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In an article on house papering, in GOOD HOUSEKEEPING for May 12, the writer says that to make paper stick on white-washed walls they should first be lightly scraped then washed in thin glue

water. I treated a room that way a year ago, and was not successful at all. The paper cracked and peeled off in a most exasperating manner. This spring I washed the walls thoroughly in vinegar, and the paper sticks well. My wall was not hard finished. Flour paste was used to put on the paper in both cases. The vinegar kills the lime. The lime was what prevented the paper from adhering. S. E. H.

OMELETTES FOR "L. B. L."

Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING: For a plain omelette, use one tablespoonful of milk to an egg; beat white and yolk separately, add the milk to the beaten yolk with a pinch of salt; stir in the whipped whites lightly and pour into a well heated frying-pan slightly greased with butter or sweet drippings. Cook slowly, and in turning it out on the platter, fold over. Five eggs make a good sized omelette, but the same number may be made to do duty for a much larger number of persons if necessary by using one-half of a pint of milk and a small dessertspoonful of cornstarch, and then proceeding as with the other. Chopped corn-beef or ham added just before turning out makes a pleasant variation and is a good way to use up a small amount of meat which would be useful in no other way. Oysters or chopped parsley added before putting into the pan also makes a variety. ORANGE, N. J. A. R. W. OREGON FRUIT CAKE-(Cheap and good). Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING: From the very "Far West" I beg to send you a recipe for a cheap and good" Oregon Fruit cake. One-half of a cupful of butter, one cupful of brown sugar, well creamed together; three eggs, dropped in one at a time, and the whole well beaten for at least ten minutes; two cupfuls of Orleans syrup (scant measure), one cupful of sweet milk, and three cupfuls of flour, added in the

order given; two-thirds of a grated nutmeg, two teaspoonfuls of ground cinnamon, one teaspoonful of allspice, one teaspoonful of cloves, two cupfuls more of flour with which two teaspoonfuls of yeast-powder and one-half of a teaspoonful of soda have been well mixed; one-half of a sinall teacupful of brandy. Have one rounding full pint of currants, one and one-half pints of seeded raisins and three-fourths of a cupful of shredded citron, mixed together. Flour them well, using a scant half-cupful of flour, and stir through the cake till they are barely mixed. Bake in a slow oven about three hours, keeping a cover over the first one. The measuring cup should be the size of a common tumbler. I have given the ingredients in the order in which they should be mixed, and if the directions are exactly followed the result will be a cake that will keep, and taste as well as one in which a pound of butter and ten eggs are used. Should other than Orleans syrup be used, a trifle more flour might be used. MRS. G. H. A. JACKSONVILLE, Oregon.

DESSERTS WITH WHIPPED CREAM.

Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING:
For M. S. B.:

BANANA PUDDING.-Make a pint of thin boiled custard and place on ice to become cold, when cold line a pretty dish with thin slices of sponge cake and fill with alternate layers of cake and thinly sliced bananas, pour over it the custard and whip a half cupful of cream and heap over the whole, place on ice a few minutes and serve.

BANANAS AND CREAM.-Heap upon a glass dish eight or ten ice cold bananas sliced thin, sprinkle with powdered sugar, pour over them a cupful of whipped cream also ice cold and serve with light plain cake.

BANANA PATES-Line small patty pans with rich puff paste and bake crisp. When cold fill with the following. Mince fine a half dozen bananas, mix with them a half cupful of whipped cream and two tablespoonful of pulverized sugar, fill the crusts and place a spoonful of the

cream on each Paté.

The cream is to be measured before whipped then briskly beaten with an egg beater until light and dry it will not become thin after once thick if rightly done. Whipped cream is nice as a sauce for a corn starch pudding used as plain cream with sugar and is a nice addition to strawberry short cake placed upon the cake when served. For coffee, serve coffee as usual putting a M. C. D. spoonful on each cup, the same with chocolate.

WHO CAN TELL.

Editor of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING:

Perhaps you or some some of your many readers can enlighten me as to the name and authorship of the following lines, or tell me where I may find the poem complete?

One day, in desolate wind-swept space,
In twilight land, in no-man's land,
Two hurrying shapes met face to face
And bade each other stand.

"And who art thou?" cried one, agape,
Shuddering in the gloaming light.

"I do not know," said the second shape;
"I only died last night."

And who is responsible for the following curiosities? Of course I know that Mater Anser is the homely Mother Goose, but is there a collection of latin turned nursery rhymes like these? And if so who knows where to find them. To me they sound very much like the eccentricities of James Demille.

Ad urbem ivit Doodlius, cum
Caballo et calone;
Ornavit pluma peleum

Et dixit Macaroni.

Cano carmen sixpence, a corbis plena rye,
Multa aves atras percoctas in a pie.
Ubi pie apertus tum canit avium grex ;
Nonne suavis cibus hoc locari ante rex?
Fuisset rex in parlor, multo di nummo tumens,
Regina in culina, bread and mel consumens;
Ancilla was in horto, dependens out her clothes,
Quem venit parva cornix demorsa est her nose.

MATER ANSER'S MELODIES.
MRS. E. V.

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63. Susy Race.

64. Nun a verb.

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65. Cape whip. 66. I lure a ace.

[Contributions for this department are always in oraer, the only proviso being that everything submitted shall be fresh and entertaining.|

AN ANAGRAMMATICAL JOURNEY, MAPPED OUT IN GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, No. 79, MAY 12. Geographical Anagram.

1. Her cow blent.
2. Bring press rein.

3. O, it be false mold.

4. I am late, I cry.

5. O dear, deal unit last.

6. Spry keeling Rebs. 7. Tame gnus in Reno.

8. Yet Race sent.

9. Bias came. 10. O warm shirt. 11. Be as stain.

12. The Normal Brund.

13. Mr. Balltar's shin. 14. In ye mellow dice. 15. Kill braver calfs.

16. Oil casks at Tumlinn.

17. N. G. to memory.
18. Able Ruth E.

19. Let our bath go.
20. A heap or a.
21. O Yank, I hid.
22. Bring a rent rag to.

23. Fred Blake is.
24. Her kerb is.

25. Ask for a bulse.

26. Lone times.

27. Lowery, stove liner.

28. Big Tony Stice.

29. But hard nobs.

30. O, her faun.

31. As brave fell.

32. Not one drawl.

33. War I dare revel.

34. I can't pity Pecoe.

35. We tend morals.

1. Belchertown.

2. Berrien Springs. 3. East Bloomfield.

4. Laramie City.

5. Lauderdale Station.

6. Berkeley Springs.

7. Green Mountains.

8 Yates Center.

9. Escambia.
10. Arrowsmith.
II. Sebastian.

12. Northumberland.
13. Barnhart's Mills.
14. Yellow Medicine.
15. Black River Falls.
16. Catskill Mountains.
17. Montgomery.
18. Blue Earth.

19. Attleborough.
20. Arapahoe.
21. Kandiyohi.

67. Strainer cover, Ma.
68. Le Mun bird carver.
69. A lion hoin cart.
70. Saul I. Dana.
71. Lone Hades.

72. Better lack E.
73. Jot no news.

74. Con, keep red vail.

75. Crane last.
76. Shot an wing.
77. A lode rod.
78. Ben's liver led.

79. No pigs has rid.

80. Oh, Jo back rugs.

81. An O. K. I must cry no.

82. Glean soles.

83. Red ran, I go.

84. Mint eater.

85. Walls of bells.

86. Will Heath.

87. A cat mansion.
88. Drive on, rush!
89. Bother on bran.
90. Save our thin Rico.
91. O, I sue blunt man.

92. Ah, leak a drip.
93. I hover or I.
94. Chilo alapaca.
95. The rain cost.

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24. Berkshire.

25. Au Sable Forks. 26. Limestone.

27. Yellowstone River.

28. Big Stone City.
29. Hubbardston.

30. Huerfano.

31. Beaver Falls.

32. Leonardtown.

33. Delaware River.

34. Tippecanoe City. 35. Westmoreland.

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98. Ted drops war. 99. Give a cur a trunk. 100. Ah! our lion cats.

63. Syracuse.
64. Van Buren.
65. Chippewa.
66. Eau Claire.

67. Sacramento River.
68. Cumberland River.
69. North Carolina.

70. Andalusia.

71. Honesdale.

72. Battle Creek.

73. Jonestown.

74. Lake Providence.

75. Lancaster.
76. Washington.
77. El Dorado.
78. Bendersville.
79. Idaho Springs.
80. Jacksborough.

81. Rocky Mountains.

82. Los Angeles. 83. Rio Grande. 84. Marinette. 85. Bellows Falls. 86. Whitehall. 87. Santa Monica. 88. Hudson River. 89. Benton Harbor. 90. Housatonic River. 91. Blue Mountains. 92. Arkadelphia. 93. Ohio River. 94 Apalachicola. 95. East Corinth. 96. Potomac River. 97. Blue Earth City. 98 Edwardsport. 99. Naugatuck River. 100. South Carolina.

PRIZES.

FIRST.-COLLECTION Of roses.

This collection of ever-blooming roses, valued at twenty dollars, is from the famous rose growers, The Dingee & Conard Company, West Grove, Pa., and is made up of one hundred different varieties, including the choicest novelties from Europe.

SECOND.-COLTON'S CELEBRATED EXTRACTS.

A prize that will please all housekeepers is a fine assortment of Colton's Celebrated Extracts, which are noted for their purity and strength, and will consist of a half-pint bottle of lemon, vanilla, orange, rose, almond and Jamaica ginger, and a four-ounce bottle of nutmeg, clove, wintergreen and cinnamon. This complete assortment of as pure extracts as can be made will be enclosed in a handsomely polished black walnut case, with a separate apartment for each bottle, plainly labeled so that each can be seen at a glance. The whole will make an extract cabinet that will delight any housekeeper fortunate enough to win it, and is valued at twelve dollars.

THIRD. SILVer-plated, sELF-POURING coffee pot. We have a very handsome and useful prize to offer, and a new thing to most housekeepers,-a silver-plated, self-pouring coffee pot, which pours out the coffee by simply pressing the lid, and does away entirely with the drudgery of lifting the coffee pot. No one who has seen it but admires it, and we are as pleased to offer it as one of our prizes, as we know the fortunate one will be who receives it. It is manufactured by Paine, Diehl & Co., Philadelphia, Pa., who have the reputation of making some of the most useful housekeeping utensils that gladden the hearts of the housekeepers of the present day.

FOURTH.-GOODHOLME'S DOMESTIC CYCLOPEDIA.

This Domestic Cyclopedia is a most valuable book of reliable household information. Published by C. A. Montgomery & Co., New York.

FIFTH.-TWO BOUND VOLUMES OF GOOD HOUSEKEEPING.

The fifth prize will be any two volumes of Good HousekeEPING, bound in attractive style.

SIXTH.-GOOD HOUSEKEEPING ONE YEAR.

To the sixth correct solution we will send GOOD HOUSEKEEPING to any address for one year.

The entry books for the race for places of preferment in connection with the Geographical Anagram, or Anagrammatical Journey, as announced in GOOD HOUSEKEEPING No. 79, May 12, were filled to overflowing, the contest has been hotly contested and the crowded course lively and exciting from start to finish.

The first contestant to reach the winning post, with the flag of success, in the way of a correct solution, was C. S. Brown, of Woburn, Mass., with a postmark of May 11, who, if he did not wear a wreath of roses, won what will produce for him wreathes of roses without number. May his one hundred Dingee & Conard rose bushes-the choicest and best known-never be less and blossom freely.

The second to make the home stretch gracefully and successfully, was Mrs. E. S. Miller, 929 Argyle Avenue, Baltimore, Md., with a May 12 postmark as an evidence of her right to be admitted to the ranks of successful competition.

The third to pass under the wire was Mrs. F. Mackel, 100 West One Hundred and Thirty-second street, New York, who passed up to the judges' stand a note containing this appeal: "I hope you will not give me the first prize, for, living, as I do, in a top flat of a New York apartment house, where could I keep one hundred roses?-alas!"

But she came within two of winning the roses, nevertheless.

The fourth successful contestant was Arthur R. Cornwall, 43 Dwight street, New Haven, Ct., with a postmark certificate of May 14, 7 a. m., who announced, a little out of breath, that "it was a long excursion and somewhat out of the beaten track, at times, but enjoyable, nevertheless."

The fifth bugle notes of success were sounded from the far away oil and coal fields of Venango county, Pa., by Cassius C. Smith, with a Franklin, Pa., postmark of May 14, 7.30 a. m., only thirty

minutes behind number four.

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May 14 being so fruitful of arrivals, one being that of Mrs. Winifred Ballard Blake of Bonney, Allegheny Co., Pa., with a Pittsburg postmark of May 14, 5.30 p. m., another that of Mrs. E. G. Forsyth of Monroe Bridge, Mass., and still another, Mrs. H. C. Chowen of Great Falls, Montana, that the sixth prize of a year's subscription to GOOD HOUSEKEEPING will be sent to all of these contestants.

Corrections by mail and telegraph began to pour in before the judges had found time to get warm in their seats, and were continued to such an extent that it was found necessary to make the rule of no going behind the original returns, and to abide by it, inasmuch as if the bars were once let down, the lame lambs of the flock would all go through before a scheme for a dividing line could be adopted.

It was a closely contested strife-far more so than that of any preceding anagram. There were few failures to stop somewhere on the journey for the places indicated in Anagram. One only made so many errors as 8, one 7, one 5, several 4, the larger part of the errors being only 1, a less number of 2, and a still smaller number of 3.

Mrs. Charles B. Hazeltine of Melrose Highlands, sent an early solution, with designations for the different counties and towns, but unfortunately she would insist upon stopping at Santa Clara, California, instead of Lancaster, Pa., notwithstanding the fact that she made a bad "spell" in doing so. She gives an interesting description of her work, and says: "I found some hard work toward the last. Neat whop' I thought must be wrong, as I wanted to

make 'Powhatan' of it, but finally found 'Wahpeton' answered better. Then 'Be as stain' I thought must be 'East Sabin,' but could only find ‘Sabin,' so after working awhile longer ‘Sebastian' appeared. 'Town near R' looked like 'Tanner Row' before 'Warrenton' came in sight. O yank, I hid' spelled out Inky Idahs,' and I thought it might be a river, but found my mistake, and 'Mint eater' troubled me a great deal. 'Etta mine' was found, but that left an 'R,' and I thought here was another error, until 'Marinette' appeared. And so I might go on with like examples. Suffice it to say, at last it seemed complete, and when the last one was solved to my satisfaction, I felt repaid for the labor spent. There is something bewitching in this work to me."

“E. A. Brown, M. D., and wife," sent a May fourteenth postmarked solution, with the announcement that the trip was finished at 10.05 a. m., May 13, but they stopped at "Milestone," wherever that may be, instead of “Limestone," Tenn.

Helen C. Conrad of Earlville, Ill., was early in the field, but she stopped at "Swarthmore," an imaginary stopping place, and at "Powhatan" instead of Wahpeton, the latter place being the rock upon which hundreds and hundreds of our voyagers were wrecked. Mrs. Frank Eichenlaub of Vancouver Barracks, Washington Territory, with a postmark of May 16, stopped at Table Mountain, South Carolina, instead of Battle Mountain, Nevada, as she should have done, the former not fitting to a T with the latter. She writes: "The solutions of your Geographical Anagram has been a good deal of amusement to all of us. I hope I am not "First," as roses would be of no use. Neither the last, as the Extracts or the Coffee Pot take my fancy. Hoping we may soon be invited to another Anagram party, I remain GOOD HOUSEKEEPING's true friend."

Mrs. J. W. Haight, of Auburn, N. Y., with a postmark of May 18, adds to her correct solution the following interesting comments: "We have just completed the journey through the United States, crossing rivers and climbing mountains, getting bird's-eye views of towns and cities before unheard of, and traveling through states and territories with a speed which has nearly taken away our breath. A delightful party of friends accompanied us on the trip, and although we are all somewhat wearied, we have gained so much geographical knowledge of our own country, that we feel quite ready to visit the old world at the earliest opportunity. In the meantime the beds are all prepared for the roses, and already in imagination we are inhaling the fragrance of Bon Silenes, Marechiel Niels, Lamarques, and the ninety-seven other varieties which we have not space here to name. Certainly no one but the publishers of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING could have thought of a prize so delightful, and so well worth striving for."

Mary L. Steiger, of Laurel, Md., with a postmark of May 18, adds to her solution that "The entire family went on the trip, and although widely scattered and much hurried, we are in hopes we have missed none of the points of interest."

She will, however, see by the completed anagram, that her party got things a little mixed at two of the stopping places.

Mrs. W. F. Wolfe, of Troy, N. Y., says: "In my efforts to solve the anagram I have gone through a mental nightmare of the unique nomenclature of our native land. Kandiyohi County was nearly my undoing, but there were so many more puzzling names met in searching for these that I was thankful the combinations were no more elaborate than they were. I find the anagrams both instructive and interesting and hope there are more of them to come."

Mrs. M. J. Fitzgerald, of Albany, N. Y., says: "This is almost the hardest anagram yet given, but it is ever so much fun to make them out, and I only wish GOOD HOUSEKEEPING came twice as often as it does."

Mrs. Lucy G. Biddle, of Wilmington, Delaware, gives us with her solution, the following pleasant chat by the way: "I think you will find my solution of your Geographical Anagram correct, with the exception of Nos. 47 and 74 over which I have studied several days without making any name I could identify. These latter I think must be misprinted, anyhow they beat my wits, thus far. I have named states for purposes of identification if desired, but some names are common, of course, to different localities. Permit me, also, while addressing you now to express my appreciation of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, whose numbers I have filed from its beginning, and from which I still draw many nice dishes for

my table, as well as much mental pleasure from the literary feasts given. This is my first appearance as a competitor for a prize, having hitherto solved, or tried to solve, your anagrams, etc., only for my home circle's entertainment. Scarcely anticipating a prize, owing to the missing names, I still flatter myself I have made a good effort, and on this point you will agree with me."

From Northfield, Minnesota, Alice L. Pearson, who comes within one of a correct solution, moralizes somewhat on the Anagram enterprise interestingly. She says: "I send with this my list of solutions of the Geographical Anagram, not, however, with any hope of a prize at this late date. Those learned Bostonians undoubtedly have already gathered in that tempting array of prizes with which you incited us to geographical researches. Some of us know more than we ever did before about our country. I have great appreciation of the excellence of your magazine."

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Mrs. Thomas P. Butcher, of Parkersburg, W. Va., had a somewhat varied experience, and says of it: After spending two weeks in traveling over the United States, I think I am able to locate all the places named in the anagram. Sometimes I was lost in unfamiliar localities, and never thought to return home again. I was three days in the depths of Nansemond county, Va., my native state and could not find my way out. My journeying was all done at night, when weary from housekeeping and other cares, but I enjoyed my acquaintance with the new country. I was a long time reaching Lincoln University and wound up my travels there. My husband says 'If I am too late for a prize this time I had better withdraw from the anagram contest.' With best wishes for the success of your splendid magazine, I am your faithful reader."

Mrs. N. B. Perry, of Leavenworth, Kansas, in sending a correct solution, tells her experience, in "studying geography" in GOOD Housekeeping's Anagram department, and satisfactorily accounts for being a little late in the day: "From Belchertown, Mass., to the line of South Carolina is not a great distance, as 'the crow flies,' when, however, one takes in the Rocky Mountains, the Yellowstone River, the Green Mountains, Laramie City, Colorado, the White Mountains, Syracuse, the Rio Grande, Apalachicola, Santa Monica, East Corinth, Los Angeles, Washington and other points on your excursion, and travel the zigzag road one is compelled to travel, to say nothing of time occupied in taking refreshments along the route, the distance is considerable, and if I am somewhat late in getting to my journey's end, I may console myself with the thought that I have been much refreshed. I have performed the journey and now calmly await my reward."

Correct solutions on and after postmark dates of the Fifteenth were received from:

Miss Clara Weber, Brooklyn, N. Y.

W. E. J. White, Woodstock, Vt.

Mrs. James Ramage, Holyoke, Mass.

N. J. Tuite, Holyoke, Mass.

Isabel A. Jacobs, Cambridgeport, Mass.

Mrs. J. W. Haight, Auburn, N. Y.

Mary E. Brown, Boston, Mass.

Mrs. J. H. Spear, Pittsburg, Pa.

Mrs. M. C. Corse, Malden-on-the-Hudson, N. Y.

Mrs. W. H. Harnel, Philadelphia, Pa.

Mrs. W. F. Wolfe, Troy, N. Y.

Myron R. Barstow, Springfield, Mass.

Mrs. George E. Day, Westfield, Mass.
Mrs. H. S. Wheeler, New Haven, Ct.
Florence Hudson Sawyer, Washington, D. C.
Miss Grace Harwood, Wallingford, Ct.
Mrs. M. J. Fitzgerald, Albany, N. Y.
Mrs. M. J. Moore, Chicopee, Mass.
Margaret C. Brandt, Clinton, N. Y.

Mrs. Thomas P. Butcher, Parkersburg, West Virginia.
Mrs. F. C. Buell, Corvallis, Oregon.

Miss Caddie M. Burnes, Columbia, Pa.

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Miss E. D. Davis, Pittsfield, Mass.
R. G. Cargill, Springfield, Mass.
Mrs. N. B. Perry, Leavenworth, Kansas.
Mrs. H. G. Rose, Wichita, Kansas.
Mrs. T. I. Humble, Wichita, Kansas.

In comparison with the number of responses received, there have been fewer correct answers than to any of our other published anagrams. Many have come within one of a correct solution, the greatest stumbling block in the way of success having been Nos. 58 and 59, "Table" Mountain being given for "Battle " Mountain, and "Powhatan" for "Wahpeton," neither of which words have the proper letters for a correct solution. Failures to find the right place were also numerous at Nos. 5, 15, 19, 21, 25, 26, 30, 40, 47, 52, 60, 74, 75, 80, 86, 94 and 99. One voyager-being near-sighted, probably-read "Sandhole" for "Honesdale," on the guide-board along the way. Several read "Milestone" for "Limestone." In several instances, the attempt to find "Laudersdale Station," "Attleborough," " Kandiyohi," "Huerfano," "Lincoln University," "Aurora Springs," "Lake Providence," "Jacksborough," and "Apalachicola," resulted in an arranging of some of the letters of the English alphabet into form, that would indicate a popular following of the Volpauk craze.

The outreach of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING'S anagram solvers ex

tended from Maine to California, Oregon, and Washington Territory, even, from Canada to New Mexico, and nearly every state in the Union joined the procession.

Taken as a whole, the Geographical Anagram has been a great success, not only as a means of amusement and enjoyment for the readers of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, but as a successful puzzle in the popular leisure moment pastime of word-building.

THE CARE OF THE EARS.

1. Never put anything into the ear for the relief of toothache. 2. Never wear cotton in the ears if they are discharging pus. 3. Never apply a poultice to the inside of the canal of the ear. 4. Never drop anything into the ear unless it has been previously warmed.

5. Never use anything but a syringe and warm water for cleansing the ears from pus.

6. Never strike or box a child's ears; this has been known to rupture the drum-head and cause incurable deafness.

7. Never wet the hair, if you have any tendency to deafness; wear an ciled-silk cap when bathing, and refrain from diving.

8. Never scratch the ears with anything but the finger if they itch. Do not use the head of a pin, hairpins, pencil tips or anything of that nature.

9. Never let the feet become cold and damp, or sit with the back toward a window, as these things tend to aggravate any existing hardness of hearing.

10.

Never put milk, fat, or any oil substance into the ear for the relief of pain, for they soon become rancid and tend to incite inflammation. Simple warm water will answer the purpose better than anything else.

11. Never be alarmed if a living insect enters the ear. Pouring warm water into the canal will drown it, when it will generally come to the surface, and can be easily removed by the fingers. A few puffs of smoke blown into the ear will stupefy the insect.

12. Never meddle with the ear if a foreign body, such as a bead, button or seed enters it; leave it absolutely alone, but have a physician attend to it. More damage has been done by injudicious attempts at the extraction of a foreign body than could ever come from its presence in the ear.-Health and Home.

It is said that among all the articles of nourishment called for in the treatment of acute febrile diseases, water is decidedly the most important. The febrile patient desires water, and needs it, and it does no harm when not taken in too large quantities at a time. There is no objection to its being drank cold except in diseases of the respiratory organs, in which it is better at about the temperature of the room. In acute gastro-enteritis, ice and ice-water are

at times the only things the patient can tolerate; in peritonitis these are often our best means of allaying vomiting, and in the continued fevers the most grateful for the burning thirst.

EDITOR'S PORTFOLIO.

SPRINGFIELD, MASS., JUNE 23, 1888.

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GOOD THINGS IN GOOD HOUSEKEEPING.

The readers of GOOD HOUSEKEEPING are again regaled with a tempting array of good things presented in our Bill of Fare for the present number.

The continuation of "The Philosophy of Living"" has a seasonable chapter on "Picnicing and Traveling.”

Ada Marie Peck tells about "Salads " and how to make some good ones.

"Dinner in England, as Eaten off one Table Cloth," corrects some errors, and gives some information in a line indicated by the title.

The twelfth paper of " Family Fashions and Fancies" is devoted to" Women's Underwear" and cannot fail to interest all of our readers of the gentler sex.

Esther Paige has another of her interesting papers on "Flowers," appropriate to the season.

The second paper of " Every Day Desserts and Desserts for Every Day" takes the month of July and furnishes thirty-one recipes, one for every day in the month.

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The vice of inordinate liquor drinking is open and above-board and its evils are so palpable that any one may see them. Overeating, on the other hand, is accompanied by evils that none but the sufferers and their physicians know much about. Some years ago no less an authority than Sir Henry Thompson declared that he had been compelled by the facts constantly coming before him to accept the conclusion that more mischief in the form of actual disease, of impaired vigor and of shortened life, has occurred to civilized man from erroneous habits in eating than from the habitual use of alcoholic drink, considerable as he knew that evil to be. He also declared himself in doubt whether improper and inordinate eating were not as great a moral evil as inordinate drinking. The fabricators of our food have much indeed to answer for. They make digestible raw material into indigestible finished products and we eat them and suffer. But the cooks are not alone to blame People eat more than they should and they eat what is agreeable to their palates, knowing that it will not be relished by their stomachs.

The habit of overeating is commonly made in childhood, when ignorance and sensation override moderation of appetite and reasonable caution; the child should be restricted to the food that it naturally needs and should not be allowed to make a hog of itself. When the growth is attained and the system no longer easily eliminates the waste material not necessary for the ordinary purposes of repair, then the body begins to store up fat beyond what is of use and fags out the muscles in carrying it around; or, if there is no fattening with overeating, there are dyspepsia, fevers, gout, rheumatism, biliousness and other ills. A temperance organization which should lay down as its fundamental law abstinence from excessive eating, would do away with the greater part of the ordinary sicknesses among persons who should live up to

the law.

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