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and bright eyes of those who engage in these 
out-of-door amusements, they are health giving 
when not carried to excess. I think, as a rule, 
the women of a country home go out too little 
in Wiuter. They are taken up with their 
round of duties, and think they get exercise 
enough walking from garret to cellar and 
from the store closet to the kitchen stove. 
But it is altogether a mistake, and they miss 
the elixer of life when they fail to breathe the 
outer air in its clearer purity in Winter. 
Rosy cheeks and bright eyes cannot bo found 
unless oxygen is taken freely into the lungs 
to purify aud regulate the system. But we 
are too often content to sit down and sew, 
read, or knit, during our spare time. If 
mothers would spend halt'an hour in play with 
their children out of doors, if possible, it 
would be a great advantage to both. Every¬ 
body cannot go to a carnival or engage in 
athletic sports on such a grand scale, but I 
kuow of families who all go out at a certain 
hour and ha ve areal play time. If too stormy, 
they have a large shed, or at times take the 
dining-room; but always have a recess of 
half an hour,in which mother and father join. 
It is no sign because a girl walks a great deal 
in the kitchen, or makes a largo hatch of 
bread, that she is getting the exercise she re¬ 
quires. A run of half a mile in the fresn air 
will stave off many a headache. I have lately 
been very much astonished to count up the 
number of young girls who have told me they 
suffered from indigestion while careful of 
their food, and not eating enough to do much 
more than keep them alive, and the primary 
cause in most cases was want of exercise. 
Yet I have beard fathers and husbands say, 
in mistaken kindness, to wife or daughter, “I 
am sure you don't need to go out to get a walk 
you are always on your feet,” so little do 
they understand the laws of life and health. 
The women of the household must take the 
matter into their own hands, und when the 
season of gardening is over, aud there seems 
no necessity for going out-of-doors, still they 
should go. There is Winter beauly that one 
can learn to enjoy, if one only looks for it, 
and secs with a clear and healthful vision. 
out of their pies. I prevent it thus: When 
ready to put on the upper crust, I wet the rim 
of the under one with water, and when the 
upper crust is oh and cut off right, I flour my 
fingers and pinch the crusts well together. 
After greasing jelly cake tins, flour them 
lightly before putting in the batter, and as 
soon as the cakes are done, cover them with a 
clean towel, and they will come off the tins 
just as nice as anyone could wish. 
“A Farmer's Wife,” in a recent Rural, 
does not tell what sort of a dish drainer she 
invented. We ha ve had one for several years. 
It is a wooden one, cost 35 cents, and we think 
we could not wash dishes without it; but I 
must say I don’t like the idea of putting away 
dishes without wiping, even when well 
drained. 
As for dish towels, I keep a good supply on 
hand, and as soon as soiled I put them in the 
regular wash. I think they are thus washed 
cleaner aud time is saved, for it certainly 
takes that to wash them after each meal. 
For holders to use around the stove, I make 
them of licking with a layer of Canton flan¬ 
nel between the two folds. Sew them ueatly 
around, and put on a loop to hang them up by. 
As for size, I make them about 12 inches long 
and six wide. They are easily washed. 
AUNT EM. 
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral 
The danger of catching a sudden cold, which may develop Bronchitis, Pneu¬ 
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monstrated, again and again, the importance of providing for just such emergencies 
by-always keeping on hand a bottle of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. 
Will Cure Bronchitis 
Sarah A. Sloan, Forest Grove, Oregon, 
writes: “A longtime ago I had severe 
Bronchitis. As several of my brothers 
and sisters had died after being similarly 
affected, I became alarmed, and com¬ 
menced the use of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. 
One bottle cured me. The trouble has 
never returned, and I believe that the 
Cherry Pectoral saved my life.” 
J, 31. Wharton, Jamestown, X. C., 
writes: “I have used Ayer’s Cherry 
Pectoral a long time in my family, and 
have yet to see its failure to cure Bron¬ 
chial troubles or Coughs of any kind.” 
Jus. Walden, Bylialia. Miss., writes: " I 
suffered eight years from Bronchitis, and 
was cured by the use of Ayer’s Cherry 
Pectoral.” 
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EXPERIMENTING, 
“It is rather amusing,” said a friend, “to 
read certain experiments and their wonderful 
results, and then try the same, for one’s-self, 
and see what splendid failures ensue. For 
instance, last Summer I read that Madeira- 
vines prevented flies from entering the win¬ 
dows which they shaded, and, in fact, kept 
them from the room. Nothing is more ab¬ 
surd. My pantry window was completely 
covered with a luxuriant vine; nevertheless, 
during the hight of the fruit season, the flies 
gathered in and about the window in com¬ 
panies too numerous to count, although every 
thing in the way of food was carried to the 
cellar, or closely covered. 
“Then gerajiiums had been found to keep 
the pests out of rooms, so, fearing they might 
find their way from the kitchen to the sitting- 
room, I brought in a host of geraniums and 
tilled the windows; but the flies cared not for 
‘these things.’ 
“Again, I read that no insect could stand 
the fumes of sulphur. So every thing that 
was likely to be tarnished or be in any way 
injured was taken from pantry and kitchen, 
the windows and doors were closed, making 
the rooms almost or quite air-tight. Plenty 
of sulphur was thrown upon some hot coals, 
and very soon the room was filled with the 
suffocating gas; yet au hour later not a fly 
had succumbed. Another dose was given, 
but with no better result. Tt. did not even 
stupefy them, as the pyrethrum powder is said 
to do.” And thus ended my friend’s fly ex¬ 
periments. MAY MAPLE. 
(Induce yonr friend to experiment next 
season with pyrethrum powder blown through 
a bellows. If she buys pure, fresh powder, tbe 
results will gladden her heart aud prove to 
her that experiments do not always end in 
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A WORD HERE AND THERE, 
I thank Annie L. Jack for her “Kitchen 
Talks” aud the little helps she gives us in her 
pleasant way; hut why does she insist that 
the Amateur Cook should leave her slippers 
and put salt, iuto the potatoes, when so many of 
our best instructors In cookery say that salt 
hardens everything, and that it should never 
be put into boiliug potatoes until they are 
nearly done? I tried it a few days ago, and 
the White Elephants, which are usually like 
snow-balls, were bard and yellow. Draiuing 
the boiling water from a kettle of potatoes 
used to lie a bugbear in house-keeping, aud I 
longed to patent some contrivance that would 
save me and my fellow working women many 
scaldings. At last I found it iu a peddler's 
cart for only a quarter of a dollar, in the 
shape of a basket of tinned wire. What a 
treasure it is! Only lift it out, shake it a 
moment, and the potatoes are taken up. 
Don’t forget to buy one next time you go to 
town. 
Another great help is au apple parer. I 
think I have inquired in a dozen families and 
never yet found one. It costs only a dollar, 
and will pare as many apples in 15 minutes as 
can be pared by hand in an hour. It does its 
work perfectly, and saves enough in the thin 
skiu it takes off to pay for itself in a year, 
while it will last a score. A potato parer l 
have tried, but find It a failure, which is a 
great pity, for not one woman in 35 can pare 
a potato as it should be done. 
This cold weather has brought my soap-stone 
into active uso again, I keep the stone warm 
and stand on it while I wash the dishes or 
iron, as the case may be, thus killing two 
birds with the same stone, I thiuk most coun¬ 
try people make a great mistake iu not hav¬ 
ing more warmth in their houses during the 
Winter. There should ben fire in the boys’ 
room so they will not be driveu to the bar¬ 
room to keep warm. Give them a room of 
their own, bright and cosy, with a stove and 
plenty of dry wood, and see if they don’t stay 
at home. And the girls, did they not stay 
from church the other Sunday because they 
could uot get ready in their cold room i A 
few extru dollars spent for heat uud light will 
add much to the happiness of the household. 
Talking with a dealer iu silverware about 
the care of silver, he said: “Wash your silver 
in strong hot suds, do not rinse, but take out 
one piece at a time, and rub hard till dry with 
a soft, linen towel, and you will have to polish 
your silver very seldom,” The plated knives, 
that do not need scouring, are another bless¬ 
ing. 1 buve used some, that cost ouly three 
dollars per dozen, every day for live years and 
they are presentable still. ruth kbnt. 
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round steak is chopped, or rather crushed, 
with a dull knife, until the tender part of the 
meat can be scraped off from the tough and 
fibrous parts. This pulp is made into little 
cakes which are placed on a broiler over a fire 
for an instant, thus delicately cooking tbe 
meat on tbe outside while the inside is raw. 
This diet, according to the same authority, 
is given with tonics, in extreme cases, to the 
exclusion of all other food. 
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