Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-06-08

bodies entrusted TO their care. Some Of the
tuTe of these little ones known to the more ex-
perienced mothers may not come amiss to
those who have had but little care of children.
healthy and happy children. The child must
be well slept, well aired, well fed and well
bathed. By thorough understanding and
practice OF these four simple rules, much Of
the physical, mental and moral suffering in life
would be avoided by parent as well as child.
II healthy child land delicate one proper
tionately) is regularly put to bed about dark,
aftera supper of plain food. it will naturally
awake at daybreak. good natured, with keen
appetite for awhOlesOme breakfast. Nutritious,
plain food. at regular hours, with no candy,
or stimulantS, and free bathing, help the system
to ward off many prevalent children'S all
mentS, and to bear with much less danger the
few that must necessarily come to the majOri-
ty Of the little ones. The child that is just
given little confectionery, or any unsuitable
food, and then rocked to sleep, should cause
no surprise at waking Peeyish and feyerish. It
walt of knowledge on the part of the one in
81 arge. 1t will certainly pay in the end to
search diligently for the cause when little
CHI is proverolalIy cross.-l chicago alliance.
NEW SYSTEM OF WASHING has lately been
introduced in some French towns which is
worthy of special mention. Its economy is so
great as to greatly reduce the cost. This is the
duced with little water to sort of pap
which, having been slightly warmed, is cooled
in - liters 90 gallonS) of water, to which is ad
ded one spoonful of turpentine oil and two
spOonfuls OF ammonia then the mixture is az,
itated. The water is kept at a temperature
which may be borne by the hand. In this solu-
ton the white clothes are put, and left there
for two hours before washing them with soap,
taking care in the meantime to cover the tub
Tie solution may be warmed agaia and used
once more, but it will be necessary to add half
spoonful of turpentine and another spoonful
of ammonia. Once washed with soap, the
clothes are put in warm water. and the blue is
applied. This process, tits obvious spares much
time much labor and fuel, while it gives to the
clothes whiteness much superior to that OBJ
tanned by any other method, and the deStruc-
tive use of the wash-board or of pounding is
nOI necessary to clean the clothes from the inn
pun tiles which they contain.
WOMEN AND Observation-Disclosures need
much consolation in this world. Sometimes
they are in love; indeed, this is so common
complaint with them that they should have
subimated Ponds Extract meIaphorical
camphOr, or spiritual arnica, to apply to that
hidden wound. The needle is a good little
lightning-rod;a conductor off for concealed
distur bance. Many heart ache has been en-
bTCidered away. Sometimes women are poor
This is sadder still. They must 50 conduct the
hidden sorrow through the needle into the
satin that it may come back to them, bringing
bread. They must earn their living by their
accomplishments, a hard thing to do. And
here we come to trouble. Most women can do
various pretty things Well-but not we'll enough
to sell. The thorough art education of women
i thing which had not been thought OF
tive MY five years ago. Thus it came about
tia no being on earth is so helpless as the re-
due lady: and it is to the assistance OF re-
duCrd ladies that the South Kensington Muse
um association has devoted itself teaching
women to emhroider so perfectly that even the
Ron an Catholic church, that great purchaser
of cmbrOiderieS, will buy the work, and she is
a very particular purchaser The ecceSiaSti
cal embroidery is special art by itself. Cha
sllI", cope and alb, robe and carpet and altar
the microscope Itself can detect no flaw. There
Is 80 inner richer Illuminating in an old mis-
SCI than some of this embroidery. The face of
woman in silk almost as Leonardo da Ninci
paiu.ed tin oils Appleton's Journal
CvERsTUFFING BABIEs.-During the first
yea children are, as rule, stuffed early and
late hence the greatest mOrtalityiS at that age
After this they are allowed more time between
II els: hence Il less proportion die. For exam
pc, while One-third of the deaths, according to
the mortality reports, are of children under
one year only about one fifth are between one
and five years. After five years of age children
are fed on something like the three-meal sys
ten, and comparatively very few die between
five and thirty years of age. In spite of these
figures, or because their significance has not
been nOted,it has not occurred to the people to
begin with three meals. The farmer who wants
to raise the best possible animal from the calf
lets the creature suckle in the morning at milk
ing time and again at night, with possibly a
NEIL at noon. He is wise enough to feed his
cali only twice or at most only three times
from birth, and sickness is unknown The
same farmer has baby born, and a contrary
course is pursued,Vith contrary result Even
before nature supplies the food, before the
milk comes, the ignorant nurse doses
the ba by with sWeetened- Water or cows milk.
This results in stomach ache, and the cries of
pain being mistaken for cries of hunger, down
goes another dose, until finally, when the moth
ers milk does come, the chld's stomach is in a
condition TO revolt at anything. If, owing to
a vigorous constitution, the little victim goes
a ono -
ly fed every hour or Oftener. unless it happen
to be- as is often the case, in lethargic sleep
Tor several s1Isns h 10Y sleeping off s1ret as an
in Journdlo Chemistry.
HINTS FOR WASHING FLANNELs-I will give
a little OF my experience in washing flannelS.
was taught to wash flannel in hot water, b, t
II IS great mistake. In Italy my fiannels were
the wash so soft and white. learned that the
Italian women washed them in cold water
Many time have watched them kneeling in
box, which had one end taken out, to keep
The m out OF the mud, by the bank of stream,
washing in the running water and drying on
me bank or gravel, without boiling; and L
never half so well. | have tried it since, and
find the secret of NICE soft fiannels to be the
washing of them in cold or lukewarm water,
ana plenty OF stretching before hanging out.
but you can rub soap on to the advantage of
the fiannels II you will rinse it out afterWard
ana use no not water ABOUT them, not forget
ting to stretch the threads in both directions
before drying. FlannelS so cared for will never
become stiff, Shrunken or yellOw.-[By q Bos-
ton Lady.
To TAKE RUST OUT OF STEEL, place the
article in bowl containing Kerosene oil. or
wrap the steel up in a soft cloth we'll saturated
with Kerosene ;letit remain "a hours or longer:
then scour The ruSy spots with brick dust. If
badly luSted, use salt wet with vinegar: after
securing, rinse every particle of brick dust or
salt off with boiling hot water dry thoroughly:
then polish off with clean flannel cloth and a
little sweet oil-[Journdl OF Chemistry.
The Perennial Streams of Kansas.
The most remarkable fact to an Eastern OBJ
server IS the permanence of the streams on the
great Kansas prairieS. Although they do not
rise In the mountains, and are not directly fed
by the great mountain snow fields. vet it is evil
dent that they are indirectly so fed But a
small part OF the waters of those broad mOun-
tain regions, with fifty feet depth of melting
SHOWS, is able to escape in the form of noun,
tain torrents. The pent up reservoirs pass into
the bowels OF the earth, and by force of hy-
drOStatlc pressure, find vent as gushing springs
all through the outlying hills and plains for
hundreds of miles. These springs are plenti-
sources of our rivers. They are the origin and
life of these rivers They obtain their Supplies
from the vast snow fields of the broadcast chain
OF mountains in the world, and are not affected
by the severeSt drOughtS. There Is in the dry
est time more than one hundred horse power
OF surplus water passing over the dam at the
Star Mills, on the Smoky Hill river at Junction
City.
During rainy seasons. which should SEEM