The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-11-06

It is a blow to learn that the honey
of commerce is not above reoroach.
It's adulteration is, it seems, quite COM
mon Glucose is one of the ingredients
used for the purpose. Even honey in
the comb is not to be accepted with
absolute confidence, as the cells can
be initiated in paraffin. An occasional
diet of honey is an excellent thing for
children It's qualities are searching
and it is cleansing and stimulating 10
the system. 1t is a curious thing that
children will crave it and eat it raven
ously for short time; then turn from
it entirely Wien the period of rejec-
ton sets in, it is an evidence that the
system has had enough.
SO much has been said of the lack
of creative ability in women either in
music, art, or practical affairs that in
q list of patents it is interesting to see
what women have had to do with them.
In a list of some fifty given in the Octo-
Der number of The Furniture Trade
Review there is only one woman, and
she has shown her thorough femlninity
by inventing a portable folding mirror
stand. The woman who finds a mirror
such a necessity to take with her in her
travels is Sophie A. Lane of Waco,
Texas.
An invention in which all women
might be interested is the idea of a
man. 1t is a trunk which can be con-
verted into a safe, couch, lounge or
table. The lid of the trunk is made in
two parts and hollow, and in the space
thus made the cushions for the couch
are placed. The top half Of the lid
opens with hinges endwise, and when
spread out on a level with the rest of
the trunk makes the length of a couch.
Two arm pieces at either side and
head rest at the other end of the trunk
are unfolded, and, slanting outward,
form complete couch when the cush
ions are arranged in place. support
lets down under the lower part of the
couch This is not a bad idea for the
women who spends her summer in a
boarding house or hotel.
The revival in the last year of the
old-fashioned cross-stitch embroidery is
very much accentuated in the autumn's
showing at the embroidery shops. Lit
tie books filled with stiff conventional
patterns, that might be taken direct
from our grandmothers' samplers, are
offered, their patterns to be- transferred
in the plain cross-stitch to various
fabrics. The element of novelty IN the
revival is in the new weaves of canvas.
Instead Of the plain, regular mesh cam
vas, white and cream, to which our an
ceStoTs were limited the material comes
now in a wide variety Of mesh and
coloring. A handsome pattern, shown
in a number of rich colors, including
several college colors, is a four-inch
block of varying shades, where the
color is a solid one or of alternating
tints, each block showing the thread
woven IN different pattern. In these
blocks stiff, set figures are worked in
Toss-stitch, the blocks then outlined in
White or gold floss.
Beautiful Oriental designs stamped
on various fabrics, and needing only
an outline stitch TO bring them out, are
among other new designs for pillows.
With almost every one comes a suit
able ruffied material finished in colors
that harmonic with the center This
would seem to indicate the return of
the fiounced pillow, which has for lit
tie time been retired in favor of corded
and plain edges.
Many careful housekeepers keep milk
and butter in a separate refrigerator
from that in which the other food Of
the larder is stored. In particular, the
milk used by the child of the family
should be kept by itself. The care of
baby's milk has become a science. In
New York laboratory which furnishes
milk especially prepared for the vary
ing periods of a child's growth the sup
ply goes out daily to customers in tiny
bottles that are set in baskets, each
resting in a cotton-wadded recess
Each bottle holds enough milk for
single feeding, and the child takes it
from the laboratory bottle, the nipple
being placed over the mouth, after the
bit of sterilized cotton which stops it is
removed. BY this means it is claimed
that absolute immunity from germs is
secured. The bottles are returned to
the laboratory daily where they are
washed and sterilized by the most APP
proved process.
The New York Household Economic