THE DAILY HERALD, PLATVSUou ixt, WiJKASK A, WEDNESDAY APRIL 11; 1S88. WOMAN AND HOME. USEFUL HINTS CONCERNING THE CARE OF CLOTHES. How the Uby SkouM He l.ook-l After. The finger X1U A College I'rUr. 1'atnlly Ioctor Kuohloit I'lutrn Hints for the Household. As moNt people like to have their clothes last M long ami look as well ax ossible, a few hint on the care of clothes may not come amiss. All inm.t admit that clothes that are cured for properly will outlast those that are neglected, aside front tlii'ir also aj pcoring lx-t tT. It doe not matter how fine the material may lo rt which tln-y are made, if they are dust grimed from carelessness in brushing, or ill fitting from neglectful fold ing or banging, they will never make oh good an appearance as those made from a cheaper and jx Hirer grade of cloth that has been cared for. There Is no color that shows the dust sooner than Mack. If a smooth faced fabric, the dust may be easily removed with a brush V , broom or bristle brush, or if left some time unbrushed, it is not of so much importance, for it may be removed at almt any time before using, but if the cloth is corded or rough faced, it is of the utmost importance that it shall io brushed thoroughly as soon as convenient. After coming' in from out side the clothes are very apt to retain a good deal of the dust of the street, and at such a time, if itossiblo, they should be brushed thoroughly ere putting away. First, the hat or bonnet must be brushed well, trimming and all. If of felt or straw a hristlo brush, such as is used for clothes, is the best, but if cf velvet a finer one, which is made esjH-ci-ally for such a pur?, should le useL If it is of cloth a line corn broom w ill do very well, and some also use this article for felt, but generally it is too coarse, and is not as good in any way us the bristle brush. In brushing a felt lint or bonnet, always brush one way to keep it looking nice. After being caught in a rain or snow Storm with a felt hat, and it is wet, on com ing insifle do not put it to dry without brushing. "With the brush liegin at the rim and go round and round, always the one way, brushing very hard, until the crown is reached, brushing this in the same way until you finish in the center the top of the crown ; then put it away to dry and when wanted it will look almost as good as new. Never put a felt bat away while wet without brushing, or it will le spotted when dry. Men's stiff bats may bo kept looking nice if treated in this way after being out in a storm. If the outside garment or wrap is of smooth or corded material, it should bo well brushed and hung away, but if rough faced, it will need to be taken into the air and well shaken in addition to brushing, to remove even a part of the dust that is sure to adhere to it. A dress, whether rough or smooth cioth, should be taken out into the air and shaken, owing to its being next to impossible to get Into the crevices of the draperies, where the dust is certain to find a lodgment, with a brush broom or bristle brush. Never use a brush of any kind on a silk dress, as a piece f woolen cloth will do the work a great deal better, and will not injure the fabric, which a brush generally does. It is a good plan to bang heavy dresses and wTaps on the lino once in a while, when a stiff wind is blowing, which will do more toward cleansing than all the brushing that could be given them. To be sure, this not to be recommended for light, delicate material, but only for such 1 goods as hold the dust. It is very imjiortant that men's dark colored diagonal clothes should be brushed frequently, for, if neg lected, it will bo found impossible to remove tho dust, and if the clothes are black, they soon have the appearnnse of being off color long ere they should be. Never turn a coat inside out when hanging it up, or you will surely ruin the set of the collar. "Where convenient, wire frames arj the best to use for this purpose, but lacking these, hand the coat by the loop at the collar with tho right side out. Never hang a dress up inside out, but if possible allow it two noils, 'some distance apart. Hang it with front facing out, by the loops usually placed on the waistband at each side breadth. This way of hanging a dress will keep the drapery and plaits, if there are any, in position, and is the mode recommended by an experienced dressmaker. Some have the loops by which to hang up their basques on the waist line inside of the collar, but the best authority advises them to le sewn one under each arm. The same nails used for the skirt are not gen erally too far aiart, but if they should be, one of the skirt nails, and another one driven into the wall the distance wished for tho basque, can be used. Hang the basqno first and the skirt over it. To be sure, where there is much trimming on a basque, or it is of delicate fabric which will not bear crush ing, it may le well to hang it alone away from the skirt, but usually it is best to hang both together. In a room having no closet or wardrobe, always cover the clothes if hung on wall with a cambric or cretonne curtain. This plan is excellent for covering clothes in a closet also, and will save a good deal of wear from brushing, for no matter how close the closet may bo, dust is sure to find an en trance, and as it must lodge somewhere, it generally finds a resting place among the clothes. Boston Budget. T:iklntr Care of the Baojr. A baby that is not kept perfec tly sweet and fresh loses half its charm, and is defrauded f its just rights. It should be bathed in warm water every morning, and, as it grows older, the temperature gradually lowered until at 5 months old, the chill is just taken off the water, ilost babies love their bath, and are more apt to scream at being taken out of it than when put into it. If there is a shrinking from the plunge, a small blanket can be spread on the tub. tho child laid on it, and gently lowered into the tub. At night it should be held on tho lap and quickly ponged with a sponge, wrung out of warm water. Its mouth should be washed with a soft piece of linen dipped in cool water. All creases where the flesh touches should be powdered with pulverized starch, or any good toilet powder. This is most important, and must never be omitted, as the delicate skin easily chafes. "Where there is redness, r any symptom of chafing, lycopodium powder should be used; it is most healing, and can be applied eyen if the skin is broken. "When there are frequent discharges, the parts should be washed in thin, boiled starch instead of water. It is criminal neglect to allow a baby to suffer from chafing. The head requires particular attention. No daintiness in other respects can atone for tho disfiguring brown patches which are some times allowed to remain there. Tho top of the head should do wen wasneu nu waji and water every morning. If, in spite of this, traces of scurf appear, the spots should be rubbed at night with olive oil, and gently craped off in tho morning. If the applica tion is not successful, it saould be repented until j is. But there will bo little trouble if the matter is attended to when the brown flakes first show themselves. As the baby grows older and the teeth de velop, bibs should be provided, if necessary, to protect the front of the dress from the loo abundant flow of saliva. Unless carefully watched, kept as dry as possible, and rubbed at times with a little cosmollue, the chin a ad neck are apt to become chafed. Even a very young Imhy can bo trained in good habits in a way that is surprising to any ono who has not done it. If its wants are attended to at a certain hour every morn ing, a henlthy child will seldom soil a napkin. Tho training cannot 1k liegun too early, and tho hnliit should be firmly established before it is six weeks old. It saves much trouble to tho mothor and discomfort to the child. A little baby Siends the greater art of its tiruo in bl-cp. It is as if nature wore prepar ing it for tho battle of life by giving it as much repose as ossiblo lief ore the struggle begins. It should never lie awakened unless it sleeps for a long time past the hour for its being fed. To rouse a sleeping child to grat ify the curiosity of visitors or friends is ex tremely injudicious. As it grows older and is awake more, a certain time should be fixed for tho morning and afternoon nap, and for putting it to bl ut night. If these hours are adhered to, they will generally find a sleepy baby willing to yield to their soothing influence. It is best from tho first not to darken the room, nor keep itsjiecially quiet. The child becomes accustomed to sleep through slight noises, and they do not waken it. The eyes should be protected from a glare of light by placing tho head of the crib toward tho window. A baby should never bo allowed to sleep with an older person. The best bed is a stationary crib, with woven wire mattress, and a thin, soft, hair one placed over it. This should le protected by a square of rub ber sheeting; two must bo provided, and the ono not in use hung in the ojieu air and sun light every day. If there in tho least traco of an unpleasant smell, the rubber should be washed with some disinfectant solution. The covering should lie warm and light. A down comforter is the ideal for winter, if it is well aired in tho sun every day or two. In summer an ample musquito netting well raised on a lole, or suseiikd from a hook, should cover the crib. Klizabeth Robinson Heovil in Good Housekeeping. Don't Neglect tho Finger Nulla. Because you live in the country and do housework, and even some good honest toil on the farm itself, is no reason why you should neglect certain littlo niceties of life, such as the care of your hands and teeth. You probably will not be able to keep tho former white and soft as if you used them only for d.iinty embroidery, but a few min utes each day spent iu caring for them will show at least that they aro well kept, and signs of toil that cannot bo eradicated you need not be ashamed of. Tho nails can bo kept nicely trimmed ; they cannot be even moderately long, but they may be shajicly and ointed. l'erhnps you cannot afford to buy the outfit of a "manicure," but you un doubtedly have a pair of small embroidery scissors; the file you lrnt replace as best you may with tho one in your iienknife, or. failing that, with a piece of coarse sandpa per; and the chamois polisher, costing any where from sixty cents to f!S, you can make yourself. Take a child's block about an inch thick and three inches wido by five long large enough to grasp it firmly tack a bit of soft cloth for padding, and over that a piece of the chamois you keep for polishing Silver on ono of the edges, and you have an article that may not bo oruameutal, Lut will answer every purpose. Soften your hands by washing in warm water with some good toilet soap for a few minutes; then with the small scissors trim tho nails, rounding them nicely, and cutting the corners very low. With some blunt instrument (if you have not a file) push back the llesh from the base of tho nails, and trim away all tho dead skin. Now apply your polisher, and brush vigorously for a few minutes. Do this once a week, and every day spend a few minutes in the use of the polisher, and j our hands will' repay you in their neat apiearaneo for the time you have spent. A solution of oxalic acid kept in a bottle with a glass stopper will remove all stains of ink or fruit, and a match or a small stick dipped in the solution and passed under tho nails will remove any discoloration that does not come oil with washing. There is a pink powder sold by druggists for polishing, but this may be dispensed with. If, how ever, you get any, be sure that you get the best and not a spurious article. You should have a pair of old kid gloves, or, better still, wash leather, to wear when you are weeding in the garden, or doing any housework that will admit of it. I speak with a conviction born of sad experience, for I am a farmer's daughter myself, and never thought of car ing for my hands when I was a child. When I was old enough to care it was too late, and I have found out that no amount of after care can make up for that early neglect. Cor. American Agriculturist. A Harvard Annex Girl's Emmy. In Harvard university the Bowdoin prizes are the highest rewards attainable for Eng lish dissertations, and they range from $100 downward, being accessible to all students of the university, undergraduate or graduate. This, of course, excludes the young lady stu dents of the Harvard annex, which has no organic connection with tho university. By un accident an essay on tho subject, "Tho Roman Senate Under the Empire," written by Miss E. B. Pearson, was submitted to the judges, Professors Torrey and Young. "Without the identity of the writer being dis covered the judges awarded the essay the first prize of 100. The essay was signed merely "E. B. Pearson." The class and de partment of the university were not desig nated, as is required, and Professor Torrey expressed some surprise that the author of so able an cs'-'ay should not have complied with a provision so simple. He saarched tho cata logue of the university for tho name of E. B. Pearson, and on not finding it somebody gave tao suggestion that this person might bo dis covered in tho annex. In this way the fact came out the author was a young lady.- So the essay of Miss Pearson was neces sarily ruled out oT the list, and a prise of $75 was awarded to a young gentleman instead, while llisj Pearson dropped at once from the Bowdoin prize of 100 to the humbler annex prize of thu3 paying $ 70 outright for the privilege of being a woman. New York World. The Manicure's Outfit. Another necessary adjunct to the dressing table is the little Parisian box used by tho manicure, and which may be bought for a 6mail sum of any chemist or perfumer. It contains a boat shaped implement, covered iu chamois leather, and furnished with a handle, and there is a tiny box of fine pink powder of a slightly gritty nature. You breathe on the nails, and then sprinkle them with tho powder, and polish briskly on tho chamois iad. But before this process is reached, you must first use tho other little implement, which is of ivory, with one end shaped almost like a pen, the other fitted with a small brush. In the center is a fiat file, on which you carefully shape the tops of tho nails, rounding them off at either side to follow the line of the finger. Scissors should never be used for the finger nails, as by cut ting them you make the nails coarse and tuici. With tho ivory point you clean the fingtr nails, and also gently push back the flesh to revccJ the white crescent and to pre rent the skin splitting and forming "hang nails," which quickly appear if the skin ad heres to tho uaiL The I July. Following the Fushlon I'latetw . Tho patterns snt out by pattern bouses are often absurdly elaborate. They are mado up to extract trado and they do not represent tho liest taste of fashionable jx.-ople. "While pattern makers have done an inestimable good in helping mothers to shapo tho frocks and clothing of their children, saving hours of worry and vexation, they have done a great evil in prolonging in places remote from the grout cities tho mania for over elab oration in the dress of women and children. Every mother naturally wishes her child to look pretty and neat, and too many mothers lured by fashion plates have scit hours of toil in making elaborate dresses for their children, only to find, when the dresses were finished, that they were ugly and unsatis factory. There is but ono remedy. Let mothers take the goods the fashion makers provido, but avoid all elaborate designs, de signs which are put in merely to fill out tho books. Make simplo clothing for the chil dren, and enjoy yourself a rest from anxiety aliout their dress, and take the pleasure that comes from a neat, orderly household. "Wo man's Work. The Wulk or "Woman. It cannot be out of place here to suggest tho advisability of ojiening classes where children, girls especially, might bo taught the science of walking. Mothers should be the natural teachers, but many who aro rig idly careful iu all other particulars seem ab solutely indifferent on this important point. In fact, after showing them navigation by means of their legs, duty is believed to be at an end, and no matter how wretchedly tho child moves tho parent rests satined with only jiasmlic attempts at correction. Whether the ungraceful wabblo, the halting step and painf ul stoop so commonly seen is attributable to carelessness or unnatural dressing, certain it is that six out of every ten women walk abominably. To bo upright and easy iu one's movements is only as na ture intended, and unless deformed there is not the slightest excuse, for the absurd loco motion noticed on the streets every day. "Why children are permitted to grow up pigeon toed, round shouldered, crooked and awkward is a proposition left ojcn for fur ther discussion. New Orleans Times-Democrat. The Family Medical Adviser. "When you choose a doctor, it is well to give him to understand that you are depending upon him, and that you consider him already in a certain sense responsible for the physical well being of yourself end your family. The late Dr. Alpheus Benning Crosby well said that his idea of a wise patient was "one who, having selected an intelligent physician, holds him iersonally re3ionsible for his life." Having selected your physician, then make him in reality the medical adviser of every member of your family. Take him into your homo and give him the opportunity to be come acquainted with the personal and family history and physical condition of every mem ber thereof, so that he may be able to trace their hereditary tendencies, recognizo their predispositions, understand their peculiari ties, and anticipate their weaknesses in short, to know their constitution. Having this knowledge, he will be able to give them the wisest advice in health, and the most successful treatment in sickness. Demorest'a Monthly. Paste for Paper Hansen. Paper hangers paste is best made by first heating the water to the boiling point; then add flour, stirring constantly to prevent the formation of lumps. The flour should be sifted into the water through a sieve to in sure more equal distribution. Agitation must be continued until the heat shall have rendered the mass of the desired consistency. In order to increase its adhering strength, powdered resin in the proportion of one-sixth to one-fourth of the weight of the flour should be added. Oil of cloves or a few drops of carbolic acid added will keep the paste from souring. Chicago Times. After the Bath. Let me here remark that no bath is perfect in its results without the long and brisk fric tion of hands or a coarse towel afterward. Friction not only stimulates circulation, but it makes the flesh Arm and polished like Parian marble. It is sometimes astonishing to see the change made in an ugly skin by friction, and any lady who wishes to possess a healthy body, firm to the touch and fair to tho eye, with the elasticity of youth well prolonged into age, must give willingly of her strength to the daily task of rubbing the body thoroughly. Dress. Preserving Natural Flower. To preserve natural flowers by the wax solution process, dip the flowers in melted parafflne, withdrawing them quickly. The liquid should only be just hot enough to maintain its fluidity, and the flowers should be dipped one at a time, held by the stalks, and moved about for an instant to get rid of air bubbles. Fresh eut flowers, free from moisture, make excellent specimens in this way. Good Housekeeping. To remove the glossy appearance from a diagonal cloth coat, first free from dust, then sponge or brush with warm water and am monia, a teaspoonful of ammonia to a pint of water, and a small piece of castile soap, then rinse in water and afterward sponge with hot coffee and rinse again in cold water; then hang to dry. Before it Is thor oughly dry stretch well with the hands or it will shrink. The head nurse of the Children's hospital in London says that the six general qualifi cations for a good nurse are "presence of mind, gentleness, accuracy, memory, obser vation and forethought," She finds it "a popular female delusion" that every woman is born a nurse. The prevent flies from spoiling gilt frames and fittings, brush them with a camel's hair brush wet in water in which onions have been boiled. The flies have aristocratic tastes, and will not go where they come in contact with anything savoring of onions. Lemons will keep good for months by sim ply putting them into a jug of buttermilk, changing the buttermilk about every three weeks. When the lemons are required for use they should be well dried with a cloth. If you wish to keep a sharp knife don't put it in hot grease; stir your potatoes while fry ing, or turn meat with a fork or an old case knife kept on purpose. Never sun feaiher beds. Air them thor oughly on a windy day in a cool place. The sun draws the oil, and gives the feathers a rancid smelL Cabbage is made digestible by first slicing. then putting Into boiling water, with a pinch of soda and some salt, and boiling just fifteen minutes. To clean straw matting, boil three quart of bran in one gallon of water, and wash the watting with the water, drying it well AX UNLIMITED CIGAR. ACTIONS OF TWO SMOKERS MEET ING ON THE STREET. True Equality of the American IVoplc Shown Utlijuette of Cigar Lighting in Cuba Street I'ollleiira In ip.iiii. Smoker In England. It is in small matters that national charac teristics aro best seen. Nothing, for instance, could better show tho true republican equal ity of the American eoplo than tho uct ions of two smokers meeting on tho street. Tho one is a well dressed, well to docitizen, carry ing an unlihted cigar. Toward him is coming a seedy looking individual, socially and jieculiarly the very antipodes of the Ihnl, but ho is puffing away contentedly at a weed, tho materials of whose coiiqxisition would puzzle the state analyst to discover. Tho first man stops. "Can you oblige me with some flref ho asks. "Why, certainly," responds the seedy one, and with the courte ous action of a Brunimel ho removes his cig-r from his lips, knocks off tho ash and hands it to the well to do citizen. Then and there tho "two for" and tho "straight Havana" meet and mingle their fires and aromas, and with more polite bows the two men pass on. Iu the Cuban islands there are special and strict forms of etiquette relative to this uni versal practice of smoking. Should a gentle man stop another on the street to ask a light he would construe a refusal to oblige him into a direct and intentional insult. But hav ing once held between his fingers tho partly consumed cigar of whose fire he has lx-en bor rowing, the owner thereof w::! '. L.: . ; ,.y hurt and offended were he to offer to return it. No, he must, instead, open his cigur case and proffer a fresh weed in return for the fire. THE REASO.V FOR IT. To connoisseurs in cigars the reason for this act is obvious. A cigar which has lxen bruised against another in the act of lighting it loses a considerable portion of tho delicacy of its flavor, and should that ono against which it is thus rubbed be of an inferior flavor and aroma, these quulitics in itself are, to a delicate taste, completely destroyed. It must bo rather irritating under these latter circumstances to have to lose an exquisite "weed" for the sake of a strange etiquette which commands the acceptation of a cigar of much inferior flavor and value. How ever, a breach of this point is never made, and a well bred Cuban would die sooner than show any irritation. In most European countries, with the ex ception, jierhaps, of cigarette smoking Spain, the street etiquotte of smoking is much less severe. Tho majority of smokers in Eng land, for instance, carry matches in their pockets, and should a passing smoker, with unlit pipe or cigar request a light, it is a match that is handed to him. Small boys throng tho streets of all big English towns selling boxes containing 200 wax vesta matches for two cents; there is consequently very little excuse for a smoker to be without a light. The rainy and windy conditions of the climate are equally well provided against for smokers by "fusees," "vesuvians," "flam ers," which are varieties of matches having large heads composed of gunpowder paste, which will remain ignited until consumed in any kind of weather. New York Press. - Swells Across the Atlantic. In going about Europe one becomes very soon convinced that the English gentleman is much the best dressed man on this side of the water. I have never seen a Frenchman, an Italian or a German who patronized the tailors of his own country who even ai proached remotely to being well dressed. Some of the Italian swells that I noticed at the stations as I passed through wore sienna red overcoats, lined with light red and orna mented with cheap muskrat collar and Cuffs. Put under this a light check suit, striped shirt, and on the head a -careles3 green or brown soft hat, and you have an idea of the style of a swell of the smaller villages of Italy. In the larger towns it is not much better. The men have a tendency to flaming plaids and extraordinary checks, and have a per fect passion for wearing overcoats loaded down with the cheapest and insanest looking fur known to the trade. Their clothes ai i nearly all ill fitting and badly made. The most picturesque aro those who still adhere to the cloaks, which they wrap around them after the fashion of the conspirators in the opera. You very rarely see a high silk hat in Italy, and only occasionally a stiff Derby. The hat is generally a soft felt, similar in shape to that worn in tho far west of tho United States. But it is generally more flaming in color. Dark green and a terra cotta red are very common" colors worn. Some of the spectators at the stations wore the most extraordinary fur caps made out of the fur of the cat or the rabbit. They were shapeless and clumsy. T. C. Crawford in New York "World, Mr. Arnold's Impremlom of America. Mr. Matthew Arnold recently gave some impressions of America to an audience at Bradford, England. He told them that "in America all luxuries were dear, except oys ters and ice; that American women have a natural, free and happy manner, in pleasing contrast with that of middle class women in England, who look to one class as the only example of 'the right thing;' that American buildings are commonplace; that the nomeu clature 'comes on the ear of a cultivated person like tho incessant cutting of pins;' but that the Americans do not persist ; s we do in making invidious distinctions between persons by the use, for some, of the affix 'es quire,' a term which came from the great frippery shop of the middle ages." In the end, however, Mr. Arnold deter mines to conciliate, if possible, the peopl among whom he lives. In the comparison of America and England he, in the. end, pcr: niits the old country to kick tho balance, lln finds the glorification of tho average man & religion with American statesmen, theaddicr tion to the funny man a national misfortune, and the American newspaper an object of reprobation. Americans will not admit that their civilization is lacking in elevation and interest. Tall talk is their substitue for that elevation which humanity craves. Home Journal. The Use of Tar. Professor Lunge draws attention to the many advantages to be derived from the use of tar in treating building material. Drain pipes, roofing tiles, building stone?, brick, etc., when soaked in a bath of hot tar, be come absolutely water tight. The dead black color thus imparted is by no means an objection in many cases. The article should be well dried and allowed to remain for some time in the tar, which should be heated at least to the boiling point of water, and should also be first free from water and volatile oils. After all, why should we ever have leaky roof s and damp cellars! It costs little if any more to avoid them. By all means let the bricks that are used in the basement wall be made impervious to moisture by soaking in tar, and then mako the cellar floor tight with asphalt. "Why worry ourselves with avoidable troubles Philadelphia Time. The Plattsmouth Herald Js enjoying a Boom in botli its D AIIiT A MID WEEKLY EDITIONS. ' FTriTl -ST iLiiJLQS JL t?2sUL lOdd Will be one during which the subjects of national interest and importance will be 6trongly agitated and the election of a President will take place. Hie people of Cass County who would like to learn of Political, Commercial and Social Transactions of this year and would keep apace with the times should -rolt Daily or Weekly Herald Now while we have the subject before the people we will venture to f-peak ol our 0) 0) Vii Which is iirst-class in all respects and from which our job printers are turning out much satisfactory work. PLATTSMOUTH, -tf OOO EITIIKIt i"l!K RTPHEMT 1 1 y 0 I NEBRASKA