Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-06-16
THIS AND THAT.


powder, two tablespoonful of vinegar four table
spoonfuls of alcohol. Rub with piece of flannel;
polish with channels.
True taste is forever growing, learning, reading,
worshipping, laying its hands upon its mouth be-
cause it is astonished, casting its shoes from off
its feet because it finds all ground holy Ruskin.
In a severe sprain of the ankle immense the
joint as soon as possible in pail of hot water, and
keep it there for fifteen or twenty minutes. After
removing it keep it bandaged with hot cloths
wrung out of water or rum and water.
To take rust out of steel, rub the steel with
sweet oil; in a day or two rub with finely pow
dered unslaked lime until the rust all disappears
then oil again, roll in wooden and put in dry
place, especially if it be table cutlery.
In 1869 Mrs: Livermore and Mrs Stanton were
not allowed to speak in Illinois until they had paid
license of five dollars ''But now, said Mrs.
Lyermore at the late suffrage festival 'tnstead of
paying license to speak, we make everybody pay
a dollar to come and hear"
Trunk packing is new profession, said to have
been recently adopted in New York city. For
years past it has been practced to some extent in
London and Paris, ladies preferring to pay an ex-
dresses by unskful folding.
The Empress Victoria of Germany has become
an inventor. She has drawn plans from which
writing desk has been manufactured which enables
the emperor to write, whether lying in bed or
standing up. 1t is available in any position and
the mechanism is said to be intricate and remark
ably effective.
Senator Stanford particularly desires to save
American youth from ntemperance and he wishes
the courses of study at his university to be shaped
in large part with reference to that end. He
thinks that the country loses twenty-five per cent
of its productive power through the manufacture
and use of liquor.
An English joke sometimes loses itself through
translation into another language A native
humorist wrote: Notwithstanding that lady
should always be quiet and self contained, she can
not even enter a place of worship without ire
mendous bustle.' French writer reproduces it
in this form: "According to an English author
the ladies of that country are 50 greedy of noto-
riety that they cannot enter the holy sanctuary
without disturbing the kneelng worshippers with
their vulgar and unseemly ado"
81 think it would be funny to hear woman
propose W II Hail. WOllucI HOW SIG WOulu no
it," II think you're the incest man ever saw
and never loved anybody before-but, we'll
of course-I could marry plenty. There's Harry
Thompson-and Mr. Jones-I know they would
if but I'd rather have you than anybody"
'When shall the wedding day be?' "Let me
see; the 2lst-no, Pve got to 60 to wedding on
the 15th-I don't know. But then there's Mrs.
Wlkerson's german on the 20th and the ball on
the 22d. Perhaps about the 29th-if Mary Faral-
lones doesn't give her garden party. Let us say
some time next month, dearest. y San Francisco
Chronicle.
The Princess of Wales, whose complexion is not
only the finest, but who has stood the wear and
tear of time, takes her morning plunge regularly
and in water fairly cold, but she is particularly
careful to promptly make use of the flesh brush
using gloves of moderate roughness rapidly over
the surface of the body, and finally the rough