Vol. XV. 



SEPT. 1, 1887. 



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THE BEST FOUNDATION. 



nit. MU.I.KH TELLS US WHY HE HAS OIVEN Ul' THE 

 OIVEN FOUNDATION, ETC. 



T USED Given foundation, and liked it better 

 (Mp than any tiling I had previously used. Perhaps 

 'It there was some prejudice about it, and I don't 

 "*■ Itnow that I could have proved it was better; 

 but the bees took hold of it nicely, and the wa.\ 

 in it seemed softer than in other kinds of founda- 

 tion—at least, the side walls did. But as you say, 

 friend Root, I have given up Given, and for the 

 same reason, probably, that others have -simply 

 because it's not on the market. You never otfered 

 it for sale, and I'm not sure that anybody did; and 

 if it had been on the market, I think I should never 

 have given up using it— at least, not till last spring. 

 If I remember rightly, the Dadants refused to 

 make it, because they couldn't succeed in making a 

 nice article, and perhaps that's the reason you and 

 others don't make it. I don't think I ever saw 

 Given foundation as uniform in thickness as that 

 made on a mill; but in spite of that, if it had been 

 as readily obtained I should have taken it in pref- 

 erence to any other up to the time I was in Medina 

 last spring. 



One day while I was sitting In Ernest's corner 

 talking, Mr. Calvert came in with a long strip of 

 foundation, and said, with a smile beaming all over 

 his pleasant face, "We've made a discovery;" and 

 then he showed us the foundation. .Judging from 

 its looks alone I should prefer it to tlie (iiven, and I 

 got a lot of it; but owing to the failure of the sea- 

 son it has never been used. 



COMMON SENSE IN DOCTORING. 



1 am heartily glad, friend Root, that your wife, or 

 somebody else, is bringing you to your senses. 



Perhaps you remember how I urged with all my 

 might that the lounge was the medicine you need- 

 ed; and I think Knmctimia you rested yourself when 

 exhausted, by rushing about outdoors just about in 

 the same way that a drink of whisky would have 

 rested you. 



But I can hardly see how the tired housewives 

 are to follow your advice to rest before dinner. 

 In most cases (ask your wife if I am not right) the 

 attention of the wife and mother is urgently need- 

 ed in getting the meal ready up to the time of sit- 

 ting down to the table, and we hardly want to eat 

 without the presence of the mother at the table; so 

 where is the chance for the nap before dinner? 

 But an after-dinner rest can be taken; and upon 

 this the husbands, sons, and daughters should in- 

 sist. I know an old lady who takes a snooze every 

 day after dinner, sitting in her chair, and hei* 

 daughter worries that there is just so much delay 

 in getting the work done up. It is not unkindness, 

 but ignorance, on the part of the daughter; for if 

 she understood that that snooze is just lengthen- 

 ing so much the life of a fondly loved mother, the 

 old lady would find herself forcibly taken and laid 

 upon a bed for a more comfortable nap; and wo be 

 to the one who should wake her! Two of the pre- 

 vailing feminine sins are making up a bed as soon 

 as it is vacated in the morning, and rushing at the 

 work as soon as dinner is over. 



KEEPING QUEENS OUT OF SECTIONS. 



I wish I knew the place to which friend Howell, 

 on page 633, refers. I don't remember distinctly 

 about it, but this much I know: That very rarely 

 does a queen trouble the sections (so rarely that it's 

 hardly worth considering), and there is no secret 

 about it. I am not sure that I have any thing to do 

 with the matter. The slat honey-board, I suppose. 



