FROM DAY TO DAY. 
When preparing the bed for an in¬ 
valid, pin the four corners of the under 
sheet to the mattress, with safety pins. 
This prevents the sheet from drawing 
into wrinkles in the center of the bed, 
thus causing serious discomfort. When 
it is necessary to sweep a sick-room, 
from which the patient may not be re¬ 
moved, soak a newspaper in water, tear 
up, pressing out the surplus water, and 
scatter the fragments over the carpet 
before sweeping. This prevents dust 
from rising, and is more cleanly than 
damp tea-leaves. 
* 
^Turkish embroidery for cushions, 
chairbacks and table covers is displayed 
by many of the large shops now, and it 
is very serviceable and effective. The 
material is coarse, unbleached linen or 
crash, worked with colored cotton in 
arabesque designs rather suggestive of 
our grandmothers’ samplers. It is 
worked with Russian ingrain cotton, 
usually in two contrasting colors, such 
as red and blue, red and green, or red 
and black. Squares of this work, joined 
with a heavy Torchon or Battenberg in¬ 
sertion, make a showy bedspread or 
table cover. 
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Among ties to be worn with shirt 
waists, the Windsor and four-in-hand 
are displacing the smaller styles. These 
large scarfs make a very great change, 
when compared with the little bows ; 
they are rather warm-looking, but seem 
in high favor. Large scarfs of black 
satin or moire are especially favored. 
Very pretty linen scarfs, in all sorts of 
brilliant colors, are seen, and these are 
worn either with silk or linen shirt 
waists. In collars, the plain standing 
or turned-down styles are much pre¬ 
ferred to anything more elaborate. The 
shop windows show a variety of fancy 
linen collars, standing out in points, 
battlements, and other eccentric shapes, 
but these are not really good style, and 
the plainer shapes are always seen upon 
well-dressed women. 
this way, they are gradually fitted for 
their duties as future housekeepers. 
This is the kind of instruction that the 
everyday girl needs, she who cannot tell 
good meat from bad, or fresh vegetables 
from stale ones. The students are also 
taught how to set a table, how to mend, 
how to sew, and they are required to at¬ 
tend lectures on hygiene, so that they 
may understand the simple chemical 
laws that naturally enough come into 
the notice of every housekeeper. They 
also learn how to take care of and to 
manage children. A real, live baby is 
sent by its mother (usually a working- 
woman), who is only too glad to leave 
her child in the care of some one. The 
members of the class bathe it, dress and 
undress it, and are taught all the practi¬ 
cal rules which should govern its diet 
and general healthfulness. There are, 
also, classes in dressmaking, and in every 
useful thing that may render a house¬ 
hold comfortable and healthful. 
In fitting a new skirt, it is an abso¬ 
lute necessity that a well-fitting petti¬ 
coat be worn when it is tried on. The 
newer skirts fit more closely about the 
hips, and the effect is spoiled by a badly- 
fitting underskirt. The petticoat should 
always have a smoothly fitted yoke, with 
a French back drawn up by the strings ; 
this does away with the risk of a gaping 
placket. Most of the nice skirts are fin¬ 
ished with a set of small reeds in the 
back, to hold out the dress-skirt, and they 
should always be finished with one or 
two flounces, to give proper fullness at 
the bottom. Moreen makes the nicest 
of inexpensive petticoats ; it hangs well, 
and keeps its stiffness, but the flounce 
soon wears thin in the back, where it is 
likely to be caught by the heel in walk¬ 
ing. For this reason, in making a 
moreen skirt, we should recommend lin¬ 
ing the flounce with sateen, the edge 
being finished with a velvet binding. 
Alpaca or brilliantine makes a nice- 
looking skirt, but it often cuts quite 
badly in general wear. 
* 
Belgium has a number of very practi¬ 
cal housekeeping schools, where girls 
are taught housekeeping in all its 
branches. They are sent to market in 
town, and are expected to provide a din¬ 
ner for six persons upon a limited sum, 
so that they are first required to get the 
best articles in vegetables and meats for 
a small cost. When they return, they 
are taught to cook this dinner, and after 
they become proficient as to marketing 
and cooking, they are allowed to order 
others and superintend the cooking. In 
THE CHILDREN’S UNDERWEAR. 
T HE main points to be remembered 
in preparing cold-weather under¬ 
wear for children, are lightness and 
warmth. Quite as many children suffer 
from cumbrous heaviness of winter 
clothes as from lack of warmth. Exces¬ 
sive bulk of heavy skirts cannot fail to 
be harmful to an active child; apart 
from the weight, the heat is distributed 
unevenly. 
The most rational underwear for a 
little girl during outdoor play in the 
winter consists of vest and underdrawers 
of natural wool or fleece-lined heavy 
cotton, woolen knickerbockers fastened 
to the waist by a yoke band, and meet¬ 
ing the stockings at the band of the 
knee, and one skirt of moreen or outing 
flannel, gathered into a yoke, which 
does away with excessive bulk at the 
waist. Such clothing is warm, light, 
and does not impede the movements. A 
good many women are now giving up 
the short flannel underskirt, which im¬ 
pedes free movement, replacing it with 
knickerbockers, which give far more 
warmth, especially at the knee, where 
protection is needed. Without doubt, 
children, with their short skirts, have 
even greater need for this protection 
than adults. 
An ordinary style of clothing for little 
girls gives as winter covering drawers 
of canton flannel, made in the same 
style as ordinary muslin garments, and 
two skirts, the under one of flannel, the 
upper' of a lighter material. This does 
not give enough protection to the ex¬ 
tremities, especially in windy weather, 
and there is no doubt that many chills 
result from such exposure. In a com¬ 
fortable modern house, heated by steam, 
children are comfortable in compara¬ 
tively light winter clothes, if they are 
reinforced with leggings and other 
extras when going out; but in a country 
house heated by stoves, the temperature 
is less equable, and warmer garments 
are needed. We all like to see dainty 
little skirts and undergarments worn by 
the small girls, but when they have to 
walk over windy country roads, and sit 
in poorly-warmed country schools, the 
necessity for warmth before daintiness 
is readily apparent. For such cases, the 
knickerbockers possess advantages with 
which a flannel skirt cannot possibly 
compete. 
If the children are expected to wear 
washing frocks indoors during the win¬ 
ter, they should have plain underwaists 
of canton flannel, with high neck and 
long sleeves. As a rule, ample warmth 
is given around the body, while the ex¬ 
tremities suffer from cold. For the past 
two seasons, little girls’ frocks have been 
made so short that the knees are practi¬ 
cally uncovered, making leggings a 
necessity when in outdoor dress. It is 
very necessary to study the best way of 
equalizing the warmth, while avoiding 
extra weight and bulk. 
home. I learned to make nice-looking 
cake and biscuits “ out of nothing”, as 
my aunt said, but they lacked the good 
old-fashioned taste. John Chinaman 
made his daily rounds, selling vegetables 
at a remarkably low price, but whether 
because out of season, or not being 
really fresh, they tasted, as some one 
remarked of strawberries in winter, 
“sort of artificial.” As to living on 
fruit, if one had to buy, one must pay 
nearly as much as if it was not a land of 
fruit. 
We farmers’ wives, several miles from 
a market, need not feel worried if “ town 
company ” arrive unexpectedly. Give 
them farmer’s fare—you may be sure 
they will relish it—slices of home-cured 
ham, eggs browned in ham fryings, 
thickened gravy of sweet milk, any 
vegetables that are in season, a johnny- 
cake made of eggs, creamy sour milk, 
etc., a berry shortcake or custard pie. 
If your ham be minus, cut some thin 
slices of side pork (farmers always have 
a pork barrel), freshen in sweet or sour 
milk, fry until done, then dip each slice 
in a thick batter of eggs, flour and sweet 
milk, brown in the hot grease, cook 
eggs, and make milk gravy as for ham. 
We, who are not rich, ought to be thank¬ 
ful these hard times that we live on 
farms, where, if farm produce be low, 
there is always plenty of good, nourish¬ 
ing food. MARY S. 8TELS0N. 
FARMERS’ FARE. 
A S a farmer’s daughter, I supposed 
that farmers worked the hardest 
and lived the poorest of any class of 
people; but before becoming a farm¬ 
er’s wife, I had been about the world a 
bit, and got rid of such foolish ideas. 
Farmers have, or may have, at their dis¬ 
posal, the materials for setting a bounti¬ 
ful table, and may be sure that every¬ 
thing used is strictly fresh—eggs, milk, 
cream, vegetables, fruit, etc. 
A six-months’ sojourn in California 
taught me that even a land flowing with 
milk and honey (strictly speaking, milk 
was scarce and honey poor) might lack 
some things that a good cook likes to 
have at hand. Eggs were 40 cents a 
dozen, butter 45 cents a pound. A pint 
of milk was the daily allowance for a 
family of six. Baking powder, lard and 
water were the prime ingredients in 
making cakes, biscuit, etc. Then I long¬ 
ingly remembered the eggs, butter, 
cream, and creamy buttermilk that were 
always at my disposal when cooking at 
The Same 
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That’s Ayer’s. Tha same old sarsaparilla as it was 
made and sold 50 years ago. In the laboratory it is 
different. There modern appliances lend speed to skill 
and experience. But the sarsaparilla is the same old 
sarsaparilla that made the record— 50 years of cures. 
Why don’t we better it? Well, we Y re much in the 
condition of the Bishop and the raspberry: “Doubt¬ 
less,” he said, “God might have made a better berry. 
But doubtless, also, He never did.” Why don’t we 
better the sarsaparilla? We can’t. We are using the 
same old plant that cured the Indians and the 
Spaniards. It lias not been bettered. And since we 
make sarsaparilla compound out of sarsaparilla plant, 
we see no way of improvement. Of course, if we were 
making some secret chemical compound, we might.... 
But we’re not. We’re making the same old sarsaparilla 
to cure the same old diseases. You can tell it’s the 
same old sarsaparilla because it works the same 
old cures. It’s the sovereign blood purifier, and 
— it’s Ayer’s. 
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