The record-union., 1897-07-04

The influence of fatigue on digestion
IS pretty we'll understood. Scientific ex-
per-iments have demonstrated the fact
beyond a doubt They have even gone
further and shown that fatigue is
disease, and that it is possible to pro-
duce the same symptoms in one amman
organization by innoculation with the
fatigued serum of another, showing
that overwork produces an actual poi
son in the system. Worry is equally
antagonistic to good digestion, another
fact that is we'll known but cannot
be too often reiterated to this nation OF
worrying folk A little rest and BAN
> ishment of care in preparation for
meal should become a habit. 1t means
heightened life and preserved health,
as do such other confessedly hygiene
habits as proper bathing, dressing and
wholesome food.
To powder parsley for use in creamed
3 new potatoes and other similar dishes,
the bunch is dipped quickly into boil
ing water to make it brilliant green.
then put into a hot oven for few min
utes TO dry thoroughly. After this
treatment it may be either rubbed
through the hands or pressed through
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Directions have been noticed from
time to time in various public prints
of a way to remodel an old bureau into
a hall seat A woman who has really
made the attempt finds it entirely sue
cessful. In a secondhand shop the
bureau was first picked up. 1t had
swell front, which was specially desdr-
able. 1t was a very old mahogany al
fair with claw feet, and an attempt
to modernize it had been made by put
ting on a marble top and hanging some
of the cheap drop handles of recent
years to the drawers. NOtwithstand-
ing these apparent evidences of recent
make the age of the piece was easily
discernible to the customer. 1t was
bought at a low price, made still lower
by the giving up to the dealer of the
two upper drawers and marble slab
and the looking-glass which surmount-
ed it. This denuded frame, with its
single bottom drawer, standing on us
precious claw feet, was sent to mod
est cabinet makers. A seat was tit
ted over the drawer, the upper frame
work all taken off, the back of thin
pine braced and the top evened OIL
for the high back and sides of the
coming seat. The whole was then
slightly padded with hair and covered,
seat, sides and back, with dark green
imitation leather, finished at the edges
with a leather binding put on closely
with brass nails. The claw feet were
polished. as we'll as the sides and draw
sr front, and some antique brass han
dies replaced the common gilt ones. The
result, as has been stated, is a unique
and most serviceable and thoroughly
handsome hall seat, the big drawer do
ing excellent work as a repository for
overshoes This particular one STANDS
appropriately beneath the wheel of an
old spinning wheel, which was taken
from it's setting, provided with brass
hooks. and suspended by a brass chaln
passing around it's groove, as a nat
rack
AT some of the shops are shown deep,
harrow two-compartment wicker pas
kets with easily grasped handles
which are intended for summer use on
dawn or piazza Everybody knows how
tennis balls, rackets, books, magazines,
newspapers and other impediments OF
summer leisure have TO be moved
about This convenient and service
able receptacle fills really felt want.
A medical journal inveighs against
rocking, warning its adherents that the
soothing feeling which it superinduces
is really a mild congestion of the BRAIN
This, it is cited, is as applicable to the
wornan's rocking chair as to the baby $
cradle.
Baked ice cream, so a cooking school
Teacher demonstrates, may be made by
beating the whites of six eggs very
stiff and dry and stirring in, by de-
fyrees. six tablespoonfuls of powdered
sugar. all whipped together to light
meringue If a brick Of very hard
frozen ice is set in this and covered
thickly, entirely, and speedily with the
egg it may be set-working very fast
into an oven piping hot and Drowned
over without the ice cream melting per-
ceptably. 1t will then be found to be
a most delicious compound of the soft
hot meringue and the firm ice under
meath, but the preparation is only
possible to a rapid yet thorough worker,
since if the meringue falls at all, or If
it does not cover every part of the
brick. the whole is ruined Another
way of concocting baked ice cream is
to envelop the brick in a sheet of pas
try of paper like thinness. This may
be baked in the same manner, in an
oven so hot that it requires but a sec
ond's time to brown the outer she'll
1t is less bother to make, and more apt
to be successful, but the meringue is
the better result, if it succeeds.
This is the moment when fruit syrups
that later will form the base for re-
freshing midsummer drinks may be
made. To prepare good syrup use
loaf sugar crushed, in the proportion of
about two and one-half pounds of sugar
to a pint of fruit juice. Mix the sugar
and juice thoroughly with wooden
spoon until the former is dissolved,
placing the dish while so doing in a
pan of boiling water. The mixture
needs no cooking, merely thorough
heating until the perfect combination
into fluid is secured. Two or three
teaspoonfuls of this juice with a table
spoonful of thick cream added, the two
poured on bed of cracked ice in a
tall glass, the glass then filled from a
siphon of carbonated water, evolves a
drink that is welcomed by any one.
Strawberries, raSpberries and pine
apples make the most successful syr-
ups, though it is not difficult TO make