The Portland daily press., 1899-04-01

an even blending. In very short time
one learns to gauge the soda exactly to
the acidity of the milk to be used. Bak-
ing powder cannot give the bsst results
in the class of articles enumerated above
ELLA Morris KIetschmar in Woman 5
Home Companion.
MISTRESS AND MAID.
81 have Away believed thoroughly
that at the bottom of much of the servant
trouble lies the ineificiency of the average
housewife. writes Helen Watterson
Moody in the April Ladies' Home Jour
nal. How is it possible that an ignor-
ant servant, though willing, should
become capable. except through such
training as a skilled mistress s.can give
her, or how can most efficient maid
live up toiher own ideals under a mistress
who, having no training, and therefore
no standards OF her own, must be lacking
in understanding and appreciation of the
work OF othsrs? And yet If you ask al
most any housekeeper to define good
servant she will tell you 1t Is one who
relieves her from care and responsibility.
What would be thought OF the head of
banking house who estimated his en-
ployees solely according to their ability to
relieve him of the duties that properly
belong to HIMSELF The banker values a
clerk who Is able to obey orders intelli-
gently, and upon whose fidelity he can
rely, but he does not expect him to do his
thinking for him. You see. the trouble
with us, as mistressss is largely that we
want to be relieved of the respon sihiity
that comes with home making, instead of
accepting it s our chief concern in life,
studying 1t US we would any other posses
sion, meeting fall its requirements with
skill and knowledge. and seeing. back of
all the trying and petty details, the
dignity and value of the work w. are
doing. do not wish to seem to under
value the difficulties of the profession. 1t
Is not an easy one; 1t is the hardest ono
know, and 1t Is often filled with details
that are neither pleasant nor dlgnifed.
Bnt SO are the profs ssloUs of medicine OF
journalism, of law, and even the minis
try"
HYGIENIC VALUE OF THE SUNS
RAYS.
A California doctor has this 10 say Of
the curative value of the suns rays: 1t
is astonishing how few people there are
who properly estimate the hygiepic value
of the sun S rays. A valuable lesson on
this point may be learned by Observing
the lower animals, none of whom ever
neglect an opportunity to bask in the sun.
And the nearer man approaches to his
primitive condition the more he is in
clined to follow the example of the ami
mails 1t is "a natural instinct, which
civilization has partially destroyed in the
human race. The effect of sunshine is
not merely thermal, its rays have chemi-
cal and electric functions. 1t is more
than possible that Sunshine produces
vibrations and changes OF particles in the
deeper tissues of the body as effective ms
thoss of electricity. Many know by ex-
perience that the relief it affords to wear
ing pain. neuralgia and infiammatory,
is more effective and lasting than that of
any application whatever. Thoss who
have face ache should prove it for them-
sslves, sitting in u sunny window, where
the warmth falls full on the cheek. For
nervous debility and insomnia. the treat
ment of all others Is rest in sunshine.
There is no tonic like it, provided the
good effects are not nentralized by i'll
feeding. 10 restore rheumatic limb, or
to bring a case of nervous prostration up
speedily. a most efficisnt part of thu treat
ment would be to expose the limb or the
as the day would afford. With weak
lungs, let the sun fall full on the chest
for hours If internal humor or ulcera-
ton is suspected, let the sun burn
through the bare skin, directly on the
point of Ii ease, for hours daily There
will bs no doubt left in the mind that
there is curative power in the chemical
rays of tine sun Far the cbilliness which
causes blue hands and bad color, resort to
the sun--lat it almost blister the skin.
and the circulation will answer the at
traction. 1t is finer stimulus than
wine. electricity or mass ,ge, and We are
on the verge of great therapeutic dis
coyeries concerning it.