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.Query Box
Mrs. A. W. Sorry I cannot irivn vnn
the recipes called for.
Mrs. M. Two tablespoonfuls of "coal
oil well beaten into a quart of soft
ts warm water will clean RmnkPfi win.
(lows. Use warm. (
Hattie Patient rubbing with chlor
oform will often remove paint stains
from most delicate fabrics.
Housewife Brush the bottom pie
crust with 'white of an, egg, before
putting in the fruit, to keep it from
being soggy.
Mrs. S. C. B. So long as your hus
band does not object, I cannot see that
it 1s any other person's business.
Lottie B. Most colors can be faded
out of stuffs which are to be dyed
by boiling in water with a small quan
tity of spirits of salt added.
C. Ff B. Regarding the ailing-rubber
tree, it would be best to consult a
regularllorist, and it may be necessary
to leave the plant in his care for a
time.
Mrs. S. C. The child may be suf
fering from constipation. You should
know in regard to that. A majority
of the-evils of ill health result from
this cause.
Emma S. White silk and cotton and
woolen goods can be dyed- almost any
color, but as silk, cotton and wool all
take dyes differently, it is almost im
possible to re-dye any fabric of mixed
stuffs any color except a very dark
one, and that not always satisfactory.
Mrs. B. This is recommended for
cleaning your glass decanter: Put
into it a little lump of soda and a ta
blespoonful of vinegar, leaving the
mouth open while you shake it, or it
may burst. Rinse with clear water and
turn, down to dry.
Alice C. To prevent the fading of
ilannellette, dissolve two teaspoonfuls
of sugar of lead in an ordinary sized
pail full of water; put the garments of
doubtful color in this while warm, and
CHILDREN AFFECTED
By Mother's Food and Drink.
Many babies have been launched
into life with constitutions weakened
by disease taken in with their moth
er's milk. Mothers cannot be too care
ful as to the food they use while nurs
ing their babies. The experience, of a
Kansas City mother is a case in point:
"I was a great coffee drinker from a
child, and thought I could not eat a
meal without it. But I found at last
it was doing me harm. For years I
had been troubled with dizziness, spots
before my eyes and pain in my heart,
to which was added, two years ago, a
chronic sour stomach. The baby was
born 7 months ago, and almost from
the beginning, it, too, suffered from
sour stomach. She was taking it from
me!
"In my distress I consulted a friend
of more experience than mine, and she
told me to quit coffee, that coffee did
not make good milk, I have since ascer
tained that it really dries up the milk.
"So, I quit coffee, and tried tea and
at last cocoa. But they did not agree
with me. Then I turned to Postum
Coffee with the happiest results. It
proved to be the very thing I needed.
It not only agreed perfectly with baby
and myself, but it increased the flow
of my milk. My husband then quit
coffee and used Postum, quickly got
well of the dyspepsia with which he
had been troubled. I no longer suf
fer from the dizziness blind spells,
pain in my heart or sour stomach.
Postum has cured them.
"Now we all drink Postum from my
husband to rny seven months' old
baby. It has proved to be the best hot
drink we have ever used. We would
not give up Postum for the best coffee
we ever drank." Name given by Pos
tum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
There's a reason.
Get the little -book "The road to
Wellville" in each package.
The Commoner.
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Then wash as
let stand until cold,
usual.
ww11!6'8 ?rama-ThG child should eat
what is placed before him or go hun
gry, unless you know it is something
he positively dislikes. He should not
be allowed to pick and choose simply
because ho wants his own way. Do not
allow him to make the meal uncorafort
able. TessieYou should let patent nos
trums of which you do not know the
ingredients, alone. Much harm some
times results from their use. Simple
lotions and creams which can be made
at home, or .prepared by your druggist
from a known formula, are generally
safe and harmless, and effective
, ,Yo,liug Mther See answer to "Lou
ie s Mamma." When the little one be
gins to "act ugly" at the table, quietly
and firmly remove him, shutting him
out of the dining room until he is will
ing to behave. Fasting will not hurt
him. When he is hungry enough to
behave, return him to favor, but do not
humor him in his "tantrums" at table
to the discomfort of everybody else.
J. C. For the overtaxed eyes, use
a wash compound of one pint of boil
ing or distilled water, a teaspoonful of
refined borax and fifteen drops of spir
its of camphor. Or, one grain of bor
acic acid to a tablesponful of distilled
or boiled water.' Drop into the eye
with a medicine dropper, which will
cost you five cents. Use freely several
times a day, or as often as the eyes
feel UnCOmforf-n.hlp. Tf tho nvna frrmtiln
in the night, use as needed.
The child who does not have a child
hood, with a child's pleasures and sor
rows as well, who does not know the
enthusiasm, the zest, the hopes and the
eager looking forward of children, is
defrauded of its birthright, and the
sense of privation will grow stronger
as the child grows older until there
will come a time when it will bitterly
resent its loss and reproach those who
are responsible for it. It is not al
ways wise to shield the child from
disappointments, or to make its path
way too smooth; strength is gained
by exercise, and life is never well de
veloped witnout its quota of labor.
Teach the child to be self-reliant, and
to overcome whatever difficulties may
arise in its pathway.
An Easter Pudding
Take half a package of gelatine, put
it into a bowl, cover it half an inch
With hot water. Stand the bowl in a
dish of hot water and keep it warm on
the range. Stir the gelatine occasion
ally so it will melt faster. Next, put
one and a half pints of rich milk in
a sauce pan and stand it in a larger
kettle of boiling water and bring it to
the boiling point. While the milk is
heating, prepare the other ingredients
of the pudding as follows: put four
heaping tablespoonfuls of granulated
sugar into a large bowl, add the yolks
of three raw eggs, whip the sugar and
eggs to a froth. By this time, the
milk will be quite hot; pour it into
the dish with the gelatine and stir
briskly with a fork. When the gela
tine is well mixed with the milk, stand
the sauce pan back in the boiling wa
ter to let the milk heat again. While
the milk is heating the second time,
whip the whites of the eggs to a stiff
froth. When the milk begins to wrin
kle on top, take it off and gradually
pour the boiling milk over the beaten
yolks of eggs and sugar, stirring the
mixture rapidly with a fork in the left
hand. When well mixed, pour whole
back into the sauce pan; stand it again
in the boiling water and stir in half a
teaspoonful of 'the extract of vanilla.
As soon as the mixture begins to thick
en to a thick cream, quickly stir in
the whites of the eggs; then pour the
pudding into either one large mold
holding a quart, or into two pint molds
and stand the molds away in a cold
place where the pudding' will stiffen to
a jelly.
To make the sauce:' To a pint of
cream add three heaping tablespoon
fuls of powdered sugar and tho juico of
a small lemon and half a teaspoonful
of vanilla flavoring extract. Beat
tho cream with the ingredients to a
stiff froth; pour into a pretty glass
pitcher and stand It in tho refrigerator.
-Ladies' World.
A QUERY- ANSWERED
We are pleased to make comment
on an able editorial in tho Wall Street
Journal entitled "Why?" in which tho
Journal sets forth a long list of things
both material and immaterial that
show the waking up of tho people. It
winds up its article by asking if there
is any explanation that will account
for all these phenomena in a nation
and during a period of abounding pros
perity. It says tho air -seems charged
with the electricity of discontent, and
asks tho question, why?
We will endeavor to explain why, as
the matter occurs to us. The most
plausible explanation is that while this
country is prosperous, most prosper
ous, the individual is not equally pros
perous. We mean that the percentage
of prosperity enjoyed by the individual
is not equalized in such a way that
with the growth of prosperity of the
country, individual prosperity gener
ally has kept pace with it.
, Taking one hundred units as a basis
of our calculation and illustration, we
feel confident that statistics will
clearly show that where tho individual,
say five decades ago, set for himsolf
as his share 50 units he today will not
get over 20. There is too much of the
prosperity that lodges in the pockets
of non-producers owing to conditions
that are becoming more and more
onerous for the individual, the hewer
of the wood and the drawer of the wa
ter. The American farmer and artisan
have of course shared in the general
prosperity of the country, but not in so
marked a degree as those people who
by means of subornation and chicanery
have been placed in a position to avail
themselves of more than their share.
The working man having shared more
or less, principally loss, in his prosper
ity, is enabled to take his nose from
the grindstone and look about. What
does he see? The former nresldonr
of the Steel Trust gambling at Monte
uano, palaces erected In our cities
that would put Aladdin's lamp to
shame, and the occupants of these
palaces spending money as free as
water, under a republican or a demo
cratic form of government, as you may
please to call it. He thinks that he
ought to have more of the good things;
therefore do you blame the individual
for striking a "note of revolt." We
think this is a good answer to the
query of our contemporary. The
Stockholder.
Bread
keeps fresh, longer
Bread
tastes far better
Bread
does you more good
when it's made with
YEAST
the wonderful yeast.
Tout roam In tlm ypant tlmt raised tho First
Grand I'rizont tlio M. Lotiln Kx posit ion una"
in sold ly nil jjroc. re nt 6n n packnun ciioukIi
Tor 0 lo.wcs. fiend n portal mrrt for our new
lllnatmtod book. "Good Brcud: How to
3!ako it."
NORTHWESTERN YEAST OO.
Chicago, III.
1 ri kJA iJI4J
4th. Cast the burden of tho defense
of all such orders on the law depart
ment of the federal government.
5th. Live rates cases, etc., prece
dence in courts.
6th. Extend to rate cases the pro
visions of the Elkins' law.
A carrier would hesitate to continue
to charge an unreasonable rate if li
able to a heavy fine. A complainant
would be freed from the next to Im
possible undertaking of proving in a
court of laws that a given particular
rate was unreasonable. One of the de
fects in tho present system seems to
be the lack of a standard of reason
ableness in tho matter of railroad
charges. There is no present measure
or yard stick. If the coinmisioner's
finding is made the measure or yard
stick until the railroad proves its er
rors, a complainant might obtain some
iclief before crushed, by the burden of
expense to which now subjected and
from which but scantily relieved un
der the "Townsend Bill."
Very respectfully yours,
TOWNSEND SCUDDER.
MR. SCUDDER'S EXPLANATION
To the Editor of The Commoner: Ac
quaintance with the gentlemen named
in last week's issue of your paper un
der the heading "Misrepresentatives"
enables me to say that their vote
against the'Townsend rate fixing bill"
was due not to a "bias in favor of the
corporations," but to the conviction
that if enacted into law that bill would
centralize in the arms of a partisan
government a power dangerous to the
country and its Institutions.
Is it not possible that there may
be found relief from existing evils
along other lines? Perhaps the en
closed may suggest a line of thought
capable of development.
1st. Penalize the charging of unrea
sonable rates, or the imposing of un
reasonable regulations, and extend the
scope of existing law to meet the pri
vate cars, terminal, switch, and classi
fication abuses.
2nd. Empower the Interstate Com
merce Commission to enter an order
declaring in a given case what Is a rea
sonable rate.
,3d, t. Make this order and Its- con
tents presumptive evidence of this
truth?
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is recommended as a good location for
a democratic weekly newspaper. Lo
cated on main lino of Atlanta & Coast
Line railroad, county seat, good terri
tory, new court house said to be one
of the finest in state, and well located
as regards natural advantages. Ad
dress, with stamp, D. W. Smith, It. F.
D. No. 1, Maysville, N. C.
Any live community In eastern or
middle Tennessee desiring to secure
the services of a good newspaper man
and practical printer should address
W. H. Slubbin's, Sierre Madre, Calif.
William E. Isloy, Valparaiso, Ind.,
would like to correspond with parties
who may desire to secure the services
of an editorial writer or manager 'and
editor of a democratic weekly news
paper in a good community.
Any northern Illinois democratic
newspaper desiring the services of,
an assistant editor and news writer
may learn something of advantage by
addressing "Kalb," care The Com
moner.
Robert C. Piersol, Monroe City, Mo.,
wants a locution in the middle west for
the establishment of a democratic,
weekly, Experienced newspaper maa'
and practical printer. Has some cap
ital. Address him, Box 540, Monroe
City, Mo.
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