The National tribune., 1907-08-29

lamb should be cooked:
Throw it into boiling water for five
minutes and drain.
Put in a stewpan a piece of butter
the size of an egg and place on the
fire. When melted mix in it one table,
spoonful of flour, after which pour in,
little by little, a pint and a half of
boiling water, stirring constantly with
a wooden spoon.
Put the meat in the pan and four
three sprigs of parsley, two of thyme,
salt and pepper.
About Is minutes before it is done
add two or three mushrooms cut in
slices.
Take from the fire when cooked.
Place the meat on dish, with the
mushrooms and onions around. or, II
preferred, without either. Strain the
sauce over the meat and serve.
The old-fashioned definition of beau
ty sleep was the sleep that is taken
before midnight. Beauty sleep is the
sleep a woman gets after she has slept
seven hours and before she has slept
nine, says a Viennese specialist.
woman needs seven hours sleep
for the building up of her system. Then
she needs two hours or more for the
recuperation of her body, and the ex-
ira two hours Will restore her complex
ion, make her eyes bright. take the
wrinkles out of her face and keep her
form elastic.
The woman who wants to derive the
fullest benefit from her beauty sleep
will compose her mind before sinking
off into slumber She will think pleas
ant thoughts. Worrying thoughts make
burrows in the brow and set lines
around the mouth. A little light in
bed room is good thing for some peo-
pie, for it will act cheerfully upon the
nerves and drive away nightmare.
Do not allow yourself to be wakened
in the morning if you mean to get
beauty sleep, or if you must be reused
let it be ever so gently. Do not wake
up with start, with an alarm clock
or in consequence of a bell ringing. for
these harsh sounds will jar the nerves
and destroy some of the good the sleep
has done you.
The eyebrows should receive as care
full if not as frequent attention as the
hair. With bit of cold cream on the
finger tips rub the eyebrows gently to
loosen any possible dandruff, since they
are often subject to this annoyance.
Then wash them with mixture of al
cohol and water. Lastly, brush them,
using the little brush on the end o. the
nail file. First brush them straight up
toward the hair. then straight down,
and the line will be fine and well
shaped. If this treatment is used reg
ularly the eyebrows viii constantly
grow more beautiful. Brushing up the
outer tip after the last stroke down.
ward gives a coquettish expression to
some faces. but the curve or straight
line designed by nature is rarely i'm
proved upon.
Wishing to give your wardrobe prop
er care you must not forget to look
every day at the binding of your skirt.
at the buttons on your boots, at your
veil and gloves. Indeed, you must
glance at all that has unceasing wear.
A fresh binding sometimes will alter
the entire appearance of a girl, max
ing her look neat and dainty where
before the ragged edges of her skirt
suggested that she was at once untidy
and ignorant Shabby finery is mex
cusable. Chiffon that has become worn
and ragged. when it cannot be replac-
ed. should be removed and something
simpler substituted for it. Tears, worn
places and rips never are seen OF, the
wellbred girl, for from her early youth
she has learned how to WELD her nee
die we'll and mend her belongings with
as much daintiness as she embroiders.
Most persons have indistinct ideas of
the manner in which soap acts in re-
moving dirt. This is not so simple a
matter as it may seem, for even chem |
lists have been more or less puzzled by
it, altho there is now substantial agree
ment among them as to the chemistry
of the process.
1t is generally considered that the
efficacy of soap depends mainly upon
it's decomposition, when it is mixed
with water, into an alkali and a fatty
acid
The alkali thus set free dissolves the |
grease by which the dirt is attached to
the surface to be cleaned, and the wa
ter then carries the dirt off. But this |
is not all; the fatty acid from the soap
any free alkai remaining |
after the loosening of the dirt, and thus |
prevents the alkali from attacking the |
cleansed surface itself. This is i'm |
portant when soap is applied to the |
skin, and the painful effects produced |
by some varieties of soap are due to |
the fact that they possess an excess of
free alkali, more than the fatty acids
can neutraliZe. |
But there are other factors concern |
ed in the action of soap. Its cohesive |
power, upon which the formation of |
soap bubbles and lather depends, en-
ables it to gather up the dirt as it IS
oosened by the alkali. Then, too, the
process is assisted by the curious prop
L great agitation among solid particles
in water
This, of course, tends to the ready
removal of the dirt after it has been
from the surface, and it is |
his action that chemists have pointed
,ut as being one of the elements of the
cleansing power of soap.
'The evil of excessive tea drinking"
says an authority, 'is the leaving the
ga to stew instead of using the fresh
nfusion.' The theme and other de-
'irable constituents are extracted with
n few minutes, and the ignorant be-
ief that it takes long sleeping to get
he dietetic value of the leaf and. that
he teapot can with impunity be left
on the hob all day, are what really
INJURIES teas fair fame, for the tannin
md the resin, the sole deleterious prop
rites of the leaf, are so obtained, and
20 only. says Woman's Life.
In China the natives, who drink tea
I'll day long. use the mandarin tea,
which looks somewhat like q sheaf of
wheat, dipping it into boiling water ,
md allowing it to remain until the lat
er is slightly discolored; in Japan,
where also it is drunk all day .Sag It
s never made as strong as it is in this
ountry; in Russia, a great tea-drinkingl
ountry, the leaves are STEPPED for only ,
our or five minutes. and then the