Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1885-07-10
LITERARY NOTES.
tGUOD HOUSEKEEPING.

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| Good Housekeeping for July 18th
furnishes its usual excellent bill OF
fare. We have only room for a short
extract on how to make good coffee.
Coffee is, with good reason, a favor
! lite morning beverage, and happily,
/ there are but few who cannot take it,
/ for it is q valuable addition to diet. 1t
/ is nutritious, and acts npOn most per-
sons as a gentle stimulant, impaIting
energy in action, and producing Il
| feeling of Testfulness after great fa-
/ tigue 1t also prevents waste of tissue,
and enables people to undergo great
and prctracted labor npOn insufficient
/ food. This has been tested where en-
durance has been tried to its utter
most, i'm Arctic expeditions; in long
and tOilsOme army marches; and in
/ caravans which plunged into the mys-
/ telious dangers of the trackless des-
erts, and which were sustained by
coffee through every exposure aud
deprivation of other food. A good and
economical way Of making coffee, is,
TO put the proper amount for the fam
| lily, a heapiug teaspoOnful for each
cup, into the cOffpe-pOt, pouring over
| it an equal number of cups Of cold
water and letting it stand over night.
/ In the morning bring it to the boiling
point before serving. Made in this
manner, it needs neither egg nor other
''settlingn TO make it clear.
FROM july ATLANTIC.
The mountain regions of North
Carolina are free from mosquitoes,
but the fly has settled there, and is
the universal scourge. The traveller
who has read about the Illicit stills
in the mountains, is, however,
doomed to disappointment. If he
wants to make himself an exception
to the sober people whose cooking
will make him long for the madden
ing bowl, he must bring his poison
with him.
We stopped at a house for a glass
of milk. While the woman in charge
went for it, we sat on the veranda
and conversed with discreet, pleas
ant, pretty girl. This surely must
be the Esmeralda who lives in these
mountains and adOns low life by
her virgin purity and sentiment.
As she talked on, she turned from
time to time TO the fireplace behind
her, and discharged dark fluid from
her pretty lips with accuracy ofaim,
and with a nonchalanee that was not
assumed, but belongs to our free
born American girls. / cannot tell
why this habit of hers should take
her out of the romantic setting that
her face and figure had placed her
in: but somehow we felt inclined to
ride on further for our heroine.
BABYHOoD.
The July number of BaJyhood is
full OF useful advice on the manage
ment of children at this trying per-
iod of the year. In an article enti-
tied "The Second Summer" DR.. A.
Jacobs says: 1.-The summer heat
may in itself be dangerous; in con-
junction with bad diet it becomes
frequently fatal. 1t is an established
fact that nearly all the mortality
among children in summer is caused
by diseases of the digestive organs,
and that all these fatal cases would
be averted were these organs not to
become diseased. With proper
feeding and intelligent care, few
children need suffer from stomach or
bowel troubles. Sensible mothers,
in good dwellings-even those in
poor circumstances, lose no children |
from this cause. Hence it is not the
second summer that kills children,
but the ignorance OF negligence of
those that attend them. This is all
the worse from the fact that the
rules for the proper nutriment Of
children are very simple. Now, in
The matter Of feeding children, the