Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 20, Number 10, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 31 August 1889 — Page 6

WOMAN AND HOME.

UN MONEY, WAGES AND THl EFFECT ON BREAD WINNERS,

Bow Hindoo Women Are Beyarded—The Detail* In a Good Cook Book—To Fight Coekroaehea—How to Cere for the Little

Onee In Hot Weather—Other Good Thin**.

There was a time when it wag thought that a marriud woman wlbo worked for money in torae way reflected discredit upon ber botband, by an implication of bis lack of ability to support her as site wished to lire. That period is past, both Ihapptty and unhappily. Happily, becaosa many a man has had cause to bteas the slender iuinds of the wife, which, by their skill in wielding the pen, the brush ar the needle, or in doing other womanly work, have, backed by the willing brain, landed off want and disaster when be, the "—i bread winner, has been disabled or prevented by loss of employment from supplying the family with bread and batter.

But the change of public opinion on the •core of home living women working for money has been unfortunate, because, in the straggle for funds with which to indulge a taste for dress, or for other luxuries not warranted by their husbands' incomes, some women have taken the tewing that should have been given to those poor creatures who find In it their sole means of subsistence. The •haltered wives and daughters whom husbands and fathers support can "accept work to pick np at odd moments" at rates that would mean semi-starvation to those wotpen to whom such work is the only means of supplying themselves with lodging, food, fuel and clothing.

The wife of a small fanner was heard not bug ago recounting complacently the success gM had had in laying aside a neat litt'e sum the bank during the past winter. "We had a good deal of spare time evenings," she said, "and Jane and Sarah and I thought it was a real shame we shouldn't something by it So when father went down to we made-him go to a store there and get us some things to make. He brought us men's shirts and little boys' knee pants. They were all cut out and stitched, and it was easy enough to finish them off,' though it was kind of tedious work. There were five gussets and nine button boles to each shirt, and it took the three of us pretty near all day, working steady all the time we could spare from our housework, Id do a dozen of the shirts. I could do two pair of the pants in a day." "And how much ware you paidf' queried an interested listener. "Oh, well, it wasn't much," admitted the other "only thirty-liveoents a dozen for the shirts, and a dollar seventy-five a dozen for the pants. It did seem rather little to me at first, but I aays to the girls,

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doing this, we wouldn't be doing anything to earn money.' And by keeping at it all winter we'd made forty dollars by spring, between the three of us, and that was a good right better than nothing." "I should say so!" ejaculated the auditor.

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declare to goodnem, I believe I'll try that same plan myself next winter. I only wish IVI thought of it before."

To neither speaker did the idea seem to suggest itself that in the city there were struggling women to whom that forty dollars would have moant thrice the sum that it did to the well clad, well l'ed wife and daughters who gave only their leisure moments to shop work. The degraded order of humanity potaesaed by the proprietors of "sweating" establishments is of a sort that makes them ready to take advantage of their ability to have the work done at the loweat possible terms. Everything that by causing the supply to exceed the demand has a tendency to reduce wages Is hailed with Joy by these human sharks. 8till it seems rather hard to veto the earn-

charity that the gains from her labors enable ber to bestow, grant her double the gratification she would derive from anything bought with money that had been given her. But let her seek some other outlet for ber industry. That is an exceptional woman who has not some specialty, be it never so humble. To this let her turn as a means for earning her extra funds. Sometimes she may possess an •ooomplishnient, oftener a knack at some branch of handiwork out of the common line at labor, the practioe of which takes employment from notxxiy.

One deft little woman,, who had no income except tho slender allowance that was all her husband oouki afford ber, used to make the money for his Christmas and birthday gifts by crocheting silk shawls in a peculiar atitch of which she alone held the secret. Another earned all her donations to charitable enterprises by putting up pickled mangoes, by an old, family recipe, for friends who could not obtain these dainties elsewhere and were glad to pay her liberally for bar trouble. Still another, a young girl, asearned thi eoacoetiou erf bouillon for a certain caterer, achieving a preparation that became famous la the little city where she lived. Home made French candies and salted almonds became the industry of another. Such avocations as these impoverish no one, and their practioe enables a woman to feel that independence dear to all who are not content to fill only ornamental places in Ufa —Harper's Basar. 4 are C«t, KM or cwfc»u«te» I

A ccrreftpftfefcnt writes ai toilet: Itafto forward^ y*l an ftnd dertMn method lof eradicating those loathsome insects from dwelling bouses. A few years ago tnj house was infested with cockroaches (or "docks," as they are called here), and I was recommended to try encumber peeling as a cwoedr. I accordingly, immediately before bedtime, «l»wed the fioocof thoee parts the house most infested with the vermin with the green peel, cut not ««ry thin, from the cucumber, and sat up half an boar later than omial to watch the effect.

Before the expiration of that time the floor where the lay was completely covered with cockroa a, so much so that the vegetable aootd not be seen, an voracioMy were they engaged in sucking the poinonoos mofatnt* from it 1 adopted the same plan the following nlgM but my visitors were not acariyeo numerous* I shociki think nsore a fourth of the previous night

Od the tbiri night I did not dbeover one, but, i"* •**rtain whether the home wwi quite clear of them, 1 evamtned the peel afterl bad laid it down ab-sut half an boor, and mrceived that It was covered with myrijy^tnnta cockroaches, about the staa of a itbmfi** allowed the peel to remain

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Mohammedan will dine with you, but bis with few exceptions, are even mare Jealously secluded than those of tbe Hindoo. Nor do the women for tbe most part seem to desire more liberty. Many of them know very how to manage their husbands, and if they want to go anywhere or to see anything the men have to find some means of gratifying them. The reverence paid to mothers is extreme.

I know a man in high position and of middle age who is obliged to worship gods in whom be does not believe for fear of displeasing his mother, and another who cannot make the pilgrimage which be desires to Benares btffmi— custom would oblige him to take his mother on his first visit to the holy city, and she is unfit to traveL But most Indian women are too to take pleasure in mixing in a society whose ways and thoughts are totally different from their own. Efforts are haing made to teach them, and there is little doubt that when they know a good deal about the world they will wish to see it, and that when this becomes their object they will speedily attain it Certainly it will be better to fit them for a position before calling upon them to occupy it

A somewhat similar remark applies to infant marriages and child widows. The women must desire change before it i* made. A philanthropic maiden lady who had passed ho* first youth was conversing not long ago with a married Indian lady and her widowed sister-in-law on these topics. After she had left them the married lady said, "I married at 7 and my husband was 9 years old. We have lived happily together. How is it that this lady has not married till ber hair is growing grayf Has nobody asked for her! There ought to be a law in England that no one fhaii remain unmarried after a certain age." Tbe loyal comment of the sister-in-law on the attack made upon her was simply, "Why does not tbe empress marry again!" —The Nineteenth Century, -s

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Explaining Explanation*.

I lately saw a complaint by a writer that the next generation, when they read the cooking books their mothers used—that is, of course, tbe cooking books of today—may well think thoee mothers were lacking in common sense, so little is left to their intelligence, matters that reem self evident are so minutely explained.

I am aware that the writer of the'above complaint gives expression to the feeling of many. I know one old lady, long superanuated from tbe kitchen, but who was in her time an excellent cake and preserve maker and who still criticises all the new cooking books with some such comments as these: "Hum, 'Take a clean cloth who would take dirty one, I'd like to know! 'Remove the cako from the oven without shaking.1 For pity's sake, who in their senses would shake a cake coming out of the oven and soon.

To this good lady's experience such trifling matters seem introduced to swell the bulk of tbe book. She forgets that cookery books are all that many young wives have to depend on for knowledge, that if the cake should be a trifle hot through the cloth and their unaccustomed fingers sensitive, they will, as likely as not, run to the table with the cake and drop it hastily and heavily on it, glad to get it out of band, and unlesB an experienced friend is near to explain they will fail to connect the rapid sinking of tbe that seemed such a success a moment ago with the jar it has received. So in this case it is not only neoessary to warn "not to shake the cake," but why she should not do so. The writers who are painstaking enough to "explain the explanations" are far fewer than those who merely compile cooking books, and their recipes naturally longer and more tedious to read, to those who only need to get the proportions and materials from a recipe. —Catherine Owen in Good Housekeeping.

^Post Carriers la Norway. wurut inrorms~ur son* -wmr

ever is intrusted with the post bag must be a very reliable individual, capable of meeting emergencies with alacrity and tact, and "the unexpected" that circumstances or weather may at any moment develop. Frequently young women hold this official position. Often the mail bag is carried by boat, and it is in that country quite as easy of accomplishment by women as by men, since they have the reputation of being as strong, swift rowers as are their fathers or brothers they must be calm, cool, collected, strangers to fear and familiar With fire arms.

Tbe poet bag, described as girt about with Iron chains, though not always large, is most imposing and important in appearance. To assist in its protection a revolver and post horn are always carried. "One morning," our informant adds, "we espied a novelty in water travel—a large birch bough in the bow of a boat which was swiftly nearingthe village, thus tndicatihg tbe approach of tbe latest uiaU. Tbe carrier was availing herself of a fair wind, a sail in that region being too dangerous, even with sheet in hand, hence tbe original and simple practioe of putting a barge birch bough in tbe bow of the boat as serving the purpose better, the fresh foliage holding the light air and materially aaritHng the rower, in this case a strong, eagle eyed, alert young woman, who sat complacently in the stern of her strong craft, bugle in hand, to announce arrival, and stir tbe easy going villagers to unwonted activity. "Tbe huge leathern receptacle of news from far countries, lockad. barrwl and bolted, was presently hwtidsd hf the well known shout, 'The bag is cftitf A crowd gathered, and ntb^versaAd^isteairs gave themselves heartfly to the joys and pleasures of the hour.r— Harper's Bexar.

Keeping Meats la 8a

A steak which has been cut and cannot be used till tbe next dej may be kept from becoining drydrithe surface by rubbing it with olive oil and laying it on a platter on the ice. Turn the meat occasionally. Another method of keeping meat is to rub the snrface with vinegar. Both these yruceaaw improve the meat, rendering it tender. Meat which has become but very slightly tainted may be restored by washing it with a cup of water, in which a teespoonful of borax has been di* solved, and cutting away tbe discolored parts. Meat that has begun really to spoil is not fit and she* for human food, however, aad should be burned up or buried, ratber than doctored up to conceal its oooditkn. It is no longer fit for nourishment, but a rank poison, dangerous to touch as food. Put apiece of charcoal inside of poultry when laying them away on ice or hanging them. Meeteuifnxnbowerer good animals is never as good in Kunmer winter, becaase tbe meat mast be hung in ckm* toe bo—s in summer, whfle in winter it in r- fresh cpm «lr. Bttetan urbo

beef in a oe where the open air csrn strike it on all for at lea* tame weeks, and oft. :..c as six weeks, fasten tbagr offer it .astomers far asht—New York TVI :m __________

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Tbe royal bride% wedding traveling bag is res if aad cocopieta,aad Bla.« .»»•* rocco wc ly -.aoad by Mr. Bat r,w. MbespirfiotiJ by bar royal happs— to be Lord flft*

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oolors. Although ber royal highness has pretared ratber small bag, It is moe* completely fitted in a very compact manner. It eontainsaU the necessary toilet fitting as well as the usual writing and needlework accessories. Tbe gold fittings are bullet hammered all over, each article being surmounted with tbe monogram (a reversed Land coronet) in diamonds, which has been selected from designs specially made by Mr. Barker, and which designs the princess has adopted generally.' Tbe hair and other brushes, paper knife, shoe lift, glove stretchers, and the bandies of the instruments are all made of very fine pale' mottled tortoiseehell and mounted with the same device. The writing book is fitted with some exquisitely illuminated note paper and envelopes. The bag is of the new shape invented and patented by Mr. Barker, which opens extremely wide and fiat, and at the same time is capable of holding more than any other bag of the same sixe.—Lady's Pictorial. ________

Have a Bath Boom..

It is often a mystery to thoee to whom a bath room is a necessity as well as a luxury, how some families will get along year after year without any such convenkaaoei There are many homes in Maine where tbe occupants are fully qualified for all the work necessary to build such a room and whooould easily give the time and money required, and who yet have no place down stairs for washing hands except the kitchen sink, and sometimes even this is unprovided with a spout for carrying off the water. There often is a place near the kitchen where a regular room may be finished off, with set tub, wash bowl, otc., but where there is not, a room with a wet sink, table and looking glass, kept, provided with water, towels, brush, combs and scissors can usually be provided, and after such a place for washing and combing hair is once enjoyed no one will be willing to give it up. Even a rough lean-to just outside of the back kitchen door will be found convenient on a farm for tbe use of the men from their work in the fields, or a corner of tbe kitchen most distant from the spot where cooking dish washing is carried on may be fitted up. Perhaps there is an unused brick oven in the kitchen that may be taken out, thus giving therequired room.—Lewiston Journal.

Eating Fruit.

Plenty of fruit in its season, eaten while it is ripe and fresh, is no doubt an excellent thing for the health and promotive of good digestion, a healthy liver and pure blood. But our hygienic friends, especially if they are of vegetarian sympathies, are sometimes likely to become a little "cranky" on this subject and to carry the advocacy of fruit eating to au extreme. Judgment is needed in eating fruit as in other things, and selection should be made to suit the individual and his present condition. Fruit of any kind may easily be eaten to excess, the fruit enthusiasts to the contrary notwithstanding. Much is said about the benefit of eating fruit in the morning or before breakfast But many persons cannot eat fruit before breakfast with good results, and many do not relish it in the morning at alL Others do not like to take it at meals. Such ought not to force their taste and convert fruit into o^distasteful medicine. The appetite is, generally speaking, the best guide as to what fruit should be eaten, when and how much, in case the person is in ordinary health. If he is not, he should, of course, get his physician's opinion on the subject,—Good Housekeeping. ^F'

£U Care of Children in Hot Weather. The heated season is manifested in the increased number of cases of "summer oomplaint" in babies and young children, who are always tbe first to be affected by the advent of hot weather and the changes incident to it. The greatest care should be exercised in the preparation and preservation of food for the "little ones." Carefulness should be used with respect to regularity of babies, ey cry from thirst as often as from water is the only thing to qutew^i so that several times a day a little cool water should be given. The milk tot the babies should be so kept as to prevent its change by fomentation or injurious substances gaining admission to it A less quantity of food is required in hot than cold weather for babies as well as adults. There is more danger from over feeding than under feeding. For children w«U selected, ripe fruit may be given if anything is wasted between meals. The first indication of bowel trouble should receive attention, being more readily Corrected, and with less weaicening of the childfe strength if oared for upon ita first appearance.—Hartupon ford Oourant wtf im

Accidental Fashions.

One of those hicky girls who can turn their mistakes into victories is said to have originated 13m fashion of wearing ribbon belts twisted so as to make a point in the center of the back. Dressing in a hurry, she drew ber belt carelessly about her waist aud hastened down to breakfast to be greeted by ber dearest enemy, before she bad traveled half the length of tbe hotel dining room, with, "Ob, Adele, dear, your belt is twisted right in the middle, don*t you know! Run back aad straighten it before Mr. sees it He is so critical about little matters!" "Don't you think it gives a nice pointed effectf demanded Adele, catching sight of her reflection in a friendly mirror. "I dol" aad she marched serenely to her seat, and after two days of wearing bof belt twisted, the other giris agreed with ber. As for the critical Mr. for some reason, of which possibly Adele has the secret, be seems curfcmsiy Indifferent to the dearest enemy nowadays, but Adele if wry ktnd to ber.—Bostpn Tran-

itos Gordon Camming has drawnfctteoAon to tbe cleansing effect of petroleum on scaled clothea The beat way to employ it is to fill an average boiler, say of fourteen gallons, with water, adding bsif a pounds soft soap, and wben all is boiling thoroughly, pc*r in one and a half tablespoon fols of petroleum. Than putin tbe clothes and boil them for half an boor before lifting them out and rinsing tbem in several waters. A little more soap, water and petroleum should be added to mak* op for loss, as snooeadve Iota of the dotbes are boiled.

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8weden would seem to be a country tbe heart of tbe moat pronounced advocsfa of woman's righta Women at* there employed in all the vocation* which ordinarily are oocoeded to be the peculiar property of mankind Bnry Swedish girl not born to wealth is tangfat a trade of some kind, and it is now triumphantly announced that Swedisb women will rights with tbi relatives.—True Flag-

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kit a link. Washing soda, two tableapoonIU *-a gallon of boiling water,makes an taw wash topourbc* Into the sink after pn 'Oniifceduaingit.

Salt mackerel may be boiled iwloov&td with a cream saoce that Is mads by rubbing «f butter and flour together into two tabkapocafals of mfflt, WImb bol po«r orartbs flsb.

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FASHIONS THAT ARE APPROVED AT HOME AND ABROAD.

IsdlM' and Children'a Costumes—A Serviceable Dress for a Young Glsi—An Illustrated Description of tbe Brldeemald's

Bracelet Designed by Princess Louise. For evening, white gowns are muoh worn, even by women wboee youth is past Silver is also fwsbioaahlft for evening and gray cashmere for day wear. Black is. always well worn, and mauve in every tone is to be seen. It is a little early to predict with certainty the incoming fashions for winter, but modistes say that long waisted corsages, made to extend over the hips in medieval style, will be a feature of the dreasy toilets.

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There are many becoming oostumes for foung girls. The one depicted in tbe cut— Whore are shown both front and back views —affords an attractive model for a serviceable street drees. The bodice is opened shape front and back, and, like the puffed sleeves and tunic, is of gray cashmere. The tunic is gathered at the waist and recedes front and back to display a skirt of shaded black and white check, which corresponds with the front and back plastrons as well as with the deep cufffe of the full sleeves. The belt is of moire ribbon, pointed in front and knotted at the back, terminating with euds.

A Notable Bridesmaid's Bracelet. From the old time custom of a gift irotn the bride elect to her bridesmaids of the gloves to be worn 'on the ocoasion of the wedding have developed untold extravagances in the way of bridesmaid's presents. These Include, at modern weddings in high life, brooches, chatelaine watches, bracelets and other gem set jewelry, silver band prayer books, etc. The bracelet has received a fresh impetus as a bridesmaid's gift, sinoe the tparriage of the Princess Louise to Lord Fife, from the fact that the princess not only selected that she designed it herself.

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parauvely small cost. The center is composed of tbe letters and F, surmounted respectively by tbe royal crown and earl's ooronet, all in diamonds of the finest water and mounted on a band of gold.

The First Short Dresses.

The first short dresses put on infants six months old are yoke slips of French nainsook made with high neck and long sleeves, trimmed with drawn work, tucks and feather stitching, or with a little embroidery and Valenciennes lace in insertions and ratber narrow edgings. Some French mothers use white China silks for time little folks, aad also for the long robes worn by babies, but thinner sheer nainsook is preferred hero. The yoke may be in one with tbe two breadths of tbe slip, being merely lengthwise clusters of fine tucks at tbe top in front and back, with feather stitching between, or else even rows of tacks that are hemstitched, or perhaps four or five narrow box plaits in front and back will hold all the fullness neoessary after tbe breadths are sloped upward to the armbole. Tbe slip is long enough to reach to the shoe tops, and is finished with a hem three or four inches deep that is sufficiently trimmed if very simply hemstitched. A narrow ruffle edged with Valenciennes is turned back on tbe neck and wriqte. When separate yokes are preferred they are either round or pointed, made of tucks, with drawnwork feather stitching or insertion of embroidery of Valeocieones, and are sewod with a oord to the full two breadths of tbe slip.

When tbe child is a year old, little short wattted dreases may be made, tbe round waist reaching only two or three inches below the armbolee, tucked and feather stitched, etc as yokes are.—Harper's Batar.

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Autumn dresses are already underway a» leading modistes', and tbe storm are showing new fabrics and their trimmings. Crepe de chine, which has been a fashionable summer fabric, will be worn late into tbe autumn, after which it will figure in evening toilettea Faced cloths in mahogany, prime, the new brown and fioadan greens, is now the approved material for tailor gowns

Scotch plaids in fancy colors are oounted among tbe autumn fabrics so are China crape, failles, armurss and camel's hair cloths.

Numbered with new things La way of dress garniture are the Escurial passnmentarfrs, cashmere colored Vandycks and drop trimmix^s of beads aad conia

Shoulder capes of doth, with and without mantilla ends in front, are prepared for tb* intermediate season before heavy wrapear* tequired.

Fashions hie gloves inctuds moueqoeCairss of various leagdts aad kid and suede buttooedgkrvea.

Jackets are aa varied In style aad aa popular as ever. Hew summit dream era, foma of them, very simple in style, being plaimart with an irt of a different fabric and oolor fipcxn the ratof the dreat.

Iffy*-* ornaments aad Jwdiji are muifb

In:-. --3 -ills, velvets aad ribbons are fa tfar utshtngany, dark oak, gray sod |W"'. lea. l-n.manwl among tbe saaaon's iwrsiHes la fans are some very beautiful ones, which art 1 apoa sticks of canal ooraL

ALL AROUND THE HOUSE.

Table Arrangement* That Charm the S^re and Delight the Palate. More artistic and beautiful effects than those now gained in table decoration are hardly conceivable. Fancy the following scheme of oolor lately used at a dinner party tor twenty-two persons. The table is covered with a tracery of white and pale green ribbon tied at short intervals in bows, in each of which is placed a large tea roea. The. center pieoe is composed of large tea roees and long trails of a climbing rose which spreads itself all over the table the roses and ribbons are laid on a carpet of pale salmon colored tulle, aad at intervals small electric lights shine softly through tbe tulle and tparkle in the flowers of the center piece. It is difficult to imagine anything more soft and refreshing.

All decorations are arranged very low, but flowers spread on the cloth itself are very eHective if the blossoms are not too many and too straggling. They should start from a center, such as the base of a dish, and flow thence around the other ornaments in a graceful and well ordered fashion.

Modest and inexpensive, as well as pretty, are the little berry baskets, gilt or silvered, and filled with damp moss holding flowers or berries.

Caterers are not to be outdone in artistic work by decorators aud. as table appointments grow in luxury, the purveyors to tbe palateexhibit astonishing skiil in their tempting manner of offering delicacies.

Saiin paper cases and silver shells, that have been considered the acme of elegance in serving ice creams, are now replaced by flowers of nature's own production, and fortune's favorites have this season sipped their ices from real oallas or sweet and velvet petaled roses. Imagine a calla robbed of its pistil and tilled to tbe lip with banaua cream or orange ice a full blown rose holding vanilla cream or Vienna cafe a sturdy peouy filled with lemon praam, or tulips heaped with any cream or ice one's taste may suggest

There, as a most delicate caprice, are lily cf the valley leaves filled with a glace and served on a pink plate, against which the delicate green foliage is most effective.

Two cream roses furnish a portion for one person or, if small blossoms, such as Bon Sileue, tea and pearl roses are choeen, three are daintily tied together with ribbons.

In vegetable forms, asparagus is a favorite, and two long sticks of vanilla cream, tipped with pistaohe and with a sauce of yellow cream, recall the real vegetable. yi

How to Dry Laos Curtains.

A puzsle to the home laundress who doea up her own curtains is how to dry them nicely. A quick aad easy way is the following:

Have made a nioe, light frame, similar to an old fashioned quilting frame, and consisting of two loug side strips and two short ones for the ends. Wind the strips with cloth, and let the corners of the frame be held firmly by wooden pins put through the holes made for that purpose. Put the frame on chairs out of doors in the sun. Pin the starched curtain to the oloth of the frame, first the tides, then the bottom and, lastly, the top of the curtain, drawing it oarefully Into shape. A curtain will dry quickly in this way and may soon be replaced by another, and a whole sat may be dried in a short tima-

Charming Styles In Furniture. Special lines of pretty furniture in grace ful designs and delicate colors, suitable for summer cottages on the shore and in the mountain*, or for the many modest home* where rich, heavy effects are not desirable, are offered to purchasers. In noting some of these Good Housekeeping tells that natural woods in light ooiore, such as birch, white maple, satip wood, bamboo aad mahogany, which is not of deep tone wben finished in its natural condition, are close rivals of the fine white, pink and blue enamels, which, bow«mu sulfur ail other effects for light summer or winter rooms.

The best enamolod work comes from France. The enamels so prettfly used in this country have not tho staple properties of the French article, which does not stain, turn yellow or blister. Still very satisfactory sets, or single pieces of furniture oan be made at home with the domestio enamel, which can be purchased for twenty-five ceots a large bottle. The pieoe to be decorated must be carefully freed from paint or varnish by scraping, or else a plain, unpaiuted pieoe mty be procured from the factory. If the enamel be well rubbed in (and the bome.artist is hereby advised that the process require* strength and patience, and should not be crowded into a day, or half a doaen, if aeveral pieces are to be prepared), a beautiful effect may be obtained which will amply compensate for considerable effort.

Nothing could be more charming for a sleeping room or summer parlor than these fresh, white surfaces, either plain or picked out with bands aad suggestions of gold. The chairs may be cane seated, painted white, or upholstered In olive, old roes, pink, blue or terra cotta plush, or with delicate hued silk tapestries or with nioe patterns of cretonne, according to one's taste or purse. A very artistic set waa displayed whioh is upholstered in Aubeon tapsatry, a close imitation of tbe prioeteas Gobelin, init finely woven instead of hand made. There were the usual parlor pieces, chairs and sofas in broad, low, inviting sbapss, odd little tables and cabinets and a pretty fancy for a window seat, which waa so artistic and effective aad soeasily Imitated that Tbe Good Housekeeping correspondent bagged of tbe designer a sketch, which is here reproduced.

A ruxTTt rAKcr rem A WIKOW Tbe model waa In richly gilded wood aad tbs thick, luxurious biacuit upholstering, so called beoauee it Is tacked down at such frequent intervals that it resembles a sbeet of small biscuit, was in pink and blue silk tapestry. It maybe Imitated In white enamel, birch, white maple, ash or even la polished and for tbe covering, plush, satin or cretonne may be substituted for tbe tapestry. At tbeeada, a droular pieoe of the tapekry, bound down on its outer edge with a narrow gimp, slightly gathered or plaited in tbe center, aad apparently drawn into a rosetts or a button, and finished with two small tassels Tbe length varies of courae according to the dimmtUmt ot the window for whka it Is to be

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It Is a aflb-ms culinary authority, to cook core ae tuucb as most parsons do. Long boiling doss not make it tender, but hardens it like aa egg overboiled.

A «aaH» easily tnrned loo cream fresnr Is Joy to tbe housekeeper. It enables ber to preps** the frjesa deassrts that am always acc«f itable aad easy to malca.

Ftaacb cooks very generally ase carbonate of ammonia to preserve tbe color of viatallies What would lay on tbe point of a peo knife is mixed In tbe water la which tbs vegetables are boiled.

For Ladiee Only.

Ladies—why is it, that wben band or your children are ill, 3 suit tbe best physician at once, tbem day and night, wear yoni with sleepless watching, and ne grudge tbe heaviest doctor's bill, the dear ones are restored to while day after day, week afte you endure that dull pain in —that terrible "dragging-down tion—end do absolutely nothing a cure? In a few years you helpless invalid, and soon your hearted husband and mother, dren will follow you to the gra haps delicacy prevents you cons* physician—but even this is no sary. Poor sufferer, tell your how miserable you feel—perbaj never did—and ask him to stor and get you a bottle of Dr. Pierc vorite Prescription. It has curet sands of women suffering from nesses and complaints peculiar sex. jp ______________

A Safe Investment.

Is one which is guaranteed you satisfactory results, or in an of failure a return of purchase On this safe plan you can buy fr advertised Druggist a bottle of Dr. New Discovery for Consumption. guaranteed to bring relief in ever when used for any affection of Lungs, or Chest, such as Consuiu Inflamation of Lungs, Bronchitis thma, Whooping Cough, C'ronIt is pleasant am? sgreesDle to tast fectly safe and can always be dep upon. Trial bottle free at Carl Kt stein's Drugstore.

News A boat Town.

It is the current report about that Kemp's Balsam for the Thron Lungs is making some remarablo with people wboaretrobled with Co Sore Throat, Asthma, Bronchitis Consumption. Any druggist ycu a trial bottle free of coat. It is an teed to relieve and cure. The Bottles are 50c and $1.

CONSUMPTION CUBKD.

An old physician, retired from having had placed In hir hands bv an India missionary the formula of ax vegetable remedy for the speedy and pe nent cure of Consumption, Bronchitis, tarrh, Asthma and all throat and Lung fectlons, also a positive and radical cur Nervous Debility and all Nervous Com pin after having tested Its wonderful cum powers in thousands of cases, has felt it duty to make It known to his suflVrlns lows. Actuated by this motive and a a to relieve human suftfcrlng. I will send of charge, to all who desire it, this reelp German, French or English, with full at lions for preparing and using. Bent by by addressing with stamp, naming this per. W. A. N0YE8,149 Power's Block. R, nov. Uh«ester, N. Y.

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