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r " ABOUT THE HOUSE. Bleaching and Cleanlnrv. A correspondent writes zâ€"klen's straw FIGHTING sucks. l A New Cents-trance for the Protection eff Firemen. An invention has just been approved by h.“ iegbm' white ligh‘. th. Xew York Fire DQW‘M‘ Will M .mm_my b. blmhed in me enable the firemen to work in the dances following manner : Dissolve czalic acid Bm°k° 'llhO‘" bang 'mmhemd (powder) in hot water and scrub the straw with the solution, then rinse the hat ()3 in warm water. Use a small brush for the Earpoee, since the bristles can be pushed to the meshes of the straw better than a cloth can he. Besides,ae the acid is poison, one does not wishto run any risk of getting any of it into a possible break in the skin of one's fingers, as might be the case if a cloth were used. Five cents' worth will be sufficient to cleanse a number of bats. Use hot water enough to thoroughly dissolve the powder. For ene or two hats a fourth of five cents worth of powder will be enough. This is the method of bleaching med by milliners new. Colored leaves of artificial flowers may be effectually re-etifl'ened by an application of moorlage. Lay the leaves on a flat aur- fscc and brush over the under side with the mucilage, and let dry thoroughly. Don‘t Make Your Own Soap. ' , There is no article of commerce to-day thnt sold ata lower price for the value thansosp. lf bought by the box, from two to three dollars willsupply an ordinary- sized family for a year. We recently boughta box of NO hereof an excellent grade of soap for $3. 75. And think of any busy, over-taxed housekeeper trying .to compete with such prices. I would advxse every busy fat-.mer’s wife to give all meat mines to the dog, have the ashes scattered in the vegetable and fruit gardens, and relegate soap-making with the industries of our fathers. How to Keep sggs. Slake a piece of lime the size of an eggin a gallon of water, and when cold pour it over the eggs laid in a stone jar or large butter pot. The eggs should all be turned point downward. Cover them and keep them in the cellar or in any cool place. Be very careful to choose perfectly fresh eggs: as one. bad one will necessitate removing all the others, washing the jar and pouring over freshly prepared limcd water. Eggs can be kept in this way from one spring- time until the next. They can be used in any manner except for meringues,for which the white does not attain the required stiffness. If laid down wheneggs are very ‘ cheap and marketed as limed eggs when other eggs use Very dear, they can be sold at a good profit to the salesman.â€"-House- wife. Here is a recipe which several of our neighbors have tried, and with satisfactory results. Ina barrel or box that can be headed up place first a layer of salt and then a layer of eggs on their ends, and so on, a layer of salt and eggs alternately. In the course of afew months the box should be turned from one end to the other several “mas. â€"A Suliscrihei. L Children Should Rise Early. One of the evxla of the day seems to me to be the tendency to let children stay up 1rate at night and then lie abed far into the day. Children need eight or nine hours’ .ound sleep. We think any child over 12 years of age can rise at 5 or 6 o’clock. To do this they should be in bed at 9 o’clock. Through the summer we contend it would do them more good to retire at 8 and rise at 4 than retire at 11 and rise at 7 or 8. How few young people know the beauties of the early morn; its freshness.ite stillnvss, its sweetness. To the early riuer the world, in its freshness, as the birds are singing their morning praises and the sun is coming in sight to smile on dew~wet leaves and bladesuf grass, is nbt the same that it is hours afterward umid the heat, dust and noise of the active day. If the young once learned to begin the day with these lovely sights and sounds they would make them their mornings invocation ever after. _ Recipes. Frozen Peachesâ€"One can, or twelve large peaches, two coffee cups ofsugar, one pint of water and the beaten whites of three eggs ; break the peaches and stir all .ingredicnts together. Freeze like ice cream. Delicwus. Chicken Frittersâ€"Chop cold chicken, but not L00 fine, scaou with salt, pepper and a little lemon juice. mix all together well and let it stand about one hour. make a batter of tWO eggs, one pint of milk, a little salt. and flour enough to make a good batter, stir the chicken into this and drop it by spoonfuls into boiling fat ; fry brown, drain well and serve hot :cold veal can be utilised in this way, and will be found nearly as nice as the chicken. Salad Dressing.â€"This valued recipe for salad dressing is a well-tried favorite, and will be liked by those who prefer to use cream rather than olive all. It Will keep for two or three days, or more : One egg ; butter, the size of a filhert : one large lea- eposnful of white sugar. Beat these well together, and slowly add two tablespounfuls of cream, a Little pepper and salt, coo-half teaspoonful of mustard ; when all is beaten to a smooth cream stir in quickly four tablespooefnls of vinegar, and set in boiling water until .. is cooked. [Some will prefer it sweeter and with less vinegar, in which case reduce the strength of the vinegar. and increase the am. not of eugenl It should be of a rich, creamy consistency when done, and should be strained through a fine sieve unless perfectly free from lumps. An Unsteady Light. I‘m very glad I don't live in Rome, "barked Mrs. Bickers. Why! asked her husband. I'm sure 1 MW could learn to read by its light of Roman candles. suits, rubber suit: with cells containing water, and other inventions, it has been decided that the only practicable proteo tion for firemen would be something in the form o§a respirator. The espirator which has just been ap‘ proved consists of a reservorr strapped 0:: the fireman's back, which is to filter and purify the air conveyed to his month by a hose. The filtration is accomplished in three parallel tubes which constitute the reservoir. These tubes are about 8 inches long and 3 inches in diameter. The two outer tubes are charged with layers of bone, coal and cotton, the smoky air going through .them being cleansed of its smoke and passing into the middle tubes to be pooled. ‘ This cooling is effected by glycerc me, which also further purifies the air and absprbs all chemical poison. l'rom the glycerine tube the air passes up the hose into the valve box and thence to the mouth through a rubber mouthpiece. When the air is inhaled it passes from the hose and into the mouth. All air exhaled simply goes out through an opening in the mouthpiece. Thus the fireman need never remove his mouth from the mouthpiece. After trying many kinds of asbesto.g l 8038 “ DO‘R‘TS" FOR Pismm. Very lupertant Pheateriai Ill-u which MB. AHD MES. 30% . Will §IVQ full I “‘010 [at ef'l‘t'eublc AN the! Help You to rm Your Basket. Don’t yank. Don‘t get snagged. Don't troll too fast. Don‘t forget the bait. Don’t try fancy casts. Don’t step on your rod. Don’t try to cast too far. Don't sit on your rod tips. Don’t buy “ cheap " tackle. Don't forget the back Don't let your reel overrun. Don’t strike on a slack line. Don’t lie ; it’s been overdone.‘ Don’t fish with untried tackle. Don’t put your fish in the sun. Don't grab a catfish by the fins Don’t keep your bait in the sun. Don’t neglect to dry your lines. Don't strike a fish with both hands. Don’t carry your rod tip foremost. Don't wear strange sporting clothes. Don't try to land your fish too soon. Don’t try to cover too much ground. Don't czst across your neighbor’s line. Don’t put pickcrel in trout streams. Don't let your fish run under the boat. Don‘t snap off your bait when you cast. Don’t give slack line to a fighting bait. Don’t stamp in the bottom of the boat. Don’t try to steal theother fellow’s bite. “REMEN USING RESPIRATOR- f In other respirators each exhalation is , accomplished by taking the mouthpiece away, expelling the air from the lungs and replacing it for the next inhalation. There is danger in this method of the fireman making a mistake and filling his lungs with smoke. The simple process of draw- ing in the breath sucks the smoky air up through the purifying tubes, up the hose and through the mouthpiece into the lungs. The eyes of the fireman are protected by a heavy pair of closed spectacles, which rigidly exclude the smoke. A spring clip placed on the nose closes the nostrils and prevents the accidental inhalation of smoke. When thus equipped a fireman can work for nearly an hour, it is said, in an atmos- . phere which would choke him in twenty seconds if unprotected. The whole ap- paratus only weighs five pounds, and can; be adjusted in a. few seconds. i A test of the apparatus was made some time ago. In a temporary wooden but 8‘ lot of rags, sulphur and grease was ignited I and the door classd, so that the interior soon became full of gas and stifling smoke. An ordinary Citizen would have been in- stantly overcomeby the fumes, and the firemen who tried it could not stay more than a few seconds. f A HOLIDAY LOVING FOLK. new the People of New Icahn-cl Enjoy Themselves. The colonists of New Zealsud are a holiday-making people. There is almost an average of one i‘ecounized holiday to a month, and it is a common practice for all working people to take two or more days at Christmas, the New Year and Easter, so as to make an unbroken playtime of three or four days including Sundays. Then the great mass of the people give themselves up to amusement. Horse races, athletic sports, boat races and excursions are car- ried on in every available spot, and are attended by large and well-behaved crowds. The commonest of all holiday amuse- ments, however, is the picnic. The several trades, acute and societies have picnics of their own. to which the public are cordial. I ly welcomed on the payment» of a smalll sum towards the expense of the entertainâ€" went. It is amusing to the railway traveller to note, as he passes through some pretty countryside, not one or two, but perhaps fifty, different picnic: in full swing, each numbering scores or hundreds of guests. It has been said, with much more truth than is usually to he found in epigrams of this kind, that "in New Zealand people are like cattle. You need only turn a number of them into a pasture and leave them alone, and they will be perfectly ha py." swarm and tempting New Year’s Day as enterprising burglar might walk through a New Zesland city and help himself undisturbed, to the contents of most of the houses. Dwellings and streets are alike deserted, and the casual sojourner who does not understand the ways of the place seeks in vain for somebody to speak streets are lively with returning crowds. it“. By six or sewn in the evening the Don’t let your shadow fall on the brook. Don't keep too many lines going at once. Don’t drop a fish into your creel tail first. Don’t strike a black base at the first rush. Don’t keep your lunch where it will get wet. ' Don’t carry hooks in your trousers pock- ets. fi hDon’t think that it is all fishing to catch 8 . Don’t fail to clean the fish which are to be kept . Don’t store your rods next to a steam pipe. Don’t. let your fish get around theanchor line. Dont buy patent “oatch-alls;” they never work. Don’t strike a fish when the rod is per- pendicular. Don’t leave oars sticking over the sides of the boat. Don't. yell “I’ve got one” until you’ve landed him. Don’t try to lift. a big fish into the boat by the line. Don‘t leave your rod tips in the bottom of the boat. Don’t fail to make the end of your line fast to the reel. Don’tleavea baited book where chickens can get at it. Don't despise a faint nibble; it may be your biggest fish. Don’t. pick out the best pools; give your friend a chance. Don’t race along the bank when a friend is following you. Don’t give an eel slack line so that he can tie it full ohknots. Don’t fish where the fish don't bite ; move on to another spot. Don’t peep over the bank tn see where fish are in the brook. Don’tâ€"don’tâ€"don’t ever call a brook trout a “ speckled beauty." Don’t fail to commune with nature; that’s half the fun of fishing. Don’t think that the best fishing tackle is made by saloon-keepers. Don’t forget to change the water fre- quently in thamiunowâ€"buckct. Don't. boast that you can wind your brand-new rod around a barrel. Don’t put bait in your pocket where it is liable to get into your pipe. Don’t hang dead fish over the side of the boatâ€"water will spoil them. Don't let your boatman stop rowing if you strike a fish when trolling. Don’t let a fish leap into the air, and then fall back on a tautened line. Don't use a twoâ€"pound sinker for brook fishingâ€"half a pound will do. Don't forget when you cast that your companions have feelings and ears. Don't think that a four-ounce rod will work better in both hands at once. Don't ridicule the small boy with a heanpole for a rod; be generally gets a mess. Dlfl’erent Now. He loved her so he said he could Forever keep awake; But now at midnight with those twins He sees his great mistake. DOMESTIC PEACE. Ir. 3. Didn't llave It When Casxht In The Iainâ€"It's. ll. Held Responsible for the MIChlugâ€"Other Trllht: Inel- dents That Break the Harmony or ure' It was pouring rain when Mr. Bow”! come home the other evening, and Mrs_ Bowser, who was watching for him from a front window, saw that he was soaking wet and realized that a scene was at hand. bheopened the front door for him with the remark: “I’m so sorry i Get into some dry clothes right away." Mr. Bowser made no reply. Re hung up his hat, walked into the sitting-room with his feet all muddy and the wet drip, ping from his clothes, and then turned on her with: “Mrs. Bowser, what did I say to you as I left the house this morning! Don’t attempt any evasion, now, but tell me what I said 1” “Why, I remember you said it looked a bit like rain," she answered. “I said it would rain before night, and it has! I'm wet to the hide 1" “That’s too had 1" “Too bad l And whose fault is it! My mind was occupied with business affairs. and you knew it was, and yet you saw me walk 05 without an umbrella 2 Mrs. Bow- ser, Iâ€"-â€" 1" “Why, you took your umbrella along,” she interrupted. “Never !" “Of course you did l Don’t you remem- ber dropping it at the gate 2 You walked right. out of the office and'left it there.” “I did, eh? AWhy don’t you call me a first class idiot and be done with it 7” "You must have done so, for you surely carried it away with you.” That’s exactly what he did do, and he knew it, but he squirmed out of it by offer- ing to bet her a million dollars to a cent that the front door had been left wide open all the afternoon, and that a hall-thief had carried off half the things down staii‘s. One morning there was a smell of gas down cellar, and Mr. Bowser went down to see if he could discover a leak. He put on an old hat kept for “ poking around,” and when he left the house he wore it away. It was rusty and spotted and broken, but it was only when the boys down town began to "shoot that hat” that he tumbled to it. Then he flew back with his eyes hanging out and his face plum-colored, and be was no sooner inside the house than he shouted “Look at it, Mrs. Bowserâ€"look at that infernal old junk-shop which you deliber- ately saw me wear away on my head and never said a word about it !" “Did you wear that but down town ?” “Did I ! Did I l" he shouted, as be hanged it on the floor and jumped on it. , “But I didn’t see you go. I was upjtairs when you went. .‘Jr. Bowser, you are cer- tainly very absent-m ndea‘.’ "i am, eh ! it’s _. wonder that 1 don’t forget to come home, isn’t it ! Mrs. Bou- stairway in her father's house. ser,if there is another house in the United States as badly mismanaged as this I’d like to see it. 1” ' “But can you blame me because you wore your old hat away 2” she protested. ' “That's it-â€"â€" that's it! Shoulder it off on me! The papers talk about the startling number of divorces. It’s a wonder to me there are not five times as many I" One day Mr. Bowser brought home a pat- ent cork-screw, which some fakir had sold him, and Mrs. Bowser saw him drop it into a wall-pocket. A week later, after wan- dering around the house for half an hour one evening, he halted before her and said: “I’ll be hanged if I don't get some chains and padlocks and see if I can’t have things left where I put them!” “What is it. now '3” “Ibrought home scan-opener a few days ago and left it on a bracket in the dining- room. It’s gone, of courseâ€"probably given away to some big, lazy tramp ! It’s 8. won- der we have a thing left in this house l” “ A can-opener ‘3” . “ Yes, a can-opener. If you never heard of a can-opener l'll hire some one to write you out a history of it. It was invented to open cans.” , ” Why, we have two or three in the kitchen. Do you mean a can-opener l” “ I don't mean wind-mills or thrashing mach nos.” “ You had it in a pink paper?" “ Yes, ma‘um.” “It was the day the man fixed the gate?" " It was.” “ “fall, I saw you drop it in that wall- pocket, and it is a corkscrew and not a can opener.” ” It is, eh? Perhaps I don’t know a hitching-post from the city hall 2” he growl- ed as he reached for the parcel and cure“- ed it. It was a. corkscrew. It could only he used as a corkscrew. It was made and sold for a corkscrew.” “ Did’nt I tell you ?” queried Mrs. Bow- ser. ” Tell me what! You told me it was a corkscrew, and it’s a can-opener, just as I said it was !" “It’s a corkscrew, Mr. Bowser, as every- body will tell you.” ‘ “I say it’s a can-opener, and if all the world was to say to the contrary it would still be a can-opener. Mrs. Bowser, I don't like your demeanor. No wife should stand up and dispute with her husband. When Idon't know how to run this house I’ll step down and out. While We are on the subject let me ask where that screw-driver is I was using upstairs a week ago? I hunted for it two whole hours last evening. Perhaps you'll call that a corkscrew, too 1” “You Were boring a hole to put up a book i" "Yes'mâ€"horing a hole. ” “And you used a gimlet and left it lying on the window-sill l" "\\ oman i” shouted Mr. Bowser as he pranced around, “don't I know a gimlet from a screw-driver 3" "Dual any one bore holes with a screw- driver ?" she queried in reply. during which fir. Boweer turned red and white and breathed like a foundered bone. “Mrs. Bowserl' he ealdat length, and in a broken voice, "this is the limitâ€" last straw l Our lawyers will gettegeebor to-morrow and fix things up, and you can return to your mother. I don’t want any dinner, and I shall be very busy this enu- ing. Good~night l" MONEY MARKS. ,â€" The World line a Way or being film Backward. Did it ever strike you as being at all peculiar that we should use the dollar mark (3) before instead of after the figure. in expressing the sum of 5, 10, ‘20 or any other number of dollars? We may say " twenty-five dollars” plain enoth for any one to understand, but as soon as we put the expression into figures and characters it is “ dollars twenty-five” (825) instead of 253, as it should be. ‘ Nor is this all thatls peculiar to thh connection. In every country which has a written language and a system of coinage the abbreviation for the unit of value precedes the figures. In England the pound mark(£)is used in the same manner that the dollar mark is used in this country, while the some pecul- iarity is noticeable in Gegmany, where the abbrevxation m. (for mark) appears eced- ing the number,justas the French ab rovin- tion fr. (for franc) is used in France. If abbreviations are not used the legend is more apt to be correct. We find that in Mexico they have a ” 2h pesos” instead of “ p 25,” as one might expect. and in Newfoundland they have a plain twoâ€" dollar piece. So, too, in France, whens the abbreviation is not used we find snob pieces as “ 10 francs,” “20 francs" and “ 40 francs.” In Germany they have a piece marked “ X thaler," which is all very plain,but the moment a clerk, bookkeeper or other per- son makes an entry or jots down a'mom- orandum he tells you that it is a “ th. X." The English pound sign, which is believ- ed to be the oldest monetary abbreviation now in use, is the old initial letter by which the Romans expressed "pounds," just as we use the ” lbs." It has been suggested that we use our money abbrevia- tion backward because the Romans in expressing “pounds” always said “libra deuem” instead of “decem libra," the first being “pounds ten” and the latter “ ten pounds.” When their initial letter or character was used it always preceded the figures thus : “ £10" instead of the reverse. Thus the whole world has got in the habit of doing these things backward. MYSTERIOUS MISS DECKER. Pecullar Alfllcuons or a Young Woman Caused by it Fri“. Miss Belle Decker, daughter ofWiokham Decker, of Brunswick, N. Y., died a few days ago. She was a mystery tophysicians, and many prominent experts from New York City examined her, but were unable to diagnose the case. Just abouts year ago Belle fell down a When she I was helped up the girl complained of hot‘ I back hurting her. She continued to attend school, however, for two weeks, when she lost the power of speech entirely, and though suflering from no apparent physir cal trouble, began to waste away. What puzzled the physicians the most, however. was her sudden loss of the power of speech. Her sense of hearing was un- usually acute, and yet she could not uh ter a word, although before this illnesl Belle had been a good conversationalist. She learned the dumb alphabet, and from that time on was able to carry on conver- sation with the members of her family and others. During the year’s illness she gained foot in height, but just before her dealt weighed but thirty pounds. Last. Monday at midnight Bella's older sister, who was watching at her bedside, was startled to hear the former suddenly exolaim : “I can’t stand this any longer. l’m dying l" They Were the only words the suffering girl uttered. She sank back upon her pillow and was unable to talk afterward, although many expedients were tried to induce her to talk. Within twenty-four hours thereafter she died. May Lead to War. The patience of France is to he put to a severe trial by the celebrations of German victories which are to takepluce during the next few weeks. There Will be cheap ex- cursions to points of interest, including such battlefields as lie within the territory which was transferred from France to Ger- many as a result. of the war. A congress of veterans' unions will be held atStrasboulg. The fall of the city Will be commemorated, and the vetrans mll receive medals struck from the captured cannon. It would be generous for the victors to refrain from these demonstrations, but the truth ll that the Value of war as a breeder of noble and chlvat'lous sentiment has been much over-estimated. Zola, in the ” Debacle," has done a service to humanity by stripping war of its illusions and uhowmg its ugly and tepulsive features. â€"â€".-â€". Liquidation. Northsideus he and Spilfius move toward the har)--T'nere's Birmingham yonder. I owe him 3“) whloh I can’t pay, so I'll have to ask him to take a drink with us. szfiinsâ€"In other Words, as you can't satisfy his claim you’ll liquidate it. His Golden Wedding. Dibbinsâ€"fio'ning around to my golden wedding next Week ? lirokia (Iod'gnantly)â€"Your golden wed- l ding ! Why, man, you’re not 35. l llilihins-No ; but I've bagged an beir~ Then were was deep silence for a minute, less. l l 3 '. Wu»...â€" H‘s: v‘ v c.-