Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-22
Simple Ezpedients by Which a Table
Can Be Made Attractive.
CHILDREN NEED YOUNG COMPANIONS
Fried Johnny Cakes and How They
Are Made.
TO REMOVE GREASE SPOTS

things that they undertake TO do, whether
it be social, home or business affairs that
occupy their attention, are the individuals
| who furnish physicians with all their in
| teresting cases of nervous prostration Such
People live up their nervous vitality faster
1 than nature can build 1t up, and the result
is physical wreck, just about the time
when one should begin to enjoy life. We
| live too fast all the time. That is a fault
of the American people-a national fault, If
| you please-and it is no use whatever to tell
| an American to go slow" he can't do it,
He'd much rather be told to step lively.
But If he would move fast judIciously ne
| would accomplish just as much and live
| longer American men and women are
| given to boiling their food, for instance
| one of the surest and speediest ways of
wearing out the physical man. If men and
| women would only eat more slowly, drink
less ice water, and less liquid generally
| with their food, and then consent to sit
| quietly for fifteen moments after eating
| they would be surprised at the change for
| the better that would ensue almost i'm
| mediately. 1t takes about half an hour
| for the process of digestion to get properly
| started, and If overheated by a brisk walk
| or chilled by a cold ore. or if brain work
| is begun Immediately following a hearty
| meal, spell of indigestion is bound to
make You uncomfortable. Nature is a
| stern taskmaster. She Furnishes You with
| some ache or i'll each time you break one of
] her laws. You do not notice her gentle
chastising at first but when years begin
| to creep on and your system does not re-
trieve its errors as rapidly as it did in
youth. then you go to the doctor for a
| nerve tonic" and execrate him IL he finds
himself unable to build upon a rotten found
alton. If yon would live happy life and
live right before your system is burned out.
If you are afflicted with a gone" feeling
On awakening in the morning. try drinking
"up Of hot milk or of cambria tea. A
g. of condensed milk will last you two
weeks, and makes a good morning drink.
Use a teaspoonful to a cup of boiling water;
| drink hot.
| 1t is not always possible to procure fresh
salmon, but here is a delicious dish made Of
the canned fish. Take the paper off the
can and put Ii unopened into a pan of boil
| ing water. Let IT boil vigorously for half
an hour. then open and turn the fish into a
hot dish. Drain off all the Oil. pour over 1t
a hot cream sauce and send to the table
garnished with cress, parsley or celery tops.
You Will find this palatable and pretty.
|
There is so much more in setting forth an
| attractive table than most people think. A
dish of cold sliced meat looks much more
attractive when garnished with bits of
green, or If there is nothing green at hand,
some oddly cut pieces of red beets with two
or three rings Of carrot will make a pretty
| earnish. Some housewives of small means
| have small box of parsley growing in the
sunny south window of the kitchen, where
TWO or three bits can be shipped off each
| meal. The pretty garnish grows very nice
| ly under such circumstances and is no trou-
| bic at all. 1t costs only a penny or two a
| bunch in market If you can afford to buy
and can be kept long time in water. IL
| there are children, You may be sure they
viii like the greens. A slender vase that
VIII hold single geranium and leaf or
| two will quite change the appearance of a
meagerly spread table. These little artistic
| touches are the diverging marks that lie
| between home and a place where one
stops. In one we live in the other we exist
Far TOO many people are contented to sim
ply exist.
1t is a sin ana shame the way some
children are permitted to ruin their diges-
| ton eating candy If all candy were pure,
| little would hurt no one. But so many
| authorizations are used now that you can
| never be sure that your child is not eating
rank poison when he surrounds a lot of
| the gaudily colored cheap candies put I'D
| for the express purpose OF coaxing the pen
! MES away from him. One mother that /
know has forbidden all candy to her young
| hopefuls. But she keeps on the sideboa "a
| covered dish of loaf sugar, to which the
| children have access a. su times. This
| satisfies their desire for sweets, and they
care less and less for candy each year.
Homemade candies answer the same pur-
| pose.
Infiamed eyes which will yield to no other
treatment will sometimes lie benefited by a
| tea-leaf poultice. Pour boiling water on the
| leaves and let them stand until they are
| quite soft, then lift the leaves onto a soft
| cloth and bind directly on the closed eyes.
| This should be done at night and removed
in the morning.
| "A house without library is like body
| without a SOUL" somebody has wisely re-
VII
| will see in a round of one days visits! A
| library is easy to acquire and in these
| days is not costly. Books are very cheap,
| and though it Is nice TO own costly-bouph
| books, they are not serviceable. When you
are going trip take the time to select
| a book for reading that you will care to
| keep. When you have an hour to spare
| down in town. go into a secondhand book
| store and look at the mine of wealth
tucked away in the dust of years. You
| will be sure 10 find something that you
want TO have in your library. Buy care
| fully, and with discrimination and care
| and you will be surprised to find what an
extensive collection you can get around you
| In a years time. Books should be like ones
| friends, chosen with regard to their worth
| and treasured accordingly. 1t is debatable
| how far adults may indulge in the light
| literature Of the day, but whatever you do
do not leave any of it around for greedy
| young minds to ABSORB. The most direct
way to sully the plant mind of youth is
| by means of flash literature. More boys
are ruined, more girls sent on the down
ward path. through the agency of trashy
stories with unholy love for their theme
| or fabulous tales of daring, than BY any
| other means. Such teachings seep into the
very soul, and. like the deadlier poisons
| that eat out the life of the victim unawares,
| they pollute the sensibilities until the mind
refuses more wholesome food.
To take machine grease out of a white
| fabric wash the spot with clean cold water
and a white soft cloth. Rub gently at hrst
| and then hard.
Ripe tomatoes are an excellent cosmetic
for the hands and face. Cut a tomato open
and rub the skin Well, then let it dry for
five or ten minutes, after which wash off
with clear soft water.
To keep cheese from molding or from
drying out, wrap II in a cloth, dampened
| with vinegar, and keep in a covered dish.
1t is said that fresh piece of lemon
bound on a corn three nights in success
| sion will loosen the core SO that Ii can be
drawn right out 1t is a simple and safe
remedy, If ii does not cure. Many of the
| corn lotions and cures offered for sale are
dangerous to use and often end by max
ing the feet sorer than at first.