iff!!jv!xwrf wtT7ywgypMyp
. V V ' Tt.V V. l iTfl. 'fcK1-
T
The Coniiiioiie:r
11
!.
JUNE 21', 1907
eta "-i
to' do so," doors should not bo shut.
In these days of midnight prowlers,
however, one is scarcely safe to
sleep with open doors; or, in some
localities, with open windows. But
wherever possible, the air should be
freely admitted.
Do not neglect to sun and air the
bedding often,' and do not be in a.
hurry to "make up" tne ueas or a
morning. Teach your family to
throw back the covers and shake
the pillows, "opening doors and win
dows as soon as practicable, and in
this way allow the escape of as much
of the impure air as possible. A
good plan is to keep a set of night
clothes to be worn in the bed, tak
ing off everything worn during the
day, and hanging over chairs or rods
to thoroughly air and dry during the
night.
If possible to do so and with
most of us it can readily be done
take at least a sponge bath, or a "rub
down" with a towel, every night be
fore going to bed. Once having es
tablished this habit, it will be hard
to gtye it up. Cold water or the
temperature of the room in which
It can stand all day is very re
freshing, and the work should be
done rapidly, in which case the
slight chill of , application vill be
succeeded by a delightful glow of
warmth and a feeling of suppleness
that nothing else will bring. For
a cleansing bath, the water should
be warm, and a good soap used, but
if possible, a wash-off with cool or
vigorous rubbing down with the
hand or a dry towel.
Drink plenty of water of the tem
perature you like best, but let ice
water alone in hot weather. It does
not allay thirst, and the more one
drinks, . the more is wanted. Eat
nourishing foods in quantities that
suit the individual digestion. Some
people can not eat vegetables; fruits
disagree with others, and'many per
sons thrive best on a meat diet.
With vegetables, however, it is im
possible to do too much grinding.
Everybody knows, or ought to know,
that all the digestion of vegetables
is accomplished in the mouth and
small intestines. If there is not
enough mastication the work can not
be done afterward." -
Query Box
M, S. Try the soap jelly, as it
is easily made and not expensive.
Some skins can not bear the use of
soap without the dry, drawn feel
ing. The soap cream is cleansing.
Cassie M. There1 is a bath brush
with a handle, which will aid you
in reaching your back during the
bath. A good one will cost you from
75 cents up. Even a "rub down"
with a coarse towel will start cir
culation. Homeseeker Try to see the place
in all seasons. You can not believe
all you hear, or even all you see, if
the season is June. Dp not buy a
home anywhere until you thoroughly
investigate conditions. It might be
best to rent awhile, rather than buy
too hastily.
J. L. According to census re
ports, one woman in every five is
employed in gainful occupations. It
is generally because of having to
earn a living for themselves or de
pendents. Few women work "for
the fun of it," or to displace the
men. Most of us would prefer to be
supported in the home.
Oma S. The use of olive oil is
recommended by some of our best
physicians. The oil is a food, and can
be used as such with no harmful ef
fects. Honest druggists will sell you
the'real oil. It will cost about $1.25
per quart, and a quart will last a
long time.
C. T. Sometimes the remedy is
worse than the disease. Any amount
of freckles would be preferable to
the ruin wrought by the "heroic"
method of removal. Corrosive -sublimate
is a strong poison, and should
not be used by inexperienced hands,
but is often.- used on the face with
the results you describe. Best let
it alone.
Mrs. J. K. B. wishes to know
what, will remove stains from white
linen caused by the red in the em
broidery silk spreading when the art
icle was dipped in too warm water.
The flowers are not damaged, but-
the color spread into the cloth.
Sometimes 'repeated washings will
take it out. Let us hear from those
having had experience, very soon.
L. V. has had the misfortune to
spill bluing on a linen centerpiece.
Would be glad to know what will
remove the coloring. Somebody
please tell us sodn.
For the Laundry
A fine, thin lingerie waist should
be ironed wet, without starching, in
order to have it look its best. It
must be worn over a stiff corset cov
er to give it a good shape, as heavy
starching destroys its daintiness of
appearance, making it look like mus
lin. If starch must be used, only the
very finest, and very thinest should
be attempted, and the material
ironed smooth without making it
stiffer than the new cloth.
For cleaning a light wrap, or
head-throw made of ice-wool, cover
it with 'flour and rub carefully until
the flour looks dirty; change the
flour and-repeat until the "wool looks
clean, then T'ake -well, hang in the
wind, and the flour will all fall out
of it. If washed in suds made of
pure white .soap, do not rub, or
wring, but squeeze gently y in the
suds, pressing the wool to dislodge
the soil, rinse in slightly blue water
and dry out of doors. The flour is
best, if care is taken.
For colored ginghams, soak in
water in which ox gall is used in
proportion of one taniespoonful of
oxrgall to one gallon x'f water, before
may bo used. After sdaking, wash
in warm suds, rinse quickly and dry
in the shade, ironing before it gets
'entirely dry. Hot sunshine will fade
colors in cotton goods.
Colored calicoes, or light muslins
with designs in colors that are apt
to fade, should bo washed in bran
water, as you would In soap suds,
rinsed in clear water and dried. No
other starching Is necessary. THo
bran should bo boiled in water
enough to wash the garment a half
gallon of bran being enough for a
dress boiling the bran for an hour,
stirrlug to prevent burning; strain,
and use the water as you would soap
suds. The starch wator is as cleans
ing as soap. Colored goods, if soap
must be used, should first bo soaked
in medium strong alum or salt wa
ter, then washed in suds; the soap
must not be rubbed on the goods.
It is best to dry colored goods in the
shade, ironing before they are quite
dry, using only moderate heat for
the ironing. Heat fades delicate
colors.
cd ere this, indoors; but If this Iififc
been neglected, do so nt onco. Set Ih'o
whole hunch of roots In the ground,
and when the time comes to sot them
out in tho border, tho sprouts can he
taken with tho parent tuber and will
make a good plant. Dahllaw can tao
be grown readily from seeds, anTl
these should be planted In boxes in
doors as early as possible.
J
For the Toilet
. ' -,JWhen Doctors Disagree"
We are repeatedly warned that
only thorough mastication of meats
wilL save us from the horrors of
dyspepsia, and lecture after lecture
has been hurled at the mothers,
warning them of their duty to teach
the children to chew their meats to
a pulp before swallowing. Now,
however, according to newspaper re
ports, there comes forward no less
an authority than Dr. H. W. Wiley,
chief chemist of the department of
agriculture, and tells us in brief that
we must 'swallow our meats in
chunks! Here is the report as giv
en by the Inter-Ocean:
"Mastication has no part in the
digestion of meat. There is some
reason for-believing that chewing
will make meat indigestible. The
saliva is an alkali. Acids are needed
for the conversion of flesh into the
elements that nourish the human
body.
"Too much chewing may raise the
alkalinity of flesh used for food to
such an extent as to seriously ham
per the work of the stomach, which,
alone, has to do with the disposal
of animal matter.
"This, in brief, is the gospel of
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief chemist
of the department of agriculture.
His views were called forth by a re
port 'by Professor Irving Fisher of
Yale on the relative value of animal
and vegetable foods.
- "Aside from knowledge gained by
him as a chemist, Dr. Wiley has
noted that the carnivorous animals
do not chew their food. They tear
it from the bones and swallow it in
chunks. .Therefore the learned chief
chemist holds that if a man can get
a chunk of meat down into hisstom
ach, no matter how big it may be, he
has done all nature requires of him.
"Mastication is good for the devel
' opment of the muscles," says Dr.
Wiley, "but chewing of meat is un- washing in order to set the colors
necessary, if not positively harmful. ' Turpentine in the same, proportion
Oiling a Floor -
One of "Our Girls" writes me: "I
got the kitchen floor done in a few
days after I received the directions
for oiling it, and it has already had
a test of its usefulness. I happen
to have an old-time cooking pot (for
an open fire) which has long legs,
and holds about a gallon. This was
just the thing to keep the oil hot
over the coals, and an agate-ware
bucket held the oil. I mixed the col
oring matter with it, and by experi
menting, found that the hotter the
oil, the better it penetrated the wood,
so I kept it bubbling hot all the time.
The oil must be stirred frequently
to keep the ochre from settling to
the bottom. Two coats of stain were
applied, and the floor will never
shrink, swell or splinter. I tried
filling the cracks with the paper
pulp and paste, but it is too slow
work for me, so I will use putty for
the rest. The floors that I have not
yet oiled are getting worn and splint-'
ered, and the boards are shrinking,
leaving wide cracks." This friend
had been told that she could not oil
her floors, as the lumber was of an
inferior grade, and the oil would al
ways make it "sticky," so she asked
for advice and followed it. The
directions used were printed in the
issue of January 18, of this year, and
the floors are those of a farm home,
used by men and boys.
Floral Lore
Do not forget that you will want
some chrysanthemums this fall; and If
you really do want them, you must
plant the seeds this spring, and care
for the plants during the summer, pot
ting them at the' proper time. The
plants can be left to grow and
bloom In the garden, and if they are
in a, situation so they can be sheltered
from the cold winds and frost of the
late autumn, they make a fine showing
with but little trouble. But for the
best results, they should be potteu" as
soon as they get large enough In the
spring time, and gradually shifted in
to larger pots as they grow, until as
large as you want them. Quite larqe
plants will need ten or twelve inch
pots; but nice sized plants can he
grown In a six inch size. If grown
in pots, the pots may be sunk in the
border, and given plenty of water,
never letting them dry out entirely.
rxhe soil must be rich garden loam,
enriched with old, well-rotted cow ma
nure is about right. If kept.gro.wing in
the garden, they may be lifted carefully
late in the summer, and when the cool
nights come, earned Into the house for
bloom. ' Coming as they do, after al
most everything else is gone, they are
well worth the trouble necessary to
bring them to perfection. Seeds do
not always "come true," and only by
buying splants from the parent stalk
can one be sure.
Dahlia roots should have been start-
An excellent habit "is that of rub
bing tho entire body with moistened
salt when taking a bath. The salt
used Is Just common, coarso, barrel
salt, and it should bo taken up in
the hands, rubbing tho body with it
while wet, then washing off with
tepid water. It brings a glow to tho
skin, and stirs a lazy circulation into
activity. If one has no bath facili
ties, a "salt rub" with a coarso towel
is an excellent thing. For this pur
pose, take a common, loose-textured
turklsh towel, and dip It In a satu
rated sqlutlon of salt and water, let
it dry, and then,, at night, before
going to bed, rub tho whole body
briskly with this dry, salty towel.
This towel may be used two or three
times, when It should bo washed and
again saturated with salt, dried, and
the rubbing repeated. Do this at
least twice a week.
It is claimed that a salt bath is
good Tor the face and hands, but for
most of skins, it would seem not to
agree. Its use in this way will usu
ally roughen and wrinkle tho skin.
A little salt in the water, at onco
washed off with clear, tepid water,
and the skin, anointed with a simple
cold cream, Is permissible. One does
not care to pickle tho face and
hands.
PufnnesB under the eyes calls for
the physician's advice, as it is al
most alwava due to some internal
disturbance, somo of which are anae
mia; sluggish circulation, kidney
troubles, lack of sleep or overworked
nerves. Very littlo can bo done for
it by outward application.
Worry and facial grimaces bring
more wrinkles than anything else.
The woman who doubts her friends,
hates her enemies, .covets her neigh
bor's belongings, and sees only tho
disagreeable things about her, will
have wrinkles, no matter what she
may use as an eradicator.
One of the best cosmetics is a right
diet. Eat plenty of spinach every i
day in the year, if you can get it.
Spinach is called "the broom of tho
stomach," but not every one can eat
it continuously without getting tired
of it. But eat it as often' as you ;
can.
WENT TO TEA
And It Wound Her Bobbin
V
ro rir'niHnc frenuentlv affects
.people as badly as coffee. A lady in'
SallsDury, jvia., says J-uaL miv Wtttt
compelled to abandon the use of cof
fee a good many years ago, because
it threatened to ruin her health and
that she went over to tea drinking,
but finally, she had dyspepsia so
bad that she had lost twenty-fivo
pounds and no food seemed to agreo
with her.
She further says: "At this time I
was induced to take up the famous
food drink, Postum, and was so much
pleased with the results that I have
never been without it since. I com-t
menced to improve at once, regained
my twenty-five pounds of- flesh and
went some beyond my usual weight.
"I know Postum to be good, pure,
and healthful, and there never was
an article, and never will be, I be
lieve, that does so surely take the
place of coffee, as Postum Food Cof
fee. The beauty of it all is that it
is satisfying and wonderfully nour
ishing. I feel as if I could not sing
its praises too loud." Read "Tho
n 1 M itr.ii 111 ft 1 1.,.
itoaa to vveiiviue, xu jm.
"There's a Reason."
Tsr
ii
1
iditgikulBit.u3liiAt
.'ftS.itj'ljMAAijjjtov, 'i-jjjlif'! -all.