The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-20


shiny appearance which SO many skins
have, especially in warm weather..
A carpet formed of layers of paper, n
ply Of felt, and an intermediate filling Of
cotton, and provided with an infold side,
producing a spring edge, Is a late inven-
ton.
White and delicately-ti tinted book bind
ings may be cleaned by rubbing the covers
with soft, perfectly fresh piece of
chamois skin, dipped in powdered pumice
stone.
Gold or silver embroidery may be cleaned
by warming spirits of wine and applying
II to the embroidery with q bit of soft
sponge and then drying it by rubbing 1t
with soft new canton flannel
If you want to make squash pies and
eggs are scarce and dear substitute rolled
soda crackers for eggs, say one to each
pie. Season particularly, well, don't forget
the salt, and If not just as good as the
original, 1t is excellent, nevertheless.
Boiled eggs, to slice nicely, should be put
over the fire in cold water, and should re-
main fifteen minutes after the water be-
gins to boil, and allowed to cool i'm the
same water. If cooled by dropping them
into cold water they will not slice
smoothly.
A valuable assistant on silver-cleaning
day Is a lemon. If silver after 1t Is cleaned
is rubbed with peace of lemon, and then
washed and well dried, 1t gets a white
brilliancy which 1t seldom has otherwise,
and will keep longer than with the ordi-
nary cleaning.
For earache and toothache, and neu-
ralgia in the head or face. the surest rem
edy is u hop poultice wrung from hot
net nIs
should keep on hand half dozen flannel
bags of convenient size, stuffed with
strong, home-cured hops.
Cold feet are positive aflliction, which
some persons endure throughout the win
ter season. Many remedies are suggested; /;
one practiced in Russia may be of benefit
to somebody. This is to wrap the feet IN
tissue paper every morning before the
shoes and stockings are put on. 1t is SO
simple as to be easily worth trial.
The system OF washing linen with petro-
leum said to be customary in parts of
Russia has been introduced into q German
military hospital. Fifteen grams Of petro-
leum are added to fifteen liters Of water
containing soap and lye, and the linen Is
boiled in the mixture. The cleansing is
much easier than by usual methods, the
linen suffers less, and assumes whittier
color.
Never throw away scrap of black silk,
An inch strip of black silk is boon some-
times. After ripping up the old gown take
three or four old kid gloves and put them
to boil In a pint of water Let them boil
for an hour strain through a cloth, and
put in the liquid a quart or more of hot
water and a tablespoonful of borax. Lay
your silk fiat on a perfectly clean table
IN m m n Il n rtth
every inch of the silk with the mixture.
till ills thoroughly saturated and all spots
are removed. Then fix a tub of warm
water, in which put liberal quantity of
borax, and pick the silk up by the corners
and dip 1t up and down in the tub of water.
Dip and dip until it is well rinsed, then
take out to the line, where you have
pinned long strip of cloth about a foot
wide. To the edge of this cloth pin the
silk by the extreme edge, stretching il so
that it is not wrinkled and does not droop.
Let it drip dry, and 1t will need no iron
inng. Do this on a bright day, when there
is no wind. Black ribbons may be cleaned
the same way. ''.
SOME FAMOUS WOMEN:
Mrs. II. Jones, of Colorado, died of ex-
citement while preparing to cast her first
vote.
Nine. Carnot, wife of the late president,
is recognized on the continent as the best
dressed woman in France.
A competent authority declares that
over million and half of the women of
this country earn their own living.
1t is stated by a church authority that
there are over 800 American women liy-
ing in foreign countries as missionaries.
Jeanette Glider says that Robert Louis
Stevenson never found the discussion of
Illicit love necessary to the strength of
a story.
The third biennial meeting of the
Worlds Woman's Christian Temperance
union will be in London, beginning on the
18th of June.
John Hunter, the famous anatomst,
once said that the feminine love of con-
versation was a consequence of peculiar
ity in brain tissue.
The brain of woman is absolutely small
Ter than that of man, but 1t is stated to
be somewhat larger in proportion to the
weight of the body.
In Albania the men wear petticoats and
and the women wear trousers. The women
do all the work and their husbands attend
to the heavy standing around
Mrs. S. Van Rensselaer, Cruger is the
Nine. de Stael, of New York She is more
than Nine. de Staeel was-she has beauty
as well as brains, and is a society woman
as well as writer of books.
Women have worn corsets from the
earliest times. The mummy of the Egyp-
tian princess who lived 1900 years before
Christ was discovered in 1872 and round
the waist was contrivance closely re-
,sembling the modern corest.
The two richest unmarried girls in the
whole universe today are Alta and Edith
Rockefeller, daughters of John d. Rookie
feller, head of the Standard Oil concern.
The much-talked about fortunes of the
Gould and Vanderbilt girls pale into sig
nificance when the Rockefeller wealth is
mentioned.
Nine. Carnot has In her apartments n
salon consecrated to the memory of her
late husband, President Carnot. Nine.
Varnot has collected all the ribbons bear
ing inscriptions which were attached to
the wreaths received for the funeral, and
has also preserved intact all those wreaths
and escutcheons which have an intrinsic
artistic value This salon is used by Nine.
Carnot as an oratory, and only intimate
friends are admitted to 1t.
OUR DISAPPEARING FORESTS,
Facts of Present Interest Chilled from
Forest Commissions Report. .
In Professor j. T.: Rothrocks report