Evening star., 1895-06-08

baby was cross aad fretful, and badly
broken out with heat, as she had said, but
she never stopped to think that her own
heated condition and worried mind and
tired body was half the cause of it, and
that with every drop of milk that her
baby nursed it was absorbing a larger
quantity of her own nervousness, to VeX
her with all night, perhaps. Being tired
enough TO drop. the proper thing to do,
was to drop. and take good, long nap,
from which she would have arisen with
more cheerful views of life. and would
have found also that the wheels of the
household machinery would have moved
much more smoothly when she had salts
fed nature by getting a little rest. Then,
too. the de3r little baby would have had
one good meal of its mothers milk, that
was purified from worry and microbes of
nervousness. and the prickly heat would
have had less to feed upon.
Keeping coor' this blistering weather
does not mean physically only, but mental
ly, as we'll, and you can materially add to
your comfort by observing a few common
sense rules. The woman who is managing,
and who looks well after her family, will
get most of her work done very early in
the morning, before any body is astir, and
before Old Sol gets SO fervidly familiar.
OF course, the house should be dressed for
summer, if possible. The carpets should be
taken up. busted and cleaned, if you intend
TO have that done before putting down i'll
the fall, and then they should be tightly
sewed up i'll closely-woven bags, to keep
them from the invasion of moths. All the
heavy curtains should be taken down and
treated in like manner, and all the hang
ingS should be removed, and slowed away,
for during the summer open windows, sun
shine ana dust would rum them, and your
peace OF mind a the same time.
The Rooms Look Cooler.
If you can afford it, light straw mating
iS he. Ja,1S
stain your floors and content yourself with
rugs. 1t may be that bamboo furniture
Will not be available either, but light linen
covers for your pretty upholstered parlor
set will be. for you can get patterns and
make them yourself. Strip your rooms of
all the. fancy bric-a-brac that catches dust
so easily, and that might get overturned
and broken in the hurried daily dusting.
After clearing the house of the litter
that makes it SO cozy and bright IN win
ter, but only enhances its 'stuii1ness' in
warm weather, you will be surprised to
find that your labors in keeping your house
clean are appreciably lightened, and with
heavy hanSings gone the rooms actually
seems cooler.
BY arising at day break, leaving the little
ones sleeping. the whole shouse except the
sleeping rooms can be put in order before
breakfast. Don't go about this cleaning
without fortfylrg yourself, though. Drink
a glass of cool lemonade and eat a biscuit
dish of berries or other fruit. which
will not leave you with hit empty feel
ing, nor yet destroy your appetite for
breakfast. If you have not done your mar
ketinS the night before, OF course 1t should
be dore soon as possible after you get
up, so that you can arrange for the day
meals. If you are a real sensible woman
you will have learned what Is the best
kind of warm weather food for there IS a
vast difference in the heat-producinS prop
ert.es as we'll the health-giving ones Of
the various articles of diet.
If the man of the family has to perform
manual labor, he VIII need meat twice a
day. For yourself Cnce a day is quite
enough, unless ycu want to increase Your
discomfort, for meat is heating. If it is
roast CT a boiling piece that you intend to
have for dinner cook it rarely done i'll the
morning and set it away in the ice box or
at least where it will keep cool. Save the
broth that has formed about it, and if
you want soup you can make 1t from that
bl 9th in five minutes time, when you are
getting dinner. II you prefer the meat hot
for dinner cut neat slices of the rarely
done roast, place them in a pie tin and pour
over them some of the Juices you nave
saved, and set them on the gas stove or i'll
the oven to heat through, then slip on the
hot platter and serve.
Cooking Made Easy.
Make your potato salad, or the chicken
or veal salad while you are about it, and
the pie or bread pudding, or custard, or
ge!atine dessert. If it is sliced cucumbers
save all chance of indigestion by slicing
them into Salted ice water and set them in
the ice box, rinse before putting on the
table, With these things prepared, vege-
ia BILE or two for dinner can easily be cook
ed over one-burner gas stove in double
boiler, and the matter of getting the din
ner confined to half an hour, and another
half tc getting the dishes done.
If you have any regard for your diges-
tion eschew hot bread, oatmeal, cracked
wheat and gridGle cakes in hot weather.
They are all heat producers, and fat pro-
ducers as well. Fruit, fresh fruit, and
plenty of it, should be found on the table
at every meal, both summer and winter il
possible, but in the summer especially. Day
old bread, thinly sliced, and toasted
golden brown and eaten dry, is the very
best kind of bread for who suffers
greatly from the heat. Perhaps you are
too much welded to coffee to give it up
but drink less of it, and more lemonade,
that is if the lemonade does not give your
nursing baby the collie.
If you will carefully note when your baby
is the crossest you will generally find that
it's crying spells follow closely on a fit of
anger, ill-temper, overheating or overeat-
ing on your part. The summer appetite is
usually quite dainty in the morning, so
never have anything heavy for breakfast.
The first course should be fruit, always.
After that the tastes of the family must
be considered, but whatever you have
cook it nicely, serve daintily and do not
gust the light eater. By little managing
you can save yourself a great deal of work
over hot stove right in the heated part of
the day.
Whatever sewing you feel that you must
do rush through in the morning. If you
were wise you would have finished up most
of your sewing while 1t was cool, say in
March and April. Let the children play
their hardest all morning, and about noon
| bring them In and strip them. Give each
one rubbing down with towel dipped in
salt water, put their night dresses on them
| and send them to their rooms to go to
sleep They will probably object. but let
| them know that 1t has to be done, and it
| will not be long before they will come of
| their own accord. for nature is very meth
| odical, and sleep at a certain hour one
| day is sure to induce one at the same hour
| the next day.
A Grateful Rest.
Then, darken your house from top to bot
| tom, and find the coolest place In it and
| take nap yourself. An hour Is long
enough and will amply repay YOU for what