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The morning times., 1896-10-11

MUVIH& SCtne.
1t was, indeed. a moving sight
To see the frantic man
Attempt to rescue bric-a-brac
From underneath the van.
Chicago Journal.
The morning times., 1896-10-11
She Overdoes It

THAT McTavish girl is always boasting
about her complexion
Yes; she lays it on pretty Thick
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The morning times., 1896-10-11

aus among themselves and play all over
thezr own little thrce-quarters of a mile
long world. St Paurs
The morning times., 1896-10-11

.For goodness sake. Jane, what's that 10
the carafe?"
please, ma'am, that's Miss Maud's BIZ
sickle hain."-ClevelaDd Plain Dealer.
The morning times., 1896-10-11

One Ton to Every Two Ounces.
Twoounces ofattar of roses represents the
refined product of a ton OF rosebuds.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-06-17

Take one pint of small, ripe strawberries;
place in jug and sprinkle with one table
spoonful of powdered sugar and pour the
Juice of one lemon over them. Shake we'll;
cover and let stand tor ten minutes. Whip
hair sieve so that the milk can drainoff
Give the strawberries another shake, turn
them IL the form OF a pyramid on glass
dish, pour the juice over AMI cover tn m
with the whipped cream. Serve at once
Food, Home and Garden.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-06-17
Summer Malady Preventatives.
IN THE SLEEPING ROOM

IN THE SLEEPING ROOM.
Let the home have all possible sunshine
and air.
Ventilate the sleeping room, never sleep
ing IN strictly close apartment.
Let bedding and ted linen be each day
"well shaken before taken" in hand to be
"made up.
Leave night garments unfolded. and. as
well as may be, exposed to the healthful in
fluence of gentle breezes.
Have open windows during the morning
houls-weather permitting-closed ones in
the heat of the day, with open ones again at
early nightfall.
Let cleanliness of per on and place be the
order of both day and Dight with strife
between the two divisions of time as to
which shall be the most perfect Good
Housekeeping.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-06-17
family of pleasures, of comforts. of necessi-

family of pleasures, of comforts, of necessi-
ties.
Unfortunately there is growing tendency
to resent much teaching on this important
subject. partly due, perhaps, to feeling
that the food reformer has too often dined
on a choice roast of beef, before taking the
platform to dilate upon the advantages of
diet of beans and hominy for the working
mans family But whatever the reformer
foods are better, more nutritive, and cost
less than others, and it is to our advantage
to learn just what foods ard what proper
tons are the best for our purses and per-
sons.
The cooking school, despite the fact that
it has been rather fashionable fad, has,
in addition to teaching impossible desserts,
given womankind hint of the possibilities
of Scientific Economy. But now Senator
Kyle proposes the establishment of gov
ernmental Bureau of Domestic Science to
work in connection with the Agricultural
department. Doubtless the United States
Government Bureau of Domestic Science
will infjct upon long suffering woman
many poorly printed pamphlets written in
such manner that no one but past mas
ter in organic chemistry can CLEAN the least
ray of intelligence from them, but for all
that, Womankind is heartily in favor of
such bureau. The government has issued
any number OF bulletins on the subject of
feed for cattle, horses, and hogs, and it GER
tainly seems that the stomach and digestion
of the human family is of at least as much
Importance, even from the dollar-and-cents
point of view. Let us have the Bureau of
Domestic Science, and let us begin the study
of better living for less money. WON an.
kind.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-06-17

champion of ''sweet things" who writes in
this earnest manner in the Helper: The
general public has wrong impression as to
the actual advantages OF sugar in the human
frame. Harm may be done by eating sugar
in excess. just as the excess of anything else
is pernicio3s to health. In the stomach it
is In part changed to Tactic acid; and the
latter acts upon calcic phosphates and per-
mits their assimilation. How frequently
mild case of indigestion could be relieved,
if not cured, by an occasional drink of sugar
and water. Do our readers realizs the i'm
portance of few bonbons after healthtul
meal? The fatty substances that otherwise
overload the stomach then become harm
less. Those who enjoy coffee and tea at
night, yet hesitate drinking these beverages,
can partake of the same, in moderation,
without fear of sleepless night, by the lib
showing that sugar increases the muscular
power possible to develop during given
period, are only scientific determination of
what is already known. One need only
visit sugar cane plantation in the West
Indies to appreciate that the "nigger" can
develop more work in a given time if a.
lowed to eat the cane freely. than during
any other period of the year. Sugar has Its
disadvantages for stout people, a fact known
to most of us, but the advantage to be de-
rived from moderate introduction of sugar,
as a means of retaining health, is too fire.
quently overlooked.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-06-17
Government Oooking-School,

We are told every day that we are but
nation of profigates, that the average Amer
lean family wastes enough food to feed the
average family of almost any other nation
atty.
And it is too true. Yet when we consider
that upon the statistics OF the census bureau,
it is estimated that nearly one-third of the
families Of the United States have an an
nual income of less than $500 each, and that
more than half the families of this great
and glorious country" live upon less than
5000 each per year, it is not easy to under
stand where the great extravaganza is.
But it is in these very homes where the
most sinful waste occurs-sinful, because the
poor man can less afford to waste dollar
than his rich employer can hundred,
We see with hot indignation the occa
slonal wild and reckless expenditure Of some
rich man of thousands for a single supper,
while we ourselves perhaps are wasting in
the family kitchen a larger percentage of
the family income. The rich mans extrav-
agance has at least the one good point of
putting back into legitimate channels the
money that he has drawn from it, but the
poor mans extravaganza robs him and his
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-06-17
The Art of Conversation.

l. Remember that when you converse
as yours.
g Be careful, however much you may
feel moved to falkland you may talk much
if you have much to say-to give others
do not forget to re patient and receptive in
your turn
3 People are never happy when Tabled
second best, nor will you ever be personally
liked if you rivet upon them sense of their
own inferiority, or prevent them from shin
ing or doing themselves justice.
4. Encourage people to talk on what in
terests them. man may be dull on all
topics but one; find that one out, and he
will take you to his heart-aye, to his heart
of hearts You may also learn something.
5. Don't be too eager to shine Ifyou
can't shine without effor, better not shine
at all; it won't be SUCCESS.
6. Don't sneer at trade or commerce in
the presence Of self made men. Don't talk
Of gentlefolks and gentlemen over much, or
brag of birth or connection. especially in the
presence of those who have neither.
7. Don't fear or resent overmuch peo-
pies bad opinion, but take care not to de-
serve il.
s. Self consciousness paraiyzes spontane
ity. Self effAcement conquers more intaI-
libby than anything else, and he that hum
bleth himself shall be exalted.
8. In company you must take the tone
before you give the tone, or you will have
no base of operations.
TO- If you are willing to be pigmy among
giants, you will never be giant among pig
mics.
H. If you must be cock of the walk, and
feel yourself irresstibly impelIed to crow, try
to crow on something better than dunghill
and over something better than bantams.
-. There may be deep sympathy without
talk but no good talk without sympathy
Exchange.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-06-17
Strawberry Dainties.
SHORT CAKE.

Make soft dough of one quart of flour,
three tablespoonful of baking powder, four
tablespoonfuIs of butter, three tablespoon.
fuls of white sugar. Roll out and bake in
three jelly cake pans. Mash two quarts of
berries and sweeten them well. When the
cakes are done, let the first and third ones
be whole, split the middle one and put the
berries between each layer after it has been
buttered. Dust white sugar over it. To
make 1t still richer, before MASKING the
berries reserve dozen or more Of the larg-
est. Then between the layers cover with
whipped cream. sweetened. Also cover the
top with thick coating of cream, and place
the berries on it in clusters.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-06-17
AHELPFUL CORNER.
To Preserve Pineapples.

To Preserve Plneapples
The piles of misunderstanding pineapples
displayed on the fruit stalls at present may
tempt many young house-keepers to try
their skill with that most delicious ofall con.
serves, preserve of pineapples. The Sugar
Loaf, is one of the sweetest and best pine
apples for preserving. The season for this
pineapple is at its height about the Fourth
of July, when these delicious "pines" may
often be purchased at 81 dozen. The best
Sugar Loaf pineapples come from Havana.
The choice Ripley and the Queen Anne
pineapples come from jamaica. They are
both favorite varieties. They are exceed
ingly rich in flavor and sweet. THESE fancy
pines are quite small and never very cheap,
selling on an average at 80 cents apiece.
House wives consider them superior to any
other variety for the table because of their
rich flavor.
The most delicious way Of preserving
pineapples is in its own juice, without using
one drop of water to make the syrup. Peel
carefully the requisite number of pineap-
pies, weigh them after they are peeled, and
every pound of pineapple. Put the pine
apples in huge yellow earthern bowl or in
stone crock and scatter the sugar thickly
over them till it is all used. Cover them
and let them stand in the sugar twenty-four
hours clear juice will nearly cover them
then. Now take each pineapple and tear
the pulp off the core, using silver fork.
Drain eff all the juice and sugar in the dish
in which the pineapples were put tc soak in
sugar; put all this juice lneo preserving
kettle. Let it come to the boiling point and
boil for five minutes, then skim it and
strain it through gravy strainer over the
pineapple pulp. Let the pulp boil up in the
syrup once, then can it Immediately, as
longer boiling darkens the preserves. If
you wish the syrup can be clarified.
The most delicious way Of serving a pine
apple on the table is to peel it, cover it
thickly with sugar, and set it away in
cool place in as pretty glass fruit dish as
you possess for at least two hours. When
you are ready to serve it tear the fruit from
the core with a silver fork Housekeepers
need to be reminded that preserved pine
apple is especially delicious served With
whipped cream. A pineapple Bavarian
cream is one of the best desserts we have,
and there is no better waterloo or sherbet,
as our New England cousins prefer to call
it, than ore of pineapple. There is, how.
ever, very little satisfactio to be obtained
from coarse-grained fiavorless fruit of any
kind, and no fruit depends more on culture
and stock for its quality than a pineapple
Honolulu Monthly.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-06-17
A Champion of Sugar.

To those persons who are very fond of
Sweets" but do not dare to eat them, even
in moderation. through fear of the harmful
results supposed to follow such an indulg =
ence, will find comfort in the words OF a
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-06-17
HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT.

Address all communications to Household
Department, AGRICULTURIST DeLand, Fla.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-06-17
STRAWBERRY WATER.

Bruise two pints of fresh, ripe strawber-
ries with six ounces of loaf sugar, and the
juice of three lemons add to this one pint
of cold water: mix thoroughly, but do not
squeeze the mixture. Then add another
pint of cold water and put in cool place.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-09-04

A reader OF the New York Com
mercial Advertiser recently asked ioi
some figures regarding the circulation
OF the Bible. or course, it is unnec-
essary to say that 40 reliable figures
can be obtained which will give the
total number OF Bibles ever printed
and circulated. There arc some fig.
ures, however, which will give some
idea OF the enormous circulation Of
the book, and these are certainly
amazing enough. For example, the
British and Foreign Bible Society Of
London has distributed since its or
ganization, ninety-two years ago, 800
900, 600 copies OF the Bible. One
firm alone, the celebrated Oxford
Press Of England, manufactures and
sells each week 20, 600 Bibles or over
one million copies each year. And
this press has sustained this out
put for years For this immense
output the skins Of 20, 600 animals are
used for the covers, while over 400, =
600 sheets of gold leaf are used to let
ter the backs of the volumes each
year. Last year, In London, there
we're 2,1S5, 61s Bibles actually sold
and distributed. In America over l.
400, 600 copies we're sold. During
these twelve months the Bible was
printed in forty-one different Ian
guages. There is at present no tongue
in the world into which the Bible has
not been translated. While a large
percentage Of the Bibles printed go to
the heather lands tine home market is
not neglected. As proof OF this, $780,
900 Bibles we're sold in America last
year. Over 10000 copies of the edi-
ton printed especially for the blind
in raised letters were also sold. The
total circulation of the Bible, could
the figures be arrived at, would reach
far into the billions and trillions,
They would be sufficient to show, a
least, that no book ever published has
in any way approached the circulation
Of the greatest of all books.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-09-04

with adobe cement. IL I may 50 cali g
aud such wallis are strong aud solid
Gsuppoao II that country had bali ne
much rain a. falls Ia Chicago the
'dobo houses would after a time
erambloaway bat The average year
IN New Mexico Is made up Of l87 days
Of unclouded sky, 100 days when suu.
shine predominates, aud only 80 days
Of cloud, 90 that tho rainiall docs not
amount 10 much more than q good
sized fall Of dew,
II is estimated that an adobe house
costs about 800 room, bat there
are MANSIONS built Of this material
which cos, not lees than $4,000 10
construct When the "Amoricans''
settled in New Mexico Utah. Arizona
Nevada, and the lower part Of Cali
iornia, they accepted the treeless con.
dition Of the country and built their
houses Of 'dobe mud. Chicago Rec
ord
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-09-04
WHAT Trne Friendship Means.

Between friends there must be close
sympathy, and one must be able to
give to the other what she lacks, hut
even between those friends who are
nearest and dearest it is not necessary
to lay bare ones heart. Such con-
fidence is too apt to be greeted with a
curious satisfaction and even from a
friend this qualification makes one
feel as if ones bruises had been
touched with vitriol. A real friend
asks no questions She takes the
best that comes, the best that is in
you, the best that you care to Offer
her, and demands nothing more,
She has long ago learned, being
wise, that to all Of MS there comes {
time when nothing should be said il
is true there is a time when some
thing should be said, but there i
never a time when everything SHOULD
be said. There is very often a silenc,
between two women friends tina
means rest, and she is unwise VIII
breaks that silence. Ladies' HON
journal.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-09-04

sho is apt 20 notice mans clothes
more than bic character sho likes
Che man bother who pays her q pretty
compliment than the one who
says something serious The
young man who pays her
graceful attention is pleasing 10
herr sho docs not seek 10 penetrate
beyond tho mere compliment And
Why should sho2 Young men arc
simply ono form Of her amuaemonti
she does not take them any more se-
riously than she does anything else.
The young man Of prosentablo APP
pcarance, who dresses well and has a
command Of the small talk Of society,
is her girlish Jack-in.the.boz The
more attention he pays her, the more
no aatters her, the better she Is apt
70 like him. The earnest young man
who hos ambition, who studies aud
learns, whose talk is sensible rather
than light, is q bit tiresomo TO her.
She may admire his high purposes SO
iar as she can grasp them. She may
respect him. But II she is going 10 a
party she does not want his company.
She passes him by FOR the other fell
lowwh is graceful in the dance.
Aud is she 10 DO blamed or to be cen-
sured for this? Not bit Of it. While
she is girl she does as a natural,
healthy girl should; she lives her
years of enjoyment and gets as much
pleasure out of them as she can. For
this is q girl. But ii be will watch her
after she counts her years with the
figure two he will observe that slowly
but surely process Of gradual devel-
opment takes place in the girl whom
he believed to be without thought or
reason. And equally sure will be his
discovery that the companion Of her
dances is not so eagerly welcomed by
her as once he was he will then
gradually discover that the girl is not
the light-minded butterfly that be
thought her to be. She becomes in
terested in other things5 conversations
which bored her year OF two earlier
now begin to have some meaning foI
her. She begins to regard the internal
value OF things She looks at young
men from a different standpoint. The
young man who can simply dance vel
does not represent the same thing K
her She begins to look for something
else in the young men who come t.
her. The woman has simply begur
to develop; the girl is coasing TO be.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-09-04

bicycles and Tho Shoe Trade.

"Talk about the street railways los
ing by the advent Of the bicycle, "
says q shoe salesman 10 a New York
Tribune reporter: II think it is the
shoe manufacturers. OF course there
ia O demand for bicycle shoes, and
that practically opens a new market;
but il must be a limited market, whom
1t is considered that one pair OF such
shoes outlast three pairs of ordinary
foot coverings, not because the shoes
are better, but because they are not
subjected to the scuflling 7ear Of the
others People ride 10 and from their
work all the time now, where they
formerly walked, OF on bad days rode
in the cars. If person wants TO go
around the corner he will get on his
wheel instead of walking, as he once
did. It is these thousands OF steps
that he saves that saves the shoes and
make the shoe mans heart sad.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-09-04
From Sixteen to Twenty.

A young man addresses to Edward
w. Box the query: "Why is it that in
SO many cases, quiet, welI-behaved,
earnest-m minded, religious young mans
seriousness is ignored by SO many
girls (between sixteen and twenty),
and the company of giddy, idle sense
less youths preferred?" and in the
Ladies' Home Journal editorial reply
is made. Mr.. Box contends that girls
at that age take few things seriously ;
and are not given to looking upon the
serious side Of life; that only the
bright, pleasant side attracts them.
SIT is only natural that to girl Of
such an age the young man Of bright
conversation, fippant and meaningless
though that talk may be, has an indie
Unable attraction. She would fal
rather have it that he can dance vel
than that he can recite Emerson to
her. It is the dancing time Of hel
life, and not the Emersonian period
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-09-04
Journal.

There are about 1000, 900 Jews in
tie world, about one-half Of whom
live in Russia. 1t is not certain that
the numbers of the race have increased
since the time of Christ There is nc
reason to believe that there are more
Jews now in England, France, Ger
many and Spain than there were il
the days Of the persecution. There
we're, in 1890, 100000 Jews in the
United States. 1t is impossible OF
public eredulity to predict that they
will dominate 10000, 600 OF Chris
tians. Jewish Progress.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-09-04

Few people seem to realize what a
delicate instrument q watch Is. This
is shown by the fact that nine men
out of ten persist in winding their
timepieces at night, when they retire,
instead of when they get up in the
morning. According to a well.known
Matchmaker, the winding should be
done in the morning, so that the
springshall be at its strongest tension
during the day, when the watch is
more liable to jolts and shocks OF va
rious kinds. AT night the compare
lively weak spring will have nothing
to disturb it. A watch should be
oiled every eighteen months. 1t
might run years without fabrication,
but the wear and tear on the works
will in the end work devastation. The
watchmakers are also rejoicing in the
fad for women's watches, especially
those who do great deal of repair
ing. The average woman may be de-
pended upon to neglect her watch,
particularly in the small detail o.
winding it. In proportion to the
number sold, there are twice as many
women's watches brought back for re
pairs as mems