Delaware gazette and state journal., 1902-10-16
Domestic
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MenrZSunday.
Breakfast.
Sliced Peaches and Cream.
Broiled Sauab on Toast Watercress.
gAss !, - 'S' Coffee.
- Dinner.
vermicelli Soup.
Olives. Salted Almonds.
Porterhoase Steak with Mushrooms.
Roast Sweet Potatoes. Mashed Turnirs. |
Y Tomato Salad with MayonnaMise;
Peach Dumplings Hard Sauce.
Black Coffee. -.
Supper.
Boston Clam Fritters with Bacon.
Bread and Butter.
4 Baked Sweet Apples.
Cranberry Tarts. : Grated Cheese.
Now, before the frost comes, is the |
time to gather in some of the wood |
land treasures for winter. In the maple |
zone the trees are at their best, and
nothing is prettier for decoration than
the beautiful bronze gold or scarlet
leaves. All one has to do to preserve
them is to dip them in thin solution
Of glue water-a tablespoonful of liquid
glue to a pint of water-dry carefully
and pack them smoothly in boxes.
Grape leaves. holly branches, the
glossy leaves of the pear are all suita-
BILE for this purpose. and prove invalu
able in the winter when it is hard to
kfind appropriate decorations for the
table. Ferns, too, may be gathered
NOW, enough to last for several months.
Select the brakes or sword ferns, hav-
King thick green fronds, cut from the
roots with shears, lay smoothly in a
box, face down, cover the top with
bpArafne paper, tie the cover down
firmly and set the box in the cellar or
icebox until needed.
The lovely trailing ropes Of ground
pine, branches of bittersweet, roots of
checkerberries, hemlock twigs and
branches, the satin-lined chestnut
burrs, will each and all bring back
visions of summer in the days when the
sun goes in hiding and the mental
thermometer drops accordingly.
California .chatelaines, with their
wealth of flowers to draw upon at all
seasons, have learned to utilize q num-
ber of things for flower holders which
the Eastern woman knows nothing of.
For palms and other piazza plants they
buy the Chinese butter firkins, bound
with straw. For a single spray of
roses, the purple blossom of the arti-
coke, or two or three golden chrysan-
themums she has ready the quaint
brown glazed whisky jug, which the
China-boy cook or laundryman has
discarded after emptying its contents.
These may be had for the picking up
almost anywhere around the wash
houses, and are the most effective
flower holders for the hall or porch
table. Then there are the bamboo
swinging vases, that any boy with a
knife can make. These are simply a
section of the bamboo half or three.
quarter yard in length, with little
openings cut in the various sections
large enough to hold water and a few
vines or blossoms. cord is then tiec
about either end, and the vase sus
pended from the wall.
One of the greatest delights in Cali
fornia housekeeping is that every
morning one may have great tray o
fresh flowers to arrange for the day.
Insipid and tasteless apples may b.
utilized by stewing ana mixing will
stewed cranberries in the proportiol
of one part of cranberries to two O
apples. Not quite so much sugar will
be required as for the berries alone
Strain through colander and sery
with game or meat
According to the family physician
story, very few people know how |
breathe properly. In ordinary breath
ing not much more than half the lun
Tissues are used, and in every day Iii
We manage to get on with this.
there is any tendency to lung troubl
however, the lungs must be expande
and deep breathing is powerful al
to cure. The. individual should star
iereot, close the mouth and gradual
fill the lungs by breathing throul
the nose. When the lungs are full oil
should hold the breath short tim
then slowly let it out Six de-
kbreaths should be taken one after Il
lother, and this deep breathing pra
Fticed three times day before meal
Zone of the advantages of living in
phil country is that one is forced
7breath deeply. All breathing exercis
are better if taken in the open
rather than in the vitiated atmospht
of close room. If regular deep brea,
ing is practioed there will be no ne
of any apparatus for indicating I
Air, as is frequently recommended
consumptives. The benefit is n
from the drug inhaled, but from I
Irregular deep breathing. At first de
breathing may cause little giddin
tin the head, or cough, but this SC
passes off, and the treatment pro
kbeneticial.
In this connection it must be b.
Hn mind that sea voyage, so of
Recommended in cases of weak lun
lis of little account if one stays in
Differentiated cabins. Not only sho
lths individual be on deck all day,
Ef possible sleep on deck or in sc
we'll ventilated part. For this rea
ta long, slow trip on sailing ve
hoffers greater Inducements than on
the ocean greyhounds.
Sea sickness which keeps so m
people below deck, ordinarily yield:
plenty of iced water, and recumt
position with the head low.
these remedies can be applied on d'
The alarming increase in typl
fever finds many women totally .un
lparedifor the long siege of nursing
IS to follow. Put the patient
fever diet,'' says the doctor who t;
1t for granted that every woman kr
what fever dietn is, and goes
way. If she has never had expert
in nursing it is moro likely than
that her ideas as to diet are nebu
in the extreme. For such, the fol
}ng list is allowable in measles, sci