The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-18


 It is generally thought that if fruit is gathered when at just the right degree Of ripeness and preserved while still fresh; 1T the boiling Is checked st e1- aotiy the right point, and if the mir is entirely excluded from tho jars, that fruit must and win 'keep" until such time as It Is exposed, luscious and tempting, upon the housewife's tea table. So It does. usually, yet all these conditions are somewhat difiicult to ob- serve, and it sometimes happens that even upon the experienced and success- full preserver there falls the depressing seise of failure and loss.
 The chemist asserts that for the per- feet preservation of fruits there should be n double boiling. Fermentation Is caused by the presence of minute cells, which are In reality plants SO small that they can be seen only with the aid of high powers of the microscope and which nrc propagated by means Of spores. Boiling will kill all the ferment plants that arc developed from the spores but does not kill the spores.
 These spores require only from eight to twelve hours to develop. becoming new plants. and in turn. If undisturbed. depositing new spores. The theory Is that to destroy both plants and spores. the fruit should first have good boiling, and then be set away jn air light vessels for eight hours. It should then be brought again just to Q boiling heat. when the spores will be annihilated and no further trouble can arise from that source.
 This is called useful hint" but will 1t prove such. after all to the av- craze housekeeper? Since the daily routine housework does not stand still In its course while she would be occu- pied in the gentle art of canning 1t often happens that the sun Is far on its westward journey, before the fruit Is sealed in the jars. Shall she then be compelled to rise at 12, or 2. or thereabouts, for the purpose of subject ing 1t to the germicidal process al- luded to? Far better to sleep and risk the development of ferment plants than to wake to midnight tasks like these. There was Solomon's wise woman-who must have been regular driver" and who probably died young from overwork-she might have taken kindly to such processes as this. since she always rose while 1t was yet night. and her candle went not out so that she need waste no time in re-lighting it before she began her multifarious occupations But it is too much to ask of the modern housekeeper. who will probably scoff at the necessity of second boiling, and hold to the we'll established belief that "any fruit if boiled long enough to have all the germs killed and the air expelled. will keep indefinitely if sealed while boil ing hot" And where there is a family blest with good appetites and sound digestive organs it is usually found that preserves. like to the husband of the wise woman above mentioned. shall have no need of spoil"
 % >''- APRoPos.
 . Not all the brilliant children live in New Haven but a fair proportion of them do. This one did. Seated at the table with, the rest of rather large family. shS the youngest. lifted her plate by the edge in both hands. and looked appealingly across the table at her indulgent father.
 Put down your plate" he said. land wait until it is your turn to be served" But T want my dinner now." she pleaded. "No, no! Little girls must learn to wait"
 Still holding the plate extended, with a very sweet and demure expression but with mischevious twinkle in her eyes. she lisped out, "Oh. what's e use O waitin' when time is on e wing" And she didn't have to wait another minute after this very apropos quotation from an old song that she had heard him singing.
 AND OTHER rTEMs.
 The Art Institute Of Chicago has re- ceived from Harriet Hosmer the cast she made in 1853 of the clasped hands of Robert Browning and his wife. This is the cast of which Hawthorne wrote in "The Marble Pawn" "It symbolizes the individuality and heroic union of two high. poetic lives" The autograph of "Elizabsth Barrett Browning. Rome, May, 1853" Is on tho wrist of one hand. Robert Browning Rome" written on the wrist 6f the other. Miss Hosmer refused in England sn Qffer of S5.ool for this unique cast.
 Here is good ward for the woman journalist, from MT. William D. How els. He says: Twice in my life my personal remarks were reported with such accuracy and care that was more than r. satisfied. Last year a young woma a., called upoR me with "A, note from well known editor to get some observations from ue on the World's JTo;r Tho racult nroVed conClusiVAly