Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 20, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 November 1887 — Page 6

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WOMAN AND HOME.

A LADY CORRESPONDENT TELLo HOW 10 CARE FOR THE HAIR.

a IJ ecrcat ion—A Well Shaped

Woman—To Break Up Baby's Cold. Cloves, Corsets and "Reform" %'lothing. Stray Bits of Information. A woman whoso hair reaches to her waist, {trick as one's wrist when braided, needs no artificial ornaments to adorn her head, and abundant hair needs less care to arrange than a scanty crop. All women can potsxss such hair if they give the proper care. It is not best to keep the hair closely cut after seven years it need not be touched by the scissors except to clip the forked c::ds once every month. Constant brushing is tho secret of luxuriant shining trensew, as it strengthens the haii- and brings out its natural luster, an/1, by brushing, tho ugliest ml hair can be changed to a warm golden tint. Use a hard brush do not pass it lightly over the hair, but •with firm, steady strokes brush until the scalp glows. If just before retiring you loosen your hair and brush it this way you will find you can .sleep much better. Braid it in two loose plaits, or, if very short, leave it unbound, as the hair should always be well aired and need not be liound unnecessarily.

Do not use pomades, dyes or preparations of Any kind, and alxjve all things don't wear night cap.j covering the liead with a cap is almost ax bad as putting a clothes pin on the nose at night, to keep out tho cold. Many lodies have the mistaken idea that the head and face should be closely covered when walking even short distance in the sunshine going often into the uir and sun Light, except at nooa, benefits the complexion as well as tho hair. Tow headed jx'ople should remember that the sun changes tho color of their hair to a more agreeable shade.

Combs arc not a necessity for long hair, except to comb out tangles the shai-p teeth injure tho scalp and produco dandruff. Washing the hair in cold sage tea promotes the growth and prevents falling out burdock root tea is also good. Washing the hair with soap renders it coarse and brittle and splits the ends instead of which take the yelk of an egg, beat slightly with the hand, adding a few (very few) drops of water and rub well into the roots. This cleans the scalp and makes the hair soft and silky. Allow about two minutes to get nearly dry, then rinse the bead well in tepid water, into which pour a fow lrops of ammonia (ammonia is tho most healthful stimulus known for the hair and quickens its growth when nothing else will do so). After washing wipo and nib the hair dry with a towel brush and part carefully with the fingers and dry in the sun, or, in •winter, dry by the fire. Never go into the open nir until the hair is thoroughly dry. 8honilooing the h«ir every morning in cold water nnd then brushing until the scalp glows is ood for the hair when it is short «nd will not grow. Crimping pi as do not injuro tho hair, unless they are of metal anil tho hair is put up too tight on them. If the hair is unnaturally dry, a mixture of half an ounce of carbonate of ammonia in a pint of swoet oil makes the best hair invigorator.— Ann Biscuits in Detroit Free Press.

Dress as a Recreation.

If it were not for clothes a great part of the world would have nothing to do and nothing to think about. Clothes are to somo what l)ooks and pictures and brie a brae, music, poetry and conversation are to others. Tbey take the pla?e of metaphysics, astronomy and psychological research. Possibly it may require as much thought to plan a reception gown as to calculate an eclijsje, especially when tho puree is slender to imagine a now shape for a Itounet, a new drapery, a new trimming, as to invent a philosophical solution of tho universe or to compose a symphony but the mind is more enlarged and enriched by one than the other. We do not exactly want to live for clothes, to satisfy our souls with nHi material things, although many are npjwrently content to give all their leisure and thoughts to them, and are no sooner off with tho old clothcs than they aro on with the new. They always have a dressmaker in the house and shopping on hand. Their literature is fashion reports. They bave no interests to speak of apart from this frivolous pursuit, or none so great, so absorb ing. Happiness for such people consists in a wardrolio where no omission can Ih detected.

But let it not be supposed that, this adoration of clothes is a iKvuliarlv feminine trait, although many Iwliove so. Are not fop and coxcomb both in tho masculine gender, and is there any feminine synonym for them! Of course it luny l» urged that men hove nobler occupations which consume their time, that their minds aro not so narrow as to bo agitated by the shape of a collar, but this is perhaps only an argument in favor of tho higher education of women. If their minds wen* as elegantly aud suitably furnished as those of their brothers, would they not have something more interesting to devote themselves to)

Dress is a kind of recreation, like poetry or Hdntsic, not the absorbing interest of a lifo*4Lime, although one might sus|»ct quite the re verse. Too j»rofouud attention to it is detbilitating to the mortal fiber like somo poicons, it has a cumulative effect ono cannot •"trifle with it or it asserts itself, and becomes u«n intoxication in ono case, a fetich ia another. It is always a pleasure to see well "-dnassod people a gown that fits badly, colors rill assorted, tawdrinecs, depress one like bad "•drawing, like "sweet bells jangling oat of *tune but those who put their soul into their «tothes, into the hang of a skirt or the set of a sleeve, have generally very littlo else to recommend them, and one soon exhausts their resources. "A sweet disorder in the dress" maybe advised for artistic rffrct it relieves primnem and gives a touch of piquancy to a toilet but the disorder most aot lapw into a disease on* is not mure certainly Intra with a genius for music, for literature or art, than another is born with a taxte for dress, knows what to wear ami how to wear it,—Harper** Basar.

A Well Shaped Woman.

Art should always be based on nature, and no art is true which does aot take nature far its model. A perfect, symmetrical, healthy woman of Ave feet tea inches in height roust comply with the following standard: She should be 13S pounds at the least, and could Mud up to ten pound* more without injury to health or artistic perfection The distance bttwtan the tips of her two middle finger*, wbea the arms arsextended, should be exactly the same as the height, or tea Hint* the length of her band,or seven and a half tin** the length of her foot, or five tidies the diameter of her chest from one armpit to the other. The distance from the junction of the thighs to the ground should be the same tram the former point to the t«n» of the bend. The knee sh *ild be exactly midway Crom the junctiono( the thighs to tbe bottom *i# beat.

Tbe distance from tbe ettww to tbe tip rf the finger Amid be the an ea Croat elbow to tW middle line of tbe cheat Tm tbe top of tbe head to «fcs chin, with fte band posed naturally, aboedd be the mam mm tram tbe of thsehta tntkn mfiH teifct m*

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The boat of a wottan of the height named should bo forty-three inches measurement over the arms, and the waist twenty-foar.

Tho upjicr part of the arm should be from thirteen and a half to fourteen indies, and tbe wrist six inches. The ankle should be six inches, the calf of the leg fourteen and the thigh twenty-five Any woman of tin height mentioned who has these measurements can congratulate herself on having as perfect a form as the Creator ever made. Of course tho proportions vary with the height—New York Mercury.

Girls in the Kitchen.

"People make such a fuss about- girls not going into service that I've kept a list of rear sons against it reasons that tbe girls gave without really knowing that they were giving them, and it's a pretty dreadful list, too. But there! It's both sides, and Fd like a training school for both and a different way of looking at things all round. There wont be much change till there is."

This remark was repeated to a woman of high social position, whose interest in the problem was intense, and who had made a genuine home for the servants in her own house. "The thing that strikes me mart seriously is," she said, "that the girl's opportunity for a really good marriage ceases the moment she enters a kitchen. Say what you will, that is the natural destiny of woman, and my girls are nice girls, who ought to have a fair chance to find the right mate. Two of them are well educated. They could marry a young professional man or merchant and not disgrace him, but such men would never dream of looking at them. The ordinary mechanic comes to see them a kind of man far below them in every way. I don't know what todo about it, but it seems to me tba'.if for any reason they had to leave me I would not advise them to continue in domestic service. Am I right or wrong?"

From other mistresses who had thought seriously and impersonally of the girl's side of the question has come much tbe same testimony.—Helen Campbell. 4-2

How to Break Up Baby's Cold. When I find baby has taken cold, not so feverish and sick as to require packing, which one dreads to do because of the increased danger resulting from any exposure afterward, but a smart cold in its first stages, with red eyes and running nose and stuffed heed, I take the little one in my lap several times through the day, and again at bed time, and, removing boots and stockings, rub the little feet—soles and tops and ankles —with sweet oil or goose oil, and then beat them long and well before an open fire til! the skin will abeorb no more oil.

Then I bathe and rub the little bared back from neck to hips, especially along the spine, with oil also shielding -baby's back from cold drafts, and letting the warm rays of fire light and heat it just right, chafing and thoroughly heating till skin will absorb no more oil.

Wrapped in flannel and tucked away in her warm nest for the night, baby often wakes in the morning with but little trace of her cold.

If there is hoarseness with other symptoms of an oncoming cold, for a simple remedy I like to give baby boiled molasses with a bib of butter or sweet oil or ben's oil in it, or a few teaspoonfuls of onion syrup made of sliced onions and brown sugar, which helps toothe tho throat and clear tho bowels, carry ing away, perhaps the aggravating soim* •f tho cold.—Clarissa Potter in (jood Housekeeping.

A Lesson in Gloves.

By the by, have you seen those most carious gloves, undervests and stockings that fill a window on Broadway? They call it "Primrose," but it is the brightest, most glaring, most assertive yellow I have ever seen in my life. Who in tho world would have courage to clothe herself in this get up' The gloves and stockings are sufficiently long, with the assistance of the silk shirt, to entirely cover the body, and I am wondering what ballet dancer will add to it all with a black —h and make herself a study in yellow and black for the front row.

When will women learn that gloves intense in color simply make their hands look large and prominent? For, really, anything that attracts attention at once to the hands only increases their size. That is one reason why white gloves havo such an abominable effect. Don't you remember the old fashioned photographs where people had their hands arranged in the most conspicuous manner over the backs of impossible chairs—that is, imIKxsible out of a photograph gallery—-and where the first thing you saw, or rather the Urst thing that struck you, was the deadly whiteness of the hands and their immense size? In those days of inartistic photographing ono might wear alive glove, but in the picture it looked like nine.—"Bab" in New York Star.

Let I Remember Home.

Let us make flannel shirts for the Hottentots, interest ourselves in mighty charities, or become, in a word, models of public spirit. But let us notquite forget our homes. In our homes are lips that often and often will yearn for cups of oold water, and sad, weary hearts will gladden and grow fresh again when the cup is given, unasked, by a thoughtful, loving hand. The small offerings cost so little! There is nothing in the world that costs so little and is yet so priceless. Tho fire burning brightly upon the hearth, tbe favorite dish upon tbe table, the cold water to the humble laborer when evening calls him home, and the baby lifted from the mother's tired arms, a strong hand at the heavy kettle, an appreciative word for the capital bread and the nice tea—this is the cop, returned full and overflowing, that half banishes the cane of the day, and brings new light into loving eyes. The old fashioned song played and sung for tbe silver haired tether, tbe ready fingers that thread the needle for grandma* fading eves, the word of tender cheer for tbe grieved child—tbess arc such little cups, and yet tbey are so Wewwd:—St Louis Magasine.

The Artreen and Her Stay*. It is said that years ago Mrs. Scott Siddonaf dressmaker advised bar to leave oil ber corsets. "What, lose me stage figuref sbe cried. "ImpossibleTbedi nslin uiged that she vras losing her figure anyhow, and that tbe only ramus of saving it was to take radical measures at ooce. "Well, here go me stays" arid tbe actress, and tbe milliner proceeded to fit her a twenty-five inch waist At tbe end of thesmsoa sbe came back again. "Make me a twenty-seven inch waist," sbe dmndnL but in tbe meantime her flgan below and above tbe wvfaft bad rammed tbeir normal proportions ber skin had grown two shades fairer and dearer, and sbe looked younger. Since then sbe has never worn a stay, and sbe my* that whereas before she them it was all she could do to drag through the last ad, after sbe had dbpensed with them she was so fresh and vigorous that she cimkl ha v* done a sixth act and not minded it Sbe still cootinaes to wear very gorgeous gowns.—Saw Ycrk World.

"Beferm (MUsg" Tbe movement In the direction of what is called "reform clothing* for wtanea is tafaUy pnn'—l»1 I had occasion to

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astonished at the nmnber and variety of the "improved* garments kept in stock. A good many of them seem to be very sensible, too, for they combine an amount of comfort in their use with that gracefulness of appearance which women find an essential of the fnaMoms The shopkeeper said: ''There are hundreds of ladies wearing the divided skirt now, though only about their houses. When they go out of doors tbey dress in the old style. In the new fashions of underclothing, however, the use is getting to be universal. Women aro more sensibly and healthfully dressed now th.ni ever before, but they will never come to trousers, you may be sure."

As the speaker was a woman and a smart one, I am happy lo take ber word for it.— Alfred Trumble in New York News. j-

Woman's Sorrows and Cruelty". No, the pathos of life is not exhausted in the sorrows of women nor is its cruelty at together the prerogative of men. It need not be told here how merciless are the exactions of social life in our great cities^with their inexorable "must be's" and "must have's," yet women, whose eyes will Overflow as they talk of the burden of human sorrow and who honestly believe the law of love and mercy rules their lives will accept these killing sacrifices. They feel no. cop*punction as they pnt on graceful cortumei and wraps which express, perhaps, a month of toil, of anxiety, of heartache, and, aldft even under too great a pressure, a departure from a strict ideal of honesty. DowenotdS. know that life is full of wrecks made in thMT way—of men each of whom, like Lydgate in George Eliot's story, starts with white on what to to be a triumphri voyage—no mistakes such as other men have made—but, she who should have been his inspiration, his star, is his ruin? With her inexorable needs she is the insenate rock upon which he is wrecked, and his lofty aspiration and fair ideal go down fathoms deep in mud and slime.—Mary Parmele in Magazine.

Tbe Newspaper at Home.

In many families tho newspaper bos be come a forbidden object to tbe hands BJK! eyes of tbe younger members. Their parents have become unwilling that tbey should far miHnriro themselves with the records of crimes to be found there, with the fact of the frequency of such crimes, or with the trtt, quently light and flippant ways of mention-, ing than, while in many cases the advertise-, ments have become sources of apprejjension'. It is a pity, however, to deprive the growing children of all knowledge of what is going on in the world in different regions from those of crime, and households have always tbeir safeguard in the provision of a weekly paper which, while keeping its readers abreast with tho current of the world, is not bound as a matter of news to the daily consideration of the last theft or murder.—Harper's Basar

The Housekeeper's Recreation.A woman can. be a good housekeeper without taking all her time to do her homework. .If she cannot let her, after all, be sa^jmed to be an ordinarily good one, and take vme ^the time from her previously self imposed drudgery for reading, education of children, self improvement and for recreatioa^ There is no reason why along pi should be laid out for every should be carried through at all' each hour of the day is kind of work, opcKhopr at 1 set apartTOr recrwftior others, rigidly observed—Cor. Good House* keeping.

"Old Faahioned" Rooms.

"Old fashioned" rooms are rather a fad just now. They are furnished just as handsome rooms were furnished before the reathetic erase set in, with hair cloth furniture, pictures in the regulation places over piano and sofa cut glass chandeliers, with tinkling drops heavy curtains, looped back over lace ones, and all the other adjuncts of tbe "best parlor" of tho past. Strange though it may seem, such rooms have a certain solid statelinecs of their own, and rather relieve the eye, wearied with the wilderness of decoration that marks the modern drawing itxnn.—New York Commercial Advertiser.

Buttons Going Out.

There is wailing among the button makers. Tho gorgeous buttons that have illuminated ladies' dresses by the dozens anddoaens are going out of fashion. Tho correct thing now is to conceal the fastenings. Boxes and boxes of buttons lie unsold on the shelves of the dealers. But—such are tho compensations of trade—-tbe hook and eye sellers are delighted. —New York Sun.

Relief for Hiccough.

If you should have hiccough try ono of the following remedies, every one of which is vouched for by different authorities. Slightly refrigerate the lobe of tho ear clasp the hands with arms raised above the head press the finger each side under the ear, near jawbone inhale chloroform until relieved.—Boston Budget.

Freneb Society Fashions.

Many fashionable French ladies are taking to the study of astronomy, and are having observatories erected in secluded parts of their gardens. A taste for rare books, carious editions and fine bindings is another fashion among French society ladies.—Demorestfs Monthly.

Nothing Left Over.

An apparent surplus at evening entertainments is reckoned amon^ the vulgar things at social life. The time has gone by when people stuff their gncste. No dish is filled, and simplicity of menu and service is tbe charm at elegant hospitality. —Chicago Times. ________

The occasional washing of tbe hands with and borax soap, in tepid water, helps to keep them soft and smooth, and glycerine mixed with lemon juice is excellent to apply at night.

Some fashionable women in Philadelphia have the backs and sectof bedroom chairs upholstered with silk ai.. illkd with broken balsam boughs, which give fragrance for the whole seanon.

An English physician recommends football forftirfe. He aays it is an exhilarating gaoM(jand would prove Ughl? beneficial to yonng ladies who are apt lobe morbid or ..... a UJWmMML ______

Men* juice and tbe scrapings at raw bft are sometimes given to sickly children. Tbe eggs at hpesaiM might in that i»ayfind entrance into the inteetinea.

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Never use a sharp knife in cleaning the FIB under the naik with soap, and esaove it by brushing with a naflbc iMh, ______

Women ore henceforth to be admitted to the competftioBB of drawing and modeling in tbe Paris School of Decorative Art

Canned toawtoessbonld bo kept where ft is dark and dry. Light injaresthem.

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WHAT SHALL WE WEAR?

A PLEASING EVENING DRESS INTRODUCED BY PARIS MODISTES.

IZevtval of Irish Poplins in Scotch Plaids. The »w Velvet aad Angora Cloths. Latests Style in Bnglish and French

Rooml Hats.

Roccnt importations by Now York milliners include both English and French round lrits. The former in turn embrace a number of styles such as the low crowned toque for traveling and morning wear, tall felt hats, with a closely rolled brim and beaver hats trimmod with loops of velvet ribbon and old silver ornaments.

BOUND HAT WITH WIDE BIUX. Tho French round hats aro more dressy in effect *h«»n are the lEtigHah hats. Numbered with Trench hats aro felt onos, with tho brims rolled up high on either side. There aft also hats with wide brims irregularly rolled, and hats with a wide poke front and long ribbons coming from the back to tic loosely in front. The cut here given illustrates! a round hat with wide brim and riblon tles.r*It is a Paris pattern bat of dark g$ay 'felt. The brim, which is lined with black, felt and turned up on one side, widens from two to five and-one-half inches. A tuft of Bhutod gray feathers furnishes the trim mingsT The strings start from a bow at tbe backhand are of dark gray corded ribbon, with a

Kew Dress Fabrics. ipttns are revived in Scotcli plaids regular dan tartans also in the ice of IjTales plaid of blue and green toand also in fanciful French colorings, plaids, s&ys Harper's Bazar, are to bo fbr |dl)skirt8 and draperies with cloth baaqnee—*Ashron long in favor with young

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*clo&fcalled Himalaya, and also Anhas rijJong soft fleece like that on .ftiaiayaguiawls, and is very effective iqnuLg in borders on skirts or as skirt under a wool polonaise. The png^nd firm that this cloth is used feKK rM edg$s, which tho fleece covers just as fur is cut, maLinjj it excellent for borders (three in a row) on cloth skirts, and requiring only pinked leaf points at the foot when used as a skirt. A poppy red Himalaya skirt under a black cashmere polonaise is a stylish costume bright enough for a youn^ lady. The new trimming for such a polonaise is a wide insertion of netted silk cord set in—not on the cashmere—showing the red skirt beneath, and when ret in the waist, lined there with red also.

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A new wool fabric, described by the authority quoted from", is called velvet cloth, because it has a thick pile liko velvet. This substantial cloth needs no trimming, and is employed for the lower skirt-, the sleeves and the side forms of basques in combination with soft repped faille, Sidlicaao or Bengali ne of a contrasting color, such as deep myrtle green or dark steel gray. To trim such a dress beaded and corded passementerie in pointed or looped design is used in black and gold together on the silk alone—not on the cloth parts.

The Polonaise and' Basque.

There to no question but the polonaise is revived. Paris modistes affect it, and consequently many imported costumes show it. Basques, however, remain in favor among New York modistes, notwithstanding the reintroduction of the polonaise. Basques are t.hi« autumn cut a little longeron the hips than was the style last season. Some of them are fashioned after the Louis Quatorze coot, with flat, square pockets at tho sides.

The fronts of the basque corsages show a great vfcriety of cut and styles of trimmings. Vests and plastrons continue in favor. The collars stand high and require two fastenings. Coat sleeves are preferred for all evening dresses designed for street wear.

,v Novelty in Evening Dress. A novelty, introduced by Peris modistes, is an evening dress with pleated vest. This dress, as will be seen from the illustration, affords an attractive model for ladies who prefer a high bodice to a decollete one. The

IVUUIO DIM WITH TUUlTWD TW. fronts of the bodice, made witboatdarta, and finished in shawl hke ends, are looped together at tbe waist and open over a fine, nleatedmnslin veit,pvtantoallrm foundation of lining. The collar enffe to the elbow aieevee and front basques ere aboef pleated

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As-L AROUND THE HOUSE.

Popular Bed Room Jfturnlshtngs—Reel pea for Old Fashioned Dainties. Colored and white bed spreads |U« both in fashion. Pretty cretonne or sateen is muck used for tho t-olored ones, and the bolster, which may be rounded or fiat, is covcred with the same. White marseillcs is a popular counterpane, while antique lace or loco insertion and scrim in alternate stripes is highly fashionable. These open work spreads may be used over a lining of sateen in pale pink, light blue or other delicate shade. The pillows, which are almost square, are covered to match. Fine linen pillow cases aro frequently hemstitched and have initials embroidered above the hem.

Good Home Made Apple Batter. Home made apple butter used to be apart of every country family's provision for the winter. Mrs. S. D. Power tells just how this article is mode as excellent as it ought always to be.

The basi: is sweet cider, which is to be boiled down to one-half its original quantity, when three-fourths as nric-h, by measure, of apples, pared and cu'. small, are to bo added and boiled t, a pulp. Good care is required to have cvorythins clean, to skim tho cider well and kee4 it iro.n scorching by too hot a firo after it boils, aud when the apples begin to cook tho whole mu£t lie watched and stirred constantly with a long wooden bat, paving a scraper eight inches long and three wido fired at right angles to tho handle. This stirrer scrape: tho boiioui of tho kettlo at each motion, and keens tlie mass from scorching, which is ruin to the whole in one moment. With tho apples? aro added cinnamon and cloves tic I i:i caeese cloth and sus|)ended in the kettle by a long striug: also one-fourth tho weight of the appleB in sugar, or less if they are sweet. It takes two days to finish one boiling of apple bnttor, boiling down the cider and paring tho fruit tho first day the next, stewing tho wholo, which is then turned into firkins for keeping. It needs no sealing.

Prime applo butter, liko minco pie and rich fruit cake, should bo six weeks old beforo using, to attain its full flavor.

An Expert's Test for Flour. An expert advises as an easy mode of testing tho purity of flour to squeeze it in the hand. The cohesivouoss of flour is very great, and tho lnmp so squeezed in tho hand will be a longer time before it breaks and falls apart if of whoatcn flour than if adulterated. Plaster of pans, dust of burned bones and potato flour, sometimes used in adulterating, are much heavier than wheaten flour may be detected by their weight. A sack that will contain a certain weight of wheaten flour will hold half as much more, by weight, of potato flour.

The Decline of the Pillow Shaiu. Pillow shams are going out of style and use. Long narrow pillows are much used on beds made up with spreads that are brought up over the pillows so as to entirely cover them. *. .. J.

Toilette Table In French Style. The toilette table represented in the cut is of French origin and its light, graceful character makes it particularly suitable for bed rooms. It can bo fitted with drawers underneath, if preferred.

DESIGN* Will TOtUETTK TABLB. This table is of wood, iwinted white and and well varnished. Tbe table top is covered with red flannel, over which is ecru colored etamine edged with knitted thread lace. Tbe drapery consists of Turkey rod calico upon which are applied, with chain stitch, designs of flowcrr. orb .*ds cut out of cretonne. If it is desired to make tho table handsome, the drapery can bo of more costly material with hand painted or embroidered ornament*.

ItoM Soent Jar.

A potpourri or rose scent jar consists of a stock of rose leaves, to which are added various odoriferous substances and essences.

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petals are gathered in the morning,

and after drying them off for an hour are pot into a dish with layers of salt they are stirred every morning and allowed to stand ten days. Fresh leaves can be added every morning until there are enough. Then put into ajar with two ounces coarsely ground allspice and the same of broken stick cinnamon. Let it stand closely covered for six weeks. Mix together one ounco each of coarsely ground allspice, cloves, cinnamon and mace, one ounce bruised orris root, soma lavender flowers or any sweet scented dried flowers or herbs obtainable, and put into your permanent rose jar in alternate layer* with the row stock add a few drops of oil of rose geranium or violet and pour over tbe whole a quarto' of a pint of good cologne. Add from time to time orange flower water or the tike and every season a few fresh row petals. Every morning after putting tbe room in order leave tbe cover off the jar for a few minute*.

A Bicb Bcvtni* tnm Oranges. To make rich orangeade steep the yellow rinds of sis cweet and two bitter sweet oranges In a quart of boiling water, covering closely, for six boors make a syrup with a ponndofsngar and three pints of water mix tbe infusion and syrup together press in the juice of a dozen sweet oranges and two bitter mini from which the rind has been tak~n stir thoroughly and ran through a j-lly hag. The Florida Agriculturist, which gives tbe above, directs to seal it op hot, WJMTO it in to be kept for use,

Household Stats.

Qeen *mc with keroeene. Pointed diamoff skin tidies now decorate chain and safe*.

Silver continues to be the rage for every description of coetly toflst article* "Save cold tea for H» vinegar biaW," says a housewife. "It soars easily and gives color and flavor."

To soften water f* dish washing and leandry purposes thoroughly dissolve ooe teatofo«rgailo»ef

ABUSE OF THE TOOTH PICK.

An Unobjectionable little Instrument When Used at Proper Times. The tooth pick, when toed with discretion and at proper times and in proper places, is an unobjectionable little instrument. Its occasional employment is, as a rule, necessary to cleanliness and the preservation of tho teeth. So, also, is the use of the tooth brush. This adjunct of the toilet is, however, never used in public. The person who, after" partaking of a meal, should proceed to publicly use his tooth brush would speedily find himself banished from decent society. Yet such action would be less objectionable to witness than the service to which some peo-» pie who pretend to refinement and culture put the tooth pick. There is but one place in which it may be rightly used—tho dressing room—and no person who has tho slightest consideration for the feelings of others will handle it anywhere else.

It would seem to be almost unnecessary to maho such statements as those in the foregoing paragraph. No one possessing any delicacy of feeling oraqueamishness of digestion will dream of controverting them. And yet tho public uso of the tooth pick is daily increasing, and has already reached proportions that strike the foreign visitor with astonishment and disgust, and make thelives of many of our citizens anything but agreeable.

Tho practice has doubtless grown owins to the lerge number of people who live or haw lived in hotels and boarding houses, where toothpicks were furnished with the idea that guests would take them to their rooms, and in somo of the good hotels guests can even now only procure toothpicks at the doors by which they leave the timing rooms. In other hotels and in many boarding houses, end Also, it is sad to have to write, in some private houses, the toothpick holder is a regular ornament (r) of the meal table, and its contents are assiduously worked.

In no other country that tho writer has ever visited havo toothpicks been publicly used in private houses or in the presence of women. An English woman or a Freneb woman of the better class not only never dreams of using a toothpick before people, but she considers it something that it in mora pleasant not even to mention, llere, however, it is no uncommon occurrence to hear a lady ask for tho toothpicks, and select ono that sho thinks will lit her needs.—TheEpoch.

The "Lightning Calculator." I was much interested during recent visit to the exposition by au adding machinodeftly manipulated by a young man with the most astonishing results. It may bo all right, but it will never, to my notion, sue--ccetl the present system of attaining tho total of a column of figures. For a century past tho world has bron tl^'cn "lightning calculators" and glib tongued men liavostood on the cornerc and with blackboard and chalk havo shown how the work of the plodding accountant

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duced from horn's almost to seconds. Yet what business house or bunk would for a minute retain a bookkeeper or accountant in its employ who depended upon one of these seemingly brilliant schemes to quick results? I have knowu men who could run, up three rows of figures at a time, but never knew ono yet who, nftcr having done•o, did not, with a proper regard to his own, responsibility for any accruing erroiv, run over the three columns in tlui old fashioned way of put down tho I anil carry the 9 to besure that the first result "proved."—Accountant in lobe- Democrat. fy'&i

City Hornes at Dinner.

Of all tho barbarously utupid and wasteful, contrivances man has invented the nose bag, out of which haroe.sed horws take their dinners, is tho most ridiculous. Opposite my window ns I write i: a row of a dozen expresavagons ilrawn up in front of the office. Thehoivcs are chasing their oats about in the depths of their nosobags or tossing throequarters of their dinner away in their effort to capture the other fourth part of it. Tho street in front of them is strewn with oat* enough to sow a crop from. Tbe poor beast* ere tantaliml half out of their wits a:id havo lost part of a necessary meal, and no one istho gainer but tho sparrows. It would not seem difficult to invent a trough to reet on tho shafts or pole of a wagon, and so feed the horses at tbeir case. The more sagacious of the brut- £ive a hint at this themselves, you will often see them resting tho bag o:i tbo pole or shaft in order to get at the low tide of grain within, which, by tho wny, may bo taken to show onco more that horso sens& has points i:i it worth human consideration and adoption.—Alfred Trumble in New York. News.

Well Water of Doabtfal Quality^ As tho country becomes older, wells which formerly yielded jfod water are becoming unreliable, and late in tho season fumkh water of doubtful quality. This fact is well understood in cities where artificial supplies of water replace that from wells. Tbe same impurity in the water doubtless exists in many country wells, and is tbe cause of sickness and death at this season of the year. If the well is low bave it cleaned out. This should be done wherever possible every two or three years. Most people will be surprised at the amount of impurities to be found in old wells whose water they may for yearshave been drinking. If the well never gets low enough to be cleaned out its water should be filtered before being considered fit for home use.—Boston Budget

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Tbe New York San says: A pretty girl set up a boot-blacking chair in Wall street. Mbe was an alert creature of sixteen or so, dressed in jaunty neatness,, •nd altogether an object to make the brokers turn around for a second look: No man had tfei jioral courage to mount that chair and submit bis boots to the brashes of a girl, and so she got no oimtomer*.

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