TALES ABOUT WRITERS. CONCERNING THE NURSERY THE CHOICE OF PAINT. GOFFS ADVANCE. A. M.
KERR SON, Eds. end Props. QOFFS. KANSAS. ATTACKED THE HEART Awful Neuralgia Caaa Curad to Stay Cured by Dr.
Williams' Pink Pill. Neuralgia iu any form is painful but wliou it attacks the heart it is frequently futiil. Uouiplicatud with iudigoNtiou of a form that affected the vitul orgnn it an in-Htitnco jtiNt roxrtud. The case is that of Mr. F.
h. Graves, of riefuuintliill, who tolls of his trouble and cure as follows I traveled considerably, was exposed to all kindsof weather nnd wusirrogulur in my sleopiiiK and eating. I suppose this wng the cause of my sickness, at SOME NICE PLAIN CAKES. these Ara Easy to Make and to Bak and of th Toothsome, Whols-soins Sort. I am giving this week some, recipes for really "pluln this means that they are easily and quickly made and baked, and not very great quantities of butter and eggs, the two most expensive articles, in uuy of them The "ono, two, three cake" takes Its name from the proportions: One cup of butter, two cf sugar and three of Hour; half a cup of butter will answer the purpose, and four eggs are to be used.
In making this rake the sugar and butter and egtw" may be all beaten together; the Hour and the cup of milk, added alternately; two tenspoon-fuls of baking powder added the last thing and the juice of a lemon for The late Henry Harland is said to bare received $70,000 from one of hla novels, but his manner of working killed him. M. Jusserand, the French ambassador to this country, is a voluminous author, whose works abundantly show the thoroughness of the wrllpr. Dr. William Henry Drummond, (he poet of the French-Canadians, has given up his medical practice and gone lpto copper mining In the dominion.
A volume by the well-known Italian tenor, Slgnor CuriiHo, containing caricatures of members of the company as well as the staff Is attracting much attention. The singer will give the profits of the sale of the book to the Italian Benevolent Institute and its hospital. Bliss Perry, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, is appointed to a professorship in English literature In Harvard college, a chair which has remained vacant since 1SC0 and which before that time was occupied by George Tlrknor, Henry Wailsworth Ijongfel-low and James Russell Iiwell. The "poet's corner" in the cemetery of the Alexander Newskl cloister in St. Petersburg has been augmented by the grave of Myrrha Llchwi.Uaya (Ylbtrt), one of the few Russian women who have attained eminence for their poetry.
She was the daughter of a prominent lawyer In St. Petersburg, where she was born in lSiilt. In lSIMi her first volume of poems was iisucd; three other volumes followed. I lor verse is characterized by oriental touches, and her favorite theme Is love. James Branch Cabell, the author, has been so annoyed lately by Inquiries from Btrangers as to how he works that he has adopted a form of reply which he declares to be etHcac ious.
"I find I do my best work," so runs Mr. Cabell's statement, "lying at full length In a marble tank filled with gold fish, with the water at a temperature of 81 to lessen the heat of inspiration." As a matter of fact, Mr. Cabell admits that he does not know his method of composition further than that he rarely averages 1,000 words at a sitting and that he works only at ninht. Where Genius Fails. They have traced the story of earti and her myriad children in the rocks, wherever it was written by the hand of nature herself, and neither the In-nitely great nor the infinitely little has escaped the vigilance of their scrutiny.
Rut the geniii3 has yet to be born who can state and explain the laws which govern the gyrations of a collar-button, dropped by an angry man at the dressing-table, and found a week later by his wife among the rubbish under the grate. The hitherto unpublished love letters of Mine, de Stuel to Benjamin Constant, which are to be printed soon, promise to awaken interest in the legal of letters of importance in the world of literature. The publication of the letters in question has been authorized by the Baroness de Nolde, who is a descendant of Constant's wife, the BaronesH von Mahren-holtz; but the ie Hroglie family, Mme. de Stael's direct descendants, are said to be strongly opposed to it. AXgetaUePreparalionforAs-slmilaling theFoodandReguIa ling the Stoinaciis and Dowels of Promotes Digeslion.Cheer(i nessandltest.Contains neither Opium norIincral.
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SE V. "-el EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. ssasigiiiS II' 3 Mi WW 1 1 Paint Is Best for tha Walls Ventilation Must Ba Seen To Furniture Suitably Low, Oil-painted walls are tho ideal fin Ish for the nursery or for chlldron'i rooms generally. They may be washed easily; the finish does not flake off and All the air with impalpable dust, as do water colors under the same clr-c*msatnees, and the surface of the oil paint will defy the fingers of tho little ones in their more mischievous moods when the desire seizes them to Investigate the component parts of of the family home. Where the purse will permit, the ornamenting of tho walls of the nursery may become a step of genuine Importance.
The ideal coloring cf the walls for the nursery when plain Is a soft olive green with bright tan celling. This Is good for the eyes and the nerves and offers lesson in harmonious colorings. Correct ventilation should be had from the top of the windows either by means of a wheel introduced into the upper window pane or by the construction of a transom six inches or more deep, which shall extend quite across the window, and which may be lei down from the top, making a V-shaped opening, and not open from the top, making an inverted V. The latter would direct a current of air upon the heads of the occupants. The former would make an injurious draft impossible.
If the windows are lower than four feet from the floor they should be provided with bars or strong wire lattice or screens. Window shields for the nursery are sold in many style3, joth simple and costly. The best floor treatment is hard oil, with small rugs about that may be taken up and shaken each morning. A satisfactory crib is of enameled iron with no ornament. For tiny children it should be provided with a muslin valance adjusted around the top of the frame so as to protect the little sleeper within from all drafts.
This should be of the simplest muslin that may be laundered every week or as often as the rest of the linen. A low built In seat, a foot or less high, is a convenience for the child and removes him from all temptation to sit long on the floor, where, if anywhere, drafts are to be felt. Unless the regularly made nursery furniture adapted to child stature is bought a small kitchen table may be enameled either white or blue. Old chairs in the same way may be shortened and painted. A cot may serve Instead of built in seat, and should be cut low for juvenile convenience.
A toy box should be constructed, and. If possible, a play cupboard In which play pinafores may be hung. And if the little one be taught to put away both toys and aprons at night the first lessens in neatness, which had to the formation of helpful habits, will have been learned. Chicago Tribune. A CHARMING BEDROOM.
It Takes Taste as Well as Money to Get Results What One Girl Accomplished. It Is not In buying a set of French furniture for a boudoir and knowing that the decoration of the walls correspond in design and period that art lies. For instance, here is the way a girl of taste as well as wealth has a dressing-room arranged, which Is done entirely In the low pieces of the eighteenth century salons. In it she has managed to introduce an air of cozy comfort which is not usually associated with this period. First, on the floor in front of every place where one can sit either to dress or to lounge are scattered oblong cush.
ions rather stiffly upholstered. There is one under the toilet table, one in front of the high-backed settle, and one near a dear little oblong seat which has low caned supports at each end. Fitting in this there is also a cushion by way of upholstering, and it is cleverly arranged within the folds of a screen which really is the piece de resistance of the room. In one of those irregularly paneled affairs and two-thirds of the way down the ir regular gilt frame work incloses bev eled mirrors. So that the little back less seat is there for a double purpose either the pretty occupant can face this screen of many mirrors when her hair is being done or she can use it as a background when visiting with her friends.
The settle also is an ideal lounging place, as it is set fairly and squarely Into the corner with cushions in as well as under It. Its high end and back become in this way part of the wall decoration, especially as they sup port a soft drapery of brocade which is hung from the corner. Near enough to it to be in convenient reach is the little triple French stand for books and papers. The dressing table is ar ranged between the parted window curtains after the English fashion and has the low arm chair, also cushioned. in front of it And there is another convenient little piece 'of furniture with small cabinet doors and drawers, which has a high swing oval mirror and below it little shelves a glass top which is devoted to bottles and jars and the scents and pomades which form the working part of dressing and beautifying.
Chicago Tribune. Neeselrode Pudding. This is an extra troublesome pudding to make, but is very delicious. Line the bottom of an ice-cream mold with thin slices of sponge cake that have been soaked in sherry wine; put a layer of all sorts of candied and preserved fruits on this, cut up very fine; then more cake. and so on until the mold is nearly full.
Make a custard of a quart of milk, sugar to taste and six egg with a cake of grated chocolate; add two tablespoon-fuls dissolved gelatin boiling hot. strain and let cool; pour this over the sake and fruit In the mold, seal carefully and pack in Ice. When turned out It makes a beautiful dish. Serve with whipped cream sweetened and flavored to taste. Cream Cake.
One cup of maple sugar, one egg, ore-half tcaspoonful salt, one cup sour cream, 1 cups of flour, one teaspoon-ful soda. Add the soda to the cream, when It foams add the egg well beaten, next the sugar mH salt, last 'he Cour Bake la V5 0TfB- Fifty years ago a woll-pslnted house was a rare sight; to-day an unpalnted houso is rarer. If people knew the real value of psint ft bouse in need of paint would be "scarcer than hen's teeth." There was some excuse for our forefathers. Many of tbera lived In houses hardly worth preserving; they knew nothing about paint, except that it was protty; and to get a house painted was a serious and cost- ly Job. The difference between their case and ours is that when they want-' ed paint it bad to be made for them; whereas when we need paint we can i go to the nearest good store and buy it, in any color or quality ready for use.
We know, or ought to know by this time, that to let a house stand unpalnted Is most costly, while a good coat of paint, applied in season, is the best of Investments. If we put off the brief visit of the painter we shall in due time have the carpenter coming to pay us a long visit at our expense. Lumbor is constantly getting scarcer, dearer and poorer, while prepared paints are getting plentler, better and less expensive. It is a short-sighted plan to let the valuable lumber of our houses go to pieces for the want of paint. For the man that needs paint then are two forms from which to choose; one is the old form, still favored by certain unprogresslve painters who have not yet caught up with the times lead and oil; the other is the ready- for-use paint found In every up-to-date store.
The first must be mixed with oil, driers, turpentine and colors before it is ready for use; the other need only be stirred up In the can and it is ready to go on. To buy lead and oil, colors, and mix them into a paint by hand is, in thla twentieth century, about the same as refusing to rldo in a trolley car because one's grandfather had to walk or ride on horseback when he wanted to go anywhere. Prepared paints have been on the market less than fifty years, but they have proved on the whole so inexpensive, so convenient and so good that the consumption to day la something over sixty million gallons a year and still growing. Un less they had been in the main satis factory, it stands to reason there would have been no such steady growth in their use. Mixed paints are necessarily cheap' er than paint of the hand-mixed kind, because they are made in a large way by machinery from materials boughi in large quantities by the manufac turer.
They are necessarily bettei than paints mixed by hand, because they are more finely ground and more thoroughly mixed, and because there is less chance of the raw materials in them being adulterated. No painter, however careful he may be, can ever be sure that the materials he buys are not adulterated, but the large painl manufacturer does know in every case, because everything he buys goes through the chemist's hands before he accepts it. ur course tnere are poor paints on the market (which are generally cheap paints). So there is poor flour, poor cloth, poor-soap; but because ol that do we go back to the hand-mill the hand-loom and the soap-kettle of the backwoods No, we use our com mon sense in choosing goods. We find out the reputation of the different brands of flour, cloth and we take account of the standing of the dealer that handles them, we ask our neighbors.
So with paint; if the manufacturer has a good reputation, if the dealer is responsible, if our neighbors have had satisfaction with It, that ought to be pretty good evidence that the paint is all right. "Many men of many kinds" Many paints of many kinds; but while prepared paints may differ considerably in composition, the better grades of them all agree pretty closely in results. "All roads lead to Rome," and the paint manufacturers, starting by different paths, have all the same object to make the best paint possible to sell for the least money, and so capture and keep the trade. There is sssreely any other article of general use on the market to-day that can be bought with anything like the assurance of getting your money's worth as the established brands of prepared paint. The paint you buy today may not be like a certain patent medicine, "the same, as you have always bought," but if not, it will bs because the manufacturer has found a way of giving you a better article for your money, and so making mors sure of your next order.
P. G. Seemed a Long Time. Jim was ten years of age and of an adventurous spirit. Instead of going to 'school he started out to Join a band of buccaneers, leaving a letter of farewell for his mother.
He had gone pretty far afield when he was caught in the rain. Growing miserable and hungry, the young adventurer then gave up his Idea of a piratical career and came home very late at night. He'met with a chilling reception. The clock ticked, his father's newspaper crackled and his sister did not look up from her book. Even his mother did not seem to care whether he had returned or not.
The cat, however, not being in the conspiracy of silence, came and rubbed against his leg. Jim stooped and petted it, and then in a desperate attempt to open up the conversation he remarked plaintively: "Is this the same old car that you had when I went away?" Tattler. Gave an Artistic Description. A sweet girl student thus described the manner in which a goat butted the boy out of the front yard; "He hurried the previous end of his anatomy against tbe boy's afterward with an earnestness and velocity which backed by the ponderosity of the goat's avoirdupois. Imparted a momentum that was not relaxed until the boy landed on terra flrma beyjnd the pale of the goat's jurisdiction." Western Kansas Publisher.
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HCW TORK OITV. irl vrB raa tu HLU'l IMitaTi CATARRH I PATENTS 0 111 if a R'V i vj Vr I Tha World' Wheot. It seems a curloiiH thought that the lupremaey of western civilization the ascendency of the wheat-eaters over the rice-eaters may ultimately depend upon the dlHcovcry of somo cheap process of producing nltratei; but so eminent an authority as Sir William Ramsey Is uponsor for the Btatcment. More than five years ao, says Youth's Companion, Sir William Crookes declared the population of the World to be Increasing so rapidly that In a short time the supply of wheat would be Insufficient. Since then prog ress has been made In several ex periments directed toward Increasing the world's harvest of wheat.
Never theless, many scientific men feel thut ft wheat famine within a few generations Is among the possibilities. Ef forts toward averting or postponing this condition are directed: First, toward increasing the acreage a process which Is self-limited; secondly, toward Increasing the yield per acre by In proving the seed and selecting that which is best suited to the locality where it is to be planted; thirdly, to ward increasing the crop by feeding the plants more geenrously with nlt.ro- 'gen through alternation with nodule- producing leguminous plants a proc ess developed in the United States de partment' of agriculture; and, fourth ly, by the manufacture of nitrates. For years the supply of nitrates has come from Chill, but fhat source Is naaring exhaustion. The sewage of cities would supply enormous quantities It there could be found some method of saving and applying it which would not endanger public health. It Is estimated that $80,000,000 worth of fertilizer goes annually to waste In this way in England- alone.
The artificial manufacture, or rather the fixation, of nitrogen looks to the air as the gr at Bource of supply. But the processes now in use are complicated and expensive. Many patents have been issued. One of the latest plants is that at Svaelgfossy Norway, in which a waterfall of 30,000 horse-power has been utilized to generate electricity, by which nitrogen Is taken from the air and absorbed by lime. The resulting calcium nitrate is a powerful fertilizer.
In this problem the young chemists and the young electricians of today have a work which will tax the ables and ought to satisfy the moat ambitious. I Typewriting Eecords. The old question whether there is any absolute limit of human performance in any particular line Is particularly appropriate to the question of typewriting records. A young woman of Springfield has recently made a record of writing 2,344 memorized words from Henry Ward Beecher's Liverpool speech in 30 minu(e3, thus beating a record of 2,099 words in a half hour made by a man no longer ago than last November. This jump from 69 to 77 words a minute, says the New York Post, is a feat proportionately as remarkable to use the nearest sporting equivalent as clipping off a full second from the record in the hundred-yard dash.
It is bringing the fastest typewriting pretty close to the average requirements of shorthand. Psychologists tell us of the astonishingly stimulating effect on persons doing work involving rapidity or dexterity of the knowledge of what others have accomplished in the same lines. Once a certain feat Is done or a certain record is made, dozens are able to do the same thing. Will the typist ever become expert enough to do verbatim reporting wttb out the use of shorthand notes? Drain Upon Forests. The work of the forest service in lathering statistics of forest products tor the last year has furnished the basis for a provisional statement of the wood consumed in the manufac ture of paper pulp.
Returns from 159 firms, controlling 232 pulp mills, give jver 3.000.000 cords as the total tmount of wood used. The wood used ivas divided among the various proc esses as follows: Sulphite, 1,538,000 soda, 410,000 cords; ground wood, 1,008,000 cords. The total pulp production by all processes by the firms reporting was 1,993,000 tons. According to th census of 1900, the jonsumptlon of pulpwood was then 1,986,310 cords, so that there has been in increase of more than 50 per cent In the last six years. This demonstrates, in a striking manner, the Srain upon the forests caused by the pulp industry.
A Philadelphia mother sent a heart-piercing appeal to the Atlantic City police, entreating their aid in finding her missing son. "My boy has neve been away from home before," wrote the mother, "and I fear he has gotten into trouble. Please find him and jend him home." Supposing the "boy," was a youth about out of knee breeches, the police began their search. Their surprise can be imagined when the "missing boy" turned out to be Sve feet eight inches In height, 175 pounds In weight and 24 years old. The increasing" number of homicides and the ease with which murderers escape the penalties for their crimes is arousing attention in this -country.
There is scarcely a large city which has not in confinement an array of murder-era who, through misdirected and morbid public sympathy or by Invoking technicalities of the law, have escaped speedy conviction and punishment. There is good reason for the belief. howeTer. that lack or proper po'ice protection is blatnabl? fcr the ri in criaae. any rate, in Msy, 0O5, 1 had got so bad that I was coinpelli'tl to quit work mid take to my bad.
I had good doctor and took his mediciuo faithfully but grew worse. I guve up hoe of getting lttor and my neighbors thought I was surely going to die. "I hud smothering spells that it is awful to recall. My heart fluttered and then Noemed to cense heiitintf. I could not lit) on my left side at all.
My lmudi and feet swelled and so did my face. After reading about Dr. Williams' 1'ink Pills in a newspaper I decided to try them and they suited my case exactly. Before long I could sco an improvement, and after taking a few boxes I was entirely cured. I am glnd to make this statement and wish it could cause every sufferer to try Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills' Dr. Williams' Pink Pills do not simply denden pain they cure tho trouble wb ion onuses the pain. They are guaranteed to contain no narcotic, stimulant or opiate. Those who tako them run no dnngerof forming nny drug They act directly on th'ebloodnnd it isonly through the blood thut any medicine can reach tho nerves. Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills are sold hy all druggists or will bo sent, postpaid, on receipt of price, 50 cents per box, six boxes for $2.50, by the Dr. Williams Medicine Schenectady, K.Y. ODD BITS AND BBEVITIES. President Roosevelt does not like automobiles. He has been Importuned many times to buy one or accept one as a gift, but he refuses even to ride in them.
He sticks to h'irse. MacMonnles has been appointed sculptor of the proposed $50,0 10 bronze statue of Joseph JefTerson as Rip Van Winkle, which is to be mounted on a granite pedestal in Central park, New York. Maj. Charles Gantz, a resident of this country, claims the unique distinction of being the smallest man in the world. He Is 39 years of age, weighs only 30 pounds and Is 18 inches la height.
Several English song birds, Including the lark, nightingale, blackbird and thrush, are thriving in an outdoor living cage in the New York and make themselves quite at home with American birds. In a sped contest on typewriters in Chicago, Miss Elizabeth Baker made the record for the smallest number of mistakes In her copy. In half an hour she wrote 4,085 words, making mistakes In only 52 of them. One Too Many for Them" A short time ago a gang of riveters was sent to do some work on a bridge in course of construction. They got lodgings and started to board them selves; but they begun to think the landlady was helping herself to their food, so they thought they would try and catch her.
Seeing new potatoes exposed for sale at a grocer's they bought some, and having counted them, they gave them to the landlady to cook for their dinners. Each man was to count how many he got; but to their surprise, when they lifted the cover off the dish, they found the landlady had mashed the potatoes! "Taking Their Dust." Mrs. Stockbonds John, we will have to get a new air carriage imme diately! John Why, my dear, the one we have is practically new. "I can't help that. When I was out for a fly this afternoon the Van der Billion's car went at least 100 feet higher than mine could, and they deliberately kept their shadow over me the whole time!" American Spectator.
Englishwomen No Longer Angvls. Woman is at her worst; she has con trived to escape from the net of con ventionalities in which man had in closed her. Anarchy reins in thousands of homes. Women in England is no longer on the side of the angels. London Truth.
A BUSY WOMAN Can Do the Work of 3 or 4 If Well Fed. An energetic young woman living lust outside of New York, writes: "I am at present doing all the housework of a dairy farm, caring for 2 children, a vegetable and flower garden, a large number of fowls, besides managing an extensive exchange business through the mails and pursuing my regular avocation as a writer for several newspapers and magazines (designing fancy work for the latter) and all the energy and ability to do this I owe to Grape-Nuts food. "It was not always so, and a year ago when the shock of my nursing baby's death utterly prostrated me and deranged my stomach and nerves so that I could not assimilate as much as a mouthful of solid food, and was in even worse condition mentally, he would have been a rash prophet who would have predicted that it ever would do so. "Prior to this great grief I had suffered for years with impaired digestion, insomnia, agonizing ciamps in the stomach, pain in the sido, constipation, and other bowel derar.gements, all these were familiar to my d-ttly life. Medicines gave me n) relKsf nothing did, until a few mcnths at a friend's suggestion, I to se Grape-Nut? food, and sul'sequeptly gave up coffee entirely and adapted Postum FoodLCoffee at all my meals.
"To-day I am free from ah the troubles I have enumerated. My digestion is simply perfect, I assimilate my food without the least distress, enjoy sweet, restful sleep, and have a buoyant feeling of pleasure in my varied duties. In fact, I am a new woman, entirely mnii over, an1 I repeat, I owe it all to Grape-Nuts and Postum Coffee." Name given hy Postum Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. Head the little book, The.
Roa Xf Woilvllje," in pkgs. flavoring. If baked in gem pans and iced all over these make dainty "snow balls." Then there is the ginger bread without butter or eggs; this should be welcomed by the mother of a family of little ones for whom she wants to provide a toothsome plain rake that will neither be expensive nor troublesome. Measure a heaping tublespoon-ful of best lurd, a cup of molasses, and two teaspoonfuls of ground ginger, and put them on to heat in a small saucepan; when the bird melts beat all together well for ten minutes and add a te.ispoonful of baking soda dissolved in a cup of sour milk; mix this into enough flour to make a stiff batter; the best way to do this is to sift soma flour into a bowl and In an other bowl put a cupful, to which the molasses, can be easily added; then mix In more flour until tho right consistency is the batter should be rather stiff and the beating should be well done. Grease a drip-plug pan and pour in the butter; It wlf take about ten minutes in a quick oven.
Do not use a short, deep pan; it is better to bake it in one that is long and shallow. Try If it be done by using a straw from the broom. A nice plain cake may be made with dried apples; soak a cup of dried apples in cold water over night; in the morning drain as dry as possible and chop line; put them In a saucepan with three-quarters of a pint of thick molasses; add a half tablespoonful eacn of ground cinnamon and mace, and when the whole comes to a boil set where it will simmer gently 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. Stir together half a cup of butter and a cup of light brown sugar, and when fhe molasses compound has cooled stir into It with the yolk of an egg a cup ol sifted flour, or perhaps a little more; beat well and add two teaspoonfuls baking soda that has been dissolved in a few drops of boiling water and beat hard again. Have half a cup of stoned raisins rolled in flour, and after beating in the soda stir them lightly into the batter, with a pinch of salt and the juice of half a lemon.
This cake may be baked in small loaves or in one largt one, and the pan should be well greased and papered. The oven should be even; If too hot the cake will crack and be heavy. Test before taking II out of the oven. This sounds troublesome, but is not really so. St.
Louis Globe-Democrat. HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS. For brittle finger nails anoint the nails at the roots every night with vaseline, or dip them in warm sweet oil. This will make them grow better, and they will not split. The loofahs, or dried vegetable sponges which one buys at the druggist's for a small sum, make excellent wash cloths.
With a sharp pair of shear: cut the loofah in two crosswise, and again through the middle. The outer surface is smoother than the inner, but some people like a rough face cloth. The little sponges are good also to wash fine glass and china. A delicious and cooling lotion for the sick room is aromatic vinegar, which la made as follows: Put a handful of rosemary, wormwood, lavender, rue, se.ge and mint into a stone jar, cover with a gallon of strong vinegar, cover closely and keep near a fire for four days. Then strain.
White and light gray fur, it is said, may be beautifully cleaned by rubbing well with equal parts of flour and fine salt. Shake well, as it is undesirable that any of the mixture should remain In the fur An ingenious woman suggests that a soft brush, such as is used in varnishing, is good for brushing bread, rolls and pastry with melted butter. If a string Is put through the handle and the brush is hung in a regular place so much the better. Paprika, by the way, is as ornamental as it is Almost any vegetable with cream or white sauce is made doubly attractive when sprinkled liber ally with the sweet red pepper. Hot milk, heated to as high a tempera-i ture as it can be drunk, is a most re-' freshing stimulant in cases of cold or overfatigue.
The woman with dull eyes should never wear diamonds near the face. Pearls soften the face more than any other jewels. Amethysts and sapphires and such highly-colored gems should not be worn with red. A good idea, particularly in the win-er time, when the washing of windows is always unpleasant work, is to frequently wipe off the inside of the glass with a dry cloth. It is surprising to find how mucn dust and dirt can be removed.
In washing the windows if a little washing soda and a tablespoonrui of alcohol are added to each pall of water the glass will be much brighter, and, of course, every one knows that newspapers make the best window polishers. Boston Budget and Beacon. A Strained Ankle. -When the ankle is only slightly strained, and no ligaments torn, there will only be slight swelling and pain attempt is made to walk. The treatment is simple.
Bathe the injured member in water as warm as can possibly be borne. After this rest the too' on an elevated cushion or chair for a Jay or so, applying warm or cold compresses. When able to bear the weight sf the body bandage ankle firmly every lay for a few days with a figure eight bandage, which will say in poFitlon under tfce socfc or etocking. NO MORE MUSTARD PLASTERS TO BLISTER CAPSICUM VASELINE THE SCIENTIFIC Awr MODERN EXTERNAL COUNTER-IRRITANT A QUICK. SURE.
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