Evening star., 1897-06-05

once. There are two or three causes Flry,
p bad ventilation, which kills more chill.
4ren than disease, In all probability. Ther
ssq last But no. least, s H wsalnss. eng q
sight. The bad ventilation can be ascer.
tained by q visit TO the school room, the
Moigestion BY . proper supervision Of the
headache are equally divided between indi-
testion and weak sight-can only be cor
fected by q visit to an oculist. There is a
senseless cebal against glasses. II the eyes
need them. they should be worn, because
the sight is too precious a thing to trifie
with. There are hundreds Of women who
have had headaches all their lives, head
aches that sent them to bed for days at a
tnn. t,me. VINO learned at thirty, or forty. that
their headaches were due to defect of vis-
ION, ana that glasses would have corrected
the trouble early in life, yet they have
grown gray-headed over the ''neuralgic'
pains, or the exhaustion" that brought on
these dreadful spells One physician said
tnat II he dared to prescribe larger shoes
spectacles and a bath tub for two-thirds of
ms women patients instead of headache
powders. and they took the prescription,
ms occupation would soon be gone.
There Is no quicker or cleaner remedy.
or pains, than hot apple ations. Dry heat
Is always the most comfortable, though
many think that hop and vinegar appl;ca-
sions or straight hot water are preferable,
careful not to catch cold after damp appli-
cations. Dry heat is easily made. and
keeps longer, II heated salt is poured in a
Dag loose enough to let the salt adjust it.
eeiI TO the spot, and placed over the pain.
sort firm woolen bag Is best The salt
must not sfft through, as 1t Is uncomfort-
aniy scratchy when 1t radheres to the cloth
ing. II may be used many times over and
can be heated in a skillet.
Try ham fixed this way, once, and see If
n ~ L cyr.
Ing, and put 1t to soak over night in hut
termllk, or II You have no buttermilk sweet
milk Is fair substitute Lift out of the
milk bath and rinse in cold water. and
fry as usual VI
scaiioped eggs are delicious. Place a
layer OF stale bread crumbs or crackers in
the bottom Of a buttered baking dish. Pour
over this enough cream or rich sweet milk
10 moisten Break over this three or four
.resh Eggs, pricking the yolks to break
them. Put on another layer of crumbs,
cream and bits of butter, and a layer of
sliced cold boiled eggs. Over that a layer
oro. Oh the crackers, with plenty of butter,
cream cream, al and some salt and pepper. which
haif an hour in hot oven.
When things boil over in the oven or
you spill juices or baked meats, let them
cnar, then you can remove them easily
You should brush out the oven as re-
ng1ousiy as you do the kitchen, and it
should be aired thoroughly after cooking
spiced things. or onion dressing, or any
thing of that kind in it. If you neglect to
Keep the oven scrupulously clean you will
find that everything that comes out Of it
will have the same flavor, exactly as a
big hotels viands seem to have
Here is list of meats and their relishes: =:
Roast pork and roast goose, apple sauce;
roast beef, grated horseradish; roast veal
tomato or mushroom sauce; mutton. roast.
currant jelly boil, caper sauce; lamb, mint
sauce; boiled chicken, bread sauce; roast
turkey, cranberry sauce; boiled turkey,
oyster sauce; venison or wild ducks black
currant jelly; broiled fresh mackerel,
stewed gooseberries; boiled bluefish, white
cream sauce; broiled shad, boiled rice and
salad: compete Of pigeons, mushroom
sauce; fresh salmon, green peas, cream
sauce. To make a mistake in serving meat
relisheS Is to offend the taste of an epicure
beyond hope of pardon.
Oil colors, varnish and resin can usually
be easily removed from clothing by apply
ing spirits of turpentine, alcohol or ben
zine. then washing the spot with soap and
water. This for cotton goods, Of course.
II the stain is old, wet with turpentine sew
eral times and let 1t lie for time i'm
mersed in a saucer of the stun.
Adding cup of freshly grated cocoanut
to the cookie dough makes it doubly ac-
ceptable to the children.
Hard finished walls can be easily cleaned
by using ammonia in perfectly clean hot
water. Brush the walls down with a
broom first, then go over them with big
flannel cloth; then wash that cloth per-
fectly clean and rub the walls with the
ammonia water, having a care to rinse
them afterward with a clean cotton cloth.
They will come out of the ordeal as white
as milk.
One tablespoonful of butter rubbed into
three of flour makes a delicious upper
crust for pies. If the butter Is quite salt
do not salt the dough.
A plain cake properly made, with sweet
fresh eggs and butter, is just as palatable
and inviting as the richest, and more di-
gestible. Children naturally crave sweets
Of this character, and they should have
them in proper quantity and at proper
times. But it is unwise and positively
hurtful to give them the rich indigeStible
pastries and cakes that come to the tables
in most homes.
AS a general thing fat people and those
who are fond of the pleasures of the table
and spend their substance in catering to
their appetites are slow of gait and sad of
surfeit of eating, wisdom is hindered and
the understanding Is darkened."
A busy woman who has to account for
the seconds, to get all done that is cut out
for her one pair Of hands, is fond of read
ing the newspapers, but gets little time.
she reads the headlines, and when they
indicate a particularly interesting subject
she cuts the scrap out, and pokes 1t in her
hand bag, and riding in the street cars or
when she has to wait the slow motions of
some one else. reads the clippings, and is
counted one of the best-informed women
of the day. 1t Is an excellent idea.
why don't you stop this everlasting
grind, Richly? You're worth a couple Of
millions now
"A mere drop in the bucket, sir My
daughter has set her mind upon marrying
a titled foreigner."-Detroit Free Press.
How the Equflibfist Gave the JuGgler
a Light.
From Life.