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ff a cow gives 16 quails of milk per
day she must consequently consume
at least an equal quantity of water.
If the water is ley cold she ••’ill not
drink because she thereby becomes
chilled. She will fall off in her yield
r milk because she rmir-t produce
!l unless she drinks a quantity suffi
cient for th ■ milk and the demands
ef her body. She voids u aially a large
quantity of water. Tlo •”&( r fo • .ii *
c >„s must therefore be v armed if the
Oow of milk is to continue.
(•riftin Wtieviln.
Ii is paid that the grain wbevil has
a natural dislike to salt, ami that
wheat or other grain stored In salt
sacks was not touched by them, while
that in other sacks in the same pile
was badly lnft sted and virtually
ruined by weevils. If this is true it
would be a simple matter to dip all
grain sacks in brine and dry them be
fore using, or perhaps to surround
the grain bins with salted sacks. It
is ari experiment worthy of trial in
the grain-growing regions. It is
cheaper ami as easily triml as the
bisulphide of carbon treatment, and
we think could not injure the grain
for seed or any other purposes. The
grain does nod absorb the salt, but it
stands as a fence around it to repel
toe weevil.
An H Mb Sepnmtord.
Whether it is desirable or not to
buy a separator depends noon circum
stances. Do not trust all stories of
the enormous increase of yield of
Imtter because of the separator. To
be sure the separator removes practi
cally all the, butter fat, but more than
that it will not do. The ultimate pro
fits will depend upon what the indi
vidual dairyman will or will not do.
Foe instance, I do not think it advis
able to mix fresh warm cream witli
ttiat previously separated, or wa-m or
diluted cold cream with fresh milk.
These additions always contain more
or less animal odor or are otherwise
tainted. They should be ao-ated and
cooled before mixing. Neglect of any
one of the many necessary precau
tions will result in more loss than can
bo made up by the use of a separator.
-1/ W. Zahrn. in Orange Judd
(farmer.
Cow Pea* in NorthH*n State*.
If the cow pea lias any place in the
farming of the northern states it is
■rot as a forage crop, either as hay or
ensilage. Some have succeeded in
making fair ensilage by mixing a little
with corn, one-fourth part or less, but
Others have failed. When the pea
vines are fit to cut it is not good hay
auakiug weather, and they need a
great deal of curing. A small patch
for the hogs to feed upon, or for the
bens to pick the peas from, mav do
very well, but the use for them is on
•otne of the outlying lots of poor soil,
so far away that It will not nay to
draw manure from the barnyard to
them. Sow the cow peas there, as
they will grow where clover will not.
Vid on some acid phosphate aiul pot
ash to give them a start, and plow
th< ;m under in the fall. Then sow rye
as a winter cover crop to prevent the
nitrogen from being lost in winter.
Plow that under in the spring and add
more phosphate and potash, and the
|icas and rye will have furnished or
ganic matter and nitrogen enough to
grow almost any crop that may be
•wanted there. This requires some
labor, but tt Is cheaper than paying 20
©eats a pound for nitrogen in chemi
cals or the commercial fertilisers.
Mock* aut! >etJl mar*.
In planning an orchard of any kind
©f fruit trees the relative value of
•tucks and seedlings will often occur
t > the orchardist. Not every one who
goes into commercial fruit growing
realizes the importance of understand
fog when to raise seedlings and when
t(* depend upou grafted fruits. Graft
fag Is more rampant todav than ever
before, and it looks as if all our fruit
fn fhe next generation will be from
grafted stock. This of course is due
to the success of some of our best
•rafts, which will produce their best
fruits only when successfully grown
on good, thrifty seedling stocks. We
have practically turned the matter of
nising seedlings over to the nursery
•n°-n. and then we set our voung or
chards with these stocks and graft
the improved varieties on them.
Personally T -onld advocate the
•rowing of good seedling stocks on
the farm more generally than is the
ease today, and not trust everything
tt* the nurseryman. 1 do not say that
the latter is giviug ns anything less
than what he agrees to, and there are
■Quay times when w e must depend
upon him to supply us with our needs.
But the fruit grower who does not
have his own young nursery cf seed
tag stocks must fail to reach the all
•round results which en experienced
•rower obtains. We must know
something of the trees from their first
©tart In life up to the time we cut
them down for kindling w o od. This
eati come only by planting a few seeds
©very year in a small nursery where
the stocks of future trees can be tend
©l and watched.
Seedling stork should possess above
•II other things strength and rigor.
Th*' stock that is "ak j n any
way can hardly he desirable for
grafting purposes. The reason
we select th<‘ seedlings fo- stock
!i because of their superior hardi
•oas and rapidity of growth. The
tear* is supposed to lie of a weaker
aid. and it gain.:, strength and vigor
from the sap of the stock. If this
latter is not in perfect condition wa
must expect to see the fruit interior
in quality or amount.
We cannot always get the best
j seedling wtock when brought from a
long distance. The change of soil and
| climate affects it badly oftentimes and
puts it back for several years. Wecannot
afford to make the graft until it has
become accustomed to the new soil
and surroundings and has recovered
some of its thriftiness. This delay is
not only aggravating, lint very often
very unprofitable. Good seedling
stock taken from the home nursery
seldom causes such a serious setback,
and if one tree does it should be
quickly replaced by another. But
1 even if we depend upon the nursery
man for our stocks, it is alwavs well
: to supplement them with a few raised
. in the home orchard. Then when one
I or more of the purchased stocks fail
supplant it immediately by one from
the home nursery. In this way we
can avoid these v ide gaos in orchards
, which are the result, of the failure of
some of the original trees. —C. S.
i Walters, in American Cultivator.
Fruit 1!• in the 8 urine.
Now that it is nearly time for the
fruit trees to blossom it would be well
| for farmers who desire large crops of
fruit to consider the matter of the pol-
I lona!ion of the blossoms, which is so
: necessary in securing perfect fruit,
j The various experiment stations have
j been at work in the direction of pol
i lenation for several years, and the
j Cornell station has performed excel
lent service in calling attention to the
facts which have not been well under
stood by fruit growers. It may not be
known that scarcely one fruit blos
som in 10 sets fruit, even in the most
favoralde seasons and with the most
productive varieties, and trees mak
ing very vigorous growth may drop
their blossoms, while brown rot or
apple or pear scab and pear blight
may also destroy them. As all farm
mers understand, however, frost will
Injure blossoms, and even flowers that
are apparently uninjured may be so
weakened as to be unable to set fruit.
Rain during the blooming season par
tially prevents the setting of fruit,
chiefly by destroying the vitality of
ihe pollen, injuring the stigma, or by
preventing fertilization because of the
low temperature. The washing of
pollen from the anthers, however, sel
dom causes serious loss. The position
of an orchard, the soil, the protection
in the form of windbrakes. the sudden
appearance of severe cold, or a warm
spell of weather in February or
March all affect the fruit to a certain
extent. The trees that have the
greatest number of blossoms do not
always produce the most fruit, as lo
cal conditions may not be as favor
able as for some other trees in the
same orchard.
The main cause of the unsatisfac
tory fruiting of orchards over the
whole country is self-sterility. Any
tree is self-sterile if it cannot set
fruit unless planted near other varie
ties. The cause nf splf-sterility is the
Inability of the pollea of a variety to
fertilize the oistils of that variety.
Poor stamens and pistils are also
causes. An indication of self-sterility
is the continued dropping of fruit
from isolated trees or solid blocks of
trees of one variety. Self-sterility is
not a constant characteristic with any
variety, as the same variety may be
self fertile in one place and nearly
self sterile in seme other. Well-fed
trees are less likely to be sterile with
their own pollen than trees that are
poorly nourished. When sitting out
new orchards the trees should he of
mixed varieties and not a solid block
of any one kind, and where orchards
are already established and the trees
are unfruitful it will probably be
found profitable to put a few grafts of
another variety in each tree. In the
matter of preventing loss of fruit by
spraying it. has been found by experi
menting with apple trees that the
number of blossoms saved is quite
large compared with trees that re
ceived no treatment, in many cases
the crop being doubled. It is safe to
claim, however, that the majority of
growers allow their trees to overbear
and carry too large a crop to matur
ity. instead of thinning out the fruit
at an early stage. First save the
blossoms by spraying to destroy in
sects and parasites and reduce the
fruit on the trees later.
Some kinds of fruit do not require
! mixing with other varieties, while
others perfer to be with varieties best
adapted for the purpose. European
and Oriental pears can fertilize each
other, and many varieties of the do
mestic, Japanese and native plums are
likewise inter-fertile, provided they
bloom at the same time. The pollen
of some varieties will give larger fruit
than that of others when it falls on
or is applied to the pistils of either
self-sterile or self-fertile varieties.
Among our common orchard fruits
cross-pollenatiou seldom has an imme
diate influence on the size of the fruit
itself, but cross-pollenatiou probably
gives better results than self-pollena
tion with nearly all varieties. It Is ad-
I visable and practicable to plant all va
| rieties of orchard fruits, be they self
■ sterile or self-fertile, with reference
, to oross-pollenation. Insects are prob
-1 ably more important than wind for
! carrying pollen from tree to tree,
i hence growers who have but one va
j riety in a solid block have been bene
fited by the varieties growing in some
neighboring orchard, which may even
be some distance away. but this should
not be relied upon, as the safest plan
is to have at least two varieties of all
kinds of fruit, the two varieties to
j come in blossom at the same time in
order that the one may provide poiien
j for the other. —Philadelphia Record.
There are no trial trips on the sea
of matrimony.
THE WEEKLY NEWS, CARTERSVILLE. GA.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
In Florida a trial i3 being made of
growing tomatoes under glass. The
piaut does well, but the fruit isn't as
good as when grown out doors, nei
ther is it a: plentiful. The experi
ments will be continued.
Twenty percent of {.he total num
b r of deaths reported in No-wav are
now caused by tuberculosis, which is
an increase so alarming that the gov
ernment is now taking active meas
urer; to fight the disease.
All systems of electric lighting now
in commercial use are exceedingly
wasteful, since much of the developed
energy produces heat rather than
light. A form of electric light that
promises much is the vacuum tube,
which is caused to glow by induced
ciiri < nts of high frequent jj, or by act
ual conduction of a low tension cur
rent through rarefied vapors. These
lights give a beautiful, soft glow, fill
ing the whole tube.
Experiments are being made on the
Wannsee railroad between Berlin and
Zehlendorf, Germany, to .determine
the precise value of electric propul
sion as a substitute for steam. The
train used consists of eight ordinary
cars and is provided with an electric
motor-car at each end. the advantage
of this arrangement being that the
reversing of the train at the terminals
of the journey becomes unnecessary.
Thus far the electric power has
proved to tie about IS percent cheaper
than steam-power.
The long droughts so common in
Southern Russia are said to be due
chiefly to the absence of woods, and
the government has fo- some years
been considering the advisability of
afforesting the treeless plains. Crown
land3 are being systematically wood
ed, and seedlings and saplings have
been given out at low rates to land
owners, hut little has yet been done.
Irrigation has, however, been success
fully carried out in riverless regions.
The plan which is adopted is to con
struct dams across valleys and gullies,
forming reservoirs in which rain and
melted snow is collected and stored.
When astronomers are-making hero
ic attempts by planting observatories
on lofty mountains and on desert
plateaus to overcome the effects of
dense, impure and unsteady air in ob
scuring telescopic vision, it strikes j
one as odd that the interoosition of a
light-absorbing screen in the eyepiece
of the telescope should be found to j
improve the vision. Such however, i
according to Professor See and Mr. !
Peters o r the United States naval j
observatory, is the fact. By inter
posing a cell, filled with a solution of j
picric acid and copper in alcohol, he- j
tween the eye and the lenses of the
eyepiece, they find that the definition
with a telescope, in viewing stars and
ptmiets, materially improved.
PHOTOGRAPHY AND PRINTING.
How Ihe Best Photographer* Study Tlieir
Subject*.
In an article on “Photography as
a Fine Art.” in Everybody’s Magazine,
Charles H. Caffin suggests the difficul
ty which confronts the artistic pho
tographer in his attempt to make a
fine portrait. “The painter,” he says,
“enjoys the opportunity of studying
his subject’s character and character
istic pose and expression m manv sit
tings, and can gradually elaborate the
recold of what he sees, striving to
make it comprehend or suggest the
tanv-sidedneßs et - his subject. This,
however, is a great gift, and few there
be that find it; but it constitutes the
grandeur of the great portraits of the
world. I have heard of a photog
rapher inviting to his studio some one
whose portrait he wished to take, and
on many occasions in the unrestraint
of conversation studying his charac
teristics, and then one day, by a little
ruse, securing a negative-plate when
the subject thought it was something
at his side that was being photo
graphed. But this is obviously im
practicable as a rule, and the photog
rapher must ordinarily rely upon
quickness or sympathy and compre
hension, upon his ability to cultivate
confidence at short notice, and the
power of rapid decision as to pose and
lighting, so that he saves the sitter
the oppressive feeling of being operat
ed upon. One can imagine the diffi
culty of this, and it is surprising how
the best photographers surmount it.
There is another side to the portrait,
which is that, besides being a good
likeness, it may be a beautiful pic
ture, and one is inclined to believe
that in this respect the photographers
succeed more often than the painters.
Indeed, one may go further and assert
that, in this country todav, the por
traits by the best photographers at
tain a higher average of all-round ex
cellence than those by the best
painters.
Th Latest Cure for Measles,
Dr. Chatiniere, an eminent Paris
practitioner, has just brought to the
attention of the Academy of Music
anew discovery for the cure of
measles. It consists simply of con
fining the patient in a room with the
windows hung in red shades or cur
tains through which the sunlight en
ters.
The physician says he has demon
strated the efficacy of reddened sun
rays in 12 cases of well-developed
measles, cures following with wonder
ful rapidity.
The discovery is the result of obser
vations among peasants of the Vosges,
Caucasus. Finland and other countries,
the women have a habit of en
veloping children suffering from
measles in red cloths.—Paris Corre
spondence. New York World.
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Tlse !• fair!wit for Summer.
Already the coolest of shirtwaists
are in the windows of the large shops
and give evidence that the coming
summer will be a carnival of gauzy
exquisiteness. Guimpes of white or
gandy, with colored batiste or lawn,
delicate embroideries in artistic de
signs, tucks and insertions, bolero ef
fects and simple shirtwaists are shown
in a variety of color and fashion that
is positively bewildering. For whole
gowns there are the daintiest mulls
and silk mousselines, as well as fine
wash fabrics almost as sheer and deli
cate.
Tiling* Women Mintilrl Know.
Fortunately she can he just as dain
ty, pretty and altogether feminine
while knowing the principles of design
ing, building, plumbing, ventilating,
heating, lighting and protecting from
dampness the home, the making of
fires, the disposing of garbage, disin
fecting of rooms, and general hygienic
and sanitary requirements, as she could
be were her whole mission in life to
look pretty. That a few wideawake,
practical women have taken a stand
against dark houses is evidenced by
the better provisions for good lighting
that may be noted in a large number
of the newly built city houses and
fiats. When suen protests become far
reaching enough to make the renting
of dark houses difficult, then they will
disappear completely and forever.—
Ella Morris Kretschmar, in the Wom
an’s Home Companion.
A Cure for Tired- Nerves,
A lady’s fingers are much cleverer
than the hired man’s to prick out deli
cate seedlings, to bud roses or graft
trees, and skilful to practise all the
delicate arts of propagating plants.
It is surprisingly easy to raise a large
stock of perennials and shrubs, to pro
duce rose bushes, to multiply anything
of which the smallest scrap or seed
can bo procured. Work of this kind
has a specially soothing charm for
tired nerves and equals the most per
fect rest cure. It will not injure the
finest lady to prepare potting compost,
to hoe or rake among her plants, to
spread among them the beneficial
mulch by which the hired man would
probably kill many of them when
roughly shovelling it against the
stems. Only a lady knows how to tend
the young rose shoots and exter
minate the marauding grub or green
fly. Some very great ladies in Eng
land will not trust a gardener among
their flowers or even to train fruit
trees or nail up climbing roses.—Anna
Lea Merritt, in “New” Lippincott.
laying Gathers.
Laying gathers is a time honored
operation as irritating and nerve-wear
ing as it is necessary. Since learning
to accomplish the same result in a far
easier way, the present writer has
taught the knack to several friends
and all, without exception, are enthu
siastic. Use a long, strong needle;
that is, a coarser one than you would
ordinarily use for the work in hand.
Gather the needle full, keeping the
thimble finger at the eye of the needle,
so that no stitches escape onto the
thread. When you can force on no
more cloth, still holding the thimble in
place, with the thumb and first finger
hold the gathers firmly onto the needle
at the point end. With the left thumb
and first and second fingers, pull the
gathers, two or three at a time, straight
down from the needle with a swinging
motion, sliding the fingers under the
material and pulling down with the
thumb, beginning at the left and work
ing toward the right. When the work
is slipped onto the thread, it will be
as flat as if each gather had been pain
fully “scratched” into place. The two
processes are practically accomplished
in one, and after a few trials and
with a little patience, you will never
go back to the “good old way.”—Good
Housekeeping.
New Belts for Spring.
The new leather belts are almost
universally of round form, and make
no concession to the advocates of the
“dip” front. Tne prettiest have rows
of stitching that cause the outer sur
face of the belt to be slightly corru
gated. Leather and velvet are also
combined, the latter laid in a single
band in the centre of the wider leather
belt, and stitched on both edges. Two
or three rows of. narrow velvet are
banded in similar manner on belts that
measure one and a Ifalf inches wide.
Frequently the ends of the velvet rib
bon are continued to varying lengths
beyond the end of the belt, and are
tipped with long gilt “spikes.” The
most novel of such belts are finished
with a gilt drop or spike.
Whether few or many of these
strands are shown, their length is
from 15 to 20 inches. The same idea
of drop trimming, but carried out In
ribbon, is also applied to stock collars,
that are finished with full rosettes,
and from five to seven pendent strands.
These pretty ornaments are known as
L’Aiglon, and though a prominent feat
ure of the shops for a month or more,
their possibilities are still being devel
oped with a view to combining the ro
settes or pompons with the light wool
spring gowns.—Harper’s Bazar.
Correct Pont lire During sleep.
The correct posture for sleep is to
lie on the right side with the limbs
stretched out to their full length, and
the arms either straight down by the
body or in any comfortable position,
provided they are not raised above the
head; the mouth should be closed, and
all the muscles of the body should be
relaxed.
The lungs work with greater delib
eration during the hours of sleep, and
if the arms are raised above the head
at this time and for any period the ac
tion of the heart drives the blood away
from the arms and sends it to the
head, frequently making one very rest
less when it does not prevent sleep
entirely.
As all food enters the stomach at
the left side, passing out at the right,
the necessity for lying on the right
fide when sleeping is obvious.
Again, the heart is on the left side of
the body and during sleep it should
be as free from pressure as during the
waking hours; this is best obtained
by reclining on the right side.
Do not sleep flat on your back; sleep
ing in this posture causes the muscles
of the throat to relax and the jaw to
drop. In this position one not only
snores but also invites the coming of
wrinkles, and as the neck shows age
quite as soon as the face this posture
should be faithfully guarded against.—
American Queen.
Tlio New Flat Collars.
•
The fashionable French dressmaker
is trying to force the fiat collar, rea
sonably arguing that it is the proper
companion of the 1860 sleeve. An ex
tremely ingratiating model of the new
est Parisian neck decoration is shown
in stitched taffeta over which a flat
circlet of ribbon threaded lace is laid.
For such a collar a many looped knot
of ribbons or a quaint cameo brooch
is the proper finish.
Quite the nearest approach to the
flat collar we have reached on this
side is a graceful rolling lace neck
band, which does not rise very high
under ears and chin, and is shaped in
front in two long points finished with
tassels of white silk floss falling from
little halls of gilt. This and the afore
mentioned type of collar are destined
to play a prominent part in the com
pletion of the foulards and sweet sum
mer cloths already making springtime
in the show windows.
Our American spring and summer
and the pretty round throats of our
women are persuasive agents in the
popularization of the low and easy
neck finish. For the present, however,
high and ornamental stocks and scarfs
have the field to themselves. Only
the extremely fashionable women who
flaunt their new plumage well in ad
vance of every season are swathing
their throats in stitched chokers of
white satin with wing backs of a con
trasting shade of panne. All the nar
row string ties of satin clasping the
base of the choker in front display
jeweled ferrets on their ends. Such a
modish little stock in white, mouse
gray, gilt and sapphire blue is illus
trated in the group along with a pow
erful rival in black and peach pink
atin. The black satin top shows a
delicate vermice.il pattern of gold
thread and the lower tightly drawn
pink satin half is drawn about the
stock twice, fastened with smart little
gilt pins in front, and, after tying
in a four-in-hand bow, lets fall two
broad ends, fringed and embroidered in
gift.—Washington Star.
fpo R'SVofrtif's&r
Silk flannel is a pretty material for
shirtwaists.
Braid will he used on many of the
new spring gowns.
Corduroy jackets worn with cloth
skirts are very stylish, especially tne
black or brown corduroy.
The new silk gingham waists made
with vest, tie and broad sailor collar of
a solid color look well and other cot
ton materials are made up with vest
and revers of white pique.
A flat tulle hat in delicate ecru is
trimmed in front with a single big
pink poppy. A pink tulle has a creamy
yellow rose for its sole adornment, and
a black one is decorated with an im
possible but lovely blue rose.
The latest Parisian fancy is a black
stock of mousseline de soie, decorated
with slanting lines of Roman pearl
and fastened at the left side in a fluffy
butterfly bow. This is worn with even
ing dress, and is regarded as tremen
dously chic.
Panne cloth is a lovely material for
shirtwaists to be worn at this season.
It domes in all shades, and has a sheen
like that of panne velvet, but with the
warmth of flannel. Big gold buttons
are generally used on shirtwaists
made of panne cloth.
Gold tags for finishing neck ribbons
or streamers increase in popularity.
The spikes are varied in style and
many new shapes are shown in flat
tags. Some are pointed, others square,
and a few nave decorations of colored
beads or hits of enamel
Some short petticoats are made with
a single front breadth of ordinary
width and four narrow gores on either
side, each finished with a point at the
lower edge. The handkerchief ruffles
are to be seen on the long skirts, which
are a mass of ruffles upon ruffles.
Very pretty is a dark green flannel
waist made with a vest of white flan
nel finely tucked, and on either side
of the vest tne green is cut out in
fancy shape and stitched with dark
green silk. Avery light gray with a
white vest made in this same way is
very dainty.
A Delicate Flavor.
The addition to a mayom
three or four drops of garlic
imparts a flavor not easily rec *
but which adds much to the de
ness of the salad. Some cooks
what they call a “flourish of ma ,
the mayonnaise. With this a
garlic an indescribable “far away
vor is given which cannot offend i
most delicate taste.
Prune Je.
Make a syrup with a pint of ff ,. a
and six ounces of sugar; add theta!
of an orange and the grated p ee i,
a lemon. Wash a pound of prunes
boiling water and then stew them
the syrup until they are quite tend
Take them out and, after remov;
the stones, pass them through a sia
Add an ounce of gelatine which i
been soaked in a little cold water tol
syrup. When it is dissolved, pour
a few drops of carmine and strain
through muslin. Mix the sieved prui
and the syrup together, and when n ei
ly cold pour into a mold which h
been rinsed with cold water. Ser
the jelly surrounded by custard i
cream.
Savory Fondled Ejjiju.
Break an egg very carefully into
coffee cup and sprinkle it lightly -
salt and pepper. Have ready
stewpan containing some bo
tea which has been nicely
carefully slip the egg int
and poach it in the usual •
it is done place it on ar:
round of buttered toast;
small quantity of beef tea qu
a little corn flour and pou,
the egg. Another way of st
poached egg is as follows;
Break anew laid egg into a butte;
teacup, season it with salt and pap t
and place the cup in the stewpan col
taining sufficient boiling water to read
to rather more than half way up the
cup; as soon as the egg is set turn ii
carefully on to a piece of hot buttered
toast. During the time the egg is
cooking boil a small quantity of cream
in a saucepan, season it with a little
celery salt and pepper and add a tea
spoonful of chopped parsley to it; pour
the cream over the egg and serve at
once. <
Point* In Cooking Flih.
The first thing to learn about fisl
cooking is that an underdone fish ist
fish ruined —an offense to the palatal
an indictment against the cook. Tbi
second thing to bear in mind is, thJ
the simplest methods give the
enjoyable results. Elaborate fish dish-1
es we may well save for forma! ew
tertaining for our social enemies (crit
ics) to dazzle the eye and excite envi
of skill; reserving for the home tablj
for our intimates and the gustaton
wise among our guests the perfectioj
of simple broils, etc.
Never “bone” a fish, as by such mi
tilation of the tissues the naturi
juices are lost, leaving the flesh dr<
and flavorless. Boning is quite com
monly practiced, hut never by cook
who are fitted by instinct and by tti
best intelligence for the duties of theij
office. How to clean and treat tit
many varieties of fish preliminary t
cooking, may not here be entered inti
space forbidding, and instruction froi
one’s dealer or butcher is therefore ur
gently recommended.—Ella Morri
Kretschman, in Good Housekeeping.
Household Hints.
Vinegar and brown paper will heal!
bruise or “black eye.”
Wash table silver in boiling bo
water; this will keep it bright withou
polishing.
A little salt added to an egg /
It, and the egg consequently beatt
a froth more quickly.
A nice filling for sandwiches raayb*
made by mincing or pounding ’
very fine, mixing it to a paste
cream or meiced butter and seaso
to taste.
A salad that is liked by soffi
made by combining raw oysters W' sil
chopped walnuts and bits of celerj
served on lettuce leaves with Fr® 1 *
dressing.
In the healing of burns and
where there is danger of contra
scars, rub the new skin several tir
day with good sweet oil. Persl
this rubbing until the skin is sot
flexible.
Windows, as every housek*
knows, should never by any chan
cleaned when the sun is shining
them, for the water drying more Q>
ly than it can be wiped away 1<
the glass streaked.
If you have never tried saving
lemon and orange skins to add ti
bath water, do so. Not only will t*
impart to it a pleasant odor, 6
tonic properties that render it P e£}
liarly cooling and refreshing. ,
Wash silk stockings in a lath®
luke warm water and white s'
Rinse thoroughly in clear water,
wrong side out and wring dry
cloth. When nearly dry stretd'
shape in the hands, but do not if J
Quilts of wool are supersede,
degree the down quilts which h
long held sway as the most and
of bed coverings. The new %
quilts may be had in a variety
iy shades of silk, with a Hi*
Shetland wool of fine quality.