Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-30
H O u S E H OLD HINT S

Don't try to eat on schedule time in hot
weather, unless you wish to invite discom-
! fort and dyspepsia. Take plenty of time
| to eat, always, but more especially in sum
| mer Avoid articles Of food that are heat
| producers. Very little meat. nothing that is
| highly spiced, no rich gravics, few sweets
! and but little pastry. Summer diet SHOULD!
! be as much as possible made from fresh,
! green sc tables, with desserts Of ripe fruit,
! the tarter the better. and water ices; or, If
| YOU must have the heavier dSh-ice cream
though it is extremely heavy for most
| people not to say injurious if taken whe n
! enc is tired overheated. Hot drinks
| should be avoided, hot tea when one is
| tired excepted. Neither should one 80 to
! the other extreme and take to ce-coid
| drinks Fruit drinks are thrst-quenching
| and healthy.
If you want to make your sitting room
| look cool and restful for the summer at
| small expense, get green and white chintz
| and make covers for all the furniture.
| Then put white mating on the floor, and
| scrim curtains at the windows. Take
down all the big heavy pictures and put up
few prints and steel engravings, I'M
! framed if you like, SO that they good,
| and then take your ease. There will be
10 hangings to gather dust and smell
| stuify, and not half the cleaning to do that
| there would be with heavy carpets on the
! floors. The ideal life is that which adapts
| itself to the season and the place to self
1t is said that dish of vinegar placed
| on the stove and kept simmering while
| cabbage is cooking will prevent the odor
| from filling the house. 1t is worth the
| trial.
A little woman who eats onions religious
| ly for her complexion declares that half a
| cup of black coffee will destroy onion scent
/ on the breath, even if you've eaten a peck.
| 1t might be we'll to try the remedy on ones
small brother first, perhaps.
] You will find the heat less oppressive at
| mealtime if you will have clean linen and
| a neatly set table. 1t really goes a long
| way toward making eating supportable in
hot weather.
This is tie way one shirt-wast girl keeps
soul and body" together: She anchors her
| waist to her petticoatS first, both back and
| 'front.' with a safety pin. She has the belt
| of her dress skirts made moderately tight
| and fastens it over the shirt waist; then
| pulls the waist down evenly all around
| Then she lifts the dress skirt slightly in the
| back and pins it to the waist and corset
| strings with a long black-headed belt pin
| She fastens it on each side the same way.
| Then she takes the belt, which she prefers
| to have like her waist, and pins end
| fast III front, and, putting the other end
| around her. draws it smoothly over the
| skirt belt, and smooths down, and pins it.
| When she gets that done she is dressed as
well though she had the skirt and waist
| sewed with cable cord. She says that the
| belt should be inch higher in the back
| than in 'front.' and that is a French idea
| that American girls will do well to assm-
| ilate. If women stood properly there would
| be no sag in the back but they do not, so
| artificial means must be adopted, and that
| is the very simplest. A bad form is made
| worse by the attempt to lengthen the waist
| in the back, at the expense of the front A
| side view of such a person is a laughter
| convulsng sight.
| Keep your rooms dark while the morning
| sun is on them and you will find them much
| more h2bitable in the evening.
There may be things more discouragins
! and distressing than a whining woman but
| history has not recorded them. The mother
who is constantly whining and scolding
| nagging and fretting, loses all influence
over her children and alienates all her
| friends.
Sweet sixteen, if you are going to take VI
the fad Of making this white summer
take a bit of advice, and make it clean
for young girls-or older ones-than pure
white, but 1t must be spotless and perfect.
ly laundered. A dress that is soiled about
the bottom is thing to taboo. And linn
sleeves that are streaked with much per.
spring unsightly There is a family
Of four girls in Washington who have solved
the problem of affording white attire mos
admirably Seven white dresses each, and
at least four week in the wash was suct
an enormous lot Of laundry that it wal
about to break their father up. So the,
bravely declared their intention Of doing
their own dresses. On Tuesdays they ar,
invisible to anybody outside of the family
| The cause could be found in the big famil,