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The Washington times., 1894-05-13
THE STRANGE ART OF
LAUNDERING THE STOMACH.

Laundering the stomach is one of the
newest things in medical practice. II the
wiseacres are to be believed, it means a reyo-
luton in the treatment of dyspepsia. .Laun-
dering the stomach" is medical SLING
phrase, not to be too literally taken by dys-
peptics. 1t does not involve the washing or
ironing OF the organs OF digestion in the
sense that the terms are used in most house.
holds on Mond;.y. The idea OF washing the
stomach, or to be more exact the idea of
rinsing it out with warm water originated in
Paris, like many other Of the good things in
life. In Paris. says the New York SUM- it was
used with most gratifying results in the treat
ment OF celebrities who were chronic suffer-
ers from dyspepsia.
Recently DIR. Edison and other New York
practitioners got hold OF it, and after ten
weeks experimentation they declare without
hesitation that within years time the physi-
clan who does not take in laundry work will
be far behind the times. The operation con-
sists of nothing more or less than thrusting a
small rubber tube down your asoThagus into
your stomach and pouring in through the
tube quart OF warm water, which is after
wards siphoned out in much the same way as
the farmer empties the contents of one cider
barrel into another.
The average human stomach holds quart,
although bibulous persons often do not rec
ognize this limit. Therefore a quart of warm
water constitutes dose and four 'ses
are given to the patient at each treatment.
The water is allowed 10 remain III the stomach
for brief space. during which gentle rims
ing movement goes on. nature lending the
doctor helping hand, as she invariably does
when she agrees with him. The apparatus
required for the treatment consists OF soft
rubber tube six feet in length, rubber funnel,
a receiving basin, a pitcher, gallon of water,
and sensible doctor.
1t is no small trick to put rubber tube
down human Rsophagus, nor, for that
matter. is it trick to Le attempted by
novice. who. i'll all likelihood, would get the
tube Into the windpipe instead of the asopha-
gus. The patient throws back his head. so
that his escphaSus is in as nearly an up
right line as possible. The doctor thrusts
the tube in slowly. and it slides down the
mucus-lined canal rs easily as if it were a
spoonful of Christmas pudding and the sub
ject a five-yesr-old boy.
After the treatment is finished. the patient
is "A trihe weak and. in the words OF one who
has tried it, Your stomach feels the way
your foot does when it is asleep" 1t won't
be long before a man. meeting friend on the
street. will hear him say: in hurry. I
feel all out of sorts and I'm going to have my
stomach laundered."
The Washington times., 1894-05-13
Pretty for Children

Now that the hot weather is upon US, dress
the children as cool as possible, but protect
their delicate skins from all rough, unneces-
sary starched seams. 1t is so hard for them,
even if big enough. to leave their play to
come and complain. and then it is so easy to
say, Run along and play like dear baby, u
without ever stopping TO find out what is the
matter; that it is better TO start them out
right, rubbing down all the rough edges, as
you hope to eventually do.
A pretty dress for child from to 10 is
rade of oil-boiled turkey-red percale. with a
small white polka-dot. Make the waist with
pointed yoke and full the lower part OF the
body on TO it. Cut the neck in a small V and
turn wide circular collar back from it. well
over the sleeve, and edge the collar with
white insertion. Make the circular sleeve
trimming the cuff gather the lower part of
the waist and circular skirt into band OF
insertion. and place Il Spanish flounce of tho
material on the skirt about,eight inches from
the top. Head the 1ounce with insertion.
Cut the goods from underneath the trimming.
Fasten in the back with gold buttons.
Styish for a child from to g.: Full soft
white material or white with delicate stripe
from the neck inserting side cores from un-
der arm to make the skirt of sufficient full
ness; finish ut the bottom with ruffle edged
with lace. and at the neck with deep lace
collar. Make the sleeves full and to the
elbow. finish with deep ruffles of lace. Wear
with dark green velvet sleeveless jacket.
Natty for child from to 8: Seal-brown
accordeon-plaited skirt of soft wool to the
knee, white China silk blouse. with small gold
studs and seal-brown velvet sleeveless jacket
short.
One more: Delicate pink percale hairlined
with white: box plat the front into o square
yoke; make tight fitting under arm, body
and box plait thereon extra fullness; finish al
the bottom with deep hem. and at the neck
with white circular cape with turn-down col
lar; make the sleeves rather tight-fitting
with deep ruflie of lace from the shoulder to
fall under collar OF goods. NJ. R
The Washington times., 1894-05-13

the meat, as the generated vapor within hastes
the latter automatically. In ten minutes after
turning on the current the oven can be heated
to 800 degrees. Then the roast Is put In and
the heat reduced to $50 degrees byturning the
switch. Suppose the meat to weigh sixteen
pounds; It should be left there for two hours
without opening the door.
The oven retains its temperature Of $50 de-
grees, the meat is naturally basted without
trouble, and Is baked all over an even brown.
No heat is lost. so that 1t is cooked In less
time than in an ordinary oven where, with
opening and shutting the door, with drafts.
etc., "a per cent. of the heat is lost and only 6
per cent saved. Here one saves 81 per cent.
and loses per cent.
This electrical apparatus, although intro
duced only two years ago. is becoming widely
known and is much used in the kitchens Of
club houses throughout the country. The
hotels OF New York, Philadelphia, and Wash
ington are beginning to take 1t up, and many
private residences are now provided with
this convenience. Every bit OF food placed
before the fastidious members Of the Mime
sofa Club OF st. Paul cooked by electricity,
and they all testify to the merits OF the roasts
and the juiciness Of the steaks and chops
cooked In this manner.
The Mondamin club, OF Sioux City, and
hotels in Illinois, Kentucky, and in fact all
over the West and South are enthusiastic in
its praise. One can furnish a kitchen with
the whole apparatus and all .he necessary
utensils for S75. But 1t is really not import
ant to have them all to start with. One can
commence by procuring the switchboard,
three discs the oven. and coffee pot using
ones own utensils on the discs until the ex-
pertinent has been tried. ANNIE BARBOUR.
The Washington times., 1894-05-13
Young Philosophers. Savings.

First Little Girl-My mamma brought home
teaspoon with "Word's Fair on it. Sec
ond Little Girl-Huh! My mamma brought
home tablespoon with palmer House" on
it.-Travelers Record.
Toddles-Papa. which are the bestest. ladies
or mems? Papa-Ladies. my dear. Toddles
Then don't you fink you an mamma ought
to be patienter VIII us boys, cause We got a
wrong start-don't you see?-Harper's Young
People.
My baby brother knows more than yours
does" asserted Mollie .'Betcher he doesn't" ;"
retorted Jennie. my little brother can talk
so plain you can understand what he says"
'Huhl'' jeered Mollie.. MY brother can talk
so the smartest man can't understand him;
but he knows what he means. Jewish Mes
senger.
Visitor-Tommy, I wish to ask you few
questions in grammar. Tommy-Yes, sir.
Visitor-If 1 give you the sentence. "Thc
pupil loves his teacher what is that? Tommy
-Sar.asm.-Glasgow Citizen.
Emma was taught by her mother to go
through her regular prayers and to add any
special petitions suggested by her needs at
the time. On one occasion she was i'll and
suffering some pain and considerable incon-
venience from nausea, and her simple prayer
at the end OF the regular vesper offering was
"Oh. Lord, bless poor little En- and make her
well. for who wants to be frowing up all the
time2"-St Louis Republic.
The Washington times., 1894-05-13
FASHION SIDES WITH ECONOMY

The weeks just passed have enabled many
shoppers to collect at comparatively small
cost remnants" OF cloths, silks, chirons.
laces, ribbons and the like. Where these
'bargain remnants have been selected with
a certain amount of regard for their possibili-
ties they may be made to return with interest
the money and time expended in this pur-
chase. The truth is that to-day fashion is
smiling amiably on the costume which is
made Of assorted materials, giving you spe-
cial opportunity for encompassing elegance
from remnants.
You may make a skirt Of cloth. a vest Of
accordion-plaited chiffon, with lace yoke,
and the Jacket bodice, and sleeves OF cloth of
a different shade and may confidently hope
to achieve success. Then. again. the short
piece OF brocade may be utilized for the tea
jacket. and the few yards Of lace which you
doubtless picked up under reduced circum-
stances may be calculated safely to form a
vest. a fiounce beneath basque OF the jacket,
which might be cut in tabs. and to trim the
full sleeves, which, according to the latest
ethics of Ia mode, are only 10 be full down to
the elbow and to set closely to the wrist and
fall over the hands, These fri.ls Of lace over
the hands, which half conceal and half reveal,
are eminently becoming.
Thin silks may be successfully used for
dressing jackets lined with nuns yelling.
There is no piece OF lace which you have
bought ut the sales too small to be considered
OF use. 1t takes but few inches to-day to
make the bib. that Indispensable addition to
our attire. which the longer We seem to know
the more We seem to admire, the reason for
this being perhaps not difficult to find. for it
may be discovered in the undeniable fact that
lace at the throat is universally becoming.
Lace too, may be used to form the popular
yoke, which shall be transparent for an even
ing dress to be worn at home, while it requires
but a small quantity TO form the lace epaulets.
and but two yards will suffice for that full
lace collar round the shoulders which to-day
we call the early victorian bertha"
Are you the fortunate possessor Of n little
girl? If so. you can use the length of two
yards of faced cloth. 1t will make perfectly
plain frock, cut square back and front.
plated into the waist with braces and a sash
of black watered ribbon, and it is wori. over
a white lawn caDisole with large Garibaldi
sleeves. made with yoke striped with inser-
tion and tucks. Here is "A chance for econ
omy for all mothers. The camisoles are to he
contrived out Of odd lengths Of embroidery.
while the limited amount required by the
frock tells its own tale OF thrift. an of course
the combination OF color may be varied pleas
ingly. scarlet cloth with black ribbors, navy
blue with heliotrope, old rose color and tan
velvet ribbons. The choice is infinite.-North
American, Baltimore.
The Washington times., 1894-05-13
DRESS DRIFT.

Butter shades are very pretty in bourdons,
point de Genes, point de Venise and other
heavy laces.
Knife plated frills and lace ruffles are still
used as trimming on children's aprons of
dotted Swiss and nainsook.
With the moire-trimmed Eton and blazer
suit will be worn the new belt-that of black
leather, covered with moire.
fine blue serge seaside gown has van
dyked yoke OF red satin, covered with OPEN
work black silk passementerie.
A Maria Antoinette flchu of pale green and
white tinted gauge was edged with tiny
froll of green gauze and narrow white Valen-
ciennes lace.
The newest chains for the lorgnette are
made of extremely thin silver or gold links.
with pearls, rubies. or Iarnets set at distances
of about an inch and a half.
The waist of pretty theater bodice had a
high neck and elbow sleeves. the only trim
ming being a large jabot of white silk muslin
thickiy fringed with silver bullion.
picturesque granny bonnet for a little
girl was made of white bengalne shirred over
chords and trimmed with quilted pink satin
ribbon and ruchings of white lace.
The foundation OF a handsome ball gown is
white satin. This is draped over with white
silk net embroidered deliberately with jet
spdnSiSs. ms effect Is uitLZiiuSly Iicu-
Dotted Swiss and Valenciennes lace, with
entredcux lace trimmings, run through with
white. pink. baby blue or pearl gray satin
baby ribbon. makes beautiful infants caps
Odd hairpin boxes are OF white enamel in
the shape of deur de lis. Among the pretty
silver trifes for the toilet table are delicateiy
chased vaseline spoons and glove cologne
TASKS.
An unusual combination IN handkerchiefs
showed boiling cloth with border OF
Smyrna lace. Some very pretty Ane linen
haudkerchiefs were bordered with beautiful
point de Gene.
Pretty colored silk bodices have yokes and
sleeves entirely covered with black guipure
lace and are worn with shirts and accordion
plated black silk muslin. Pale-yellow silk,
covered with the black guipure, Is exceed
ingly effective.
A tea jacket of white crepon was lined with
rose pink China silk and oddly trimmed with
bands OF black lace insertion over rose pink
satin ribbon. The coat skirt of this JACKET,
the collar. and waist were finished with rufiles
of white lace over similar ones in black.
Scal!oped crepe edges in various designs
are still seen on mourning wells. There
seems to be quite a demand for white net
d'esprit for children's wells For the Summer
hat there is nothing daintier and cooler look
Ing-and. 1 may add. nothing more perish
able-than folds of tuile in black, white, or
dark blue
The Washington times., 1894-05-13
BREAKFAST IN VENICE;
L0ITERING GAsTR0N0MERs

How your heart warns and your blood
tingles when you remember that first morn
ing in Venice, your first day in gondola
For hours you drift about. You want only
the salt air in your face, the splash and
gurgie OF the water at the bow, and the low
song Giorgio, the boatman. sings to himself
as he bends to his blade. Soon you dart into
cool canal. skirt along an old wall, water
stained and worn. and rest at a low step.
Giorgio springs out. twists cord around an
iron ring, and disappears through an arch
way framing garden abloom with Towering
vines.
1t is high noon. Now for your midday
lunch. few minutes later Giorgio pushes
aside the vines He carries a basket covered
with white cloth. This he lays at your feet
on the floor of the boat. You catch sight of
the top of the siphon and fiagon OF wine.
Do not hurry, wait till he serves it. But not
here, where anybody might come; farther
down. where the oleanders hang over the
wall, their blossoms in the water and where
the air blows cool between the overhanging
palaces.
Later Giorgio draws all the curtains except
the side next the oieanders, steps aft and
fetches board, which he rests On the little
side seats in front Of your lounging cushions.
Ou tNlS DOdIu ne spItduS tut clclu anu tHtn
the setter and Chianti, the big glass OF pow
dered ice and the Little hard Venetian rolls
(By the bye do YOU know that there is only
one form of primitive roll the world over?)
Then come the chese, the Gorgonzola. active,
alert Gorgonzola, all green spots, wrapped in
"a leaf. rough iacketed melon, with some
figs and peaches.
Last of all, away down in the bottom OF the
basket, there is dish of macaroni gernished
with peppers. You do not want any meat. II
you did you would not get it. Some time,
when you are out on the canal or up the Gui-
decca, you might get fish freshly broiled
from passing cookboat serving the water
men-a sort OF floating kitchen for those who
are too poor for a fire of their own-but never
meat.
Giorgio serves you as daintiy as would a
woman: unfolding the cheese, splitting the
rolls. parting the melon into crescents. feck-
ing off each seed with his knife, and last, the
coffee from the little copper coffee pot. and
the thin cakes of sugar. In the thick, I'M
breakable. dumpy little cups. There are no
courses in repast. You light a cigarette with
your first mouthful and smoke straight
through; it is that kind of breakfast
Then you spread yourself over space, fiat
on your back. the smoke curling out through
the half-drawn curtains. Soon your gondolier
gathers up the fragments, half a melon and
the rest-always enough for two-moves aft.
swish of the siphon. Later you note the
closely-eaten crescents floating by. and the
empty leaf. Giorgio was hungry too.
The Washington times., 1894-05-13
so-cALLEp DRY" CLEANING.
II Can Be Done at Home II Only 1t Is Done
Carefully Enough.

II Can Be Done at Home II Only Ii Is Done
Carefully Enough.
In looking over last years clothes as you
bring them from their Winter retreat you are
doubtless surprised and grieved to find that
most of them need cleaning, unless, indeed,
you took time by the forelock and had 1t done
last Fall before you packed them away. There
is really no reason for having it done; you
can do it quite as well yourself If you will
only take the necessary trouble. The processes
Of professional cleaners are not at all
mysterious.
:.Dry cleaning is, for the most part, no
dryer than immersion in a tub of liquid will
permit. Gowns and cloaks supposed by their
owners to be submitted at the cleaners to
delicate operations are put in washtub and
rubbed like any weeks washing. The soap
used is made Of palm oil.
II they cannot be put In water they are
dipped in @ vat of benzine. Whether they are
put in benzine or water depends upon the ma
terial, q piece Of which is experimental with
beforehand. Other garments not too COM
plex are laid on a marble slab and scrubbed
with palm-oil soap.
Many garments restored to natural color In
laundries supposedly by cleaning, are in re-
ality dyed over. The dye is dissolved in
tub Of water and the garment fioated in and
left to stand awhile.
Wool aud silk garments In all fast colors,
such as brown, blue, etc., and black. are
washed in soap bark, which takes out all the
grease and seems to give new body to the ma
terial. Soap bark restores black, however
rusty or green. The secret Of its use is to
have it very strong. The laundries put two
tablespoonfuls in nearly two quarts Of water
and boil it down to one quart, which they put
in a bucket and add warm water. Sometimes
in bad case this strength is doubled.
If there is only grease spot to be taken
out the part is covered with prepared chalk
and laid between fiannels with warm iron
on it. If it Is rust on cotton fabrics the spot
Is covered with salt and lemon juice poured
through it, and after the lemon juice warm
water. Only cottons can be thus treated.
Lace is washed in borax. soap, and water,
stiffened, if desired, with borax, and pinned
between flannels and pressed. Flannels are
washed in borax. soap and tepid water. and
pulled the way OF the warp and of the weft
four or five times while drying.
1t is easy enough to wash made up dress;
the trouble is to iron it, and here We are
nearer a mystery The dyeing establish
ments are supplied with irons of endless
variety, of all sizes and shapes down to the
most minute. The problem is to iron a gar
ment so that the ironing will not be suspected,
and naturally this requires skill and care.
A girl will sometimes spend three days in
pressing one waist and sleeves. She must
know just how hot her irons can be, and she
must go over every square inch and between
every gather with irons often as fine almost
as needles.
The only mystery in doing these things is
in taking infinite pains. Chicago Times.
The Washington times., 1894-05-13
MEN AND WOMEN OF THE TINES

Household correspondence Is not uncom-
mon between the various members OF a fam
lily. There is peace-loving old gentleman,
the father OF strong-willed family, who
rarely enters his room without finding a
three-cornered note pierced with hat pin
on his pincushion. "Dear papa, will you
please speak to Lucy, who is SO annoying, "
etc.
Dear papa, would it trouble you to ad-
vance me, etc.
"Dear papa, won't you suggest to mamma,
but don't let her know put you up to it?
more decorously ordered family one
would scarcely see. It is true that the vari-
GUS members are rarely on speaking terms at
the same time, but owing TO the daily corre-
spondence with the diplomatic head of the
family the prophecies OF lite are handsomely
observed.
There is man who says that all this talk
about girls progressing so rapidly is nonsense,
that girls are girls always, and the girl Of 100
years ago isn't a bit different from the girl of
to-day, except in the single detail that she is
dead. Girls hearts are all in the same place,
he claims. They fall in love, according to
this preposterous NAH, and act Just as silly as
they ever did; they-but then these are only
the weak utterances Of man. and he cannot
be supposed to see things as they really are.
Nearly quarter OF a century ago Punch
thus differentiated: "what in woman is called
curiosity in a man is grandiloquently magni-
fed into the spirits Of inquiry"
About the most cherished object among
mans belongings is not his wife, his new baby,
his club-these are OF secondary Importance
but his umbrella. Through sunshine as well as
rain he will fondly carry this silken roof with
steel rafters. He finds il after time part Of
himself, his companion in his joys and sorrows.
! know one very stunning masculine in this
city who would. l am certain OF it, rather be
parted from his bes. girl than the nattily furled
umbrella that Is so dear TO his heart. He totes
it about by day and night. l have sometimes
had an irresistible longing to hide it from him
when he has dropped in for a friendly chat
Just to see what an effect it would have on his
Chesterfield manners. They would quickly go
to pieces, am positive of it.
What is this?
The clergy in the voice OF the Rev. Dr. Van
Something advising young college men not
to fall in love or mix heart experiences with
their studies?
Go to the Rev. Van Something, go to- If
the men wait till they are old and wise may
be they won't fall in love at ALL
An English woman writes in one of their
journals: 1.-The mannsh woman is peculiar
to England. An American woman does
pretty Dearly everything q man does, but she
doesn't do it in mannish way
Thanks, awfullyi
''There are a good many reasons, says an
exchange. why a man should marry and a
good many why he should not Those why
he should not are never revealed to him until
after marriage"
That's very true, but how about the women?
The Washington times., 1894-05-13
Facts and Eancics.

1t is notable circumstance that mothers
who are themselves open to severe comments
as to their moral character are generally most
solicltous as to the virtuous behavior CT their
daughters.
''Remedies for toothache. nv friend.' said
philosopher, Twill be found to afford in
stant relief in every case but yours"
To many there is no earthly influence
which compares with that of sleeping child.
Before it pride, vanity, and self-coneeit give
way to humility.
Fantastic candlesticks are to be seen in
china shops Of late in flower designs. There
are tulips, crocuses, and roses, all made so
that the flower, wide open, will hold the can
die inserted. They are very realistic, but
not particularly seemly. One does not fancy
the thought of light thrust into the heart Of
flower.
"There is an economic side to the big
sleeves Of to-day. after all, )" said sprghtly
young mother the other day, land they make
over beautifully into frocks for the children. y