The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-09-01
CORRESPONDENCE.

CORRESPONDENCE.
This department of the NEW NORTH
WEST is 10 be a general vehicle for ex-
change of ideas concerning any and all
matters that may be legitimately dis
cussed in our columns. Finding il practi-
cally impossible to answer each cores
pondent by private letter, we adopt this
mode of communication TO save our
friends the disappointment that would
otherwise accrue from our inability to an
swer their queries. We cordially invite
everybody that has a question to ask, a
suggestion to make, or a scolding to give
to contribute to the Correspondents
/ Column.
Harry C.: We have not lately heard
from 'Rarey, the great horse-tamer.~ -
We think there was nothing so very
marvellous in his art. One of his plans
and the principal one-we have often
seen tried with success when we lived
upon farm. Compel the vicious ami
NAL to raise one fore foot, and then, with
a leather strap and buckle, strap the
knee in a bended position. dumping
stiff-leggeW on three legs will soon sat
isfy the most refractory animal that op-
position is failure under such diagree-
able circumstances. Horses have a great
deal of good, hard sense-often much
more than their masters. If they are
nationally treated by rational beings
they can be broken without direct abuse.
Mrs. A: Thanks for remittance. Cor
rect.
Miss 5. ~: Mrs. Laura DeForce Cor
don's address is Mokolumne Station,
San joaquin county, Cal.
t. G. T.: Subscription received per
Mrs. Carrie +. Young.
Mrs. y. c., Ills. Many thanks for
your kind remembrance. Sent papers as
requested. Did not see the number of
the IVoma7fs Journal containing the no.
tiee of our paper.
NJ. NJ. NJ: Your countermand came
too late. Poem already published. Sor-
ry you think poorly of it, Never mind;
it's all right. Glad to know of your inn
proved health and good prospects. Shall
we publicly ''explain?'
Mrs. NJ. L.: Your letter is received and
request complied with.
Mrs. l.. 4. c.: Sent reversible shawl
August 22d. Sl2.
Mrs. ii. A.: Sent alpaca dress August
23d.
Mrs. Nj. \. NJ: Was disappointed, but
hope you can arrange the matter soon.
Your subscription was not included.
Miss Carrie o.: Fringe is very FASH
ionable. Ruilles, folds, pleatings and
fringe are now often used upon the same
dress, and two overskirts are surmount-
cd 10y basquine and bows.
Helena: You can utilize your broken
black silk and make an elegant dress of
ii by taking four yards of black velvet
cen and the best parts of the heavy silk
and joining i'm alternate stripes of each
material-the stripes not being over five
inches in width for the silk and four
inches for the velvetecn. Make the
sleeves and waist to match the skirt.
An overskirt of the best remnants of the
silk, trimmed with fringe surmounted
by the velveteen, will be nice accom-
paniment. We have made over old and
badly worn silks in this way that APP
peared really elegant.
Hattie Del: Llama lace shawls range
in price from thirty to one hundred dol
lars.
" y disgusted mother" We well know
how TO sympathize with you. Once
when we were teaching school, and so
busy that we had barely time to bolt
our meals, our children became infested
win lery, eutaneous eruption-caught
from some NANCY young ones, whose
school bill remains unpaid to this day
which bade equal defiance TO nersistort
bathing, hygienic treatment. red ncrcon-
ltate and repulsiye sulphur and larI
Bah! 1t makes us squirm to think of if,
Finally, in our despair and consterna-
tion, a good Samaritan suggested the
root of the common garden ele-camnane
We pounded a quantity of this root TO a
pulp and stewed it in sweet cream, max
ing a pleasant ointment which, in less
than fortnight, utterly destroyed the
itching seourge, and permitted the tor
tured children's flesh to heal. This REM
edy we have frequently since recon-
mended, and have never known it 10
fail. Anybody's children are liable to
catch the itch, but no decent mother will
willingly harbOr such visitant.