'T 14 I CHRISTMAS MEHO Turkey Is as Inevitable for the Ap proaching Holiday as It Was Thanksgiving Day. . ELLICE BEEEE5A'S SUGGESTIONS. Kinee Pie Ii the Essence of Msrfctmare Onlj When It Is Crowded Full of Fets and Butter. THE U55 OP OIL IN MAKING TASTST. 1 naab rcflJInc TtM 'Will Divert ana Mate Bone, Moscie. Kerrs and Brain. IWErllA rOB THE PISrATCTI.1 LL homes should have bountiful din ners on two holidays of, the year. These are Thanksgiving nnd Christmas. The lat ter, particularly, is associated -with joy and festivity, so no familv that can possibly afford it would think of pacing by the occasion without a fitting reminder in the way of good cheer. And with us the chief "piece of honor" is the turkev. "We can put JiOiUJui WMSftHJ iHwnmTsi mm mm imiiiM d it "(lici r-u'ri rxwrj,nii ruftt. msmtv, ivr tu'i -yJWi WWi'Vi''. J! Vd mrsipir- .A Jbujul O'caston. tip Tlth dnck, chicken or roast haunch at lew Year, bat for Chrisimts it must be turkey and its accompaniments. The Christmas dinner is the one at whioh all the good things so far a possible should be set on the table. Lcs formality is ex pected, and indeed the very informalitr and freedom which add points to domestio re unions and family dinners should, on this occasion, be made the order of the dtsy. Here is the Christmas dinner I would suggest: Christmas aienn. Eaw Oysters. Consomme. BoDed rish. Hzg Sauce. Potato Snow. Rice Croquettes. Boast Tcaltey. Urrad-Crumb Binding. Currant Jelly. Escollopcd Oyster?. Creimed Sw eet Potatoc. Minced Cabbage Etewed Celei-r. MaslicdTnrnlps, Vejl Ss'lad. Salad Cream. Quaking Custnrd. ilmce Tie. F-mt Cake. Xuts. Fniit. Cheese. Colfco. Itow to Jlalw the ConscmmeL First le us consider the ccnomme: Roast a chicken or two until nbout half Cone, or take the remnants of roat chicken. Put Into the stock pot with 3 pound3 of lean beef cut Into pieces about an inch square. Cover with 3 Quarts of cold water. Add fait and remove the scum as it rite. Lei simmer lour hours. Add one raall onio-i, a st tlk of celery, j surfs of paisley, a small c irrot, (all minced) and 1 bay Wf. Simmer o-io hour, strain, and when quite cold remove the fat, and clurily with the whites and shells or effis 1 egg for every quart of stock. 3Iix the white and shells thoroughly with the cold stock and place over tho firs to reheat, fctir continually until tho boiling point It reached: let boil 8 or 10 minute, remove and strain. Ira flrvor is desired add a littlo lemon Juice, ortuin slices oflemon. Tli9Kgiauc. Boll four cgc for 15 minntos. When cold mince t.ieyo'ks and the whites of two Into dice-like pieces, ilix well witn a half pint of hot, will-MMSoned nch drawn butter, or with plain melted batter. The Potato Snow. Tor tmi dUh select good, white mealy po tatoes. Pare, and wash through several water. Cover .ith hoilinjr water, add a little Silt and boil until thir srMfrnrinT- Drain off any water remaining and let stand on back part ot the value for j. f jw minutei covered with a clean cloth. Heat a sieve will and prcs the pot-Hoe through it into a very warm dish, being c-iiolul not to dis tuib the snow as it falls. 71i Itice Croqaettes. To a qnarter of s. pound of well-washed rice add a p.nt of rich milk. Cook in a steameruntil the ncu is tciderand the milk cbsorbed. To mold well it should be boiled thick and dry. A.id three le el tablespoon fuls of sugar, one of butter and one egg. Flavor with nutmeg, cinnamon or vanilla. Beat well, and when cold shape as desired. Roll In beaten egg, dust with sifted bread crumbs and iry in hot lat until lightly browned. Drain on paper. Creamed Sweet Potatoes. Select good, large potatoes. Wash and scrape them well. Scoop out balls with a vegetable cuttei, being carefnl to round them pel lectrj. Boil or steam until tender cud cocr with cie-im dressing made in a sej.ai-ate pan. Vegetable balls are marred if ttirrea v. ith fork or spoon. The Jilnced Cabbagn. Take a bead of sweet, crisp cabbage, quar ter and core, and plungclnto plentv of rap idly boiling watei, well salted. Add a salt spoonful ot baking soda, and boil uncovered lor 40 minutes. The boiling must not cease for a moment. Drain well, mince, and sea son hi,;uly ti ith salt and pepper and add a large piece ofbntter. The Stewed Celery. Cut the tenderest and whitest stalks of celery into pieces an inch or two long. Stew slowly in a little veal or chicken .broth until fnder. Add some rood cieam, dredge l'gh ly with flour, and season with butter, salt and pepper and a pinch of nutmeg or lnaoe. The Veal Salad. Select veal fiee as possible from bona and eristic. Cover ith boiling water and cook until tender. Add salt and let cool in its own liquor. Cut into small pieces, add an equal qaanity of minted celerv, a little grated onion nnd the powdered yolks of two cigs When about to serve mix thor oughly w ith salad cream. The Oaakins: Custard Cover a half box of ceiatine with oold water and soak for an hour. Have readva pint and a half of milk Just nbout to boil, fctir -n the beaten jolk of five egg", mixed with a 1-alf cupfnl of sugar and a few table spoon luls or the hot milk. Add the gelatine and stir the mixture oer the fire until it thickens. Remove nnd flavor to taste. Mold, and set in a oold place until firm. When ready to serve turn out the custard surrounded by tne whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth with one-cuarter pound of ponuereuEuzar lowjuuii nam ueen aaaeu a few drops ol flavor. The mince pie and fruit cake will not be formidable to readers of these articles. Xllice Sesejta. yery spawn of nightmare ate its overdress in.? with suet and butter, onlv fit for polar I consumption, and its drugging with spices. Spice is the very food of the nerves, rightly used, growing more essential as -circulation and sense dull with age. but it should be delicately, discerningly used not to use its potency. The overdressing with fat is a remnant of the old English barbarism which slewed its food in tallow, nnd as the old play has it, "took two tat wethers to baste one capon." Housekeepers of note have vied in the richness of their recipes for mince pie; let mine be the plainest formula which yet meets the demands of taste. Beefs Heart Is the Best. Economical cooks make mincemeat of beers heart, bv itself a dry, tallowymorsel, but with the thick fat pared aw3y before cooking and the juicy flank strips cooked with it and both boiled down in the broth, yon have an inexpensive foundation which, minced, is as rich as tongue or the high- priced pieces, tenderloin, filet or round, which extravagant cooks like to use. The fat is taken off, the rich liquor of the meat boiled down to gravvand added to the mince. One quart bowl of chopped meat to three of apple is the rule, and with this neither suet, butter, brandy nor wine is tistd. The fat is left out because it is not good for food, the wine and brandy for economy's sake. Baldwin apples are used, with one quince to the four bowls of mince, one lemon and peel, two Havana oranges, chopped, the peel boiled tender and very finely cut, half a cup ot ciderjelly, two cups ot raisins one cf currants, atablespoonful of cinnamon.two nutmcgs.ateaspoonfulof cloves, and one cof fee cup of 6t:gar. The juice of the meat gives richness, instead of suet. In place of the wine and brandy, what? One half cup of the best Puerto Bico molasses, not syrup, one large cup of strong tea and one-third teaspoonful of cayenne pepper. This dose, the invention of a clever cook who mixed her dishes "with brains, sir," gives a zest that is a fair imitation of 1 brandy and aids diccstion. when the pics are made one tcaspoonful of butter, in small bits, is spread over the mince before putting on the upper crust. This mince has not an indigestible ingredient in it, while the flavoring is very rich. The Tastry for the Pie. Now for pastry: Fine flour mingled with oil has been a regale ever since patriarchal times, when Sarah set cakes before the angel at the door of Abraham's tent Wc were meant to like it and to eat it. If instead of the pale brown flonr mingled with olive oil and baked on the hearth, which Sarah used. we prefer a past of starchy flour and animal fat which no juices of the stomach can dis solve any more than they could pieces of glue, it is our own mistake. Jly own fam ily have gone back to the primitive pastry of Mature, not from any snperstitions'about the injuriousness of pastry in itself, but because we like pic, and like the best kind of it. For economy's Fake we use the ordinary salad oil, which vou eat in the salad dress ings sold bv the bottle, and find in the cruets of the"best restaurants, which is pure peanut or refine'd cottonseed oil, clear, odor less and tasteless almost This takes the place of lard or shortening in our cookery, from frying fish and fritterj to making pastry. "With Arlington whole wheat flour or any fine grades of graham, it gives the sweetest llaKiest pastry ever eaten. Try it, with brown flour or white, using one part oil to three parts flour, with ice water, salt and a pinch of baking powder. Never roll out crust lor mnre than one pie at a time, as handling toughens any paste, but brush the top with milk on putting it in the oven, which should be hot enough to bake it thoroughly in a little over ten minutes. There is not the slightest trace of oil in the pastry, which is more delicate than if made with sweet butter. i'lum Pnddlngr That "Will Digest Plnm pudding is another wholesome food that no careful family should be without in winter, combining as it does the heat-making and strengthening elements of fat, flonr and raisins, which are the most sustaining fruit in the world. One might go marches on as light rations as Caesar's army in Gaul if,ihe three handfuls a day were nnts and dried grapes instead of raw wheat I doubt the famed legion hadn't more cereal food in a country of olives and vineyards. Blend the three, the cereal, the oil, the raisin and you have strong food for building bone that will not shatter with falling over a chair, and teeth whose brilliant enamel will show no flaw at CO, for supplying the unceasing activity of brain which modem life com pels, with double strength sent bv the cur rents from untaxed Btomach and liver, sun pie, free working skin and veins that beat even music There is spice which feeds the nerves and excites the glands before a mouthful of soup couiu ue aooroeu. ana wnose cuects deserve closer study and more justice than they have yet obtained. The basis of our plum pudding, is the finest oatmeal, almost like flour, with a lit tle oil, baking powder and the nsual fruits, flavoring much with the aromatic Havana orange peek Oatmeal for Its Own Merita. I don't recommend oatn6al because It is healthy, but because it is nice. The fact is it blends most delicately with fine flavors, and instead of being a nursery diet, or bolted before breakfast, it deserves the at tention of the gourmets. The coarser kind is richer than chestnuts ns filling for turkey. Use cold boiled oat meal and bread crumbs, with chopped oys ters, sweet marjoram, sausage or any usual flavoring, especially celery, which gives a fine flavor to the bird, or put n pinch of ground caraway and dash of nutmeg with the sag and marjoram if you want a new and foreign flavor of which the ingredients cannot be recognised. By the way, dress your turkey and fill it over night to let the seasoning strike through it The plum pudding to follow will be acceptable to the most exacting tastes whether cold wheat or oatmeal is used instead of bread crnmbs, with finely ground suet or oil, and the spice, sugar, molasses and fruit as for mince meat Plnm pudding like this should be made the week before use and grows better with age. But the aim of all this cookery talk is not to persuade you of the benefits of unbolted flour. g. D. THE , PITTSBTJIIQ- DISPATCH, SUNDAY, "DECEMBER 20, 1891 Tur TiiDir rur Dniinnm unhnr nrnnDRTinmc yin uvnirmr MIL I HULL, MIL UUUUUIH, IIUIVIL ULUUriHIIUIH HlliU. niUILilL- perforated diaphragm of earthenware, which abbreviates the time needed to filter. The best pot for making coffee is ono in which the pot is earthen and the bag, ot cotton, is suspended at the top. The best results are produced by having the coffee ground extra tine while it is hot and put in an air-tight receptacle. When a can of this ground coffee is opened its odor pervades the whole apartment, as the volatile oil has not had a chance to escape. In Hayti they roast, grind and use their coffee at once. First, have the coffee good, fresh and ground very tine. Second, pour ' hot water into the coffee pot, 'so as to heat it thoroughly before use. Third, put (for an ordinary family) a tea cupful of coffee, prepared as above, into the bag placed at the top of the opcn.heated pot Fourth, nonr on boiline water nntil a suf ficient amount of coffee is made. Kenew as required. The process is one of displacement, snch as is used in pharmacy. It is wonderful with what facility roasted coffee imparts its virtues to boiling water. Probably no fruit gives up its virtues 'so rapidly. A good cup of coflee can be mado in one min ute in this wav. Surely people who have poor coffee are without excuse when it can be made bo quickly and simnly. Epiiraim Cutteb, M. D. A DRESS FOR A RAINY DAY. IIAKIKG BSEAKFAST ATTB ACTIVE. 'SA ft Appetite Can Be Stimulated by Attention to Harmony of Color. rWKITTKN FOR Till! PISPATCH.1 LMOST everyhense . keeper knows that breakf a s t is the hardest meal in the list to get the fam ily to do justice to, not only because the mass of people do not wake up with a consuming appetite in the morning, and partly because the table itself, from the in formality of the meal, is hard to make at tractive. A little special thought given to the appearance of the breakfast table pavs. The sight of a spotlcJs white table In the morning, with dainty, graceful dishes, and a touch of glitter in silver and cut glass, Is enough to add a zest to the most reluctant appetite. If for reasons of economy a col ored cloth is preferred for breakfast," a look of dainty freshness may be given to the table by spreading napk'ins about carefully and systematically. One of the prettiest breakfast tables t ever saw was one that had a cover of plain blue denim, with a big square of white damask, hemstitched, but perfectly plain, laid across' the center so as to show four corners of color and a white center. In the center stood a glas3 rose bowl that was kept filled with fresh ferns. U.he dishes were whito and blue Meissen. Another, where the family circumstancos were such that they might bo as lavish as they chose in fine linen, was kept always laid in white, both in dishes and In china, save for the touch of gold on the breakfast set and the tiny pink and blue flowers pow dered over the Dresden china oatmeal ,set, that saved the table from being a monotone in white and gold. Everybody can't have monotones in white and gold even, but anybody can have dainti ness and freshness and a eolnr stnrlT- that will make a dyspeptio hungry. Qtifte as pretty as tne wnite and gold breakfast table was one In which the cloth was of heavy un bleached damask, in the ivorv tone that is really more gratifying to the artistio eye than white. - The dishes were of cheap stoneware, the most pretentious piece of which had not cost more than 60 cents. But the groundwork was of the same ivory color as the linen and the decorations were of dull pink. A quaint little jar of the same shade oi pinK nad been plcKed up years before and now stored in- the center of the table and held flowers. The carafes and tumblers were not of cut glass, but they were always glistening and there was ulnars a dish of fruit that was a composition it itself. Helen 'Wattemot. CTnUTTG IJEEVOTJS HEADACHE POIXTS ON THE DINNER. Mlnco Pie, ir Vroperlj Made, Will Not Tn daro Nightmare lror tho Pastry Use Oil Plum Pudding That Will Make Bone and Nerve nnd Brain. rwr-irrrx fob the DispATcn.i Jfinceracat ought to be extremely whole some for the sime reasons that make it good to cat its flavors of sweet and soar, of meat, apple and spice, which relieve each other, and its finely divided particles, which allow the choicer blending of flavors, and S3ve the stomach much of tbe grinding which reduces food to the pulp in which it enters the blood. "What gives mince pie its ill repute as the Rot Water on Face and Head and a Good Rest Afterward. rwxirrEu tor the dispatcit.1 It has been a hard day, and the tired lines in your face show it The muscles of the face have lost their firmness, and the lines about the cheeks and mouth nnd eyes droop wearily. Xou look ten years older than you know you are, and you feel sadder lhan you know you have a right to be. "Worse than all, a sharp pain shoots fro m the left temple over the forehead and down the left side of the face. You know that means a nervous headache and a night of agony unless something is done quickly. xry this: sup on your bodice and bare your neck. Twist your hair into a loose knot on the top of your head. Then take a sponge and a basin of hot water just as hot as you can bear it Pass the hot, wet sponge slowly and steadily over the face and forehead for eight or ten minutes, keep ing the sponge as hot as it can be borne. By that time your face will look and feel as'if it were parboiled. But don't worry. Then bathe the back of the neck as "you have done the face, carrying the sponge each time well up the back of the head. Keep this np for the same length of time; then, without looking at yourself in the glass, because that would be sure to disquiet you, dry yonr face and neck softly and go -and lie down flat on yonr back. Close your eyes and think of jus't this one thing; how heavy you are on the couch and how easily it supports you. That is really an important part of the cure. Lie there for half an hour, if vondont fall asleep, as you probably will. Then get up and take tho deferred look in tho glass. The tired look has gone; the muscles have regained their tone; the wrinkles havo disappeared. You look like your younger sister. Best of all, the darting pain in the head and the pessimism of the soul have gone, too. Motitek M. D. FOUE-IU-HAHD TIES. MAKING GOOD COFFEE. Xpliralm Cotter Says There I ITo Eicobo for a Poor Article An Improvement on Count linrnford's Plan The Banger Trom T.Tetal Fots. rWEITTEN FOR THE PrSrATCT.! OUNt'btJMFORD is one of the foremost scientists of his time and of American origin. Coffee had been Introduced into England for about ICO years when Count Ilumford wrote ex haustively on coffee making and ! Is text is fresh and crisp reading to-day. He used the porcelain or earthen coffee pot and per forated earthen strainer placed on top of the pot Hot water was poured on and allowed to filter through. The common French coflee pot carries out Count Itum- ford's idea as to displacement, but is far off as to the material of tinned iron, which Enmford would not use, as the tannate of iron and lead (from the solder) is formed which tho drinkers admit into their bodies. It is only needful to look into any tin coflee pot to be assured of this fact by the blackness of the inside. Itumford was" right and the French are wrong about using metalliccoffecpots. It is not right to drink up one's coffee pot or have it leak from dissolu tion of its substance. The question arises, if Count Bumford 100 vears ago gave surh good directions, why. the need of more writ ing on it? Has th'ero been any improve ment on his plan? Do we find good coflee everywhere? Th'cse questions may be answered by say ing that good coffee Is the exception, not the rule, and that an improvement had been made on Count Bumford n substituting a cotton, cotton flannel or flannel bag for bis J one of palest pearl color. A Plan by ITnich Six Girls Can Slake Srx of Their Frlendi Happy. prKITIEIf FOR THE DISPATCn.1 A man's tour-in-hand tie, for ordinary wear, costs from SI to 52, if it is o'f good quality. And no man ought to be indulged in wearing a tie of anything else than good quality. Because the necktie forms a-focal point in men's dress, and, if that be cheap the whole eflect is cheapened, no matter how costly the rest of the clothing may be. A fonr-in-hand, then, of good quality costs something over a dollar. A yard of faille Francaise like that from which the tie. is made costs ?2 CO. The strip of silk in the tie is four inches wide, unmade, and a yard and a quarter long. Six of these strips can be cut from that length of silk. Allow an other dollar for the light silk or satin lin ing and the bit of wadding that interlines it There you have six lour-in-hands lor about the price of three. As to the making, that is the simplest possible thing. Get your husband or brother or father to give vou and old tie that he has liked, but which is past wear ing. Kip it apart so as to see exactly how it is made, and tnen use the pieces for n -pattern. Make the new ones exactly like the old one. "But think of sir ties all exactly alike!" says some girl who reads this. I know six girls each of whom bought one strip of silk and swapped strips so that, when all the ties were doDe, each had one dark blue one, ond pale blue one, one of white, one of black, one of- deep red and Delightful Liberty In Designing One Fash Ion Has No Law to Observe Here Utility, Comfort and Beauty the Objects to Bo Accomplished Some Uinta. WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH.! THE rainy day dress gives a good chance to exercise orig inality and ap ply taste, if we have any. Be cause our dress in a rain storm is not brought into competi tion with fash ion; all we need to consider in making it is protection and beauty. Here is delightfnl liberty to exer clso the private fancy. Choose ma te ri al that A. Variation in CoaU. water will not injure, and design for yourself a dress which is becoming. And let the elements shame you from putting any falsities into it It must have purpose and honesty if it will be in harmony with nature; and. these quali ties are necessary also, if it is to have beauty. Woman's attitude in a storm is mostly antagonistic. She is the only discord in a grand finale rondo of tho elements, a po sition she should not relish. And it is all on acconnt of her clothes. They are perish able and it makes her nnhannv. This is all'wrong. There is no reason why the rest of ns should look as miserable as fish ont of water, because the leaders of fashion, who can wear perishable clothes, do not go out in the rain. It is time we devised an am phibian dress. Plenty of Nice Material. "Whatever water will Injure is out of taste in the rain. This is clear, and it is the proposition on which onr dress must bo built up. "Waterproof materials offered by the shops are English cheviot or storm serge, English waterproofing and cravenette, which is waterproof cloth finished bv a special process. These cloths are in light weights for gowns, and in heavy weights for cape ulsters. How shall wj make ths storm dress? First Impulse replies with a skirt np to the boot tops. But every woman who stops to consider will reflect that her under petticoat, though up to that height, does not escape mud. No dress that the ordinary woman will wear can be mado so short as to escape wetting from the heels. The idea of makintr it so mav. therefore, as well be given up, and effort "he confined to making it easily clcanable. It ehonld escape the ground, of course, bv some space, but however short it is it will have to be held. The skirt should be without lining, simply hemmed, and it may have a rnbber facing in the back. For the under petticoat pongea is a good substitute for silk, as it washes well. It may be had in various colors. No ruffle should be on this petticoat The TTalat Should Be Loose. The waist should be charming In design. "Why not discard the ugly-fitted basque? Something moro simple is in tone with the time, a 'd is unconsciously attained when one m rovises one's dress for a rain. It reqiir s mare movement of the muscles to walk in a storm than to waik in dry?' weather; the close-ntting corsage is a hin drance to 'free movement, and any of the loose waists now popular should be pre ferred. These will allow grace of move ment, and so give the figure more beauty. A costume is suggested as follows: It is of waterproof cloth, of gray plaided with hair lines of brown. The skirt is of tho waterproof. The waiBt is a silk shirt of gray, gathered very full on the shonlders and round the neck, and gathered Into a baud at the bottom, where it falls slightly over the pointed belt, which is of brown un dressed leather, or of brown ribbon fastened with a clasp of oxidized silver set with cairngorms. Straps of the gray silk are stitched down each shoulder to cover and hold the gathers. The neglige collar turns, over and is faced with brown silk. Tho cuffs, also, turn over with a facing of brown, and a bias silk tie of brown com pletes the waist There Should Bo a Sag. In the absence of a pocket thero should be a bag. It should bo of gray silk, made by hewing two pieces together on three sides, and running two drawing strings into the fourth sjdo. The strings may be of tho ornamental "color; that is to say, of brown, but the bag must not be of brown. Bags are not ornaments. The coat is an Empire jacket of the water proof. A plastron of darker, plain gray forms the front, and the coat is fastened at one of it3 sides. The fronts below the belt are lined with the dark gray and turned back en revers. The lannty short cape is sewed in frrn into the sides of the plastron. It is lined -. it i the dark gray. The whole is piped witu a brown cord. The belt is of the dark gray. The caie ulster Is the popular rainy weatho- -t It is a good garment, and admira tf ordinary morning wear, but it is queb.ion. ble whether a long coat is an instep and back, and is slashed at the sides. If over these you fasten mackintosh, cloth or Jersey leggings, the lower limbs will be perfectly protected. The first two reach to the knee, and are buttoned all the way up; the Jerseys are longer nnd are drawn on like a stocking, being buttoned only along the ankle. Kid gloves are mined by water and, if there were anything to supplant them, should never bo worn in the rain. If fashion able women wore storm clothes something Almost a Rubber Soot. suitable would long ago have been devised. The dogskin glove is the only thing offered at present It is not handsome, but it will bear wetting. The umbrella should have a natural wood handle, with a crook, but if vou must have something rich thcJBresden china handle is new, and expensive, and beautiful. The de sign most seen is a ball, colored to match the silk, for colored nmbrellas are in vogue, with a space of white left, like a miniature, in which exquisite Boucher figures are painted in color. You can also have a gold handle, if you want, but silver is passe. Ada Bache-Cone. THE CTBI0T3 KALE 1TIHD. Business TTomen S-metimeg Have It to Thank for Mistake Corrected. fWRITTEII FOR THE DISrATtTT.l Business "Woman (the capital letters ex press the state of her mind as to thatj term) often takes letters and packages to the Gen eral postofHce to be weighed. As often as she has done this she has been Impressed anew with tha weak and trivial curiosity of the male mind, for every time she handed in something to be weighed the busy men in charge stopped to turn it over and read the address. "It certainly beats anything, " said tho business woman to herself, "to think of anything being as curious as that." ' nMI Women Stake to JIany Hlstaka. A lew days ago she repeated this expe rience up to a certain point. The varia tion began when the examining magnate said cheerfully: "Be a good Ide3, wouldn't it, for you to put on here the State these here papers is goin' to? Yes. certainly, I'll write it for you. Guess I've saved C00 bundles from being lost in the last three weeks, lookin' to see if they was directed all right I don't bother about tho men; don't care so much about their bundles, and then they've got more hend for looking to such things; bnt I always look at tho ladies' bundles. Ten cents." And the crushed business woman, her mouth effectually shut, walked away with what ssd dignity she could master. Helen' "Watteesow. KABK TWAIN'S BB0THEB. .PwssfeSaK? TS''Sy's raSV.v783uSf YK&WM8Sr& mnmmwt lilt ' 1 l 3 nwf mt m MJii Equipped for the Storm. He Is So Absent minded He Ate Teast, Thinklns It IV as Salad, Mark Twain has a brother at Kcoknk, Iowa, who is nbsentminded enough for Mark to "put in a book." 'It is related in that town that he drank violet ink for' blackberry cordial, and then todk an allo pathic dose of ammonia Instead of his cough medicine; but his latest nbsentminded ad venture occurred last summer when his wife had gone to a Sunday school picnic. The maid and Mrs. Olomens both being gone for the day, Mrs. Clemens instructe 1 her husband that he would find his lunch nicely prepared in the refrigerator. "Upon her return home she inquired of Mr. Clem ens as to his bachelorhood, and how he had enjoyed his lunch. ?W"cll," raid Mr. Clemens, "I didn't think the salad vou spoke of was especially good, but I ate ft" t Upon investigation Mrs. Clemens discov ered that he had "eaten it," inded; that is, tho yeast put to raise for the next day's baking, while the salad proper remained untouched. INSIDE AN OLD BOOK. Advice Given Women a Century and Half A50 The Bale for Wives I the BOcement of Self A Slavery Like That of Japan. rWRITTEJT FOR TIIE DISPATCH.1 Before me lies a sober, sightly volume, a small quarto heavily bound in gilded calf, with the title, "The "Whole Duty of n "Woman; or, An Infallible Guide to the Fair Sex, Containing Rules, Directions and Ob servations for ,Their Conduct and Behavior Through All Ages and Circumstances in Life, as Virgins, "Wives and Widows." Perhaps this book is what some of us have been looking for and rejoice to find, though late. As life "is short, let ns hasten to learn the ivhole doty of a woman, as held'in 1737, the date of this cherished relic. The eood advice of the first ten chapters I cannot spare, fori need it all myself. In sooth, it is a sweet and searching monitor in its chap ters "Of Modestv." "Of Meekness." "Of Compassion" and "Of Affability." The manner of behavior toward men has some plain spoken advice", to use a phrase in keeping, as when it bids women have "no ill-bred affected shyness nor a roughness un suitable to their sex and unnecessary to their virtue, but looks that forbid without rudeness and oblige without invitation, or, leaving room for the saucy inferences men's vanity suggests to them upon the least en couragement." Alwnya Appearing Pleasant. Plain enough is the encomium on another character of the good-humored woman who thinks she must always be in a laugh or a broad smile because good humor is an oblisrinir aualitv. This necessity nFmnnr: ing at all timesto be so pleased is a grievous misUke, since in a handsome woman that invitation is unnecessary, and in one who is not, so ridiculous. "Conquest," we tire told, "is so tempting a thing that it often makes women mistake men's submissions, which with all their fair appearances have generally less' respect than art in them. "Women should remember that men who say ciireiueij une mings iany times say mem most for their own sakes, and that the vain gallant is often as well pleased with his own compliments as he conld be with the kind est answer." "Most shrewd and experienced monitor, Polonius to his daughter I No woman's hand ever revealed this fine-edged truth. "What woman's mJd was ever free from webs of vanity enough to admit this, when men said courtly compliments to her? Small wonder that the author's namo was wllh-t held, since he had in mind to speak such (nttini? trnthc Diia ilvi.. "t Ar,ylni4& this head is, that women should every seven years make some alteration in them toward the graver sido, not like the girls of CO, re solved to be always young, whatever Time with his iron teeth determined to the con trary." Appearing Toons "When Old. Unnatural things carrv a deformity In them never to be disgulse'd; the liveliness 01 youtn in a riper nge looss liKe a new patch upon an old gown; so that a gay matron, a cheerful old fool may be reason ably put In the list of the tamer kind of monsters. Such an old butterfly is of all creatures the most ridiculous and tho soon est found out Mark well the distinction. It is unnatural liveliness carries the de formity, the effort to ba sprightly when one feels least like it There is a strons vital ity which keeps its green far into Novem ber, which looks well and elastic because it is well, and the spring Is not and perhaps never will be out of its veinr. As well quarrel with a climate for its late autumn, as with women whoso well ordered lives have left them, kthe clear eyes and nnfaded cheeks, the spirits and the wit of their prime, far part CO. As trell censure Dr. Holmes for his jaunty step and alert look as he goes down the sunny side of School street because most men aie bent and grim at his years. Such perennial freshness is a hopeful omen for the raoe, a possibility which we may all share with good treatment. But there is no comment necessary for the next passage, which is pithy enough to fix itself in minds which need it "The advantages of being reserved ore too many to eet down; we will only say that it is a guard to a good woman and a disguise to an ill. It is one of so much use to both that those ought to use it as an artifice who re fuse to practice it as a virtue." 1 5Danger of Giving Too 13nch-vFresh Air If Properly Frotecttd. hardest thing to cure, short of leprosy or cancer, and yet it is curable by simple means patiently applied. The traity beverages of old fashion.donbt-" less, had a beneficial effect In counteracting the gross feeding of other days. The juice of fruits fermented to tartness, little good as it might do the present nervous, underfe- race, was a saving stimulus to people win. I flowers, rabbit pie, venison, scallops and beans with bacon for a single course of a July dinner, as given in this book. Their royal cider, mead, visney, apricot cider and mum served the purpose of our bitters and tonics. There is a hint for orchardists in tbe old recipe for cyderkin or water cider: After paring half a bushel of apples, core them and boil them In a barrel of water till a third part of it is consumed, strain It and pnt the liquor into a bnsbel or moro of ground or mashed apple, unboiled; let them stand .21 hours, press oat "ho liquor and pnt into casks to ferment and keep till fine. Such cider kept without fermentation, ns it will keep a Ions time by scalding tho finally pressed jnice, will he found excol lent for clearing the hlood and skin, and keeping the health in good condition over winter. The.brllllant eyes, the sound white flesh of tho apple eaters and drinkers is noted wherever orchards abound. What Exhilarated Our Fathers- "We read of ancient Mum. chanted in songs of Herrick and Ben Jonson, and a hearty old liquor it must have been, worthy all that was said or sung in its praise. It seems to have been a highlyTlavored spring bitter or blood purifier on a huge scale" of a sort which would hardly injure the health of the present generation if they drank it liberally. A barrel of spring water boiled a third away and fully sterilized by the process, was brewed with seven bushels of wheat malt, a bushel of oatmeal and one of ground beans. "When it began to work in a hogshead not too full there was added of the inner rind of fir, tops of fir and birch, blessed thistle, burnet, betony, marjoram, pennyroyal, wild thyme, elderflowers and barberries by the handful and the pound. AVhen the liquor worked a dozen new laid eggs, tin broken, were added and the hogshead left for two years. This was the original way of making in the Duchy of Brunswick. English brewers used cardamoms, ginger and sassafras, the rind3 of walnuts, madder and elecampane or antiscorbutic plants. This was truly a noble liquor, and it is possible that such strong drink might ban ish whisky sooner than conventions and legislation. Some Questions and Answers. Among my questions and answers for this week are the following from Pittsburg: Mrs. G. B. I havo forgotton the directions for taking charcoal nnd taraxacnm for tho complexion. My skin is red with blotches and pimples caused by internal inflamma tion; my dauirhter's is vellow and tawny. Here I nm at 45, with neither be utv, brains nor health, and, ob, so weary of trie strug gle. Answer Take ono teaspoon fui of pow dered charcoal thoroughly mixed in water or syrnp the first thing in tho morning and last thine at night. After meals take ono teaspoonful to one dessertspoonful of tho extract of taraxacnm, keeping the feet warm and dry, and bcinc careful not to take cold, livery fourth week omit the taraxa cnm. Alter six weeks or two months, tako tho charcoal only In the morning. and when tho skin Is clear omit the extract Dy degrees. Forty-five is too soon to grieve over want of brains and health. That is tho term of infancy, for three-fourths ot human bcinirs, and it is not at all too late to improve for a serene and happy age. more delkrhtfnl than any roso and romance of youth. Remember that one day you m.iy be as far ahead of those yon envy, in all attain ments, as they seem ahead of yon now. Cultivate what minor talent you havo. if it is only of keeping a tidy house and giving a neighbor cheerful, kindly greeting, and it will lead to more inevitably. Mrs. H. A. L. The toilet mask of cotton flannel has no poisonous medication, the price forbidding nny such idea. It,Is out of the question, and his been for the year past. KEEPING BABY WABJL The Chick Under the Old Hen's feathers Is a Mother's SIcdeL HOW A BATH SHOULD 'BE GIYa. to givo private answers to correspondents. 111 J. H. You sav that beefzall diluted with warm water is good for whiteninir the skin. Ainaiy ten me 11 it is tne oxsall you pur chase from butchers or do you bay it from drugstores Ail eet? Answer Thero Is a refined gall sold, which Is mixed with ether ond other things for taking spots oat or clothing-, bat it is hardly recommended for theskin. lleflned gall maybe prepared thus: Tako frosh ox gall one pint, boil, skim, add a teaspoonfnl of nlnm and keep it on tho firo some timo without boiling. To another pint add a tablespoonful of common salt in the same manner. Bottle them soparatcly for threo months, then decant and mix In equal parts, the refined gall forming above a thick yel low sediment. One teaspoonfnl of this to a pint of hot water should bo strong enongh to use on the skin. Shirlkt Dare. advantage in the rain. It gives two skirts to bold np instead of one. This is a heter odox view of the matter, but I commend it to reflection. The long coat unquestion ably saves a wetting to the upper part of the skirt, but it is not pure rain water that will hurt a woolen dress; it is the mixture under foot that offends. The rubber mack intosh is not to be commended. JTor the Head, Hands and Teet. The hat is of soft felt inan English walk in? shape, if this form is becoming; or a sailor; or a low, round crowned, broad brimmed soft felt, sewed np into a becom ing form. I should suggest one of the lat ter sort, of gray, with a gray satin ribbon bandeau, and three large lovely satin ro settes; a gray and a brown one at the back, and a brown one in the front Or the brown may be replaced byf oolor. , x or uie jeet tuero is o new ruooer caned tlu "Juliette," that comet np well over the j heater. HYFBOTIZED BY A SN&JCK. It wu Ten 7eet Long and TVas an Albino Beplile. Oil City Derrick. J A remarkable snake story was told by a resident of Clarion county yesterday, and but for the unimpeachable character of the narrator would sound like a "snake story." He stated that a farmer who lived near Clarion, while in a field, was attacked br a snake fully ten ieet in length. The reptile coiled itself around the farmer's waist and glared fixedly in his face, evidently trying to charm him. Shaking off the dizzy feel ing caused by the snake's hypnotic gaze, the farmer cut it to pieces with the scythe, and then, exhausted with fright and over exertion, sank to the ground. The head ot the snake, with a portion of the body, lay near him, and tho peculiar color oaused "him to pick it up, and he found It was an albino black snake. The peculiar formation of the snake's eves caused him to examine them closely, and he could hardly believe the evidenceof his senses when he discovered a perfect reproduction of his face photographed in the center of the eve. He brought the snake to town, where it was photographed and preserved in alcohol. Tho negative taken by the photographer shows . the snake's eye perfectly with the farmer's face showing as clearly as if also taken with a camera. Electric Heating of Cars, The recent cold wave has been taken ad vantage of by the inventors of a new system of electric heating of cars for a test of their method. The system is found to work ex cellently, heating the cars to a comfortable tenyierature and distributing the warmth evenly and impartially. The only diffi culty is the question of cost The ordinary coal stove represents an initial outlay of only about S10, while the new system of electric heating necessitates an expenditure of S60 per car. and the running expenses are somewhat greater than those of the stove j down the inflammatory disposition. A fine .enslaving Advice to Women. This is the verv gold of worldly wisdom, coinage for whicfi one would not sell one's soul; no, nor stoop to ever so slight evasion or deceit But the mere keeping still, re fraining from idle criticism or jest upon an other, how safe, how wiso it is, and how well the world inclines to reward snch for bearance. A sane person cannot tolerate the smeary touch of the professionally ami able person who says agreeable things that leave vou with a sensation of being han dled with honev daubed lingers. JJut the person who through preoccupation or fair leeling simply omits to be spiteful, how comfortable Is an hour of his society. There is curious lore between these pages, lessons in the deeper cares of a woman's life, "Of Behavior to a Drunkard," and "Behavior to a Jealous Husband," and "To a Husband's Belatives," tho model every where being patient Grizel, and an efface ment of self, which has made many a hus band adore his ill-used wife and compelled the affection of contemptuous relations-in-law and Bent a good many more Grizeldas blessed with every virtue fading into a sup pressed grave. It is but one degree re moved from the Japanese servitude of a wife to her husband and his family. It was, perhaps, the only practice in a day when women could not call their souls their own. It is very sensible to minage a cho leric or covetous or sullen man by studying his humors if there is no escape lrom them, but what misery can theVe be for a free and open mind to like living with people who have to be managed, cajoled and studied, whom the least inattention when one is taken np with business will estrange or ir ritate. Ilnsbanils Who .Require Managing. One must know the comfort of growing up with sincere, taithlul, steadfast souls to know the supreme contempt evoked by natures which require managing. Patient Grizel learns to macaie. to sit serene, un healing, while the gusty temper blows off or the egotism or brutisnncss rales, and coaxes ihe offender into decency asrain, never betraying her nausea at its contact, all the while, she wishes herself at the farther side of the moon, and the pitiful soul which mars her life dropped over tho edge of nothing, where it belongs. This is bread to the sack, for truth com pels the fact that the whole duty of woman comprises one part of moralizing to three of high-class cookery, with a dash of cosmetics. Food was cheap and abundant in those days. It is not surprising that the mothers of families in old pictures, had frames like feather bass, red faces and pendulous jaws. or that blood letting was a principal part of meuicine. xnc curu ui buui ucu uuu vunuu cookery and providing, together with the interesting families of 10 and 13 children habitual, must have destroyed every ves tige of complexion and figure. Poor Mrs. Mitford's letters, recitals of weekly dinner parties, the monstrous pines, the duckling and salmon, the turbot and lamp at each, reflect the centility of the day which fell into apoplexies and gout and wore pulpy noses and pimply cheeks as sequels of such feasts. The Old-Fashioned Beverages. JiTo wonder their cosmetic art ran to cool ing medicines and lotions of elderflower and plantain, house leek and mallow. These things were comforting for the inflammatory disorders prevalent from overeating, and aro just as good now in cases where generations ofhlirh livin? without hviene have handed . o . . jp . -LP ..t t- THBEE D0LLABS f 0B FIFTY CZNHTS. now Deft Fingers Can Make a Candle Ehado Fit for a Qaeen. rWRITTEX FOR THB PISrJl.TCH.1 Tate one of tbe wire frames which are to be found around houses everywhere because the paper shades are always catching fire and leaving the bare frames useless, but for some such suggestion as this. Take a bit of ribbon just big enough to go around the wire circle at the top of the frame and fasten upon it a row ot silk petals made as follows: Cut from any color oi china silk J $"EAI5Tira THE SIX-TEAE-OLD 0HIED prBTTTXS rORTHT9 DTSrATCH.1 ABIES are reported from everywhere this season, seems to me. There is one at M rs . Cleveland' and one at the Astors and one in the Vanderbilt fam ily and the young doctor has one, and the Empress of somewhere or other, and thetfolks in the next house. The baby baskets-are different cry bat the babies are the same, and want precisely the sama kind of care. For all things to take the bloom off happiness and comfort, the worst -is a sick baby. It isn't always practicable to cure one, and it is a great deal easier to "keep it will, provided you start'fair from the beginning. My first lesson,when Peter Smallfry was the mature ago of 3-weeks, was given by a kindly neighbor who was looking on with hungry eves, at the sight , of seeing that .baby washed. "I lost my baby by hi3 staking cold from the crack in the door when he had his bath." The lesson was taken to heart. Peter Smallfry had plenty of air, exerciso and change, but I don't remember his ever hav ing snuffled or so much as sneezing half a dozen times inihis first three years. Giving aVTonngster Ills Bath. When he tookTiis daily bath, the room was worm, thoroughly warm, the water was warm as his tender .skin, or a little warmer, and every article, towels, flannels and frocks hung close to the stove to heat through. The child never cried or shrank from his bath; one warm soft towel was folded round him to lift him out of the water, he was laid on a warm folded sheet and towel laid across my lap, and another large and warm was laid right over him as the partly wet one was slipped off. The clothes all went on warm 03 a hen's breast feathers. They were not held out at arms lenqjh to the fire as wanted and half cooled in drawing them back. They hung as near the heater as. they could without scorching for ten minutes, and it must hare been a luxury for that clean baby to get into its fresh, soft, warm garments again. Ha seemed to feel so for he was delicionsly good-humored and lively after dressing. "When he went out all his wrappings were warm, and a warm soapstone or other heater was placed in the carriage under tho rng he lay on. His small paws were all mittened, his coat was furred. Indoors a wadded" quilt to play on and frequent When Vie Shade Is Done. some lone petals, rounded below with case knife, crimp a few folds in them, and tj then holding tliem in place pass a warm iron lightly over them to mako them permanent Crimp each petal as ranch as yon choose the more it is crimped the better it will be. Now you are ready to eew the first row of petals on the ribbon. Make the second row shorter, the third shorter yet, and the last row no longer than a real rose leaf. Then sew a row to stand up around the edge, and after the shaggy silken dropping shade is fastened about the wire circle, tie a ribbon with bow and ends about the center. If you do all this with taste and discretion, yon will find that you have exactly such a candle shade as would cost you $3 in any shop, at a cost of less than "50 cents. warminzs and rocking in his mother's arnu keps-him summery warm. The Resnlt of the Treatment. He throve, he grew, there never was a more-charming baby, or one who bad fewer of thc.disabilitie3 which cripple happiness. It was some, care to look after his comfort, but it was worlds less than caring for a sick baby through one week's illness. Ton need not be afraid of giving the llttla thing plenty of fresh air to breathe, by ventilation or taking it out in good weather, bnt it must be kept so warm that its blood neverchills, never be placed in the line be tween two doors or windows, even if closed, or held many minutes near a window or far from a- heater. Babies are tender, they ieel cold in air positively comfortable to ns, and the air next a window is always 10 to 20 colder than that near tho source of heat A, baby needs to bo kept as warm as if brooded under a hen's feathers. That is the only comparison that comes near the truth. To turn another phase of ycnthfnl life better results are got in most of tho physical accomplishments if they are began young. If a child is to be taught to dance, the age of 6 is not too early; then there is complete .elasticity, perfect freedom and play of the Joints, perfect lightness and suppleness of the'whole bony framework. Flexibility of Vocal Organs. At 6 is not too early to begin the pro- inundation of foreign languages; then all the organs of speech are flexible, and at this age the child is not afraid to attack any thing, but likes to copy, to imitate, to re produce what he sees and hears. Ijilfla children who are out of doors with birds. fowl and animals will give yon all their cries and tones; they have much the same jenjoyment in uttering foreign words, and take" delight in calling tho common things about them by their foreign names. At no distant day oral teaching in the languages will become a. part of primary school work. At 6 it is none too early to begin the marching drills of school military exer cises. If parents knew the value, morally, of these exercises, they would wish them to be made a part of regular school work. The child, much moro than the lad, Is sen sitive and responsive to rhythm. It is worth-while for even a very young child to learn to "keep step;" it "means, as does dancing, three very great things:-ohedIsnce. , order and harmony with others. The Importance of Starting Ttlght, Place your children at the outset in the kind of school where they are to remain; not in the public school for a while at first if yon mean to educate them in a private school, or under a series of special train ings, as many parents plan to do, and vice versa. In either case it means confusion to the child and a "setback." If you intend to finally give your little daughter the benefit of a remarkable in structor in music, let ber take her first les son, let her learn her "fingering" from him. It is wronging a child to plan any portion of her education in a way which will oblige him, later, to spend some time and effort la unlearning that which you have caused to be taught him. Flla FAKiiAjr Plate. laid ancestral eruption of thia UuLiAtMJ, TAGK IT ON TIE WALL Get the best not the cheapest Confine your pur chases to such goods as your experience and judg ment tell, you are of -the finest quality. No mer chant can build up a profitable business by selling inferior goods. When undesirable goods accumulate the wheels of business are clogged. Sell the most reliable articles at reasonable' prices. Serve your customers with Dr. Price's Delicious Flavoring Extracts as they never fail to please. In a million homes for more than a quarter of a century they have given satisfaction. I ' x jt- -"v- - - j. ' &J2&y' ,t yftSgi ,7 'rfJjfiSft(j
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