cated to forty patients in one institution, through drinking Original in GOOD Housekeeping. the water. In Columbus, Ohio, an epidemic of diphtheria in a certain school district was traced to a well located but five feet from a vault. In Japan, during nine days in 1886, 13,348 new cases of cholera were reported, with 8,472 deaths. The same report stated that the wells of Tokio had been examined, and 740 out of 1,177 were condemned as unfit for drinking purposes. The evils thus illustrated are often beyond the power of individuals or families to remedy. In the country, a farmer can clean his well out, change lead pipes for iron, or if necessary obtain his supply of drinking water from different sources. But in cities, individuals are powerless. Whatever is done in the way of water purification on a large scale, must be done by the public authorities. The best results are secured by a three-fold process of coagulation, by means of which the impurities are precipitated, filtration, by which they are removed, and subsequent aeration, by which a fresh supply of oxygen is imparted to the water. It is claimed that a new method has been discovered, whereby water may be purified and bacteria destroyed by the passage of electrical currents through the water. Should this method prove to be all that is claimed for it, sanitary science will have made a decided advance thereby. Various small filters are sold for domestic use, many of which when properly cleaned and cared for are of great value in purifying water for household purposes. Pure water is without perceptible color, odor, or taste. It is possible, however, for water to be faultless in these respects, and yet contain dangerous impurities. Hence a more reliable test is needed. A good one is that known as Heisch's sewage test. Fill a clean pint bottle three-fourths full of the water to be tested, and dissolve in it half a teaspoonful of purified sugar. Cork the bottle set it in a warm place for two days. If during that time it becomes cloudy or milky, it is unfit for domestic use. If it remains perfectly clean, it is probably safe to use. Another simple test consists in the use of a saturated solution of permanganate of potassium. A few drops of this, added to a bottle of water, produces a beautiful purple rosecolor. If the water contains any considerable amount of organic matter, this will give place in the course of a few hours to a more or less dirty reddish-brown color. If the color remains unchanged at the end of twelve hours, it may be considered free from organic contamination. Original in GoOD HOUSEKEEPING. -J. M. French, M. D. CATCHING LOBSTERS. Along the North Atlantic coast there is but one kind of lobster, and that is found north of New York and principally on the coast of New England. The length of a lobster that can be legally caught is ten and one-half inches, and where there is any doubt about the length, the lobster is actually measured. If long enough, it is rendered harmless by having its claws plugged, and is put in a floating water chamber with holes in it and taken to the shore, where a plunge in boiling water kills the animal and turns its color from a dark olive green to bright scarlet. Lobsters are in deep water in winter, but in the spring they wend their way shoreward to raid upon the clams, mussels and mollusks. During the summer is the lobster fisherman's harvest. A box-like trap, with a hole at each end and baited with menhaden, is sunk to the bottom and left there for some time, the place being marked by a buoy. The lobsters go in, but cannot get out, and when the trap is raised they are taken out with a gloved hand. FAMILY MENDING. I. DARNING, PATCHING, REPAIRING AND MAKING OVER. HE mother of a family appreciates the full force of the homely proverb, "A stitch in time saves nine." Many times nine are saved by prompt attention to repairs, and the greatest help to making is mending. Family mending consists of darning, patching, repairing and making over. To darn well, select the number of thread or silk best suited to the material, and use the finest needle that will carry it. The edges of splits and tears must first be caught lightly together with long, basting stitches that can easily be cut and drawn out when the darning is done. This prevents one edge stretching more than the other. Run the needle from the darner in very small stitches in and out its whole length before drawing through; then towards the darner in the same way, and so on, backwards and forwards till the length of the tear is covered. Tears are apt to be three-cornered. Begin such in the center to make the point fit even, and darn towards each end. All darning of this character is done in the same way, but the finer the material the finer must be the needle and cotton. In darning much worn material, baste under the split a piece of the same goods and darn the two together. In all cases it strengthens to darn upon another piece, but does not make so smooth a darn. A ragged tear must have always a piece put under it. Ravellings of the same are best for darning flannels or dress goods, and if the mend is dampened and pressed with a hot iron it is almost unnoticeable. Tears in cloth darned upon the wrong side, the stitches run upon the surface, not going through, scarcely show upon the right side. In lined articles the darning must, of course, be done upon the right side. All tears must be darned before washing. If the edges are once stiffened by wetting and drying they can never be mended neatly. To darn a hole in a stocking begin with as long a strand of cotton as can be easily managed, and a long, slim needle. Pass the needle back and forth across one way, letting each long stitch lie close to the one next it, and running the needle a little beyond the edge of the hole for greater strength, being careful not to draw the cotton tight enough to pucker. When the hole is covered, cross the other way, taking on the needle every other stitch of those in the first crossing. When finished you have a neat, strong basket work; neither a wide checker work that can be seen through, nor a thick, uneven surface that hurts the foot. After mending the holes the thin places in stockings should be run thickly, backwards and forwards. with needle and cotton to prevent breaking. In darning toes and heels it is helpful to darn upon a china egg, but in other parts of the stocking a flatter darn is made by using only the hand. To darn woolen stockings wool must be used. For cotton stockings a French darning cotton, that comes in small, soft balls, is superior to that bought upon cards. It runs through several numbers, is fine and smooth, and keeps its color well. Holes in garments or house-linen must be patched. To patch, baste a square of the same material under the hole, cut the edges of the hole even, turn under, and hem in small stitches neatly down to the patch. Then turn the edges of the patch and hem down upon the garment. This finishes both sides neatly. If the garment patched is figured or striped, the figures and stripes must be made to match in putting in the patch. Cloth is too heavy usually to turn the edges in patching. The edges of the patch must be run in small stitches upon the wrong side and the edges of the hole darned down closely on the right side. -Clara Grundy Beirne. Original in GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. DECORATING ONE'S OWN CHINA. FEW odd pieces of hand painted china, are a delight to the good housekeeper who loves to add a dainty charm to her table. The secret of decorating one's own china can be easily mastered by any one possessing a moderate amount of artistic taste, and perseverance. Many elderly as well as young ladies have found it a fascinating occupation for leisure hours. The difficulty which beginners experience as to the colors that will or will not bear mixing is a simple matter after all. Mineral colors can be classified into two groups, those of which the base is gold, and those which contain iron in a greater or less degree, combined with other metals or minerals. The gold colors, which are the carmines, carmine lakes, golden violets, and purples, with the blues and whites, can be safely mixed together, but (with some exceptions) cannot be blended with colors of the second group. The browns, blacks, reds, yellows and greens can be mixed with each other, as they contain more or less iron, as a base. It is only necessary to add that the colors comprising each group (the names of which will be given as we proceed) can be safely mixed together as in oil or water color painting. The blues chiefly owe their coloring to cobalt. The blacks are made from iron and cobalt, therefore blue and black may be used to make a fine gray. Blues also mix well with jonquil, or mixing yellow, purple and carmine, and can be used with care with the browns, flesh colors and ochres. Mixing yellow and jonquil yellow do not contain iron and may be used with the gold colors. Silver yellow (composed of jonquil and orange yellow,) may be used in a similar manner. Bearing these exceptions in mind the different paints may be blended with each other as in non-vitrifiable colors. To secure their permanent adhesion to the surface of the china certain fluxes enter into their composition. These are composed of sand, borax and lead, and being subjected to the intense heat of the kiln fix the coloring matter upon the glaze. Per Lacroix's Mineral colors in tubes are recommended. sons who have had no experience in ceramic painting are advised to begin by painting in monochrome. A spray of woodbine thrown carelessly across a plate is prettily done in ultramarine, deep blue or deep red brown. The following is a very good method for those who desire to transfer the design instead of drawing directly upon the china. Lay a piece of transparent paper over the design you wish to copy, and trace the outline carefully with a pencil. Next wash the plate over with spirits of turpentine and allow it to dry. Blacken a piece of white paper with a soft lead pencil and lay the blackened side against the china to be decorated, with the tracing paper containing the outline of the design above it. Arrange the design in exactly the right position and secure the papers firmly to the china with bits of sealing wax or gummed paper. Next pass over the outline with the point of a very hard pencil. There should be no difficulty in transferring a correct impression upon the china. Of the materials necessary several camel's hair brushes and blenders of medium size will be required. Spirits of turpentine to dilute the paints, and alcohol for washing the brushes. Oil of lavender or clove oil is used by some person instead of turpentine though the latter is generally preferred, as it dries quickly and thus prevents loss of time in waiting; the paints are also more free from the dust floating in the atmosphere which readily attaches itself to the moist color. It is often advisable to remove these particles by the aid of a fine needle which can be easily fixed into a wooden handle, for this purpose. A brush handle or bit of wood sharpened to a point is useful in correcting an outline or removing an excess of paint. There should be a small cup containing the turpentine to moisten the brushes, and another containing alcohol or turpentine for washing them. A clean cloth as free from lint as possible is needed to remove surplus color, and for wiping the brushes. The paint put upon a china palette is mixed slightly, with turpentine, and rubbed smooth with the knife. The brush. barely moistened with turpentine is then charged with the color, and the paint put on with a light firm touch, in a broad wash, not in short strokes. Let the brush sweep from the central vein of a leaf to the edge, taking care never to touch the same spot twice, until quite dry. One great secret in china painting is to lay each color just where it belongs, and leave it unmolested until perfectly dry; except where the blender is to be used to soften the edges, or tint. By the time the design has been passed over, the first part of the painting should be ready for the shading. For this use the same color as dry as it can be well managed. Practice will enable one by the touch of the brush to add a great part of the shadow while laying in the first wash; a very light touch leaves little color, a heavier one deepens it. If difficulty is experienced in putting the paints on smoothly, a drop of clove oil, and perhaps a little fat oil may be mixed with the paint upon the palette. The edges of color may be merged into each other, by the use of the blender, holding it perpendicular and "dabbing" with it lightly. It is perhaps the wisest course to paint simply upon the white surface of the china, until experience is gained in the management of the brush and colors. Then some charming effects may be produced by various tints and softly shading backgrounds. In china painting as in every other pursuit, practice is one of the best of teachers. Original in GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. THE BLUE AND THE GRAY. To-morrow will be Decoration Day, -E. B. And we'll hear the poem, "The Blue and the Gray." But I do not need the beautiful rhyme, Since the Blue and the Gray are in one shrine; The shrine is my heart, And come weal, come woe, Out of that shrine They can never go. No question of right or wrong is stirred, I care not for North nor South, and say, And not e'en Death's dart, 'Tis strange indeed," I hear you say, "To love alike the Blue and the Gray!" Not at all, dear friend, when the Gray and the Blue Are found in the eyes of my children, two. I love them now, Will love them alway, And love them alike, The Blue and the Gray. -Mary Hume Dougine. One of the mildest and best emetics in croup, bronchitis; an excellent loosener of cough (expectorant). Dose, to cause vomiting, a teaspoonful repeated in 10 or 15 minutes until it takes effect. As a cough loosener, three to 10 drops for an infant or child; onefourth to one-half teaspoonful for adult four times a day. Jalap. A very active purgative; too much so for common use. Juniper. A diuretic, it stimulates the action of the kidneys. Should not be used in acute affections of the kidneys. Compound spirits of juniper is the preparation commonly used. Dose-A teaspoonful in water. Gin is flavored with oil of juniper. Laudanum. Tincture of opium. One of the strongest opiate medicines. Should only be used by advice of physician. Lead (Sugar of). All preparations of lead are poisonous. Used externally as a cooling sedative application with laudanum to inflammations. Limewater. Simply a solution of lime in water. Any one can make it by putting pure, clean, unslacked lime in water. Take a large bottle and put into it enough lime to fill it one-fourth, then pour in water enough to fill it full, cork and shake it awhile. On standing the clear limewater will be ready for use. If all the lime is dissolved, add a little more so as to be sure that the water is saturated; that is, contains as much as it will dissolve. Limewater is the main stand-by as a domestic remedy for nausea or vomiting. Dose, from a teaspoonful to a tablespoonful. It is often added to milk for babies when they have a sour stomach or diarrhoea, as it is antiacid and somewhat astringent. A tablespoonful in half pint of milk so long as occasion exists for it. Magnesia. A valuable home remedy as an anti-acid laxative. It is particularly good where there is constipation with sick stomach and headache. Water does not dissolve it; it is better taken in lemonade. Dose-A teaspoonful. It is unsafe to use magnesia for a lengthened period, owing to the fact that it may form intestinal concretions. Mustard, Mixed with water is one of the quickest prepared emetics when poisons have been swallowed; also one of the most frequently useful of all domestic remedies. When any one is suffering with pain and you do not know what to do, put on a mustard plaster near the seat of the trouble. If properly attended to it can do no harm. To make a plaster, mix from one to three or four tablespoonfuls of mustard with the same amount of wheat or Indian flour. Mix these with enough hot water to make a paste. Take a piece of soft, old muslin or thin flannel twice as large as the plaster is to be, but spread the mustard and flour paste on half of the cloth, double the other half over it and turn the edges over to keep the paste in. Put it on at once and leave it on until it is felt to burn quite smartly if the patient is conscious. If the patient is unconcious, or a child, it must be looked under in 10 or 15 minutes, and if the skin is decidedly red, take it off. As soon as it is removed, cold cream or cosmoline should be gently rubbed over it. It is never intended to raise a blister with mustard, it is too severe. The aim is just to heat the skin very actively, mostly for its use as a counter-irritant to relieve some irritation of an internal organ. Myrrh. The tincture of myrrh is very serviceable in the care of the mouth. Twenty drops in a quarter tumblerful of water will correct bad odor of the mouth. THE COZY CORNER. [In this corner we propose to have pleasant gossip with our readers and correspondents, in passing matters of household interest, and that it may be made an instructive and profitable Household Exchange, we invite correspondence of inquiry and information on all subjects of general interest and value to the Homes of the World.]—GOOD Housekeeping. depart We have several contributions for our "Cozy Corner" ment, every way worthy of publication, which do not appear for the reason that the names and addresses of the writers are not given. Only such contributions will be printed in any department of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING as are accompanied by the name and address of the writer.-Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. The recipe I use for them, and which I obtained in the South last winter, is this: A quart of flour, perhaps half a teacupful of lard, a teaspoonful of salt, and water to wet them up stiff. Then work them back and forth in the machine until they blister on rolling out, or snap, which will take ten minutes. Bake in a hot oven twenty minutes. Roll thin and cut small. MRS. H. ELYRIA, OHIO. INFORMATION WANTED. Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING: Will you kindly inform me (if you can) which you think or know to be the most reliable employment agency for women in New York city. A lady friend of mine wishes to get a situation in a good family in or near New York city or Brooklyn, as cook and housekeeper, or working housekeeper. My friend is a constant reader of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, and takes much pleasure in the perusal of the same. If you will please answer the above question you will confer a great favor on G. D. N. If some one of our readers can give our correspondent the desired information, they will do both the inquirer and the editor hereof a favor by rising in their place and "speaking out in writing," promptly in the "Cozy Corner."-Editor of GOOD HOUSE KEEPING. CURDLED SALAD DRESSING. Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING: Nothing is more annoying to a housekeeper-just dressing, perhaps, for some luncheon, the flowers on the table, the maid's toilet secure, the ménu pinned on the kitchen wall, all the arrangements apparently en train-than to receive this message from the kitchen: "Please, Mrs., what shall we do with the mayonnaise? It's all curdled!" The mayonnaise, two hours before, was placed in the ice-box, a ravishing sight,-so creamy colored (no vulgar yellow, but just a rich Jersey cream), so thick, so smooth. Now it meets the poor hostess' troubled gaze, a greasy, mottled, disreputablelooking "mess." The hostess desperately rumples over the leaves of the cook books to find very careful directions how to make dressing,-strict cautions not to let it curdle, but never a word as to what she shall do with the erring dressing that has curdled. One would suppose that "curdling" was not a venial culinary error, but a mortal sin. Really, however, it is very simply remedied. Sometimes a little additional vinegar will bring the misguided oil to reason; but a sure way is to beat up an additional yolk of an egg and slowly add the curdled dressing. It will not take as long as the original making of the salad has done. Mayonnaise should always be kept in a cold place. Thus it will keep for days. It grows very stiff; but, if you do not wish to add vinegar to thin it, a few drops of ice water will have the same result. The white of an egg (beaten dry), often added to mayonnaise for lettuce and endive, needs to be put in at the very last, as it thins the dressing. OCTAVE THANET. A CORRECTION. Editor of Good Housekeeping: In your No. 11, Vol. 6, of March 31, 1888, I notice you publish "The Covered Bridge" and credit it to Mary E. Shaw. In 1862, my brother, David Barker, of Exeter, Maine, composed that poem during a ride with me in my carriage, in which we passed through the covered bridge across the Penobscot river between this city and Brewer. It grew out of a conversation between us on the bridge. It was published the next day, and went the rounds of the papers at that time over his name. It was never claimed by any body else. He died in 1874, and three editions of his poems have been published since, one within the last year, and this poem is in each of them. I do not know who Mary E. Shaw is, nor why she should claim this little gem as hers, or why you should for her. BANGOR, MAINE. LEWIS BARKER. Mr. Barker will doubtless be glad to know-and we certainly take pleasure in informing him of the fact-that "The Covered Bridge" came to us as a carefully preserved newspaper clipping, with a request that we re-publish it in our "Page of Fugitive Verse." The printed clipping had the purported name of the author, as it appeared in our pages, and the person sending it to us presumed, as we did, that the name attached to the poem was the rightful one of the author. The wrong-doing in the matter lies farther back than at the door of our correspondent or the editor hereof, it being sent to us just as it was found floating on the sea of Fugitive Verse.-Editor of Good HousekEEPING. CREAM BISCUITS AND DOUGHNUTS. Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING: "K. R. G.," of Melrose, Ct., asks for recipes for cream biscuits and "Yankee doughnuts" in your last issue, and I send my recipes, which have been used very successfully: CREAM BISCUITS.-One quart of sifted flour, with two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar sifted through three times; one cupful of sour cream, with one teaspoonful of soda; one cupful of sweet milk; salt. Bake in tin cups about the size of ordinary teacups. DOUGHNUTS.-One cupful of raised dough, one cupful of sour milk, one and one-half cupfuls of sugar, one-half cupful of butter, three eggs, one teaspoonful of soda, and flour enough to roll without sticking. WATKINS, N. Y. Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING : L. T. S. I have seen in GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, on page 295 of No. 77, a little note requesting some one to give a recipe for "Yankee doughnuts," also one for cream biscuits. This recipe is an heirloom from my grandma, who lived in Connecticut. The recipe for cream biscuits is one I am accustomed to, and I know it to be very nice : CREAM BISCUITS.-One cupful of sour cream, one-half cupful of sour milk, one-half teaspoonful of cream of tartar, one teaspoonful of soda, one teaspoonful of salt, and flour to mix very thick. Bake quickly. YANKEE DOUGHNUTS.-At noon heat one pint of milk, and make a stiff batter with flour, and add one-half teacupful of melted lard and a teaspoonful of salt. At night add four well-beaten eggs, two and onehalf cupfuls of sugar, one teaspoonful of soda, two teaspoonfuls of cinnamon, and flour enough to knead thoroughly. Keep it warm over night, roll it out in the morning, cut it into small cakes, set them in a warm place until very light, and fry. By rolling them in fine sugar they will keep a good while. QUIET HOURS WITH THE QUICK WITTED. FOR THE CHILDREN OF THE HOUSEHOLD AND THE CHILDREN OF A LARGER GROWTH AS WELL. [Contributions for this department are always in order, the only proviso being that everything submitted shall be fresh and entertaining.] 109.-A SQUARE. 1—A station. 2—A musical instrument. 3-Flexible. 4-False hair. (French) 110.-CHARADE. In "The Mistletoe Bough" may my first be descried, Where young Lovell mourned long for his ill-fated bride; Within it the miser hoards ill-gotten pelf And though you be free-handed, have one yourself. My second is edible, found on a tree, May be round or be square and of iron may be. 111.-BEHEADINGS. I-Behead a tract of land and leave a part of the human body. 2-Behead a soft oleaginous substance and leave a sharp, pointed instrument. 3-Behead the fruit of a certain tree and leave a vegetable. 4-Behead the past of a verb signifying to move through the water and leave was indebted to. 5-Behead a country in Europe and leave to hand again. 6-Behead a large plant and leave a man's name. 7-Behead close to and leave a part of the head. 8-Behead a talon and leave a rule. 9-Behead the past of the verb to move quickly and leave an article. 10-Behead repeatedly and leave profit. 11-Behead a cry and leave to trouble. 12-Behead almost imperceptible and leave a corruption of are ISIS PEST All communications for the Editorial Department should be addressed to the responsively met the sweet smile, or tenderly wiped away the fallEditor of GOOD HousekeepinG, Springfield, Mass. 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"CHILDREN NOT WANTED." He who placards his habitation, or his domicile that he invites others to occupy, and she who writes over the doorway of her life "Children not wanted," write of themselves as being both boldly brutal and selfishly inhuman. If children are not wanted, then are men and women not wanted, and the command of the Almighty to mankind to "increase and multiply on the face of the earth" is heartlessly set at naught and unfeelingly bid defiance. With those who desire to lead lives of usefulness, lives of purity, and lives of unselfishness, among their fellow men and women, no plea for a welcome to children-for ample room for them in our hearts and homes; no words of argument maintaining the position of our duty to duly make place for them, to properly provide for their wants and necessities, for furnishing the means for their careful training and development, are needed. And when we have fallen upon times when even a tendency to cultivate a popular sentiment that finds expression in these words: "Children not wanted," whether they be spoken or implied, it is time for every well-wisher of his or her race, to speak out boldly, plainly and emphatically; for the press, the pulpit and the home to cast back the groveling assertion into the teeth of those who utter it, and into the face of those who have sympathy with this mischievous sentiment. "Children not wanted!" Can a human being not utterly degraded and lost to all the finer senses of humanity adopt this sentiment and act, with a conscience void of offense, up to the behests ing tear of a child, coldly say "Children not wanted," is one to be shunned as a plague-spot and left alone in their sins and selfishness. But we are peevishly told "they are so perplexing, exacting and vexatious in their demands upon every day time and attention." Ah, so are we, ourselves, more's the pity; we, who shirk our own responsibilities and duties in despicable subterfuge. But, again, on the other hand, are they not loving, winning, and comforting to us, who aggregate all their petty shortcomings in our own greater one of selfish impatience, without setting over against these, the many virtues, the fond hopes, and the precious promises that belong to them as being made in our own image, and again, in the image of Him who made all things? That life is not worth the living which has no welcome in its daily rounds of duty for children,—that knows not of the existence of the love and loyalty that is the basis of all true life. That man who makes "Children not wanted " a factor of his commercial conduct, and that woman who sits in her home of ease, under the cloud shadow of this sentiment, are those who are not wanted. They are not wanted among those who have the well being of humanity at heart, who labor for the development of noble and true lives, who would make the Homes of the World the perfection of earthly doing and being. They are not wanted in this world, and will naturally go to their own place in the world to come. Children are wanted, and men and women are wanted, who will not only welcome children, but who will joy in having patience with childish weaknesses, vexations and short-comings of whatever name or nature, be they great or small. Finger marks may mar French plate glass window panes, the happy voices of joy, or the trembling ones of sorrow may jar upon the nerves of sensitive souls, and sorrow may come from rebellious conduct, but notwithstanding all this, Children are wanted. When a time comes that there are no children, the time will also come when there will be naught to listen to throughout the broad earth, around childless hearthstones, save the cheerless "Yea" and "Nay," which finds its sanctification and embodiment in the colorless and barren lives of the dead and dying elements of humanity that is best illustrated in the decaying halls of Shakerism. Children are wanted, and when we say they are not, we deny not only the necessity, but the propriety of our own individual existence. Out, then, upon the selfishness that has place either in the sanctity of the home, or in the marts of business, and which attempts to tell us that children are not wanted. Withered should be the hand that would write down the phrase, blistered the tongue that would speak it, blighted the heart that finds room for an echo, even of the sentiment that accepts it, and in loyalty to the teachings of Holy Writ, we are justified in adding, cursed of God and man, be the lives that by practice or precept, hang out this banner on their outer walls,-" Children not Wanted." |