The National tribune., 1907-03-07

If you have many short-stemme(
flowers to arrange 1t is well to fill {
low dish with damp moss, then with {
sharp stick dibble holes in the moss ant
insert the stems When the flowers
have faded the moss may be dried ant
> used again. Pansies show to better
advantage in this way than in an!
other
; Do YOU wish to make cruel for s
4 sick friend? Take cornmeal and sift i
into quart of boiling water. stirring
it until it is of the consistency of cream
Add salt to flavor and let it simmer fol
half an hour or longer; then run il
thru fine sieve. Have in bowl {
little cream or rich milk. Pour youl
i boiling cruel into it, and you have {
drink sick person ought to relish.
White suede gloves may be cleaned
by using dry pipe clay and an old tooth
brush. White cloth such as is worn
on military uniforms can be cleaned ir
the same way. Wet the clay and rul
it vigorously. 1t will make an awful
looking mess at first, and you will think
! that YOU have ruined the cloth, but just
I rinse out the brush and scour the cloth
1 with fresh water and it will come out
I looking all right.
There are homes in which you are
always conscious of your bounden duty
! to conform to rules You feel that You
must get up to a o'clock breakfast
when you have been accustomed to in
| dulSe in morning maps until 9: you can
not don your wraps and Saunter out
! to enjoy an hour or two in an art gal
I lery or a library of rare books. where
one wants to invite ones own soul for
/ ~ nyDll IN oh
tous hostess urging you to wait till she
| has ordered luncheon SO that she may
go with you and tell you all about
them"
There are homes where the rules are
not flexible because the makers of them
are cast-iron people. but there are 9TH
ers where they lack elasticity simply
| from the famiiy's want of tact in pleas
| ing those whom they are anxious to
| please.
The really hosuitable house is the one
where the guest has been asked to come
| in order that she may be given an un-
usual pleasure, and where, for the time
being, all the uncomfortab BILE require
ments of her individual home are set
aside for a bohemian freedom and un-
accountability
The young married hostess may
chaperon without monopolizing the call
ers of her girl guests. She sees these
callers frequently in general society. and
on many occasions for a chat, while the
visitor, of whom they are also old
friends. is only in town for a brief stay
and often groans inwardly at having
to sit in enforced silence while her hos
pitable hostess rattles away the precious
moments
The visitor. like the editor can stand
a good deal of letting alone. OF course.
if she be what is called born sight
seer" one who must be taken from the
crown of the Liberty Statue to the roof
garden crushes, she will not want to be
let alone, or to let anyone else alone.
To be Indifferent about a guests en-
joyment is the grossest evidence os i'll
breeding and callous feeling, after ex-
tending an invitation, but far too few
people understand the exquisite spirit
of hospitality underlying the greeting
of the Spanish hostess. when she so
graciously says, THE house is yours,
senorita."
If the present-day woman has really
made up her mind to permanently oc-
cupy the platform, why in the name of
humanity does she not go into training
for that sort of thing? We know what
high authority called a sweet, low voice
IAN excellent thing in woman" but
Shakspere made his escape long be-
US. and his ears had only the expert
ence of short-distance exercises. If he
was compelled to sit often in public as
semblies and either have his ear drum
benumbed by voice cracking and
breaking all up in its attempt to wrestle
with unusual acoustics or strain everyi
nerve and faculty to understand some
woman's pantomime play, he would be
inclined to say to some of our lady
orators: Get thee to a nunnery or any
place where you may take few needed
lessons in voice culture and public
speaking" And if the ladies would
take his advice the debt which the hui
man family owes the great master
would be considerably increased.
Are your children in SCHOOL, Do you
know what they are studying and how
far along they are? Have you visited
their school? Do you know how mich
light they have In the school room or
anything about it's ventilation, or how
many children are in the same room
with them? Perhaps they do not get
on well and their complaints against
the teacher are loud and long. Have
you investigated the matter, or do you
think the blame is all on one side? A
visit to the school might reveal what
sort of person the teacher is and why
there is friction between her and your
children. If the children have work
to do at home, do you know If and how
they do it? Do you give your school
boys and girls nourishing, carefully pre-
p3red food. or do you let them havel
anything that Is at hand? Do you see
that they are early in bed and that they
have plenty of sleep2 Are you watch
full that some time every day Is given
to outdoor play? And have you searched
and discovered the little ambition every
boy and girl cherishes, and, If 1t is a
reasonable one, are you pleasing them
and gaining their confidence by foster
ing and encouraging it? What of these
questions, mothers, some or all of them ?
The wedding ring is almost invariably
placed on the fourth finger of the left
hand, and all because many centuries
ago the Egyptians believed that a GER
tain small artery proceeded directly
from the heart to the termination of
that digit In the "Attick Nights we
read: 'The motion of this artery may
be felt by touching this finger TO the
pulse, it being an index in cases OF sick
ness, or where persons are weary or
heart is overburdened or offended"
Further on in the same article he says:
This finger rarely hath gout on ac-I
count of the sympathy and neighbor-
hood 1t hath with the heart. 1t is the
first finger that a newborn babe is able
to move, and the last of which the dy-
ing man loseth control. 1t is also the
one last to swell when the vital heat is