The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-26

ink-not tho stiffened paste usually found
In the bottom of the spare room ink-wellt
As to the bed. see that 1t Is the per-
fection of comfort-pillows big, soft and
downy; blankets white and feecy; sheets
and Spread snowy white, and in every
way above suspicion; and last of all
a down quilt folded at the foot, so
that an extra covering may be had at
night without the asking. or may be
used in the daytime for the short nap
which every hostess should civ a guest
an opportunity to enjoy at least once
2 day. So much for the duties of the
hostess as to the material comfort of
the inmate OF her gu~estchamber. AS to
her social duties, that's another story
and must be left for another time.
EVEN the most careful housekeeper is
often inclined to be negligent in the care
or the coffee pot. This not because of care
~iessness, but because she does not under
stand the proper method of cleaning, and
IT'S Importance. The pot may be carefully
rinseu after each cleaning and yet be far
from clean. There is an oily property
ABOUT coffee which adheres in spite of
rinsing out. You can see this for yourself
by taking almost any coffee pot that has
been some time in use (~unless it has been
carefully kept and you will find clinging
to 1t a sort of black grease mot brown
which will come off If a cloth is rubbed
round the inside.
Now this deposit, for SOM reason,
which I should like to nave explained,
destroys the flavor, fragrance and color
of coffee. If the coffee looks black
brown instead of ruddyIbrown it will be
f1avorless. however strong.
To keep this black oil from the pot it
must be daily washed (not simply rinsed)
scalded and dried. If the French coffee
pot is used, each piece should be care
fully dried before it is put away. If pack
ed together wet the strainers win in time
give a metallic taste.
If it is found that the coffee pot has
been neglected, put a piece of washing
soda as large as a hickory nut into hot
water. set the strainers in it, and let
them stand on the stove for a few hours;
put the same in the coffee pot; then rub
and brush both until .the wire gauze is
clear and all the black removed; then
run boiling water through and dry it.
Cold water is worse than useless for
cleaning the pot, as it sets the oil. Some
times the coffee pot is put away as it is
taken from the table, with the leftover
coffee in dt, but this is very unwise, for
1t will soon spoil the flavor of the very
best coffee if the pot is thus neglected.
The following letter offers a sugges-
ton on the aigrette question which may
not commend itself to those opposed to
the wearing of plumage. There seems to
be little difference between killing wild
birds for their .plumage and raising domes-
tic ones for that purpose. The feathers
of only those fowls that are used for food
might be made to satisfy the demands of
the milliner.
1 would like 20 inquire why the women
who wear SO many feathers, and are also
so largely interested in the raising of
poultry, ave not thought of starting a
new branc of that industry? Why are
the feathers of our farmyard fowls not
utilized for the adornment of headgear?
They are far more beautiful than many
now in use for that purpose The aigrette
thai almost every women has on her
udl Il Sl1ur 10 Otduly III lt-OIly ldd.
The topnot of one of these Paderewski
black fowls, with its black n white
feathering n black bead eyes, would be
beautiful in a hat. The farmers family
could make a fine collection of feathers
and send, them to the feather dealers,
who color and make most marvellous
birds with tubular wings and crests or
their backs, such creatures as nature
never dreamed of.
Why not have poultry farms for feath-
ers, as they do ostrich farms, peacock
farms, paroquet FARMS, eve birds of para
disc farms? These latter are sometimes
so buried in their beautiful plumage that
they look as If they would like to part
with some of it, even to adorn a hat.
This would, in a great measure, stop this
wholesale wicked killing of our beautiful
song birds and and insect-killing birds. |
Robbing. thrushes, wrens and many
others are not pretty on a hat. The
English sparrow can furnish all the small
feathers needed, and a pigeon farm the
next size. Then poultry feathers we could
have from the ducks and chickens and
turkeys that we have eaten.
Some say it won't pay. Yes, it will;
IOT SOOu tueTS Will D6 ITO WHO DlrQS TO
collect from, if his wholesale slaughter
goes IN.
When men and women who nave stat
ed salaries howl about hard times and
put the shopkeepers off with the plea
that money is scarce, those persons are
living tooNfast. The only way to live
happily is to size up ones means, and
live within them.
Going in deb for things that can be
gotten along without, trying to make a
$4,000 salary do the work of $4,000, is what
ruins tempers, brings gray hairs about
the temples, fills suicides graves and
breaks up homes. The tendency of the
times is to imitation; happiness lies in the
other direction, and the women of the
home can a a wholesome influence in
the right direction If they but exert
themselves.
Many a man is started on the unsafe |
path by the demands of a selfish wife for
more than he can honestly furnish her
in the way of house and personal adorn-
ments. No man will go very far wrong |
wife exerts the right influence over
him.
Mourning is perhaps more worn than |
ever before, in spite of the constant cru
SADIE against it, on sanitary, on senti-
,nanfal and n ethical g-o,,nds Uvba+ . |