Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 19, Number 4, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 July 1888 — Page 6

WOMM AND HOME.

^JVHAT FORM OF EXERCISE IS BEST FOR YOUNG LADIES*

•Qnuidpa'i "Crying Coat"—Buttermilk as Medicine—Destrectiveness of Lore. Kingdom of Scrub Klanes Guests.

Various DiaU for the Household.

What is the best form of exercise? Is a question frequently asked. And there can be Strut ono reply: "Such exercise as will develop alike all portions of tho body." If one lias a hollow chest and round shoulders the chest must bo expanded and the lungs increased in size. If the arms and back are -wreak, theso muscles must be strengthened jinri if tho muscles of tbe lower limbs are in such condition that one must always rely npon carriage or street car—unless there is organic trouble—they must be brought under the hardening process.

Thus it is seen that there is no one "best form of exercise." To attempt to train a girl's mind by forcing her to follow a single line of study, as Latin or mathematics, for example, would be no greater folly than to try to develop her physically by the practice of a single form of exercise, as walking or swinging Indian clubs. For ono who has jwver token exercise systematically tbe gymnasium is the best place to make a beginning, and in many of our large cities now there are gymnasiums either specially fitted for •women's use or where ladies can practice and receive instructions during certain hours. "Where there are no such places I would advise that a dozen or more ladies in a community form a woman's athletic club, fie up a small gymnasium and employ a competent instructor for a few hours each day and my •word for it, tho small outlay will prove afar better investment in a few months than if put into western mining stock or a seal skin cloak.

But hero is an important point to note at the very outset. One cannot indulge in any form of physical exorcise in tightly fitting garments or stays and receive benefit from it. If you do not believe it put an animal into stays and seo with how much grace it •will walk—until it falls or lies down.

Tho first thing to ascertain is the capacity of tbe lungs. How often do you draw a full fereath? Can you, when standing with the -arms and hands extended before you, and after taking a full inspiration, tooch the Icnucklcs behind the back without the tendency to cough! Can you touch the backs of tho hands at all in this position or even make the elbowB meet without assistance} Try it, jroader, not once, but often if you.cannot-ac-oomplish it at first keep at it until it is accomplished, and you will be surprised, in time, to find you ore not quite BO round shouldered. Keep the bead erect and the shoulders thrown back, filling the lungs as fully as possible at each breath make a practico of doing so, and before long tho chest will begin to expand, tho lungs will demand more air, and with tho blood better oxygenated the eye •will grow brighter, the cheeks more ruday and tbe brain clearer.

Do you have sick headaches or suffer from lassitude and weariness) Try walking. Not (be kind of walking you do when you gc shopping, and the mind is absorbed in the monstrous little things of life, but a brisk walk for health, with a genial companion, and one's thoughts upon pleasant themes, so there will be exhilaration as well as exercise. Dress for it wear oommousense shoes walk -with bead and shoulders erect and let tbs arms swing naturally, nor burden them with tiolding up a trailing skirt or in any other manner. Walk a oouplo of miles at first, if it is a new experience, gradually increasing the distance, and some day a walk of ten or twelve mile*—tbe usual limit of some of my athletic lady friends—will be accomplished sasily.

Would you walk gracefully, with an elastic step, practice at homo, in slippers, this movement: First stand squarely upon the soles of the feet then alternately raise and lower the body upon the ball of tho foot and the toes, yrfUng tho movements deliberately and regularly for several minutes. Or better, if one has access to tho gymnasium, try a somewhat similar movement upon tbe spring board.

Tho advantages of physical culture by out door recreations, where thoy may be employed, over gymnasium work are two fold: one is sure of pure air and plenty of it, and tho miud is more agreeably occupied. In fact, I think the mind has quito as much to do with the beneficial results which usually follow out door exorcises as the pure air.

To conclude, there are few forms of exercisc practiced by men at tho present day that women may not indulge in, if she practices them Judiciously. The main thing is to yet up an interest in the subject ascertain tho kind of exercise that Is most desirable, and after making a beginning let it become as much a part of the daily routine as tho bath or one's breakfast. Exerciw out of doors regularly, keeping tbe indoor air as finish and purs as possible and, above all things, lot recreation bo for tho mind as well as the body. Then will oue grow handsomo, graceful and strong.—Charles Richard Dodge In Woman.

Grand pa Monroe's "Crying OmU." Bather young was John Monroe for a grandpa. He had just passed his 40th year stone in tbe Journey of Ufa, and the coming of the baby Winnie gave him an awakening ahock which was something of a surprise, fie noticed now, for the first time, that the three of ambition had burned down to gray aabca. There were no northern lights on bis fancy*s horiion, and h* found himself looking Into his mirror for gray hairs. He found them, too, in silver lines along his forehead. They were so plentiful that he could not pull them all oat, aud so he was toned to kt them remain, grim warnings of a coming crop of gray. And with their coming hopes of great •oldevemenis died and were buried with desire and pride and hope. But John's youth -was renewed in tbe little Winnie, his son's baby, and as tbe baby grew and emerged from the long clothes period Into that of short clothes, and began to lisp those little household words which fall like musk: oo the aars of parents. Mr. Monroe's love for the waxed stronger and stronger. As love begets love, tbe baby returned her grandpa's affection, and so it came to pass that when

Wurnie eras 3 years old, John and Winnie were inseparable. One day on returning froea his daily work grandpa found Winnie crying. He went up to the garret and brought down with him an old coat. This be laid upon the floor and, tho child's attention to it, said: "Now, Winnie, whenever you feel like crylag you mast lie down upon this coat"

Tbe obediently threw borsclf upon the garment and sobbed her- *f to sleep. Afterward, when for any a the team began to flow, Winnie took the coat from its asil, laid it upon the floor, and I ou' sorrow upon it. Afid so tbe gmu

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ally took tbe mm* of grandpa* oryfng coat. What hopes and fears, what soul hurts, what *—rt bantings, what paroxysms of pride passion were washed away by the brine of safety tout upon that old, faded, worthless coat.' And with what awe did the child regard it! KoeacrUegioas hand could be laid tagxn it without awakening a psaskxK «te objection from tbe child, aad a long tale

at night to her grandpa of how tbe'garment had been ruthlessly flung about during his absence.

There came a day when the coat failed to perform tbe kindly offices with which grandpa had endued it. Winnie tossed about upon it, and threw her arms over her flushed face, but no relief came to her. A malignant fever bad smitten tbe child, and dried the fountain of her tears. And in her delirium she called for grandpa and his crying coot. When John came home that night and leaned over the flushed ftice tbe tears stole out of lite eyes and ran down bis brown cheeks. Tbe light of momentary intelligence came back to Winnie's eyes, and feebly she said: "Grandpa, lie on the coat."

The coat does not hang in .the garret now. It is carefully laid away in a trunk, and sprinkled with tobacco to keep away the moths. Sometimes John takes it out of the trunk when tho door is locked and no one is looking, and handles it reverently. It is suspected by other members of the household that be does so, although no one can say certainly as to what John does when be is in tho room. It is said when John comes out of the room be wears a gentle, subdued air, and that he moves around softly, as if some one was asleep whom he does not wish to waken. These indications, in connection with the fact the keyhole is plugged when be is in the room, lias led John's friends to suspect that tho coat is just as much entitled to its odd name as ever it was.—New York Evening Sun.

Buttermilk aa a Medicine.

With tho rapid growth of reconstructive medicine comes opportunely tbe reintroduotion of old and well known domestic remedies, among which buttermilk demands a respectable place. A young lady patient of tho writer's was suffering from a severe consumptive cough. None of the usual antispasmodics, expectorants, etc., seemed to

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any good, simply because her stomach was too weak to bear enough medicine to effect the purpose. Finally I suggested to her mother the use of buttermilk. It was adopted at once. Her first night's experience was one of comparative freedom from cough and pain, and a pleasant slumber for several hours. It was continued for along time, with an unvarying relief of all her distressing symptoms and au almost perfect freedom from cough for several hours after each draught of the hot buttermilk.

Lingering at one time for weeks from an attack of oongestive fever, dosed with calomel and quinine almost beyond endurance, the writer began to desire buttermilk to drink. The physician "didnt believe in humoring the whims of patients," as he expressed it besides, he contended that a single drink of tbe obnoxious fluid might produce death, as acids and calomel were incompatible dwellers in the same stomach. But I was a good persuader, and my mother was a susceptible subject The buttermilk, "fresh from the churn," was procured and drank. No evil resulted instead came a perspiration and speedy recovery.

Many years afterward I had missed my usual noon meal. It was aoout 2 or 3 p. m.—dinner, of course, was over—when I reached a farmhouse, weak, tired, hungry, and "all out of condition" for active work. Dinner was suggested by the housewife. "No, indeed I" said I,

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home. But if you have any buttermilk I will take a drink of that to stay my stomach." A good, kind hearted woman, she soon brought up a pitcher of buttermilk from the cool spring house, while I examined my patients and prescribed for them. Perhaps a pint was drunk during the stay of nearly an hour. For months indigestion had held his unfriendly grasp on my stomach. From fh/tt notable day forward his reign was broken my stomach was healed, and I could ride all day, if neoessary, without feeling so woe begone from the lack of food as before the drinking of the buttermilk.

There are people, however, who cannot use buttermilk at all, and some who cannot use milk of any kind, nor bntter but to others it proves both food and modicine.— Dr. 8. F. Landry in Popular Science News.

The DeetaraetivencM of Love. It is cruel that from beginging to end a woman's part in love so oftca is one of self destruction. It begins with tbe love making, when the youth, fascinated with a novel interest more potent than bicyble or business, outstays the moon in that long, lingering talk which is so sweet, but which breaks up her beauty sleep whan she needs it most. For love is an upsetting thing to young nerves, and sending a girl off with feet cold and bands trembling and heart throbbing at mention of a name or sound of a voice is not oonducive to good circulation and sound rest by day or night Tbe dreams, the uncertainties, the drain of feeling all tax her nervous system, till few persons can realise the straia of mind and nerve in which a highly wrought girl can live weeks, months and years.

Then tho introductions to the new relatives, tbe preparations tor

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tell on tbe average girl, whs takes more or lees of her own responsibilities beforehand, American girl fashion. All this courting Mnin he has been oomiag two, three, five nights a weak, ou his idiotic adoration tripe. The girl would be glad to be spared so much of his presence, but she hardly knows how to tell so, and Isn't aware that six months or so of such courtship is excellent preparation for a stupid honeymoon. Married, man cant realise that his wife is not Just a* his fellows of the club to sit up till any hour of morning, keeping up bright conversation, playing whist, or eating suppers at 1 a. m. There is almost nothing worse than keeping a delicate young woman up late, till ber eves shut and ber sentences wander for very sleeplessness.

Oh, tho pretty, languid eyed women I has* heard say: "If I only didnt have to go ant to-night, to please Tun or Jack." Or it Is: "The hardest work I have to do is to be all the evening to Arthur, and keep lively talk, wbco Pm so tired with calls or housekeepiag or baby that I dont know what Pm sayiug, and if I doot make his lxxne cheerful, and keep bright, bell go off to his club or where he can find company." And a few years after I hear that woman is utterly broken down, v«ry likely a case of insanity. It isnt any fancy work

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Tbe Kingdom of Sarah.

Mary was for havfeagchomt •tb 'letter part.* Still, it may not beinctw eot to say a word tor poor Martha. Her tastes and inclinations may have been those of the 1 sekseper. If so, she was ID ber place—a „.ud place a most neoessary one—a position inquiring talent, method ana executive ab r. Artists, posts, painters, rukss and ma^^trstes must eat to lire, and they need that their food be prepared in tbs beet manner, and by the person for that calling. It sboold not be cookery of drudgery forced snd distasteful labor. It should be the combinetioa whose chief •isintng is that of lure iam notedly tor those wfcs are served, bat lows

for the work and tbe art itself. lilve to the Marthas of today their share of appreciation mnri commendation, and not infer that all the "better part" belongs to tbe Marys.

Mary possibly sat in the parlor, and there allowed her talent rest and quiet, in which it could grow. Martha possibly scrubbed and wore out body and soul in scrubbing and worrying over spots on the floor not scrubbed. If you fix all your energies on a scrubbing brush you will bo kept in the kingdom of scrub, and become at last only a scrubbing brush yourself or tbe director of one. Ton will also be kept out of some idea and far more profitable field in which to use your powers. People are kept down in the world and kept poor by attaching an undue importance to matters of relatively little momant. Tnere are Marthas today who would be shining lights did they not allow themselves to be overwhelmed by that overstrained care of tbe house, which rages at sight of a mud mark on the carpet. Neatness can run into a and use up lifetimes in polishing tin The empire of the household (as it is one) we may govern, but it must not govern us. Prentice Mulford in New York Star.

How to Clean Paint.

Housekeepers should go to a steamboat for lessons on cleaning paint work. Tho cabin of our steamboat, painted a clear white, now looks as if the painter bad just left it, being not only clear, but having a beautiful polish. People generally who see it think it has just been painted up for the season, while it has only been washed and rubbed up by the crew between meal times. To start with it was dirty, black almost, covered with smoke and soot, so that the nail heads stood out prominently. All that is necessary to accomplish the transformation is a little water, a sponge and pure castile soap, and a smooth cloth for rubbing after the dirt has been washed off with the sponge. This rubbing restores tbe polish. So many people paint every year, whereas if the paint is washed in this way it will show clear and with a high polish for four or five years.—Steamboat Steward in Globe-Democrat.

Utilising Pea Pods.

Here is a ready method of utilizing tbe delicious marrow that lies among the fibers of the pea pod, and which is sweeter and better than tho peas themselves, which, when of the best sorts and at their bat, are tbe first of all vegetables for fine flavor, tenderness, succulence and nutritiousness. Save for use all the tender sweet pulp of the shells, separated from the troublesome fiber which prevents their use with tbe seeds in most sorts of peas. Boil the shells well in water, to which has been added a little carbonate of soda then strain through a cloth, and, after adding I some sugar to tbe liquid, boil It down till thick. The extract thus obtained will keep

Stains of fruit on good table linen can be removed without injury by using the following with care: Pour boiling water on chloride of lime in the proportion of one gallon to a quarter of a pound, bottle It, cork it well, and in be careful not to stir it. Lay tbe stain in this for a moment, then apply white vinegar and boil the table linen.

In the spring let tbe ohild take his outdoor walks in the afternoon in the autumn let him go out in the forenoon. The spring morning partake\of tbe preceding season tho afternoon of the coming season. In autumn the morning is more like summer tbs afternoon like winter.

Silk must never be ironed, as tbe heat takes all life out of it, and makes it. seem stringy and flabby but if you wish to press out old bits of silk and ribbon for fancy work use an iron only moderately hot, and place two thicknesses of paper between that and the silk.

When any person finds it easier to sit or stand or walk or sleep in a crooked position a straight one, such person may bo sure his muscular system is badly deranged, and the more haste that man or woman makes to hold the spine straight the better.

Never tickle a child. It is dangerous, and reduces vitality. Any unnatural emotion must he avoided. The more quiet and free from excitement a little child Is kept the better for the child's health, strength and mental vigor.

When making a dress of new doth, select a pattern to your fancy, but when remaking aa old one pick out a style in tho fashioning of which you can use tho pieces to the best advantage

Persons consumptively inclined, tboee with feeble digestion, sged peopks and those inclined to chilliness and cold extremities are benefited by a liberal use of sweet

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there i« muc& sickness about tbe neighborhood, boil the water which is used in baby's food, for boiling kills all the animalcule contained in the water. Cool it before

Windows should be washed with warm water, using eoap only wheo it is necessary, then dried with linen and polished with

To darken light mahogany and cherry, —r-»- of potash dissolved in water is rymS)—*! mmA givaa It the appearand of .Sga.

Inflr. ingapanice garment, do nol|tiy to save tbe baste threads, but cut each stitch, and tben remove with eara.

Give children oranges before tbs spring tima It Is better than doeas or any spring msdfcinea.

When whitewashing your cellar add ,«a ooncaof carbolic acid to eoch gallon of bsfore applying.

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for any length of time without becoming moldy, and a teaspoonful of it added to a bowl of soup gives to it the flavor of fresh green peas, besides adding to its material quality.—Dr. Jacobean.

For Unexpected Guests.

For a delicate dessert for unexpected guests, to bo served immediately, orange fritters are advised. Peel and quarter as many oranges as are needed by tearing them asunder, leaving the thin skin unbroken that divides the quarters remove the outer white skin, dip the pieces in sherry, then in powdered sugar, then in tbe batter made as follows: Melt in half a pint of boiling milk threo ounces of butter, and then gradually cool it by adding half a pint of cold water beat into this by degrees a pound of fine flour and the whites of four eggs whisked to a stiff broth. Fry quickly in tbe batter and serve piled on a napkin, with sifted sugar over them.

Systesaatle Training for Babies. The president of a large orphan asylum in Now York city, in which the children are unusually healthy, asked a physician bow he accounted for it. "It is very easy," be replied "the children have no mothers to look sfter them and spoil their little stomachs with candles and other Improper food. Besides, they are fed and trained systematically with you, which fond mammas often overlook."—New Orleans Times-Democrat.

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WHAT SHALL WE WEAR!

NEWEST STYLES IN BONNETS AND GOWNS FOR SUMMER WEAR. 0

Hsts and Bonnets for Midsummer Wear. Becoming Aflhirs Made of Flowers, I*oliago aad Lace—Tbe Greek Bonnet and a a

As the season advances the wide license promised in the selection of hats and bonnets early in the spring becomes more and more apparent. Ladies cbooee turbans, broad brimmed hats, ™«ll capotes or the Greek bonnets, as their own^personal taste suggests.

THE PATTI HAT.

The Greek bonnet, by the by, is designed especially to wear with the Empire costume, and is of a low turban shape, with three Greek fillets or bands across tbe top, holding puffs of lace or tulle between.

A strictly summer bonnet is made entirely of foliage or flowers, or both these bonnets are called "foliage bonnets" or "flower bonnets," according to whichever prevails. Another attractive summer style consists of a bonnet of white chip braid in some fanciful pattern that admits of puffs of white lisse or tulle between the brim and crown the trimmings are white flowers and ribbons. Tulle bonnets furnish yet another attractive midsummer style. These last, as a rule, match in color the costume with which they are to be worn.

There is as great a diversity in hats as in bonnets. In the illustration is given the Patti bat, a pleasing style for young and pretty faces. The model represented was of myrtle green straw, faced with fluting of gold lace. It was ornamented with large loops of fawn colored silk, striped with green satin, and an aigrette of variegated roses and tinted velvet leaves. The ties were of shot moire ribbon.

Straw and Leghorn hats with wide brims figure as garden hats and hats for morning wear in the country- These are appropriately trimmed with flowers and tulle. Sailor hats with crowns higher than were thoee of last summer are also in fashion for missus and young ladies.

Gloves for all Occasions.

Gloves worn with full dress toilettes are of plain Suede in mousquetaire style, either cream white, tan or black. With visiting carriage toilettes tbe choice is for buttoned gloves with oorded backs, either of Suede or glace kid tbeee are tan, gray or black, and are fastened by four large gilt buttons.

For general wear and tor servioe are American gloves made in the English styles with "drawn seams," sewed like harness to show the edgee of the leather these oome in both dressed and undressed kid—tan, lemon, brown, gray or black—with wide silk stitching aa tho back in self color or in black, with four gilt buttons fastening the wrists. Gray gloves are worn with gray drosses, also with black lace and with blue gowns, but tan rfixWi remain in vogue for the greater variety of costumes. Pearl gloves are shown made of kid skin of such fine texture that they repel dust 'Far travelling and for the country are the "sac" gloves, cut very long, and all in one, without opening at the wrist tbeee are mado of tbe veloute leather—which is undressed kid—and also of glace kid. Instead of the chamois skins formerly used. For driving, ladies who hold the reins wear one buttoned gloves tilbury ed—that ie, the leather is doubled inside the hand where tho wear is greatest tbeee are of glace kid, with oorded yiwt in lemon and tan colore. There are also tilburyed doeskin gloves for driving, made with longer wrists, that require four brass buttons for fastening them.—Harper's Bazar.

A Paris IWlettAi

Abroad, tbe season in which those popular fetes "the races," is also the season for inaugurating somo of the most stylish costumes of the whole six months. In tho cut is illustrate*! a Paris toilette, designed expressly for the races, but also suitable for garden parties, etc.

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Tbe dose fitting jacket and redlngote tunic is at cacbon colored Ottoman silk, trimmed with artistic buttons and gold galoa. Tbe sash is of green silk. Tbe deft in the light tint is latticed with gold card and dotted with green chenille tassels tipped ToiL*r roa KACSS AMD with gold beads OAMWI TAXTVOL and the whole forms, as Is appsroot, a quit* charming costuma.

Fashion Xotea

TewrnDa^lrenrodbi smaller than last sesh •on. Steals are used, but are Dot tied back so closely as heretofore, giving a broader and mors graceful effect

Tbe new mohair fabrics ore especially suited for traveling dressea Karrcrw braided waistcoats area feature of many doth bodices.

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Flowers In Prafosion at Fashionable Dinners and Teas. Flowers are almost a more important feac ture of fashionable dinners and teas than tbe food itself. They are used in bewildering abundance and the effect is something delightful. Anything like set designs in natural flowers for decorating tbe diniug room is entirely out of vogue. Contrasts in flowers and grouping of several varieties are also avoided. Orchids and ferns, or one kind of roses, as Marechal Neil rose with mignonette, or Jacqueminot rose with myrtle, represent favorite fashions.

It is usual, however, to choose some one color for the decoration, which gives its name to the dinner or tea. In instance of this may bo described a very elaborate "pink dinner," which recently occurred:

The centerpiece of the table was composed of an elongated square of ferns, tho four corners formed of great clusters of odorous carnations, whilo from the middlo rose long stemmed La France and American beauty roses. At each of the four corners were fairy lamps under pink shades. Tho silver candelabra were filled with candles under shades of the same color. The menu was printed on abroad piece of pink satin ribbon, fringed at either end, and bearing on tho left hand corner at the top the name of tho guest for whom it was intended. The rolls nt each plate, cheese sticks and wafers were tied up in small bundles with a tiny pink ribbon, while tho icing of the small cakes, confections aud ice cream were all of the same color. Tbe individual salt cellars and punch glasses were also pink. A boutonniero of a carnation or pink rosebud lay at each plate.

Tho Season of Jelly Making. "Early In July the good housekeeper begins to think of her jellies and jams," affirms an expert in Good Housekeeping, who adds, with other timely advice, that it is a great mistake to put off mnking currant jelly till the end of the season, for tho best jelly is made of currants not perfectly ripe. To keep alight color in jelly care should be taken not to cook the sugar long, as this will darken the fruit and cause it to "candy." Somo persons are very sucoessful in making curraut jelly by merely beating the sugar in the oven and! after the juice has boiled twenty minutes, adding the sugar and leaving it over the fire only until tho sugar is thoroughly dissolved. This makes tho jelly of a beautiful color and delicate flavor, but it is not usually so firm as that made by the oommou method of boiling twenty minutes before, and ten after, the sugar is added. Do not "skimp'1 your sugar a pound to a pint is the only safo rule.

The beat jelly bag is made of new flannel. Take a square of flannel and fold it to make a double three cornered piece sew up one side this leaves a large opening by which to put in the fruit, and the juice will all run to the-point, tlio weight of the fruit pressing it out Do not squeeze the bag. Very little juice can bo gained in that way and what is will be of an Inferior quality. It will not pay for tbe labor.

Currant and ap le Jellies are the easiest to make, as they are surest to bo firm. Apple juice will help to harden jellies that incline to bo thin. Much of the Jelly in tbe market is mado from apple stock with flavoring of various kinds to justify tbe labels attached.

A Dressing Table Now in 8tyle. With the revival of French styles in furniture there is a return to tbe graceful draped dressing table, which has always been a favorite, although forced into comparative disuse during the long prevalence of East lake and English styles. It is too artistic and pretty to bo over quite abandoned.

nuwoa DRBS8IVO TABLE.

Tfco cut represents a handsome table of white polished wood, relieved with panels painted with Watteau designs on tbe wood Itself, or on china tablets. Curtains in sky blue pongee silk, plushette, or Roman sheeting enhanced with bands of embroidery, harmonizing with the wood painting. Fringe in floss silk, recalling the subdued tints of tbe decoration. Looking glass framed with tho.samo material as tbs one employed for tbe curtain in pink satin, covered with a frilling of blue muslin. Drapery matching the curtains.

An inexpensive yet very attractive table of this sort is within the reach of any ingenious person. An ordinary pine box will furnish tbe foundation, and tho draperies may be of cretonne or dainty Swiss muslin over a colored lining of pink or blue cambric or sateeu.

Splocd Currants.

Spicing is a favorite way of putting up currants. Spiced currants are very nice to serve with meats. Five pounds of currants, four pounds of brown sugar, one pint of vinegar, one tablespoonful of ground cloves, one tablespoonful of cinnamon, one tablespoonful of allspice (tbe spices all tied up4n a thin bag). Dissolve the sugar in tbe vine* gar, heat tho mixture, then add fruit and boil fifty minutes.

Perfection Sponge Cak*.

The following recipe for "perfection1' spongo cake Is that of a most excellent cook: Six eggs, one pint of flour, one pint of sugar, two tablespoonful* of water. Beat tbe sugar and yelks well together. Best the whites separately. Then put tbe whites into the gignr aad yelks and beat a good while. Then stir in tbe flour, only enough to mix well, quickly in a hot oven in loaf or in

Hew Dining Boo** lamps.

The rage for dining table kuups made of faience ware has not diminished, and new design* era being prepared for tbe market One of the most elaborate is a bowl shaped body with a long neck, tbe decorations of the body being trumpet flowers in solid gold, and tbe nock oorered with wild roeeson bronse groundwork.

Items for Use Cook.

Sweetbreads and peas is the proper combination, but sweetbreads are suitable with tomatoes, cauliflower, asparagus orsnocctssh.

In broiling meat it should be exposed toa dear, quick fire, doss enough to sear tbs surface without borning« in order to confine all its juice. If cooked slowly over a poor fire, or sesMoned before It Is oooked, it will bscompemtivefy dry and tasteiesa

SOCIAL ETIQUETTE.

A Pleasant TTay to Pay Honor to a Guest or to Introduoe a Stranger. Luncheons are in high favor with th who entertain extensively and furnish a mos agreeable method of being hospitable, as well as a pleasant way to pay honor to A guest or to iutroduco a stranger. Aocording to tho social etiquette of Now York, tho luncheon hour is from half past 1 to 9 o'clock, and ladies only receive invitations. A luncheon of thirty or more guests is arranged for both drawing and dining room, where small tables for four persons each are carefully grouped.

Guests present themselves in handsomo visiting toilets and are in their bonnets. They remove their gloves at table. For the favorite progressive luncheon several diagrams of the tables and their places, -with tho names of the guests upon them, are placed in dressing room, so that each guest may easily find her own location. Guests are received by the hostess and presented to her friend or friends in a library or other reception room, where they wait for tho announcement of luncheon. The guest of honor, if there beone, is seated at a table near tbe center, and between the courses two of the ladies who are seated at tho table with her and the hostess rise and exchange seats with others whoee names the hostess mentions to them. This change is msde several times during the entertainment Ladies at other tables ols" exchange places, if they like, during the moval of plates, each ono carrying her napkin with her.

At tho Dinner Ta|!e.

Never urge your guests to eat more than they want. No ono should ask to be helped twice to soup. At dessert hot puddings and pies are passed before tho ices and jellies. For a very elegant dinner, a cabinet pudding with sauce, followed by ices, charlotte russaand jellies, would bo in order, but a hostess Is quite as likely to offer only a fruit ice or form of vanilla or chocolate cream, which is almost all ono can enjoy after a dinner of even four courses. The proper servico with this is a basket of cake and strawberries or other berries in season.

Showy tennis gowns are of white serga braided with gilt or silver.

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Is a pure, sweet breath. This desideratum is one of the results of using SOZODONT, which not only invigorates and preserves the teeth, but renders the mouth as fragrant as a rose.

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Every Night I Scratched

Un'll the Skin was Raw. Body Covered with Scales like Spots of Mortar, Cured by the Cntleura Kemedles.

I am going to tell you of the extraordinary change your Cutlcura Remedies performed on me. About the flrst. of April Inst I noticed some red pimples like coming out all over my body, but thought nothing of It until some time later on, when it began to look like spots of mortar spotted on, and which came off In layers, accompanied with Itching I would scratch every night until I was raw. then the next night the scales, being formed meanwhile, were scratched off again. In vnln did I consult all the doctors In tho out try. but without aid. After giving uj» ail liopCs of recovery, I happened to see an advertisement in the newspaper about your Cutlcura Hetnedles, and purchased them from my druggist, and obtained almost Immediate relief. I began to notice that tho scaly eruptions gradually dropped off and disappeared one by one, and have been fully cured. I had the disease thirteen months before I began Inking the Cutlcura Remedies and In four or five weeks was entirely cured. My disease was eczema and psoriasis. I recommended the Cutlcura Remedies to all In my vicinity, and I know ofa great many who have taken them, and thiuik me for the knowledge of them, cspeclnlly motherswho have babies with scaly eruptions on their heads and bodies. I cannot express In words the thanks to you for what the Cutlcura Remedies hare been to me. My body was covered with scales, and I was an awful spectacle to behold. Now my skin Is as nice snd clear as a

Sept. 21, 1887.

CETOY, McrrlllJWls.

Feb. 7,1888.—Not a trace whatsoever of tho disease from which I suffered has shown itself since my cure. OE. C'OTEY.

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Hanford's Radical Cure consists of one boA tie of the Radical Cure, one box Catarrhs^ Molvent, and one Improved Inhaler, neatly wrapped In one package, with full directions price, 91.00.

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