3335 weep epee "ecStout ba. ps tonpagae 2OOLt1." Bag lor te HERE is but one way of avoid- ing the semi-annual houseclean- ing, abhorrent to John and @ crucifixion of nerve and muscle to his wife. That one and only way is --never to let the house get dirty. This bit of practical wisdom was pour- ed into my youthful mind a half century ago by an old maid who had no house of her own to keep and abundant time in which to criticise the methods of her married sisters. The principle she enunciated was sound. It holds good In numerous other spheres of human endeavor. Itis easier, to keep from evil-doing than to pay the penalty of sin, Easier to. keep well than to suffer from illness and to meet Goctors' bills. Easier to use a blotter upon a freshly written page than to erase the ink blotches when you have neglected the precaution. Easier, finally, to keep a house de- cently neat than to have a periodical general delivery of rubbish that In ac- cumulating hag marred the comfort and endangered the health of the household. "DUST AND DISEASE" Neither the oracular spinster nor my credulous self had, at the time I speak of, read Tyndall's 'Dust and Disease,"' The book is at once the most interesting and the most depressing volume I own. From it I learned that dust begets dis- ease by harboring evil germs. I learned at the same time that the atmosphere Dip Vour Doster into Ker Water asad Stal? Louvre B: LOO? . ; hy 8 e , pe " ' , vers} a & J! hy. ge Ne = Yl s \ > Ed = i' \* yo: 'eo a we breathe is laden with dust; that the only way of dispelling it for one minute fs 'by burning the air itself and creat- ing a black vacuum in which we could not breathé*at all. Since I began this article, my atten- tion was diverted from the paper to a . grayish film on the polished stand be- neath my typewriter. As the sald stand is a desk with a sliding cover that closes down over the machine when the latter {s not in use, and is dusted care- fully every morning, the grayish film had collected under cover, and within ten hours. I wiped it away with @ white cloth, and found a black deposit by contrast with the whiteness of the duster. The room is heated by steam; it has a polished floor and is lighted at night by electricity. My housemaid is a paragon of neat- ness, and every inch of the room was scrupulously clean yesterday afternoon. Yet here is the black dust in evidence of the contrary. Where did it come from? I must have taken in an incon- celvable quantity of the same with each inhalation of alr that tastes and smells pure. To put the case in a nut- shell, I must be coated within and with- out with the impalpable bacilli-breeding and tinescapable powder. Agreeable tTe- flection for a woman who is a bit of 4 crank upon the daily bath and the Christian duty of deep breathing! AN INCESSANT FIGHT Pushing the matter further, I may conclude that every square foot of the home in which I live joyfully and at ease is similarly infested. And yet I sit down in cold blood to tell my fellow-sufferers in one and the same breath that they can no more get away from dust than they can live without breathing, and that they must keep their houses clean if they would live healthfully and provide things de- cent in the sight of matrons, spinsters and husbands. One- thing is patent from the first: The fight with dust, like that we wage with inbred sin, must be incessant, and {t will last until we Ife down to be re- solved for all time into what we hate and would destroy while we live. My old colored mammy had a way of say- ing to us restless children when our noise tried her patience to the limit: "LLor,' chillen! ef yo' Ken't be easy, be easy as yo' ken!" I parody the in- junction: If we can't be actually clean, let us be as clean as we can! CARING FOR CARPETS Carpets are not cleanly floor-cover- ings. Yet they are undeniably com- fortable. "Naughty, but nice!' using 'nice' and 'convenient' and "warm" as synonyms, They harbor dust and scat- ter it abroad. It rises viewlessly but certainly at each step; the broom raises it in clouds. The carpet that has not been lifted for a year offers breeding grounds for moths and flies, to say nothing of the germs of divers diseases that may have strayed in at various times. Take it up every spring, have it beaten out-of-doors and fumigated as well. Burning sulphur in a broad pan, over which the carpet is held, right side down, and passed slowly along until the fumes reach every thread is a simple and effectual way of doing the work. Before relaying it, swab the floor and the uttermost crack ani crevice with wood alcohol in which have been dis- solved six ounces of gum camphor to a gallon of alcohol. Rugs should be shaken hard weekly, brushed daily with a whisk dampened with salt and water or with alcohol, and beaten monthly in the open air. Hardwood floors require daily atten- ¥ CLOCL2, C1Ef2OR LOR? Listing 02 LASHED tion. A flannel cloth--stout and coarse --made into a bag and shirred about the handle, inclosing the brushy part of the broom, is the best utensil for sweeping hard boards. It, too, works best when slightly dampened. It takes up instead of scattering the dust. For furniture use a cloth--never a feather-duster. This last abomination in the eyes of the intelligent housewife sends the powder visible and unseen by the naked eye flying all abroad to col- onize and propagate. brisk Abigail has gone through her rooms the dust is in place again, and the morrow of the swept and garnished Spaces is as yesterday, and yet more abundant. Which leads straight to the most im- portant morsel of housewifely counsel you will find on this page: Burn your sweepings! I have told you how Tyndall got rid e oe of \ ase ' 2 ' ar : . ent WN J ie eae é : ' = far JOzrbevre OSC Zz. By the time the "Bron LVPUE. of dust for one instant. If you can- not get an open fire in grate or chim- ney, kindle an auto-da-fe for the ex- press purpose of cremating the con- tents of the dustpan. And do it at once. Don't set the pan of noxious rubbish in a draught that will carry infusoria, ete., into new hunting- grounds. Beat your duster over burn- ing coals, or dip it into hot water and hang in the sun to dry. To cram it into closet or drawer is to make a fungus bed. book shelves preparatory to plying broom and duster. A finical bachelor I once knew mar- ried at fifty, and built a house for his bride that had not a closet in it. He called holes," and declared them '"'fit for slov- ens and not for decent people." The first house built for me after I entered the domestic field had fourteen rooms and eighteen closets. Were I to recon- struct it, I should double the number of places where things may be shielded from dust by doors and glass. One of the methods for keeping as clean as we can lies in shutting out all the fly- ing particles that compose dust which can be excluded by mortal care. Closets must be watched jealously, lest the ubiquitous particles I have closets and cupboards "dirt vers we Le. * Let down curtaint that are loofed back, and shake 'out the folds every few days. Do this before you Sweep, Cover furniture and beds with sweeping sheets and hang the same before open kugsDaily wile B Damp e2ed aforetime -and continually objurgated quicken into active life. Beat clothing and draperies out-of-doors on sunny days; sweep down walls and wash shelves. If you have reason to suspect THE HOUSEMOTHERS' XCHAN AN I get 4, book that will teach me to make fancy icing, and also give pus showing how the cakes look after they are decorated? fhere can 1 get the fancy ornaments which are sometimes used for decorating cakosT I w @ notice some time ago that it was dntended to establish & woman's exchange fn ee city. Was the intention carried out . wa I refer all of your gueries to thoso who are better able to answer them than myself. I hold your address and will forward whatever information I receive upon any of the subjects you name. "Polished" Rice. I read with Interest your article upon rice, and I venture to send some facts not set down In that paper. MS it is true that rice is the chief food of one-third of the population of the globe. it ig not always the same as our 'rleg of commerce." If you will look for ft, you will @ little nick In the end of fn rico grain. © germ, which, a8 in wheat and other grains, holds #0 much of the fgurigngeent and minerals an to make rice "a fr j29 ' Is wanting from the rico on uy in this country. Il of our rice is poliahed to present an attractive appear- ance, and the process removes the germ most of the valuable salts. 'Rice pol- w .' the part removed by this polishing, evtimated to contain elements nearly feo As valuable for food as the polished grains. ayete the following: pounda of "rico polish" there aro 4 pounds of protein, 74% pounds of fat, 5% pounds of rmotherals, bealdes starch. In 106 pounds of poll@hed rice (the rice of Commerce) there aro 74 pounds of protein, & undn of fat, .0§ pounds of minerals, ¢ 66 gtarc The rice the Orientals ilve and grow a aren the unpollshed grain, and it the vor in the fate and organio ita ne our pearly white ing, which velers speak of the delicious rice on by th mm in Oriental countries, ts wé hot, through the Exehsuee, cre- ate jemand for the nutritious food in its highest form, so that it may be bought here as easily as we get whole-wheat flour? _ Our Intelligent correspondent gives us matter for serlous thought. I recall, in reading her admirable letter, what a traveled friend told me of the rice serv- ed in Japan without butter or meats. When I objected that it must be flavor- less, she declared that it was "simply deliclous---utterly unlike any I have ever tasted at home."' The facts just stated may account for the difference. I wish it were possible for us to agitate the subject until importers should be com- pelled to bring to our doors the best quality of the yaluable cereal, "Ty aor - at For Drawback I observe the query relative to the label, "Por Drawback," printed upon flour sacks, You will find this to be the correct answer: The jute from which the sacks are made is imported, and a duty is pald on it. When woven, made into sacks, and filled with flour or feed or anything else, then re-exported, the [Safe e refunds a certain per cent. of the original gia The same explanation has been sent in by five other correspondents, Out of the mouths of so many witnesses the matter may be considered as established. 'A Mother's Recipe May I contribute my mother's recipe for fruit cookies? (Also. remark, incidentally, that that chocolate ple was delicious?) Fruit Cookies. Two and @ quarter cups of sugar; one scant cup of butter; two eggs; one and one- half.cups of cream and one level teaspoon- ful of soda. (Or, instead of this last you may use a cup of condensed milk, oné-half cup of water, and three teaspoonfuls of baking powder.) Oné and a half cups of ehopped raisins; two teaspoonfuls of cin- namon and one of grated nutmeg. Sumi- clent flour to make a soft dough. This makes 109 cookies, Here are three good recipes for cements. 1. For wood, metal or earthenware, mix litharge with glycerine to the consistency of thick cream, or you may use thin putty. If allowed to harden for a week It will re- sist the action of intense heat, also of hot or cold water, * 2. To make transparent cement, grind rice as fine as flour, add boiling water and cook to a thick paste. When cool, add a little alum or oil of cloves, 3. Waterproof cement for repairing marble or porcelain.is made by mixing white glue with milk. Jnslaked lime and. the white of an egg make a good cement for ordinary use, as does, a'so, plaster-of-paris worked into a cream with the white of an one. I thank you for recipes waich are good in themselves, and are, moreover, told pleasantly, as if you had written them for the love of helping your fei- low-housemothers. Wants Recipe for "Health Bread" Can you get for me the recipe for "health bread," otherwise known as "Father John," or as "knife bread'? If you have it on hand, kindly print It In your next isgue.. I am sorry that 1 cannot supply you ra the 'health bread" recipe you de- sire. For Young Housekeepers Will you accept one or two tiny items that may help some young housekeeper? I make the hems of sash curtains for kitchen and bathroom of equal width, top and bottom, Then the curtain may be re- versed when it is washed, and it will wear evenly at both ends. 2. Cut off the feet of black stockings when they are worn into uselessness; make a thumb-hole in the lower part of the leg, and take a few stitches at regular inter- vals to make casings for the fingers, and ree have a-pair of long mitts to wear on ot days when you hang out clothes. They likewise make excellent sleeve protectors while you are doing housework. Shey may be used for dishmops. Stitched into squares on the machine, they may be wrought into iron or kettle holders in less iime than I am taking to tell you of It. 3. Cut off the feet of stockings of large sizo, insert gussets and set them in a band, and you have a pair of child's underdraw- ers. 4. A friend of mine cut down lengthwise and stitched together enough stocking legs to make a good bathing suit for rerself. _n, The longer I live the more strongly is borre in upon me the conviction that, In the working of a household, the waste should be next to none. It is amazing how much that used to be con- sidered as rubbish may be utilized in some form. The frugal manager is con- stantly on the lookout. for suggestions in this direction. After reading the fore- going collection of 'tiny items" we will not consign cast-off stockings to the ragbag. Compounding Mince Meat I do not quite comprehend the phrase- ology of the recipe for mince meat given some weeks ago. Should I have two pounds of meat and four of apples~or what? I am very anxious to get it right, I do not recall the exact recipe of which you eak. I can tell you, how- ever, the rule to be observed in com- pounding mince meat after the olden style. If you have four pounds of "meat"'--as it used to be called--two and a half of it should be chopped ap- ples, and one and a half lean beef, boil- ed, left to get perfectly cold, then minced. Olden Lays I make room for a letter that will in- terest mothers and daughters, although it does not directly concern the cook, or touch upon culinary operations. wet why should not a strain of music or 4 murmur of poetry steal across "the heated term' now and then? To those who have made request for old- time songs, or others who would be glad to get them, I would say that I have a song book of my mother's containing some of the oldest and sweetest songs ever heard. She died at the age of 34. The songs were written out when she was a schoolgirl--as early as 1834. She had a very sweet voice and the pathos of -her signing would bring tears to the listeners' eyes. Here are the titles of some of them: I'm Sitting on the Stile, Mary; The Rose of Allandale; Red Jacket's Farewell; High- land Mary; Lily Dale; The Rose That All Are Praising; 'The Last Link is Broken; The Minstrel's Return From the War; 'The Lavender Girl; The Bxile of Brin; Canadian Boatman's Song; The Old Arm Chalr; i Won't Be a Nun; The Dog and the Gun; The Indian Hunter; Old Dog Tray; The Child and the Snowbird; O'er the Water to Charlie, Later, in my 'own schooldays, I knew some which I will add to the list: The Farmer's Girls, or Up in the Barly Morn- ing; The Little Octoroon, I Had a Gentle Father; Do They Miss Me at Home?; The Three 'Angel Visitants; Widder Bedot; On Long Island's Seagirt Shore, ete. If any of our readers who love to recall old songs should find one dear and familiar, or half-forgotten, here, or think of and wish for one I have not mentioned, which I may have, I should consider it a pleasure y a copy. To one who is so old- 8 'ed as to cherish early associations, it is ead to see tha increasing disposition to ignore everything not strictly "up-to- date'; to lay away upon a shelf, clean out of sight, whatever might awaken a tender memory in a heart that may be longing "For the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is stili,"* I suspect that you may have cause to regret your generous proposal before long. Every one of the songs you name is familiar to those who "took music lessons' fifty years agone. Every girl who had any ear for music played and sang more or less in those days, and every child was taught to sing by note. The evenings went by brightly and swiftly when we young people got to- gether, "Primitive?" Perhaps so, but "like the music of Carryl, pleasant and mournful to the soul' in the retrospect. Nowadays, no woman who is not "é performer" dare touch the plano, guitar or harp, for fear of adverse criticism from connoisseurs, and ballads have 'gone clean ott." All the same, you will have a run upon your stock of the olden lays, lL prophesy, furthermore, that nine out of ten of the applicants who are on the sunny side of 40 will excuse their re- quests by pleading that the antiques are wanted to gratify the whims of old mothers and fathers, ae Wants Recipe for Goulash If you have a good reeipe for Hungarian goulash--the oriwinal and real art B pletse let us have It_at your earliest con- venience, " : The request is referrea to those among our readers who can certify to the genuineness of the recipe for pre- paring this one of Hungary's national d'shes, We have plenty of imitations, The original must be somewhere, \ "Cuige Should Be Stzten (ard LV @CkLY. * moths, burn sulphur in the closet, or spray with gasoline and leave the door. closed for a day before putting back what you have taken out. The price of (comparative) cleanliness is eternal vigilance. Aline Hontes® FAMILY MEALS FOR A WEEK SUNDAY BREAKFAST. trapefruit, oatmeal, jelly and cream, frost fish, potato scone, toast, tea and cof- fee. LUNCHEON, Veal loaf, graham bread and crenm cheese sandwiches, asparagus a la_ vinaigrette, toasted crackers and American cheese, charlotte russe, cocoa. DINNER. White soup with noodles, smothered chick= ens, boiled rice with cheese and tomato sauce, grilled sweet potatoes, date soufile with whipped cream, black coffee, MONDAY BREAKFAST. Oranges, cereal and cream, fried tripe, "= "3 boiled eggs, French rolls warmed over, toast, tea and coffee. LUNCHEON, Scrambled eggs and tomatoes, anchovy toast, baked potatoes, lettuce salad with French dressing, rice pudding, tea. DINNER. Giblet soup (made of yesterday's fowls), mutton chops (baked), string beans, rice and tomato souffle (a left-over), lemon pie, black coffee, TUESDAY BREAKFAST. Fruit,' hominy and cream, bacon an green peppers fried, baked toast, brown ani white bread, tea and coffee. LUNCHEON, Broiled mushrooms 'on 'toast, nut and cream cheese sandwiches, string beans and lettuce salad (a left-over), crackers and cheese, gingerbread and cocoa, DINNER. Macaroni soup with Parmesan cheese, eurried chicken (a left-over from Sunday), rice and ice-cold bananas served with chicken, stewed salsify, canned peach dumplings baked and served with hard sauce, black coffee. WEDNESDAY BREAKFAST, Bananas and cream, strips of graham bread toast served with the fruit, fish cakes, muffins, tea and coffee. LUNCHEON, Breaded and baked sardines, brown bread and butter (very thin), fried potatoes, Watercress salad with French dressing, crackers and cheese, blanc mange and cake, DINNER. Bean 'soup, hambur stenk, sweet po- tato puff, 'creamed onions, jell nea black coffee. ee ~-- THURSDAY BREAKFAST. Oranges, hominy and cream, minced ham and baked eggs, graham gems, toast, tea and coffee. ! LUNCHEON, Pork tenderloins and apple sauce, baked potatoes, onion soufie (a left-over), bread pudding, tea. DINNER. Bean and tomato soup (a left-over), beef- steak baked a la jardiniere, fried eggplant, cauliflower, cabinet pudding with Mquid sauce, black coffee, FRIDAY BREAKFAST, Fruit, cereal and cream, fried scallops, rice muffins, toast, tea and coffeo, LUNCHEON, Savory omelet, cornmeal pone, grapefrult salad, crackers and Swisa cheese, cake and jan, tea, DINNER. Clam bisque, fvied founders. cut a ja soles; mashed and browned potatoes, eaull+ flower a Ja Vinaigrette (a left-over), Thue barb tart, black coffee, SATURDAY BREAKPAST, Oranges," breakfast food and ererm, Phil- adelphia scrapple, eally lunn, toast, ted and coffee. LUNCHEON, Parined oysters, mock macaront, coldslaw with Dolled dressing, apple shortcake (ho) with hard sauce, cocoa. DINNER, Cream of spinach rou, holed mutton with eaper sauce, sea kale, creamed Tt cottage pudding with wine Bau0% colfee, SUMMERS PLEASANT AND WI Cerlain white men in the Danish Goy- ernment service tive along the: south- west coast of Greenland, flow. do the *® European women and' ehiklren: thrive to hear fromeqne of these wor has written to the German paper Aus land that on the whole they like Green- IN FAR-AWAY GREENLAND. their tieen are hap and robust aml the natives are simple, jolly and dhs industrious. NOP SO. BAD. went The writcr says that life 1s not irk- ERS some, though the coast is bleak and the winter snows» are deep. She lives in Godthaab, the capital of the colony meee of South Greenland. The white women spend many of the summer hours on Haye Many Simple Pleasures There. that Arctie land? It is-int ' a ee aero parts.© On one 'sido. beels, 1 cibbages, and som grow. lu "On. the other isa pletsprinkbed.« with dai A White. Woman Writés That They the hills or in the gardens. "My garden," she writes;/."from the we Greentand point of view is a.greal suce a it into two UA broad wa 43 ishes, e other: vegelables even in FE SHORT SUMMER CES "RL TG Six anc inne coopers a frit hot house in which we bring a few Eure- by yx varied by i imported fron pnd thr pean flowers and strawberries -to, per- fection. chairs and a little table, and: often, in the aflernoon, all the while women in the. colény' sit here with their. needles, enjoying their tea and the bouquets of ruses and gill house prov Near the entrance are garden flowers which the~ hot- des," The. Danish mothers and their chil- dren are offen, seen on fine summer days climbing the: hills behind the set- tlement, some wilh their sewing, others with books, while a tea ketlle and a bas ket of fresh baked cake ape cgryigd ing Esqil x. In stnny plac vind, the picnic 5 view of the tertainment- is lage goats, generations ago ir ney. hore. siveeh of Godlhaab is lhaed The sing with houses and: bears, the name of Lange Linie,.in memory of the famous promenade of that name in Copenhag- en, It is a noisy street in summer, for it is the centre of the happy put of door life of the people and 'the playground of the children; both Greenlanders and Furopean,. The little folks gether, and in fact maux, old and young, "Sometimes," the narrative continues, ' Pom 'we hear a joyous shout, "Ti POST, THE POST!" and in an instant the whole colony is Gul of doors, "We sea a boat coming up the bay propelled by the paddle of ne of the is. to travel from one setllement to another with the Msquimaux whose busi neil The ested as we ates for all can vead and white and are eager for news frony their recognize no racial distinction. They are all playmates to- there is a large uropean admixture in all the Esqui- the. winter Gree squimaux ane just as intey- friends in, the other colonies. Only a few old women standing in their doors or sitting on the flat-roofs have no part in the general excitement. "But the stir and bustle are greatest if an oar-is fixed upright like a mast in the boat. This means that the boat is from one of the southern settlements, where a vessel from Denmark has arriv- éd, and the Esquimaux trusted with letters from our dear ones in the home land, as the ship is un- luading a-part of her cargo and will not arrive for several days. The Gov- ernor. of the colony opens the post bag' and its contents are for days the chief topic of conversation." postmen are A different aspect Godthaab wears in months, Even -in South niland there is a long period when the noon-and slarssire the oniy hun ination. and) ther Is just enouy J AoOUEN their light joo make the schtioment look dimly (ghostlike. nots buried, ese it is. in the deap Siow. Some. of the Esquimaun give all their lime to shdovelling the snow oul of Lange Linies so that there may be one . place of promenade between the diwel- lings, the school house, the kirk, the slore and the meat houses where sup- plies of frozen flesh and birds are kept. The path is wide and walled in on either side by snow pilés. But even in this. gloomy season the white woe men, wrapped in furs, have thelr walks and picnics. THERE US ZEST IN THE AIR, and in fine weather the women enjoy A Scramble among the frozen hills and Snow lies deep and goft they wear snowshoes, Jt is valleys; and if fresh or nv busy time far the Esquinawuk, [08 hei! main business is to Jook out tr MTOR Denmark's agen creeniand, Thek: bake, "brew; ss sweep and clean, In summer th The coastal waters are not alwa other. The houses of the whites are warmly built, of wood and stone, with Commis dious rooms and an atr of genuine coms forl. The winter months pass quickly, for they are flka with duty and with social inlepeourse, which is almost. ine variably pleasant, .betwoen. the while families and thé nakives among whem they live, whthes fr 4hen heals along the coast, and: in wWinteles dig paths for them through the snows VS [Osseo ger. over in winter, sand the hoals somes times make their way along the shores carrying frozen. hares or birds or other needed supplies from-one post to an