NEW COTILLON FAVORS. Silk Kltilion and Wootl Have Taken tbe I'lncf of the Crape I'nper mid ChlfToii »112 I.iihl W inter. Cotillon favors for the coming spring end summer cotillons, says the New York Herald, have all been arranged by the expert* at home and abroad. Crepe paperand chiffon of the last season have "gone out" and silk ribbon and wood have taken their places. Ileal golf sticks, balls, etc., will be a feature of the cotillon season. Spangled satin sashes are another novelty in the favor field. Those have ( the true Parisian touch to them and are made of ribbon of every conceivable evening hue. Double-faced sat.in rib bon eight to ten inches wide is used, and each sash requires at least two yards and a half. They are tied, for the convenience of the maiden who re ceives one, in a h#ge bow, with very long ends, and the proper thing will be for the girl to slip them on her arm while she is dancing. Two "nouveautes" that will be used •re exceedingly grotesque. Both are cotillon dollies of small size. For the girls there is the powder puff doll. This little manikin is made of beeswax, a nail file and a powder puff. A lump of beeswax moOt-led into a ml Ii m -SLj" THE SHOE THREAD DOLL. pretty doll's face is used for the head. A tiny cap is put upon it. The head to the waist position is the nail file and below is the powder puff covered with a skirt of flowered calico or cambric. More amusing by far, however, is the rtioethread spool doll the men will get. The head of this doll is the back of the bowl of a pipe with a face painted on it end a cap of calico tied about the face. The stem of the pipe is fitted down into the hole that goes through the center of the spool, which is cut out as much as possible. Over the spool a skirt of calico is fitted and over the pipe stem, just below the bowl, is a kerchief of white. At once there it a jolly-looking Old woman in view. FURNISHING A HOME. The Very E»»ence of K!«-Rnni-e, Sa>-a Mr. Iluk, Liea In the Simplicity of Arruiitteiuent. "There is no idea more wantonly er roneous than that it requires a liberal expenditure of money to have a com fortable and artistic home," writes Ed ward YV. Bok in Ladies' Home Journal. "The very essence of elegance lies in simplicity, it is not art to make a par lor the duplicate of an exhibition room in a furniture store. That simply calls lor an outlay of money and a failure to exercise taste. There is no tone in such a room, no air of repose, no comfort, no individuality. It speaks for what it is, an exhibition. True art in furnishing is found in allowing a home to slowly develop under the tastes of those who live in it—the adoption of an idea here, another there. The development of taste requires time and cultivation. So Louse worth living in can be completed at one time. A home of comfort un folds itself, so to speak, and unfolds slowly. True improvement comes in this way, and only in this way. Young married people cannot bear this fact in mind too strongly when furnishing their homes." Cooklnjc Fruit* for Children. "Baked apples may be used where they agree with children, and a raw scraped apple may be given," writes Mrs. S. T. Korer on "Proper Cooking for the Nursery," in the Ladies' Home Journal. "Bananas should always be cooked, unless they are very ripe and the skins quite black. To bake a ban ana nicely you should have a porcelain or granite baking-dish. Strip the 6kins from the bananas, place them in a dish, sprinkle over a tablespoonful of sugar; add four or five tablespoon!'uls of water, and bake in a quick oven for twenty minutes, basting once or twice. Serve warm. Blackberry jam, if prop erly made, is quite an important uurs ery food." Improving a llclnxed Skin. When the skin has a tendency to be coarse and greasy, overheated rooms should be avoided and the pleasure of sitting over the fire should not be in dulged in. To tighten the skin and close the enlarged pores make a lotion thus and apply it once or twice a day after washing the face: Infuse a quar ter of an ounce of dried rose petals (which can be obtained from any large drug store) in two ounces of pure white wine vinegar for twenty-four hcurs; strain through muslin, squeeze the petals well and add two ounces of rectified spirits of wine and eight ounces of rosewater.—B&iladelphla Ledger. Some women ry themselves gray trying to look young. NEAT TAFFETA STOCK. With One Yard of Good* Yon Cau Make a Very KtTeetive One to Match Your Gown. To make a very showy taffeta stock get one yard of taffeta to match your gown. Cut it in two strips lengthwise and sew the ends together. Line throughout with white ribbon. I'pon "U'» / A TAFFETA STOCK. the ends sew white needlework em broidery, or if you choose you can pro cure fringe or chiffon ruffling. A standing collar must be worn with this stock, which is tied around the neck. Tie in one loop and two ends, and pull the loop through until it hangs almost as long as the short end. This will be found very useful all summer to wear with the gown it matches. HOME CALISTHENICS. The Ilmt Time for AthletlcN of Any Description In Itlulit After the MornliiK Tub. Every girl ought to be able to let hei elbows meet at the back, though few can manage it, says a writer in Leisure Hours. No girl should use dumbbells without skilled advice as to the weight they should be. Much harm has beec done by overworking the muscles ir calisthenic exercises, and there are so called professors of the art who dc more harm than good. Sometimes th( weight of the heads is too great, and very often the exertion is much to< arduous. Delicate girls suffer very much front overdoing even ordinary exercise anc the very strongest must feel theii strength impaired by too lavish ust of any one set of muscles. The best time for practicing these exercises is im mediately after the morning tub. Thej improve the circulation and prevent the tendency of stooping, which almosj every 6-ne experiences who never doe? any gymnastic work, brace the mus cles, benefit the figure and impart tht graceful, erect carriage which should distinguish veery athletic- and sport loving English woman. Only ten min utes should be the ItAilt. SUMMER STOCKINGS. The PliiKza Girl May He I'nrdc»ned if She PermltM u I'iinnliik Gllmime of Theiu. Stockings are so gaudy this year that the summer girl will lie cruel in deed if she hides them beneath her vol uminous skirts. One style of summer stockings has plaid legs, and above b & SUMMER GIRL'S STOCKINGS. dark blue top. These are of cotton and are inexpensive and popular. Anothci variety is in silk embroidered in colors The showiest of these is in gray sills embroidered in carnations. Another style is in blue and whit« traced along up and down the leg, witfc figures embroidered around the leg. The heels and toes are in solid colors. Itevlvnl of Corul Jewelry. Queen Margherita of Italy intends tc be seen a good deal this season wearing coral jewelry, in order to encourage ar industry which of late years has some what fallen upon evil days. It would not be surprising if the fashion wen to spread to London, as coral is becom ing to almost any complexion, and can of course, be had in any shade, from i rose pink so delicate as to be almost imperceptible up to a vivid red. If s revival of the dainty old filigree setting should also set in, the outcome shouic mean some pretty things of a kind that would be quite a novelty to the girli of to-day. I'Hclflc Lolixtera. On the southern coast of California is found a species of large lobster not furnished with the huge "shearing claw" of the Atlantic lobster, and which ia now being shipped to points this side of the Bocky mountains. It is known as the Bermuda lobster because it \yas formerly common at the Bermuda is lands, although now it is said to have become nearly extinct there. —YouUs'e Companion, CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1898. MILK BOTTLE RACK. lluw to I>o Annj with the I'oHMilillltj of Conveying; Itim-ane by Mean* of Mottle*. There has been considerable talk in Philadelphia relative to the efforts of some to have the bottling of rnilk stopped and to —•••irn to the old dip milk system of delivery. The objec tions advanced were that, as the bottles go from house to house, and as disease and contaminating influences may sur round the bottles in some of the many plaees where they are delivered, they might be the carriers of disease. This objection is by no means a bad one, and everyone handling milk in bottles should see that proper.precautions are taken to avoid trouble from this source. At least 90 per cent, of the milk handled in bottles to-day runs considerable risk in this direction, as the general custom \ x \\ x 0 \\v V id A*\t\ n v \\ xxv A{ ry * x\\ % \ mJj b * l 11 \ u\ \ iBwL Jx \ \\Sy .Vi * \ X \ \ OM/ RACK FOR MILK BOTTLKS. is simply to collect the bottles promis cuously, get them all into a tub of soaped water of some character, wash one bottle after another with the same brush, put them in a rinse water all to gether, then into the cases, and put the dirty covers down, leaving the bottles open and giving opportunity fur the dust and dirt from the covers or bot toms of the old cases to drop into the bottles. With just a little mo.; trouble and with but a very slight expense the bot tles can be so handled that there need be no trouble whatever from any of the objections offered lu the line of the bottles being possible carriers of dis ease germs. Every dairy, no matter how small, is incomplete without the use of steam, and when a dairy is equipped with this it is but a little more expense to have a sterilizer built. This need be only a simple wooden struc ture, and be made to suit the space at hand. It can be so arranged that, as the bottles are brought in, they can im mediately be putin the sterilizer, care having been taken that the bottles have been carefully rinsed at the places where they have been collected, by the customers. After the bottles have been sterilized they can then be washed in the alkaline hot water and then rinsed in two other waters, great care being taken in the last rinse water used; this should be frequently changed. After the bottles are rinsed they should again be placed in the sterilizej and subsequently aired and sunned just as milk cans are treated. A system by which the dust is kept out and the air allowed to circulate freely is by the use of a rack as shown in the cut. This bottle rack may be so made that it can be run right into the sterilizer; thence the bottles can be easily putin good circulating air and then brought to the most convenient place for filling. This rack may be made to hold 400 bottles, or less or more if necessary. With these precautions the possibility of con veying disease through the medium of the bottles is very slight, and the dairy man will find that the increased con fidence placed in him by his customers will help his trade materially.—Rural New Yorker. HORTICULTURAL HINTS. The English ivy does not harm a tree on which it grows. See if a little less vateron irrigated land will not be better. Fruit when placed in cold storage should be firm and hard. Sprinkling plants with water, when frost is expected will protect them. Pears to be putin cold storage should be picked before they begin to ripen. Watermelons ought not to be grown on the same ground oftener than three years. The grape vine trained to a single stake has never done its best in our ex perience. Tomatoes are so hardy that they may be transplanted even after the fruit begins to set. if grapes have been planted too close ly and become too thick, better take out every other vine. The man who gives plants of all kinds plenty of room and heroically thins his fruit, will get the best re sults. — Western Plowman. Art of Milkluv Com. In the first place, brush off the cow's bag dry and clean, but gently. Next see that your own hands are clean; use soap and warm water. Do not wet the cow's teats, certainly not by dipping your fingers in the milk as you proceed. It is a bad and intolerable habit. Do not converse with anybody, especially another milker; it will hinder you, or both, and it disturbs the cow. Never strike a cow; speak low and gently to her; she is responsive to kindness. .Never feed her just before milking; that is to say, while you are milking. Feed her before milking, and wait un til she Is done feeding; she will stand quieter. One thing at a time. Milk her as quickly as possible and as clean as possible, but be careful not to hurt her teats. Give her a name and always call her by that name. These are small hints, but it pay* to heed them.— At. Louis liepublic. No lark of Attention. Miss New— l can't get my watch to keep time properly. Jeweler—Perhaps it needs regulating. "Surely not. I move the regulator over the entire scale every day."—J welers' Weekly. Public CloeUs. Few great cities of America are mU lately provided with public clocks of such a size and so prominent location as to indicate the time over wide metropolitan districts. But it is high time to cheek kidney and bladder complaint manifested to the sufferer by in activity of the organs affected. Hostetter's Stomach Hitters remedies this as it does dys pepsia, rheumatism, constipation, bilious ness and nervousness. Why lie StTieU It On. "It strikes me, Mr. Brief," said Mr. Dog way, "that your charge of $750 for this opin ion is pretty steep." "No doubt," said Air. Brief. "Rut you see, Dogway, when you come and ask me for an opinion which violates all my convic tions, you've got to pay not only for your law, but for my conscience."—Harper's Bazar. VIIMI llewnril SIOO. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science lias been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a L-oustitutional 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 up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its cura tive powers that they offer 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, 75e. Hall's Family Pills are the best. A Half Memory. Teacher —Who discovered America?" Street Gamin (after deep thought)—l dis remember his name, but he was a Dago.— N. Y. Weekly. Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot-Ease, a piowder 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's Foot-Ease makes tight or new shoes feel easy. 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