The herald., 1898-03-27

pctites, agree that they would have dys-
pepsia If they thought about it. One woman
says that the only time she has ever had
any sort of indigestion was while visiting
at the home of friend, who talked about
everything she ate. She found herself, for
the first time in her life, weighing the di-
gestive pros and cons of the food before
her and in watching for after-dinner dis
comfort, soon felt 1t. While this can hard
ly be said to be an invulnerable argument,
it admits of some qualifying use.
A round among the carpet shops reveals
the fact that there is q decided tendency
toward darker floor coverings than have
been the fashion. "It is q question Of
monotony," said one dealer. "Persons get
tired of seeing, on their own floors and
those of everybody else, these negative
delicate colorings.' To cater to this de-
mand for variety, the manufacturers have
put out, within the last two seasons, an in
creasing number of dark carpets, which
have met with considerable favor. GUS
TONER shopping here the other day, quoted
some authority in favor of a dark carpet
ing as being on the line Of natures taste.
Her most effective scenes show the dark
green or wood-brown carpet, shading up
through sunlit tracery of leaves and
branches to the light vault of sky above.
The question of providing luncheons for
school children and workingwomen is still
in it's infancy, although the widespread dis
cusson and not infrequent experiments in
the matter during the last two years have
all been in the nature of progress, even
though some of the experiments seem to
have been marked by temporary failure.
Probably the most successful attempt to
solve the matter was that made at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Some menus of the luncheons served there
were: For 10 cents-Pea soup, two bread
sticks, crackers and butter; or corn beef
hashed, biscuit and apple sauce. For 20
cents a most satisfying lunch of three fish
balls, glass of milk and piece of corn
bread could be had. Here there was very
large percentage of the valuable elements
of nourishment. Still better was 25-cent
lunch, comprising chicken soup and crack
ers, Indian pudding and cream.-New York
Evening Post.
One wishes that to the profession of sani-
tary plumber there could be added that of
sanitary paper-hanger and decorator.
Workmen from the best shops will not no.
put on a paper over the old wall-covering,
but this is true more often in the cities
than in the smaller places; and if the eX-
pense of paying for the extra time needed
to remove the old paper is objected to, the
workmen will acquiesce in the evident wish
of the patron. asserting that it will not
make any difference; and in the interest
Of cleanliness and healthfuness it should
not be permitted. Papered walls should
be wiped down often, every inch of their
surface being gone over, and renewal once
in at least five years is really obligatory.
The disappointment often following the
choice Of wall paper comes first because the
light in the room in which it is to be puA is
not taken into considerations dull room
needing warm tints that is, papers with
yellow and red lights in them, while a
bright sunny room can astnd the cooler
shades of blue and green. 1t should be
remembered, too, whether the paperlng is
to be to some extent furnishing of room
or merely a background for pictures. In
the one case, lowered or any pattern ef-
fects are permissible, if not too aggressive,
while in the other, plain walls are to be
preferred