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VOLUME 12, NUMBER 27
tMen Watts Mcty
Tho Fearless Suitor
Slnco a pretty maid is never
In possession of a brain,
Being noither kind nor clover,
But coquettish, dull and vain
Much I marvel that my soul is
Not oppressed with grave alarm;
For Clorinda, on tho whole, is
Well endowed with outward charm!
Ho who chosos somo ungainly,
Graceless damsel for a wife,
Who has been, to put it plainly,
Snubbed and bullied all her life;
Though sho seems, before they
marry,
Weak and timid as a mouse,
Ho may find she'll play old Harry
Whon sho's mistress of a houso!
If Clorinda is unable
Or unwilling to proparo
Dainty dishes for my table
With unfailing art and care;
If sho can not bake a biscuit,
Or compound a paltry cake,
I will marry her, and risk it,.
For Clorinda's own dear sake!
If her carriage is majestic,
I will not avoid a maid,
Fearing that she's not "domestic,"
But a proud and selflsh jade;
Though her glances, true and tender,
May belie a heart of flint,
Yot I would decline to render
Trustful homage to a squint!
Dvor swayod at her caprice, men
Must bo led by woman's "looks;"
Nor, lileo gluttonous policemen,
Only court efficient cooks.
I, Clorinda's loyal knight, place
Full reliance on tho view
That her heart is in the right place,
Even though her nose is, too!
Arthur Stanley.
As to teaching tho girls to work in
tho homo, the factories have taken
about all productive work out of the
hands of tho housewife, and the
mother who confines her baby-child
to her sido and teaches her the home
ly duties of cooking, patching, darn
ing, washing, ironing, sweeping,
scrubbing, and cleaning, is not re
garded with kindly eyes by the aver
ago roformer. Teach tho child to
play, is tho cry; make play of the
work, and do its thinking for it, re
moving all sense of responsibility
and- incentive to work out ita own
salvation.
Early Habits of Industry
A member of tho Now York board
of school inspectors, in a recent issue
of tho Mothers' Magazine, advances
some good ideas in favor of the oarly
training of childron, especially girls,
to practical habits of industry. Sho
says: "A girl who as a baby-child
stands by her mother's bread-board
ana gradually learns how to mix,
compound, knead and bake, is never
subject to those temptations which
ruin womanhood as is the girl who Is
encouraged to come up with white
hands and live in comparative idle
ness. The idle girl, tho girl .who has
not boon taught to use her -brains and
muscles every day. who has no flvod
purpose of work, has not tho resist
ing power of her sister who has beon
trained to an occupation." It is tho
trained, capable girl who gets tho
best positions and best wages, be
cause sho has been taught habits of
care and industry before she entered
tho business of life. It is the un
trained girl who leaves home unpro
parod for her toil, who is not to bo
depended upon, morally, physically
or mentally. Tho great, overwhelm
ing cause, this writer states, of the
idle girl, tho useless girl', tho girl
drifting into immorality, is "lack of
carp, and education to work in tho
home." The daughter s not edu
cated from babyhood uputo tho time
when sho enters work pr the married-
state, to know hovfc to use her
brains, her hands, hortnerves and
Muscles in productive work, People
aeom to have gone mad over tho idea
f ppar ?,? tho "d aUusen8Q of re
sponsibility, and of mating its les
sons of life ns Impractical as possible.
Somo Fasliion Notes
Nothing is plain, these days. Silk
trimming is seen on linen costumes,
tho collars and cuffs being detach
able so that tho garment may be
washed without injuring tho trim
ming. Several sets of these may be
made for each dress, and in this way,
one dress can be made to represent
several by the use of different colors
and textures.
Fringes of all kinds aro worn;
bead fringes in colors aro very love
ly. All kinds of buttons aro in
vogue, flat, ball shapo; crystal
buttons, wooden buttons, molds
covered with silk or silk crochet,
gold .buttons, odd metal buttons,
painted china buttons.
Belts, most varied, including many
attractive specimens in colors, with
beautiful clasps and buckles, as well
as plain round ones, aro worn. Nar
row leather belts aro worn with
many costumes, no matter the
colors. Wide lace collars and cuffs
aro liked. Some of tho skirts aro
draped either below the bolt-line in
tho back, or at tho knees from under
a panel. On many dresses a touch
of red 1b added by way of embroid
ery, braiding or cording.
In tho summer shoes there is a
tendency toward novel effects in
coloring and material, but not to
the extent of offending good taste
or conflicting with tho costume.
There aro many flower and' laco
hats, and the smaller hats arc gain
ing in favor; toques draped with silk
or lace, wnn nowers aro much worn.
--.fc,i", "mu, una nemp are
draped with fllmy laces, quaint pip
ings and shirrings.
Face voils are worn with many
little turbans and toques, and some
lovely new veiling has appeared,
shadow patterns, either floral or con
ventional; somo all black, and some
wiiito wim oiacic.
The new neckwear is charming, and
tho ilchu plays a prominent part in
many novelties. Black velvet rib
bon with designs more or 'less
olaborate, are worn about tho head:
simple styles of hair dressing con
tinue to bo favored.
granulated sugar; rub into this one
tablespoonful of butter; beat very
light one egg, and add the egg to
half a cupful of sweet milk; pour
this over the dry ingredients, and
beat all together , hard for a minute,
until thoroughly smooth and blended.
Take the cover off the pan and drop
the batter by spoonfuls in the cups
on top of the fruit, re-cover and let
cook undisturbed for twenty minutes,
but do not let boil so hard as to have
the water thrown up into the cups.
Tho batter should be cooked ligbi.
.and flaky. This amount should be
qnough for four to six cups. Care
must be taken, if the water evapo
rates too much to re-fill with boiling
water.' Serve with any preferred
sauce; hut hard sauce is usually
used.
Deviled Chicken Melt two table
spoonfuls of butter, add two table
spoonfuls of bread crumbs, two cup
fuls of finely chopped ichicken, and
one-half cupful of rich cream, and
stir until heated through. Press two
hard-boiled eggs through a Bieve and
add with two tablespoonfuls of
chopped parsley, ithree drops of onion
juice, salt and pepper to taste. Mix
this well, and take from the fire; add
curry powder, if it is liked. Put into
individual dishes, cover with bread
crumbs and brown.
Contributed Recipes
Fruit Puffs Take a wide pan of
sufficient size with a close-fitting
cover, and half-fill it with boiling
water. Half-fill as many cups as
there aro persons to serve with any
kind of fruit, fresh, stowed, or
canned, lay on top a bit of butter,
sugar to taste and a tablespoonful of
either fruit juice or boiling water.
Set tho cupa In tho pan of boiling
water and put on tho close-fitting
cover to keep in tho steam. Have a
battor prepared as follows: Sift to
gether three-quarters of a cup "of
flour, one toaspbonful of baking'
powder, ono tablespoonful of
Query Box
" ; F. S. Ground mustard is often
adulterated with' flour, which gives
it a pale color, 'and the usual meth6d
for restoring tho color is to use a
small quantity of turmeric; turmeric
is largely used in pickling to give a
yellow color. Charlock, or wild mus
tard is also used to give color.
"Consumer" Oleomargerine is a
mixture of fats, flavored with milk,
cream or butter; it is a cheap and
wholesome substitute for butter; not
harmful, but the objection is that
while very cheaply made, butter
prices are asked for it. Renovated
butter is any kind of old, spoiled
butter or fat made over by heat and
chemicals, and is unfit for consump
tion. Mrs. L. H. "White bread brewls"
is made bv hajitinir n n?nf rf fr,Y.
milk in a double boiler, and stirring
In bits of stale bread to absorb the
milk; season with butter and salt
and cover closely until wanted to
serve hot with any sauce liked. It
should not be pasty, but a dry, light
porridge.
E. I. W. To remove India ink
ptalns, or those made by Indelible ink
or pencils, soak-well with alcohol,
either wood or grain. . To take the
stain from soiled nails, apply alcohol
with a soft old tooth-brush, then
wash in warm suds.
Mrs. B. MushrnnTtia o ,
containing mushrooms, must not be
eaten after getting cold, as the left
overs are apt to develop injurious
properties and become poisonous.
Either oat all that is cooked, or
throw awav what is left.
. C S. M. For dandelion coffee
buy a pound of the roots at the drug
store; take nothing but the clean
white root In coarse pieces, half an
Inch across; bake it until brown as
you would coffee, then grind and 'use
w th real coffee, half rand half. Use
with cream and sugar, and it will
assist in laying on fat because of im
proved health. .
secrete' "more fat than they can throw
off; this sebum distends tho pore and
if not removed hardens and becomes
a pimple. Sometimes it does not
fester, but remains for a long time
in the skin, and its apex being ex
posed to the dust becomes blackened.
When tho skin closes entirely over
this tiny plug, it does not discolor,
but is termed a miluim, and to re
move this, the skin should bo pricked
with a fine needle and the plug
pressed out. Pimples and black
heads are the bane of youth, as
wrinkles are of later years. Pimples
are a result, not a cause, and the
cause must bo reached before the
cure can be effected. The causes
are ill-selected diet, lack of exercise
of the right kind, defective diges
tion, torpid circulation, ill-ventilated
rooms, neglected bathing, and im
paction of the colon-clogged bowels;
constipation. The last is one of tho
greatest evils known to humanity.
Disease and facial ugliness are tho
outcome of internal uncleanness.
You would not attempt to clean the
house by plastering dirt against the
doors and windows. In like man
ner, to cover the skin with pastes,
creams, lotions, powders and so
called beautifiers is worse than use
less. The cleaning must be from tho
inside.
Bleaching Beeswax
After removing the honey, melt
the beeswax in a copper or porce
lain lined vessel, and when liquefied,
stir two ounces of pulverized cream
tartar into twenty-five pounds of the
melted wax. thorouchlv mix. thfn
.allow it to deposit most of the
foreign matter, still keeping it in
liquid ror.m; then draw off the clear,
and let deposit further immirltinR:
then, ..while still hot, draw it into
emu Bueem, riDDons or scales under
water, using a little roller for the
purpose. Then lay the; thin wax on
a cloth frame (the cloth stretched
and tacked on the frame), and ex
pose to the direct rays of the sun
and the dew for several days, during
which-time the wax should lose its
yellow color;" but as this bleaching
affects only the surface, it Is neces
sary to repeat the process of .melt
ing, drawing and exposing- until
white clear through.
Another way is to shave the wax
into very thin slices, lay it on sack
ing, or coarse muslin tacked on
frames, turning the scales or slices
frequently to expose all sides,
occasionally sprinkling with soft
water during the day and letting the
dew. fall on it during the night,
bleaching It thus for about a month.
If novt white clear through, melt and
slice , again, repeat the exposure,
doing this until the wax is clear
white. The time will depend on the
state of the weather.
This Is for small quantities; for
large . quantities, suitable machinery
must be had. The cera alba (white
wax) of the druggist is refined,
bleached beeswax, and you pay
well for it.
Facial Eruptions
During youth the sebaceous (oil)
glands of the skin are very active and
Houso Pests
Ono of our readers tells us that
she prefers naptha for the extermi
nation of bedbugs, as it Is clean,
injures nothing, is easily applied,
and if plentifully used, is absolutely
sure. The vapor is highly inflam-
:mSE ' and the work shuld be done
with doors and windows open, and
neither fire nor light in the room,
ihese insects do not always confine
themselves to tho ' bed, and often
they are not found on the bed at all,
as thev hido in tTi toii i i..I
; in floors, behind moldings, in up-
. iuimture, ana under the
casings of doors and windows and
behind baseboards, where 'the plas
tering Is in any way broken. Uso a
spring-bottom oiler and plenty of
naptha, and force the fluid int
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