Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 14, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 September 1887 — Page 6

WOMAN AND HOME.-

%HAT TO PUT UP FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN'S LUNCHEONS.

Cosmetics—To Make Pumpkin Fle»—Company at the Eleventh Hour—Summer Boarder* Clothes That Kill» Stoop

Shoulders— Household Hints and Helps.

I How that schools are about opening it is timely to call attention to that most important meal which, in the majority of houseIholds, receives but slight consideration—the •chool children's luncheons. The old adage mads that "school is a hungry place." At noon time healthy children are always famished, and the midday meal with them should invariably be a hearty one.

The households where the luncheons to be pot up for scholars are considered the day before, and nico preparations are made that these shall be tempting and delirious, are in the minority.

It is the custom of some parents to give their children money to buy luncheon instead «f taking the pains to plan and prepare it The money is generally expended for what the school child calls goodies—cream cakes, jrfckled limes or caramels.

The noon meal carried to school should be one of personal supervision by the housewife. In the first place, a tin lunch IJOX that can be daily scalded and aired should be provided, j&d not a basket that soon becomes impregnated with food odors. A luncheon cannot put in a pocket or sachel without being spoiled, or frequently broken into a conglomeration anything but appetizing. When the child opens its luncheon, if it is a surprise of good things the fact of its having been remembered and catered to adds a relish.

Sandwiches made of ham, tongue, salt and highly seasoned meuts are not desirable, for "they occasion thirst, which is inconvenient during the school session. Chicken, turkey, liard boiled eggs or any fresh tender meat make toothsome sandwiches. English bread •and butter sandwiches spread with cream cheese are well liked. Boston or other brown bread spread with jelly is a dessert more wholesome than pastry.

The layer in the sandwich center is more easily eaten and can be more neatly introduced if chopped.

A delicious brown bread for sandwiches or to serve with oysters is made as follows: In a largo yellow bowl scald one quart of yellow Indian meal. This is done by covering the meal with boiling water sufficient to moisten It thoroughly and then allowing it to cool until tepid. Mix with it one cup of rye meal, one teacupful of yeast, three-quarters of a cup of molasses, a little wilt and enough tepid water to make a thin paste, fitir nil together nnd turn into a buttered baking pan. Cover with a cloth and let rise in a warm pla~e. 'When the top begins to crack open place in a moderate oven and bake four hours. This should be twelvo hours old when cut for sandwiches.

One of the best luncheon relishes is celery. It should be dusted with salt and rolled in wax paper, after sprinkling with water. It is very wholesome, refreshing and a nervine. Waxed paper is indispensable for putting up the luncheon. Sandwiches, pickles, radishes, cake, are perfectly protected when covered with it Japanese paper napkins are serviceable and agreeable for the school lunoheon, for they take up but little room and may be thrown away after using. These nnd the wax paper cost but a trifling sum if purchased in quantity.

The luncheon should bo varied daily. Meat bread is a good substitute for sandwiches. Slake a fermont of yeast and water and proceed as for ordinary bread. Incorporate thoroughly two pounds of flour and one of clear beef, chopped very fine and sprinklea with salt During the making and baking process the meat disappears entirely, but the nutritive principles remain in the loaf.

A luncheon cake, not too rich for health, but sufficiently so to be tempting, may be made with half pound of butter, half pound of sugar, three-quarters pound of flour, five eggs and one gill of wino, and cinnamon, nutmeg and extract of rose. Bake in papered shallow pan*. This cake is much improved by icing. A luncheon ginger bread, liked by young folks. Is made by using one and half pounds of flour, quarter pound butter, one pound of molasses, quarter pound of brown sugar, throe eggs, quarter of pint of warm milk, one ounce of ginger, half ounce of allspice and one teaspoonful of soda. Just before this is done, brush the top of the cuke with the yolk of mi egg beaten into a half Cup of milk, return to the oven and finish baking.

A raised raisin cake is one of the best for the luncheon. Two pounds of flour, half pound sugar, half pound butter, six eggs, three-fourths of a pint of water, one pound of seeded raisins, the juice und grated rind one lemon, one gill of yeast. Sot spongo "with a portion of the flour, the veast and the water, letting it stand three hours. Add tho other ingredients, melting tho butter und heating separately the yolks nnd whites of the eg£*. Before making into a dough with the flour, let it rise again one hour. Then mold into |*»us and bake slowly. When done and cool, sift heavily over tho loaf powdered sugar.—New York Evening Sun.

Cosmetics and Com pies ion. If it ivviv only question of money wasted nnd folly enlightened. it would not be worth whdo to preach uion this text, jwvhaps. But probably nine out of every ten of the cossue tic* in market are positively harmful. "White lend, bismuth, arsenic and other powerful poison* nre the usual base. They impart for a time an artificial b!wnn, always followed bv a darkening and coarsening of the grain of the skin. The habitual use of arsenic in pills, wafers or solution results in a disturbance of the circulation, a weakened action of the heart, and not seldom in paralysis.

The n^ypftati and Roman ladies, who were to famous for their beauty of \iniplexioii, are •aid, indeed, to have used pastes and unguents •md medicated baths. But it is prolwble that their cosmetics were of the simplest, the equivalent of our harmless rosewnter and glycerine for the soothing of an irritated surface or the whitening of the hands. It is certain that the •fflcacy of tle baths lay In their frequency and thoroughness. To an Egyptian princess or Roman noWeV wife we modems, with our morning's haty dip Into a tub of tepid water, would rank with the great unwashed

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the scalding and riasiug and scraping and rubbing nnd kneading and oiling that their bathing involved, they came forth with skins of velvet, because every atom of waste was removed and every organ In the body was maintained at its full eliminative power. They changed their body linen every day as well, and by this scrupulous cleanliness offset In some degree their sins against the stomach.

Among moderns, IBuglisb women, as a rule, pos»e* in youth ami beep till age tbe finest complexions. Their climate I* kind to tbem Its perr****1*'moisture seems to keep tbarn in perpetual bloom, as It does their wonderful tows. But besides their climate, their customs favor them. English girls are kept la tbe nursery or tbe school room, free from tbe excitement of late boon, rich food, adult society, fashionable dress or habits till their constitution* are established and their pbystqvte dsrsioQtd. Tha sbnpJs food, daily

bath, boors spent out of floors, cm foot or on horseback, and uneventful life, give them sound stomachs, hearty livers ami tranquil nerves, and the beautiful coloring is a matter of course.—Harper's Bazar.

To Make Pumpkin Pies.

I was reading not long ago a "recipe for making a very rich pumpkin pie." It called for a pound of butter, a quart of rich, sweet milk, ten or twelve eggs, to a quart of sifted pumpkin. Rather expensive luxuries for moderate livers. Now, within the memory of tbe "oldest inhabitant," that venerable individual of which every neighborhood has its one or two, the mother of whom, perhaps, made her pumpkin pics after this method: Sift Indian meal on a pie dish to tbe depth of a third of an inch or so, the measure not always accurate. Stew the pumpkin, spread on the mealed dish and bake an hour in a brick oven or one before the fire. Fire places were much in vogue in those days. That inhabitant ate of pumpkin pies from September until Christmas, was hearty, healthy and well He feasted, fairly fatted, on the round, yellow pumpkin and home grown corn meal. Methinks the newspapers of 1776 and 1800 contained few patent medicine cures for tbe liver. The children of those far gone duys lived on "kettle loaf and "bean porridge." Hens were of the breed that did not lay much, and all the butter was in the "old cow's horn."

The wife of this "old inhabitant" concocted her pumpkin pie after this method: "Pare and stew the pumpkin strain through"^ colander, thinning with milk until tbe consistency of thick cream, add salt, molasses enough to sweeten to taste, a tablespoon of ginger, a few pulverized cloves and an egg to each pie or a tablespoonful of flour rubbed to a smooth paste and stirred through. For Thanksgiving or extra occasions a few raisins, previously stetored, were dropped around in each pio. Bake on a paste in a cool oven an hour and a half. Pie paste was made by rubbing one teacupful of shortening through a quart of flour, wet with a cup of milk or water. This quantity will make four pumpkin pies and two of apple or any kind of pie that has an upper and under crust"—Cor. Detroit Free Press.

Company at the Eleventh Hour. -isA*s Wo think it a great help to keep stored in our pantry a quantity of prepared flour, ready for the quick making of cake, doughnuts, fritters or biscuit, should company unexpectedly arrive near the meal hour, or, we, at the last moment, be requested to furnish a tempting loaf of cake or plate of crullers for some entertainmentK

Against such emergencies We weigh into an empty, clean barrel, twenty-five pounds of the best flour we can obtain, and sift into it one package of Horsford's bread preparation.

Next, we take a long handled spoon and stir the flour till tbe preparation is thoroughly whisked among the flour. Then we twice sift the contents of the barrel and pack away from air and dust as closely as possible.

When cake is wanted, or we are in immediate need of "company" biscuit, white and feathery, we have only to measure cream and sugar, whisk up our eggs, and pop in spices and fruit or, to simply measure sweet milk, if biscuit, only, are wanted, and add flour till the dough is of the right texture. Since the introduction of this prepared flour in our pantry, we have our cakes stirred and beautifully baking in the same time that would require us, in the old way, to measure and free of lumps, cream of tartar, or acid and soda and

measure

and sift every individual cup of

flour.—Clarissa Potter in Good Housekeeping.

Summer Boarders as Missionaries.

The accident that sent out tbe first summer boarder was a seed falling on quick soil. There was a struggle in tbe beginning to meet the wants of the ut-bans there was a decided hostility toward tbe fussy beings who would not drink from wells near which backdoor slops and sink spouts dribbled, who objected to flies, who did not like meat fried, who wanted air, who could And pleasure in trapsing through woods and meadows and bringing home green truck. But hostility or not, the thing meant new gowns, a term at the academy, another cow, an improved team, a mortgage lifted, attainment of the impossible. And year by year the summer boarder came, and with the money to Bpare from one the house was painted for another and with resulting funds the fences were reorganised nnd the porches came. It was she who, having suggested the piazza, suggested tbe vines for it and so much done, tho girls of the house kept pace with a flower garden of their own.

And with the summer boarder came liooks and magazines, and pleasant habits of talk, sometimes music, usually gentle manners. Occasionally one of the girls was invited for a glimpse of tho city, bringing home matter for marvel and the end of it all was corrected habits, corrected grammar, widened views, homes transformed from ignorant dreariness to neat attractiveness, libraries, pianos, grace of furnishing, and country folk on a level with cily folk. Of course there were always country folk who dwelt on tho highest level that there is but to those who did not tbe summer boarder has been ucity missionary.— Harper's Bazar.

To Straighten Stoop Shoulders.

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Some time ngo I noticed that some one wanted to know what would tend to straighten stoop shouldered girl.

The following movements performed with one pound wooden dumb belts, or as free hand movements will be found very beneficial if persevered in. The best time is upon rising and retiring, as tlie body should not be bound in nny way by the clothing: 1. Arms extended horizontally in front, with palms facing, hands clenched. Hold tbe liead erect and the chest out Then draw the hands in strongly, the elbows passing close to t!»e body and ns far back as possible. 3. Same position except that tbe bands are open. Swing the hands hock to thesido horifontnl position—as far Iwck as possibles.

SL Hands hanging in their natural position at the sides, liaise the arms slowly, side wise, until tbe backs of tbe hands touch above the I tend, keeping tbem as far back as possible.

Of course as erect a position as possible most te maintained at all times, or the speial training will do no good. Do not be discouraged, for you have been getting that stooped tack for years, and you mustn't expect to straighten all of sudden.

Above all things don't wear shoulder bracea They strengthen tbe muscles of tbe rbcet by tbe continual resistance, while tbe hack muscles are not called into action.— Mrs. A. C. in Detroit Free Frew.

Clothes That Kill.

tbe advice to women to promotetbelr health by out door exercise is never wanting. But no amount of fresh air exercise can save women from the evil effects of tbeir pre*mt style of dress It is their clothes that kill tbem.

Every step a woman takes her foot contends with ber skirt. She Ufa it on tbe instep, and she lift* it oa the h*L Tbe weight may be OQOCCS or pounds, but it is taken np at every step. The heavy skirts, with flounces, overskirt, and other trimmings, bang tbeir many pounds, flapping around the feet and kgs of tbe wearer. Tbe corset does not allow apace to take a fall breath, and the tight sleeves cause the muscles to cry for room. Dressed In this fashion, tbe wearer coots back from

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ber walk for "fresh air and exercise" tired through and through, and is tbe worse for it, Because she has lifted and carried hundreds of pounds.

Stand at any city street corner and watch the women as they pass. How tired they lopkl

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their dresses flap around them.

Contrast them with men. Men's feet lift no weight of clothes. Men's steps contend with nothing. Every muscle has its natural exercise. Outdoor air and exercise are good for them.—Herald of Health.

Where to Look for Fashions.

If it were necessary for American women to look to foreigners for their fashions they might much better go a little farther south, across the Pyrenees. The women of Spain have a world wide reputation for the grace and loveliness of their dress. Why is it we have never attempted to copy them? Artists love to paint their graceful mantillas and flowing veils of lace—they make such beautiful pictures, and yet we ignore tbem, and cling to gaudy Paris. We see this same flowing drapery which the Spanish women love, in the costumes of our actresses. They make a study of artistic effects, and we go wild with admiration over the results. Why should we consider such dresses, made more plainly, qf course, and of sober colon, out of place in the h6use or tbe street? Only because custom has blinded our eyes. Let ns take off the veil for a minute, and calmly compare tbe stiff, contorted, immodest figures of the fashion plate with the graceful, flowing drapery that could so easily be substituted.—Dress.

Wasting Soap.

There is great waste in soap through leaving the cake in tbe tub or pail, instead of laying it aside after making a strong lather. I would like to see a statue raised to honor a domestic wise or thoughtful enough to lay soap back in its place, instead of leaving it to soften in tbe water. Besides deserving it, she would be an example to others. If there be such an one I have never seen her. And a cake of soap softened by being soaked is good for little afterward. It wastes away as a dollar does when changed into pennies.

Soap is also wasted on paint A little ammonia in-tbe cleaning water, or whiting on a damp* cloth will clean wool much easier, and leave no yellow stain to tell of its abuse.— Hester M. Poole in Good Housekeeping.

Cf| Infant Diarrhoea Contagions Infants have green diarrhoea, so called from the color of tbe intestinal discharges. There is some reason for the belief that the affection is contagious and is transmissible from a diseased to a healthy child brought within its influence. M. Hayem and M. Lesage, his interne, have succeeded in proving that tbe green color of the stools was due to a special bacillus, the penetration of which into the system and the intestine may be recognized by the phenomena of green diarrhoea.—Herald of Health.

Tomatoes In Turkey.

To preserve tomatoes for winter use the Turks mash them through colanders and then throw salt in, which causes the pulp to settle, and they are put in bags and tbe water is left to drain away. Tbe pulp is then dried in the shade spread on fiat surfaces, and when dry it is cut in small cakes and laid carefully in jars, which are covered. This pulp retains the taste and qualities of the tomato better than canning does.—Olive Harper in Kansas City Times.

Howells on Girlhood.

Mr. Howells has summed up one sort of girlhood neatly and severely. "Girlhood," he nays, "is often a turmoil of wild impulses, ignorant exaltations, mistaken ideals, which really represent no intelligent purpose, and come from disordered nerves, ill advised reading and the erroneous perspective of inexperience."

To prevent a felon, take a cup of cold water, put into it a teaspoonful of saleratus, set it on tbe stove, put the finger threatened with the felon into the cold water and keep it there until it is so hot you cannot bear it and the felon is killed.

The mixture of the yolk of an egg and glycerine is said to be an excellent remedy for burns. Put equal parts of each into a bottle and keep tightly corked. It will keep some time if put in a cool place. Shake each time before applying.

Sleeplessness at night is often caused by tbe air of the room having become close and vitiated. If you cannot sleep and your windows are closed, trying opening a

window.

In many cases sleep will immediately follow.

Beets nre nice in mince pies when apples are scarce or dear. Boil, peel, chop fine, let stand half an hour covered with sharp vinegar and then use like apples. Strong coffee is also a nice addition. S

Do not let growing children wear shoes with high heels it is tatter for them to wear none at all, or only such nn increase of thickness as is seen nt the heels of connnonsenso flat soled slnxes.

At Newport they serve baked stuffed tomatoes for breakrast nnd eat currant jelly on dry toast, possibly for the same reason that a cheap Englishman calls a cab a "keb."

"SalatHggs" fire bard boiled, then cut in two, and the yellow mixed with mustard, jicpper, hcrlw, vinegar and salt, and then served cold, j|||

Always have three or four bricks about the house, il«at!y covered with carpet, for placing against the doors to keep them open.

To scaur knives easBy, mix a small quantity of baking soda with yonr brickdust, and v-«j if your knives do not polish better.

Disease often iurks in a dirty dishcloth, a greasy sink, an unclean tea kettle and a jioorly ventilated oven.

Dusting cloths must be washed often or they will carry more dirt into tbe rooms than they take out

A severe but sure cure for C6ms is said to be creosote. Wet the corns several nights in succession.

Between tbe hotel squash and pumpkin pie titer* is rarely any difference and no distinction.

For coffee stains put thick glycerine oo the wrong side and wash out in lukewarm water.

Flannels should be dried in tbe shade, and, if poasible, ironed while damp.

Wash out oil stains on clothes in cold water ink stains dip in milk.

Hams can be kept wrapped in paper and packed in a barrel of ashes. 1

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seed warts rub with baking soda.

It is a aire cure. Alum or vinegar wfflseS the cokw* of red, green or yellow.

Strong vinegsr will cure the hiccough give a tsespoonful.

WHAT SHALL WE WEAR?

A SERVICEABLE AND PRETTY KNITTED SKIRT FOR GIRLS.

How Pet Dogs Are Attired In Paris When They Take Their Walks Abroad. A Suit for Boys with Blouse Jacket.

Finger Rings for Men,

An attractive blouse suit for a little boy, that can be made in flannel or any cloth of medium weight plain, checked, or striped, is illustrated in our cut

SUIT FOR BOYS.

This model, which is one of Demorest's, is called the Morgan suit, and requires no trimming other than rows of stitching in finish, although velvet cuffs and collars, as illustrated, add to tbe effect As both a front and back view of the blouse jacket is given in the cut description is unnecessary.

To Produce a Dressy Eflfoct. A convenient arrangement for altering the appearance of ft plain corsage when a dressy effect is desired, has two velvet braces starting from the shoulder seams, and coming to the waist line about two inches apart, the front being filled in with soft silk or any material suitable for use with tbe dress. This is easily made and very effective. Another pleasing arrangeihent for touching up a plain bodice consists of detachable revers of velvet coming from shoulders to waist, with four folds, inside them near the front What is known as the sword belt trimming is simply a scarf of silk, or plain, beaded or figured net, carried across tbe corsage from beneath the right arm to the left shoulder. Loops of ribbon are added at each place where the scarf is fastened to the bodice.

Knitted Petticoat for Little Girls. In the cut given below is shown the pattern for a knitted petticoat which many mothers will doubtless be glad to have for their little ones.

PETTICOAT FOB UTTUE GIRLS.

The material is white wool, tbe length seventeen inches and the width forty-seven inches. It is kuitted in five separate pieces that are afterward crocheted together on the right sido, leaving a slit six inches long in tbe middle of the back. Cast on fifty stitches for tho front breadth, thirty-six for each sido breadth, and forty for the two back breadths. Knit and seam two stitches alternately for six rows, and then transpose the pattern. The lower border is knitted separately and crocheted to tbe skirt A crochet lace edges the bottom.

Finger Kings for

Man,

Rings are again worn on both bands by both sexes. While the third finger is the preferred one among men on which to wear rings, the little finger, in many cases, comes in for its share of decorations. Two leading styles of rings for men are: a gold band with three stones imbedded therein, and a one stono ring or a medium sized seal ring. When tho gentleman conflncs himself to these two styles ho usually wears one on each baud, the third finger being in each caso tbe one that is decorated. It is not unusual toseoon the same finger and hand a gem ring nnd a silver ring of unique patten).

There is, among the New York meu, a decided penchant for gold and silver ringH of uniquo form, such as serpents, links and chains of intricate pattern, ram's head rings nnd the like. Rings of silver, wrought in carious patterns, ara much worn, and there is a fancy among the younger men to wear a silver ring of the sort described on the same finger with a gold ring. Indeed, it is not unusual to see a silver ring in company with a gem set one. Again, one sees a fine gem or a remarkable stone in a silver setting.— Jeweler's Circular. jful,

Fashions for Pet Doj

The fashions for jiet dogs follow as closely as practicable those of their mistresses. Now York's pet dogs hare long worn silver collars, necklaces and bracelets with 1 jangles, to say nothing about gay colored neck ribbons and bows. And now a large Paris emporium for dogs' requirements is providing novelties in way of waterproof mantles and dust cloaks in which to protect valuable canine specimens from tbe weather or the dust, as the case chances to be, when they take tbeir walks abroad.

WATERPROOF A*D DUST CLOAK roa DOOS. As will be seen in the cut. tbe waterproof mantle is made with a loose bood, that may be drawn up ovar the animal's bead. The dost cloak, represented in tbe same picture, was designed originally for traveling, and is made either of check linen or tome light worsted goods, according to tha season. This latter has a small buttoned np pocket for the dog's railway ticket or permit to ride in tha same car wito its owner.

Fashion Notes.

Silver suspender buckles are out in elaborate patterns. Heavy chased gold cuff buttons of cfrcslai shape and diamond centers are rapidly find lag tfcv??.

ALL AROUND THE HOUSE.

Helpful Hints and Timely Keel pes for Various Departments.

The fortunate possessor of heavy linen sheets, such as our grandmothers wove for themselves, may couvert one into a highly effective counterpane. Divide it into squares and oblongs by lines of brier stitch or her ring bone stitch in china blue crewel, leaving tho central division larger than the rest In each one of the irregular divisions thus obtained, work with crewel in two shades of blue, pointed with stitches of blue washing filoselle, geometrical patterns not too minuto in detail. Pillow covers are made to match.

A linen sheet treated in similar fashion has poppies and ragged robins worked in each square black silk was used for the veining, a-d an edge of coarse linen lace was sewed around. Where it is desired to take a little additional pains, the worker may secure a beautiful result by pulling the threads marking the divisions and working them in hemstitch. Outline work is tlie most simple method of arriving at an effect in this branch of decoration. To vary tho result, a daruedin background is often added.

Delectable Fruit Confections,

Sweet apples and mellow, dead ripe pears baked down in a mild own till they are jellied in their own juice and sugar, make a sweetmeat that will keep with less care than anything else and sati-fy every taste. So affirms Susan Power in American Gardener, and t«lls how it may be done.

Line the bottom and sides of your stove oven with common bricks laid in loosely, set the fruit in close stone

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mid let it co-k all

day and night No fear of burning, but tho steady, moderate heat turns out a lucid deep flavored mass which is something what food ought to be. Boil jam fast let this preserve take its time and don't stir it It is an insult to a pear to preserve it any other way. The delicate looking canned {teal's are very insipid eating beside it

Mrs. Power also makes a delightful fruit confection of tho fairest, ripest peaches pared into a syrup of half their weight in sugar, moisted with peach juice, boiled clear, drained, and the syrup with as much more sugar boiled almost till it candies. The peaches, split and stoned, lie in this syrup all night, then drain and place on sheets of glass in a mild oven to dry.

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Brandied quinces are considered a great dainty. Wash some fine ripe quinces, but do not peel them. Allow three-quarters of a pound of sUgartocachpouudof the fruit Put the quinces into the preserving pan with just enough water to cover and let them simmer gently until soft but not broken. Drain tbem and set them on one side. Next put the sugar into the preserving pan, moisten it with water and let it beat until bubbles appear on the surface, then put in the quinces let them boil up for a minute, then empty them out and put them aside till next day. Pour the syrup from them and put tbe fruit into proper bottles. Boil the syrup until it looks thick and clear, let it get cold, then mix it with nn equal quantity of brandy. Pour this liquor over the quinces, tie bladders over tha top, and store in a cool, dry place, f-k.%

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French Polish,

A polish for use ou plain wood that has been stained in imitation of natural wood, consists of one-fourth of an ounce of gum copal, tha same of gum arabic and one ounce of shellac in one pint of spirits of wine. This is said to be the true recipe for French polish. After. applying this, tbe polish is brought up by much rubbing. Polishes are applied with a rubber or wad of old linen, not with a brush. ^4

Cleaning Gilt,

Gilt on articles of metal is cleaned by rubbing very gently with a soft sponge wet in a solution of half an ounce of potash or an ounce of soda or half an ounce of borax, tho latter being best, in a pint of water. Wipe dry with soft linen. Use only pure soft water for washing gilt frames, rubbing tbem very gently with a soft brush or sponge,

A a O S

The illustration shows -a cheap and convenient support by which a common kerosene lamp may be ntilized for heating water, making tea or coffee, or cooking small quautites of food.

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.A SIMPLE Oil. STOVK.

This stiDlort is made of two pieces of sheet metal—copper is best, but tin or iron will nnswer very well these pieces are cut into the forms represented in Figs. 2 and 3. A slit is cub half way through each piece—in one from the top, in the other from the bottom— so that they can be joined together, as in Fig.

This may then bo placcd in the top of a tnmp chimuey, and, withoot interfering with the light, can be used to support a small dish or other utensil, In which water or other liquids can be quickly heated. Popular Science News, in which tbe contrivance was originally illustrated, advises that care be taken to set the support on tbe chimney only when it is cold, and to heat slowly otherwise there is danger of the cold metal cracking tbe chimney by conducting the heat away from it too rapidly.

Decorating Thin Materials. Araline dyes are used as transparent washes for tbe decoration of thin curtains, draperies, tidies and linen goods. They are desirable because tbe tint becomes part of tbe fabric and does not fade. Boy the dry aniline dyes that are soluble in alcohol, using first enough spirit to take up tbe dyei Bottle tbe solution in using it dilute or reduce to tbe tint desired. PIn using water colors In thin washes for decorative purposes, put a little gum arabic in tbe water, if necessary sixing and other media destroy their transparency. Use water with care. It is a good plan after dipping tbe brash In water to draw it across a piece of soap before taking up any paint this prevents the water from running.

Danger in Keeping a Piano Closed, A piano not in use should be opened occasionally so that daylight may strike the keys. If this be not done they will turn yellow. Moths will also find their way into an instrument nnk» it is opened occasionally. They may lie kept out by wrapping bits of campfaor in mAt paper and pladog thajn insfcia.

THE DRY PLATE PROCESS.

THE PHOTOGRAPHIC PASSION IS EASILY GRATIFIED.

•Dry Plates" the Keynote of Amateur Photography—The Wet Plate Process.' Tlie Element of Portability—Instantaneous Work—Aid to Students.

Once acquired, the photographic passion is easily gratified. The inventive genius of the) century seems to have conspired for its en-' couragement The daintiest devices in wood I and brass, the coyest lenses, the airiest tripods,1 the snuggest carrying cases—all seem espe-! daily endowed with that peculiar quality which tempts one who has straddled anew hobby to plant the spurs impetuously. A few, years ago matters were very different Tha keynote of amateur photography, the "dry plate," has been supplied within eight or ten yeai-s, since the dry plate process, though in use for more than a decade, wus not brought to trustworthy perfection until it had under-, gone several seasons'trial. There were, in-1 deed, "wet plate amateurs," and there are to-' day some who follow the example of many professionals in adhering to the older method.' But amateur photography now practically means dry plate photography. It was the amateur who welcomed the dry plate at a time when tbe professional was yielding it only a cautious tolerauce. Why he welcomed it may scarcely require explanation.

The principle of the wet plate process is suggested by its name. The glass negative plate is coated with collodion, exposed in the camera while wet, and developed at once. This implies the presence of appliances within a short distance of the place where the exposure was made. In order to make views out of doors tbe photographer was obliged to carry an outfit which in these times would look lugubriously elaborate. I have seen a "home made" amateur wet plate apparatus, made very ingeniously of telescoping boxes, with an eye hole at the top, an arm hole at each side, an orange light window in tbe front (for all tbe tinkering with tho moist plate had to be dono without white, actinia light), and the wholti, with its trays, baths, solutions in bottles, etc., could be reduced to a relatively small bundle, ?.

WHEN THE DRY PLATE CAK&' GJJ When tbe dry plate arrived it becaml '*j0 sible to do away with all this ponderous machinery. The dry plates, bought ready prepared, can be kept for months before use, and

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for months again after exposure before they are developed—a phenomenon of which the wonder is always new. Thus one may carry a camera with him through Europe, pack up' the exposed platos, and, unlesR some custom house oiflcial, to the amateur's unspeakabledespair, insists upon opening a few of the packages to discern tbe meaning of tbeir ominous weight, develop them all on his return home.

This element of portability is not the only feateur of the dry plate process which bad an immediate influence upon tbe development of fc amatuer photography. A capacity for rapid work was from the outset an important characteristic of tbe process. By continued experimentthe sensitiveness of the gelatine film with which the plates are coated was from time to time increased, until now an exposure for the two-hundredth part of a second is sufficient to secure an adequate negative. The value of this achievement is wider than the field of tbe amatuer. Within the few years during which instantaneous work bas been possible, both science and art have increased their obligations to tha camera. Every one remembers tbe burst of merriment and wonder that greeted Mr. Muybridge's picture of tbe horse in motion. Tha motion of a sound jarred lamp flame, tha flight of a cannon shot, tho forking* of lightning, and a thousand other phenomena have been dexterously photographed. Through this medium both tbe naturalist and the surgeon have gained a better knowledge of muscular action. Oue anatomist uses tbe rapid plate to settta the long standing dispute as to whether, in the twirling of the fist, the ulna or the radius moves the more another fastens ," with beeswax upon tbe line of a model's spine a row of glistening Christmas tree balls and then takes a dozen impressions within a second while tbe model is walking away from the operator. It is in this manner that instantaneous photography has made itself invaluablo to students in many departments of knowledge, students who, while they are in a sense amateur photographers, make professional use of tho product—Alexander Black in

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