THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

VISION.

 

iWe call the angels happier than we;

But if they count among their higher powers
The vision that will let them watch and se a
The manifold wide sorrows that are ours

With passing of the hours;

'-If they can look upon a town by night,
And see the suffering, and hear each cry
'That rises from sick hearts, and know the blight
~01 sin, and feel how many long to die,—
If all of these they spy.—

“Then would it seem we mortals are more blessed,
We mortal folk who mercifully are blind
To half the hatefulness from east to west,
And so have room to believe the world is kind,
And gain a gladder mind.

*Or is it these self-same angels‘ eyes
Are never dimmed by tears, because they know
That all their Master’s plannings are most wise,
“That all the years are good that come and go?
God grant that it be sol
—Richard E. Burton.

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WHAT A HOTEER CAN DO FOR
HER SONS.

 

{Taper read at the Farmers‘ Club meeting at
“Fairview,” May 31st, by “Beatrix.”]

Perhaps it may be somewhat presump-
tuous in me, a childless woman, to ofiier
suggestions and advice concerning the
bringing up of children, to those who
know the trials and .‘perplexities by actual
experience. But it is true, I think, in this
as in many other of the affairs of life, that
the locker-on sees most of the game, and
from that coign of vantage can discern
terrors, faults, and their consequences more
clearly and impartially than those more
“directly interested.

One of the noblest of our American
:mothers wrote in her diary, upon the birth
of her' child: “I am the mother of an im-
mortal soul. God be merciful to me, a
sinner! ” The sense of her new obligation
overpowered her. Not the elaborate
.layette, not the economic consideration
that there was another little mouth to fill,
.were subjects of her thought; but that she
had been made guardian of a never-dying
soul. The parental responsibility is indeed
great; it is one which mothers and fathers
should share in equal measure, but which
is usually delegated principally to the
mothers, especially in early years. To
have a happy, contented, joyous child-
hood is one of the greatest possible bless-
sings to a child. It is part of his inheri-
tance. The thoughts and loves and dis-
«iikes of our childhood always make part
of our lives. People who were unhappy,

repressed and held down in childhood,
rarely are buoyant and joyous in their
middle and old age. The children bur-
dened too early with the cares and toil of
life, lose all youth’s elasticity and grow up
stolid and indifferent. Give your children
then a happy childhood, full of the sun-
shine of family affection, so that when they
come to establish homes of their own, they
may model them after the one you made
for them. And there are some ways in
which a mother can train her sons, which
will aid them greatly when they come to
this era in their lives, and which will add
amazingly to the happiness and comfort of
that “ not impossible she ”'who will help
in the home-building. It is of this I wish
particularly to speak—how a mother can
make it easy for her son’s wife and chil-
dren, by teaching him, in his own youth,
what women havea right to expect of him.
In many families where there are but
one or two boys and several girls, the idea
that boys are worth so much more to the
farm and the world than girls, leads to a
great injustice to the latter, who are re-
quired to wait on their brothers hand and
foot, submit to their exactions, and obey
and defer to them beyond all reason or
justice. The mother often makes herself
the servant of her sons through a mistaken
afiection for them, instead of teaching
them to take thought of her comfort and
ease and wait upon her. Unselfish mothers
invariably make selfish, inconsiderate chil-
dren; and the boy, when he comes to marry,
will as invariably develop into an incon-
siderate, heedless husband—one of the
kind who eternally ask “ where’s this,”
“ where’s tha. ,” and can never fully com-
prehend which drawer of the bureau is
devoted to shirts. Early lessons in wait-
ing upon himself, picking up after him-
self, and the cultivation of a manly self-
reliance in the matter of brushing his own
clothes will not hurt any boy; in fact, will
do him good, and smooth the way of his
much enduring wife. Every mother is
anxious her daughters shall marry men
who will make good husbands; the least
shecan do isto educate her sons to be
good husbands to some other woman’s
daughters; and implant in their characters
those qualities she would most appreciate
in her sons in law. The boy who is a good
son and brother is pretty sure to make a
good husband. It is quite pertinent for a
young man to consider whether he is as
desirable as a husband, as is the girl he
wishes to win as a wife. And the mother

 

may well inquire “ What sort of a bus

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band will my son make?” at the moment
she considers the wifely qualifications of
the girl he has chosen.

The mother should give her boy an
adequate idea of the extent and magni-
tude of woman’s work; its bearing upon
his comfort, its value as a factor in his
business life. She should teach him that
labor-saving appliances are as much a
saving of woman’s strength in the house
as of man’s toil in the field, and that one
is as great an economy as the other. Also,
that the wife is as much entitled to them,
and to have the house planned to suit her
convenience, as he to have the barns and
stables arranged to enable him to have his
work done with the least outlay of time
and muscle. Perhaps then there would be
fewer farms well equipped with expensive
machinery, while indoors a second wash-
tub would be a family blessing. Teach
the boys to be thoughtful and helpful
round the house, to take note of the empty
wood-box and fill the water pail. I’ve
seen a young man, finding the water-pail
empty, sit down and wait till his sister
filled it, then get a drink. And girls,
when you are first married is the time to
establish these little habits. Begin as you
mean to hold out; you cannot turn the
page backward. If you are willing to
bring wood and water and split your own
kindlings the first year, depend upon it
you’ll have it to do the fifth, though your
work has quadrupled and strength has
not kept pace with it. And don’t allow
any man to impose upon your good nature
by providing you green wood to cook with.
Don’t you do it, if you have to put him on
starvation rations to convert him.

What tender memories a man cherishes
of his mother’s apple turnovers and ginger
nuts, to the misery of the wife who
“can’t cock as mother could!” When a
boy is small, his stomach is cavernous;
like an oystcr’s, it’s the principal part of
him, and “everything goes.” As he grows
older he becomes more critical, till the
sixteenth part of a kernel of pepper,
present or lacking in the stew, condemns
the dish. Anything but a man finding
fault with his dinner, like a dog growling
over a bone! Next him comes he who
cannot eat this, that, or the other thing
because he never tasted it, and like an
overgrown baby dares not make the ex-
periment. Teach the boys that whatever

dish appears upon your table is fit for
their consumption, but never force upon
a child what is still repugnant to him after

 

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THE ‘HOUSEEOLD.

 

course of boarding to banish whims,
but these little wrinkles are disposed of
much more easily while one is young. I

speak feelingly. Some day, you know,
some woman will have to get up warm
meals for this embryo man, and you will
greatly simplify matters for her if you
teach him to eat what other peop'e do,
without putting too fine a point upon it.

I am sure there are many wives who
would be exceedingly grateful to their
husbands’ mothers had the latter taught
them a consideration for the feelings of
others which would keep them from
making their wives’ mistakes, blunders
and failures a subject for their wit before
company. It sounds smart, and some-
times there's tr ily a good joke at the wife’s
expense, b it few think how the poor
victim feels as she sits at the head of her
table, while her husband “ takes off” her
mistakes when she was an inexperienced
housekeeper, for the amusement of their
guests. Again, a man sometimes expresses
his esteem and admiration for a lady by
saying he shall choose her for No. 2, or
that he has his eye on her for his second,
says so in his wife’s presence, and thinks
no harm. It is only a jest, but ’tis an ill
one. The wife may smile, nor feel one
jealous thought; she may know her hus-
band loves her dearly, yet his idle words
about that solemn parting when one shall
be taken and the other left, send a thrill
of pain through her heart. Would a hus-
band think it kind and true in his wife to
tell him she had his successor selected, and
enumerate his good qualities?
Above all, mothers, don’t educate
family tyrants, of the type that must dictate
about things indoors as well as out—super-
intend the groceries and buy the darning-
needles and shoe—buttons. It is not the
province pf the husband to usurp the wife’s
jurisdiction in the house. Fancy a hus-
band “snooping” round the pantry and
asking what became of the remnants of
yesterday’s roast! There are a few—I hope
only a few—meddlesome men who seem
to relish managing soap and starch, but
they need to be sent about their business
with the proverbial flea in their ear.
Did you ever know a boy who was not
proud of being a boy and inclined to pity
and patronize girls? Nearly all girls will
acknowledge they wish they were boys,
but I never knewa boy who would will-
ingly be a girl, and I’ve asked dozens, just
out Of curiosity. There is a moral in the
story of the small boy, who on being in-
troduced into his first pair of pants was at
first overcome with delight, then burst into

tears. Asked the reason, he said it was

because he was so sorry for his mamma,

she could never wear pantsi No more

' ‘ stingingly contemptuous ' epithet “ than he takes upon himself his marriage vows.
é “ girl-baby” can be applied to a-‘boy; and
This is the merit.

how angrily he resents it!

earliest manifestation of that feeling of
superiority over sisters, sweethearts, wives;
the idea “ It must be as I say, I must have
what I want, because I am a man.” The

tion of the sexes.
trated by that great student of human
nature, George Eliot, in her Maggie and
recall my own struggles with olives, and Tom Tulliver. Tom knew Maggie was the
my throes over mustard sandwiches, and brightest, the quickest, much his superior,

but he insisted his ideas and his ways were

you by what means it will come, if ever it
does. Not by petitions and remonstrances;
not by suffrage planks in State constitu~
tions, but by conquering this idea of one
sex’s superiority, and by educating‘your
sons, and thus your sons’ “c" s, to regard
their sisters and their sister’s friends as
their equals in all respects. Men govern
the nation, but women educate the men,
and here’s your or, ortunity. It took only
about a generation after women became
convinced of their need of equal educa-
tional rights before colleges and universi-
ties opened their doors to them, and the
same will be—must be—true in other
things when women begin at the right
place to bring them about. Archimedes,
when he made his famous proposition to
move the earth, did not intend to place
himself on the fulcrum, but to take the
long end of the lever. '
And now, about one thing more a mother
can do for her sons, the most important
point of all—she can educate them to a
correct view of married rights to the purse.
The chief cause of unhappiness, in
thousands of homes, isthe money question.
Women in the farming districts are as
truly prisoners of poverty as in the city’s
slums. Many of them, living in apparent
comfort, do not see ten dollars a year they
can call their own. When Miss Amelia
Edwards, in her lecture on the manners
and customs of the ancient Egyptians, de-
scribed the relative financial status of men
and women—a cemplete reversal of our
modern methods, the husband being en-
titled only to his beard, clothing and
funeral expenses from his wife, I wished
this feature of Queen Hatasu’s time could
prevail in this age for a year—just long
enough to make some nineteenth century
husbands squirm under the conditions they
impose upon their faithful consorts. A
practical test in the Way of asking for five
dollars and getting one; or the experience
of being in a strange town at five minutes
of train time and the excursion tickets and
every cent of money in the wife’s pocket
and she heaven knows where, would cure
some men at least of their propensity to
consider the aggregate farm profits» their

practically paupers. I do not admit a man

able living for his family. That is a duty

It is charmingly illus- selfishly as many a husband profits by the;
work of his wife’s hands and brain.

Now marriage is a co partnership—it is‘

much more than that, but the great trouble
is in too many homes it is much less there
that. It is made a business afiair so far as
right, simply because they were his and he the toil goes, but that relation ceases when
was a boy. Dear ladies, some of you no the distribution of profits comes in; it is-
doubt want to vote, and though I myself as if one partner balanced the books and»
have no such aspirations, yet I will tell deposited the surplus to his own private-
account.
handles the money does not regard it as his

But in business the man who'-

because he handles it, nor talk of “giving "‘

it to the other.' Each draws his share by
right, not through kindness. Every Son
ought to be taught that his mother’s daily
tasks in the economy of the family co-part'
nership are just as essential, ion as vital,
and worth just as much as the father’s
work on the farm or in the workshop. Let,
the wife become unable to perform her'
part, and the husband soon discovers by
what it costs him to buy the services of a.
housekeeper, that her labor was worth a.
salary; or if he thinks woman's work is-
“nothing ” and attempts to fill the void:
himself, temporarily, he learns that he had:
been enjoying the fruit of constant care,.
toil and thoughtfulness, without adequate-
comprehension of the fact, and that much»
his philosophy ne’er dreamed of goes to-
bring about those results he so appreciates.
He gets at last an idea that though “his-
money” may buy the raw material, the
conversion of those ingredientsinto a shape-
adapted to the requirements of the family"
is quite another thing.

Any woman who cannot have a postage
stamp without asking for it should make
a strong point of educating her boys into--
broader beliefs and thus earning the ever-
lasting gratitude of their wives that are to
be. And I would advise every girl to:
ascertain her lover’s views upon this im-
portant matter, before she pledges herself
to accept the situation of wife, with all the;
subordinate positions which are included-
in it.

The happiest homes I know, or ever;
have known, in town or country, have
been those where the wife’s property
rights are acknowledged and respected.
The marriage tie does not destroy or abro-
gate the personal rights; and no home can)
be truly happy, no wife thoroughly con-
tent, who is smarting under a sense of her:
husband’s injustice. The wife of a Detroit-
millionaire once told a servant in her employ
that she envied her—yes, enm’ed her, the;
privilege of earning and spending her—
wages as she pleased. What a commen-
tary on the character of a man who makes

exclusive property, and keep their wives his wife the mistress of an elegant mansion,

yet so dependent upon him as tobe covet-

is generous because he provides a comfort- ous of the wages of her cook!

I have heard of men who say it makes

he assumes voluntarily—of choice—when a wife “ too independent” to have money

of her own, but to what condition of:

It is a simple}obligation, not a _ special" mendicity does a‘man wish to reduce the
Is a husband generous when he woman he vowedtolove and honor? Does»
allows his wife food when she is hungry, he think to increase her affection and
medicine when she is sick, furnishes a esteem for him by making her a dependent
house to live in and clothes to wear? The upon his pleasure? Other husbands say
Southerner did as much as that for his their wives can always have money by
slaves before the war, and appropriated asking for it. But why compel themtoaskt

 

 

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Vince them what a trial it is to a sensitive
woman to ask for the money she feels
should be shared with her without being
asked for.

What I have written is not for the pur~
pose or with the idea of antagonizing the
sexes; that would be unwise and foolish,
for the interests of both sexes are identical.
I only beg for that thoughtful considera-
tion which will make these interests truly
identical and promote domestic happiness.
One way of winning this is through the
mother’s influence in presenting these mat-
ters in a proper light. A man must pass
h‘s prime—perhaps have children of his

' own about him, before he can comprehend

the full extent of his mother’s influence
upon his life. May notaman who has
come to fifty years, looking backward,
realize that what his mother taught him

about the property and domestic rights of‘

women, her hints as to what is due to
womanhood, have made or marred his mar-
ried happiness?

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THE HINISTER'S DEPARTURE.

 

I have a large bunch in my throat and it
aches and pains, and I must have vent
somewhere, so come to the HOUSEHOLD.
First, let me tell Grandpa he was wrong
entirely when he thought I had an angelic
disposition. He does not know me; per-
haps it is just as well. I do not think any
one was any better or wiser for having my
acquaintance. I have the largest nose—
one of the thin slim kind, the greenest eyes
and the longest tongue, and temper—well,
the least said the better, but I will say I
never held a grudge against a person in
my life. I am like gun-powder touched by
a match, all in a flash, and say and do
things I am ashamed of, then repent at my
leisure.

But to go back to the bunch: I think it
is all on account of the farewell sermon of
the minister. I haven’t been a church goer
very many years, and if I am obliged to go
through with these harrowing feelings
every time a minister leaves I believe I
will not go any more. I do not think I
will ever go through such a trying ordeal
again, for no minister can take the place of
this one. I think he would stand against
the world for piety; and when I saw those
old people with silvery locks and bowed
heads feeling so badly, I wondered if they
had not planned for that same minister to
preach their funeral sermon; and now he
was to go miles away because some were
dissatisfied. He was too clean a man, too
pure, that was the trouble. I believe some
people get in the way of going to church and
it becomes a habit; a sort of second nature,
and they do not like their sins preached
to them, but I do. I want them to preach
right to the ground if it is done in a kind

way. If a church can not work together ,
in unity better not work at all.7'§ When I '

called 011 that pastor in his home afew
days since, and saw the wife tired out with
over exertion from washing and dressing
the new baby, and heard them tell how
they were trying to get away as soon as
possible, I was thankful I was not a min-
ister’s wife, or my husband a minister to

be ordered around the country according
to the likes and dislikes of people. What
are the social qualities of a minister? They
are not to be taken into consideration. I
had rather hear one good sermon from the
pu‘ pit than have three social visits. Let
him be distant, dignified and refined. As
soon as a minister gets down level with
his people, they lose respect. And how
every move is watched, and if he does step
out of the path of righteousness he better
look for another place right away. Still
he is but ahuman being, sameas ourselves.
If a minister is a good singer I think it
helps keep up a church. This minister
was good, true, kind; a good speaker and
a fine singer, and now he is going away,
where in all probability we will never see
him again, and my heart is broken and I
know I am goingto get wicked and bad.

RUTH.
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ADVICE.

 

From my earliest recollection I have al-

ways been the recipient of much good
advice from my friends and relatives.
Whether they discerned in my case pecu-
liar need or not, I know I havea large
quantity of the commodity on hand, and
”why should I be stingy with it? I will
not. I hereby extend it freely, with
both hands, to all the HOUSEHOLD. Much
of it you will find just as good as new, for
I never used it a particle myself. First
the warm weather advice. In all the
cases where the mind influences the body
none are more apparent than a calm,
cheerful mental state for keeping cool. Just
a little accession 01 fret and worry raises
the temperature. Don’t worry about any-
thing. How can it be helped? As it does
no good and immense hurt, fight against
it with every weapon you have at hand.
Fill your mind with other things so that
your trouble will have its edge dulled by
being kept in the background (possibly
that metaphor is mixed). Work, especially
work you like, is a great help, and here too
is the missionary field for good entertain~
ing novels that lift you up out of your own
worry and care. Especially never think
of your troubles in the night. I do not
know what there is in night air that magni-
fies and distorts anything that troubles,
but we all know that it does. When you
can’t sleep nights for “ something on your
mind,” turn up the light and go to reading
till you have other ideas in the foreground,
or none at all, and can drop to sleep when
the light goes out. In all times of trouble
remember the words that have comforted
the stricken hearts of humanity for
eighteen hundred years, “Let not your
heart be troubled.” We each know our
own favorite words of cheer from the
Master. Keep them in mind.
You mustn’t think this exhausts my
stmk of advice. ng’have’ ,much more
which I will send you, for it may fit some
of your cases if it never did mine.

Ella R. Wood, please tell us what will
contribute more to our happiness than
working for the comfort of “ m’husband ”
and feeling that we are succeeding? Be-

 

fore we tear down any edifice, let us have

another, much better one, ready to put
right up in its place.
Proxnnn. HULDAH PERKINS.

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INTELLECTUAL ‘EQUALITY.

How are the learned men, the doctors
and the divines, who have so strenuously
insisted that woman’s weaker physique -
and more delicate organization, not to
mention the quality of the gray matter of
her brain, quite unfit her for the pursuit of
the higher and more abstruse sciences, de
manding higher mental endowments, going
to get round the announcement recently
made that Miss Phillippa Fawcett, by four
hundred marks, outstripped in mathemav
tics the Senior Wrangler of the University-
of Cambridge? The senior wrangler is the
student who passes the best examination
in mathematics. Miss Fawcett was 400"
marks ahead of him. Last yearayoung;
woman was entitled to the highest classi-‘
cal honors in the same university, but was
not eligible to receive them because of her
sex. At our own Harvard, Miss Helen's
Reed won the prize, in competition with the‘
male students, for the best metrical’ztraas-
lation of an ode of Horace.

In the examination in which Miss Fawa
cett won this honor, sixteen otheryoung‘
women took minor honors, and no woman»)
failed to pass the examination with credit,
whereas six young men were “'piucked;”
that is, failed to pass.

‘ Miss Fawcett is the daughter of the late ‘
postmaster-general of England—the blind"
man who was so celebrated for hismental
endowments, and scarcely less well‘lmowrr
through the devotion of his wife and-
children to him, his wife going everywhere ..
with him and being tenderly referred to as-
his “ eyes.”

But what think you a London news-
paper said of Miss Fawcettl Why; that
on the whole, young women should be wv
pected to do that sort of a thing, as they-
have nothing to divert them and can -
fasten upon their work “the attention and i
concentration which young men dissipate ‘
over their games and their pleasures, " that
is, over rowing, cricket, wine parties and
gambling hells! Now isn’t that an 83?.
ceedingly small hole to crawl out of ?

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HOW TO TRIM A EAT.

 

For trimming hats the velvet or silk"
rosettes are much in vogue. They are
easily made—after one knows how. You
must conclude how large a rosette you
want, and widen or narrow your material
to suit the size. The rosette most fancied.
is just about the size of a rose, and the
material, cut on the bias, is folde.. to be
an inch wide. The strip is then gathered
and drawn into shape, it being fastened in;
that way on a circle of stiff net. Sew it
securely and‘do' not attempt to plaitiit to-
shape—it 7must be gathered. One, ”two or
three rosettes are used, and the number
usually decides the size. An eighth of a
yard of velvet, cut on the bias, will make
one medium-sized rosette, and this Seems

 

to be that best liked. Amateurs usually
err in over-trimming a hat or a bonnet; at)

  


 

 

 

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<- :as straw ones are not so troublesome to an-
usage as those of velvet, do not commit
*‘this fault. If you cannot see the really
., go. 6. styles in any other way. then look at
. them in the milliner’s window. Read her
' art and, marking it, learn and outwardly
-‘ imitate. Chapeaux “ just tossed” ’to-
-. gather always look what they are, and the
~ :one to which proper consideration and
"Iftime has been shown is the one that ap-
«irpnoaches the nearest to being “ a love of a
i? bonnet.’-’—.-Ladz‘es’ Home Journal.
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4¢~QU ESTIONS ANSWERED.

H

' tIf wafers are one of the items of the bill
{of fare for dinner, when should they be
garaswi and with what? Will our kind,
shaver-failing, all-knowing Editress please
:give her mind to this weighty mattter?
1"..,(And do not dare to scratch out one of the -
. :above adjectives.) Will she also tell us
" what is the proper thing now days in pil-
\"iow covers. Are they shams or cases?

.. Any hints thankfully received.
POLLY.

 

" Wafers of any description do not prop-

-- .crly belong on the dinner table. The
marine wafer is sometimes incorrectly ap
'- plied to the thin water crackers which are
'~ mrved with soups. Wafers belong on the
dumb table. If served at dinner, it would
= seem asif the proper place for them would
i ’beafter pie or pudding, or with the after
dinner. coffee. The plain, hem stitched
itlinen'piliow-slip, with drawn work above
:sdhe hem, or the hem-stitching alone, seems
stobethe mos “elegantly correct” thing

" Jain pillow coverings at date. Pillow shams
: are still used by a great many people, be-
» cause they are convenient and make a bed
'z'look nice. I suppose it is the reaction
after the elaborate ornamentation of the
-.-:sham which sent us back to the plain slip.

greatly assisted if a little ammonia or bcrax
is added to the water; which should be
merely warm, neither hot nor cold. An-
other very excellent application in this
connection is an egg thoroughly beaten
and well rubbed'into the roots of the h .ir,
which, of course, must be immediately
and carefully rinsed, else the last condition
will be worse than the first. It is a mis-
take to suppose that any hair dressing,
pomade, or other application of that sort,
will cleanse the scalp. They merely add
another element of vex rtion, attracting and
holding the dust and the dirt, which a dry
brush would very generally remove.
Promiscuous washing and frequent
wetting of the hair is very detrimental,
especially sea bathing, unless the salt
water should be carefully washed out of
the hair with fresh, soft water, and the
hair carefully dried. Keeping the hair
damp has an especially injurious effect,
not only rendering it brittle and rough, but
causing a disagreeable odor, which is an-
noying to every one, and which can be
easily prevented. When the head is t.» be
washed, warm soft water with castile soap
should be used. The hair should be im-
mediately dried. An occasional shampoo,
with a vigorous rubbing of the scalp with
the finger ends, not only removes dirt and
dandrufi, but assists the circulation and
promotes ahealthy condition; As soon as
the hair has been dried it should be care-
fully inspected. The broken ends should

this can generally be as well attended to at

be clipped to promote the growth, and

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JTKE CARE OF THE HAIR.

 

"The first and most important requisite

‘5. for prescrving the health and attractiveness
-- of the hair, says Good Housekeeping, is that
' it shall-be kept scrupulously clean, yet in
=1nany cases this is not by any means an
, easy task. There is nothing for which dust
‘ has a greater affinity than a thick head of
hair, especially when slightly damp or
~“oily. The flying particles lodge indisr
--crimi:ately among the most attractive
- tresses or the unkempt shock of the care-
less laborer, and once lodged they cling
with greatest persistence. Especially when
traveling, the exposure to dust necessitates
- Constant care in keeping the head and scalp
rclean. The face would tell its own story
after a week or so of exposure, but the
:18le is covered and the hair is a partner in
untidiness Usually, hair which is brushed
:Ior _a few minutes night and morning will
‘mmm comparatively little extra care to
,_,;preserve it in beauty and cleanliness. The
brush is very much more efficient than the
«womb, but of course a time comes when
.melther will meet the requirements; and at
-.-rea80nable intervals, depending upon cir-

home as at the hands of a professional
hair-dresser.
For adults, as well as children, a univer-
sal motto should be “more brush, less
com .” Gentleness and care in the use of
the proper implements will make all the
difference in the world in the condition of
the hair. The brush should be fitted with
natural colored bristles, and it need not,
for ordinary use, be very expensive. It
should be firm enough to penetrate through
the hair to the scalp, and not so harsh as to
leave a smart following its use. This is
one reason why the brush is better than the
comb—especially the “ fine tooth comb,”
which should be pretty much relegated to
oblivion. Its excessive use often leads to
serious diseases of the scalp, the skin being
broken and particles of poisonous dust
being pressed into the wound, causing
soreness and sometimes serious results. A
rubber comb is best, as the softness of its
teeth is its recommendation. Any comb
should be used very little except for part-
ing the hair, but whether a comb or a
brush be used, surely no wearer of long
hair need be told that they should begin
operations at the ends, and not near the
roots of the hair, as by the latter method it
is very easy to break and tear away the
new hairs with a great detriment to the
whole. Above all, do not fear to use the
brush too generously.

There is another consideration in con-
nection with the use of the hair-brush,
which, though it may scarcely need men-

 

.cumstances, a careful washing of the hair

 

and scalp is necessary. This will be,

tion, should not be overlooked. The brush

shudder to see thc’brushes and combs that
are sometimes supplied at places of public

resort. No one should ever think of using
a public hair brush, any more than a
public tooth brush, unless it becomes a
matter of absolute necessity; but the fact
remains that the individual article requires
to be properly cared for, else it becomes an
instrument of danger rather than a delight.
If the case is not very aggravated the
bristles may be washed in lukewarm water,
to which a few drops of ammonia can be
added. This will clear away the accumu-
lated dust and dirt as by magic. The
bristles can be rinsed in pure water, and
allowed to dry in an airy place; the brush
should not be exposed to the sun; nor
should the back of it be wet at any time.
Soda and soap soften the bristles, and if
the back of the brush be of ivory it will
turn yellow by their application. For
general use it is better economy to buy a
cheap brush, and, after using it for a
reasonable time. throw it into the fire and
start afresh.
Dandruff is probably the most prevalent
afiection of the scalp, as well as a source of
annoyance. It should be born in mind
that dandrufi pertains to scalp and not to
the hair, except as it becomes mingled
with it. The most natural method of re-
moving it is with the comb and brush, but
the comb should be carefully used. Part
the hair, and an operator will soon acquire
the faculty of lifting the scales without
scattering them through the hair. When
this has been done the brush will remove
the stray particles. It is better, however,
to prevent the accumulation than to sub‘
mit to the necessity of scraping it from the
skin, and fortunately there are simple
remedies which, in the majority of cases,
are effective.
An occasional shampoo with soap and
water, or borax and water, or some simple
mixture of that kind, once in two or three
weeks, will often be found a necessity. A
very good shampoo liquid for general use.
may be made as follows: Carbonate of am-
monia, one drachm; carbonate of potas-
sium, one drachm; water, four ounces; tinc~
ture of cantharides, one drachm; alcohol,
four ounces; rum, one and a one-half pints.
Dissolve the carbonates in the water;
shake well before using, moistening the
scalp until a lather fetms. Wash in Cool
water and rub dry. For a permanent re-
moval of dandruff it is better to take
borax, half a teaspoonful; common sul-
phur, one heaping teaspoonful; pour over
them one pint of boiling water. When
cool, pour into a bottlg; agitate frequently
for three or four days, then strain. Moisten
the scalp with this thoroughly three or four
times a week. It is one of the most re-
liable preparations known for permanently
removing dandruff.

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Mos'r vegetables are better cooked in
granite or porcelain ware than in iron.
This hot weather, when cream is plenty
and butter so low-priced there’s no money
in it. don’t be saving of the cream in cook-
ing vegetables, which are much improved

 

should be kept clean. It gives one a

by its use.

  
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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