Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 20, Number 20, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 November 1889 — Page 6

WOMAN AND HOME.

"MOTHER'S HELP," FROM AN ENGLISH POINT OF VIEW.

Myths Concerning Women—Marriage In an Iowa Family—The Kentucky Farmer Fenced HU Daughter* Up—Edward Atkinson'* Ideal on Blodern Cookery.

American "reduced ladies," or as I prefer to call them, "ladies in reduced circumstances," like tbeir English cousins, seem to find it very difficult to discover a remunerative field for tbeir energies which is not yet overcrowded. English ladies' journals teem with suggestions concerning "new openings for women's work," from the occupation of a "ladyguider down to. or up to, "scientific dressmaking," and no doubt Americans eagerly catch at many of these ideas in the hope that they may be equally practicable in the "land of the free.''

But there is an intermediate position known In England which might be successfully tried in America, that is a "mother's help." In a good many families' this position is occupied by an unmarried skier or a maiden aunt, but every one is not endowed with such a convenient blessing. Here a "mother's help" Is a recognized member of many households, and the columns of the local newspapers contain numerous advertisements of situations wanted or vacant. The duties of a mother's help are manifold she assists in the housekeeping, the dairy perhaps, the household sewing or mending, dressing the children and teaching them the rudiments of their education. Sometimes she is a sort of a nursery governess with additional household duties, sometimes she acts chiefly as housekeeper, with occasional care of the children, but she is always what her name indicates, the mother's help. Her wages vary from a good round turn down to nothing except ber food and lodging.

A case has come to my knowledge of a young lady, the orphan niece of a country doctor, who, when she reaches the age of 25, will inherit a modest fortune but she was not hnppy in her uncle's house. She had revived an excellent education and was a good liusician. With her uncle's consent she acepted the position of mother's help in a farmer's family. She undertook the education of the two young daughters and assisted the farmer's wife in her household duties, re ceiving in return for these services her boaro and lodging. This arrangement lasted for several years, but the daughters grew up, and she was no longer needed to teach them and they took her duties pi helping their mother. She was grieved at parting from the former's wife, who had been like a mother to her, but she set about looking for another place. With the experience she had had she was well qualified to "better herself," and soon succeeded in obtaining a very good situation, this time in a gentleman farmer's family, where she has the care of two children of 6 and 7 years of age, and she helps the mistress of the house in every way. For this she receives her board and lodging, with a salary of just about $50 a year.

There are many American households, especially in the country towns or the country proper, whero a servant cannot be afforded here the mother does the housework and cooking, with the occasional aid of a charwoman for heavy work, perhaps. She has so many calls upon her time and strength that she finds it hard to pay proper attention to the care of ber children and their clothes, or she devotes herself so much to them that she despairs of keeping the house iu order. There are, moreover, many "reduced ladies" who find it difficult to eke out a comfortable existence on their small incomes as long as they have to pay high for their board and lodging. If this were provided for, life would be more easy. Time, too, perhaps, hangs heavy on their hands if theirs has been a busy existence heretofore.

Many of thorn may have had experience as housekeepers before their own homes were broken up by money losses or before the death of a husband, fitted may be in every respect to have the care of house and children, yet unable to find situations as regular housekeepers. But they might willingly enter seme family as "mother's helps," where iu return for a comfortable home they would exercise their talents, while the mistress of the house, not rich enough to pay for an assistant in her weary round of work would find in the "mother's help" a confidant for the worries of everyday housekeeping, and yet the weekly bills would show scarcely any increase for the one additional mouth to feed.—Frances B. James in Good Housekeeping.

Myths Concerning Woman.

Woman's first appearance has been a fruitful subject for the legend mongers. The Phoenician myth of creation is found in the story of Pygmalion and Galatea. There the first woman was carved by the first man out of ivory and then endowed with life by Aphrodite. The Greek theory of the creation of womau, according to Hedod, was that Zeus, as a cruel jest, ordered Vulcan to make woman out of clay, and then induced the various gods and goddesses to invest the clay doll with all their worst qualities, the result being a lovely thing, with a witchery of mien, refined craft, eager passion,love of dress, treacherous manners and shamelecamind. The Scandinavians say that as Odin, Vill and Ve, the three sons of Bor, were walking along the sea beach they found two sticks of wood, one of ash and ono of elm. Sitting down the gods shaped man and woman out of them sticks, whittling the woman from the elm and calling her Etuia.

One of the strangest of stories touching the origin of woman is told by the Madagascarenes. In so far as the creation of man goes, the legond is not unlike that related by Moeee, only that the fail came before Eve arrived. After tho man had eaten the forbidden frnit h« became afflicted with a boil on the leg, out of which. htm it burst, came a beautiful girl. The man's first thought was to throw bor to the jmjcs but ho was commanded by a voice frvm h-jivon to let her play among the diggiug* until she win of marriageable age. then to make her his wife. He did so, csdled her RvU'^r.v and she became the mother of all raw uwn. The American Indian myths relative to Aunm and Eve are numerous and entertaining J?OUK traditions track back our first parents to white and red niaixe another is that man. searching for a wife, was given the daughter of the king of musk rats, who. being dipped into the watersof a neighboring lake, became a woman.—London Tablet

Married Life in law*.

••Observer*'

lady out in Boone, Uu

sends me the subjoined pretty sketch—pretty becuKwof its simplicity TIKKW who cooadar marriage a failure ought to have witnewd a little «ceue that occurred at one of our hotels this morning. A farmer* wife who bad been to Nebraska on a vWt arrived on the night train and mad# kec apj*sufs(!ic9 ft breakfast- &he was no longer young, and on bor plain face «m and bard work had left their Her dress, too. w»* of rfmot* fashion, wt even the charm of simpficity.for

several artfcfeft o* antiquated tear- She liad with her box* aad bandies tawmw a big market basket fltod withplant*. _oJa huge wire cage, partly Covered wilh white

doth, containing two jack rabbits. Sown a farm wagon with her husband and little daughter drove up—the fanner a big, rough man in his working clothes, but the smile which radiated his face on beholding his wife maHfl him positively handsome. The woman hugged and kissed the child and then with increased fervor she hugged and kissed the man, and her head on his shoulder, and cried a little, pulling her old hat down to conceal the fact. I thought, wait until he BOOB those rabbits, there will be a change. Not so, however. What misgivings he bad regarding his young fruit trees and early vegetables must have been completely overwhelmed by more joyful emotions, for after carefully placing their new acquisition in the wagon box along with baiter jars and egg baskets, the trio drove off with the smiles and greeting still lighting their kindly faces. Verily, "wealth and contentment belong to no estate," even if I don't quote correctly.—Chicago Tribune.

Mrs. Gladstone.

Her figure is tall, shapely and impressive her carriage is a little too raiud to be entirely graceful her costuming is—is English, which requires no elucidation. Despite deficiencies In externals, which a French inodiste would have no difficulty in abolishing—for Mrs. G1 dstone would be a charming subject for a dressmaker of taste—shewouid be singled out in any company as its most distinguished woman. The face is uncommonly lung, even in England, very high in the forehead, and very strong and gentle, equally devoid of romance and of pedantry. The eyes are large, liquid, well shaped, dark blue and meditative. The silvering hair is parted in the usual way and combed in natural waves down either cheek, as in the familiar portraits of noted women of forty years ago. Her mouth is well proportioned to the other dimensions of her face, and her voice is low and vibrant with cordiality toward those she addresses. In the Parnell commission she was generally accompanied by her daughter Helen. The latter carried a small, plain black sachel, out of which, when they were seated, the mother took a fairly large note book, which she placed for use on her lap. Mrs. Gladstone took copious notes, correctly omitting the redundancies and inessentials of the testimony. These, when the day was over, she digested into a connected narrative for Mr. Gladstone. Familiar with his purposes and methods, she thus performed for jim an inestimable service. She saved him the time that would otherwise have to be spent reading yards of small print or attending the court, and the days thus supplied were devoted by him to national interests. Thus, not only without sacrificing a jot of womanhood, but proving herself the truest of friends and helps to her husband, she, too, served the highest interests of her country.— Chicago Herald. ^,

He Fenced Them In.

In an old book written by a western con gressman, a contemporary of Clay and Webster, containing reminiscences of his times, a story is told of one of his friends, a farmer in Kentucky named Payne, who had six daughters, none of whom were blessed with beauty. The congressman knew them in their homely youth, and when he returned a few years later found taem all married to good, influential men. So great was his surprise that he ventured to ask their father why they all had been so sought when other girls remained neglected. The old farmer chuckled. "Yes, and you may say when they had neither dower nor good looks. Well, I'll tell you. When I want my cattle to eat buckwheat stubble instead of grass I don't drive them into that field. I fence it off from them. They are so contrary they always want the thing they can't get They breakdown the fences I drive them out and put it up. By the time they fight for it once ..or twice they think they like the stubble. W "Well, I saw my girls weren't the most attractive kind, and—I fenced them in! "You never found them in the hotels dancin' or keepin' stalls at country fairs. Young men to know them had to come to their father's house. When the neighbors saw how the Payne girls were kept apart from the crowd they thought their value must be high. Young men came to break down the fence. They like to break down fences." "The story was coarsely told, perhaps," adds the old narrator "but there is more in it than meets the eye."—Exchange.

Improvements in Cookery.

The custom of cooking quickly is in part a matter of choice, and in part due to the necessity to which a great many working people are subject to cook their meals quickly or else to go without hot breakfasts and dinners.

Another great obstruction to improvement in the art of cooking is the almost universal misconception that the finer cqts of meat are mom nutritions than the coarser portions, coupled with an almost universal prejudice among working people against stewed food. This prejudice is doubtless due to

the

tasteless quality of boiled meat boiling

toughens

each of the fine fibers, and de

prives the meat almost wholly of its distinctive flavor. All these blunders and misconceptions must evidently be removed before any true art of cooking can become common practice,.

The more necessary, however, does it become to invent apparatus in which meat can only be simmered and cannot boil, as in the Aladdin'cooker, and also to invent a stove or oven in which neither meat nor bread can be overcooked, dried up, or rendered indigestible by too much heat, as in the Aladdin oven.

Next, people must be persuaded that a better and more nutritious breakfast can be made ready to eat, as soon as the family are out of bed, by putting meat stews, oatmeal, brown bread, and many kiuds of pudding.*, into the cooker, and simmering all night by the use of a sdagle safe lamp, than in any other way.—Edward Atkinson, LL. D., in Popular Science Monthly.

Derived by Appearance*.

The average clerk in a music store is generally a far-seeing diplomatic individual who can usually tell by the cut of his custom-m' togs what sort of a ballad he or she is iu r, but sometimes even these wiee men are fo -d. The other day s- -legantly dressed and iuie looking woman oi at the establishment of the Chicago Music company, in ber hand shi a id a ri* music and with her was a ttle girL One of the most fascinating clerks in the place hurried forward to serv- !*•!.-»* "I would li^t BUgea sheet of musk ," she said, as the clerk asked what be could do for her. "Certainly, madam," he said.

MDid

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buy it her* She said that she did. He b.i "sited ber up,^*o ti and be iveiy sidled down Wii. dbe "Mami. a 1 "Dear Mother" K-Xvest whereon are fcij :nv ocual run of mai kv'.sda. "What did j-u to exchanger he aaked, as he sidled. "WeJl," said th* handsome lady. me *1 Owe Ten to CTOraoy. wanted *i Have Dollars is IIy In--- i? Pteket."*

Thb kn~Nd suave young clerk hat he vi unI v.* toward the "flnan mf" shelve* and fond the deafml

TEKRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVMING MATL

When the exchange had been made and the pretty lady had gone out the clerk recovered himself and said: "She fooled me. I thought, she was after a 'mother song,' but I was mistaken. It's funny how those variety songs reach the household, but it seems that they do."—Chicago Herald.

11*« Not the "Women.

Whenever there's a public movement for the amelioration of the condition of clerks in large stores by better regulation of their working hours there's always a great deal said about the exactions of women shoppers, and an appeal in behalf of the clerks is made to the women, as if they were principally responsible for the hardships of the salesmen^ and saleswomen's lives. Now, that's all a big mistake. It's not the women who make the stores keep open late, and oppose the granting of half holidays. It's the men. Women are very regular in their shopping. They buy by advertisement, and if a store announces the day before that it is going to be closed at a certain time you wont find a crowd of women coming around and grumbling because they can't get in. They'll lay tbeir plans, and buy either before the place closes or the next day, when it is opened again. But the man, when he wants something, rushes off to buy it right away, whether it's midnight Saturday or noon Sunday. If he finds his favorite store closed, he grumbles and goes somewhere else. Just watch any store Saturday night, and see how many men come in to one woman. If the men would only do a little thinking for the clerks, the employes in storee would have an easier time. They are well enough satisfied with the treatment they receive from the women.—Interview in St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

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Scared Too Late.

Some people avoid electricity as they would a plague. This is especially true of the fair sex. The ladies always peruse the "horror" columns in the newspapers, and they often read of accidental deaths from the fluid, so that they avoid anything and everything in the shape of an electric wire or a dynamo. One of these ladies who fure timid in this particular was downtown on a shopping excursion the other day, and, being weary from a long tramp, she took a seat on what appeared to be an ordinary dry goods box. The seat was comfortable and she rested there until a begrimed mechanic came along and asked her to allow him to get at the box. Supposing that he wished to take out some goods the lady arose. The man removed the cover of the box and inside the lady saw a dynamo in full operation. She nearly fainted at the recollection of having been seated upon the resting place of what she considers the deadliest enemy of mankind, and hereafter it is a safe bet that she will never take a seat on an innocent looking box without first inspecting its contents.—Chicago Herald.

An Appetizing Dish.

In many of the smallest eating houses almost anywhere in Paris the cooking is excellent it doesn't make you ill. In someof them you get meals for one-quarter of the price, of the same quality, as in the greater hotels. I went to Paris almostftor one dish, the filet de sole Margeurit, Margeurit being the chef's name, at the Cafe Margeurit. The sole used in this-deliciousdish is soft and delicate, very white and tender. The sole is boiled firstit's the only way to cook a sole—and then a sauce is poured over it, and it is served with excellent butter—not a frequent thing in Paris, I assure yon, for the butter in Europe is, as a rule, bad. This sauce is a revelation to people who havent eaten it. It is made of shrimps and mussels. You never have tasted such delicious ecrevisws as is used at the Margeurit for that sauce their shrimps are juicy little fat bulbs, different from ours, and are cooked with the mussels, the whole being finally poured over the sole. We oaat get such fish here any more than we can such mussels or such shrimps.—Tourist's Talk in Philadelphia Times.

Greenboose and Window Plants. All should be in readiness in both greenhouse and window to allow the plants to be taken in at any time. Have the plants in readiness also. Clean the pots, removing the green growth on their exterior by scrubbing with sand. Repot those which need it, and it will improve all to have a good surface dressing of fresh soil.

Bulbe for winter blooming may be potted and placed in a dark place until the pots are filled with roots.

Hanging baskets should be filled but not taken indoors until well established. Sow annuals to secure a supply of flowers for cutting.

Supplie^-Secare the materials required for use during the winter potting soil, sand, peat or wood'u earth, pots, etc. For the window garden, alight cellar is a capital "annex," both as a potting shed and a storehouse for plants at rest.—American Agriculturist.

Well Answered.

*The simplest replies of children^ ottered in all frankness and innocence, often contain an originality which is far more telling than tbe wit and wisdom of their elders,

A little girl was so fond of her cat that she would scarcely allow it to go out of her sight. "Why do you pet your cat so muchP asked her mother.

Mattie answered at onoe, a serious look upon her face, "This oat cant go to heaven, you kuowl"

And so tbe little one had determined to make sure that her pet had all the happiness possible for bor on earth.—Youth's Companion.

lee in the Sick Room.

A saucerful of shaved ice may be preserved for twenty-four hours with the thermometer in the room at U0 deg. F., if the following precautions are observed: Put tbe saucer containing tbe ice in a soup plate and cover it with another. Place the soup plates thus arranged on a good, heavy pillow, and cover it with another pillow, pressing tbe pillows so that the plates are completely imbedded in them. An old jack plane set deep is a most excriient thing with which to shave ice. It should be turned bottom upward, and tbe ice shoved backward and forward over the cut tar.-—Medir aS Times.

Womc» HDUM Painters.

Anew employment for women hi England is houf j^aint: ng—not only, it is said, deccra.n .f iiif.'nora, but good, every day paintitsidaaf bouses and other buildings. One "iigency" a iready find* employment for :u M» eighty women in "et ter:or and en noose painting and decorafck.it/' Wonteci are aisoemployed in England ashohl .ericsand ticket sellers.—Washing ton Fbii.

A. pertiHur weoiu prevails atnoog the tatBern family. Whenever •i'.ceof TIN- JJ- tn\ Oar of t- ried she distributes aa her nu.,.L«sr o£ silken garters^ broider*- v. .th is-r initials. Thexw is a compl»s«. .---5 ot these artiel'-* fa a Brr.in -"W4i.*C4i u*e center ^ach atu»

The rican £iri in Mexico acu jast at she trt iia«* lor a .u-n: u,i alfe to take cue of

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WHAT SHALL WE WEAR?

NEW YORK, PARIS AND LONDON FASHIONS DESCRIBED.

Newest Styles In Reception and Jtali Gowns—Novelties in Materials and Trimmings—The Gloves Worn at Afternoon

Receptions and with Full Dots.

Simplicity of appearance is a good oeal aimed at now, both in day and evening gowns, although the material and trimming may be of the richest.

FRKS^F'LJTSRTTOT OOWX."

For evening wear, embossed and brc-.'he alpaca, in cream, silver, gray, pink, etc., is much affected.

Reception dresses for young ladies are beiug made in soft camel's hair and other fine woolens.

New York dressmakers make these wool gowns in empire style. The dress is fastened at the back, is high in the neck, and without reeds or bustle. An imported ball gown of white camel's hair, seen recently, was made with extreme simplicity, almost without any folds, except at the back, but covered all over with gilt sequins, sewn on tolerably close, and hanging loose. The white velvet ribbon torming the sash, and falling at the left side, was fringed with sequins, and the sleeves and bodice were trimmed to correspond.

Soft silk, for youug girls, forms artistic looking evening and ball gowns, especially yellow, with a broad white sash, and the short puffed sleeves tied round the arm with narrow white ribbon. Large muslin fichus, with double hemmed frills,are often worn with this style of-gown. Very pale pink is trimmed with cream velvet. Silk is mostly worn iu the evening only, and handsome brocaded have been brought out for this purpose.

In Paris silk petticoats have taken, to some extent, the place of white ones for evening wear. Many are lined with sateen, and some have a frill of rather deep lace.

Sleeves to ball gowns are beginning to take a decided epaulet appearance, and are often composed of loops of one color, lined with another, clustered and set up on the top of the arm. A ribbon brought from under the arm to the top, tied in a bow, and the loops fastened down by a fancy brooch on one side and a real flower on the other, is another favorite sleeve. Two little loops often turn downward and rest on the bar® arm, while two more stand upright in the center. Two straps of about two inches wide in the material of the gown, one over the shoulder and one across the top of the arm, with a spray of real flowers filling in the space, fastened to the lower band, is a fashion that has been adopted at recent balls. It is a pretty fsshion and looks well. The left arm Is the one decorated.

The French dinner gown shown in the first cut has a low bodice in crushed stra^Berrr Bengaline. It is cut shaped front ana back, and laced up like a corselet draped bertha, epaulets and full elbow sleeves in white moussellne chiffon, spangled with gold stars. Scarf in nioire silk drooping ou the net skirt, through which shines the foundation in pink surah. Chrysanthemums in the hair.

A BAIX TOIIiT.

in the second cut ta illustrated a ball gown of striped pale green faille and plain faille. The front of the skirt is striped, tbe hack plain. The tablier is slightly draped at the right side. The striped bodice terminate* with a pointed band iu plain faille hookerl at the back. Round tbe top of the bodice is a lace bertha, forming a point in the ranter. On tbe shoulder the hue forms a coqnille. fastened up with a bow.

Some of the new gown* are all in one pieea, whether cot in pr n-»ss brra!'lis or with the skirt stewed ti 'i• jr ith th^ waist shaped by many Jui- tnek» and •.hi Tnie^ at the top of breadths which extend from the oeck to tbe fe^f

For dressy «r at afternoon reoep&oas are mt ii^^i'-taini- uiovesof unb •-~-i kulisi tan and gray ides. Witti .' ires-, uada glovo of suffi ot length i. tl» -i-ev«B are worn. The-* are without wrinkl's on the irm and •. depend- npoi ntedress. A role quite obser --d in .-w York is to v\nr whiM gloves with white gowns, t.T K'] M.t k, gray with gray, and' tan

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ALL AROUND THE HOUSE.

How the Chinese Grow the "Water Fairy Flower/* and Other Notes on Flowers. The cultivation of the Chinese sacred lily Is a fad that is quite popular among flower lovers. It is, therefore, interesting to learn the following facts in regard to how the Chinese themselves grow the variety which they call the "Water Fairy Flower." An English correspondent in a letter from Hong Kong says: In addition to the fast that the Chinese for the most part grow the bulbs in water, the leading distinction between their culture and ours appears to be that in China they are universally grown a& annuals, the bulbs-being always thrown away after blooming and new ones bought for the next year.

The most curious feature of the Chiuese culture, however, is as follows: They select the strongest bulbs having three or four flowering "breaks," and cut away the whole of the outer coatings of the bulb right down to the base, leaving the centers containing the embryo flower stalks surrounded only by a thin coating. If large specimens are required, two or three bulbs, after iwing so treated, are fitted together with cotton wool wrapped round the upper side of the base, and worked together in a circular form the points of the incipient flower stocks now curl inwards, rather like the claws of a crab, aud the plauts are placed in shallow wooden trays in about an inch of water.

The effect of cutting away the outer coatings of the bulbs is to stimulate very rapid development of the flowers, which are 1 orne on stalks varying from two inches to six inches, and, as the growth is rapid, all the flowers come out at once. Just before this time the plants can be removed into any suitable bowl or china ornament, and a pretty and attractive room decoration is obtained The bulbs treated as above bloom in about twenty days after being put into the water, and it may be changed two or three times. In addition to this mode of growing, thousands are grown in shallow pots half filled with water, the bulbs not being out

The English ivy grown in vases of water forms one of the most charming of winter decorations. A few branches cut from A thrifty plant aud placed in water will grow aud soon become most graceful droopiug vines, and their dark glossy leaves are extremely handsome. All the care necessary to maintain this pretty ornament is to occasionally sponge the dust off the leaves and put fresh water in tbe vase to supply that lost by evaporation.

There area few hardy perennials which are recommended as very satisfactory aud desirable for house and window culture. These are dicentra, sometimes called bleeding heart, artilbe japonica, and the double flowerefl iberi8 semper-vireus. Keep these in a cool place until the soil is filled with roots, and at no time should they be allowed more than 60 or 65 degs. of heat.

If the young chrysanthemum plants that were plunged in pots in the border in spring are taken up and removed to the house before very heavy frosts, you may have a grand display of flowers for two months.

There is hardly a prettier, thriftier and more satisfactory plant for a hanging basket or pot to be set on a window bracket than the oxalis

A Convenient Traveling Hug. A case in which shawls, wraps and the like can be easily carried and kept clean and free from the dust and soil of travel, is very desirable,, and a particularly useful one is shown iu the cut.

THAVELING BAO FOB WRAPS, SHAWLS, ETC. This case is made of strong brown or gray linen, and trimmed below the hem with garnet worsted.braid tastefully worked in crewels. It is buttoned at the top and fastened at the sides with drawstrings, the latter feature beiug especially convenient. The handles correspond, and the monogram of the owner is worked on the sides. The length of the case depends on the size of bag required,

Conked Celery.

Celery is uot often cooked, yet It can be made a very appetizing dish, aud is said to be one of the most, wholesome of foods—particularly good for nervous, neuralgic and rheumatic persons. Prepare it by cutting it into small pieces, using nearly the entire stalk and roots, rejecting only the very green parts. Cook it in but little water, so that when very tender the water will have boiled nearly away then add milk sufficient for a nice gravy season to taste with salt and pepper rub butter and flour to a xmooth paste, and add sufficient to nak» it of a creamy consistency. When the flour is scalded, it is done.

Cleansing Fluid for WoolMl Goods. Those who wish to clean woolen dresses that have been ripped up preparatory to remaking, or to sponge winter costumes so the} will look bright and fresh again, should try the followiug: Dissolve an ounoe of good white castile soap in a pint of boiliug water. When well dissolved add a pint and a half of water, an ounce of ammonia and half an* ounce of ether. Cork the mixture up in bottles. and when it is used take half a teaspoouful to about three quarts of water. Thi* preparation can be used with water either for sponging or washing any fast colored woolen

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Fig Cake.

Fig cake furnishes a delicious variety iu layer ca^es. For the cake, use a cupful and a "half of sugar, half a cup of butter, the whites of four egg*, a teaspoonful &nd a half of baking powder, one cupful of milk and two and a half cupful# of flour. To make the filling for tbe cake cut a ?n flgs into small ••'«, just cover them with water, let nmi» to a boil ami then remove at onn*

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U:« -love. The well beaten white* four should 1*5 ready stir the figs and a cupii.i of mi !fi Heat well and

:Jf Egg Plant,

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fryng. Cut the plant into

sliceste-M-.-isi ho!f an thi'-k. withoat parjagoff t!:' :i !..••( sriit and pepper j,at ween the parts and ctv«-r with a plate, k-t t-..:n :.n hour, th.-fl »si»h aU tyx-

Jin br'«d cnunb* or cracker cmmi«. Fry the V: to a lu'uc brown in uot lard or butter.

Vienna Brea*

Add to a pin: uewmiik pint of water, aacun of -.-ed. y. rart, a teaapooofol of saiti^'i i." a thin bat-t-r. St.: it i' -r an hour to, I Tin

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in Hour till the dotig$ is of

the proper steocy for bread. When very light, vt will be in about three hoar*, divide and mold into loaves and at to rise in bread pM or shape into rolls and net

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vS Resolution*. JPfarecW, Wo are a free and enl ened people, and in duty bound to the greatest care of tbe health of community in general and of oursdl in particular. Therefore, be it

JResolved.

That in all case* \vli#rr|

are nfilleted with constipation, inn« or diseased liver, biliousness, di-ntt ment of the stomach, jaundice and ney troubles—we will procure Pierce's Pleasant Pallets and use same immediately.

Klcetrie Bitters. »'V

*this remedy is becoming so known and so popular as to neea no ial mention. All who have used Elev Bitters sing the same song of praise,purer medicine does not exist and guaranteed to do ail that is claim*] Electric Bitters will cure all diseases the Liver and Kidneys, will renio Pimples, Boils, Salt Rheum and oth affections caused by impure blood. drive Malaria from the system as as cure all Malarial fever*.' For cure Headache, Constipation »»ul Indigesti try Electric Bitters. Entire satisfacti guaranteed or money rounded. Pri 50 ets. and $1.00 per bottl-- at Carl Krii enstein, s. w.corner4th and Ohio streev

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Would use Kemp's Balsam for Throat and Lungs. It is curing mo cases of Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Bro chitis, Croup and all Throat and Lin Troubles, than any other medicine, proprietor has authorized any druggi to give you a Sample Bottle Five to con vmee you of the merit of this grr remedy. Large Bottles 50o and $1.

s: Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Cots. Brul" Bores. Ulcers, Salt Rheum. Fever Sores, Tet tor, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, an all skin eruptions, and positively oures Pll or no pay required. It Is guaranteed to gtv perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. per box. For s«,le by Carl Krictensteln, 8. Cor. 4th and Ohio.

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