Evening star., 1897-03-27
n 0 y S EHOLD HINT

"A. m. l." are cabalisic letters that
strangers to the city do not understand.
yet they mean q good deal to those seeking
homes. whether rented rooms, apartments.
flats or whole houses They simply mean
"all modern Improvements" and the wo-
man who is seeking a home for her family
and only q woman knows how to select or
build a home-will see that "all the modern
improvements are there II she values the
health Of her dear ones. Bath rooms are
the first consideration. with perfect plumb
ing, airy sleeping rooms next, a light
Kitchen. cheerful living room and sun
shine everywhere. Dark rooms are an
abomination, except in a photographers
establishment They are unfit for sleeping
rooms: If turned into closets they are al
are to be Stunned. A child's instinct is the
best in this regard. 1t naturally fees from
dark place, and wants Tight, more light"
everywhere. II the sunshine can get into
every nook and Granny of a house. its
keepe- is almost compelled to keep It clean.
ana the first step toward perfect health is
thus taken. 1t is said that almost no one
Is perfectly well, but those who are habit
lially cleanly come nearer being so than
the great unwashed element.
physician says that II sharp foreign
substance is swallowed no emetic should
be given. but the patient should be put on
a soft diet for a few days. Mashed po-
tatoes, he considers. win be the very best
food for the purpose. Above all things.
don't go poking round the patients throat
yourself You will only make bad mat
ter worse.
Licorfce powder is considered perfectly
safe as well as a mild aperient A dessert
spoonful at night mixed in warm water, as
often as required The best medicine. how
ever. Is to correct the method of living
nf he hIa
Aperients are always more or less injurious
in the long run.
II the little ones have worn out all other
amusements you may be sure that picture
books" will catch their infantile imagina-
ton. For this purpose save all the Illus
trations you get. in paper or magazine.
Get the children ready for the fray by
putting on them old dresses that paste will
not hurt. Provide them with dul!-pointed
scissors and papers, and show them how to
cut the pictures out. The same will prob
ably appear at first minus few arms and
heads, but do not mind that. Have big
rug made for them to work on-clean sack
ing answers admirably-and it can be fold
ed up and put away for another days
fray. If there is not a nursery table for
them to work at have a a large cracker
box turned on its side-two II there are
two children, so that there will be no bick-
ering. Make nice. smooth. but very stiff
paste, and put 1t in big fiat dish, so that
1t will not easily upset. and, If it does. will
not spill out. Paste brushes can be made
by binding a narrow bit of old muslin
three inches in length to a short handle of
pine, grooved at the end to let the twine
sink in to hold the muslin. Any old book
THAT you do not care for, such as govern
ment publications, with every other leaf
torn out, will make a good scrap book.
Show the children how to use the paste,
and teach them to be painstaking, and you
will be surprised to see how quickly they
catch on and what creditable work they
will learn to do. This is nice work for a
little convalescent. and the book often
serves to amuse the child when Ill in bed.
II the child is old enough to work under
standlngly a muslin book is neatest. ani
this can be kept for the better class of
pictures.
A man of science who gives society wo-
man pepsin tablets at five dollars a call
says that call, pepsin. money and necessity
Tor any OF them would be saved II womer-
and men-would learn to eat properly. He
is himself an epicure. and eats rich viands,
but he knows how these are prepared, and
can prepare them himself on occasion, and
ne selects the proper time to eat them. He
considers it nothing less than suicidal for
the brain worker, for instance, to eat
hearty lunch People who are much in the
open air. and who exercise freely, can eat
about what they please. SO that they satis-
fy their hunger at stated periods and are
punctual about it. But he thinks it is all
but criminal for a woman who has to Use
her brain and who must be on the alert
with vigorous mentality to divert the
blood from her brain. where 1t is most
needed, to the stomach, by setting 1t to
work on promiscuous lot of food. He is
OF the opinion that the brain worker sho ,ld
eat most heartily after the days work is
done. Breakfast may be moderately hearty
or quite hearty, II taken an hour or more
before beginning work Lunch. however
should be exceedingly light, just little to
sustain nature till dinner time A cup of
beef tea, and a cracker or two, fruit of
some kind, or a cup of cocoa. Dinner what
you please If properly prepared.
Great beauties are born, not made though
they generally take good care that the di-
vine model shall not be marred by negli-
gence, and yet we are told that hands ONE
Is as handsome does" Trite though the
truism, it has never been gainsaid We
admire the beautifully chiseled marble and
the rounded contour Of perfect limbs, the
fine figure. call forth expressions of pleas
ure. but we turn from the work of art
very quickly to rest our eyes on the placid
face of the gentle woman whose life of
self?abnegation and denial have stamped
her plain features with light as from
heaven, and in our hearts we say that this
is the beauty that God gives to the pure in
heart, the undefled.
After all, the woman of plain feature has
20 cause to complain II she has but the
knack of pleasing, who cultivates graces
of mind and manner, and who lets her soul
expand, as the Creator meant that Il;
should. She will have much the advantage
| of her sister of the fairer face. because one
tires of the craven image type of beauty
whose heart Is stone and mind block Of
| marble upon which no noble thought has
ever made its impression. The woman
whose beauty is her only dover is more
| than liable to fetch up in the divorce court
because no man cares for even costly brio
a-brac after its beauty has departed, and
| time is far from kind to the beauty that
| comes from mere physical charm.
| Maybe you think that a chafing dish can't
| be used to cook SO prosaic thing as ham
and eggs, but that is a mistake How is
| this for a quick lunch for two? Make your
coffee in one Of the tiny drip coffee pots
| first Have the coffee in the pot and pour
| over it the boiling water from the pan of
the chafng dish. leaving the dish at least
| half full of water. over which stand the
| two plates. Place the upper pan of the
| chafing dish over the lamp, and lay in IL
| two rather thin slices of cold boiled or un-
| cooked ham. rubbing 1t round to get the
| pan well creased with the fat. Fry one
minute on each side IL cooked: two If
uncooked. When done, put on one of the
| hot plates and turn the other over it,
| Break two eggs into a saucer. and then
pour them carefully into the hot grease in
the smoking upper pan. When done to
| your taste remove carefully to the slices