The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-08-05
For the Women to Think About
Written Especially for The Reformer by Lydia Eliot

We often wish that the ice would keep
longer in the water pitcher,aor that cold
water. without ice, would remain at the
low temperature instead of growing warm
so soon. Among useful suggestions given
by the Woman's Home Companion, we
find the following:
place between two sheets Of thick
brown paper a layer of cotton batting
about half an inch in thickness: fasten
the ends of the paper and batting to-
gether forming a circle, then sew or
paste a crown cover over one end max
ing box the shape OF stovepipe hat
minus the rim. Place this over an ordin'
AIRY pitcher filled with ice water, making
il deep enough to rest on the table so
as to exclude the air, and you will be
astonished to see the length of time that
the ice will keep and the water remain
cold after all the ice has melted.
This works out all right. However,
a paper should be folded and laid ON the
table and plate placed on this for the
pitcher to stand on, which prevents the
ing on the outside of the pitcher and
running down. A more substantial pitch
er cover is made by lining a circular hat
box of proper height with the cotton and
paper Mineral wool or asbestos is supe-
rior to cotton for inlaying for this pur-
pose. The simplest plan is really excel
lent.
A member of the national society of
United States Daughters of 1872, state of
Vermont, hands us the following: 1T
is interesting to note that two soldiers
from Brattleboro, J. Wilson Landers and
J. Freeman stood on deck with Com
mander Decatur when he captured the
Macedonian, Oct. %, 1872 History
states this fact. Does any reader Of this
about the incident and the part taken by
these men? If so. it would be worth
while to tell the rest of us.
Since old Colonial times the thorough
ness of the New England housekeeper has
been a proverb She has set mark of
excellence for the whole country to attain
and her fame has gone out beyond the
seas. Notwithstanding all this, it has
been borne in upon my credulity that
even in panstaking New England there
are certain dodgers whose nights are made
restless and miserable by a tiny pest
which in vulgar phrase is known as the
bed bug. 1t is needless to give its name
in any dead language. Where it exists
it is apt to be known by the name already
given. August is one of the months in
which it's activities are especially annoy
ing. 1t is found, not merely in homes
of the ignorant, but in dormitories OF
some higher educational institutions, in
sleeping apartments of certain penal and
reformatory institutions, and in lodgings
which should be the most sanitary. Is
it not remarkable that these disgusting
tormentors should be tolerated when with
care, and the regular use of perfectly
harmless, non-poisonous powders they are
readily disposed of? There is no known
reason why any one need submit to init
mate association with these pests in Aug
ust of the year 1910. This word is
good one to pass along.
The woman who would not wish to
possess a chanticler hat may carry sug-
gestion of its popularity in her hat pins.
There are cheap ones, enameled, and also
jeweled hatpins with pheasants, ROSTERS,
and owls heads and combs and feet galore
Some of these pins are three inches long
from claws to comb. Occasionally one is
seen looking as if ready for the morning
crow Often a side view is shown.
Enamel is quite as popular as rhinestones
in hatpins. Owls heads as large as silver
dollars are shown. A set of three is not