The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-08
THE HOUSEHOLD.
CO6ee.Pots.

SoAoO.A otSs
1t seems certainly true of our runo
"that of the making of cofee-potst there is
no end" Probably there is no country,
an exception, where such Enthusiastically
bad coffee is the rule. Yet there is no
country where yearly SO many patents
are granted for cofee-pots. All the
cofee-pots patented in the last de-
cade depend for their success, with
few exceptions, on the recognition
Of the fact that there is but one way to
make perfect cofPee-that is by percola-
ton, q method which has been used in
French kitchens since coffee was i'll
PRODUCED. There is not the slightest
complex mechanism needed for dripping
coffee. Any tin cup holding a pint, with
a perforated bottom, which can be set
down in a porcelain or faience coffee pot
is all that is needed. The coffee, pow
dered fine, should be laid in q bag or
square of cheese cloth, fitted into the
cup. Fresh boiling water is now poured
slowly on and allowed to drip through.
Tin or any other metal is unfit for q
coffee pot. Even the beautiful silver
cafetiere, decorated in niello work, is a
delusion and snare. Porcelain or pottery
is the only material that can be kept
clean, as the acid of coffee readily unites
with any metal and forms a coating on
its sides that is unwholesome and I'M
clean. A pretty blue and white Dwarf
coffee-pot, which differs In shape from q
teapot in being tall and slender, will not
cost half what is charged for patent tin
ones. The cup with perforated bottom
is sold at 16 cents in the heaviest quail
ity of tin, so it is a small item. Very
pretty coffee-pots are made of Carlsbad
ware, decorated with shields and gull
loches in color on a creamy ground.
The Berlin and Dresden factories make
the most beautiful ~coffee-pots from
models of a hundred years ago; these are
imported into this country as chocolate
pots, porcelain dealers not daring to risk
the absurdity Of Offering such dainty
cofee-pots to q nation that boils it's
coffee. The double section in French
''biggin" may also be found in brown
stoneware and in blue and white ware in
house-furnishing stores in the CITY,
N. Y. Tribune.
Eat Before Going to Bed.
Most students and women who are
troubled with insomania are dySpetic,
and they should therefore eat before 60
ing to bed, having put aside work en-
tirely at least an hour before. If they
are not hungry they should simply be
instructed to eat, and if they are hungry
they should eat whatever they want. A
glass of milk and a biscuit is sometimes
all that can be taken at first, or mashed
potato buttered. If possible, the night
meal should be taken in another room
than the sleeping apartment, and for
men in the city it will be found advan-
tageous to go out to a restaurant. Be-
fore eating, however, q bath should be
taken, preferably cold or cool, which
should be given with a sponge or stiff
brush, and the body thoroughly rubbed
off with q coarse towel afterward. The
bath need not be more than five minutes
in duration. Further than this. the
patient should go.to bed at the same
hour every morning. There is q popular
superstition, that grown people should
not eat Immediately before going to
sleep; that it will give them indigestion
nightmare, or both. The writer can not
see why adults should be so very different
in this respect from babies. The average
person should be in bed seven or eight
hours, which is time enough for the dt-
gestion Of almost anything edible. In
our American life, he thinks the diges-
tion carried on through sleep probably
has the better chance for thoroughness.-
Journal of the american Medical As
! ISOLATION.