THE AMERICAN HOME. HUIT It IN Probably AfFe«'trd by tbe Apartment Iloime 11 li It* .Modern Appliance. I have no mind to harrow up the tninds of my readers with any explica tion of the miseries and mysteries that confront the average housekeeper in t lie daily maintenance of a simple but com putable existence for her family; as lor herself, an existence at all seems H struggle which at times she would gladly give over. One might define a heroine as the average American wom an who does her own housekeeping. Hut some hint of the unnatural and un happy state of affairs existing at pres tnt may be deduced from the consid eration of two economic facts. First, woman is, by nature, a home founder tind a home maker. This is not intended an assertion of personal belief, but fis a statement of scientific fact. It was woman —not man who opened the industrial world; it was woman who made the first rude dwellings, and dressed skins, and wove textiles for GIRL FOR A RAINY DAY. A Clever and Sensible Idea for the Progressive Woman 'Who "Wantß to Keep Dry. A busy woman In New York whose time Is so occupied with charity and social duties that every day finds her forced out of doors, no matter what the weather may be, has long be*-n in a dilemma over a costume that would exactly fill her Betds. The short rainy-day skirt would not do at all, for, while it would answer IP' ~ buttons and tAbi \ \ \ onoufside.; \ » V^SVSSSVS^S \ S Ki'rl* w'lTh ar>4 . // \ \on inner 3>ide. y » \ // * '» // / v \ y \ for plodding through the streets on a wet day, it was quite Inappropriate for a «o cial hour. The difference would be particularly marked if the day had cleared and the sun come out. This woman now gets over the difficulty with a clever arrangement of tabs and buttons, or rings and tapes. The tabs are more satisfactory than the tapes, and therefore ÜBed more often. There are five tabs. These have a single buttonhole at the very ends and are buttoned to the gown. Two buttons extend below them. Thus, without difficulty, the gown can be shortened and let down again to conventional length. MARTHA HOUK. clothing. It was woman, and not man, vho made the first fire, and the first utensils for cooking, and the first rude tools for industrial ends. All her ac tivities clustered about the hearth ami ministered to the home, if the woman end the work had not reacted upon eachotherso that, to-day, women should be by nature home makers and home lovers, there are still depths for the scientists a 1 / J I3: 1 S: 112 t' ; ; CALF-FEEDING STANCHION, the shoulder shown at the top. When the calves are small, the opening be tween Nos. 1 and 2 should be four inches; as the calves grow and it be comes necessary to enlarge the space at t.he bottom, bore another hole through the sill at the base of No. 2, so that it can be set back five inches from No. 1, The fastenings at the top may also be arranged so that the space between up rights may be enlarged to accommo date the growth of the animal. Up right pieces Nos. 3 an«l tj should bt nailed to the front of the horizontal pieces so that they will not interfere with the free swing of Nos. 2 and 5. Kural New Yorker. UNSEASONED TUBS. LarKe (luaiitltleH of Really tiuod Hot ter Are Spoiled by Their t»e All Over the Country. A great many unseasoned butter tubs are being marketed by one or two firms, which ought to be in better busi ness, but which somehow in the com petition between them do not exercise the care they formerly manifested iu all their manufactures. Of course, it will be said of the guilty concerns that it is some one else that is turning out such fresh material, but investigations show that the concerns in question ought to be in better business if they desire to maintain any sort of reputa tion for honest, decent goods. In writ ing on this phase of the question to the New York Produce Review, a Mr. Dodge says among other things: "All the trouble that I have had in the past three years has been from sappy green wood, and the trouble can only be overcome by having the wood thoroughly dry and fit for use. There is nothing manufac tured, that is made out of wood, until the wood is properly seasoned. I see no reason why this should not follow as regards butter tubs." No reason what ever, except the rapacity and narrow greed of some of these manufacturers. It makes a great difference in the price of butter that is not packed in first class and thoroughly seasoned tubs 01 those raw and fresh. Tubs may look all right on shipment, but after the buttei has been in transit to market, the de fects become apparent and the goods are reported as off, affecting top quo tation*. Butter-makers should exer cise the greatest care in such matters, and if possible make such concerns sign a contract to make good any losses sustained through want of properly seasoned tubs. There is no excuse fot it any more than there is for any othet kind of fraud. —Prairie Farmer. ORCHARD AND GARDEN. Plant out plenty of small fruits. To grow large onions from seeds sow very early. Fine, well-rotted manure used as toj dressing will help make the garder grow. One of the best preventives of mil dew on plants is powdered lime dustec 011 them. Commence the cultivation in the gar den as soon as possible after the plant ing is done. Growth in the garden may Vie stim ulated by early, thorough and contin ued cultivation. Allow no fruit to grow on strawberry plants the first season. Pick off ul! buds and blossoms. Of the different kinds of fruit goose berries will give the best yields of any when no care is given. Pull up any weeds that may have started in the strawberry bed, but dc not disturb the mulch. Do not let the plants in the seed bed prow too thickly or they will grow tal! and spindling and be weak. One advantage with sjsring setting out of strawberry plants is that it is the surest way of securing a good stand. Place a circle of cardboard two or three inches high around the tomato plants when set out, to protect them against cutworms. Plant grapes where the vines may be exposed to the rays of the sun all day. This is better than shade.-—St* Louis Republic. ftoo Reward fIOO. The read era of this paper will be pleosed to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure 111 all its stages, and that ts Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building tin the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its cura tive powers that they oft'er One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Not a Lawyer. "Now," said the lawyer who was conduct ing the cross-examination, "will you please state how and where you first met this man?" "I think," said the lady with the sharp nose, "that it was — " "Never mind what you think," interrupted the lawyer. "We want facts here. We don't care what you think, and wo haven't any time to waste in listening to what you think. Now, please tell us where and when it was that you first met this man." The witness made no reply. "Come, come," urged the lawyer. "I de mand an answer to my question." Still no response front the witness. "Your honor," said the lawyer, turning to the court,"l think I am entitled to an answer to the ques tion I have put.""The witness will please answer the question," said the court in im pressive tones. "Can't," said the lady. 'Why not?" "The court doesn't care to hear what I think, does it?" "No." "Then there's no use questioning me any further. I am not a lawyer. I can't talk without thinking." So they called the next witness. —Cleveland Leader. The American Navy, Cuba and Ha waii. A portfolio in ten parts, sixteen views in each part, of the finest half-tone picture* of the American Navy, Cuba and Hawaii has just been published and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway has made arrangements for a special edition for the benefit of its patrons and will furnish the full set., one hundred and sixty pictures, for one dollar. In view of the present excite ment regarding Cuba these pictures are very timely. Send amount with full address to Geo. H. Heafford, General Passenger Agent C., M. & St. P. Ry., Chicago, 111. Danger n f Reviving Memories. Jeweler —You say your wife's a musician? T should think something in the form of a lyre would please her. Customer —Did you ever try to explain at two o'clock in the morning? Then how can you suggest such a thing? Jewelers' Weekly. Cousrhlnir Leads to Consumption. Kemp's Balsam will stop the Cough at once. Goto your druggist to-day and get a sample bottle free. Large bottles 25 and 50 cents. Go at once ; delays are dangerous. Owner Wanted. During the past week some one has left seven pounds of gold-dust in an oyster can in our office, and it has been kicking around under foot ever since. If the owner does not call and take it it way within a week we shall heave it into the back yard. This office is no junk shop.—Klondike Hustler. Shake Into Vonr Shoes Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It cures painful, swollen, nervous, smarting feet and instantly takes the sting out of corns and bunions. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Allen'sFoot-Easemakes tight or new shoes feel easy. It is a certain cure for sweating, callous and hot, tired, ach ing feet. Try it to-day. Bold by all druggists and shoe stores, 250. Trial package FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Comment. Maud—Cholly hasn't been quite himself, of late. Rose —No? I hadn't noticed any improve ment. —Puck. Lane's Family Medicine. Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache. Price 25 and 50c. Every woman has nooks and corners about the house in which to hide things that her husband can never find.—Washington Dem ocrat. To Cnre a Cold In One Day- Take Laxative Rromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c. A woman licks the envelope to make the stamp stick, and the man licks the stamp.— Washington Democrat. Fits stopped tree and permanently cured. No fits after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Free $2 trial bottle & treatise. Dr. Kline. 933 Arch st., Phila., Pa. Take care of your pennies and some one will come along with a scheme to take care of your dollars for you.—Chicago News. I believe Piso's Cure for Consumption saved my boy's life last summer. —Mrs. Allie Douglass, Leßov, Mich.. Oct. 20, '94. People who can't buy things good enough in their own town often are the poorest dressed. ONB ENJOYS Both tho method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to tho taste, and acta gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses tho sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50 cent bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on haud will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIO SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. LOUISVILLE. *r. HEW tOHK. ILt. DOCTORS DON'T DENY IT. The frank testimony of a famous physician. When T>r. 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This is the universal result of the diseases, and sores of long standing, old administration of your Sarsaparilla. Jt ulcers, chronic rheumatism, and many is without exception, the best blood puri. other like forms of disease have yielded to fier with which lam acquainted." the persevering use of Dr. Ayer's Sarsapar ilia after other medicines had utterly failed. There is no other sttnilar medicine can The testimonials received from physicians show a similar record. Others have imi. to the value of this remedy would fill a tated the remedy. They can't imitate the volume. Here isone leaf signed by Kich'd record. Dr. Ayer's Sarsaparilla has the H. Lawrence, M. D., Baltimore, Md. friendship of the physician and the favor of the family, because it cures. It fulfill# "It affords me pleasure to bear testimony all promises made for it. It has healed to the success which your preparation of thousandsof people of the most malignant Sarsaparilla has had in the treatment of diseases that can mutilate mankind, cutaneous and other diseases arising from Nothing has ever supe reeded it and noth a vitiated condition of the blood. Were it ing ever will until a medicine is mads necessary. I might give you the names of that can show a record of cures greater in at least fifty individuals who have been number and equal in wonder to thosa cured of long standing complaints simply wrought by Dr. Ayer's Sarsaparilla. Dr. by the administration of Dr. Ayer's Sarsa- Ayer's Curebook. a story of cures told by pa-rilla. One very remarkable instance the cured, is sent free on request by the wasthatof a quiteold woman who had lived J. C. Ayer Company, Lowell, Mass. Write at Catonsville, near this city. She had been . for it. From Tw» Side*. MnNi'iillne Morality. "My son," said the philosopher, "yoti Because a man fools away a great deal of know the adage, don't you? Never put all money is no sign of immorality. Many it your eggs in one basket. Then if an accident man has spent all he earned all his life whose happens only a portion of them will lie idea of a highly wicked time was to cbuck broken. So with your mouey. Don't put it a girl under the chin.—Atchison Globe. all in one bank." * "Yes," returned the son, who knew a few We often wondcrwhat some women wonid things, too, "but in scattering your money do if they couldn't talk.—Washington Dero around among banks you only increase the ocrat. chances of getting left by cashiers." —C'hica- . , : —• : —,. go Evenine News A mans way of expressing his utter coiv ————• tempt for a thing is by saying he wouldn't He Courted Failure. give a chew of tobacco for it. Isaacs—Do you tink marriage vos a vail- ~ " T~* . lire' Nine times out of ten a woman ts prompter Abrams— So hellup me if I dit, Ivouldged 5° P a - V a debt than a man.— Washington married domorrows.—Up-to-Date. Democrat. Nobody likes a woman who eats more than Many people pet up early and do nothix>f a man. —Washington Democrat. else all day.—V\ nshington Democrat. MKS. PINKHAiI TALKS ABOUT "CHANGE OF LIFE." Women are Urged to Prepare for this Wonderful Revolution In the Economy of Their Life Blood—Mrs. Watson Tells How She Was Helped. *T*"*""irTf *""~?Fl 11 11 no t ' me woman more liable t© T| j 1 : &:: i: physical and mental dangers with houra I > 11111-x::t; of suffering 1 tiian at the "Turn of Life." ;+ ; Tb«i great want in woman's system ia - + - abK>ij"to properly adjustitself to the new "l" "S? con ditions. The outlet, monthly, of blood :±: ■+ ■ is now being diminished and carried into - p P ;+ ; the bodjr for the supply food of its later ; 5 ;t : Daughters, you can now to some extent jt - repay your mother'searlycare. She must FY yy pwL. IT; be spared every possible exertion. Yon ~ /.V ;t; must helpherbear herburdensandanxie \- + - ties. This critical time safely over,she will J- - a - re t urn to renewed health and happiness. ■- - - ;T ; That so many women fail to anticipate ;;;; '" /[ >3 merely to lack of care, but to igno -'-ft II ranee. There is, however, no excuse J I f° r ignorance when experienced a"KKE on mention of this publication TUB I>H WHITKHAI.I. MKIiItIMINK Co. South Demi, lndt»»». l'ff~ if you are troubled with any form of DYSrEPSIA fALLUP'S DYSPEPSIA TABLETS aff n POSITIVE' wstt VMB as a Di«estive. 2. r ,c and 50c boxen, l>v mail on receipt of price. ~ IRII CAYALOGUIt. W.H.CEAWITOkO M CO., laahvt)!*, W 7