The Columbus journal., 1900-08-22
Artistic Doll Houses.

Arts building any of these days. Miss
Elizabeth Gordon. well-known
Evanston girl of large private means.
is responsible for this novelty, which
has taken the form Of an exhibition of
modern aesthetic and artistic doll
houses and doll furniture. For a long
time Miss Gordon's sense Of the eter-
nal fitness of things has been dis
turbed by the doll houses owned and
played with by the little children of
her acquaintance. She found the
structures inconvenient and clumsy,
their fittings ugly and the whole
neither conducive to good taste in the
child nor pleasure.
So setting to work with an able car
penter among several other dwellings
Miss Gordon has built the Craigie
house out Of Boston owned by the
Longfellows. The exterior is three
feet high, five in length and complete
from gable windows. shingles and
porch pillars to the brass knocker on
the front door. The bedrooms are
walled in fowered dimities, have Swiss
dressing tables. curtains. portieres,
chintz covered chairs and divans and
tiled communicating baths. The din
ing-room is in Flemish oak, the IL
brary in rich red. with tall lamps,
candelabra, colonial furniture and vel
vet carpets. The drawing-room is a
French affair of rose and gold, with
a baby grand piano in 1t. The furni-
ture and the hangings are made by
young women to whom Miss Gordon
gives employment, and the whole ex-
hibition, which has been very largely
attended, has almost driven the little
girls crazy who have gone there with
their mammas. Dolls in character are
also a feature of the show and special
pieces of doll furniture in artistic an
tique shapes can be ordered by small
housekeepers. Miss Gordon calls her
settlement of modern doll houses the
Crawford houses. and she considers
her shooting box" and its furnish
ings the smartest Of her collection.
Canker.
Canker is another form of roup. II
often starts at the base of the tongue
and windpipe. and quite frequently
smothers them, as it collects a white
cheesy substance, very tough and
leathery. This is the worst form OF
roup, and is sometimes called diph-
liberia. Take a stick and scrape out
all this white substance, then apply a
little subsulphate Of iron or chlorate
of potash. Wet your finger in water,
insert in the dry potash and apply on
the sore. Also use pulverized alum,
magnesia and sulphur, equal parts, ap-
plying it with an insect powder gun
in the throat and nostrils. Another
form is when the eyes swell ana a
leathery cheese forms in them. The
best remedy is the hatchet, yet some
cases can be cured. Take the patiert,
wash the head good with warm salt
water, give them a little pine tar and
put little on base of beak. and batne
the swollen parts with kerosene and
sweet Oil. Treat them daily, feed good
strong feed, and they will probably
show a change for the better in six
or seven days. Give them good fresh
water to drink, with little copperas
in it: about q teaspoonful to a gallon
of water. The above are the best rem
edies for roup I know of. There are
many remedies that are claimed to
cure roup without handling the birds,
but thus far have never found any
thing that did any good but kerosene
and pine tar; they will do 1t. 1t is
well to put little in the drinking
water. 1t won't hurt them.-B. H.
Westlake.