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THE GAINESVILLE NEWS, WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER ALL OVER THE HOUSE. The Refreshing and Invig ating Salt Bath at Homer If you cannot have the ocean, be content with the bathtub. Try a warm salt bath at home, say after you have come from a Jong, hot shopping expedition or from traveling in the train or any time when } r ou feel the need of freshening up a bit. Away from the seashore a very simple substi tute for sea water is a cup of rock ' salt' dissolved in warm water and added to the bath. When the salt irritates the skin, take a warm bath and sponge off with a mixture of violet or lavender water and alcohol, about half and, half, and rub brisk ly with a friction towel. Such a method prevents the exhaustion and ) dangers, of cold which follow a warm bath. / Sea salt is sold in the shops. It comes in bags of about ten pounds, which cost ten cents each. • Boxes of perfumed bath salt hold ing about two and a half pounds each are 15 cents. This can be used in cold, tepid or warm water. It is perfumed with lavender and, it is said, will impart a fragrant odor to the water w r hieh is retained after using. Among the tonic qualities as cribed to it are “that it strengthens the nerves, renews vitality, purifies the blood and renders the skin smooth and transparent/’ * A-more expensive perfumed bath gait comes put up in bottles at 25 cents. This is said to combine the tonic properties of sea salt with the odor of woodland violets. Two or three tablespoonfuls of the salt dre Sprinkled in the bath. When the salt dissolves, the bath will have much of the invigorating properties - of a salt water plunge. A few grains of the salt thrown into the basin impart a delightful fragrance. MOUNTAIN CUMBERS' CLUBS. Boston has a mountain climbing club, the Appalachian, which num bers about 1,200 members/ This dub exists not only for the love of climbing and adventure, although its members have made many nota ble climbs, but it is concerned with other and more serious aims. In the construction of roads and trails and other, work of development of mountain playgrounds it has taken a leading part. It has mapped un known mountain regions. In the movements for the preservation of our forests, says Everybody’s Maga zine, it has aided greatly, and in the development of art in landscape photography it has had great influ ence. . In Denver is the Rocky Mountain club, in San Francisco the Sierra club, of which John Muir, the great nature lover, is the president, and in the northwest are the Mazamas, with headquarters at Portland. This club has a very select membership, rfince it enforces the condition that a candidate shall have climbed a snow clad mountain at least 10,000 feet in height. The "Biscuit” Quilt. “Biscuit” quilts are hardly new, but they seem to have come into fa vor again and are treated as the most recent revival of the silk patch- work quilt. To make one cut pieces of muslin for lining three inches square and silk patches four inches square. Make a loose “biscuit” of cotton batting; attach it to the mus lin and fasten the sill^ patch over this, making a small plait at each side. The result is a puffed square. The “biscuits” are sewed closely to gether, so that none of the muslin shows, and it is well to join them in sections about two feet square for convenience in handling. By ar ranging the colors carefully in these Squares and then joining them with regard for harmony a good effect is secured. When all the sections are joined, the quilt must be lined and hound. Sofa pillows are made of this “biscuit” design. A Plano Cover. Covers of oriental weave come for the backs of upright pianos, but they are by no means inexpensive. An experimenting housekeeper who wished but could not afford one of these bought as a substitute and at , much less cost one Japanese por tiere. This was too long and too narrow, but a piece taken from the bottom was fitted at the side, and a second piece was added at the top to go over the lid of the piano. A pattern in shades of gold in a striped effect was chosen, which lent itself readily to the piecing scheme, and the new cover is extremely effective. A Novel Tea Table. A curious tea cabinet has lately, been invented by a designer which contains two deep drawers in which the tea things could be stored away when not in use. Two mottoes are inlaid in wood at either side— “There’s many a slip ’twixt the cup and the lip” and “You can’t eat your cake and have it.” A bachelor host would find this table useful for keeping teacups in, but a h-ostess would probably utilize the drawers for biscuits and cakes. ■ - Witty Zangwllf. Israel Zangwill has been one of the sprightliest witnesses in the Truth libel case in London. Asked whether bis paper, Ariel, was still m existence, he replied: “No. It was too good to live. I can’t, how ever, say that it is dead, for its jokes •till appear.” , _ A Snubbed Cub Reporter. Professor Richard Lynch Gar ner’s return from Africa, where he has been for the third time to study the language and habits of the mon key tribes, calls to mind a little in cident in which he unknowingly fig ured. The professor had just re turned from a previous trip and upon reaching the United States went at once to Chicago, where he is connected with the Chicago uni versity. The daily papers were anx ious to get interviews with him in regard to his study of the language of monkeys. The city editor of the Chicago News sent a young reporter, on the assignment and had forgot ten about him in the work of the day when the enthusiastic young man rushed into the office and ex claimed: “Well, I’ve seen Garner, the man who says he can understand mon keys.” “Then,” replied the editor, “1 suppose you had no difficulty in making yourself understood.” Up Against It. Stanley, the office boy, made his appearance in the art department the other day wearing a Christian Endeavor button in the lapel of his coat. “I’m glad to see you have decided to lead a moral and upright life in the future,” remarked the cartoon ist, fixing his gaze on the emblem. “Aw, baf ’em out!” replied Stan ley. “Dis is collateral fer a loan. See ? An’ I’m up against it at dat. I lends a feller 80 cents, an’ I says, ‘Gimme somethin’ fer security.’ Well, he flashes dis here pin on me, an’, like an easy mark, I takes it. Dere ain’t no moral an’ upright life about dis here deal.” “Well, the button is worth 80 cents, isn’t it?” asked the cartoon ist. , .. "Nawj” replied Stanley in dis* gust. “I t’ought it was when I took it, but I found out since youse kin buy ’em fer a quarter.”—Philadel phia Record. Her Shrimp Salad. A very young and very inexperi enced matron, a well known society woman of New York, recently un dertook to assume the entire man agement, even to the smallest de tail, of her household affairs, and her directions to the servants are conveyed to them in writing. A few days ago, wishing to have some dainty dish for luncheon, she thought a nice shrimp salad would be the thing and accordingly wrote her instructions to the'cook to pre pare the salad and for the purpose to order freftn the marketman “one small shrimp.” The story leaked out, and it will be many days before she will be able to look into the eyes of any of her friends without seeing the small shrimp twinkling therein.—New York Times. An Insult Guide. A German has just compiled a handy little book of insults. The work contains 2,500 invectives, which are classed under the head ings of insults for men, insults for women, insults for either sex, in sults for children and collective in sults for syndicates, groups and corporations. x :e