Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 35, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 February 1888 — Page 6

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]70MAN AND DOME.

^TRYING AN OLD BUT NOW UNU8ED PROCESS OF COOKING.

Slaving Something for Children—The English Servant Girl—Milk for the B»bl4»—Mr*. Ijwitrj'i Taate—The Fwh* ioniblii VCalit—Suggestions.

$ It is a well known fact that abetter and tnoro delicious coffee is made by pouring the boiling water over the ground coffee than by boiling the coffee itself, as unfortunately is yet so often done.

The boiling water that is poured over the coffee ceases to boil the instant it leaves the kettle in which it was boiled. Through evaporation it is already, somewhat cooled on the way to the coffee pot, end by further contact "with other bodies the temperature is still further lowered until it is evident that the temperature in the coffee pot is several degrees below the boiling point. The coffee is consequently not made with boiling but with warm water.

It is, therefore, but natural to conclude that other victuals may be prepared in the same manner, as it is the beat, not the boiling, that causes the necessary changes to convert them into proper food. The boiling only transforms some of the water into steam the livelier it boils the more is evolved but the temperature is not increased thereby It is 212 degs. when it commences to boil, and remains so if you boil it ever so hard. All the superfluous heat is used to make steam, and loaves as steam, without doing any good to the ingredients to be boiled.

It is a mistake to suppose that apiece of "well boiled" soup beef hv been heated to 212 dogs, throughout. The heat penetrates so slowly that a good sized piece of beef may remain comparatively cold inside after staying in boiling water for an hour or mare, And if you actually measure the temperature of the inner parts of the beef the moment it Is raken out of the pot and pronounced "well done," you will be surprised to find that it seldom reaches over 170 degs. It was, therefore, cooked at a temperature considerably below the boiling point.

There is, furthermore, good reason to sappose, that, if it is possible to prepare the food properly by simply heating it to the boiling point and then ceasing, then wo have found a way to make our food more nutritious and savory. True, it is mostly water that evaporates during the long continued boiling, but our smell tells us that something else is also being lost, and it is but fair to suppose that thin "something" might improve the flavor of the food if prevented from escaping. It is moreover a common known fact that the longer an egg is boiled the less toothsome and digestible does it become, but it is not so commonly known that the most nutritious part in meat is identical to that in the egg, and as easily spoiled by long continued boiling.

The above should be sufficient to cause any one to try an old, but, to my knowledge, in thu country unused process in cooking one that, moreover, possesses the advantage of considerable saving in labor and fuel, and, furthermore, makes it impossible to scorch or burn anything.

The process is as follows: Tho food is brought to a boil, and allowed to boil for a few minutes. The kettlo is then removed from the fire and carefully protected in a beat safe so as to prevent the heat from escaping. Tho food will then be cooked by its own heat, or, in other words, the temperature will for several hours remain high anough to produce tho necessary change.* in tho victuals uuder treatment.

The hoat safe necessary for the foregoing process can he easily constructed by anybody, and at a merely nominal cost. First get a common packing box of a suitable size, cover the bottom with a layer of picked wool or cotton two or three inches thick, then from apiece of ziuc or sheet iron make a hollow cylinder a littlo larger than the kettle used, place tho cylinder in the box, and (111 the interval between the cylinder and tho box with cotton or wool two to three inches thick. A common pillow will answer for the lid, and tho safe is ready for use. When the kettle is removed from the fire care should be taken not to raise the lid, which should lit as closely as possible, and when placed in the safe tho pillow must be tucked well down all around. After remaining in the hoat safe for fronl two to four hours, according to circumstances, the food will be done, and you will bo astonished to find what a well cooked and toothsome dish you have prepared with so little trouble.

Hay or cow hair, being cheaper, can be substituted for wool or cotton, but do not retain the heat quite as well, especially in apparatus of smaller sice. The safe can, of course, be mado to contain several vessels at oue time, and moat, potatoes,

lMTlnf Something tor Children.

Of the thousands of people who are straining every norvo to leave their children something, how many ever reflect that every man Is as sure to leave his children something as the sun is to rise to-morrow morning! It may be an' ample fortune in one case, or a tendency to life long nervous dyspepsia in another, but an inheritance of some sort each parent is bound to entail on his offspring. Over the money Inheritance he often worries himself Into softeniug of the brain, but as to the inheritance of physical and mental qualities— the dyspepsia, ill temper, or despondency on the one hand, or the health, courage, culture and noble character on the other—these be thinks will take care of themselves. He Is right They will take care of themselves, «&d there is just whore the mischief Ilea,

Now, if every mother, for example, were coly a Mother Carey* chicken, instead of a human be she could safely adopt this leave alo -. cjursa, and recommend it to the paternal 1 -other Gsroy\i cock. These happy creatures isavo few parental anxieties. Their young in':orlt from tbem nooo but good and useful qualities. The first minute they art fkxiged they take straight to the water, and never to beer or whisky. As for flying, both ImwiiM and power are so perfectly transtnittcd in their ocganisetkxi that they am *apt up bwtSy into the sky, and s«mt winging 11 over tho dwp. Bora to swim, bora to fly, l»rn to eat fish, they simply set to work to do It, and so each little downy birdling start! *jut in lite with an inheritance amply mmcleat for a successful career of business, in foreign parte, and congenial social mjoj-

''snoot* Far different it It with hitman eMJdwn.

JSvsry once in a while, indeed, one of them born with an organisation as imsi iiIimm *s that of a Mother Carey* chickling, «sy ef a vastly higher aad more oomph* kind, look, for instants*, at that mlisuukws boy ^rho has lately teas snteanring Bostontwtth ^ismosto. Tto the grea* aosaa aad ths liasltifcss sky a H11 Urn he teok sa

stinctivdy as the seabfrd to the billows and the air. Still, even though a musical mili/rmaire from the start, his careful father has felt it will never do to let him run wild. The boy is never allowed to get into bad musical company of the Jim Crow order. Few parents, however, transmit such an organization So their children. And yet they have transmitted one, and surrounded it with influences to call it out. The children will have to cope with it all their lives.

Why not think, thai, erf what has already been left the children, as well as of what may be left them in money, if business, tuna out well. If a father has bequeathed a child an irritable temper, why not, in mercy, try to bequeath him the example of a parent who has governed and controlled the same infirmity for a lifetime. The child inherits not merely what the parent inherited, but the good or t-h* bad us#.' the parent made of such, inheritance, the calming or the inflaming influence of the life lived in the child's presence. There are people in plenty in the land who have succeeded in leaving their children money. What is wanted is more who succeed in leaving tbem intelligence, purity, self-control, the memory of a happy home, consecration to a high way of living. It is a

rare

father who has not reason to lookback with terror and remorse on a great many things he has already left his children, and for which they will have to be saints, indeed, if they ever "rise up and call his pw»mnry biassed."—Boston Herald.

Inglish Servant Girls* Fault*.

The modern servant girl does not ktoow her work, and, worse luck, there is no one to fcen/'h her, and that is the plain truth of the matter. No public institution, however good, can really fit a girl for "domestic service." In a large institution a girl learns nothing of the difficulties and trials of a small establishment, where, instead of being a member of one large body, with distinct and clearly defined duties, she finds herself thrown on her own resources and obliged—most difficult tflgir of all—to think for herself. I remember very well the experience of a friend of mine, who took a girl from a large "home," where orphans were taken care of and trained as servants. The girl came, a neat, gentle faced lass, respectful, willing and obliging, in short, a treasure, whom mistress unH maids were, for a wonder, unanimous in praising. One day I missed her and asked the cause. "Oh, she has left said the work was too hard."

Never, never again will I take a girl from one of those institutions. The girls are good, well trained in manners and mind, anything Trou like, but they are not taught to think. Why, that very girl used to leave the nursery brooms and pails outside tho door, and when checked for it said naively: "Oh! I thought the girl whose tjirn it was to clear up would put tbem away." Another time nurse found her wandering around the nursery regions looking for the lift to teonvey the dirty boots and shoes downstairs to be cleanod, and she finally gave me warning, dissolved in tears, because she could not really manage the work, and on her return "homo" I had a sharp letter from the matron in reply to mine, wondering "how I could think of overworking a child so shamefully I" because I asked her to do work all my other nurse girls had done easily, and which her successor, the daughter of an old servant, of her own free will, supplemented by taking the mending of some of the house linen off my hands. Until mistresses are prepared to teach their servants themselves they will not have good ones, or in fact servants at all in the real sense of the word.—English Paper.

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beans,

eta, can

all be prepared at the same time. Potatoes, beans, rice, peas and likes can be placed in the safe as soon as they boil, bat large pieces of meat should be boiled for about half an hour, so as to allow the heat to penetrate them better.

With a littlo practice and use of common sense anybody will soon bo able to prepare their food by this process, and thai save much fuel, labor and time.—Charles Osmund iu Detroit Free Press.

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Not all Rose Colored.

"The man who gpes to housekeeping after having lived in a boarding house most of his life, naturally rejoices at the change, because after all, there is nothing like putting one's feet under one's own mahogany, dont you knowf' remarked a benedict "but those who are not so privileged should not imagine vain things. The man of the house has a thousand more responsibilities than the man who boards, and these, in a measure, balance the advantages. For instance, it not infrequently happens that the servant becomes obstreperous and has to be discharged." "Then he finds that there is coal to carry up that there are furnace fires to rake down and keep ablaze that there are window shutters to shut, and that the milkman and the baker come at a disgustingly early hour in the morning, and that if he wants cream for his coffee and rolls for his breakfast he must get up and answer their knocks at the gate. He finds, too, that there are clocks that all the time demand winding, that there are people who seem to make it a business1 to ring his door bell and ask where Mr. Smith lives, and that there area thousand and one little errands that Bridget used to do that ho has to do now himself. Oh, yes there area good many things to mitigate the joys of housekeeping, especially when yon happen to be without a servant girL"—Philadelphia Bulletin.

Hints for Those Who Travel. 5

The journey being over and the first resting place reached, comes the unpacking. Now it will be seen if brains have Men used in filling tho trunks and all possible contingencies foreseen. We will hope so, and that the tired traveler will find all she needs without diving to the bottom of even one trunk. Now the housekeeping talent will come into play everything that is left out of the trunk for future use will be put as nearly as possible in the same position in the strange room that it would occupy in the familiar bed chamber at home. If handkerchiefs axe usually kept in the left hand corner of the upper bureau drawer, in they go in the same place in the hotel bureau. Thus no time is lost in looking for things we know by instinct wbere to go to find everything, and our tired heads are saved worry and trouble. But one caution on leaving the temporary resting place: Dont rely on "feeling sure" that a certain drawer or closet has not been opened. If the owner put nothing in there, perhaps the chambermaid did, and there is no thought so comforting, when seated in tits train again, as to reflect that every spot has been examined before the room was left and that nothing remaias behind.—Marie Qoexaldi in Good Housekeeping.

M»k for the Bahlee.

The reason why human milk agrees so much better than other milk with infants is because it is so much diluted and the cheesy substance mors soluble, aad it Is on this account that ass's milk succeeds so well for all ordinary feeding cowV ailk answers very Veil, provided that caiv be taken to have it as nearly like human milk as possible. Hainan milk contains little more than half the qaantity of thsasy matter that is found in cow's milk, and hence ths necessity of frse dilution with water—that is, cow% milk AcmM bs aiixed with half its bulk of purs tepid water. Dr. Baker finds thai the following proportions of added ingredients approximate the proportions and properties of milk and generally answer wsB, thoogh aomstimes mots water Is teqpixed during the fin* tew weeks of fastest lite:

Oow% milk, half a pint water, ths same quantity a mall tesspooafal, or sixty grates, of s*Car of milk, aad *"l%is ef two teaqwafalsef (nsm, If ths qasltty of milkbs

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must be doubled Thus modified,

cow's milk is rendered very nearly like human milk.—Dr. Benson Baker in Medical Journal. __

Faults of the TMiirasbte Waist.

To begin with, the waist is not a circle at all, but an oval nor can there be any greater error to imagine that an unnaturally small waist gives an air of grace, or even erf tightness, to the whole figure. Its effect, as a rule, is to simply exaggerate the width of the shoulders acd the hips and those whose figures possess that stateliness, which is called stoutness by the vulgar, convert what is a quality into a defect by yielding to tho silly edicts of fashion on the subject of tight lacing. The fashionable English waist, also, is not merely far too small, and consequently quite out of proportion to the rest of the figure, but it is worn far too low down. I use the expression "worn" advisedly, for a waist nowadays seems to be regarded as an article of apparel to be put on when and where one likes. Along waist always implies shortness of the lower limbs, and from the artistic point of view has the effect of diminishing the height and I am glad to see that many of the most charming women in Paris are returning to the idea of the directoire style of dress. This style is not by any means perfect, but at least it has the merit of indicating the proper position of the waist—Oscar Wilde in Woman's World.

Mrs. Lsngtrr'i Neatness and Taste.

To hear Mrs. Langtry talk of having clothes cleaned is one of the funniest things in life, and you are inclined to scoff. Never you mind, she does it just the same, and you may hear her bragging now and then that such an article has been cleaned at least so many times. She trains her lady's maid to keep everything she has in the most exquisite order, and nothing escapes the most perfect care. She is not only neat by nature, but she knows how much less it costs to dress and dress well if everything is watched and mended and cleaned than it does to dress badly *nd carelessly. She never wears frills and ribbons, nor half the ugly things that are usually regarded as adornments: neither does she wear more than a single piece or so of jewelry. Her big turquoise ring and a moonstone pin set with diamonds are the usual extent. Neither does sh« ever wear bonnets, and her hats are more than likely to be trimmed with a single bunch of ribbon bows with perhaps the unusual frippery of a single quill run through them.—Fannie B. Merrill in New York Mail and fexpresB. .....

The Women of Barbados*.

The women dress ill in Barbadoes, for they Imitate English ladies but no dress can conceal th a grace of their forms when they are young. It struck Pere Labat two centuries ago, and time and their supposed sufferings as slaves have made no difference. They work harder than the men, and are used as beasts of burden to fetch and carry, but they carry their loads on their heads, and thus from childhood have to stand upright with the neck straight and firm. They do not spoil their shapes with stays, or their walk with high heeled shoes. They plant their feet firmly on ths ground. Every movement is elastic and rounded, and the grace of body gives, or seems to give, grace also to the eyes and expression. Poor things! it cannot compensate for their color, which, now when they are free, is harder to bear than when they were slaves. Their prettiness, such as it is, is short lived. They grow old early, and an old negress is always hideous.—J. A. Fronde,

The best collector that ever entered a Pittsburg business office or signed a receipt was a pretty woman—a sweet and self reliant woman. It is true that she collected only for herself, being engaged in business, but she would have been equally successful if collecting for another. She has long since passed the portals of the unknown, but the easy victories she won aro borne in mind. She never asked twice she did not need to. A number of such women laboring as collectors would work a big change in many men's methods. It might not be a business that would suit every woman anxious to earn a livelihood, but it is quite certain that before the young woman of tact, winning ways and personal attractions those two interesting volumes, the check book and the pocket book, would promptly yield their coveted contents and the merchant's wail about "poor collections" would hot be heard in the city.—Pittsburg Bulletin.

Save the Pennleli'1

Many parents permit their children to spend for candy or toys every cent that is given to them. Others are continually instructing their children to save all their "pennies." In either case tlu parents evince a deplorable ignorance of the true uses of money, spending with discretion, saving and giving. Even very young children can be taught, to a certain extent, the real value and best use of money. Wise parents will ever strive to impress upon their children the necessity of forming prudent habits, of spending money to advantage, so that some article of utility or value is always obtained for it the duty of exercising systematic and judicious charity, and that the purest happiness that can be experienced upon earth springs from the practice of benevolence.— American Agriculturist

Leigh screens of Turkish red calico or unbleached muslin, scantily frilled on to unI painted wooden frames, aro most useful in the sick room, either to prevent draughts or moderate the heat of an open fire, which should always burn there if possible, as the most efficient ventilator yet devised.

Fog is an excellent cosmetic. To it is duo modi of the beauty of English complexions, and those who live in hot and dry climates most be doubly careful to guard against their desiccating effect if they would escape tho appearance of mummies.

Where space is an object, a pretty fancy is to have the toilet mirror long and narrow, placed upright upon a shelf across a corner, shoot afoot

fito&i

tho Boos* and another shelf

above it, on which stands a quaint jar.

Woman reared to luxury and afterward compoDed to earn a livelihood often conceive the greatest fondness for their work and wonder how they ever consented to live in

Mahogany furniture should bo washed with warm water and soap an application of beeswax sad sweet £L upon a soft doth, and polished with chamois, giver a rich fiaisiki.

A hornets nest which has been deserted by the homute, bound on the throat with a piece of flannel, will cure the most msligrast sore thrust.

By BBtog hot, moderately strong soda water to dsaa thsm, the bristles of hair farnshss wffl

To give a good oak oofcr to spins floor wesfcia a eolation of enspoandof tftentved in sas gallon ef strongly*.

WHAT SHALL WE WEAR?

A DRESSY EVEN'.NG TOILET WITH HIGH BODICE.

French Fancies, Including Silk Aprons and Velvet Gowns aad Cloaka—Picturesque Costumes for Boys and Girls to

Wear at Out Door Sports.

In the cut herewith presented are illustrated two costumes, one for little girls and one for littlo boys. These models are especially adapted to out door sports in rigorous climates, but may be modified to suit everywhere by slight change in trimmings, eta

FASHIONS FOB OUT DOOB SPORTS.

The dress for little girls is made of noppe woolen material and lined with flannel. Hie plush hat, trimmed with ribbon bows and wing, is of garnet hue to match the dress. A plush muff and plush tops to the high leather shoes complete the costume.

The boy's suit consists of a half tight fitting paletot, trimmed with fur, and short knickerbockers that nearly meet the high top boote. A cloth cap, with hanging point and fur border, is worn with this suit

Evening Dress with Re vers Fichu.

The fichu worn over the high bodice illustrated in the cut is composed of two strips of crape fourteen and a half inches long and eleven and three-quarters inches wide, and edging two inches wide of fine transparent embroidery.

The two crape strips are arranged above in small flat plaits, taking up a space of two inches, and answering the bib-like part rounded out at the neck. At the waist the plaits are laid very close and joined by a strip of embroidery ten and a half inches long, pointed below the rovers, made of four strips of embroidery sewed together, are

EVENING DRESS WITH HIGH BODICE,

caught in at the same time. The neck band, fifteen inches long, is made of a strip of the embroidery, and stands high about the throat Bows of ribbon catch and hold together the pointed ends of the crape strips.

Attention is called to the very graceful arrangement of the hair.

French Fancies.

One of the materials of the day appears to be Pongee silk. Everybody almost seems to be buying it for purposes of all kinds, decorative and personal, and Pongee silk, though up in the world, appears to be lowered in {nice, for the time, to add to its universal popularity and ready sale. Certainly the aprons of it are dainty and pretty the sashes for both small and grown up girls dressy and becoming the draperies for pianos and valances, tablecloths, cushions, cosies, and, lastly, the whole costumes of it, are both artistic and graceful, so that Pongee silk is not to be looked upon slightingly, though it may not please the taste of those who prefer richer materials, after the style ef "silks that stand of themselves."

Velvet is this winter far more popular than plush. At recent gatherings, especially afternoon weddings, velvet costumes have been most fashionable. Myrtle green velvet, made up with tan colored cloth, black or dark blue with the becoming soft gray fur, or dark gray with cloth of a lighter shade, aro particularly so. Several cloaks, large enough to envelope the whole figure, are of velvet, with handsome passementerie up tho bade or down the front At a few great entertainments these long cloaks, m%de in pale gray or white velvet, and trimmed with pale gray or white far, have appeared as wraps. They are tied at the throat with wide, soft ribbon, and bang long and plain in front, with silk slings to the quilted linings, for the hands to pass through. In white, red aad other adored woolen materials they are constantly handsomely braided in mixed braid, ctuptwort of untaraishahle gold

silver and

the color of the cloak. This braiding has afforded pleasant winter work to many at the wearers. Seal brown cloth costumes are braided with this mixed braid, bonnet and niffrfr complete, ami usually finished off with caffs and collar of beaver. Gray, with braid of a deeper color, intermixed with gold or iflver and sometimes both—looks welL

Hew fttyles la Dress Trfmmla«».

Anew idea is an applique at cloth, edged with card, the pattern united fay wheels and stttdies, sometimes worked in gold thread the entire vest is made of this, aad often the paadhn Traveling dresses are trimmed with Astrakhsa, beaded by braiding in thick cord

and

occasionally ths entire Crant isonemsts of braiding, caught up carelessly on «r» side. poSoaaisesof the Incroyabie type arsmads in doth over watered silk petticoats aad watered velvet. 8tesi aad silver are blended fa maay the new smbrotderiea

Loaf Tfettes of )Mi ttd velvet, tinsd wfth qotlted silk and trimmed wttti a bsnd Of •alorasblsars beyond question the mat sad stylish «f sB high slsss

ALL AROUND THE HOUSE.

Fashionable S o'clock Teas—A Decorative Banner—Tested Beelpee.

Luncheons and 5 o'clock teas remain popular entertainments, according to Good Housekeeping, which also points out the fact that the formal "5 o'clock tea" is entirely an American institution and bears no resemblance to the cup of afternoon tea, which in England is daily and informally served at 5 o'clock, whether there are callers or not The menu at afternoon tea, says this authority, is extremely simple. Tea is often prepared in the drawing room* by a high spirit lamp with a swinging kettle. Tea is served in the daintiest porcelain cups the hostess possesses, and handed with cake and wafers. A more elaborate menu than this is considered in bad form. The silver tea ball is sometimes used at teas for daintily "brewing" a cup of tea. Enough tea for a portion is placed in a ball and the ball is put in the cup boiling water is poured in the ball over the tea and slowly filters through it iqto the cup

Excellent Cake that Keeps Well.

Catherine Owen gives the following recipe for an excellent cake that will keep a month: Cream half a pound of butter with a scant pound of sugar add the beaten yelk of eight eggs (ten if small), a wineglassful of sherry, a small nutmeg and the grated rind of a lemon with the juice of half, and one pound of £fine, dry flour. Stir it all into a stiff paste, then add the whites of the eggs, beaten to a snow, with a pinch of salt a pound of well washed and dried currants, floured and warmed, to be gently stirred in the last thing. Bake in pans lined with buttered paper, an hour and a half or three-quarters, in a moderate oven.

A Desirable Dessert. S'

Sponge cream furnishes a very delicate and easily made dessert The ingredients are: One pint of fresh milk, three tablespoonfuls of Cox's gelatine, three tablespoonfuls of sugar, three eggs. Put gelatine into cold milk, let it stand a little while put on stove and bring milk to boiling point, then add the sugar and yelks of eggs which have been well beaten together, liemovo from the fire and stir in the whites, which have also been beaten stiff. Add a little salt and flavor to suit and pour into molds wet first so the cream will turn out easily.

Bouillon.

For bouillon take four pounds of meat and two of bone: cut the meat and bones in small pieces add two quarts of cold water and heat slowly add one tablespoonful of salt, four pepper corns, four cloves and one tablespoonful of mixed herbs and simmer five hours. Boil it down to three pints strain and remove tho fat This is a good soup with nothing additional, but is used also as the foundation

richer soups by the addi

tion of various vegetables, macaroni, tapioca, fried bread

other materials.

Fried Oysters.

A celebrated caterer's recipe for preparing fried oysters is to dust them with flour and pepper, drop into an equal mixture of lard and salad oil made smoking hot, and serve the instant the edges begin to curl. Some cooks roll ihem in cracker dust or Indiah meal and then fry them. A substantial dish may bo made of fried oysters by having ready some mashed potatoes nicely seasoned, and placed around the edge of a hot dish in such a way as to form a wall, and serving thepysters in this dish.

The Digestibility of Food*

The digestibility of various ikinds of meat And fish has been stated as follows: MoatsEasy to digest: mutton, venison, hare, sweet bread, chicken, turkey, partridge, pheasant, grouse, beef. Hard to digest: pork, veal, goose, liver, heart, brain, lamb, duck, salt meat, sausage. Fish—Easy: turbot, haddock flounder, sole, oysters, trout, pike. Hardmackerel, eels, salmon, herring, salt fish, lobster, crab: mussels, cod.

Ilow to Clean Silver.

For cleaning silver wet up finely powdered whiting to tho consistency of thick cream, either with water, alcohol or diluted ammo nia. Rub this on the silvor with a pieco of soft flannel. By the time all the articles have been gono over tho first will be dry. Then with a soft cloth clean off all the whiting brush out all crevices with a brush kept for that purpose, add lastly polish well with soft chamois..

Rattan Furniture.

Rattan furniture can be colored black'as follows: Apply a strong solution of extract of logwood. When dry brush the surface and apply a weak solution of bichromate of potash. If light *pots appear use the bichromate on tbem again, and rub the surface with flannel*"

Flush Banner Sereen.

The screen shown in the cut represents not only a graceful style but decidedly artistic (mil unique coloring and design. It is of rich silk plush of dark moss green color, embroidered with silk and arasene, the latter a woolen chenille. The banner is one foot ten inches wide by two feet five and a half inches long. The leaves and stalks of the decoration are embroidered in various shades of dark green silk in satin stitch, while arassne in white and very pale tints of light green is used for the raised balls.

KXBBOtDKBJCS SASjnta SCBXZ*.

To make the foundation of tho balls xveadofseeofdoth three and thrse quarter toches in diameter is cot out, gathered and drawn in tSghtandthsmiddls filled out with eottoawooL The outside is then sewed over with loops of arasnos thrse eighths or fiveeighths inches long, and so that ths white ihrsads form the middle aad the green ones ths outer edge. The balls when finhhed are sewn at the back to ths plssh foundation. A moss green satin ttnfac completes ths embroidery, a row of teasels made of imrrow moss grssu ribbon the lower edge, Vstal rings are sewa to the «?|Mr edge of the smfaroldsry, and afterward tfppsdovsr agfli yob with flas ntilM oord mad ntlfeiwwt

Something About Swimming.

The main purpose of learning to swim, as.. of Raining other knowledge, is that it increases confidence. Fear is the most overpowering emotion that we know. Tho man. who can swim, other things being equal, has a gnat deal more oonfldence, which means a great deal less fear, than he who cannot swim. If but for the reason that he gains confidence for himself in emergencies by learning to swim it would bfe wise for a man to learn. Women make strong and graceful swirai and there is no argument for a man's learning to swim which does not apply equally to a woman. In fact, women float easier than, men, and therefore should learn to swim easier, for a beginner must havo confidencein him or herself and the sustaining power of the water before he or she can float To float means to swim, a little practice and courage being all that is neoessary. Every ono should learn as early in life as possible to managethe body in the water, to float, to tread water and to swim, and this summer is a good time to begin. Parents should see to it that their children learn. Boys and girls of 7 and 8years of ago will learn quicker and better than at IS or SO years of age. I consider that it is the duty of parents to instruct or have them instructed. I might give 100 reasons why everybody should learn to swim, but time and space prevent my doing so. The abovo reasons should bo sufficient—Boston Budget ______________

The Clerk Walked Out. *,A

A clothing

dealer

in an interior town had

occasion to visit tho city to purchase goods. While ho

was gone

young

store to buy a

man entered the-

coat A

.salesman waited upon

the customer and showed him a coat plainly marked $7. The customer tried it on and said in a pleasant confiding way: "I want a good article, and I can affonl to pay a littlemore." The salesman showed him many coats, and, finally, having removed the tag. again offered him the $7 coat which had fitted him at first, and said: "Here is a coat, a fine article, just your fit, which I can sell you for $12." The coat was again tried on, the young man seemed pleased, paid his money and went

away. On

the merchants

return the salesman, with a smile of triumph all over his countenance, rushed up to him and boasted what he had done. The merchant looked grave. He only said: "Does anyone know who the customer was!"

little boy

had recognised him as a workman in a neigh* boring factory and remembered his name. The merchant Sent for the young man, told him of bis mortification, gave him back and the privilege of returning the coat if he chose, and then said to the salesman: "Now, sir, I will pay you your week's salary and I wish you to go. If you cheat my customers you havo not principle

enough

not to cheat

me. If I can't have my people sell goods honestly I will

go out

of business. Good day,

"—Dry Goods Chronicle.

Gold In the Treasury.

The gold held in the treasury in its vaults at Washington weighs 619 tons. If packed into ordinary carts, one ton to each cart, it would make a procession two miles long, allowing twenty feet of space for the movement of each horse and cart The silver in tho same vault weighs 7,896 tons. Measuring it in carts, as in tho caso of tho gold, it would require the services of 7,890 horses and carts to transport it aud would mako a procession over twenty-one miles in length.

It is a

Curious

Fact 5,

ihat the* body is now more susceptible to benefit from medicine than any other season. Hence tho importance of taking Hood's Bitfi saparllla now, when it will do you the most good. It is really wonderful for purifying and enriching the blood, creating an uppe-

Ithy tone to the wh get

sure to get Hood's Hsrsaparilla,

which is peculiar to itself.

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Consumption Cured.

vegetable remedy for tho speedy and permanent cure of Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthmaandall throat and Lung Affections, also a positive and radical cure for Nervous Debility and all Nervous Complaints, after having tested its wonderful curative powers in thousands of cases, has taltlthis duty to make it known to his suffering fellows. Actuated by this motive and desire

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Deafness

Can't be Cured

By local applications, as they ean not reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure Deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of tbe mucus lining of tbe Eustachain Tube. When this tube gets S7 inflamed, you have a rumbling f, sound imperfect hearing,and when it is entirely closed Deafness is tbe result and unless the inflamation can be taken out and this tube restored to Its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever nine caseotu of ten are caused by catarrh,which is nothingbutan inflamed condition of tho mucus surfaces. |'V

We will give One Hundred Dollars for any caso of Deafness (caused by Catarrh) that we can fe cure by taking Hall's Catarrh Cure, ft'

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