Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-17
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Fresh meat beginning to sour will sweeten
il placed out of doors in the air over night
To get rid of rats or mice, sprinkle cay
enne pepper freely about their haunts
This applies TO insects also.
One teaspoonful of ammonia TO teacup
of water, applied with Z rag or brush, will
clean silver or gold jewelry.
Apply kerosene with rag when you are
about to put Your stoves away for the sum
mcr; it will prevent them from rusting
Charcoal is recommended as an absorber
of gases in the milk-room when foul gases
are present. 1t should be finely powdered
and kept there continually
Lemon Juice will whiten frosting; cram
berry juice will color it pix, and the grated
rind of au orange, strained thro ugh cloth,
will color it yellow. But remember that
the value of the yellow tones will be lost at
night, and for this reason pure white icing
is best to use by artificial light.
A traveller across France who did not like
the Lombardy poplars says: 1t is but
fair to add that there was d gay young lady
in our party on whom the poplarS made Il
radically different impression. She had
parted from Paris desperately in love with
IL. and protested that the poplars were 10 be
regarded as so many exclamation points, in
dicating the surprise which the universe in
general must feel as it cOntemplateS per-
son voluntarily consenting to forsake that
fascinating capital for anywhere else"
In Mrs. DORIS plea for Helen in Lip
pincOtt's 4, pears this telling paragraph:
- Beauty is only skin deep.' On the con-
trary, 1t Is so deep that it strikes to the
very root ana marrow of the whole nature.
The Helen = to-day is a complex being.
She does not hold her sway merely by
virtue of pink-and- white prettiness, bright
eyes and regular features. She is a COM
posite photograph in which are intimately
blended the strongest and most vital charac-
teristics of the women of many cons and
many races. With limitleSs resources of
mind and heart, she must have the divine
tenderness of the Mater DoloroSa, the
graciousneSS of manner that adorns
throne, and the fine tact that is more
precious than rubieS.'
There is an opal which comes from Aus
tralia which is almost black, from which
tongues of fire shoot out from unexpected
points and give the stone almost the effect
of being in combustion. 1t is not as eXpen-
sive as the precious opal, which comes
chiefly from Hungary. The Australian
stone is found in veins of porphyry placed
IN layers with its matrix. 1t is often cut
zen cameo when thus found. A specimen
of such a cameo exhibited by well-known
jeweler represents the head of warrior,
whose helmet Is of the most brilliant opa-
lescent colors. while the face is soft ivory
white, and the whole is thrown against a
background of dull black.
DIR. Lucy Waite writes in the Queen Isa-
bella journal: We propose to honor Isabella
in the same spirit and for the same reason
that We honor Columbus. We honor them
both. because in the great evolution, which
through thousands of years gradually
opened up to civilization the unknown
regions of the earth, they were the instru-
ments by which our own fair land, in truth
a new world, was brought into communica-
ton with the old. When a monument 10
Columbus was suggested. all approved it as
most natural and appropriate thing. No
one sought TO probe into his private charac-
ter. or objected that the mammoth fair
should be called the Columbian exposition;