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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-05-22

A room as you enter it for the first
time suggests one of two things
comfort or discomfort. Easy chairs, a
sofa with plenty of soft cushions in
suitable places, few bright pictures,
plenty of cosy rugs, and a little dainty
bric-a-brac we'll placed, are things in
iispensable to comfortable room.
There must be tables and books, pa
pers and magazines; in fact, t6e fam
lily sitting room should be the best
used and most luxurious apartment in
the house-well lighted and well venti-
lated--instead of which 1t is very often
the least used room in the house, often
kept locked unless there are visitors.
And the art of ornamentation in this
room Is sometimes carried to excess.
have entered houses where my first
thought was of fancy goods shop,
and / have groaned to think of the
AMOUNT Of time and labor expended by
some poor woman to dust those goods.
One is almost afraid to move about at
Ease lest fearful damages might be the
result. Handmade decoration carried
out in brackets and fans ornament the
walls effectively, and add to the beau
ty OF the room if in taste and limita-
ton.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-05-22
Whom one hair Is Healthy.

When is the hair in good health
When it is naturally glossy, respond
ing to the well-wielded brush as sill
yer teapot does to the channels leath-
err; when 1t is neither over-dry nor
unduly moist and greasy; when 1t does
not fall out; when 1t is good color,
and when 1t does not split at the ends.
Some lucky people have no trouble
with their hairi others are everlast-
ingly trying to improve their scanty
supply in one way or another, Scanty
hair, however, is not unhealthy hair
in very great many instances. 1t
is fine hair and fine hair never looks
much. Possessors of such a type OF
tresses should comfort themselves
with the knowledge that super-refned,
delicately nurtured natures often own
this kind of hair But there are some
people who are never satisfied. Those
whose hair is normally healthy should
rest contented with its color, thickness
and length. All they have to do to
keep 1t in a state of glossy beauty is
to brush 1t we'll every morning and
every evening. being very particular
to use only quite clean brushes.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-05-22

To be well-gloved is a mark of a
well-dressed woman, and yet this inn
Dortant detail Is often overlooked on
account of expense. Women who soon
find the bottom of their purses try to
get over the costly fashion of wearing
gloves by buying cheap articles or by
wearing their gloves until the. tan be-
comes black or the black becomes
gray. Either course is a mistake. In
buying gloves choose those that are
elastic in texture, as they fit much bet
ter to the hand. Choose a size which
fits comfortably, as baggy gloves are
inelegant, and tight gloves impede the
circulation The ease with which the
top button can be fastened is. a pretty
good test for correct size. Having
bought the gloves, they should be care
fully tried on, and not left until they
are wanted to be worn If they are
hurrledly put on at first the fingers and
thumbs get twisted away, and can
never be brought back again to their
proper positions. A pair of glove
stretchers, which can be purchased for
few cents, is a useful possession, and
by It's use gloves will go on the hand
with less coaying than is generally
required by new gloves The buttons
of gloves are generally weak points.
and before the gloves are worn the
tape which attaches the buttons should
be more securely fastened to the
gloves. When the seams give way
they should be neatly overseWed with
cotton, and not with silk, which Is apt
to cut the kid. Should the gloves split
the torn edges should be worked with
buttonhole stitches set rather far apart.
The looped edges of the buttonhole
stitch may then be sewed together. A
small split in black kid gloves may be
neatly and quickly mended by small
strip of court plaster stuck on the
wrong side Of the gloves.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-05-22
In a Littls Girl.a Room.
ing room


If your little daughter is about to
move from the nursery into room of
her own here are a few suggestions as
to its furniture: Have dotted Swiss
curtain at the window, tied back with
forget-me-not blue ribbons. Let the
little bedstead be painted with white
enamel and draped with a canopy of
white Swiss, through which blue silk
lining should show. The bureau, which
should correspond in size to the bed,
should also be white, and, if ones
bank account will allow it, decorated
in silver. The latest washstand for a
child's room is of willow, painted in
white, with a deep hollow in the cen
ter to hold the dainty bowl and pitcher.
In this room all the appointments of
the washstand should be of white
china, strewn with forget-me-nots. In
the corner of the room have baby
divan covered with light blue ehintz
and banked with white linen-covered
pillows, ornamented with blue silk
frill. A little willow rocking chair is
another requirement. 1t should be
painted in white and have the seat
cushioned in light blue plush. Cover
the walls with paper which looks like
a pompadour silk. 1t may be cream
white in color striped with lines OF
forget-me-nots. Have plenty of pic.
lures on the walls, and a carpet OF
blue felt on the floor, half covered by
rugs, and the small girl who owns this
apartment can not fail to be happy.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-05-22

room and sewing room. A row Of
drawers where new and old materials
are kept separate is an indispensable
necessity. The other furnishings
should consist of a sewing machine
and dress form, large work basket,
cutting table and spool stand in the
middle of which is cushion for nee
dies. When work is over they can be
left in the sewing room, and there is
no necessity of tucking them away in
odd corners. Besides, great deal Of
valuable time is saved by the arrange
msnt of having the articles within
reach on moments notice, and every
woman should, if she can, have a sew
ing room
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-05-22
Little Helps.


Milk will remove ink stains frou.
cloth If used Immediately.
Grease spots may be removed from
oak by washing them with warm beer
Spirits of turpentine is the tbina
with which to cleanse and brigbtan
patent leather. 'en
An almost invisible cement 70,
mending glass is made of isinglos.
boiled in spirits Of wine.
Skim milk is very useful for wash
ing floor tiles; 1t gives them a betto,
appearance than hot water.
To cleanse tinware, first wash th.
tin thoroughly with hot soansrdS
wipe 1t thoroughly dry, and tbar
scour with flour and well-crumblsS
newspaper.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-05-22


My lady's gown Is gray and soft;
So like her eyes
That from its silken folds there comes
A hint of paradise.
1 hold II close against my heart
My lady's gown.
The while she hummed little song
/ saw her lay
This bit of lace around her throat;
Dear eyes of gray
So serious in fashioning
My lady's gown.
My ladys gown is folded now;
The knot of blue
Upon her breast Is passing sweet
With lavender and rue;
1t brings me dreams of bygone days;
My lady's gown.
Today ] see the little gown
With srimming eyes,
For out beneath the grass-grown hill
My lady lies
And with despairing sobs / kiss
MY ladys gown.
Myrtle Reed, in Munsey's
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-05-22

Women who find 1t more advanta-
geous from financial standpoint to
have a dressmaker come in by the day
and do the sewing acknowledge that a
separate sewing room is a blessing to
be appreciated. Here one can work
undisturbed. OF course, nothing but
the tools used in the construction OF
a gown are kept in the room. 1t must
not serve the dual purpose Of store
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-05-22
Apples with Figs.

Cut apples in halves, core and pare.
and lay in baking dish. Into each
apple cavity put prepared fig and a
few bits of crystalized ginger. Make
a syrup OF three-fourths cupful of wa
ter and one-half cupful of sugar and
pour over the apples. Bake until thew
are tender, basting several times. Care
iuily lift them out into a pretty glass
dish, pouring any syrup that remains
into the fig centres. Serve very cold
with whipped cream or soft custard
IL preferred, instead of cutting the ap-
pies into halves, they can be pared
ana cored whole, being careful not to
remove quite all of the apple from the
bottom, and proceed with as above.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-05-22
Cinnamon Cakes.

Whites and yolks of two eggs, which
are to be beaten up with quarter of a
pound of castor sugar for half an hour:
add two ounces of powdered almonds.
quarter of an ounce of powdered Gin
namon and twelve pounded cloves. Stir
into this mixture, very gradually, half
q pound OF fine flour. Roll out into
long strips and divide into cakes and
bake in buttered tins.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-05-22
FOR HOME AND WOMEN
ITEMS OF INTEREST FOR MAIDS
AND NATIONS.

Elegant Evening Gown - Skating Gown
Notes on Gloves The Home Sew
ng-Room-when the Hair Is Healthy
Our Cooking school
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-05-22

years ago got hands, sensation
and the could
see nue. Whte pnp felt like twisting fingers
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was lred out Nights had asleep My
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Verse than toad. When nails the
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CUTcURA remedies. began
o san, ana alter using small quantity cured
dollars for cake could get
Tob no o would not suffer
CASPER DIETSCHLER, CO.. n Y
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-05-22
Cranberry Jelly.

Pick over and wash sufficient ber-
ries to measure two quarts. Put them
in a large granite stewpan with two
pounds of graduated sugar and one
pint of water. Cover closely and bring
quickly to the boiling point; boil for
ten minutes without stirring, then
skim and press through a sieve. Pour
into wetted molds and set away in a
cold pantry.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-05-22

Whites of three eggs, two cups of
sugar, one cup of butter, one cup OF
sweet milk, three cups of -four, one
teaspoonful of soda, two teaspoonfuls
of cream tartar.
Filling-One pound of figs, chopped
fine, one cup of sugar, one cup of milk.
Cook slowly until it thickens. When
cool spread between the layers.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-05-22
OUR COOKING SCHOOL.
stewed Celery.

7 Cut parts not suitable for salad into
inch pieces. Cook in one cup of water
till tender. Add one-half cup cream
to celery water, bind with white roux.
and season with salt and pepper. The
tender bleached leaves may be stewed
with the stalks.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-05-22
Oysters a la Marguerite.

Chop some stalks of celery into fine
pieces and fry them in butter until a
golden color. Then add to them the
juice of dozen oysters and glass OF
sherry, and cook Put in the oys-
tiers and oyster crabs, piece of fresh
butter, and cook for five minutes. This
is very nice chatting dish dainty.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-05-22

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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-05-22

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The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-05-22
Sore Hands 8 Years Cured.

rain 30 intense Would Nearly Twist Fingers Hands
Pufed up Like Toad Water Ran Through BaHdages to
Floor Had to Walk the Floor Until Fall
Asleep. Fingers Would Peel Like an OMEN
Doctors Not Cure.
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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-06
DEADLlEsT PolsoNs KNOWN.
Articles Which Instantly Kill Human
Beings Who Absorb Them.

Articles Which Instantly Kill Human
Beings Who Absorb Them.
The diScoverer of pruSsic acid was in
stantly killed by inhaling one Whit of
his own handiwork.
Pure prussic acid is never sold or
handled. The smell of it is always
fatal. 1t kills not in three minutes or
half an hour, but the instant it enters
the lungs as Il gas. The mixture ordin-
arily sold as prussic acid is 9S parts
water to ? parts of the drug. Even in
this form it is very deadly. A 20 per
cent. mixture of the acid would kill
nearly as quickly as if pure
Atropine, though it has no harmful
odor, is so deadly that as much of it as
would adhere to the end Of moistened
foretinger would instantly cause death.
Cyanide of potassium has a pleasant
smell, which is not Injurious, but a
small quantity swallowed kills at once.
Pure ammonia, if inhaled, would
cause death almost as quickly as prus-
sic acid.
When a carbot of nitric acid is brok-
en- some one has to suffer. 1t will burn
wood, eat through iron plates and de-
stroy whatever it touches. Such an ac-
cident once happened in an acid fac
tory. Everyone ran away, leaving the
acid to amuse itself by setting fire to
things. Soon it was seen that the
building would be destroyed and hun
dreds Of people thrown out of work,
and four men volunteered to put out
the fire in the acid room. They sue
ceeded and came out feeling all right
Five hours later all were dead.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-06
A REPUBLICAN TO THE RESCUE.

If deaf ear be turned to the warn
lngs of Democratic statesmen, that the
absolute gold standard will bring un-
told misery to the nation and its people,
let the language Of United States Sena-
tor William Eaton Chandler, Republi-
can. from New Hampshire, penetrate
this thick envelope of Grass prejudice.
Senator Chandler opposed the present
currency bill. and among other things.
said:
Those who have absorbed the gold of
the world are trying to make it more
valuable by legislation. That is the
natural meaning of the first ten lines
of the Senate bill. There is no need of
the law for any other object. Abso-
lutely no other purpose is to be sub
served by those lines. The passage of
the bin without adequate recognition
of the desire and determination of the
American people that silver shall be
remonetiZed is a defiance of the Repub-
lican platform of 1896, and without
such recognition in the bill l cannot
give to it my vote. 1t would be I'm
qualified gold recommendation and to
advocate or submit to this is abandon
ment of Republican principles.
ANY retarding of the movement to
make gold more valuable does not suit
the gold class. Further steps are there
fore now demanded, not only that the
existing silver coin shall be put out
from the condition Of real money and
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-06
Brief Political Comment.

The effete East becomes Organized
Gerry readily. Knoxville sentinel.
The benefit of taxation without rep
resentation will be taught in Porto
Rico and the Philippines Beaver City
(Neb1 Times.
And still the apologist for political
assassination remains at the head of
the Republican political organization.
Indianapolis Sentinel
If the Republicans are so sure of win
ming. why is it that they have TO select
candidate for Vice fresideat by
forced Albany Argus.
The administration. anxious for more
land is looking for it abroad and neg
lecting the improvement of that which
we have at home. Quincy CID Herald
Senator Pettigrew is branded as a
traitor for asking in behalf Of the Fill
pinos what Washington and jefferson
demanded for the American eolonists
kansas City Times.
Administration officehoIders are still
being interviewed TO prove that Grim
inaI aggression is benevolent assirD-
isation.' 1t is a great time for cnckoos
and parrots.-St- Louis Port Dispatch.
When the history Of this administra-
ton shall be properly written the fig
urehead of it will appear between
brackets. and the boss Of il win be men
tened in a foot note.-Kansas City
Times.
The mere fact that the administra-
ton is doing its utmost to kill the
demand for an investigation of tile
philippine affair IS proof that there is
something about the affair tat the ad
mlnistration wants TO keep from the
nublic.-Omaba World Herald.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-06
DEAR TO HIS HEART.

Even if the Dog Was Only Poor
Little Cur.
Say, mister, don't you want to buy
a dawg?"
The little ragged bunch of humanity
was study in ebony, and he looked
up pleadingly into the face of the man
whom he had accosted. "Dogy' uuer-
led the man, Il don't see any dog. |
don't like to buy things sight unseen. .
''Oh, Use got i'm heah, all right, deed
1 has asserted the little fellow, and
he began to undo the various layers
of old coats about his body, evidently
put on so that the good spots of one
would cover the rents in the garment
underneath. Finally he brought to
light a little yellow cur, half starved
and wholly worthless, either for use
or beauty
what do you want to sell him for?''
asked the man, a smile beginning to
creep round the corners of his eyes.
well, you see, sub. Use had Bones a
good while. and | thinks heap of
i'm, but KANT get no license fur him.
and now they says l got to tie up bis
mouf, SOS he won't bite you ais Deed,
mister, Bones never bit nothin in his
life. He's a powerful good dawg, an
| JUS KANT abear TO see the dawg
ketchers git i'm, an | thought if |
could sell i'm to somebody who would
be good to i'm, like you alls, l might
buy i'm back in the Summerv And
he Struggled the ornery little cur up
under his rags. to keep him from shiv-
ering.
Then that man didn't do a thing but
trot that little study in ebony off to
buy license for the .'dawg" and Il
muzzle, and now he is safe from the
''dawg ketcher. Washington Star.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-06
Not Quite So Sure,

The Boston Herald is not so cock-sure
that Mckinley will be reelected.
There is a predominant class of yot-
ers in the South who do not at all fear
Mr.. Bryan in the Presidency. There
is a class of voters in the West, who,
if the intelligence received from that
quarter is correct. not only do not agree
with the business and the more
thoughtful element of New England
and the Middle States in it's estimate
of Mr.. Bryan, but are becoming jealous
of this Eastern section of the country,
and like Mr. Bryan the better because
he is not acceptable there. These two
first-named sections do not cast ma
jority of the Electoral votes of the
country, or the portions of them that
are united in support of Mr.. Bryan do
not. We think that the East, from the
northern interior States this side the
Mississippi, will be able to overcome
them in the Electoral College. Yet the
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-06
The Way 1T Is Done,

The assignees of the Assabet Manu-.
featuring Company of Maynard de-
clared a final dividend Of u per cent,
making 67 per cent. in all. This case
has been of exceptional interest be-
cause the company conducted private
banking business for employees and
held some $125,000 of the employees
money at the time of failure. Thus
the workmen lose SO per cent. of the
wages left in trust with the company
The same practice Of receiving the
wages Of employees as deposits pre-
vailed to some extent with the firm of
John p. Squire & Co, which recently
failed, and in view of all this there is
pending in the Legislature bill max
ing such deposits preferred claims
against the employer 1t is evidently
a meritorious measure. Springfield
(Mass) Republican.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-06
CHATTER III.

The farm adjoining Mr.. Boone's on
the south belonged 10 Mr.. Porter. Mrs.
Porter was Mrs. Booue's sister. MIR.
Porter had built near the north edge Of
his claim. and Mr.. Boone near the south
era boundary of his, so that the tive
houses were quite near together. On the
afternoon following the organization of
the singing school, Mamie stopped al her
aunt's on her way home, with a beaming
and excited face.
You can't guess what kind Of an err
rand Eve come on" she said. sitting
down in the doorway and tanning her
flushed face with her sunbonnet. utterly
uumindful OF poor Dick, who was plow-
ipg in the field across the road and who
had stepped close to the fence when h..
saw her coming.
wall. no. l can't say as l can, not
bein' very good ut guessin'," replied Mrs.
Porter. drawing her ol6fashioned rock
ing chair up TO the door. rs it an ar
rant for our folks.
ats one for You" answered Mamie;
mir. Wayne wants to come here 10
board"
Fer goodness sake exclaimed Mrs.
Porter. What on airth nd we do with
him IL we took him. ia ike TO know
We don't 90 in fer style. an amt us't
to livin' as he'd expect to; an then.
s'posen 1t was all right. an father was
willin', / don't know what Samanthy'd
say"
,'Oh. you'd get along with him well
enough said Mamie. confidently. i
know you would. He wanted to come
10 our noase, but knew we eouidn' I
make room fer him. l knew you could.
and I knew, too. that he couldn't find a
aeater place; and as you had only Uncle