The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-18

| but do not blue them. Instead of ironing
| them, pull them in shape, and pin them to
| a clean cloth on your ironing board; pick
| out each little point and pin, it down. Let
them get perfectly dry before removing
them.
A sponge large enough to expand and fill
the chimney, after having been squeezed
In, tied to a slender stick. is the best
thing with which to clean lamp chimney.
To glaze pastry, beat the yolk OF an egg
to u froth, and when the pastry is nearly
done, brush with the yok and return to
the oven to set the glaze, but be careful
not to let 1t stay too long, as it will brown
1t unduly.
| AS patent-leather shoes, even of the best
| quality, are likely to crack, and the shoe
| dealers will not be responsible for them,
| 1t is well to know how to doctor them a
little yourself In the first place, keep
them wrapped in cotton batting, and the
| inside filled with soft paper or cotton. If
necessary to wear them on IL very cold
night, put them on in the dressing room
| after arriving, If possible. To keep the
| leather soft, rub it occasionally with q lit
| tie sweet oil, rubbing the oil in as much
| as possible, and then wipe the shoes thor
| oughly with chamos. If you must con-
| tinue to wear your shoes after the glaze is
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| keep the shoe dressed with It.
| ABOUT FAMOUS WOMEN:
young woman named Susan B. An
| thony was awarded prize for beauty at
| Topeka. Kansas Is a state of surprises.
| Queen Amelie of Portugal is studying
| medicine, and goes into its intricacies with
the zest and zeal of professional man.
| Mrs Edward Clarence Stedman is not
| literary in her tastes, and is so averse to
| taking up a pen that she usually gets her
husbands private secretary to write her
social notes for her.
Nine. Carnot, widow of the late presi-
| dent of France, has detached all the rib
bons from the wreaths sent at her hus-
bands funeral and has decorated a small
| drawing-room with them.
| Mrs Joshua Wilbour, of Bristol, r. T.,
| enjoys the distinction of being one of the
| three women who have ever been elected
! by acclamation to the office of vice presi-
dent general of the Daughters of the
p, American Revolution.
The present queen Of Madagascar, Ran
avalomanjaka ILL.,, is the second daughter
of Andriamanitoa Raketaka, herself the
daughter of Observation-Disclosures, q niece
| of Rodama the Great, and granddaughter
| of AndrianampoiDiemern who is the
head Of the present Hova dynasty. She is
still a young and very charming woman.
| The widow of John Brown, of slavery
| day fame, has lived for several years in
cabin among the redwoods of the Sierra
Azure mountains, fifty miles south of San
Francisco. From her veranda she looks
| down across a Garden of Eden. the Santa
| Clara valley. Many tourists visit her. and
| to all she gives a warm, kindly welcome.
Mrs Richard Watson Glider, wife of the
editor of the Century Magazine, was once
| a professional painter, but she has now
given up art because she thought she
must neglect either 1t or her family, and
she says She hopes none of her three or
| four daughters will ever have any special
| talent for anything but being nice wo-
men.
When her majesty the Empress of
| Japan, drives, no one is permitted to look
at her from the windows, or chinks in the
doors, or any other part of the house, but
must sit down by the side of the street
! through which she passes. Every man
| and woman or child must doff hat or cap
as she goes by, with the exception of Ia
| dies in European dress, who are permitted
to remain covered.
| Mrs Logan's hobby is to collect souve-
Mrs of her illustrious husband, and at her
home in Washington she has built q small
hail. in which are gathered hundreds Of
| things presented to the general. There
are numberless portraits, flags given by
different societies, busts, swords, guns, pa
per weights made of Logan in marble and
enough memorials in the shape of medals
to stock q museum. These are carefully
treasured by Mrs. Logan, who also has
! the old china that belonged to her hus-
bands family, some of it being very old'
and of rare and delicate beauty, tipped
with gold and engraved with his coat-of-
arms in colors.