FROM DAY TO DAY. 
Flaked rice is a new cereal prepara¬ 
tion which makes a nice breakfast food. 
The grains are rolled thin and flat, like 
wheat flakes, and they cook very quickly. 
This rice will be very nice made into 
croquettes, allowed to grow cold after 
boiling, molded, and dipped in egg and 
cracker-dust, or as fritters, when dipped 
out by the spoonful while hot and 
dropped into a pan of boiling fat. 
Dainty puddings may also be made of 
the rice flakes, either baked or steamed. 
* 
The small puff at the top of the tight 
sleeve, which is a favorite in washing 
dresses this summer, is rather hard to 
iron satisfactorily, as it rarely keeps the 
proper shape. To obviate this difficulty, 
the puff may be made with the lower 
edge loose from the sleeve, and finished 
with a small hem, through which a tiny 
tape is drawn. After washing, the tape 
is drawn up to shir the puff into place, 
and tied in a bow, which is placed in¬ 
side. A few basting stitches will hold 
the puff in place. 
* 
An article that was found very salable 
at a recent church fair was a dress- 
hanger for fine bodices. The wire 
hanger is covered with ribbon by sew¬ 
ing two lengths of three-inch ribbon 
together at each edge, the hanger, of 
course, being slipped in before the second 
seam is closed. The ring by which the 
whole is suspended is wound with rib¬ 
bon and finished with a handsome bow, 
which comes out at the neck of the 
bodice. Taffeta ribbon is the best rib¬ 
bon to buy, and pale shades the most 
suitable colors to select. 
* 
Among the newer neck-dressings, the 
fancy for something white next the skin 
is very noticeable. For several years, 
white frills and ruchings have held sec¬ 
ondary rank, and colored stocks or col¬ 
lars have been in the lead; but we have 
now reawakened to the fact that a line 
of white next the skin is always an im¬ 
provement. Colored stocks are still 
worn, but there must be a little white 
inside them, the preference being given 
to cream rather than blue-white. A 
very fashionable stock consists of a 
length of white net, half a yard wide, 
having lace sewed across the ends. It 
is long enough to go twice around the 
neck, and is then tied in front in a tight 
sailor knot. 
* 
The New York daily papers recently 
chronicled the case of a silly 14-year old 
girl, who disappeared after leaving a 
note stating that she had gone to Jersey 
City to drown herself. The girl was 
well-cared for, her home life was happy, 
and there was no reason for such des¬ 
peration. Some of the vicious papers 
that are commonly described under the 
head of “yellow journalism,” made a 
great feature of the case, describing 
with maudlin pathos her “ tragic fare¬ 
well.” The effect of the tragic farewell 
was rather spoiled later, however, when 
the missing girl was discovered hidden 
behind a barrel in the family cellar, 
and we cannot help hoping that the 
anxious parents who, with the aid of 
the police, had been searching river, 
morgue, and station house for the run¬ 
away, immediately carried into effect 
some of Solomon’s advice regarding the 
bringing-up of children. It really seems 
a case where an appeal to reason would 
be aided by an old-fashioned spanking. 
It appears that the girl was in the habit 
of devoting her leisure to those news¬ 
papers which make a specialty of vice 
and crime, chronicling every form of 
wickedness and misery with brutalizing 
pictures and disgusting details. Her 
imagination was so degraded by them 
that her loftiest ambition was to be 
pictured in their galaxy of folly and 
crime, and she took what seemed the 
most practicable means toward this end, 
without the slightest regard for the 
suffering and shame she entailed upon 
her friends. It is an unhappy comment¬ 
ary upon our civilization that it appears 
impossible to stop the publication of 
the newspapers that directly invited 
this particular escapade; but we can, at 
least, forbid their appearance within 
our homes, and so fortify the tastes of 
our children by clean and wholesome 
reading that they will turn with disgust 
from such sheets. As careful a selection 
should be made in the family news¬ 
paper as in the permanent literature. 
Neither is the moral side the only thing 
to be looked at. There are plenty of 
books which, while irreproachable from 
a moral standpoint, give a false or un¬ 
wholesome view of life, and are thus 
harmful to growing minds. We should 
include under this head a great many 
stories for girls which, while written 
with the best intentions, have a tend¬ 
ency to induce self consciousness and in¬ 
trospection to an unwholesome degree. 
It will be rather a shock to many who 
read the works of E. P. Roe and Oliver 
Optic with enjoyment, to find that 
several of the large public libraries 
debar both these authors from a place 
A HOMEMADE TABLE. Fig. 249. 
in them, on the ground that the excel¬ 
lence of their morals does not atone for 
their lack of literary excellence. 
A HOMEMADE TABLE. 
HE little table illustrated at Fig. 
249, was recently described in The 
Modern Priscilla, being designed for a 
five o’clock tea-table, but it will answer 
for a work-table or writing-table and 
bookcase combined. It is made from 
an empty lemon or orange box. Pick 
out a nice, well-made one, and remove 
the hoops from the outside. Saw two 
boards, 1 or 13^ inch in thickness, mak¬ 
ing them an inch wider than the box 
and long enough to give good proportion 
to the table ; the extending ends may 
be left square or cut in a fancy curve. 
Finish the edges nicely, and then nail 
or screw a board to each end of the box. 
The upright pieces of the other end are 
turned rods, such as are used for stair 
railings, and may be bought of a wood 
turner at a small price. Us 3 four small, 
round blocks for feet, or brass claw feet 
may be used if preferred. Add a brass 
rod and rings, and use a curtain of silka- 
line. We have so many beautiful stains, 
that any wood may be imitated, or 
enamel paint may be used if preferred. 
A SIMPLE PHOTOGRAPH FRAME. 
PRETTY and inexpensive photo¬ 
graph frame is made from card¬ 
board and wall paper, that which has a 
rough or embossed surface being pre¬ 
ferred. The foundation is made by cut¬ 
ting out two circular pieces of heavy 
cardboard, one 10 inches and the other 
eight inches in diameter. In the smaller 
piece, cut a round opening four inches 
in diameter, this being the size for a 
cabinet photograph. Cover the large 
circle with wall paper, pasted on wrong 
side out, so as to give a satiny, cream- 
white surface, cutting the paper half an 
inch larger than the cardboard, and 
then snipping the extra half-inch into 
saw teeth, to be turned over and pasted 
on the back. Another piece of paper, 
the exact size, is smoothly pasted over 
the back. The small circle is very 
neatly covered with some heavily gilded 
or embossed paper, right side out. The 
small circle is then p isted firmly upon 
the large one, keeping a margin one 
inch wide all around. A spice is left 
unpasted at the top, that the picture 
may be slipped in between the circles. 
A piece of cardboard eight inches long 
and two inches wide should be covered 
with paper and pasted at the back for a 
standard. Splashes of gilding may be 
put on the edge of the larger circle. 
Another pretty style is to cover the 
smaller circle with plain cartridge paper, 
pink, blue or green, and then paint 
some floral design in water colors upon 
the plain cream paper of the larger 
circle. Such frames are, also, pretty 
either covered with French chintz or 
cretonne, in delicate floral designs, or 
with embroidered linen. 
OCCUPATIONS FOR WOMEN. 
PRIZE was recently offered by The 
Gentlewoman, a London maga¬ 
zine, for -the best essay upon employ¬ 
ments for women. The writer of the 
winning essay, Miss Underhill, observes 
in her paper, that though many occupa¬ 
tions have been placed nominally within 
our reach, the range of these, both prac¬ 
tical and appropriate, is distinctly 
limited. There are, for instance, a 
large group of professions depending 
for success on the application of special 
talent. Such are music, literature and 
the arts, and teaching. The develop¬ 
ment and direction of the intelligence of 
a growing child is work requiring special 
aptitude, and is too lightly undertaken 
by many untrained girls in the hope of 
earning a little pocket-money. To paint 
a bad picture, write an illiterate book, 
or massacre the “Moonlight Sonata,” 
is a harmless, if annoying, occupation. 
The tactless teacher who gives her pupil 
a bad start in life is far less open to for¬ 
giveness. Putting aside, then, the arts 
and teaching, we have medicine, nurs¬ 
ing, journalism, and several minor call¬ 
ings, such as typewriting, now at the 
disposal of girls contemplating a 
“career.” These, however, demand a 
whole-hearted devotion, and cannot be 
taken up as hobbies to occupy spare 
time. 
The girl who elects to practice as a 
doctor must give years to arduous and 
even repulsive studies, and, when quali¬ 
fied, must step boldly into the arena and 
meet man on his own ground. Girls 
also have this disadvantage, that while 
a professional standing entitles a man 
to respect, in women it is often con¬ 
sidered indicative, if not of lunacy, at 
any rate of “advanced” and unwomanly 
views. 
Of journalism, the same may be said. 
HALL’S 
Vegetable Sicilian 
HAIR RENEWER 
Beautifies and restores Gray 
Hair to its original colcw and 
vitality; prevents baldness; 
cures itching and dandruff. 
A fine hair dressing. 
R. P. Hall & Co., Props., Nashua, N. H. 
Sold by all Druggists. 
This profession calls for boundless tact, 
energy and resource, and should only 
be undertaken by ready and accurate 
observers, physically strong and men¬ 
tally serene. Cheerful enthusiasm is an 
indispensable quality in all who would 
successfully face the hard work and un¬ 
pleasant details of medicine, journalism 
and hospital nursing. The over-refined 
would better seek interests elsewhere, 
among the many pleasant and lucrative 
employments which may be conducted 
in the comparative shelter of home. 
Two vocations, much neglected, are 
the homely arts of dressmaking and 
cooking. Victims undergoing the tor¬ 
ture of a “wretched cook” pay thank¬ 
fully for an expert woman’s help, either 
as an instructress or to superintend a 
special meal. Patience and attention 
will give any girl a thorough knowledge 
of cookery, and the work has many 
fascinations. In dressmaking, too, a 
well-taught and tasteful girl could soon 
work up a connection among friends, 
earning a far more pleasant livelihood 
than many underpaid governesses or 
mothers’ helps. 
“ There is, however, one form of em¬ 
ployment—already far too common”, says 
Miss Underhill—which no girl of honor 
should consider open to her—the under¬ 
selling of her poorer sisters. Many girls 
of the upper classes, impelled by no 
better motive than ennui and discon¬ 
tent, and willing to accept any trifling 
remuneration, rush into the overcrowded 
labor market to the ruin of those whom 
necessity compels to demand a fair price 
for their work. To such one can only 
repeat the grand old motto—“ Noblesse 
oblige.” 
The SEPTEMBER 
Ladies’ Home Journal 
Is rich in suggestive 
matter for girls: 
The Girl 
About to be Married 
Will find the newest ideas in decorations 
for home weddings : also a full outline 
of the groom’s part in his wedding. 
The Girl 
Starting Her New Home 
Will find in Mrs. Rorer the wisest help 
and counselor. This month she tells 
twenty ways of making bread and rolls: 
also how the small leaks in a household 
can be avoided. 
The Girl Who Aspires to Art by Ruth Ashmore 
A N ewWaltz by the Composer of “Erminie” 
Hamlin Garland’s Story of a Beautiful Girl 
All the New Winter Fashions for Girls 
One Dollar a Year Ten Cents a Copy 
Twenty-five Cents for Three Months 
The Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia 
Storrs Agricultural College, Storrs, Conn. 
The place to get a good education at small expense, 
$140 to $lt>0 per year. Both sexes admitted. Ladies 
course includes Domestic 8clence (cooking, sewing, 
dressmaking, household economy, etc.) and Physical 
Culture. Courses open to all In English, Agriculture, 
Horticulture, Chemistry. Botany. Geology, Entomol¬ 
ogy, Veterinary and Mathematics. Address 
B. F. KOON8, Pres., Storrs, Conn. 
New York State Veterinary College 
ESTABLISHED AT 
CORNELL UNIVERSITY. ITHACA, N. Y. 
By Chapter 163, Laws of 1894. 
The best equipment for scientific and practical In¬ 
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Most varied practice for students in the free clinics. 
Regular graded course three years of nine months 
each. Highest requirements for matriculation and 
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Tuition free to New York State Students. 
For extended announcement address 
Prof. JAMES LAW. F. R. C. V, S.. Director. 
