Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 16, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 8 October 1887 — Page 6

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WOMAN AND HOME.

ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT APARTMENTS IN THE HOUSE.

Out of the Cook Stove—The Wise Hostess Emenwn and His Children—Poiaon Ivy—Athletic#—Children's Dros»—Labor

Saving Hints—Item*.

One of the most important apartments in the house is the cellar, and withal one that often receives insufficient attention. "Oat of sight, out of mind," is exemplified here, and thu result inay frequently be traced in the impaired health of those who lire above the underground lumber room.

Old packing* boxes, newspapers, broken Vtensils, rotting fruit and vegetables, and in somo cases such garbage as potato parings, lemon and orange skins, bonus, etc., that should of right bo consigned to the swill pail, ere suffered to accumulate from one month's end to the other. Tho unwholesome and unpleasant odor that rises like a cloud whenever the cellar door is opened is hastily attributed to tho niustineas popularly supposed to be au inseparable adjunct to the underground regions. Slight but persistent unbealthiness in the family is disregarded, and a sharp attack of diphtheria or typhoid fever is perhaps needed to arouse the household to the danger in which they dwell.

The cellar is more readily kept clean if it is cut up into several small rooms, instead of being left in one great, undivided chamber. IVhero it is not thus arranged it should at least be partitioned off on one side by bins to far,id the various stores, in place of letting tiicm lie in heaps in corners. When bins are out of tho question, barrels or large packitig boxes form tolerable substitutes. The coal is usually kept in the vaults provided for that purpose.

It is a great aid in the endeavor to obtain proper neatness in the cellar if tho room is well lighted and ventilated. The windows may bo kept shut in tho daytime, bat should Always be left open at night to allow the fresh air to enter, except when the weather is so cold that there is danger of freezing the supplies of food kept there. Even then the •ashes should be unclosed night and morning long enough to permit a sluice of air to gain admittance. By carefully following this plan much of the musty and earthy odor common to cellars muy bo banished. Wire netting should be nailed over tho outside of thtf windows in a way that may exclude the flies •without hindering the opening of the sash. There should be a spring attached to the door that will prevent its leing left ajar and a free pussago to Uies furnished by careless servants.

If there are no separato vaults provided for the coal, and it must lo kopt in tho common cellar, large bins for this arc indispensable. The coal should never be dumped into one comer of the cellar, whence its grimy dust will 1)0 tracked to tho upper floor by every one coming up from below. Nor should the wood, large und small, be thrown into an indiscriminate stack, but neatly piled, the kindling in ono placo, the logs Intended for the open fires in another, and chips, sawdust, and shavings swept together and emptied 4nto a basket or box. Vegetables, above all, should never be heafXMl on tho floor. They ro: more easily there, besides being unsightly, and invariably leaviug dirt for somo one to sweep up. Barrels or boxes may hold them, as well as apples or pears. Both vegetables and fruit should bo picked over often, and the rotters ones thrown away. The good ones will keep twice as long if this is done. The work may soem tedious, but it is almost essential, especially toward spring, when vegetables begin to decay rapidly. Health demands this as well as economy. Many a case of spring illness has been traced to a harmless looking barrel in tho cellar, where disease germs are fostered in a mass of putrid vegetable matter.

I'U: idea that tho cellar is an omnium gath«rum for useless articles of ail sorts should be diligently combated. Whatever is not worth keeping in the certain hope of putting to service at some fu: iro time should bo thrown mway without hesitation. The cellar canuot look neat with a heap of lumber and old iron disfiguring it. Broken packing cases and staveless barrels may bo sent here to be split tip and converted into kindlings as speedily as possible, while any boxes that may possibly be put to use aro much better kept in the,attic out of tho damp.

A cellar floor should always be la!d in cement. An earth flooring holds tho dampness and is. moreover, very hard to keep clean. Tho cement can bo swept, and even scrubbed, without trouble. The wulls and ceilings shmtld I* whitewashed, not only to make the twin lighter, but as a means of disinfection. The whitewashing should be repeated at least once a year. The floor should receive its weekly brushing with the rest of the house, and at tho same time tho cobwebs should be dislodged and all collections of rubbish removed. "The cellar must be supplied with shelves. Swing shelves are proforablo to those set in the wall, as there is loss danger with tho former of rats and mice having a chance to attack tho provisions. Ono shelf should bo kept for the milk, and wiped clean every day after the cream is skimmed. Deposits of sour milk arc always unsavory. The meats, vegetables, cakes, etc., stored on the other shelves should always be protected by covers of wire netting. With all the care ono may take, a fly or two will sometimes succeed in effecting an entrance, and the mischief they can do even in a short time renders the precaution worth while, A piece of gauce or musquito netting stretched over each pan of milk may also save a fly from involuntary suicide and the milk from waste. Poultry and meat tbat arc hung up for a day or two should be incased In stout brown paper, or, better still, unbleached muslin. All shelves should be scrubbe off every week with a mixture of washing soda and* water, then wipe dry.

It is a great convenience to the housewife if she can have a closet partitioned off and well stocked with shelves, where she can keep her pickles, preserves, jellies and jams. Dpstain* cupboards are seldom cool enough, except when they are in so exposed position that there is risk of their contents freewng in the bitterest winter weather. Hers, too, can be placed the choice fruit, the box of oranges or lemons, the barrel of pineapples and other delicacies, that keep better in a cold place han in an ordinary pantiy. The semi-gloom also helps preserve canned goods.

Drain pipes frequently fc-averse the cellar, and are tUsely. from the obscurity of the place, to receive less attention than is their due. Thev should often be examined for leaks, and'any ?oeh promptly checked. If there are open drains, they should be washed down with a sirens eolation of copperas and water. Slwuld tho odor from the drain* rotuse ti yield to this and to chloride of limo or po:ash, t:*v rowt he inspected by a practical plumber, and the mutter rectified withoat delay. —Christian Terbune Herrick in Harpers Banr.

Care of the Cook Slot*

«Wliv is It that I burn out so many wis of gtove liniti}'"" some «oe asks. Let me tell you. {.Tsa t- 1,ale more care than yott have kasn usiiyf. **teh and see that a clinker is not all0W*4 (otta on the lUdnrx and if one 4os* form, remove It carefully with the paltar. At night lbs fire boar should be sve*

full of coal after raking oat all the dead dn ders aud ashes iu the range never fill you stove with coal above the top of the linings Never use a shaker when it id passible avoid it instead, use the poker freely and yot will have a better fire and use lesscoaL Sbaking the fire braks it down into a solid mass and the air cannot circulate through. When the fire from any cause becomes dull, do not stir it over the top or put in wood, but rake out the cinders and open the drafts. At night do not close the drafts as soon as the coal for the night is put on, bat let it burn a short time, or, as one man expresses it, "until you think the coal is warm all through." There is then very little danger of gas, even if the stove is a poor one. The ashes should never accumulate in the ash pan until they reach the grate. If this happens even once, the grate will usually be burned out.

Always run the range so that yon can get all the heat needed without having the top red hot, as this will warp the covers Mid '•enters, and if a little water should happen to fall on the stove while so hot, the top of the range is very apt to crack- Keep the stove well blacked if the lids get covered with grease turn them over and let the top of the lid come next the fire until the grease is all burned off. If the covers are red and the blackening does not adhere, let them get wet, so that they will rust a little, and then black them. When buying a range, buy one that is moderately heavy and made of the best quality of iron. All the joints of a beating stove or range should fit well because if they do not, when the range has been used a short time you will notice gas escaping, and will not be able to tell where it comes from.—Nellie Willey in C^pd Housekeeping.

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Labor Having Hints,

I write to thank those who kindly sent directions for removing a teacup that bad become wedged in a pitcher. Perhaps it would be well to state that before any answer reached me, I experimented successfully by holding the pitcher bottom side up over a steaming teakettle by tapping smartly on the bottom of the pitcher the cup fell out. I think that there is such a thing as "honest dirt," and that there should never be such an amount of trimming of children's clothing as to keep ono alwayto busy making, washing and ironing them. I have two children, and I find time to tell and read stories, take walks, and even play with them out of doors and swing them sometimes.

I must tell the readers my method of washing dishes. Atubful of clean water is kept in the kitchen, into which all of the "sticky" dishes are dumped bodily and left uutil their turn to be washed arrives. The tub is used only for this purpose. This saves time and labor. In washing "stuck up" kettles I use an old knife, kept for the purpose, to scrape them with, and never use my finger nails, as many people do. Where this is practiced the finger nails are usually anything but "a thing of beaiity," and are a plague instead of "a joy forever." I have seen linger nails from this practice broken, worn off square and blunt enough to "set one's teeth on edge." To clean bottles easily and quickly, turn a cupful of fine shot into tbem fill nearly full of hot lye and shake well. To have peas look green after cooking them, put in cold water and let them come gradually to a boil. This is to be done when they aro first put on the stove to cook. It is convenient to have four holders to use around the stove. Two of chem can then be spared for the wash every week.—Detroit Free Press.

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A liostees should, of course, exercise a wise exclusiveness, such as Lady Palmers ton described when she said she "passed Lord Palmertton's acquaintances through a coarse sieve." No woman who entertains should invite her guests carelessly. The very respect which she owes to herself and her guests should prevent this. As a clever woman in London once said, "I am never flattered at being asked to Mrs. 'scamp." No woman should allow her house to be degraded to a camp. One should winmw the chaff from the wheat,

A lady in entertaining has t6 remember always to invite those who are congenial. No one in this country can afford to make her parties oithor political, musical or literary exclusively but one should havo a general idea of sets and of their tastes, and of who would like to meet whom. Especially is this important at a breakfast or a dinner, where the guests must sit and talk for two or three hours together there is no such ordeal of agreeability. To invite a vaporous, airy, foolish woman to sit next an Oxford professor, who has a specialty on which he wishes to talk and which she would not understand, is to make them both miserable. To ask a young poet to sit next an old campaigner, who has nothing to talk of but tho dissection of character, who is given to social parboiling, is to make both miserable and will ruin one dinner at least. To ask a busy politician to sit next an abstract philosopher would not be half as bad. Therefore a woman has much to consider before she begins to entertain.—Harper's Bacar.

Remedy for Poison Ivy.

People who have sought relief dating the™ heated term at the various seaside resorts which dot the coast of New Jersey have suffered at iutervals from a plague of musquitoes aud black gnats. Others, who preferred the mouutains and inland attractions, have suffered greatly from contact with poison ivy. The former found a remedy in penuyroyal and brush fires, but many of tho poisoned ones got no relief. They have not responded to treatment As a rule, lime water, buttermilk and oxide of rino ointment, into which a little white precipitate has been rubbed, will effect a cure. This year it seems as though the poison has had to run itself out

A gentleman, however, who after suffering for ten days more torture than usually falls to the lot of mau, finally got relief in the following manner: He saturated a slice of bread with water, and then spread over it a goodly amount of soda. This plaster bo applied to the emption and kept the application moist by dropping water upon the bread as fast as the moisture was absorbed or evaporated. This dissolved the soda crystals on the skin, and gave almost immediate and permanent relief. So beidiy was b« poisoned that at one time be bad on bis body twentymo* of them poultice*, representing three loaves of bread.—New York Hail and Express. j, $

The Dmi of CbUdrea.

As a rale, the higher Jbe position of the parents, tbe more simply the children aro dressed—this rule holding good as regards the royal and noble families of England. Unfortunately, our country people have acquired abroad tho unenviable reputation of loving vulgar display but Anglomania has had tl* desirable result -ulcatinga love of simplicity. Teacl: iu French and Herman schools have been known to comp'.ain tr.ucrlv of tbedemc-x' Teetprodt* Uy American girts uw *ber poi SoofeoUe or Frauiein. as the c.w may bs bating to tbe pla-"-*s style cM-wb attdctv,r,nv *«-iaed suttwl-»« years, fe: n:'-i r--i eaviou* r.n-i ImM by a-. xaath» wIIm such i"-? ia§*» j, T-aus women cL »a au^re," as a me, tdtb diamond earrings flashing ia their ears and their finger* loaded with rings. While tbara will always be, ia

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every community, a select few who will know how to dress simply on all occasions when* rich garments would make them ct»ottpicuooit, the masses are not happy unless they are testifying to their wealth with tbe gorgeousness of their robes aud the profusion of their jeweis.—New Orleans TimesDemocrat.

Emerson and Sis Children. Emerson was playful and winning in his ways with bis children, but he did not often romp with them, and he discouraged their devoting the early hours, even of a holiday, to amusement.

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Girlish Figures Spoiled by Athletics. It is the athletic girl, the new type of girl who goes in for pretty nearly all the sports her brother takes up, who is, if sbe has previously cultivated her figure, the worst deformed girl of all. There is nothing like athletics and corsets, mixed or in alternate doses, to bring out tbe possibilities of carves, twists and abnormal developments in a modern girL All British femininity is at present engaged in screaming contradictions at Labouchere because he had the hardihood to declare that tennis playing girls were crooked. In a half dozen groups at Central park the other day I picked out four players whose right shoulders were noticeably of different shape from the left, and six or seven in whom tbe same thing, though less obvious, had begun to manifest itself, tbe summer exertion enlarging the muscles and light clothing thrusting them out of place and accentuating the uneven development of the body. Girls who row in corsets are a curious sight, the extra muscular development all taking place high up, where the blood has a chance to circulate, and making the shoulders tower above the rest of the body.—Chicago Herald.

A Troublesome Form of Beauty. Mrs. Reformer Jenness-Miller's latest objective point is the bustle. In her magazine, Dress, she comments on the amusing alacrity with which women fly to the defense of tho bustle whenever that highly ornamental and pestiferously obtrusive article of dress i« assailed. She quite overlooks the most grotesque phase of the bustle question that is the constant solicitude of the average wearer when on the street. Single out any well dressed woman you happen to meet on promenade, and ten to one, if you follow her, you will observe that about once in every block of her walk she will give her bustle a flip, furtive or bold, according to her disposition. No woman is ever certain ten minutes at a stretch that her bustle is in- the regulation state of discipline, hence her miud is forever on the rack.—Detroit Free Preai.

•I Prevention of Wrinkles. Evidently quite a number of us are growing old because we are interested in knowing what will prevent wrinkles. The best remedy is, of course, lack of care and absolute hard hearted ness, for the emotions cause wrinkles. When they are just beginning to be little wrinkles, sort of baby wrinkles, the old Creole recipe is really of some use. This is to take a small quantity of fine olive oil on one's fingers and rub the wrinkled plac# five or ten times twice a day, continuing this until the wrinkles disappear. .But with this, all the other things that keep women beautiful are necessary, most of all the use of plenty of soap aud water.—"Bab" in New York Star.

To Fill Cracks In Floors.

Cracks iu floors may be neatly but permanently filled by thoroughly soaking newspapers in paste made of a half pound of flour, three quarts of water and half a pohnd of alum mixed and boiled. Tho mixture $vill about as thick as putty, and may be forced into the crevice with a caso knife. It will harden like papier mache.—Boston Budget,

The best remedy for burns is claimel to be essence of peppermint and whisky (nixed. Wet a soft cloth or raw cotton and apply. It stops the pain instantly and draws out tbe lire.

The women of New York have been granted more patents than their sisters in any other state. The women of Massachusetts, Ohio, Indiana and Wisconsin rank next in order.

There is a prejudice against pjncocks' feathers for household ornamentatbn, bocause old women say death comes to Ub house where they are displayed.

For ingrowing toe nails use equal arts of mutton tallow, castile soap and whl» sugar made into a salve. Apply until the welling is down, then trim the uaii in the cenpr.

Said Lucretin Mott, when asked managed never to have any trou!l servants: *1 never ask tbem to do I know they won't da"

TBRRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

taught us that at breakfast

all must be calm and sweet, nothing must jar we must not begin the day with light reading or games our first and best hoars should be occupied in a way to match tbe sweet and serious morning."

From the age of 13 or 14 he thought they should be encouraged as much as poesible to regulate their own conduct. He would put the case, and leave them to think and act for themselves and he did not fear to inculcate, even at this age, the whole of his own doctrine of self reliance. To one of his daughters who was away from home' ut school, he writes: "Finish every day and be done with it. For manners and for wise living it is a vice to remember. You have done what you could some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in forget them as soon as you can.

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is anew day you shall be­

gin it well and serenely, and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day for all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays." Cabot's "Memoir of Emerson.^

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The taste of flsb may be removed fectually from knives and forks bj robbing tbem with fresh orange or lemon pec.

If soot is dropped on tlio carjtft, cover thickly with salt and it may be f»ept up without injury to the carpet.

Mrs. Grundy says that tbe cotupicioasly fashionable woman who is "cbartabeand kind" is a real curiosity.

Fleas, one who has tried it assarts, nay b» drives away by scattering flour ct s|lphur libendly about

A teacup of lye in a pail of water *fll improve tbe color of hlacfc good*.

At the Qoeen't Fomtala.

Near Invermark, on Lord Dslbottte1* estate, a fountain was steo years agtftrecied to commemorate a visit paid to the moo by titoqueeu. It bears this inscrijrtionJii gold letters: "Rest, stranger,on tins lovefsoeoe, and drink and pray for Scotland's taeen— Victoria." A Highlander was sbo*d one morning to mad the following agenda, traced in a boh! band, suggestive of fib doo tourist, immediately mxkrneih tbe original: pray for Qoeeo Ictorfa here, bat go and drink bar berth la few.*— N«w York Tribune,

WHAT SHALL WE WEAR?

NEW DESIGNS IN ORNAMENTAL PINS FOR COIFFURES AND BONNETS.

Fashions for Little Girls and Children. A Wedding Present that Promises to be Very Popular—Decorated Combs of

Gold and Gems.

A fashion article nowadays without the mention of decorative hair pins and combs, would indeed be incomplete, for these ornaments have been adopted by society ladies in all the leading cities in Ihis country. An evening coiffure especially is considered and calls for one or more ornaments of gold or gems.

DECORATIVE OOKB8.

The very newest things in this line are tortoise shell combs with gold tops that measure about two inches across. These tops are some of them veritable copies of the old fashioned high back comb of 100 years ago in all but sise. It is needless to tell that these combs are exceedingly quaint and attractive. In the cut is represented a beautiful comb, which consists of five graduated balls of gold mounted on a covered top of gold. Both balls and curved top are overlaid with delicate grain work. Tbe other comb, illustrated in same cut, has a crescent shaped top, the inside portion of which is ornamented with grain work, while the outer edge consists of gold rings interlinked. The knot pattern also figures on these combs.

Pleasing Styles In Bracelets. Quite new bracelets are spiral ones with overlapping ends, enameled and set with gems. Then there are bracelets, tbe overlapping ends of which are finished in imitation of Indian arrow heads with variegated gold. Woven wire bracelets, on which are seta square solid gold medallion incrusted with gems, are other novelties in this line. Open curb chain bracelets, in the center of which appear diamonds, rubies and sapphires, have appeared with new designs. Another novel style is represented by a wide band bracelet with a rough surface, in which are set three stones of contrasting color.

A Quaint Wedding Present. A quaint design in match safes likely to have a big run is the one thut copies iu silver an old shoe with turned down top, the nails in the sole being represented by diamonds or other gems. This novelty furnishes a pretty and convenient gift to a friend on the eve of a voyage, also a graceful offering from ushers on tbe occasion of a wedding. In a word, this bauble affords an elegant substitute for the literal throwing of an old shoe after departing guests and brides for good luck.

,l ^Ornamented Hair and Donnet Pins. In decorative hair pins appear many of tbe designs seen iu brooches, such as butterflies, flowers, crescents and the like, thickly studded with gems.

HAIR ARO BONNET PINS.

Very popular, too, are tho all gold pins, with their carved and twisted tops. These pins are worn not only as hair ornaments, but also as securing pins with which to fasten on one's bonnet or bat. Iu the cut is shown one of these popular pins also two other models, which are variously worn as hair pins and as pins for holding bats and bonnets firmly on the bead. One of these represents a sword, while the other is a crook of dull gold.

Dresses for Young Girls and Children. Dresses for young girls and children are made of similar materials to those used for ladles' costumes, except that cheeked and striped stuffs are chosen in sizes suiting tbe age and stature of the wearers. Some of tbe new models have plain gathered overskirt caught up in a few folds on each side of the front and falling over a plaited underskirt The tight fitting jacket opens wide over a plaited plastron finished off at the neck with a white lace or embroidered chemisette. Plastrons admit of much variety in style, and tbe gathers, pleats or gaugings may be ornamented with rows of feather or honeycomb stitching worked in silk of an opposite color to the foundation or of the color of the trimming.

Blouses of colored silk or zephyr are much worn by girls of 4 or 5, trimmed with embroidered tabs starting like rays from tbe iwJrhmwl Tbe upper skirt is finished off with several small tucks and embroidery, and tbe foundation edged with a stripe of silk or velvet answering the neckband and cuffs.

Waistcoats are extremely in vo^oe, and corsages tor children are rarely seen fastened down tbe center and both sides alike it is most fashionable, too, for children's drenes to be made with one, two or more waistcoats, and tbe effect is very good and piquanta

Of Interest to Aasatoar Mlllinara. It may be interesting to tbe amateur milliner to know that to make loops of ribbon set well the two ends of each loop should be plaited separately in several tiny folds, and fastened firmly together with threads or fine wire. Long loops for a hat trimming should have apiece of wire tbe color of tbe ribbon fixed straight up tbe middle of one side of the loop.

Fashion Votes.

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aalver bracelet of ball links, band chased and oxidised, a novelty. Huge eastern palms in oroaiDictital pots seem to be the favorite piazza depjration for ooastry booses. J.

Velvet, fialQe Francaiae, main and gros grain are materials that will figure in cotumn raiiiinery.

Among tbe newest ornaments for the hair are large butterflies and dragon flies made of fMttan.

ALL AROUND THE HOUSED

The Bfouschold Bird—A Homemade Wood Basket—Various Keclpes. Tho short or Gorman canary represents the popular variety of this universal household pet. Tbe exquisite song of tho German canary surpasses that of any other sort, and the bii-d is much more hardy than the long or French canary.

The canary bird's principle food is a mixture of canary and rape seeds. Cbickenweed, lettuce, cabbage or watercress, given occasionally, is a valuable addition. In winter a little sweet apple is good. Old and musty seed should bo avoided. The seed and water vessels should be of glass or china and kept clean. Cuttlefish should always be kept in the cage, as its salty taste gives the bird increased relish for its food.

Cleaning Fine Laces.

To rub fine laces while wushing them is ruinous. The following is the best method of cleansing and doing them up:

A thick blanket of soft rags is sewed around a bottlo and on this the lace is pinned. The bottle is then ptaced iu a bath of soapy warm water after soaking for twenty minutes it fa boiled for some time aud allowed to cool. It is dipped several baths of clear water, until all the sivip seems to be removed. The lace is then removed from the bottle and, after part of tho water i« driven out by gentle pressure, it is huni up to dry. When still slightly damp it is pluttMi on a hair cushion covered with flannel, and fastened there with lacepins. This demands skill and patience. A pin is passed through each loop and a twist is given before the pin is fastened. When quito dry the lace is sponged with a weak solution of gum arabic, which gives a fresh, new appearance when dry again.

Scaling Up Jelly.

The new process of tying cotton batting tightly over the top of tho glasses or bowls is now advocated for keeping jellios as well as fruits', instead of sealing up with puper and white of eggs. It takes very much less time.

Paper dipped iu spirits of any kind or moistened on one side with white of egg is generally placed on top of jelly before sealing it up to keep it from molding. Another way to prevent mold is to pour melted mat ton tallow or parafflne over the top. It is claimed that no such precautions aro needed when batting is used, as it will also' prevent mold.

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A Use for Old Frames.

The narrow oblong frames that were so commonly used in country houses, several years ago, for holding texts and mottoes, may be otherwise utilized now that the latter have become out of fashion. Turned around so as to. hang panel fashioned they make a nice frame for two cabinet photographs. I*t the space between the photographs be the same as the distance between them and the frame. Surround them with a pretty mat cut out of the heavy tinted paper that can be got for that purpose.

Cherry Stain.

Cherry represents one of the most popular of woods. Amateur cabinet workers, desirous of staining some of their handiwork in the fashionable color, should use for the foundatiou color Venetian red, mixed, with turpentine and oil, adding a little burnt sienna, it tbe stain is not dark enough. The colors ground in oil are considered preferable to the powder colors for staining. Apply the stain very thin, so as not to hide the grain of tbe wood, using a cloth instead of a brush and rubbing it thoroughly into tbe wood.

Peach Preserves.

To make peach preserves with a real peach flavor, tbe peaches should be ripe but not at all sof£ Allow about one pourd of sugar to three of peaches. Put the sugar and a little water into the preserving kettle, and when it stews clear put in the peaches, cooking only from threo to six pound* at a time. When they are clear take them up 'nto jars, fill up with syrup and 9eal.

nartlet* Pcrs.

Many housekeepers I If that Bartlett peats look most attractivo when put up by cooking them in tho uncovered glass jars. First make a clear syrup, using any proportion of sugar you please, from half a pound to a pound of sugar to a pound of fruit Fill the cans with the peeled fru/. pour the boiling syrup over it, boil about half an hour and jeal up tight at once.

A Shining Floor.

Not a few housekeepers claim that a floor is most easily kept iu good condition by rubbing it off each morning with a flannel cloth that is soaked iu keroseno once in two weeks. Use the cloth over a brush or broom stub, going up and down the Itoanls. No water is applied, and tbe floor soon takes on a nice polish.

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Apple Jell)'. "'s

To make nice apple jelly, use fair sour apples. Slice tbem skins, seeds and all, and simmer with a little water till well cooked and soft. Then strain through a cloth, add a pound of sugar to a pint of juice, boil a few minutes, skimming till clear then pour into glasses and cover when cold.

Cucumber Catsup.

For cucumber catsup grate tbe cucumbers and drain the water off through a colander. Chop half a dozen onions very fine and add them to a gallon of tbe prepared cucumbers. Add vinegar, cayenne pepper, salt and horse radish to taste, and seal up without cooking.

A Parlor Wood Basket.

With autumn days comes a chill in the air at night and morning which makes a light fire on the hearth not unwelcome to many people. Wood is so bright and cheery, so clean and convenient, that it is much used in sitting rooms or parlor* whenever practicable, and wood baskets, in which to store it, are quite tbe fashion. A very satisfactory homemade affair may be gotten up with the aid of tbe cut here given.

WOOD BASionr.

Tbe design is of wood and easily made. Tli* handle is of barrel hoop, Tbe sides aro ornamental with a valance of red cloth embroidered with black, bronxa and blue wools, the edgo being button botod with gokl colored «flk The tassels between the Vandykes, as well as those at every point, are made of wool of tbe aalae color as tbe embroidery. Tbe inof tho box may be stained or lined with beavy cloth. When ell tbe fancy work is finished, plait small rope, fasten itoo the edge of tbe box and wind around tbe handle and varnish it A sfik cord with Uwli at each eod twined around Um handle*.

Shorthand Girls in tlie Gullory. -i. 1 Perhaps there is no better place than the# women's gallery in the houso of representatives in the state house for observing tbe manner in which the shorthand girls pursue their search for a profession, for a competence and for their daily bread. Hardly ai day of the session passes but some of thorn! are to be seen there. A few aro able to make' some headway, though there havo probably not been two in the gallery the whole session who approached verbatim speed with even a moderate speaker. Most of them find itl slow, toilsome work. The letters seem to% come hard, and the forms are unfamiliar-' Pretty soon the writer becomes tired. Not only does her pencil move slowly, but it stop® altogether. Occasionally she tries to keep upj her writing at the same time she is looking! about tbe house, which might be useful prac-1 tice if she were trying to see how straight sho could write without looking on, but certainly bad for making speed in stenography. Then she becomes interested in the debate and stops to hear what the members havo to say, or she rests so as to join in the laugh at the witticism of some bright member. She* doesn't by any means appear to be iu a hurry about beginning again, and takes her own' time. Then some one comes in at the gallery door at her left, aud she stops work to see who it is.

By this time she has the air of a scholar set to do some disagreeable task who does not intend to do it, if any excuse can be found for passing the time in idleness. Then she rests a while and looks listlessly about tho" house, as if it were pretty much a bore to be there, and as if she bad doubts whether shorthand was ail it had been cracked up to be. Sometimes she seems to have a suspicion that there may be something in it, or to bo nudged by her conscience that she ought not to be fooling away the time, for she resumes: work again, but without spirit, and as if shedid not care how soon the house adjourned. But the second effort is shorter than the first. If two of them are together, they get to talking and tho pencils are unused. After thatstage it is not long before the books are shut for good, and a little later these disciples of Pitman aud emulators of Charles Dickens disappear through the gallery door. They have met the enemy and they are his. Theyhave had enough.—Boston Glol». .,

New York Mercantile Library. The Mercantile library in New York city is practically owned and entirely managed by clerks. In order to vote or hold office a member must be a clerk or working on a salary in some mercantile office. 1 he library contains. 317,000 volumes, making it the fifth largest in tbe country. First comes the Congressional at Washington, socond tbe Boston Publiclibrary, third the Harvard University, and! fourth the Astor.—Chicago Times.

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