessories still reigns in full force alongside that other fancy for red in its deepest and most vivid tones, and between them the two brightest and most pronounced of colors makef any gathering of women unusually flame tinted and picturesque. The liking for yellow extends to the jewelry worn, and has created this winter a furore for amber, which is seen on every oocasion, appearing in necklace and bracelets, in ornaments for the hair and pins for the flowers on tho corsage, in every possible position, and applied to overy conceivable use. It is only the gregarious instinct that induces one sheep to follow another in jumping over a wall that makes such a sadden flaming out of one color, one shape or one material all over the city possible and it is this very monotony of dress and conduct among city women in general that engenders something worse, that straining for the eccentric and the outre, not to keep up with the fashions, as our censors of the other sex pat it—we all do that without any difficultybat to get ahead of them that are responsible for at least as much "nervous prostration" and general breakdown as a half dosen other causes combined.

Diagonal Front* on Jackets. Diagonal fronts upon both basques and street jackets will be a feature of spring fashions. The English cutaway coat, fastening diagonally across the chest, is one of the natty styles which will prove popular. Beneath this is a perfect fitting Louis XIV vest of pale yellow pique, or very often corded •Ok of a primrose tint will be used. Another model shim the right front cut wide enough to lip in double breasted fashion from the throat to the length of aboat four indies over the chest Below this each side is cot away, leaving abroad open space, this spaos filled in by a vest formed of a single section hdd in four which are stayed by tapes tacked ID the andsrfokhL The dosing is made by •nam of three large bottom sst upon the sigs the umhgptog portion

ALL AROUND THE HOUSE.

Up Stairs, Down Stairs, in the Kitchen and in the Lady's Parlor. Ladies who entertain are constantly on the hlert to introduce pleasing surprises for their guests. An instance at hand is that of the hostess who introduced an additional course at a ladies' luncheon party, directly after dessert This course consisted of fresh Paxma violets in a rock crystal bowl, from which each guest helped herself to a bunch of tho fragrant flowers. Aside dish of silver pins accompanied this course of flowers, which enabled the latter to be worn as a corsage bouquet :y~r

How to Make and Drink Tea. A Chinese writer in giving American tea drinkers some advice in regard to tea, recommends the use of a china or porcelain pot If you use metal, let it bo tin, new, bright and dean never use it when the tin is used out and the iron exposed. If you do, you are playing chemist and forming a tennate or tea-ate of iron. Use black tea. Green tea when good is kept at home. What goes abroad is bad, very bad. Besides containing the 208 adulterations the Chinese philanthropist puts up for the outside barbarian, it is always pervaded by copper dust from the dirty curing pans of the growers. Infuse your tea. Don't boil it Place one teaspoonful of tea in tho pot and pour over it one and one-half cups of boiling water—that is, water that is really boiling. Put the pot on the back of the stove, carefully covered, so tlu»t it shall not loose its heat and the tea its bouquet Let it remain there five minutes, then drink it Drink tea plain. Tea brokers, tea tasters and epicures never add milk or sugar the Chinese never do. Mixing milk with tea makes a turbid liquid. This turbidity is tennate of fibrin or leather. People who put milk in tea, are therefore drinking boots and shoes in mild disguise.

A Decorative Lamp Shade. Tho illustration hero presented furnishes a model that can be readily copied by any ingenious housewife.

LAMP SHADES WITH INLAID FLOWERS. The shade represented is trimmed wicn a frill of lace and bows of satin ribbon. It is composed of live single parts or sections, each ornamented with a different bouquot or spray of flowers cut out of cretonno and gummed on a pioco of stiff white net This is covered over with pink muslin. The stuff layers are nent buttonholed over each other with pink silk and tho separate parts of tho shade sowed togethor. One scam left half open that the shade may bo slipped over the lamp glass and is closed abovo with a bow.

Salted Almond*.

Salted almonds, so largely eaten now among fasionablo folks, as an appetizing relish, may be prepared as follows: Shell the almonds and blanch by throwing them into boiling water and leaving them there, covered for half an hour, or until tho skins will slip off easily. Skin and spread them out to dry for several hours. Put a good piece of butter into a hot dripping pan, and as it warms stir the almonds over and over In it to coat them with the butter. Set in oven and roast, stirring them often* until they begin to color faintly. Take them out, shake in a colander to rid of grease, spread on a dish and strew with fine, dry salt, stirring them about, that each nut may have its share. Eat cold. They are charmingly appetizing. Avoid the danger of getting the almonds too brown, and on the other hand of putting them into the oven before they are dry enough.

A Beon to Housekeepers'.

Carpet sweepers, as now mndo, are so light and easily handled that they may be rolled back and forth by a child or a person too delicato to wield a broom. Tho rotating brush that gathers up the dirt and the pans that receive it being encased in a box, almost no dust whatever rises, and subsequent brushing or wiping up of furniture and woodwork on account of its use is unnecessary. AH the the dust and dirt is deposited in the case, instead of being stirred up, only to settle again on carpets and furniture, which is always true, in part, when a broom is used. Neither is the carpet sweeper brush as wearing to carpets as a broom. A good carpet sweeper is invaluable to the housekeeper who studies to do her work at once easily and well, and its price, fortunately, is not large.

White Cocoannt Cake.

Whites of five eggs, one and a half cupfuls of sugar, piece of butter the size of an egg, three level teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one teaspoonful of lemon flavoring, two-thirds of a cupful of new milk, flour to form a thin batter, one cocoannt grated beat the eggs to a stiff froth and add to the butter and sugar that has been creamed sieve the baking powder through the flour, add tho milk, flavoring and sufficient flour for not too stiff a batter to spread smoothly upon tho tins after they are baked, spread the layers with icing and powder thickly with cocoonut then place together, having a layer upon the top of cocoonut

When to Water Hons* Plants. A gardener gives the following rales for answering the oft repeated question: "How can I tell when house plants need watering?" 1. By the appearance of the soil or feeling it with tho finger. If dust can be worked up it needs water. 2. By tapping the pot with the

The pot has a sharp, hollow sound

or "ring" when the earth is dry, and a heavy, "thudding" sound when moist 3. By lifting the pots and testing their weight, wet soil, of course, being much heavier thad dry.

Batter for Frnit Fritters.

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nit and a pint of flour and a teaspoonful of baking powder. Beat the eggs, add part of the milk and salt, then flour and milk alternately, beating quickly and cooking immediately in boiling hot lard.

Boawkold Hints.

To dean willow furniture use salt and water. Apply it with a nail brush, scrub well and dry thoroughly.

Turkey salad, made with odery and good on, is held by many to equal that mad* of fhlfH1 a,-/,

Silver plated bonbon trays with tongs have been introduced at the fashionable luncheon parties with undoubted nice— w«m broiled in the white of egg is affirmed by an exchange to be the way they do it at the most fashionable Luixkm dubs,

Atafaioo for drinking milk has earned to appear eome tall and beautiful gla« frftchas «r ewers to contain the mild bevtraga.

PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE.

Facts, Theories and Experiences in Every Day Life. Dr. Backus, in a paper on chronic constipation, read before a medical society in Canada, divided the treatment for this very common complaint into hygienic, dietetic, medicinal and mechanical. Under hygienic, he referred to exercise, walking and riding, massago of the abdomen and general massage in persons unable to take active exerciso, and bathing, as condudve to a permanent cure.

Under dietetics, he forbade the excessive uso of meat or a too nutritious diet, and advised more vegetables, fruit and coarse breads. Some people took too little fluids, and a more liberal supply of water frequently relieved them. In tho medicinal treatment of these cases, he thought usually a combination of drugs in small doses acted better thap a single one. He enumerated succinctly the indications for the more important purgatives. He had found, in some of tho most obstinate eases of constipation in children,, cod liver oil act with great satisfaction. He had not found cascara sagrada to bo a specific. A pill he found useful in many cases is one containing sulphate of iron, aloes, colocynth, nux vomica and belladonna. Under the last heading ho noticed tho various. enema« and suppositories useful in con* stipation. In all cases, patients must le urged to solicit a motion of tho bowels nt the same hour daily the persistent practice of this rule would cure the majority of cases.

Fattening Effect of Water. While excessive imbibing of very cold or iced water ia not to be commended, especially when ono is very warm, there is reason to believe, according to recent medical authority, that tho unlimited uso of ruro spring water is not only very conducive to health but has a tendency to favor fullness and roundness of the body. Whother this results from abetter action on the part of tho digestive, assimulative and depurative functions—owing to the internal cleanliness or flushing of the human sewers by largo quantities of water, or whother water has a specific action in producing the fullness, is not known but observation confirms as a fact that the free use of water has a fattening effect -»s„

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Unwholesome Food and Drink. Bolted flour mixed with bran, such as is often palmed off on consumers as "Graham? flour, is fit only for the'stomachs of herbivorous animals.

Immature meat, such as bob veal, is unwholesome not only because it contains no nourishment but because of its extreme illdigestibility.

Borax, boracie and salycilic acids, whicU are sometimes added to milk to prevent souring, irritate the kidnoys and dispose to Bright's disease.

The idea that water purifies itself by freezing is prevalent and deep i*ooted, but erroneous. It has led to the uso of ice from ponds whoso water no ono would think of drinking.

People, especially females, who drinlc largely of tea und still more when they do not eat Rufilcicnt food, suffer from many nervous troubles, as well as palpitation and uoumlgiu, mid present all tho phenomena of nerve oxhaustion, saya Dr. Fotliergill,

Treatment of the Feet.

If the feet are tender or painful aftor long walking or standing, great Irelief can bo had by bathing them in salt and water. A handful of salt to a gallon of water is tho right proportion. Have tho water as hot as can comfortably be borne. Immerse the feet, and throw the water over the logs as far as the knees with the hands. V.'hen the water becomes too cool, rub briskly with a flesh toweL This method, if used ni ht and morning, will cure neuralgia of the f«ot

SOCIAL ETIQUETTE.

Catherine Owen Talks About Kegnlar Reception Days. Catherine Owen, in Good Housekeeping, urges overy woman who has any but very in- 1 timate friends, to havo an afternoon in the week to receive calls. Many women of wealth and social position have adopted tho fashion, |j perhaps at first becauso it was a fashion, but there is a groat deal more than that to bo said in its favor, and it is to tho busy woman, who has overy moment occupied with house hold duties and yet keeps her hold on social life, who will find it a saving of time and & means of snatching some passing pleasure and repose from what otherwise is an occasional vexation, whom the custom would help most The advantage of a receiving day is often fully understood, but women who niako no social pretension shrink from it for fear of being thought "airy" or aping fashion but it is just these women who might look on it as an absolute duty to themselves and a real kindnes to their friends.

How many of us do not know what it is to have an acquaintance, who is both agreeabl» and would be welcome, call on us just as wo are doing something that we are nervously* anxious to finish, or that requires our un~ divided attention fortunate if we are not inr the middle of some delicato cooking that will spoil by leaving it Thero are then but two things to do—ask your visitor right into the kitchcn or work room, or leave everything and go to her just as we are anything is better than to keep her waiting. If we do tho first she will know that she has just come at the wrong time, and feel that she is intruding: in spite of your assurance that you wish her. to stay, and' in fact if you go on busily with/ your occupation you really cannot enjoy her visit, while if you leave everything, you will1 •how the marks perhaps of being very busy, and your mind will wander to the oven that was just right and is now cooling, or the work that you wanted to finish so specially to-day in any case, you do not enjoy the visit, and your visitor will feel that you have been very polite, but that she might have chosen a better time.

By having a "day" you do away with all tJifa, and you save time. You know the afternoon or evening when your friends will call, nnH you arrange accordingly. You need Ions time only for that day you will havo no exacting work in band you will be dressed and ready, and stocking darning or small mending, although not parlor work, may be left to* pick up, and can be put away without mentalfo anxiety when visitors arrive. If you haveP made it known that you have given up this day (and you can pleasantly also give your1 reasons) you may have several calls at one» time, while otherwise each would have coma, separately and separately taken your time. Your callers will probably enjoy meeting: each other, and you, with your mind qaitof free, will be at yoor best ,,. 4$^ I

Stately Bows and Courtesies.^ The custom of hand shaking—and a very' good, hospitable custom it was—has of lat» years been more or less abandoned among|| mere acquaintances in Hew York society. There has been of lata years a movement toward the state! bows and courtesies of th» past. A lady silently courtesies when introduced, and a gentleman makes aadeep bow. If, however, a lady or gentleman extends a hand at time of introduction or, indeed, aft any time, innate pollt mess will prompt that® ft be taken cordially. It is a safe rule tolL always respond to the greeting to the keynote «(the giver. a.