The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-30

| der, and served in n cream sauce
| Whiten yellow linen by boiling half an
| hour in one pound of fine soap melted IN
one gallon of milk. Then wash in suds,
| then in two cold waters with Il little blue
! ing.
| II cane chairs are sagglng in the seat
! turn them upside down and wash them
with strong soap suds Soak them thor
oughly, then set them to dry. The cane
will stiffen up to its normal condition.
Cocoa Is now much used in the place Of
Chocolate for icing cake. The icing Is
made by beating the whites of two eggs
and mixing with them nearly IA cupful of
powdered sugar. Add two teaspoonsful Of
cocoa.
Sandwiches of walnuts are new. chop
Il cupful of walnut meats and mix with
ono tablespoonful of Mayonnaiae dressing,
spread the bread with this mixture, cut
| ting the slices very thin and trimming of
| the crusts.
| IL Is not always easy to start a fruit jar
cover. Instead of Nrenching your hands
and bringing on blisters simply nvert the
! jar and place the top in hot water for II
minute. Then try ii, and you will find 1t
! turns quite easy.
Cut glass washed in warm soap suds,
| rinsed in hot, but not boiling water. and
then stood in a pan of dry sawdust till
dry, then brushed with n soft brush and
rubbed with piece of chamois Will have
its brilliant beauty dazzlingly brought
out.
Many housekeepers still need warning
| against the frequent use of feather dust
ers. These busters simply chase the par
ticles from the furniture into the air,
| where they are inhaled. a soft cloth Is
| good, and a ChamoS skin is sometimes
better for Il duster.
\ valuable assistant on silver-cleaning
| day is lemon If silver. after 1t is
cleaned is rubbed with piece of lemon
and then washed and wcll dried, 1t gets II
white brillianCy which it seldom has
Otherwise and will keep clean longer than
with the ordinary cleansing.
Veal outlets, which are often too dry to
be attractive food, are improved by bread
ing, putting in u frying pan with thin
slices of beacon, and cooking in the oven
for fifteen minutes. Finish by browning
on the top OF the stove. Serve with them
! a musroom or tomato sauce.
silk must never be ironed, as the heat
takes all the life out of it, and makes II
seem strngy and habby. IT, however, you
wish to press out bits of silk and ribbon
for fancy work, use an iron only moder-
ately hot, and place two thcknesses of
paper between that and the silk.
To remove paper from cake, when the
cake has partly cooled, turn it bottom up
ward and brush the paper with water un-
til 1t is thoroughly dampened. 1t can
then be easily removed. To keep "a cake
from sticking to the pan, butter the pan
slightly, dredge 1t with flour, and shake
the flour out before pouring the cake in.
A simple bookmark that is as conven-
lent as if 1t were more pretentious Is
made from the corner of an Irish linen
envelope. one envelope, indeed will
make four OF them, the little triangle cap
ping the page most satisfactorily. If one
is ready with the water color brush, a lit
book marks gives them quite the air of
having been made for the purpose.
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN:
The daily income of Queen Victoria is
said 10 be $500.
1t is said that Patti usually sleeps with
a silk scarf around her neck.
The Princess of Wales has collection
of lace that is worth at least S3OOOoO.
Mrs. Oliphant, with a record Of seventy
eight novels to her credit, never touches
a pen in the daytime.
Miss Alberta Scott, of Cambridge, Mass.
is the first colored girl to enter the Har-
ward Annex" or rather Radcliffe Col
lege.
Hindoo women are forbidden to read OF
write, indeed those who dare to indulge
in such luXuries are often accidentally
missing.
Miss Lucy Thulllier,. a sister-in-law OF
Walter Savage Landor, died recently al
Richmond, England, at the advanced age
Of 9S years.
Mrs. De Peyster Field, nee Hamersly
so well known in New York society cir
cles, has organized Bible class for con
victs in Sing Sing.
An English weekly announces with
great pride that there are now one hun.
dred and seventy-sevcn women doctors In
the United Kingdom.
Nine Sarah Bernhardt denies that she
ever said that woman is the equal of man
What she did say and repeats is that the
actress is the equal of the actor.
The Nevada assembly has voted 10 to i
in favor Of fun suffrage for women. The
measure had passed the senate two days
before by a majority of six votes.
The ex-Empress Eugene is staying at
Monte Carlo, occupying her leisure witt
she ascended the throne of France.
The niece OF General Boulanaer has an
nouncod her intention of removing tn,
. generals remains from Brussels, the scene
Of his suicide in 1891, TO Paris for renter
ment.
Caliente, Cal, has n newspaper thai
comes out regularly, twice Il month, ant
is written entirely with n typewriter OF
foolscap paper. 1t is conducted by &
young woman.
, According to Mr. Cross. in his memoi'
) of his wife, the reason she took the name
of George Eliot was, as she explains II
"becauSe George was Mr.. Lewcs' Chris
tlan name, and Eliot was good, mouth
filling, easily-pronounced word
. DR.. Anna Williams Is one of the eXper
, bactcriologlsts in the New York board o.
heaths antitoXin laboratory. DR.. VIII
lams is n young woman of %, who has 1
very thorough training for her work Sht
studied in Leipsic and then returned tC
, this country and was graduated from tn,
New York Womans college.
> The Queen of Madagascar always dress
es In European fashion. She wears pur
pie costume with u train on great occa
sions, and sometimes assumes a colder
crown. She Is very vain of her persona
beauty. and has three times refused t
, accept coins struck to her order becaus,
( she did not consider her likeness suillci
! emily handsome for circulation.
The Wlmodaughsis-one of Washing
toms benevolent women's soceties-is
society of women organized for benevo
lent purposes. 1t embraces various kind
of schools, and Is the inspiration of mucl
! good, charitable work. Hardly any on
knows the formation OF the name. Tha
name suggests It's purpose and Is baset
an tho frat iottcrg nf tho words "LNi(vps)