The record-union., 1897-03-07

| hall and ask the dress-suited door
| opener to come and raise the Shaues-
| This he at once did and turned on, as
we'll the electric lights in the back part
| Of the room to the great betterment
Cf the reading light. Which little Incl
dent is cited to emphasize what an oc-
| ulist characterizes as the reckless
| abuse of the eyesight, which in these
days has assumed the proportions OF an
| evil. "On street and railway cars, IN
| libraries, schools, Offices homes, every
Where eyes are unnecessarily tried" he
| says, with the result that half the
world is in glasses before the need
| should arise. 1t is SO usual thing
| new for persons to be afflicted with oc-
ular headaches that when a physi-
clans advice is sought for persistent
| and unexplained headache the patient
! is first turned over to an oculist. Nine
| times out of ten defective vision suffl-
| Cient to produce the disturbance is
| found, and seven times out of ten the
sufferer is the victim of his own want
Of care in the use of his eyes. Women
are frequent sinners in this respect;
they protect their compilations in every
possible way, while to the delicate or
gan of sight they give never a thought
| till the mischief is done"
An Englishman has a grievance
against a servant, and it was sutfi-
! Ciently serious for him to write to the
editor of an English paper concerning
it. Here is his letter:
My wife engaged a servant for one
| l. of
the first week the mother called. and
stated that the daughter felt satisfied
we should suit her, but a few trivial
changes We're necessary-viz., always a
| hot breakfast and a hot dinner daily,
carpet 10 be laid down in the kitchen,
and a draw-curtain to be erected so as
| tC cover any pots or pans during the
| girls leisure in the evenings. l think
felt justified in telling the mother that
under the circumstances the daughter
could leave at once. L may add, the
father is a very respectable bricklayer,
earning about 36s per week, a wife and
five children to keep"
| In paper on THE Ethics of Money
| Spending" read recently before q w1-
mans club. the penny habit was note
! and condemned. 1t referred to the
| stream of pennies which flows almost
| perennially in some families from
parents and guardians pockets to the
slippery fingers Of the children. Most
| American children have too much
| spending money. Even the boys and
| girls of very poor homes have, while
! the weekly wage is being earned. an
unwarranted proportion of pennies To
waste. Money got thus without effort
| and in unlimited flow gives a child
| false or rather no appreciation of its
value, and makes a sharp lesson, later
| in life, d necessity. 1t was conceded
| in the discussion which followed the
paper that the task of teaching p child
| the true value of money without MAX
| ing him little miser or a too shrewd
penny-getter was a difficult one. Per-
| picked mothers were urged to work out
| the problem according to the individual
| needs and characteristics of their chill
| dren, and certainly not turn their backs
upon il because of it's intricacies. IT
was cited, too, that in some charitable
| institutions for children the need had
| been found to teach the little inmates
! the use of money. They never had
| handled any, one case being mentione
where a whole group of children had
| never seen any money, and imitation
coins and bills We're provided to .,ive
the necessary object lessons.
| A gift which is recommended to ad-
mirers Of famous pianists for presenta-
| ton to the object of their reverence is
a satin or silk quilted strip to cover the
piano keys and prevent them from ac-
cumulating dust. There is one advant-
age in a gift of this kind. 1t can lie
put to practical use if it is duplicated.
| A number of these strips sewed to-
| gether Will make an excellent orna-
mental comfortable or spread for bed.
| A firm in Chicago is composed OF
three young and pretty girls, who sup
port themselves making corsets. Thcy
make what is considered the most per-
| feet American product of the kind. The
corsets are fitted, and the young busi-
| ness women insist upon seeing the gar
ment put on for the first time. They
| believe that every woman should have
several pairs of corsets, and change fire.
| quently t. preserve the contour both of
corsets and figure.
|
| Gingerbread and sponge cake are spc-
cialiy recommended by teacher in do
| mestic science for the childrens school
! luncheon basket. Either may he quick
" put together in sufficient small guam
tlty TO satisfy only the hunger OF a
single consumer For the sponge cake
the ingredients are: One egg, two level
| tab!esDoOufuls of pastry flour and a
| Dinch of cream Of tartar Beat the
white stiff. dusting in the cream of tar
ter in the process add the sifted sugar
gradually: the yolk beaten thick is then
added and last the flour is folded N.
EnDhasis is put upon this method Of
adding the -four. The beating is To-
secure iightness by filling the cake with
air bubbles; these must not be released,
! as they would be if the -four were
stirred In: folding is simply, az tn"
name describes. cutting it into the
| dough with careful folding with the
spoon as cne would fold over an ome-
| let. The cake is baked in a moderale
| oven with increasing heat. which is
! the proper oven for all sponge cake.
| The miniature ginger loaf is even more
simply compounded Mix dessert
| spoonful of butter with one of mo-
| lasses and two of milk. adding a very
/ little ginger, cinnamon and ground
! cloves Sift a saltspoonful of baking
powder into two level tablespoonfuls of
flour. ana stir lightly to the other in
! gradients. teaspoonful of beaten
egg may be added or not, as convenient.