Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-24

mind" The child was not quite 4, so il
may be gathered that he had not very well
developed perception of right and wrong,
and in consequence these Explanations
were frequent. This Is most common
habit of young mothers and an altogether
wrong one. The child should be taught that
his mothers judgment is all he need lean
upon; if she says no that is enough. The
child is happier and the parent is saved end
less trouble. The rock that the fond mother,
particularly with her first child. is apt to
| split upon is her dread of correcting ever so
mildly, this object of her devotion. IT she
| can be made to see that her own selfshness
is really at the bottom of her "explaining"
and temporizing there is a chance for them
both.
| Don't say "no" thoughtlessly; having
said it, however, don't withdraw. Don't
| whip very often and certainly don't threaten
| the punishment with no intention of carry
| ing it out. Herbert Spencer, in his essay
on Education" gives valuable keynote
\ to child-government. Like natures, laws,
I be inevitable, he says. A child puts
his hand on hot stove; it burns him; he
puts it on again; again he is burned, and he
learns presently that as surely as he touches
| the stove so surely will pain be inflicted.
And after one or two trials he avoids it.
| Children rarely object to being ruled in a
| firm, just way. Proper discipline they ac-
| cept like true soldiers. 1t is when parent
displays Inconsistencies and unreasonable
caprices of authority that a child rebels or
submits in sullen forced obedience.
The newest ''cozy corners" have taken on
the prevailing rocco effect, and are really,
as shown in the sketch, a sort of cabinet
screen, though not folding. Low, shallow
shelves offer resting place for odds and
ends of bric-a-brac and a corner chair,
small divan or Hamlet chair may be used
with it not forgetting the potted plant
which seems to be q sine qua non of these
helps-over-ngly- stretches in the drawing
room. As with the "cozy corners" previ-
ously shown in these letters this is readily
duplicated by any cabinet maker, and may
be finished in ebony enamel paint or any of
the furniture stains.
The Sedan victorias are fashionable car
rage at Saratoga this summer. They are
not nearly so comfortable and luxurious as
those of the other style, and people have
funny jointed-doll look as they sit perched
against their straight backs But they are
fashionable, and Sedan broughams outrival
the victorias in their resemblance to the
stiff little boxes of . by-gone day. The
broughams are all angles, and are narrow
and hung low so that it takes little imagi-
nation to picture them borne along by men,
and holding a quaint belle in patches and
brocade or q beau in, lace ruf1es and snuff
box.
"Spike your hats and bonnets to the
trunk tray just as you spike them in your
hair and they will go beautifully" says a
young woman who has tried it.
Housekeepers often notice that in damp
weather in the summer the coffee becomes |
tasteless and insipid. Many do not connect |
the facts, but they are cause and effect. In |
closets and on store shelves the kernel will |
become tough and doughy just as crackers |
ar. affected. An old housekeeper says the |
flavor is restored BY keeping the breakfast
coffee over night in the warming oven, and
the dinner coffee all day in the same place.
close and let the slow heat of the back oven
draw out the oil.
'Flower butter" just now fashionable
and expensive, and good deal of a novelty
in America, is by no means new abroad.
French butte makers have long utilized
the scheme of packing butter. wrapped first
in thin cheese cloth, in jars filled with
odorous blossoms, and at the Paris butter
stalls rose and clover butter are by no
means idle terms. This butter in pats,
marked wit h the flower whose fragrance it
borrows, is now on sale in Philadelphia
and New York. The process is an open
secret, and may be initiated by any clever
housewife.
In suburban houses flower sandwiches
are feature Of the Iuncheons and teas The
bread, wrapped in thin cloth, is packed in
4 stone jar, resting on bed of fragrant
blooms and covered and smothered with
the same, the jar covered close when filled
10 the lid The butter is similarly packed
in another covered vessel, and both are set
in cool place for several hours. Then the
bread is buttered on the loaf, and sliced
thinner than the traditional wafer, rolled
Up like scroll and piled lightly on a nap
kin covered plate.
At the o'clock teas it is quite the thing
% have tray cloth and doilies worked with
he flower whose perfume the bread and
,utter is laden with, and rose, clover and
,owslip services are kept for such use. A
lean periumed flower ought to be selected.
j deavy-sweet odors are not pleasant En-
,lish violets are delightful, but roses and
lover are especially suitable and agree
BILE.
A new notion in dinner decoration is to lay
strip Of linen, lace-edged and with band