MISTRESS AND MAID. The Servant Trouble In In a Larjje Measure Due to the Inefflcieney of llouaieivive*. "I have always believed thoroughly that at the bottom of much of the serv ant trouble lies the inetlieiency of the average housewife," writes Helen Wat terson Moody, in the Ladies' llome Journal. "How is it possible that an ignorant servant, though willing, should become capable, except through such training as a skilled mistress can give her, or how can a most efficient maid live up to her own ideals under a mistress who, having 110 training, and therefore 110 standards of her own, must be lacking in understanding and appreciation of the work of others'. 1 And yet if you ask almost any house keeper to define a good servant she will tell you it is one who relieves her from care and responsibility. What would be thought of the head of a banking house who estimated his employes sole ly accordingly to their ability to relieve him of the duties that properly belong to himself? The banker values a clerk w ho is able to obey orders intelligently, and upon whose fidelity he can rely, but he does not expect him to do his thinking for him. You see, the trouble with us, as mistresses, is largely that we want to be relieved of Hit; responsi bility that comes with home making, instead of accepting it as our chief con cern in life, studying it as we would any other profession, meeting all requirements with skill and knowl edge, and seeing, back of all the trying and petty details, the dignity and value of the work we are doing. 1 do not wish to seem to undervalue the diffi culties of the profession. It is not an easy one; it is the hardest one I know, and it is often filled with details that are neither pleasant nor dignified. Ilut so are the professions of medicine, of journalism, of law, and even the min istry." THE ART OF COOKING. It ln ln Knonlns How to Prepare One Dish tn a Hundred Ap petizing W ays. "No more should be cooked than is in tended to be eaten at one meal, says Mrs. Lemcke, the cooking expert. The true art of cooking lies not in cooking large pieces of meat, or in cake, bread and pastry baking, but in how to pre pare one kind of meat and fish in a hundred different ways, how to utilize everything so that nothing is wasted and to convert all that may be left from one meal to savory and palatable dishes for the next; to combine herbs, spices, onion, chives and garlic in such a way that all the ingredients are harmonious ly blended, that nothing predominates; that vegetables retain their natural flavors and are not spoiled by the in gredients added; that meat is cooked in such a way that nothing of its nu tritious value is lost. A great deal of the unhappiness of this world is due to poor food. Drunkenness, which is a craving for stimulating and intoxicat ing drinks, is a certain consequence of an injudicious diet. If all our women were better acquainted with the ele ments of the human system they would then know that 110 one can keep in good health unless these elements receive the proper nourishments to supply the waste of tissue. BELTS FOR SUMMER. They Will He Slightly Wirier nnd More Elaborate 'l'lian T !»<►*«' Worn JLitKt Sen no n. Belts will be slightly wider this sum mer and in addition to the crushed silk and ribbon effects there will be various designs in skins, such as snake, mon- NEAT SUMMER BELT. key, alligator and goat, while among the metals will be enameled tin, gold, silver and aluminium. A white enameled belt striped with black is quite the smartest thing among the metal belts. The overlapping end is finished in a sharp point and slipped through a strap of enameled tin. The buckle is of solid white enamel, or to vary the design it may be of old gold, bronze or other dark metal. For lOnrly Spring FreeUie*. Take one teaspoonful of powdered borax and dissolve it in one pint of rain water. Add one gill of butter milk. Bathe the face and hands at night before retiring. Use clear cold water next morning and your complex ion will be like satin. This is to be used at once as the mixture will not keep. It is just enough for one appli cation, and is excellent for removing freckles caused by the spring sun. I'an(i 11 u for llrain Worker*. A numbsr of feminine brain work ers have come to the conclusion that they can do better work by going with out breakfast, eating only a light lunch eon and making six o'clock dinner prac tically the only meal of the day. Many of those who haw tried it declare that they have entirely overcome the faint ness that they felt at first, and that they are able to put their faculties to better use tnan ever before. SPORT WAS BEATEN. How n Clilrneo Know-It-Ail Young Man Lout a Ilet of Five I»oIlar« lo a Friend. The individual who is ready to bet on anything, who delights in being thought a "sport" and is ready to back his opinion with money, is sometimes a treat to his friends. One such man was walking along State street yesterday with a friend. The friend was a modest and unassum ing fellow, and when a stylishly dressed young woman passed them in the crowd of shoppers the betting man said: | iUO 9&yyi isp HE SPOKE TO HEB. '•What a beauty!" and his compan' .J j said: "For half a cent I'd s- .to ( her." Then the betting my gan to offer wagers that the other was afraid to address a word to the young woman. His bet of five dollars was taken and the modest man hurried after the lady, lifted his hat and walked beside her to the next corner. When he returned and pocketed the money the crestfallen sport asked what she had said. "Oh, she asked why I wasn't home last night. You see, she's my sister."— Chicago Daily News. MAKES HAIR CROW. Ivt'i ost'nc, So Some \\ owen C laini, I* the IteMt Nenl|t T;mic That Can lie Applied. It has been given out for some time ' by hair specialists that kerosene pro- ! moted the growth of the hair and pre- | vented its falling out. Women as a rule have been loth to try the experi- j merit unless a preparation of deodorized j oil could be found. A woman was found recently who as- j tonished her friends, upon being com- j plimentcd upon the tine appearance oi i her hair, by telling them that it was due entirely to a persistent and thor ough treatment with the familiar kero sene of corner grocery commerce. "I have applied it regularly once a fortnight in the following manner," she said: "A little is poured into a saucer and rubbed with the fingers into the roots of the hair. The application is slow and thorough, the gentle mas sage of the finger tips keeping the pores open for the ;sorption of the oil. "The treatment is mide at night, and my hair is aftt«ward tied up in a silk handkerchief. A silk handkerchief is j recommended by hairdressers as most useful in retaining the natural electriei- j ty of the hair, liy noon the foUowing day 111 e odor of the kerosene i>as (iiss,p- j peared, and in another 12 hours the oili- | nesx that followed its use is gone. "I he effect of this treatment if promptly noticeable. 1 have used no kerosene for two years. The present ' condition of my hair is due to a si* j months' faithful treatment. —X. Y. Herald. CHICKEN TAMALES. Hoiv to Prepare n IMmli Which It j teemeil Quite Highly in Some | I'artM of tile Wet). To make chicken tamales, boil twe pounds of corn and a handful of lime in water enough to cover until the skins of the corn will slip off; then wash the corn and grind it very fine. Boil a large chicken, and mix the liquor in which the chicken was boiled with the ground corn, adding a pound of firm lard and salt to taste. Having boiled a pound of red peppers until soft, remove the seeds and mash the peppers to a pulp; add a garlic button (chopped) and one-half a pound of ground chillies Mix this preparation with the chicken Fill wet corn husks (inner husks) with the mixture, alternately with the meal and chicken, tie up, and biil from'4s minutes to an hour in a gallon of water. When all are half done turn the top ones over. This mixture will make a dozen "hot tamales." Serve hot, with the husks opened, and the tamales piled on a napkin. A more simple process is to use a quart of scalded corn meal instead ol the hulled corn, and a lump of butter the size of a walnut instead of the lard In this case take a lump of the dough pat it out into a thin, fiat cake, put one spoonful of the above chicken mixture on it. roll them together, then roll the tanrale tightly in the corn shucks; tie the ends of the shucks together in a knot to keep the tamales from coming open; these need to boil only about 2( minutes.— Mrs. W. L. Tabor, in Farir and Fireside. CourteMy Wins .>lnny FrleniM, "I know a young girl who is so punc tilious, it is a pleasure to invite her a ny where," said a lady not long since. "She always keeps her appointments to the minute, never forgets her engagements and is always to be depended upon She is very popular with young and old and there is little doubt that she owes much to this praiseworthy attribute. In the matter of invitations the least one can do to show their appreciation of the courtesy extended them is to b« prompt." CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNK 8, 1899 CHICKEN LANGUAGE. rill* ('rl<• M <>f the l'calli'rtil Folk Are Said to lie Comprehensible to Human llelnKS. Chickens speak in a language that human ears learn readily to compre hend. For tlie most part it is instinc | tive. A fuzzy toddler six hours out of the shell has five distinct calls. The first and loudest of them is the lost note, uttered when it loses sight of its mother or finds it-self out in the cold, it is loud and very shrill: "Pee ee-op! Pee-ee-ee-op! Pee-eee-op!" The second, the hunger note, is as shrill, but more plaintive, running somewhat thus: "\cap! Yeeap! \ee eeap!" As soon as eating begins it changes to a sort of satisfied clutter ling: "Wit-wit! Wit-wit! Wit-wit ; weet! * After sating the chicks grow sleepy, and cry to be covered. The ! note is somewhat like that of hunger, j with a peculiar tremolo, breaking it in | the middle: "Yee-pl-leepl! Yee-pl-lee pl!" does not fully represent it, but I comes as near as the limitations of j vowels and consonants admit. The J fifth note, the. cliir-r-r of fright or %s --| tonishment, is the quaintest of fill, i This chir-r develops at last in the grat -1 ing call of warning, at sound of which j from their mother even the youngest | scatter and scutter to cover. Anv ! tiling, a bird, a kite, even a very small passing eloud, sailing in the sky over head, will evoke this warning cry. I.et | one hen sound it, every other will take it up. Often the alarm is a false one, bat centuries of hawks have impressed upon each feathered inind that "danger Cometh out of the nir" and they govern themselves accordingly. Everybody knows how hens cluck to their broods, but it may be news to i many that though a hundred hens may J be clucking in the same inelosure, the : voice of each will be individual and un mistakable to her immediate family. A chick .just out of the nest may not be ! able to discriminate, but let it follow ; for a day and it is past making mis : takes. liven more wonderful is the ; hen's ability to differentiate her brood from all the rest. Upon finding food a hen calls her J chicks somewhat thus: "Co-cu-eo-cu eu-cu-ee!" The rooster calls his wives about him to share in some dainty with nearly the same notes, but deeper and more resonant in the beginning and running at the end into a high treble. There is something clownish in his cackle. lie cackles only to express a pained astonishment, or else by way of chorusing the liens, with whom cackling is a favorite diversion, quite independent of the matter of egg-lay ing. A rooster, especially a gamecock or one of Spanish breed, has a wonder ful variety of crows. By means of them, indeed, he runs the whole gamut of expression—hope, fear, defiance, tri umph. love, hate, rage, vanity and a fine, ineffable conceit. It is the hens without families, though, that are the true barnyard j gossips. Any fine day, outside molt ing time, you may see them standing in groups, their heads close together, | chuckling and chattering like so many ! blackbirds, or else wallowing in light earth, pecking lightly as they scratch ! and wallow, and evidently finding it j good sport to throw dust well over each other. —N. Y. Sun. KEEP THE NESTS CLEAN. A Unruly C'orit ri \nurt- of Chenp Material That 1m Eaxlly Pro cured on Any Far in. Tn the accompanying illustration it is readily seen that the cover for the nests is so constructed tha» the lid is ion an incline and entirely covers the COVERED NESTS, nests, making no place for the fowls to harbor at night. As they are fed in the morning the lid is lowered. In the evening it is simply raised and latched. It needs little explanation and is made of material easily procured on any farm. —Morgan S. Joslin, in .Farm and Home. Making Corn Sloun Sir" Ik lit. It does not pay to make crooked corn rows, despite the well-known old say ing that "the most corn always grows in crooked rows." That is a reminis cence of days when stumps and sV.-tie* obstructed the surface and made it im possible to jo neat work in marking out. A strong horse, easy on the bit, is necessary in doing good work in marking rows. Still more is a clear sight to the nni of the field on the part of the man driving the horse. L'nlups the surface is very uneven four marks can be inarle at once, of which the in side one will follow the mark made in going around last time. This makes Three rows for planting gained ingoing across the field, and six ingoing and returning. It does not take long to mark out a large field in this way. But if the surface is uneven, as most eastern farms are, it is better to mark rows with markers having only three teeth. —American Cultivator. Iteer Made from Water. Beer tabloids are about to be put on the market by a German firm. A small tablet dropped into a glass of water will turn it into beer as fresh as if juat drawn, it is asserted- Rtnupprctlai;. Mr«. Higgfil<-y—Clara, I must insist that fou send young Mr. < J run ley away earlier. It Was long after 11 o'clock last night when rou closed the front door after him. Clara 1 know it, mamma, and I have nade tip my mind a dozen different tur.fs tom ike him leave early, but he has a way, tomehow, of always giving the impression iluiig after the shank of the evening has passed that he is just about to aav some thing nni has been waiting for. It's aw fully exasperating.—-Chicago Evening News. Womnn'H Liidk Salt. "Man was made to mourn," mused the aid man with long white whiskers, "but women seem to have taken the job away from him! By holey, *mt they do enjoy a funeral!"— Kansas City Independent. Itoiii Hnby in I lie llilih Chair to grandma in the rocker Grain O is good foi the whole family. It is the long-desired sub stitute for coffee. Never upsets the nerves or injures the digestion. Made from pure grains it is a food in itself, lias the taste and appearance of the best coffee at i the price. It is a genuine and scientific article and is come to stay. It. makes for health and strength. Ask your grocer for Grain-O. C'onll ietiii|£ Rmotlon*. Mrs. Joy—Oh, John, run for the phy sician. The baby's swallowed yourdiamond stud! Bachelor Brother—Physician be hanged! I'll bring a surgeon.—Jeweler's Weekly. Do Ynnr Keet Aolie mill Iliirnf Shake into your shoes, Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tighter New Shoes feel Easy. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen. Hot, Callous, Sore, and Sweating Feet. All Druggists and Shoe Stores sell it, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. More I iiforma I ion. Tommy—Paw, what do they put water in stock for? Mr. Figg—'To soak the investors with, my son.—lndianapolis Journal. Lane'a l<'amily Medicine. Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick head ache. Price 25 and 50e. Ancient Itoifiieforl Clieese. I; is said that Roquefort cheese dates hack to Pliny's time. Some of it smells as though it were a great deal older than that.—Bos ton Transcript. To Cure n Cold in One Hay Talte Laxative I.rorno Quinine Tablets. All druggists rel uud money i<jt fails to cure. 25c. When n boy comes hoijie with a string of fish, it i> a mean trick to ask him if he caught them all.—Atchison Globe. I believe Piso's Cure for Consumption saved my boy's life last summer. Mr.i. Aliie Douglass, he Roy, Micli., Oct. 20, 'l)4. In talking up a trade with a rea! horse jockey, never close the bargain till the next day.—L. A. W. Bulletin. Every time we meet a school-teacher, we find that we have always been pronounc ing another word incorrectly.—Atchison Globe. Friend—"How is it that you sell so many more bicycles than the other dealers?' lie-uler —"I give free surgical attendance for a year with each wheel.' —N. V. Journal. "Miss IHland—er—l know what I want to say, but—er—l don't know how to ex press myself,' 'began Mr. Homewood. "Ex press yourself, Mr. Homewood," Miss Hi land cut in, "won't the railroad people let you travel as a first-class passenger?"— Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. "Seen Ploddytop teaching his wife to ride for the amateur ladies' handicap?" "Yes. What of it? He's been late at business a very morning since he started it." "Do you know why?" "No." "Well, while he trains his missus of course he misses his train!" —Ally Sloper. Allowances. Airs. Cadger—"They tell me, Henrietta, that your husband is unkind to you." Mrs. Howes—"Yes, John is not very gentle in his manners, I must admit; but there is one thing I will say for him, he never kicks up a rug or creases a tidy."— Boston Transcript. Ousl m Reversed.—Mrs. Amsterdam— "How Willfc lias grown!" Mrs. Columbus —"Yes; isn't it wonderful?" "Why, he's larger than his father." "Yes, indeed: I have to make over Willie's clothes for nis father now."—Yonkers Statesman. C: irvtrristic of the Brute.—Daisy— "1 thought you hated Dick Dashley, and yet 1 saw him hugging you last i.ight." Mnzie (blushing)—" Well, I be lii ve I did say he was a bear."—Kansas City Iml< « udent. Her Work Appreciated.—Hoax "lt seems to m" that the girl Hen peck married is making «im a good wife." Joax —"J.ooks to me more as if she was making him a good husband. He'll soon be a model, I hear."—Philadelphia North American. Some persons are so given over to worry ing that they fret more or less every time the tide goes out for fear it won't come in again. L. A. W. Bulletin. I The I Maid I and the J Miracle Miss Lucy Tucker, the duughtcr of n f\ prominent farmer of Versailles, S3 Inn., was the victim of nervous pros- 51 | tration. Most of the time she was ra confined to bed, and was 011 the verge JB of »st. Vitus' dance. Jt was 11 pitiful H case which medical science failed to ■ Conquer. Finally a doctor prescrib- m fld l»r. Williams' Pink Pills for Palo Eg People. 11 or father said: P "Wo began giving the pi lis at once, M tjj and the next day wo could see a B ■ change for the hotter in her. We H B gave her ono pill after each meal H ■ until she was entirely well. Htao lias B I not been sick a day since. Wo tliina B ■ tho cure almost miraculous. H I "FRANK TUCKER, Mrs. F.TUCKER." 0 I Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tucker, belns 1 duly sworn, stato that the foregoing n W ta truo in every particular. §j? lIDon JoiiNsox, Justice of the Peace. H From the JtcpuOlican, Versailles, Inrf. fi Kj Dc Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People H H are never sold by the dozen cr hundred, KB S but always in packages. At all druggists. &3 9 or direct from the Or. Williams Medicine §9 PI CO., Schenectady, N. Y., 60 cents per Bo*. If Eg 6 boxes $2.60. A Hard Hitter. "P. ripvrs can strike an awful blow." "He doesn't look it." "No, lio doesn't, lie came home late the other nifrh-t. lit was a dark night, i and 1 triffffs was slightly muddled. He j f.»lt around and found he'd lost his key. j Tie knew it wouldn't do any gotxl to 1 ring the liell, so he thought he'd rap j sharply on the door and his wife, lniuht ! hear it. He drew back his right arm j and then let it shiwit out viciously, and, ; bv Jove, his list went right through a panel!" "Yes. It was a screen door!" The Coldest. Yabslev —What was the coldest weather you evi r saw? Murlg'- I don't know. You don't expect, a man to carry a thermometer in his pocket when he is proposing to a heiiess, do you? —lndianapolis Journal. "Look! There's a colored messenger boy, runninir.'' "Sure enough. They ought to advertise him as 'Warranted, fast black.'" —Philadelphia Bulletin. A.yers Sarsaparilla Medicine of Axild Old friends, old icine, and the old doctor are the trusty kinds. For half a century has been the Sarsaparilla which the people have bought when they were sick and wanted to be cured. If the best is none too good for you, you will get Ayer's. One bottle of A y r's Sarsaparilla contains the strength of three of I the ordinary kind. 1 anaMMWMMe MBBBIMKK WB BEFORE THE DAY OF THEY USED TO SAY "WOMAN'S ! WORK IS MEVER DOME." 5 i * FREE HOB tTTITW t,ie Great Grain and M I tirazinif Belts of West- J |'" for " i S3 perlntendent of Immi | k' r;tl '" n ' Ottawa, Can a I INNES. No. 1 Merrill Block, Detroit, Mich. 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