Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 19, Number 10, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 August 1888 — Page 6

WOMAN AH) HOME.

WHAT SHOULD BE MAN'S SHARE IN GOOD HOUSEKEEPING.

The Tyranny of the Baby—Growing Up in Corsets—American tnd European Voice*—To Remove Freckle*—Artificiality—Domestic Unhappiness.

If we may for tho time extend the meaning of the word housekeeping so that it shall include tho entire care of the home, it is clear th«t the man's share in it ought to be the heavier. Perhaps most men would be inclined to say that as a matter of fact it is heavier. As a rule the man has to earn the money to bay and furnish the home, and to procure the food, clothing and fuel for the family tho woman's part is to keep the bouse, prepare the food, make and repair tho clothing, and burn the fuel. The husband is the provider tho wife, the dispenser, the steward. We shall leavo quite out of account in this discussion the exceptional cases in which inherited or suddenly acquired riches render personal labor for either man or woman unhappily unnecessary. For mankind at large tho apostle's rule still holds good: "If a man will not work neither shall Re eat"

Wo do not beliove that the labor of merely earning the money necessary to maintain the home is commensurate with the labor necessary to the proper expenditure of tho money, and the proper care of tho things purchased. Even if the husband, therefore, were to turn over to tho wife all his earnings on condition that sho attend to the entire management of tho homo, ho would have the better of tho bargain.

Ho would havo tho advantage, first, in the number of hours of labor. Suppose ho is a day laborer, his hours are eight or ten. Leaving home after a breakfast, which be owes to a previous hour's labor on the part of his wifo, ho goes to his work, leaving his wife at hers, and when ho returns for dinner or •upper ho finds her still busy and after supper, while he smokes his pipe or steps out to pfmB the news with a neighbor, his wifo must spend another hour in putting away the dishes, attending to the children's clothing, and making sundry preparations for ibe morning.

The man has the further advantage of superintended work. The hardest part of most labor is the worry of planning it. Ninety-nine men out of a hundred have set tasks to perform, carefully planned and apportioned, and their responsibility ceases with tho proper execution of their allotted share. Tho woman, on the other hand, must plan as woll as execute. Tho manifold duties of the household must bo so timed as to conflict with one another as little as possible. Very much of tho weariness of household work might be avoided if there were wise supervision and intelligent method.

But, again, tho work of man is far less liable to interruption. The clerk may sit on bis revolving stool for hours and never have his attention divert**! from his commercial arithmetic the farmer may drive his polished plow through countless furrows with no more annoying interruptions than an occasional stubborn bowlder or a nest of buzzing bees the clergyman site in his study with bolted door, far removed from tho requirements of children, the chatter of visitors or the wants of servants. But the wives of these men can rarely pursue their labors for a single hour without many interruptions. In the first plaoe many different things have to be managed at the same time while the dinner is cooking the table is being set, tho baby is watched, and the "front room" is dusted. Then If there are servants, they are in constant need of supervision if the door bell rings, the business or pleasure of the caller must be ascertained, the children must be started punctually to school and luncheon provided for them, and so on.

Men, too, have better tools for their work than women. It is only in recent years that the attention of inventors has been turned toward this subject, and still, with the notable exceptions of the sewing machine and wringer, what important addition has been made to tho working tools of woman Compare a plane and chisel with a kitchen knife, the hydraulic press with a jelly bag I If men had to stir tho hasty pudding of America for ono month, there would bo a thousand applications for patents on stirring machines within the thirty days.

Finally, men receive direct compensation for their work, while women for their housework, of course, never do and while on the ono hand they do not want it, on the other hand there is a wonderful incentive to patient toil in the anticipation of a definite recognition of one's labor iu tho form of money. It seems pleasauwr to work and earn $10 than to do 910 worth of work at home.

If in addition to these things wo consider tho engrossing rearing duties of women as wives and mother*, is it not evident that their position in the homo is one of unequal service! Disproportionate not merely to their physical strength, but actually greater in amount and life waste than that of men.

If this is true, and if our first proposition be admitted, namely: that the man's sharo ought to lx) the heavier, we are ready for tho question, what ought to be man's part in good housekeeping! What ought the man to do besides merely earning the money to support himself and family!

In the light of the preceding discussion it seems clear he should first of all help his wifo in planning her work. Let every husband give his wife tho benefit of his practical business experience, and advise with her how sho may beet arrange and time her several duties that they may least conflict.

In the second place, the husband should give the wife the full amount of money neenotary property to caro for the homo.

Third—Its should see that she has the best tools that can If had to lighten her labor. Fourth— He should by every possible means shorten her hours of labor. If bo finds that she is obliged to work earlier and later than be, then he should at onoo give or procure for her such assistance as will make their working hours equal

Fifth—R«*iMn{c that for her labor die recalves no direct compensation, he should, at the taut, be careful to give continually that rew-lof cordial praise, which costs him not' 5 and so much pleases her.

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Finally, tho man must recognise that ay of the domestic duties are i*. .per to him, and not to the woman: i* sura all that require great physical exsrtfoa. Therefor*, ac* abooM rnper farrmeats be poa. jly fttrni- for woman's use, but all the materials she must ttseshonld be provided and ea aceeesihla. Plenty ofeoal, wood —d kin Jings •hockl be kept nwur tha place where they are to te burned, water should be supplied t- Se handy and abundant, plenty of bt— iv fofftckmcs, et% should be arraa^dto the bswt advantajpa

At hoott cleaning timo the man «itb«r move or get mowed the haavkr art ol furniture beiiMnUatteod to tha ami patting down of canv€ft,tte of stoves, and the liites in a should

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ought to do, let him at the least havo grace enough tr keep out of the woman's way while she is doing them for him, and refrain when they are done. from rewarding his overworked help mate with cross and complaining speech.—EL H. Ballard in pood 5* keeping. ^,

Tyranny af the Baby,

A great and quite general mistake is to believe that an infant, if he be healthy, should be a perpetual sleeper. In vain attempts to influence this unreasonable result, the young mother worries herself to death in order to koep tho house quiet. Papa comes home full of news from tho city and is warned to "tread softly, baby's asleep!" Ho brings a friend, and the friend "enjoys his visit" by feeling as depressed as though ho bad been to see an invalid. No word must be spoken above a whisper no joke must be told, as it might cause a laugh no song must be sung, as it might remove the graveyard solemnity—every and all things pleasant must 1m sacrificed at the shrine of tho first baby.

All this is totally wrong. In tho first place, it is nonseaso to expect a baby to sleep twenty-four hoars in a day and in the second plocc if a child is brought up so that perfect quietude is the prime condition under which it will sleep the life of the mother will be a sad one. Rather let the child get nsed to every day noises let it become accustomed to conversation, to laughter, to singing, and then the first sound link in the grand chain of its character has been forged. It is but a natural step from a tyrannical baby to a spoiled child, and yet what young mother would voluntarily spoil her boy.

Rocking or jouncing the infant in its cradle or on tho lap are common practices that should be avoided. They do the child no good, and cause gtaat annoyanco and unnecessary trouble to the parents. Tho moment there is a stir in the cradle a furious rocking is begun, and continued until the poor little innocent is again whirled into unnatural slumber land—Emily Cord en in American Magazine.

Crowing Up in Corsets.

The assertion has an odd sound, but it is probably true, that not ten women out of a hundred have the faintest conception of what it would feel like to havo a natural, unfettered body. Within a few weeks the writer has asked twenty-eight women at what age they first put on corsets. Thirteen of them said they could not remember a time when they had not worn them. Their earliest recollections of themselves and their dress included corset waists and corset lacings. One New York physician estimates that city girls are corseted on an average when 7 years old. Another said that her inquiries would lead her to put it at 9 years.

Women grow up in corsets and harmonize with their environments. They put on corsets in the morning before they do their shoes, and would not think they could comb their hair without stays. They live in corsets, and would be thoroughly uncomfortable without them. Thoy havent developed muscles to get along without support. And yet the corset might be made, at least, less obtrusive. It used to be the proper thing to wear an under bodice of shape and thickness to hide or disguise the outline of the contrivance of whalebones and steels. Nowadays nothing of the sort seems to be thought necessary. The corset is as prominent as if paraded outside the gown. The fashion plate marks its top and its bottom distinctly, and as for the woman herself, look at the next one yon see on a horse car and you can sketch her "corset very accurately on the margin of your newspaper.—New York Mail and Ex-

pre88- fir,/)'' American and European Voices. It is a well known fact that the American voice is pitched higher than that of the European and it is said the pitch has been gradually rising during the past century. Indeed, our musical instruments are keyed higher'than those of European manufacture. But don't let any woman deceive herself with the thought that there are good and sufficient reasons for raising her voice higher in conversation. It is one of the regrettable things about American women that they can be recognized by their shrill voices in the roost mixed and cosmopolitan companies in any city or country of the world.

It is* a marvel to English women that American women talk so loud and havo such resonant voices. A low voice is not only counted a sweet thing in woman, but one certainly expected in a lady. It is a virtue to be cultivated, if one has it not, and in timo it will abido with her who wooes gentle speech. Some women have a larynx that seems lined with velvet, so softly fall all the words from their lips not that there is any muffled sound to their clear consonants and open vowels, but rather a rounder, richer swell and fall to each pulsing phrase than thin lipped, nervous, emphatic women are over capable of. "Hie latter, if perchance thoy assume the grace of low speech, take a sort of sibilant whispering tone, more irritating than their natural high strain. With the low, rich voice goes a musical, genial laugh, and a smile that lights the eyes as it curls away from the lips,—St, Louis Republic.

Sovereign Cure for Freckles. I always have a feeling of pity for girls who havo florid or sallow complexions, or whose faces are bespattered with freckles, looking as If they had been about when a brau bin had exploded. I feel sorry for them, not because of any harm that the freckles do, for really I think them nice, as they are evidence of a pure, light and healthy complexion, but because the removal of them or the sallownes* is so easy if they only know bow.

I accidentally discovered a sovereign remedy a couple of years ago, which costs next to nothing. One day the plumber shut our water off, and I could get none in which to wash my face. It was fearfully soiled, and looking oat tho window just then I saw a friend« :~Foaf*~:':ig to call on me. Qlancing about I .ced half of a watermelon from which the meat bad been removed before. It was partially filled v. .ui ju. -, and I hastily washed my face in it. The result was so soothing that I repeatedly wa. r..y

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A Grata oC Artificiality.

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berth were they mutually to pretend to overlook—indeed not to notice—cach othert troublesome failings! Would not thus a grain of artificiality succeed in enabling even characters otherwise utterly incompatible to get on very satisfactorily! Indeed, were this not well understood by a great number of very excellent people, bow miserable would be the world 1—Chambers' Journal.

Developing the Fatherly Instinct. Miss YTillard thinks that the boys should be encouraged to play with dolls as well as the girls. And I agree with her. The fatherly instinct needs more developing in the men than the maternal instinct in the women. Perhaps if littlo boys played with dolls and nursed them through lurid complications of fell disease as girls do, labored over their support and bent their backs and pricked their fingers fashioning their wardrobes and darning their rent garments, we would hear of fewer cases of desertion of flesh and blood families by good for nothing fathers. Do not bo of raid of making your boy effeminate nnH a '"Miss Nancy" by encouraging him in gentle ways and plays. Would you not in the end prefer a development t'oat should stand high among good men and angels to a development of the John L. Sullivan type or the modern baseball player? The boy that is taught to play with dolls will seldom, if ever, become a bruiser or a bully.—"Amber" in Chicago Journal.

Unhappiness Among the Married. The Edinburgh Review takes a view quite contrary to Walter Besant. It says that, however wo may try to conceal it, there is a vast amount of unhappiness among m^ried people of all classes. Tho fault is not with the men nor with tho women, but it is involved in our social system. It obliges her to sell herself to a man—that is, secure a husband before her salable commodities, youth and beauty, are gone from her. As there are more women than men the woman has practically no choice, and some women no chance, even to sell themselves. The remedy, it is suggested, lies in giving the woman work and money—in other words, equality of position. Probably the instincts of the sexes are by no means so easily disposed of as this writer supposes.—Globe-Democrat.^

Hint for the Hot Season.

During tho hot season I have fifty appneations a day for "something to drive away the prickly heat." The whole thing is very simple. A nickel's worth of common coarse salt in the bath will bring instant relief, and is as good as "iodinixed sea salt" at ten cents per pound. A little bicarbonate of soda will be found very efficacious for children. If the affliction is severe, almost to the point of eczema, a spoonful of sulphurous acid in a full bucket of water, to bo used in a sponge bath, will act like a charm. This is every bit as good as the sulphur vapor b&th once so popular.—J. A. W. Fernow.

A cheap filter can be made by putting a piece of sponge at the bottom of a large flower pot and filling the pot three quarter* full with clean, sharp sand and small pieces of charcoal mixed in equal parts. Lay upon this mixture a pieooof linen or woolen cloth, so as to hang over the side. The water poured through this will come out at the bottom clean and pure. The cloth must be kept fWnt and the sand and charcqal, as woll as the sponge, washed and occasionally changed.

The finger bowl i*no necessary, and therefore should not be placed on the table unless fruit or green corn, or anything else intended to beea^en from the hand, has been served. When fingers are forks, then the finger bowl has a use, but otherwise their display is ostentatious vulgarity and pnly serves to emphasize one's real ignorance of table etiquette.

To cure a felon, fill a tumbler with equal parts of fine salt and ice mix well Sink the finger in tho center and allow it to remain' until it is nearly frozen and numb, then withdraw it, and when sensation is restored renew the operation four or five times, when it will be found thedisease isdestroved. This must be dope before pus is formed

To make sealinjr wax for fruit cans, take eight ounces of resin, two ounces gum shellac and a half ounce of beeswax. Melt- all together. This will make a quantity and may be melted for use when wanted.

It may bo useful to know that hoarseness may bo relieved by using the white of an egg, thoroughly beaten, mixed with lemon juica and sugar. A teaspoonful token occasionally is the dose. i'•

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Grease spots can bo removed from marble by the application of a paste made of crude potash uud whiting. Bfush it all over the surface to be cleansed and polish off.

To remove warts get a littlo bullock's gall and keep it in a bottle rub a littlo on the worts two or three times a day, and in a short time they will disappear.

Dip a sponge in sweetened water and place it where the ants "do congregate." When it is filled, scald and thoroughly rime. Repeat until they are gone.

For chapped lips mix Wto tablespoonful of clarified honey with a few drope of lavender water, or any other perfume, and anoint tho lipe frequently.

An excellent furniture polish is of equal parts of shellac varnish, linseed oil and spirits of wins.

Ceilings that have been smoked with a friwynwy* lamp should be washed off with soda water.

Thick brown paper should be laid under carpe* if the patent lining is not to be had.

For ordinary woodwork use whiting and ammonia to rub the dirt off. Z, -pfx' llwtojuphk Pass Cwfi.

The Vienna police have adopted tbe photographic pass cards first, if wo are not mistake!, used by the season ticket holders of the Parte exhibition of 1887. In many continental countries a maid servant cannot remove from one canton to another, nor wastimes even pass from the services of cos family in tbe town to that of another, without having apot^a v.wto her livret It is tbe same with artisans and mechanics, and of coc™» tfaty cannot leave their cative country att an international ntity past set -might escape tbe conscription rvioa to be for these usestsnthi .iiiig thshi to rv.. ri «mn'ry, that' Vienna \h*r*rr^J It

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WHAT SHALL WE WEAR?

PARIS, LONDON AND NEW YORK FASHIONS ILLUSTRATED.^

All the Fashionable French Boots and Shoes of the Season, from Walking Boots of Stout Leather to Dainty Sabot

Slipper. In the annexed cut are illustrated all the fashionable French chaussures of the season, from the thick brogues, the strong walking ahoes, to the dainty sabot slipper in embroidered or beaded kid or silk, secured above the ankle with a strap, over which Butters a tiny butterfly bow, to correspond with the larger one on the toe cap.

TROPHIES OF BOOTS AND SHOES. Nearly every material is now employed for boots aud shoots. For evening wear tan and bronze kid, satin and corded silk are fashionable, whenever the stuff of the dress is net employed they are then decorated with bows, tufts of flowers, or barred across, and fastened with jeweled buttons, or again the front is interlaced in the Greek style, to show off the beauty of tho silk stockings. For stylish promenade wear are chosen crocodile skin, glace kid, patent leather, combined with Russian leather, effectively stitched with contrasting silk, and ornamented with ribbon, bows and buckles.

Finger Rings.

Finger rings are exceedingly popular with both sexes. Fine diamonds, rubies, pearls, emeralds or sapphires, mounted as a solitaire on a slender ring of gold, is the ring most highly coveted. Cluster rings are. however, in high favor, and this style provides an admirable setting for small colored stones of fine quality. The opal, by the by, figures largely in these cluster rings, and is usually surrounded by diamonds.

Colored jewieis of all kinds are employed in rings that show pleasing designs, made of a combination stone setting, such as tbe three band designs, each of a different stone and worn on one finger. The effect is often charming, as a combination of rubies, sapphires and diamonds.

Twisted, cordlike rings of gold and platinum, also of silver, for men's wear, were seen recently. There are also rings of gold wire on which are mounted single uncut stones of large size.

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etting of fine stones. For the fashionable these are still set low, with little or no gold showing.

The Empire Promenade Dress. In our cut is represented an empire dress for tho promenade that gives a very fair idea of this old time costume, which modistes in France and England are endeavoring to revive.

The tunic,crossed over the bust, having short sleeves and semi-low neck. is of jsephyr lawn. The shoulder knots and scarf are of soft silk the goitered chemisette is of white crape. The skirt is in plain kilted muslin, bordered with a festoon of crape caught up with bows over the shoulders is thrown a long narrow scarf in embroidered China crape, finished off with a fringe.

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Suggestions About Fancy Dnsues Mrs. John Gilpin would wear a short white or brocaded dress with paniers and fichu trimmed with lace a large satin hat tight sleeves to wrist hair poudre and a mob cap a largo muslin apron would not be out of jdace, but it is not necessary. An Indian queen wears a short skirt of some Oriental material, intersected with gold, the shoulders covered with Indian gauss, tucked into either a velvet bodice or into one made of tanned leather full trousers to ankle of soft silk TTitian scarf round hips Indian feather fan and ornaments oriental pointed sho?s pink stockings headdress, a jeweled crown, with gauze veil depending. I have also seen tbe character dressed in a brown cuirass of satin to match the skirt or black cloth, embroidered with red, yellow and white grew, bordered with cut leather fringe sandals, a diadem of eagles'and vultures' feathers, a bird's in front, and a great many beads for

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Low large braided coils, or else the banging catogan loops, are the fashionable Parisian arrangements of the back hair. The preference here is for neither very high nor very low ooiffures, but for a happy medium, placed just back of the crown, whether in soft esses of hair or in a ckwely braided coD. Three Greek fillets of ribbon or of gilt are worn by English girls, while French women are wearing a wreath of rosw or other

W it at pi re go Young girls are again beginning to wear aigrette bows at the si'lo Kack of tbe hair. Other ooiffures for older women are intermixed with tinsel flowers, bat are equally bet inf. Tbe shape of bead has to bo ru. considered tw, tat with tf:- Safcr wwu i«»h, tt is pocsL—to get most ming headdresses.

For ting up fruit a poroelaga lined beer!" !-~-ts tMArsbptooswith mostbousewiv bet go- 'i agate or granite ware, and eveaa brass kettle,scoured veryciaanand brightened, are nsed. A wooden or stiver moon for stirrtng is much better than an inm one. Many people use self sealing jars asa matter of eoooomy, because less sugar fa required to keep the fruit in them.

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ALL AROUND THE HOUSE.

bow Work for Amateur Decorators—Fashions in Pillows, Bolsters, Etc. Imitation inlaying represents one of the newest fancies in amateur decorative work. The design is drawn out with pencil or brush on white wood and filled in with black, or on black painted wood and filled in with white, or the ground can be done in bluo or brown. Frames for photographs, earthenware flower pots, the doors of little cabinets and over mantels and other things can be decorated in this style. A coat of clear drying varnish is laid on when the paint is quite dry. The work requires care and neatness.

A novelty in home made frames for pictures is a wooden frame painted white with a mount of palo blue, gray or primrose yellow plush glued over card board.

Beverages for tho Hit Weather. One may long for a glass of soda, or bo delighted to offer it to our heated and weary friends, but it is quite too much to go to the druggist for it, with the sun high and the thermometer in the nineties. And yet nothing is more possible or less expensive than to have the thing always at hand. In Paris, when siphons were first introduced, iced "siphon water' was the thing to havo in the house. I often wonder that so little use is made of them in this soda water loving country except under a doctor's direction. Half a dozen siphons of plain soda cost 00 cents, perhaps less iu large cities, and if you are known to your druggist you will not be charged for the loan of the siphons. Koep them on ico and you have your soda water ready. Mako and keep bottled a few simple syrups—vanilla syrup, coffee syrup, giuger syruji—and you can have flavored soda at a moment's notice. In fruit season half fill the glass with fresh fruit syrup aud sugar, fill up from tho siphon and you have a drink for the gods. •Soda milk is an excellent and nourishing drink in hot weather, and will remain on the most delicate stomach, when anything but koumiss would be rejected, and is simply soda from the siphon and milk.—Catherine Owens.

Pillows and Bolsters.

Pillows are uow made about twenty-four inches square for the usual doublo bed, which is four feet six inches broad. The bolster is made round, with a shaped piece set in each end. The now way, says Harper's Bazar, is to set the bolster behind the pillows—not under them—or else havo for day use merely a pair of pillows or else only a bolster, as when the pillows are set on the bolster they bide the handsomo wood of the head of the bedstead. Shams havo a square center ornament and border of cut work like Irish point, or of drawn work, which is hemstitched, or the trimming is embroidery or linen lace (torchon or Smyrna), or else braid lace. When a bolster only is used, and color is preferred the spread of cretonne or of sateen, or brocaded silk, is made long enough to cover the bolster also.

Ornamenting Plain Glass.

A mode of ornamenting plain glass suggested by The Decorator aud Furnisher is to paint thedecorativedesign'on silk or linen, and as soon as the surface has been varnished pressing it downward on tho glass, after which tbe back of the linon or silk is gently rubbed, so as to exclude air bubbles. Before using either of these textiles, they must bo stretched on a frame, and, if water colors are U9ed, sized with isinglass, but no sizing is required with oil colors. Tho gloss of the glass will less interfere with tho effect if a judicious selection of colors be made, preference being given to' those which are subdued. Such paintings, well executed, appear to advantage in tho shaded recesses of mantels and cabinets.

Cheap Cuts of Meat.

Many of tbe so called cheap cuts of meat are preferable, for instance, the shoulder of mutton is much more delicate than tho leg, and, as most persons know, tho price is low. The English, who of all people know what good mutton is, always give tho leg to the household and savo the shoulder for guests or first table. However, meat is not the only thing you must learn to choose.

Every housewife does not know that a delicious stew may be made of rouud steak, which costs a mere trifle compared with the choicest sirloin and porterhouse steaks. First pound tho round steak, then cut it into small pieces and proceed as with any meat stew.

Utilizing Old Carets.

Ingrain carpets, worn beyond repair, should be cut into lengthwise strips, and woven the same as a rag carpet. It is unnecessary to sew the ingrain cuttings, weavers generally preferring to overlap the strijis as they weave. Mats and carpets assume quite a Persian look when made i.» this way, and are very durable.

When tho carpet is only worn on tho edges or in certain spots the good portions may be sewed together, a bonier put on ttxx^a good looking rug made.

A Convenient Work Case.

Tbe housewife, or work case, shown in tbe accompanying cut is a convenience every housekeeper ought to possess. Ladies living in cities can buy these conveniences, and therefore need not be troubled with making tbe same but readers wbo may not be able to purchase will Ixs glad of a model from which to make a duplicate.

WOKK CASK, OPU A*A CLOSfTO. Tbe foundation and tbe pockets Are of doublo ecru linen and are bound with brown woolen braid. Tbe strap to hold •daaors, thimble, etc., is of leather. The flaps are embroidered with an outline design in sten stitch.

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DoubV hnttonfcles closed with small collar but] that are taken out before washlr.jr. are used pillow slips 1 ome ing»nioos housekeeper* This obvU-a boles and raits ia ths hems caused by tbe wringer pulling

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Hoverall."»'cannadg«' Km, souj vegetables to stand in toe can* after they n* cpaced, nor on any account add vinegar or asaoaof any kind to #d food •While still in the tins. "8ave cold tea for vinegar barrels it sours m/tOj and gives color and flavor," says a

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NON-RESTRAINT SYSTEM IN THE ALABAMA INSANE ASYLUM.

Occupation for Hand and Mind at' the. Foundation of the Theory of Superintendent Bryee—But Few "Eyes in Fine

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There is no institution more widely discussed among American experts in his profession than "Dr. Bryce's asylum." There is, perhaps, among men of his class, no individual more frequently quoted than this same scientifically learned and socially popular Dr. Peter Bryce, who has perfected in the Alabama hospital the non-restraint system of caring for the insane.

Notwithstanding the fact that my visit to the mammoth home for the mentally afflicted, which seems the most fitting term to apply to it, was made earlier than expected, my arrival proved timely, for a dance was being held by tho patients that evening, and I was soon in the presence of several huudred. It was difficult to realise that I was. not at an ordinary instead of in every way extraordinary party. The types of tho insane in far away Alabama asylum weKe,\ for one thing, so entirely unlike those seen in. the Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, or in fact any of the northern institutions of this kind, that this fact too helped tho semi-delusive feeling that I was not among that class of unfortunates. No morbid and melancholy Danes no violent, demonstrative Irishmen no superloquacious and gesticulative Germans no sullen and stubborn Norwegians none of the foreign victims of dementia who give so motley a character to northern and more especially northwestern hospitals, were seen in this congregate mass of southern daftness. For, of course, the ono foreign class, the African insane, is separately provided for. Before me, in the mazes of an ordinary cotillon, or sitting as spectators,' was only a company of well featured typi-— cal southern men and women, often vacant in countenance, or perhaps too animated in expression, of various ages, ranging from 70 to 15, Gssembled for general recreation, and all entering into tho spirit of enjoyment.

I was introduced. to many who, in their quiet cheerfulness and eminently proper conduct, seemed to me quite gj sane as the average participant in our out in tho world social festivities. I havo often attended even as mildly exciting and quasi hilarious a gathering as a church sociable, where the men and women and young people, with their sujxrfluityof tea and coffee exhilaration, their erratic speeches, silly attempts at repartee, undignified fun, and half spent, half pent, nervous energy, seemed more like lunatics than did the individuals and grouim of individuals of both sexes in the Alabama asylum collected for the purpose of a "dance and good time." There were fewer "eyes in a fine frenzy rolling" than I've frequently seen at private hops, where passion often flaunts its colors under the outwardly protecting arch of sanctioned familiarity, or at privateparties and public receptions, where people habitually mount mental stilts of decorous reserve or gaze at each other distractedly from unnatural heights of formality.

And when tho music occasionally ceased there was neither the tiresome buzzing of 1 many tongues nor yet the ominous and pathetic silence broken by acute anduncann^rv'f noises that might hnve been anticipated, and, in truth, were listened for by myself, bemuseto often heard at other hospital dances. Pleasant, chatty, but subdued tones, and a general air of self-containment during recesi vividly contrasted with those of the best be haved ballroom belles and beaux. "How you manage them all so well?" I asked Di Bryce, thus unconsciously ascribing to him personal power in the institution that I thin I would not in any other asylum ever visitd have credited tho superintendent himslf alone with possessing. He replied that ao did not attempt to "manage" them, but tet them see that he believed in their abilityto manage themselves. "These people redly are insane, though," I said. "Now, shoilc one of the worst casos—and you say they ir4 present here to-night—become uncontrollall] excited, what would be done with himf" "I can tell you what would not be doao with him. He would not be led awiy •creaming and furious. For that would not« only have a bad effect upon him, but a most^ pernicious influence upon others. Nr should one man or woman be treated in t1 manner the contagion and excitement wo spread, and the fear of similnr disgrace tate many others, until thc£ reached t. same condition. At the first symptoms of ft unruly or disturbed state of mind some watchful nurse would be at the patient's sidel in a moment, and by proper influence, ex-r erted as the result of special study of indi-j vidual cases, tbe patient would be quieted! before being willingly removed, and without] attracting undue attention. We have literally no restraint here. By using tact tfitl patients we obtain their free consenj whatever advances their own or the getprn interest.."

In further conversation regarding straint and non-restraint, Dr. Bryce prived| that he was not visionary, or, in the fashionable phraseology of the times, ciink in his specialty by saying that measure! em ployed by the non-restrainer in t! ?ry should depend solely upon his jud# i«nt. He said that a physician or nurse obF possess, first of all, native tact scientli formation, professional skill, nor mere rain ing could make up for tbe lack of it said be did not agree with the en thui antic non-restraint reformer, who, "rather than restrain a man who threatened to tee cut bis eyes, would prefer that tbe mai ku ceeded in his purpose." But this sensil ad mission on the part of Dr. Bryce di nut alter tbe perfectly apparent fact tb al' mechanical restraint has been banisbetjfrd tbe Alabama asylum. "Occupation is tbe watchword of stitution," be said when we visited th on tbe morning after my arrival, and all the patients not one was unem While even this commendable featu: ried further in "Dr. Bryce's asylum" the majority of hospitals for tbe was not alone tbe mere fact of emp: of all inmate* that impressed me, kinds of employment practiced. A visitor could not fail to pause and li side tbe twenty-five or thirty old fj spinning wheels, which were being patients entirely demented, and bek the claw that in any other asyl visited would be lying listlessly bencbcs or floor, or crouching walls.

Th*r«t are in America today two sites tbsf are oming somewhat conspicnoa in tK annul A tbe I ne for the sac il*y hav acbi' fcti. efforts toab^J all nr chax al it tr .:its from their iarti&tion They are, rer" »iy, Alabama and W. rrin. Th^^:^r«^fntheAlabnaalosp% .: me tl^t tt ot.!y at tbeomeof visit were no pat :it» |«r nstrabt, b* not a St"-'" *d beea siice th* adt tkmofv.- :eyeareasi.—Tuicalotf (Ala.) Cor. Chicago Timea

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