The Globe-republican., 1896-12-10

twilight In seuslbly- equipped cot1. mo
mattress y Of hair with downy wool
top. Red coverings consist Of the soft
est of linen and the finest Of light
weight blankets.
Baby Is no longer made acquainted
with the ru;ncus fashion Of rocking.
Neither Is he or she sung or patted in
to dreamland, but Is allowed to go to
sleep like a rational human being.
Poor baby. What must its feelings
be when II does fall into the hands OF
an old-time nurse who chants In q
high-keyed voice to drown its fret
tings? Who losses and jumps and
handles and swings and sways and
rocks the mite of humanity to q state
of repose?
Another thing baby is spared by the
model mother is being. as one writer
puts it. exhibited almost to Is DEATH
1t isn't considered correct taste to
drag the " ungest member Of the fam
lily before the public. Nothing. in fact,
is allowed to interfere with the grow
Ing process. SO necessary to the small
man or wcman's welfare.
Cost OF Living.
1t has long been maintained that In
the average American home the cost
of living-that is Of the food supply
is at least 100 per cent greater than IL
need be. Experiment has demonstrated
this time and time again; but many
hOusekeepers. especially among thOsa
who have the greatest need to prac!
tice economy, cannot be brought to u
1iy0t Tor ~ th0 vtv>ov n UN fNf
manner of cooking.
In many public schools physiology
is now one branch in the course Of
study: this affords an opportunity for
the intelligent teacher to impart to our
future housekcepers some knowledge
of the relative values Of foods, and
with this knowledge as 4 foundation.
we will probably learn some day to
utilize many food producers that are
now wasted. The cooking schools ara
doing much to bring about that time.
by showing us low 10 prepare appe-
tiZing meals from what our mothers
would have thrown away, and also
how, in Il pinch, to serve the same ar
ticle of food every day for week, but
prepared in so many entirely different
ways that the head Of the house doe:
not complain Of Il mOnOtOny.
Utlaa.ane "a y.anen.
Tablecloths that are much worn in
the center will often have edges that
are really stout and that will prove
amply good to find their way into the
children'S school lunch baskets. says
the San Francisco Chronicle. The
school lunch basket. it is well known.
is fatal spot to place napkin that
is the least valuable.
The towels with much worn centers
make excellent wash cloths and IL
doubled and bound with tape, admira-
BILE eating bibs for the small boys and
girls of the family. The old towel
washcloths are much better minus
hens, deep overcastins and linen floss
being i more comfortable finish for the
edges.
Hemstitching on linen is such .
dainty mode Of finishing table linen
that the neat housewife is ever proud
to have her very best tableclOthS and
napkins thus finished. A dozen damaSk
napkins to be hemstitched will fur
nish the incest kind of pickup" work
when one is away from home.
Indian Trappin9s in Her BOudOiP.
The bOudOir of Harriet Maxwell! Car-
verse is as different as possible from
the den" Of the average woman. and
much more interesting Mrs. Converse
likes to be remind, I'd thu. she IL an
Indian chief. II; in the room where
she Goes her wsii,i:s and spends most
OF her time She always has rs many
Indian things ar,;iirl rs possible. She
has Indian rugs on the floor, pictures
of her adopted Indian relatives ON the
walls; bows al arrows and toIna-
hawks are pc -.,inentlc displayed, and
in one corner, on the top of bookcase.
reposes an Ind: III skull. In fact, some
of the decorations arr. sd grewSnlDe
and warlike tina: 4 stranger might i'm
agine he had stumbled on the lair of q
blOOdthirSty savage. and the presence
Of the gentle. gracious woman seems
homogeneous.