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About The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 23, 1903)
" " -STn The Commoner. JAN. 23, 1903. 9 -rr-r vtV. fnitpiFj' wjfwjifiw "" t- jj "! "Www -T'r-3rir"i T' hardy plants, of which I may tell you in another paper. These plantB are not expensive, and, once started, mul tiply themseLves rapidly. Th "Housework Girl." Although all may not be rose-colored in the life of the housework girl, evon with good wagas and extra priv ileges, is it more so in other employ ments? The housework girl has her hoard and room rent in addition to her wages, and she can indulge in as mucii or as little laundering as she pleasps, free of extra expense. The sewing girl, typewriter, office or 'fac tory girl, -and even the bookkeeper, may pay almost and sometimes quite, all she earns for the essentials Which the housework girl hardly considers a part of her ' wages," while,; to offset their free evenings, she has the cus tomary half-day off' to h'erself, and as many evenings' out asa reasonable, 'modest girl cares to spend away from home; and not the least of her ad vantages is the security of her posi tion; if her work be even fairly sat isfactorily done, she has no fear of dismissal, while the girls in shops, offices, stores, or factories are con stantly mindful that a mistake, a fall ing off in their zeal to do well, or bet ter than another might, will lead to their instant dismissal, and that a score or more of other girls are ready "to take their place. Every employment is crowded, ex cept housework; yet girls and wo-i men, disdaining to work at it,- rush away to, such unhealthy places as -to- bacco factories, , whore, according -to; statistics recently, gathered 72 out of,' 100 girls fell sick within six months after beginnings the work, from ab-. sorption of nicotine through the pores of the skin. Why those who do accept housework do so only on condition of its being within, the limits of., a city, is not explained, by any balance of, ease or healthfulness in favor of city housework, as the basement kitchen and attic bedroom, leave three or four flights of stairs to be traveled up and down, which surely is harder work than is offered in fairly comfortable farm homes. If it were only the young and com pany loving who choose the city sur roundings, it would not appear so IT PAYS To KnoTV-,Fncts About Coffee strange; but when sedate, middle-aged "help" present the same objections to country service, the charitable-minded or. kind-hearted individual feels like giving attention to somo other sub ject than the wrongs of the working women. ' When man tikes properly selected food and drink Nature will most-al-ways assert herself and rebuild the structure property. , "From iny earliest remembrance I was a confirmed coffee drinker," writes a gentleman from Marshallville, Ga.K "taking two cups at .nearly every, meal. While afc! college I became very ' nervous, dyspeptic, irritable and unfit . for study and attributed, it largely to coffee, but did not stop its .use. "When I wasmarried I found my. wife was troubled the same way, arid we decided to tfv'Pdstum Food Coffee. My wife -made the Postum according to directions and we found "it superb.' We used it exclusively for the morn ing beverage, and the taste, of ordi nary coffee became distasteful to both of us. v w hnvo found a distinct gain in health. Any amount of Postum does not cause a feeling of either dyspepsia or nervousness, while .the Teturn to coffee even for one meal has disas trous effects upon my nerves. 'My dyspepsia has entirely left .me, anC both my wife and self are well an Btrong and feel that it is all due to. the Postum." Name given by Posturar Co., Battle Creek, Mich. It is easy to replace coffee with Pps tum which haIjyhen properly made, a rich flavor anft ,the. color of ,ffpAp3 with none of it;.Jnjurious af tjer-,-, fects. Color In the Home. Even at this early date, visions of the inevitable spriug house-cleaning begin to disturb the calm of the thrifty house-wife who believes in planning ahead to save the hurry and worry ,of this most unpleasant homo duty. There will be rooms to reno vate" with fresh paper, if not paint and varnish, and an authority on such matters tias given us somo ideas of color scheme, which we copy for your benefit. TLe entrance hall should always bo cheerful and inviting, but never so cheerful as to be heating or blinding. This bars out the brilliant shades of red in any large, unrelieved quanti ties. It bars out cold blues, greens, grays, but leaves a wealth of yellows and subdued reds. Creamy yellow, buff, pale fawn, pale salmon, light tones of Indian red, some pale sliades of olive green, are all good. Yellow or buff walls should have wood-work in chocolate or olive brown. Pale sal mon walls match well with dark bronze green wood-work. The parlor walls should be covered either with a plain paper, or with one the design of which is so small and subdued, and so deftly worked into the background as to be practical ly invisible, except in strong lights. No walls where pictures are to be hung should have pronounced designs. The parlor being popularly supposed to. be devoted to the more frivolous side of life, should be cheerfully and daintily, rather than cosily colored. Pale lemon, or apricot yellow will4 suit rooms which' do not receive a great amount of sunshine; a yellow paper makes a sunshine in itself. In all walls, care should be taken not to havo too heavy a frieze. 0 i The dining room should, of course, be cheerful, cosy and warm. If the amount of sunlight received through the windows will permit the ever useful yellow to be dispensed with, soft, olive green or old blue, or deep old pink may be used instead. These colors convey a slightly richer im pression and are admirable in a room more or less devoted to the display of glittering glass, silver and china. Bed-rooms must not bo dark, and must not be hot-looking. Neither must their walls boast distinct pat terns which strike the eye like so many blows; they should b in half tints and dim patterns; an excellent effect is produced where a paper, half glazed andjvlf dull is used; the "cre tonne" papers are not good, even when they are pretty, for they give the eye no rest from the prevailing cretonne effect of most bed-room furnishings. more from tho appearance of a wo man than 'soiled or wrinkled heck wear, and any girl or woman can clean or freshen her ribbons or ties when she once learns how it should bo done. Delicate laces can be cleaned by washing and rinsing in alcohol; tho best way to dry the pieces is to pull them into perfect shapo and baste thorn carefully to a 'cloth drawn smoothly over a board. White laces may be given a creamy hue by adding a little strained coffee to the rinsing water. A nice way to havo fresli ribbons is to color the faded ribbon rich dark shades of red, green and pur ple with diamond dye forsilk and if the are carefully ironed they will be as crisp and dainty as when new. LovQly. pilars may bo fashioned at Bmall expenditure from odd pieces of lace, velvet or satin and any woman who id clover with the needle can make up these little accessories and the. wise girl has learned that dain tiness counts for more than expen sive clothes. Ex. In Fitting: up the House. t , Gray, one does not need to be told, is a gloomy color; blue, which is a sister to gray, is an "intellectual" and slightly chilly shade. Violets arc somber. Yellows drink in the sun light and are cheerful; reds are also cheerful, with a tendency, like other cheerful things, to become boisterous ly loud, and to provoke headache. Greens generally inipress the observer with the same sense of chilliness which the blues impart; some of them, however, of the so-called aes thetic shades, are r.estfui, and, when they borrow a little brown, are not altogether lacking iu warmth. Grass green and emerald-green are admira ble shades, for grass and gems, but in fabrics they affect the eye too much as a flash of forked lightning does; they are too vivid to be restful and too pronounced to harmonize, with any other color. A.f Dainty Accessories. ft is the small things of dress that contribute the most to a woman's good appearance, and the woman who would always be well dressed must under stand the value of accessories. Every fastidious Woman loves dainty things s,uch as cambric handkerchiefs, pret ty 'ribbons, 'fine laces and nice gloves, anj, the less money one has to spend, the more important it is to select ar ticles "of "the best quality. If gloves are repaired the moment they begin to rip, they 'will repay their wearer by a long lease of service; kid gloves are easily cleaned washing and rins ing in gasolineUUs best to wash a.nd dry them on,,th'o, hands. Such pretty, neckware can, be,made up at such rea sonable pric'eX.that At seems wiser to, design dainty Jrifles for the neck .than to enter into .wmtuicated trimming, pfr I the waist itself. Nothing detracts Query Box. Margaret Hoffman. The cause of your cream .foaming is that it is too cold. Let it set in a warm placo at least twenty-four hours before turn ing it into the churn. Cream should never be allowed to freeze. If you have no thermometer, test its tem perature by dipping a very clean fin ger into It; it should feel neither warm nor cold to the finger. Experi ence will teach you to determine its temperature by that of the jar it is in. Nemo. The, word "accessory" ac cented, accordYng to Web3ter, on the .first syllable, on account Of the deriva tives, wnlch require a seconuary -Accent on , the third syllable; but .the natural accent is on the second syl lable, and it is thus generally pro nounced. The meaning is, in the sense in which ytu use it, "aiding in certain acts, or effects, in a secondary man- AN OBJECT LESS&N" v W In a Restaurant. A physician puts the query: "Have you nevei noticed In any large rcr.tauraut nt lunch or din ner t'tne the large number of lienTly, vigorous old men at the tablet-; mm whose ages run from 69 to 80 year; mnny of them- bald and all per hauH pray but none of them feeble or t cuile?" X'ethnps the sj rctaclc la ro common as to have escaped your observation or comment, but never theless it is an objtct lcrson which means some thing. Ifyctt will notice what time hearty old fel lows arc eating you will observe that they ate not munching bran crai kern nor gingerly pick ing their May through a menu card ofuevrfao glcd health foods; on the contrary thcyBccmto prefer 0 juicj roost of beef, a properly turncdloiii of mutton, and cven.lhe deadly broiled lobster isnot altogether ignored. The point of all this is that a vigorous old age depends upon good digestion and plenty of wholesome focdand not upon dieting end an endeavor to live upon bran cracker. There is a certain class f food cranks who seem to believe that meat, coffee and many other good thlngnarc rank pb'cons,lut these cadavrr ouh, silky looking individualKlire ft walklngcon detunaticii of their own theories The matter in a nutshell is that if the ttomach secrets the natural digestive juices in rafue'ent quantity any wholesome food will be ptoraplly digested' if the slomocb docs not do to, and ccr ta 11 foods cause distress one or two of Stuart's Dyspephju Tablets alter each meal will remove all diflicully because they supply just what each wcakftomaoh lacks, pepsin, hydrochloric 'add, diastase and mix. Stuart's Dysj cpaia Tablets do not act upon the bowels and, in fact, are not st ictly n med cine an they act almost cntirciy ui on the food eaten, digesting it thoroughly and thus gives a much nrcded rest and giving an appetite for the next meal. Of people "who travel nfnr out of ten se Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets, knowing- them to be Ficrfctly nafe to uc it any time, and also having ound out by experience that they arc a nde guard Against indigcutim in any form, aud eat ing as. they have to, at all hours and n I kinds of food, the traveling public for years have pinned their faith to Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablet). All dtuggiKts sell thctu also cents for full-sized packaged and any dnn gint fnroi Elaine to Cali lornia, if his op. lion were naked, will say that Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets is the most popular nud successful remedy for any riomach trouble nice biscuit dough, and brown nicely in the oven. ner.' Mrs. Miller. The reason, your gravy "curdles" is that you let it boil too much. After talcing up your meat, leave in the skillet only the amount of grease necessary for the amount of gravy -you wish to make; into this stir one. heaping tablespoonful of flour until it browns; then stir into this two, teacupfuls of rich sweet milk; let come to a boil,, stirring steadily for one minute, then pour into your dish and serve. . Salena. Scraps of cold roast mutton make an excellent dish for the chil dren's dinner, prepared in this way: Trim off nearly all the fat, cut the lean meat into small pieces and put them into a baking dish; if you have, gravy or .stopk pour that over them; put in a little butter, and season with pepper and salt; cov-.r the tnp with a Did you over fecc a fat person who was not joljy? Laughter is the best' medicine in tho world. Laugh when ever you can, and at everything you can. You may laugh at youraelf, and with yourself. There is a certain phy siological effect of laughing; it starts up the circulation by dilating the ar teries, and hastens tho blood current all over tho body. Increased flow of the blood current always stimulates the mental activity, and thus nour ishes the mind. The celjs of the body , become built up anew by the .increase of blood-flow, and the body thus beV comes plump. , The lungs arc exer cised by laughter, and their capacity becomes greater to take In more oxy gen; oxygen b the food of all the tis sues of the body. , So, if you wish to i-nprove ,your general health and be come plurnp, just "laugh anc(tgrow fat" Selected. "' ' , An eminent bacteriologist says that many coloring matters used in food are found to bo decidedly pernicious to health. His conclusions are that but ter color is capable of producing se vere disturbances of tho nervous sys tem, ending even in death. While one or two doses may not be harmful, the continued use Is likely to produce dis eases of the kidneys, bladder, and even the lungs. It was reported from Berlin On' January 14 by the Associated press that tho German government has sent a note to the United States relative to the report that Germany is seeking to acquire Colombia's interests in tho Panama Canal company, affirmlnc that the report is utterly false and, it is understood, expressing the opin ion that Germany's commerce would be benefited by the construction of the canal by the United States. IIWIMIBUI -1 1 " TO CURli A COLD IN ONE 1AY TaVo Luxatlvo Dromo-Quinlno Tablets. This signaturoffy J-.jg on evory box 25c' n' '4 1 n n 1 I 11 j Aw rm- .