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About The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923 | View Entire Issue (April 3, 1903)
'i' twwjwjw1 "' "n'nf w?iri ;'Miiirn'iwi't'i,'ttn""' " The Commoner. APRIL 3, 1903. -9 wtipBWiiBWiifwwByMi'iii'W''' wmti!!nmw!ZTrimS!77liS7 Say-'Tm Sick" And I Will Supply You With a Cure. I ask for no money just a postal; just say that you need help. I will mail you an order good at any drug store for six bottles Dr. Shoop's Restorative. You may take it a month on trial. If it succeeds, the cost is $5.50. If it fails, I will pay the druggist, myself and your mere word shall decide it. Over half a million sick ones have done what I ask of you; and 39 in each 40 have paid for the treatment gladly, because they were cured. I don't know your condition, nor how difficult your case. That doesn't matter. If. you will make the test, and be fair with yourself and me, I am willing to take the risk. My success comes from strengthen1 ing the insid nerves, which operate the vital organs. I have spent my life in learning how to do it A weak or gan means weak nerve power. It is like a weak engine that needs more steam. To doctor the organ is use less; 'what it needs is power to act My Restorative alone brings back that power, and in most of these diseases no other way can cure. My book will tell you why. fOOK HO. 1 OH DTSPKT3U BOOK KO. S OR Tit I OB ART. ZOOX HO. t OH THE XIDKKTS. COOK HO. 4 rORfTOMXH. EOOX. HO. 6 lOIl UKHi ftUt COOX HO. 6 OH MUUHATISM Simply tato which book you want, and address Dr. Shoop, Box 515 Badne, Wis. Mild cases, not chronic, aro often cured by ono.or two bottles, druggists. or small camel's-hair brush, dip it in whisky or alcohol somewhat diluted, and touch the insect with it; then take a sponge and soap suds and wash the leaves, rinsing well in clear water. If you have a hydrant, shower the plant after the scrubbing, to carry away the loosened insects. After it is clean, kill every insect as it appears; spray often with clear water. Hot, dry air is favorable to insect-breeding. Thanks for kind words. Gertrude. Here is a good candy recipe: Three and one-half pounds of granulated sugar; one and one half pints of water, one teaspoonful cream tartar; mix in a vessel large enough to hold the candy when ex panded by the heat; boil over a brisk fire, taking care that it does not' burn. The heat should be applied at bottom, and not at sides. After boiling fifteen minutes, remove a small portion of the melted sugar with a spoon, and cool by placing in a saucer set in cold water. When cool enough, take a portion between thumb and finger, and if it forms a "string" or "thread" as they separate, the process is neaTly done, and great care must be used to control the heat so that, the boiling may be kept up without burning. Test frequently by dropping a little into cold water placed near; if it becomes hard and brittle, snapping apart when bent, it is done, and must be removed at once, and the flavoring poured in. Pour into shallow dishes, thoroughly but lightly greased, cool until it caj. bo handled; pull, roll into sticks, or make into any desired shape. Will give other recipes next week. Worth Knowing, Peas or beans, cooked in hard wa ter which contains lime or. gypsum, will not boil tender, because these substances harden vegetable caseine; many vegetables, as onions, boil near ly tasteless in soft water, because all the flavor is boiled out; the addition of salt often checks this, as in the case of onions, causing the yegetable3 TO CURE A COI.D IN ONE DAY Talce Laxative Bromo-Quinino Tablets. This signature rtV. f. on overy dox. zoc. to retain their peculiar flavoring prin ciples, besides such nutritious matter as might be lost in soft water. For extracting the juices of meat to make broth or soup, soft water, unsalted and cold at first, is best, for it much more readily penetrates the tissue; but for boiling where the juices should be re tained, hard water, or soft water salted, is preferable, and the meat should be put in while the water is boiling, so as to seal up the pores at once. Rest is all right in its place, but in overdoses it is enervating and weak ening, and work of any sort is usual ly at a discount when a hammock or lounge and an interesting book is al ways available; and our girls should remember that these resting places would be very comforting to their tired mothers, if they would but shut them out of the kitchen several hours every day while they put their young strength to the "test in doing the housework. The good, hard-working girl may not be able to make as fine music, know as much about games, or hve as many accomplishments as the idle girl, but she knows how to work, how to care for her homo, how to honor her parents and to comfort her mother, and if she marries, she will be far less liable to make a fail ure of her life and the life of the man who is so fortunate as to win her. One great reason for the popularity of the pansy is the ease with which it may be grown, and the plenteous re turns it gives for the care spent upon it. In the house, seeds may be started in February; the soil need not be very rich good garden loam will answer; fill the box with fine prepared dirt, nearly level with the top; make tho top of the' soil level and smooth and scattered the seeds as ovenly as pos sible. Over them sift some soil un til they are- covered about a quarter of an inch deep; next give a light sprinkle of water, then wet a piece of spongy paper, or brown wrapping paper, and put over the top of the box, set in a sunny window free from drafts and in about eight days expect to see the first tiny shoots appear. Do not pour water over the soil, but let all moisture be given through the paper, which should be frequently sprinkled. Plants nipped? They may be, un less you intercept Jack Frost's possi ble advances. March is often a treacherous month; some days will be perfectly delightful, but the nights will be "stingers." A newspa per securely tucked in around the windows will be a great help, and a pail of water set in the room will lessen the danger. The pretty custom of throwing the slipper originated in France. An old lady, seeing the carriage of her young king, Louis XIII., passing on its way from the church where he had just been married, took of her shoe and, flnging it after the coach, cried, "It is all I have, your majesty, but may the blessings of God go with it" Women who are fond of gardening, can earn a supply of money by rais ing herbs for druggists and market men, if they live close to a market Lavender, sage, thyme, mint and hoar hound are perennials, and will not have to be replaced for several years. Satre and narsley are the most com- Lmonly planted, but tho others are as easily raised and pay very well, much pf the green growth can be sold dur ing the summer to market men, and the balance not usqd in this way can be carefully dried and sold to the druggist. Most of these common herbs are hardy, lavender being the least so; it can be protected in the fall, however, so that many plants will live over winter. It is a good plan to sow a few seeds of these perennials in tho homo garden each spring, for use in the homo kitchen. They transplant easily, and may bo cut soveral times during the season, and one can thus have tho dried article much better than it can bo bought One beautiful custom is that tho bride, immediately after the cere mony, flings her boquet among her maiden friends; the one who catches it will be the next bride. Often-Time Simplicity. In these days of over-worked wives, burdened housekeepers and almost impossibility of securing house-help, it is refreshing to take a look into tho kitchens of our great-grandmothers, and realize with how few things house keeping was conducted in tho days "when grandmamma was young." The furniture was strictly home made and warranted to wear. Tho table was made of a split slab, sup ported by four round legs, set in augur-holes, bored in tho ends of tho slab; some three-legged stools, made in the same manner, served as chairs; pins of wood were stuck in augur holes bored in the logs of which the cabin was builded and served to sup port some clap-boards on which the table furnishings were kept A forked stick, placed with its lower end in a hole in tho floor, and the up per end fastened to a joist, served for a bedstead, by placing a pole in the fork, with one end through a crack between the logs of the wall; this front pole was crossed by a shorter one within tho fork, with Its outer end through another crack; from the front pole, through a crack between the logs at the end of the house, tho boards were put on which formed tho bottom of the bed; some other poles were pinned to the fork, a lit tle distance above these, for the pur pose of supporting tbq front and foot of the bed, while the walls were the support of the back and head. The furnishings for the table con sisted of a few powter dishes, plates, and pewter and horn spoons; of wood en bowls, trenchers and noggins; if these latter were scarce, gourds and hard-shelled squashes made up the deficiency. For knives, the hunting and scalping knives were used. Iron pots and if there were any knives and forks were brought from the older country, across the mountains, along with salt and iron, on pack-horses. These an icles of furniture correspond ed very well with the articles of diet on which they were employed; "hog and hominy" were proverbial for the dishes of which they were the com ponent parts. Johnny-cakcand pone were the only forms of bread known to many families; milk and mush was a standard dish; when milk was not plenty which was often the case, ow ing to the scarcity of cattle or want of proper pasture for them tho sub stantial dish of hominy had to suffice. Mush was frequently eaten with sweet ened water, molasses, bear's oil, or the gravy of fried meat The men wore hunting shirts made of linsey, sometimes of coarse linen, and a few were made of deer skins; a pair of drawers or breeches and leggins were the dress for the thighs and legs, and a pair of leather moc casins, or coarse pack-shoes answered for the feet muck better than shoes. The linsey bedgown and petticoat were the universal dress of the women, and the children were all clad in home made cloths made of linen, cotton or wool; they all went bare-footed in warm weather, and in cold, wore moccasins, cobble-shoes or pack-shoes. The coats and bed-gowns of the wo men and the hunting shirts of the men hung around the room on pegs .fitted into the log walls, and the wealth or poverty of tho family was thus announced by tho quantity of clothing displayed. Every family was under tho neces sity of doing everything for them selves that they could. Almost ev ery family ownod a loom, home-made, and almost every woman was a weav er. Linsey, made, of flax and wool, was tho warmest and most lasting cloth made; but the crops of flax of ten failed and tho sheep woro eaten by wolves. Almost overy family con tained its own tailor and shoemaker; the women did tho tailor work. Many of the puncheon floors were very neat, with tops even and smooth; many of them wove excellent a"s well as sightly cloths. 11 ! The Lee Statue. Hon. A. K. McGluro of Philadelphia recently made a speech before tho Pennsylvania legislature urging tho appropriation of $20,000 for tho eroc tion of a statuo of General Leo on Seminary Hill, at Gettysburg, a com mission to be appointed by tho Penn sylvania legislature to act in con junction with a commission appointed by tho Virginia legislature. Tho idea is a splendid one. Gettysburg was ono of tho groat battlefields of tho war and tho valor displayed there by tho soldiers of both sldc3 is tho nation's heritage. It is certainly appropriate that the confederate side should be represented there by tho statue to General Lee." A speech was made in opposition to tho McClure bill, but it is to be hoped that the legislature of Pennsylvania' will rise above partisan considerations and devoto money for tho statue. The legislature of Missouri has ap propriated $10,000 for a state exhibit at tho Lewis and Clark exposition in Portland, Ore., in 1905. .BOfS We have started over three thousand boys in various parts of the country in a profitable business on their own account. We want a boy to represent Tlie vSatmrday Evening Post In every town. The work can be done after school hours and on Saturdays. It is pleasant, as well as profitable. The maga zines are sold among neighbors and friends in offices, stores, as well as in homes. . Ho Money Required to Begin The first week's supply is sent free. 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