Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 20, Number 28, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 January 1890 — Page 6

Interesting and Useful Gleanings from Many Fields/

IN THE CASTLES OF MAN

What the Fair Are Doing for Them? selves and the Rest of Mankind.

ABOUT WOMEN'S EXCHANGES.

rhis Body of Our*—Antique Oriental Em­

broideries—Bits of Information About

Bonnets—Forehead Fringes—It Is a Good

Habit The Diamond Necklace Wet

with Mother's Tears—Costumes Worth

81,000—VHiy Her Cloak Was Torn—An

Officer's Wife's Home—Working Girls*

Clubs—Proper Position of Beds.

Save for those most directly interested there is still only tbe vaguest idea as to the real work accomplished by women's exchanges.

The casual observer, entering one for

the first time, sees in every direction masses of ornamental work, from a decorated rolling pin up to an embroidered portiere. Much of it is beautiful and quite worth the price ksked, but as every woman with leisure experiments more or less in precisely the same directions, aud every house is already overIc*uled with their experiments, one questions who is going to buy and if this is all that the oew outlet has for women. Often it happens that the inquirer stops right here and goes home with tbe conviction that women's exchanges ure simply another means for the dissemination of bric-a-brac, already an overwhelming fact in all our lives, and that suppression rather than encouragement should be tbe order of things.

Certainly the supply of this variety of work far exceeds the demand, though even bere tbe highest excellence in design and workmanship is almost certain of encouragement and reward. But this is, after all, the smallest part of the work of a prosperous exshango. It is the order department that is the real source of income, and the display of dainties and substantial of every variety. There is a supply of delicate cake, pastry, rolls, etc., visible to all, but this is the mere luggestion of what is actually received and delivered. One woman, for example, supplies consomme, sent in the form of jelly, and ready to melt and serve. This is a soup apparently beyond the power of the ordinary cook to compass, and there are many housekeepers who prefer to buy this product,which has proved itself absolutely certain quantity, to venturing upon experiments at home. Even the professional cook of ten lacks a something that is found in the work of these women who supply through exchanges. "With brains, sir," said Sir Joshua Reynolds when asked with what he mixed his colors, and it is just as true that the food Into whose composition brains have entered has a flavor, a delicacy, above all an unvarying standard, that no average cook ever attains. It takes a little time to secure this result, but it comes before long to every successful worker in this field.

Another fact has no less bearing upon the success of such an undertaking. Preparation In small quantities secures a finer and more satisfactory result than is ever possible in larger amounts. For the occult reasons for this there is no room, though we all know the rnagio in the words "hand made," and have perhaps discovered by personal experience that where a double or treble quantity of any form of food is required, it is always best to make the single rule several times rather than take the whole bulk of material. The exchanges have all been demonstrators of this fact, and thus the housekeeper who has once tested their work shuns the great bakeries, even those of highest reputation, aud pays gladly the added price for the more delicate handling.

Hie restaurant department has shown ifcnlf as one of the most important, at least in its possibilities. Not only unsold food can be utilized, but wherever established it has been shown that, under wise management, the restaurant pays and becomes popular. One difficulty has been in the inexperience of those in charge, and thus a sense that only tbe least was given that could be called a money's worth. But this phase, natural in beginniug unfamiliar work, has ended after a littlo experience, and the sharpest critio could not now find fault with the amount terved at any well known woman's exchange. "Why have we been so slow to see their advantages?' writes one of the contributors of Good Housekeeping. "If they are so useful a method of helping the better class of women who must earn, why has uot every city moro than oue, and why is there constant suspicion of favoritism f'

This is a popular question and a popular accusation. Inquiry ami observation have both been brought to bear, and so far as indications go, one becomes tolerably certain that both are very likely to come from those who bavo done imperfect work and been indignant at its rejection. Favoritism sometimes shows itself, for the managers are human, aud may be at times biased by personal preferences. But as a whole there is singular fairness. The work is much of it voluntary, though the larger ones ore finding it well to pay good salaries to competent managers. Tbe idea has spread so insensibly and is still surrounded by so much question and uncertainty, not in actual fact, but in the minds of those uufanriliar with tbe workings of exchanges in general, that it is not regarded as possible that entry town of any sue could support, in great part at least, the contributors to such an undertaking.—Helen Campbell in Good Housekeeping.

It Is Good Habit.

Without wishing to be slangy, I may say that there is one thing I am tired of. I am tired of hearing men eternally «ay that the first tiling a woman read* in the newspaper the deaths and afterward the marriages. I dou\ mean to deny it—I glory in it. Your masculine creature danoet over to the page with tbe stocks on, reads about Chicago Gas, then rorels In the development of the latest murders or scandals bat lovely woman glances at tbe marriages, indulges in a chuckle of delight as dm reads of some happy mating, then goet on down to tbe deaths and gives a tew «%b of sympathy for each unhappy mother, wife or child.

She say*, "0b» 3?ttr me, poor Mr. BpownV dead-'" and Torn—that bard hearted mature with his mirni fixed ou Chicago Gas—say*, very noachidanUy, "Oh. Is he! I wonder what he cut up forf By this time Mrs. Tom* off at her d«sfc writing a note of condolence, or, if her acquaintance with tbe family is enough to permit it, «iie has on her bonnet and tfQ&t and has gone up to see if there is '^fchftfaUig she can do beside tendering tbe fcand of sympathy to those who ant in sor­

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row. I want the women to keep on reading the marriages and deaths first, for just as long as they do it is a proof of the truly feminine remaining in them—the truly feminine which wants to congratulate thebridfi or sympathize with the widow.—"Bub" in Philadelphia Times, P®

'If Forehead Fringes.

I hear that an attack is being made in London upon curled forehead fringes, in which way hair is sometimes dressed. The fringes are denounced, I also hear, by some of those ladies who would stamp butterflies and flowers out of creation. I have been asked my opinion on this great fringe question. My answer is that one must follow the physiognomy and general style of dress in arranging the hair. A curled fringe, with a sailor hat and tailor made yachting dress and exposed to sea spray, would be unsuitable. But it would be quite suitable with abroad leaf hat worn on the back of the head or with a wee duck of a bonnet, running up into a sparkling aigrette and perched on the top of the bead. "A tousled fringe would destroy the repose which the sculptor of the Venus of Milo wanted to express in her face and whole form. But it would be just the thing for a minois chiffonnee, without much of a nose, piquant cherry lips, dancing eves and a figure hardly more substantial man a bird's. The queen as a young girl looked best in Madonna bands. Mrs. Browning, who had a mobile countenance that expressed every emotion, and a radiant physiognomy, was delightful with a bunch of corkscrew ringlets falling at each side of her neck. The Empress Eugenie's long, regular features and rather poor forehead obliged her coiffeur to raise her hair up and to brush it back from her temples. "On the other hand, the original physiognomy of the empress of Austria was most attractive when she let her hair fall over her shoulders in mermaid fashion. Mme. Tallien was delightful with her hair cut and curled a la Titus. She chose this mode because it suited so few faces, and was sure to command attention in a room where directory beauties were legion. Sarah Bernhardt's swallow's nest wig Sarah alone could wear. If she and tbe wig had not been so odd the result must have been frightful. Somehow it was not. 'What's one man's meat is another man's poison' might be paraphrased into 'What's one woman's loveliness is another woman's ugliness.'" Paris Cor. London Truth.

This Body of Ours.

Without going so far as to say that every article of a man's apparel ought to be woolen, it is an undisputed fact that this material is the best suited for underclothing either in winter or summer. And the reasons are not far to seek. Neither linen nor cotton is capable of protecting the body from external heat in the summer nor of conserving the warmth of the body in winter, because, being good conductors of heat, they allow it to permeate. Wool, on the other hand, is a non-conductor and there is little doubt that the death rate in this country would be greatly reduced, and the wards of the hospitals for disease of the chest less crowded, were woolen garments to be worn by young and old.

But, to parody the words of an ancient advertisement, when we ask for wool we should see that we get it. Two kinds of articles will be placed on the counter before the intending purchaser—a cheap and a dear. The latter, however, 'will be the cheaper in the long run, for ten to one the former is a well put together mixture of cotton and wool. It is easy to show any one how to tell such a mixture at a glance almost, but difficult, to describe on paper, so the novice in this matter should take some one with him, or her, when going to shop, and should pay a fair price and deal only with respectable tradesmen.

Beware of wearing dyed flannels next the skin. I know there is a great run on red, but this color is just as likely to contain poisonous matter as any other. Silk for the undergarments of men with .tender skins has much to recommend it, though it takes but second place to wool. Then, in point of cold resisting qualities, comes merino. This may be worn next the skin by men wearing the time honored linen shirt. The under vest or semmet must not be of dyed material.

Another thing may be said in favor of woolen underclothing—it keeps up the healthful action of the skin far better than any other material can.—Exchange.

Bits About Bonnets.

Tall, thin women should never wear high, narrow bonnets, but seek always shapes which tend to soften hard or angular lines. For such, low turban effects are most graceful and becoming, and concessions to prevailing styles may be studied in arrangement of trimming, for which the velvet leaves and flowers now so fashionable are especially desirable.

Large faces look coarse under large and under very small hats, and women with such look best in bonnets which follow in shape the outline of the head.

The Gwendolens and the Helens always look attractive in the picturesque Gainsborough, but they must guard against indulging in styles which are at best appropriate only on rare occasions. For riding, modified forms of tbe most becoming style may be adopted, but ordinarily refined taste demands the small or medium sLced hat

The pretty girls who look pretty In anything and in spite of everything make an exception to all rules but few faces are independent of the influence a milliner's art can wield.

The soft effect produced by the present fashion of trimming with ostrich bands and tips is very becoming to youthful faces, and the jaunty wings bound together by fashion in myriads are graceful coronets for not 6x Btately queens.

Bonnets made altogether of flowers are lovely for all but mature faces, and the velvet which divides favor, the present season, with felt is becoming to all years, and in rich, embroidered designs especially suited .to the youthful matron. Indeed, such variety in style and material is shown that 049 only needs wisdom in choice to become the possessor of a congenial "love" of either a bonnet or hat.—-Dress.

Antique Oriental Embroideries. The gem of a collection of antique Chinese embroideries is an exquisite robe bearing the imperial or five clawed dragon, with the usual wave border at the bottom but the robe itself is an intricate mass of the finest silk embroidery on a brown ground, the blending of the colors and the proportion of gold being far more perfect than we are accustomed to in Chinese embroideries, in which gorgeous effects and masses of glittering motal are aimed at.

Another beautiful composition in color is in a robe of gold embroidery on a rich, gold colored satin, shot with red, or rather manufactured with red at the back, which gives a tone to the satin. With the metal work, which is unusually fine, is a design in bloee and greens, eminently beautiful.

A Japanese lady's robe, which finds a place here, is exquisite of its kind, and specially interesting. as shoninjftfac different methods of the two countries. This is on figured satin of old gold tint, on which a design of wistaria has been extracted, leaving it white or it may be that the pattern has been printed in wax before tbe rariialrats dyed, a&as to pro-

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duce the" same effect. The foliage .is then, palnted in with low toned greens, ahd the flowers on the upper portion of the robe embroidered in silk. on the whole of, the lower portion the flowers are left, white., Here and there slight indications, of a trellis- in fine gold laid work enriches the general effect Without making it heavy. Nothing more perfect than the coloring or more graceful than the design be imagined.—New York Telegram. ^.

A Diamond Xecklace.

A very wealthy man gave to his wife some years since a diamond necklace which cost him $75,000 in Paris.

Her brother under peculiar circumstances defaulted. The family was in unspeakable grief. The great corporation whose assets he had made way with was quite willing to compromise the felony if it could be recouped pecuniarily. Taking her diamondnecklace to a world renowned. establishment, she asked for how much it could be duplicated in paste, and was told that for $2,500 a necklace absolutely a reproduction, absolutely undetectable, save by expert tests, could be made in three months' time. It was ordered, paid for, the original was sold, the brother was saved.

Shortly after that, or perhaps a few years thereafter, this lady, who was in what our contemporaries call "high life"—that is, she was rich—attended a charity ball. Sitting in her box, resplendent in coistume, magnificent in tasteful decoration, her necklace so far outshone the jewels of her friends and neighbors as to be included in areportorial description the following day in the chief paper of the city.

But it was paste, all„the same. The necklace was famous. Everybody in her set knew she owned it. Her friends congratulated her on its possession, and her critics envied her the same. Never mind how the story came out, it did come, but not until after her husband's death, when whispers circulated through her circle, until, almost upon the verge of despair, she went again to the great concern. Unfortunately the necklace had been broken up and could hot be reproduced here for anything like the sum it cost in Paris. Nevertheless a duplicate was ordered, and for years thereafter was worn over a breast that beat high.—New York Press.

Position of Beds.

Possibly the attention of very few mothers ihasbeen directed to the importance of tha position of their children's beds. "With certain orderly, careful mothers a small alcove adjoining their sleeping room is generally considered suitable, leaving the main room so much freer for other uses. But to what fate are we consigning our child wheh we exile him to the alcove? Here lurks all the stale, vitiated, or, as we might say, dead air, undisturbed by the freer current of the main room. The child, breathing this air night after night, experiences a loss of vitality, a tendency to colds, and a languid, depressed condition in. the morning, quite different from the refreshed awakening in pure air.!

It has been demonstrated that the beds nearest the walls in hospitals have the.highest rate of mortality, they being subject to influence of polluted air similar to the alcove of the bedroom. The existence of ba!d ventilation around the corners and sides of rooms has been so well demonstrated that it has already given rise to the building of rotunda hospitals, where the current of air along the floors rises as it reaches the wall, effectually ventilating the whole. The first suggestion of this idea came from the dropping of a small piece of paper near the center of a rotunda, where it skimmed along the floor and rose as it reached the wall. In an ordinary room a similar experiment with a piece of thistle down will indicate the usual direction of the air current.—Health.

Costumes Worth SI,OOO.

Miss Mabel Jeuness, whose sister is Mrs. Anna Jenness Miller, of divided skirt aud all around dress reform fame, lectured to some 150 ladies and a half dozen gentlemen at the Church of Our Father on physical development and dress reform. The handsome lecturess wore over a thousand dollars' worth of dress during her lecture, making a dozen or so changes of costume. She first appeared on the platform wont to be occupied by the preacher's pulpit in a "just awfully fetching" chamber robe, in which she went through a series of the calisthenics that may, perhaps, account for Miss Jenness1 wonderfully fine shoulders and arms.

She talked a few minutes in a very pleasing, conversational way about this dress and the calisthenics, and then went back in the little room behind the pulpit and stood on a sheet spread on the floor while her maid changed her dress for a street costume, in which Miaa Jenness told her auditors the proper way to walk. Another change, and she revealed more of her superb neck and arms to the ladies in an evening dress.

The ladies in the audience asked questions of all sorts about how dresses were made to look so well and fit so snugly without certain articles of apparel that Miss Jenness does not approve, and she told them. The lecturer's movements in all of the dozen different costumes she appeared in during the evening were wonderfully free and lithely graceful.— Washington Post.

The Why of the Tear.

Persons who are in the habit of being upon the Broadway promenade cannot fail to have noticed the great number of Persian lamb skin capes worn by fashionably dressed women, nor can they have failed to notice that a very large proportion of them have tears in them, the three cornered pieces hanging down and disclosing the skin of the fur. The number of coincidences of this sort have frequently caused comment, but it was only the other day that a Times reporter overheard an explanatory conversation regarding this fashionable tear, in one of the big dry goods stores.

A lady wearing one of these torn capes was accosted by another, who said "I beg your pardon, madam, your cape is torn, and should it catch in a projection the resnlt would be ruin to your wrap." "Oh, that is nothing," was the response. "I did that on purpose."

"May I inquire why!"

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"Certainly. You see there are so many imitations of this skin now that no one can tell the difference at a glance until the akin of thecape is disclosed. So, you see, I tore it!"

That is why it is the proper thing to wear a ragged shoulder cape.—New York Times.

.' Womanliness First. ,l/|f

Miss Frances E. Willard says concerning the higher education of woman: "If, to take up the classics, she must lay down the dust brush and broom if, while her mind brightens, her manners rust if a taste for Homer Is incompatible with a taste for home if, in fine, she must put off the crown of womanliness ere t&e can wreathe her brow with laxtrds of scholarship, then, for the sake of dear humanity, let her fling away the laureli that she may keep the crown. She must gain without losing, or all is lost. Be this her motto: 'Womanliness first—afterward, what

A letter from a WeUsirarg (W. Y&.) little girl says that one of her friends is to be married in a •'sewer silk.11 This is as near as tbe little mias could get to surah. ',£ --4 ?i

WHAT SHALL WE WEAR?

STYLES APPROVED IN THE WORLD OF FASHION.

A Number of Handsome Evening Toilets and Short Ball Dresses Briefly Described. Illustrations of Odd and Pretty Things in the Latest Foot Wear. «*.

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To give our readers a good icfek of thelexceedingly pretty evening toilets that are appearing for the season, descriptions of a few notable productions of leading iixxlistes are subjoined. It should first be stated, however, that dancing dresses are made short, a little, longer at the back but for dinner parties and non-dancers the dresses have nearly all trains—that is, the train is cut in the dress, and not separate.

A pearl gray silk is iraped in front in wavy plaits, ahd round the lower part a deep band of fine silver embroidery the back of the bodice is cut as a half long casaque, and forms in front an open jacket, embroidered to match and coming up high wide sleeves, narrowing towards the wrists.

EVENING GOWN—FRONT AND BACK.

A short ball dress made of tulle (pink with a violet tinge), with silver stars scattered over it, is made over a silk skirt the same color, and round the bottom of the skirt are garlands of shaded irises, united with bows of cream moire same flowers round the neck of low bodice. For the hair a small filigree silver diadem, with a bunch of irises arranged pointed and high a la Eiffel.

A dress of pompadour brocade—cream ground, with^silver gray stripes and small roses, is made as a princess casaque at the back, and very open in front, to show a pink gauze skirt draped in waves tbe front of the bodice is of the same gauze, puffed, and fastened with small cream bows.

Our cut gives front and back views of a handsome evening dress in which dahlia purple velvet is used for the low jacket fronts and the princess back, which is opened shape, and spreads as an oval train, enriched with gold embroidery and marabout or ostrich feather trimming. Puffed sleeves, kerchief, and corslet, with tablier are in white crape. The underskirt is in mauve bengaline silk, also enhanced with gold embroidery.

Novelties in Boots and Shoes. Among the newest boots for women those that lace find popularity, along with the buttoned article, but women will wear shoes .even in cold weather whenever it is possible, In preference to boots. The topmost boot in the cut, which shows a number of novelties in fine footwear, is a smart article in tan colored Suede and patent leather laced up the front and very high.

NEW BOOTS AND SHOES.

A house shoe that is pretty and comfortable, without being showy, is the one with a buckle, in the upper corner of the cut. Directly opposite it is a handsome shoe with lattice work front in a combination of patent and Russia leather. The shoe with a Vandyke or pointed piece of fancy leather forming the front is elaborate and showy.

It is worthy of note that none of these boots and house shoes show particularly high heels.

Fashions in Flowers.

What will be the fashionable flower this winter and how will it be worn? is the inquiry. Violets are, of course, the favorites for morning wear on the street, and will be pinned to the cape front or on the muff. At this season, when banks of golden or snowy chrysanthemums are piled high on the flower vender^ tray, it is a pretty custom to stop and buy a cluster, which is carelessly pinned under the chin or lower down on the dark walking dress. The artificial flower \freaths have quite usurped the place of natural flowers for evening wear. Yet it promises, as a fancy, to wear at the corsage two or three very perfect roses, pinned so that the heavy blooms will nod gracefully, or carry loose cut flowers caught by long ribbons.

In all the shops flowers for ball gowns are for sale—the long green ribbon grasses for shoulder knots, and skirt garnitures woven in with blossoms of every size and shade. It is the fancy just now for each girl to wear tbe flowers best suited to her style of beauty. Wreaths of water lilies, golden bulrushes, tamelias and magnolias to suit the best artistic taste, should be worn only by the fair, stately girl.who wears gowns of clinging white or faintly shaded silks and mulls. Carnations, forgvt-me-nots and daisies belong to tbe petite, blonde type of girl, while jassamine is best suited to the slender, dark eyed southern type of beauty. 1 .A**

Worth's Plaid SUk Gowns.

HarperV Basar tells that Worth sends dainty littlo dresses tat the theatre, for afternoons at homo, or for making calls, under cover of a great cloak, fashioned entirely of plaid *0k, cut bias throughout. Tbe skirt is icant on the front and right side, very full, behind, and is draped in Greek apron fashion on theleft. The bodice is round and lapped in front, and a wide velvet girdle is attached to tbe skirt to extend far up on the waist in th»t, and crossing behind to hang in abort pointed ends. Theriaeves are gigot shaped, with six tiny velvet buttons, and loops fastening thetn at each wrist. One of the prettiest of these dresses is of reseda green silk, with satin crossbars—green, blue and brown —and a bois-du-rose velvet girdle nina inches wide fplded abound the bodice

ALL AROUND THE HOUSE.

Odds aud Ends in Decorative Work—A Pretty Screen—Tempting Keeipes. A11 ingenious woman recently had fitted up an ornamental corner in her boudoir, as follows: There was along strip of glass, with a narrow drapery of art muslin on each side, festooned at the top. This opened outwards, and disclosed shelves all the way up, holding all sorts of things. At a co»vonient height was a three cornered piece of wood, forming a table, covered with plush, festooned at the sdge, Ahd falling on to the curtains of art muslin. These were looped back to show a square of handsome embroidery, intended originally for a cushion. The effect was very good, and easily arrived at.

Frames of white kid, painted, are novel, and are sometimes given as wedding presents. Painted opaque glass lanterns for night lights, in pink, blue and opal, are popular.

Drawn linen teaclotbs are now the most fashionable. Some are very handsome, trnd many have a large monogram worked and raised at one corner.

Many beautiful linen sheets and pillow cases, embroidered in Ireland, are worked in thick satin stitch, with a floral scroll, a line of hemstitching above the scroll.

Glove cases can be made in satin, edged with cord, and either quilted or embroidered with a floral spray or a satin stitch monogram. They are made of felt cloth with points of velvet, both embroidered.

Serviettes are generally outlined with gold colored washing silk in a scroll pattern which covers them all over, or is applied as a deep, wide border. In either case the edge is fringed., ..

The Manner of Serving a Dinner. In the service, according to the French style, each course is served on the table and afterward removed to be cut up, while in the service a la russe, the dishes are cut up before being passed round. In an article on delicate feasting Theodore Child tells in ^Harper's Bazar that "the? modern system, dictated by reason and by convenience, is a compromise. The table is decorated simply with fruit, sweetmeats, flowers and such ornaments as caprice may suggest the entrees are handed round on small dishes the important pieces, such as roasts and pieces de resistance, are brought in, each by the maitre d'hotel, presented to the mistress of the house, who makes a sign of acknowledgment, and. then taken off to be cut up by the maitre d'hotel on aside table.

The carved dish is then handed round by the waiters, and when all the guests are served it is placed, if the dish be important enough, on a hot water stand in front of the host or hostess, or in the same condition on a side table, awaiting the needs of the guests, I am speaking, says Mr. Child, always of dinners where the number of the guests is wisely limited no other dinners con be well served, so that it matters little whether they be served a la russe or a la francaise. By the fusion of the two systems, as above indicated, it is possible to give fall and entire satisfaction to the cook, who always has a right to demand that his creations shall be presented for judgment in the most favorable conditions, while at the same time the guests have their eyes satisfied by an agreeably arranged table, and their palates respected by being enabled to taste the delicate masterpieces of tho cook in all the freshness of their savory succulence."

Delicious Russian Cream.

To one package of Cox's gelatine add oue pint of cold water. When dissolved, add one pint of hot water, two cups of sugar, juice of six lemons. Stir slowly until well dissolved, then strain into molds.

Cover one package of gelatine with cold water. When dissolved, add one cup of new milk, one cup of sugar heat to boiling point, stirring frequently, then set away to cool. Whip one quart of thick cream until light, beat the whites of six eggs, and add both to the mixture wheh cool, flavor with vanilla. Place the jelly in the bottom of the molds, and when stiff and cold add the cream turn out of mold and serve in slices.

Trimmings for Cradle and Baby Basket. The prettiest trimming for the cradle and the baby's basket is either muslin and lace or soft cream silk and lace, but cretonne lasts clean longer and stands hard wear, trimmed with ball fringe. There should be a horsehair mattress and a feather bed. The pillow is generally arched, that is, shaped to the cradle at the top. The quilt can be made of quilted satin, edged with lace, or quilted nun's veiling, or thick white blanketing, embroidered round, aud cut to shape of bassinet, or cradle.

French Fruit Loaf Cake.

Five cups powdered sugar, three cups fresh butter, two cups sweet milk, ten cups of dried and sifted flour, six eggs, three nutmegs, one teaspoonful of soda, one pound of raisins, one-quarter pound of citron, one pound of currants. Stir sugar and butter to a cream, add part of the flour, with the milk a little warm, and the beaten yolks of eggs then add tbe rest of tho flour, beaten whites of eggs, spice, soda ond, last of all, the fruit. This makes four loaves. Bake one hour.

Mice, Plain Fruit Cake.

One cup of sugar, one cup of butter, one cup of molasses, one cup of sour milk, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar, one teaspoonful of soda dissolved in two teaspoonfuls of water, three eggs, well beaten season with cloves, cinnamon, allspice and nutmeg add two teacups of raisins rolled in flour have flour enough for a stiff batter, and bake in a slow oven you can frost it if you like..

A New Ump Screen.

In the dainty little table screens for lamp or candle are found objects not only very decorative but quite useful at times, as welL One of the prettiest and most convenient forms of these is the three fold shade represented in tbe cut.

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LAMP OB CAJJDLJC 8CKEES.

The three panels are bordered with plush, and filled in with tightly stretched silk canvas, either pink or cream. The decoration In the center of each fold is embroidered. Tbe bow is of handsome satin ribbon.

Nat Candy.^

Two poliosis brown sugar, quarter of pound of batter, hid/ a teacupful of water. BoO for half aa hour, ttym try a little in a and, if it hardens, pour the candy very thinly on warm battered plates. Spread with walnut or hickory nut meats anil put it in a cold place—on snow or ice if poarible— to harden. aiiiii

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without nauseating those who t:' them, the little, sugar coated Grauui known all over the land as Dr. Pierc Pleasant Purgative Pellets, produce effect upon the bowels very differ from that of a disagreeable, violent gative. No griping or drenching folio as in the case "ot a drastic cholagc£v The relief to tbe intestines resembles^ action of Nature in her happiest moo, the impulse given to the dormant liv is of the most salutary kind,/and speedily manifested by the disappe ance of all billious symptoms. S* headache, wind on the stomach, p: through the right side and shouldr blade, and yellowness of the skin a eyeballs are speedily remedied by ti Pellets. One a dose.

A Safe Invest mut.

Is one which is guaranteed to brin you satisfactory results, or in any ca of failure a return of purchase pric On this safe plan you can buy from ot advertised Druggist a ttle of Dr. King New Discovery for Coi sumption. It" guaranteed to'bring relief in every ea when used for any atl* etion of Thro Lungs, or Chest, such as Consumption Intlamation of Lungs, Bronchitis, A thma, Whooping Cough, Croup, etv| It is pleasant and agreeable to taste, po.\ fectly safe and can always be depeildr upon. Trial bottle free at Carl Kriete* stein's Drugstore. (1

"MnrvelouKs Kudurnnce.

The vast amount of work performed by th. heart in keeping all portions of the bot^ supplied with blood is not generally knmvii It beats 100,000 times, and forces the blood the rate of 1C»S miles a day, which is 3,000,00*0 000times and 5,1 ."0,880 miles in a life time" No wonder there are so many Heart Failure* The first symptomes are shortness of breatl when exercising, pain in the side or stomae1tluttering, choking In throat, oppressing, then follow weak, hungry or smotherings spells, swollen ankles, etc. Dr. Flankllu' Miles' New Heart Cure is the only reliable remedy. Sold by J. A- C. Baur.

No lady should live in perpetual ~fe 11 and suffer from the most serious trouble that so often appear when Dr. Kilmei Complete Female Remedy is certain to preveut tumor and cancer there. For sale by J. it C. Baur.

Buoklen's Arnica Salve.

The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises.r Sores. Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, TeS ter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, CornB. and all skin eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. 25c, per box. For sale by Carl Krietehstein, S. W Cor. 4th and Ohio.

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Dr LINDSEYS'BLODD SEARCHER

Makes a Lovely Complexion. Is a Splendid Tonic, and cures Boils. Pimp.lea. Scrofula, Mcrcurial and all Blooa^ ^Diseases. Bold by your Druggist,

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