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FROM DAY TO DAY. 
Thk present month sees most house¬ 
wives busy with that domestic revolution 
described as housecleaning 1 , and all the 
year’s accumulations in closets and attics 
are turned out to the light of day. When 
we mark the labor added by the accumu¬ 
lation of useless litter, wuich has been 
put away because it 1 may come in 
handy,” we can’t help thinking that it 
would be wiser to dispose of articles of 
doubtful utility before storing them 
away, instead of after. Especially is 
this true where old clothing is stored 
away without cleaning or taking apart. 
If useless in its existing form, it should 
be picked apart, washed or brushed, and 
the useless portions destroyed. It is 
easier to do this when storing away 
clothes in the fall than when houseclean¬ 
ing in the spring, and the fewer dust¬ 
collecting articles we store away in 
our closets and attics, the better. 
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This recalls the fact that many are 
careless in properly airing the store and 
clothes closets. We all know houses 
whose rooms are always “ stuffy,” 
and where the family linen and clothes 
seem always unaired. Home Sanitation, 
a very useful little housekeepers’ man¬ 
ual, asks whether the chamber windows 
are always opened as soon as the occu¬ 
pants are dressed in the morning, and 
whether the closet doors are opened at 
the same time. Another suggestion in 
ventilation, offered in the same volume, 
is that the room in which the family has 
been sitting during the evening should 
be thoroughly aired at bedtime to pre¬ 
vent the circulation of foul air through 
the sleeping-rooms at night. Similarly, 
if a sleeping-room is used as a sewing or 
sitting-room during the day, it should 
be thoroughly aired at bedtime. 
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Pube air, pure water, pure food ; these 
are the three great requisites for the 
family health. And don’t be afraid to 
use the water without as well as within. 
Of course, you empty and rinse the tea¬ 
kettle the first thing every morning, 
and you never use water out of the hot- 
water tank for cooking; but are you 
quite sure that there is no risk of con¬ 
tamination in your water supply ? If 
there is any doubt on this point, see 
that all the drinking water is boiled and 
filtered. Domestic Sanitation recom¬ 
mends, as a test of the drinking water, 
that a pint or quart be evaporated in a 
white earthenware dish over the stove. 
Sewage contamination causes a bad odor 
in such case, and surface water drain¬ 
ing into a well causes a dark residue 
which “chars” on heating. As for the 
food, a farmer’s wife should be able to 
obtain the main essentials in perfect 
purity with less difficulty than her city 
sister. The point in which we are most 
likely to err is the proper proportion of 
muscle-makers to fat-formers and pure 
fat which should be about one to four. 
The balanced ration of pure food—that 
is what we need to build up a healthy, 
and consequently happy, family. 
WASHING DAINTY LACES. 
T being very generally believed that 
washing spoils lace, it is often al¬ 
lowed to remain put away until it drops 
to pieces from dirt. The way to preserve 
lace, even of the most delicate weave, is 
to keep it clean. Of course the washing 
must be properly done, and by careful 
hands. When ready to do the work, 
put warm, soft water in a basin, add a 
tablespoonful of prepared borax, and 
wash the articles through it, by gently 
dipping up and down ; do not rub or 
wring. When clean rinse in warm 
water, to which a few drops of strong 
coffee have been added, if a creamy shade 
is desired, and squeeze free of water. 
Wrap a large bottle or glass jar with a 
piece of white flannel, cover with a wide 
strip of clean, soft cotton, and sow or 
pin securely. Wind the lace carefully 
around this, spread it free of wrinkles, 
and pick out the loops with a pin. Stand 
in the shade to dry. When dry, unwind, 
fold smoothly, place between a clean 
towel, and press down with a light 
weight; let stand several hours, fold in 
tissue paper, and lay away in a drawer 
or box. Lace handkerchiefs or large 
articles may be spread on a pane of 
glass, covered with flannel, in place of 
a bottle. Laces washed in this way will 
retain their original freshness through 
years of usage, and will look none the 
less dainty for being clean. 
ELIZA R. PARKER. 
NOTES FOR THE DRESSMAKER. 
ANY of the new gowns are elabor¬ 
ately trimmed with tucks, and 
this seems likely to be a favorite fashion 
during the summer. Sleeves are tucked 
horizontally all the way up, and loose- 
fronted bodices are trimmed with groups 
of tucks. Skirts are also seen trimmed 
with wide tucks, and this will be found 
a very pretty mode for wash materials. 
A full-fronted waist of wash fabric is 
very pretty trimmed with nine horizon¬ 
tal tucks, arranged in three groups. 
Some of the fashionable French silk 
waists are seen with a full front of this 
style, fastened at one side, and having a 
full frill down this hem, a very becom¬ 
ing style for summer gowns. The sleeves 
of such a waist should be trimmed with 
a tucked cap at the top, and have a 
tucked frill at the wrist. The tucked 
ornamentation is often applied to shirt 
waists, the yoke being tucked horizon¬ 
tally, and the lower part of the sleeve, 
just above the cuff, vertically. This 
tucking could be applied to the lower 
part of a last year’s bishop sleeve, and, 
with a collar of this year’s style, would 
bring a waist quite up to date. All the 
shirt waists are now made with separate 
collar and cuffs. This is a very great 
advantage to the home dressmaker, for 
it is easy enough to make a waist, but it 
is difficult to make the detached collar 
and cuffs with the true shirtmaker’s 
finish. These may be bought separately, 
and the waist itself made at home. 
Waists of the thin washing materials 
are seen elaborately shirred, both bodice 
and sleeves. They are very difficult to 
launder, and are not recommended on 
that account, but this style is very pretty 
in thin silk, or, for mourning wear, in 
fine black India linen. The sleeves are 
shirred from shoulder to wrist, a narrow 
projecting ruffle running down the cen¬ 
ter of the sleeve at the outside. A ruffle 
finishes off the wrist. The shirred yoke 
may be gathered with tiny tucks, form¬ 
ing little vertical ruffles, or these may 
be further embellished by a narrow lace 
edge on each little ruffle. 
The skirts of wash dresses are almost 
invariably trimmed, many of them with 
ruffles. On a gingham skirt, narrow 
ruffles are placed overlapping one an- 
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other, but we hardly recommend this ; 
they are so troublesome to iron, as they 
must be quite damp, and need careful 
drying out with the iron. We should 
think tucks preferable, and they are 
quite in vogue. On the thinner muslins, 
ruffles are very suitable, either around 
the bottom of the skirt, or sloping up 
from front to back like an apron drapery. 
Sometimes the narrow ruffles are put on 
in festoons, similar to the styles of about 
three years ago. 
House dresses, consisting of a gath¬ 
ered skirt, with a pretty round waist 
attached to the skirt-band, are now to 
be bought cheaply readymade, and seem 
likely to supersede morning wrappers. 
They are quite as quickly put on. and 
“ do up ” better than a wrapper, which 
always sags at the bottom after a time. 
In selecting wash materials for a house 
dress, it must not be considered that the 
darkest fabric is necessarily the best 
for this purpose ; some of the dark pat¬ 
terns soil very easily, and never look 
fresh. The coloring should be abso¬ 
lutely “fast,” but there is no reason why 
it should not be pretty. A good quality 
of cambric is often better than gingham 
in a much-laundered garment, the color 
standing well, while the material is 
easier to iron than a thicker fabric. 
The Modern 
STOVE POLISH. 
DUSTLESS, ODORLESS, 
BRILLIANT, LABOR SAVING. 
Try it on your Cycle Chain. 
J. L. PRESCOTT & CO., New York. 
THE DIETZ 
DRIVING LAMP 
Is about as near perfection as 50 years 
of Lamp-Making can attain to. It 
burns kerosene, and gives a powerful, 
clear,white light, and will neither blow 
nor jar out. When out driving with 
't the darkness easily keeps about two 
hundred feet ahead of your smartest 
horse. When you want the very best 
Driving Lamp to be had, ask your 
dealer for the “ Dietz.’ 
We issue a special Catalogue of this 
Lamp, and, if you ever prowl around 
after night-fall, it will interest you. 
’Tis mailed free. 
R. E. DIETZ CO., 
60 Laight St., New York. 
Established In 1840 . 
Buy a Buggy 
a carriage, a phaeton, or a vehicle of 
any sort from us ami you get the bene¬ 
fit of first price, ami a personal guar¬ 
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own work, and stand responsible for 
every vehicle that leaves our factory. 
You can buy direct by mail as 6 afely 
as you can deal with the U. S. Treas¬ 
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list free. Send for It to-day. 
The Columbus Carriage Mfg. Company, 
L Box T, Columbus, Ohio. J 
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BUY RIGHT 
Buggies, Carriages, Waj, 
gons and Harness at/ 
prices one-third to one-t- 
half below regular prices* 
All goods guaranteed. 
8 th year in business. 
Freight paid. Illustrated Buyers’ Guide FREE* 
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references. 
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tires Catalogue free. Address 
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The WHEEL 
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Our wheels are either di¬ 
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CHEAP because they endure 
Send for catalogue and prioee* 
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QUINCY, ILL. 
HEADQUARTERS FOR 
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Horse Carts 
Wide and narrow tires 
Dow rates of freight from 
our works, Tatainy, I*a. 
—toall points. 
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No. 2 Stone St., New York 
BUGGIES,; 
Cart*. Surrlr*, 
Flue to ns, 
1 Spring Wagons, 
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anywhere to anyone with 
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CONSUMER AT ONg 
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Save 40 per cent, and buy our 
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seamless tubing, all 
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a marvel of beauty, 
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Our “GOLD COIN” Top 
Buggjrat$44.50 cannot 
be bought elsewhere 
for less than 875.00. 
Sent on approval. 
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Box g BINGHAMTON, N. Y 
Wo.UX. 
WEHAVEHO AGENTS 
but have sold direct to the 
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for examination be¬ 
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100 styles of Car¬ 
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Surrey H.men-Price *15.00. Road Wagons, etc. Send 
An Rood .< sells for $22.00. for large, free Catalogue. 
No. 606. Surrey—Price with curtains, lamps, sun- 
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