Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-08-24


eating the hands in the mechanical arts. La
dies have become SO fond of the work that
they lay in supplies of brass and amuse them
selves with it while away at the seaside and
other resorts. It is possible for any girl, with
little patience, to earn in this way two or
three times as much as she would earn stand
ing in store
The Summer Medicine Chest
No one leaving home to spend the summer
in the country should go without few SIMPLE
remedies; they may be the means of prevent
ing great deal of suffering. if not loss of ife
doctor is not always to be had the moment
he is wanted, and, if he were there are great
many cases which the mother could treat as
we'll as he if she had the proper medicines
ga stitch in time saves nine'' in mending the
body as we'll as its habilments, and the time
consumed in getting what is necessary from 3
distant apothecary's shop may make the rent
go large that it is beyond repair.
A stout wooden box should be got, about
ten inches long, six wide and six high, and
divided into compartments large enough to
hold s. two-ounce bottle, leaving space at ono
end for bandages, old linen, cotton, wool, etc
An extra supply of these may be taken. but
chest, and they may be forthcoming at a mo-
ment's notice. The box should be fastened
with button or hook, not with lock and
key, as the latter would certainly be missing
in an emergency. It can be kept in closet or
on high shelf, out Of the reach of children,
and no one else is likely to NEEDLE with it.
It will hold twelve bottles and these should
be filed with castor oil, paregoric, chalk mix
ture, peppermint, extract of ginger. ipecac,
Wyeth's soda mint pills and compressed Dover
pills tive grains), extract of witch hazel carbohc
acid, glycerine and bicarbonate Of soda To
these should be added tin box of cosmoline.
a roll Of Seabury & Johnson's salicylated
plaster a bottle of flexible collodion, tin case
Of prepared mustard plasters, and two short
glass tubes, one bent. the other straight
With this equipment, any woman Of ordinary
common sense can carry her children through
the summer without having recourse to doc
tor. An india-rubber hot-water bag, holding
three pints or two quarts, will be found great
comfort as it is not always easy to get a bottle,
or, if that Is procured to find cork to fit it.
They cost about So each. It this is thought
too great an expense, it is good plan to take
as substitute three or four empty lager beer
bottles The metal fastenugs, being attached
to the bottles, are always IN place when
wanted. They can be filed with very hot
water without breaking them, if, during the
process, they are wrapped in cloths wrung out
of cold water.
What Women Can Do.
Women" said successful woman jeweler,
''can do anything and everything nowadays.
When I first had to earn my living I thought
myself fortunate when secured place behind
a milliner's counter. Well, sold bonnets for a
year, and the store was closed. Then painted
furniture, If you will believe it. 1t wasn't hard
to learn, and earned $l2 a week instead
OF 81. But I soon quit that for better en-
pioyment, and was hired in jewelry estab-
lshment. There learned the trade, and am
as independent as you are" Miss Dora Kin
ney of Wild Cat, Ind, is a successful, money
making shepherdess A few years ago an
uncle gave her an orphaned lamb to raise by
hand, which she did successfully, and becom-
ing SO much interested in sheep husbandry,
she procured a mate for the lamb, and she
now sports fold of twenty-eight old sheep and
thirty-three lambs-sixty- one in all, all from
the first starting pair. Miss Kinney attends
to her hocks altogether herself, both
winter and summer and now receives quite a
handsome little income from the annual sales
of wool and mutton. New occupations for
women are yearly springing into being. The
latest things I've heard of are landscape gar
deners, bird fanciers architects, junk dealers
and pawn brokers. Womep do all these things
now. Indeed, I'm afraid ba3 time is coming.
Women do 90 many kinds Of work that the men
will all become dulles. The fine. idle creatures
these days certainly ara not women.
Keeping Cool
The Decorator anti Furnisher for the current
month has sorse good suggestions on the sub
ject Of keeping cool. and quotes the old saying
that what keeps out cold keeps out heat and as
QUE houses are mainly constructed with view
Of protecting, us from thas sort of weather
Of which wa have the most, namely: cold,
there is no reason why, with care, we
should not make our thick walls and solid
fittings equally available to protect us
from a sirocco as we'll as a northeastern.
This, however, can only be done by
proceeding upon the same principle with both
by shutting it out Therefore, before the
rays of the midsummer sun become at all YER
draw down the blinds. close the shutters par
ticularly if the windows are not protected BY
outside blinds. The latter are quite ind1sl,e,l-
sable for the perfect accomplishment of our
object, for it is great point TO prevent the
glass getting hot; indeed, when the glass has
once become heated it is almost impossible to
bring down the temperature Of a room as low
as would have been the case had the windows
been protected by canvass, or jalucse, early in
the morning. OF course, these precautions
must be taken with the side Of the house which
faces south or west; the other aspects require
comparatively little consideration, except the
rooms at the top, where the effect OF the sun
on the roof will always make itself Disagree
ably felt and the ton story is therefore always
the most difficult to keep cool.
Yelling.
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party was of primrose colored nuns yelling
founces caught up at intervals with bows Of
satin ribbon Across the front was draped ar
apron overskirt of Turkish embroidery This
embroidery was executed upon soft, pliable
but very rich satin of a tint exactly, matching
that Of the yelling. rhe drapery terminated
in the back in wide sash and ends, the loop
ings being very bouffaut The harmonious
effect of the soft red and gold, which was the
dominant colors of the embroidery. were inten
sifed by the deep red lining of the hat made Of
fcelle lace. This hat was very large and wal
one Of the few worn. Snug and jaunty Langtry
turbans, French toques, flowers and lace and
other dainty little head covering were almos
universal, except on very young ladies' A
few Of the panache bonuets, high in the Crowd,
and almost hidden under floating feathers
made their appearance, but not one of then
looked well woman should be at least sis
feet high to wear one of these head-gears
without being absolutely dwarfed by it. The
pretiest and most becoming head covering.
which were worn were those, without excep-
ticn, which gave no siSns Of an attempt to Gas
touish the native or scare the fish,"
Notwithstanding the array Of fashionable gay
stripes, plaids, summer zephyrs in harlequin
designs, and regular tennis fabrics in gorgeous
patterns and colorings, there is really nothing
outside Of the expensive costumes that make
prettier tennis dresses than the Pompadou,
sateens. The colors of these are. rs rule
very delicate and beautiful This has beef
raised IS an objection to them, tina
viewed at distance on q tennis GROUND
they lose their effect 70 rectify thi
and alter the neutrality of a wholly
hght-colored costume, deep directoirt
collar and a pocket pouch Of some
vivid color may be worn. A fair girl may wea
costume of doe-colored sateen brocaded with
corn flowers and the collar, pouch, or apron
| brunette may impart gypsy like and pictur
esque coloring to her appearance by wearing
over costume Of maize colored sateen larg,
kerchief of scarlet silk knotted loosely at tn.