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Finish 81011 pier» before beginning another. There should be no cooling .betwaen the waters. and the entire process for each piecn should be as brief pg possible. When there are bright colors apt to (ado. the followin plan will preserve the tints admiral) . Boil twa tabla- Ipoonfuls of flour in one quart of wat- If this-method is faithfully followed. the flaunels wdl be soft, smooth and clear. Immerse only one article in the suds at a time. rub it gently between the hands, and stir it thoroughly about in the water. until it is quite clean and tree from stains. Then wring light- ly. and pass it through the rinse wat- er until free from suds. The rinse .water must be as nearly the temper- ature 01' the suds as possible. When rinsed, \vriug out genLly, sh-iko- vig- orously. and hung up [0 (In tuuui-diâ€" Mely. Some good housekeepers “firm that flunnels must never be put through the wringer. but this Men is a mistakâ€" on one. If folded smoothly, and run through the \vringer with light pres- sure. the result is infinitely better than twisting the clothes with the hands. If the water is hard it must be softened before washing is attempted. A. lu'blespoonlul of bomx or ammonia to Each two gallons of water, will acâ€" oomplisb this purpose very satisfactor- "[1. These goods should never be boilad, neither should they be soaked. nor needlessly left lying in the water. They should: not be put in suds which have been used for other clothes, nor in dirty water of any kind. Clean soft water is indispensable. ‘The suds should be prepared by dis- solving some good soap in the water. Soap must never be. rubbed directiy upon the flunnels. If a little more Is necessary rub it upon the. hands. and ibeu upon the goods. Do not use the washhourd bul wash the llannels wiLh the hands. Flannels should always be washed by themselves. and not hurried through with the usual weekly washing. One should have plenty of time Lo treat them properly, and a warm, bright day should he chasen. In cold weather it is better not to wash' them until just in time to have them on the line during the warm hours of mdvcb-day. * Some housekeepers advise washing flannels in very hot water. whilst oth- ers affirm that tepid water only should be used. The inexperienced luundress is frequently at a loss to de- cide between the two. Hot water, not too hot to keep the hands in comfort- ably. is qwite safe, and better than either extreme. IL is simply ruinous to wear flan- nels until much soiled. Such heroic measures are necessary to make them clean. that they can by no possibility be made soft and attractive again. Be- fore the winter is over such garments will be badly shrunken and discolored, and so ham}: as to be almost, if not enâ€"tirelyk unweara‘ble. To begin with, disabuse your mind of the idea that there is any method of washing flannels which will pre- vent shrinkage altogether. \Voolen goods must and will shrink, and the process is a purely mechanical one. It is neither helped nor hindered by the addition to the water of any chemical. [L we call to mind the fact that wool-t on goods are fulled by being slightly welted and pressed between tw0 roll- ers, we have in: a, nutshell the whole principle of shrinkage. Properly washed, howecver, the shrinkage need be_bu_t; trifling. WASHING FLANNELS. So much has been said as to the proper method of washing flannels. that the subject may perhaps be con- sidered slightly worn. There are. how- ever, always inexperienced ones anxi- ous to learn. and others who have failâ€" ed in performing the task satisfactori- Take half a bushel of nice unslakâ€" ed lime. Slake it with boiling wa- ter, covering it during the process to keep in the steam. Strain the liquid through a fine sieve or strainer and add to it a peck 0! salt previously dissolved in warm water, three pounds of ground rice 'boiled to a thin paste, half a pound of clean glue, which has been previously dissolved by soaking it well in warm water, and then put- ting it over the fire in a double glue Dot. Add five gallons of hot water to the mixture given. Stir it well and Let it stand covered for a few days. It allon be applied hot, and for this purpose it can be kept on a portable furnace. It is said one pint of this mixture will cover asquare yard of surface. Whitewash is one or! the best dis! inflectnnts we have. Apply it to the walls oi! the cellar and to various out- buildings around the premiSes. The mallowing whitewash is especially de- aiurable fior outdoor work: is dissolved down the cesspools and the same amount down the general newer oil the house. If there is any sign that the waste pipe of the kitch- an sink is partly filled with grease, wash it out with a boiling solution 0! ml soda, and water, and scrub out the edges or the sink with an odd sink whisk dipped in the same mix- tim. Repeat the disinfecting solution of copperas at least three times dur- ingflthe spring. _ .. . A .12.. DISINFECT SE‘VERS. This is a good time to disinfect sewers and cesspools. Do this by pour- lng a pail ct boiling water in which w‘borut five cents‘ worth of copperas ’WO”OO”OOOOMOO .000: E About the House. Wouom «3 punctuatiun which the educated wo- man, lw she fashionable or othprwise, has H1“ ays used. It 5! rikes us Ibul “huever repurted Fashion in lhis thing confounded it with that other dictum known to all. that punc- tuatlou marks must never appear up- on the engraved communication, be it card or invétation or of visit, and in whatever 1ettering. But this has nothing to do with the mauuseript note, and it will take more than Fashâ€" ion to convince us otherwise. Even so great an authority must remember that "a shoemaker should stick to his last.” FASHIONS PUNCTUATION. The latest (ad of fashion, it is said. decrees that. punctuation is unneces~i nary in letter writing. It strikes us i that the fiat is much more unnecess-a l sary than the punctuation. The latterl has never been indulged in to any! large extent by woman. A dash or! so and plenty of italics are We only‘ condescensions her epistles have made« toward that phase of rhetoriu. That she should be enjoined. upon pain oft appearing unfashiona‘ble, to forego all i . . l the commas and semicolons and inter- ‘ rogation poian that she has never! used seems hardly fair. It‘s a case of beingr found guilty without having as much as gvun oafense. It shows a. remarkable ignorance upon the part of fashion. What has she been thinkâ€" ing about all these years that. the Smart epistolary communication has been so religiously abstaining from punctuation? Perhaps Fashion has been wrongfully repur'ed. Slll‘h things have happenedâ€"perhaps the tint nclu- ally concerns the beloved dashes and idolized italics, so dear to her “ho takes her pen in hand for the fashion-i able note. Perhaps it is but a neat little dodge of Fashion to put us ont the right track: after denounviligi dashes. her next move will be do res-- commend the established marks for punctuation which the educated wo- i l l l TO CLEAN. RIBBONS~4 If a person uses proper care and is in the open air when cleaning ribbons or silk with gasoline there will be no accident. ’Do clean ribbons effectively fill a fruit jar about half with the gasoline, and p'u’t into it ribbons that are not mussed. thte ribbons should be cleaned separately. Aside from this the jar may be filled with any ribbons of any coloring. Close the bottle, allowâ€" ing It to remain closed from two to six hours, and shake occasionally. Then take out the ribbons, hang them to dry in the open air, and, if possible, give them a good sun bathI to remove‘ the objectionable odor of the gasoline.‘ The ribbons need no pressing and are} ready for use as soon as they have been aired. They should be stretch. ed and smoothed out as they dry. 1 Slice black bread in pieces not more than oneâ€"tenth of an inch wide. Cut off the crust evenly all around. Butter the slices and spread thickly with Neufchatel cheese and place two slices together. A mere suggestion of cay- enne sprinkled on the cheese adds piâ€" quancy to the sandwich. at for ten minutes. add it to the warm suds, and wash as directed above. Rinse in three waters. all warm, and dry quickly. One of the newest and daintiest of sandwiches is made with tiny soda bisâ€" cuits. These biscuits are specially or- dered from the baker or confectionery dealer. They are three inches in di- ameter and when baked are not more than a half inch in thickness. These, as received from the baker, are split in two, with a sharp knife, Butter is spread over eachâ€"a suggestion of butâ€" ter only. Two crisp leaves of lettuce are then patted down upon the butâ€" tered biscuit and the edges trimmed down to the size of the biscuit. A thin layer of mayonnaise dressing is then spread upon the lettuce and afterward upon one of the halves a thin dress- ing of minced born; the two halves are pressed gently together and the sand- wich is ready. ‘ Celery anequins.â€"Boil two ounces bread in one gill of milk. When smooth add four tablespoons grated celery and two tablespoons butter. When heatâ€" ed, remove from fire, add the beaten yolks of two eggs, season to taste and stir in gently the slviffly whipped whites. Bake in a hot oven for fitâ€" teen minutes. r Celery Saladâ€"Cut the celery in sm\all pieces, season to taste, pour over olive oil and lemon juice, in the pro- portion of two tablespoons lemon juice to one of oil. They must be thorough- ly beaten together before pouring on the salad. Only the most tender and crisp celery should be used in a salad. Stewed Celery on Toastâ€"Stew the celery as directed in preceding recipes, drain, season Lo taste. and mash to a pulp. Put aspounful on a square of buttered toast, and pour over it a Little cream sauce. This is a nice break- fast dish. Celery and Potato Hash.-â€"Chop fine 3 cups cold boiled potatoes and add one cup cooked celery, finely cut. Put in a saucepan with one small cup cream or rich milk, season to taste. cook until thoroughly heated, add a lump of butter and serve. USES F0 R CELERY. Minced Celery with Egg Dressing.â€" Scmpe, washand cut the celery 111 small bits. Rub the yolks of two hard- boiled eggs to a paste with one ta- blespoon salad oil, add salt and alit- tle vinegar or lemon juice to mix. Pour over the celery and serve at Once. TOOTHSOME SANDWICHES Few married folks hate each other. They only get tired. Hymen’s bond does not gall. It only wearies. In- icompatibility of temper means gener- [ally only indifference. Paul said of 'love Ihut it did many things, but he never said that it did not get tired. fHe was an old bachelor, but he knew isomelhing or love. Nothing dissiâ€" ,pules love quicker than to get tired lain! lo see the object of the love fired a 50. In the home-centered married life there is no need to run abroad for hap- piness. Wth man or woman goes across the threshold it is to bring back for lhe enrichment of the home- Iil‘e of the things without. These draw upon the world in the home's he~ half, not upon the home in the behalf of the outer world. Just here :1 word for clubs and club-folks: In that re- gard which clubs for men or women set upon foot movements for the The (lead sameness In married lila spoils many homes. In such house- holds even the arrival of anew baby does not stir matters greatly. The dnys are one long round of changeless circumstances. The husband plans nu surprises for the wife, nor she for him. And each wonders as the years increase why there is so little of the flint)? of affection in their hearts and homes. The chief disturber of married bliss is ennui. If there was another word that meant What this borrowed French one does [hilt word would be the one employed. But ennui alone express. es in a half dozen Letters the tired feeling which destroys many homes. It is cured by no sarsaparilla. Ennui makes men read newspapers and we. men join clubs. It drives husbands to the lodge and worse. It makes wives cross and querulous. The element of surprise has gone from married life when ennui comes in. The bride is no longer adorned for her husband. She keeps her udorment for afternoon receptions. The man of the house forgets the kisses of the honeymoon. Each loses interest in the other. Thus comes “the rift within the lute." Love is a creator of ideals. In courtship the sweetheart forms and fancies a creation and calls it Her. He places this creation upon a pedestal and warships as the Parsees did the sun. No girl is ever quite so good as her sweetheart thinks she is. How lonely in his world would be her lite if this were not the truth. Sometimes the girl comes down from the pedestal. There is then a mistake of serious im- port. The ideal is dissipated, the idol found to be but common clay, Well is it for the girl if she comes not down. The sweetheart will hold her in higher esteem for her refusal to re- pond to his beckoning. Galatea is long- or beloved than the [rail and fickle Phyrne. Marriage is the open door to Heaâ€" ven. The big blue sky mirrors itself in the smallest pool upon the thirsty earth. Thus does Heaven drift down into the tiniest household to be reflect- ed back in the lives of wedded folk. When home is not synonymous with happiness there is something wrong with man or woman or both. Marriage is never a failure. Sometimes the married are. The most dangerous thinga man can do is to fall in love. If he falls into a ditch he may break a leg or aneck, but when he falls in love he sometimes breaks his heart, and that is worse. How mysterious is this business of falling in love, anyway. The youth goes aoberly along the path of everyâ€" day existence. He has no thought save his work, no eye for naught. save the duty at his door. Suddenly a look. a voice, a (ace, and he is in love. No more a pathway undisturbed. The world has changed. A new ideal has arisen. The gray clouds fade into a blue sky and he blacks his boots twice a day. Whether love be caused by electricity or microbes it certainly comes unbidden. Rea-son has little to do with it. Imagination is its helper and sentiment its twin. A man who can keep out of debt and out of love will never be miserable. and never happy. It is strange that girls who set much store by getting married should not make large preparations therefor. How few young women plan, soberly, steadily, seriously for the duties and responsibilities of wedded life. There is not here considered the preparations involved in a hurried trip for clothes the baking of the bride’s cake. But married life usually means housekeep- ing and its attendant resposibilities. It means, at least it may mean. motherhood, the highest, noblest mis- sion of woman in the world. Are our girls trained for these duties which follow upon the wedding ring? Do our schools for girls, female colleges, as they are barbarously termed. put these into their curriculum? We hear of mothers' meetings but, by the way. there are no fathers‘ meetings, and why not! chief accident or incident, and shapes human destiny more largely than any other single occurr-enceâ€"ifamarriage may be called singleâ€"between the cradle and the grave. It is but the difference of a letter from marrying to matting. The wedding means one or the other. Marriage is not the chief end of life. Some girls think it is. They misquote thereby the \Veatminster catechism. Marriage is oniy an incident, or. with some people, an Lecident. But it is the [HE MMIER 0f MHRRY There are some girls in town who are going to pick up the proverbial broken sticks. When they would have got married their ambitious mammas overpersuaded them, and weddings were deferred. Now, as the years move swifter, chances are less frequent, and to escape the dreaded doom of old maidhood there will be a aacrifico and subsequent sorrow kint‘olks, present and prospective. The bridal party march in. A baby always cries somewhere in the back- ground. “'hy do babies always cry at weddings? Then the ceremony is said, and then congratulations, kisses and weeping. All the bliss of the occasion is swallowed up by them and all the solemnity marred by the long line of congratulatory relatives. If the writer ever gets married againâ€" which the Lord forbid â€" preference is here expressed for a marriage by teleâ€" phone or in a desert. A man does not amount to much at a wedding. He plays second fiddle until the first baby comes and than plays third. But when he is consult- ed he never wants to get married in a church. Church weddings are al- ways arranged by a girl or the mothâ€" erâ€"in-law. The man is usually so embarrassed or ashamed that he wants to have it all over as inconspicuously as possible. Nevertheless, there is nothing more awful than a home wed- ding. It is usually as stiff as a funeral. The parlor is crowded with The "arranged" marriages are near ly always failures. It matters not whether arranged by King or mother, they are usually contrary to the de- sires of the young people, and hence a dismal disappointment. The old folks have no business making marriages for their children. Yet, while this is true, the children do well to take the old folks into consideration and con- fidence. There would be fewer mistakes where this the general rule. In the old country the young man gets ac- quainted with the whole family. The parents stay in the parlor. The young people make love in guarded way in full sight of the family. Here it is sadly ditterent. The boy and the girl sit in the parlor alone. The old people apologize if they accidentally walk in. She goes with him to the promiscuous dance and returns in a closed carriage at 4 a.m.' It is not a surprise that the peach loses its bloom sometimes. In England the parents know every step of the court- ship. They are acquainted with the young fellow, his antecedents, disposi- tion and attainments. In this coun- try the mother knows some of these things and the father knows â€" what she chooses to tell him. Hence, the demand for this modern make-believe, the chuperon. away, not that in which women pre- serve the gentle womanliness which is her chieiest charm. Indeed, say what you will, men like most of all the woâ€" man who works, They flirt with the dainty butterfly of fashion. with her unsoiled hands, but the largess of their heart's devotion is poured at the feet of her who labors, whether in office. store or home. As good wives as the world holds come from the places into which stern. nec- essity has driven the girls to work. D0 college women get married? isa query which college towns hear ever and anon. Do ducks swimâ€"there be- ing water close at hand? The higher education does not drive matrimonial dreams from the sweet creatures' heads. The "Mrs." appears with im- mediate frequency before the names of the alumnae of the schools. The col- lege girls, with their trained minds, make the best of wives. They are ac- customed to :obedience. Some philo- sopher from the seclusion of his study has suggested that marriages among workingwomen are infrequent. Not simply college education but toiling is said to lead away from the altar. Not so. W'ork that makes woman masculine does perhaps frighten lovers , h, r..... It is not the duty of every one to get. married. Some should stay single as horrible examples. \Vomen form- erly got married because there was nothing else to do. Now they get mar- ried only when they do not care to do anything else. Marriage is now the last resort. It was once the only one. There is room abundant in the world for old maids. There is non-e for old bachelors. They should be taxed as much as the yeap’s living of some good woman would require. Marriages are pulled off later in life than formerly. Now a man waits until he is 30, and a woman waits until she gets a chance. The old way was the best. It saves many wild oats. the devil's crop. It gives the girl an oppor- tunity to share in the building up of the home. Homes can not be bought ready made. They grow. When a home stops growing it is dead. Mar- riages are sometimes deferred until the man can get his home all prepared. Then the couple, grown old, move into a readyâ€"made home. It is like transition into a morgue as compared to the happy furnishing of a cottage full of life and hope. It is a good thing to have a sweetheart early in life, and it isbetter to have a. wife. But the superlative is to have early a sweetheart who is also a wife. Matches are made in heaven. 'tis saidâ€"not brimstone matches. but the other kind, in which no hrimstone is, There are some ill-assorted ones down here on earth. Giants wed pigmios, the living skeleton woos the fat wo- men, intellectual chaps marry brainâ€" less babies. The long procession of queer couples wind down to the hori- zon of eternity. Blonde loves brun- e1 te, the apple dumpling clings to the macaroni, the dude to the woman of sense, the doctor of divinity to the society. gossip. The world does not account for these queer contrasts. The word only smiles at them and repeats the dose. Such marriages are not alâ€" ways ill assorted save outwardly. The misfit marriage is a sad affair. No greater punishment could be inflicted than this. Better the Isle du‘ Dieble than a brawling woman in a loveless home. Misfit clothing is sold by city tailors at a bargain. The misfit marriage is dear at any price. home's uplifting are they blessed with- al. In Paris the goblet still holds its own in both private and public dinner tables, but in England the goblet is obsolete, and the tumbler does duty for everything. everywhere, from hot grog to cold water. These tumblers, however, are now very tall and thin. [t is said that at Queen Victoria's La- hle she has always clung; to high glass, whatever the vagaries of faslxlun,und that many of bar zlasses am of great “Va so often exalt our weakness in- to something to be proud oil And it we go without lunch some day. an avenging headache swoops down and makes us irritable. Surely. that is nothing to be proud of! Or. it tho men of the family are dining out, the women have Lea and toast and scrambled eggs, and next morning wonder why they feel so limp and an if everything to be done were dread- fully troublesome and impossible. “Drink and hurry and worry send most of the men to an asylum." says a doctor, "while love affairs, combin- ed with lack of food, throw most of the women off their balance." The love affairs, would have but little influence over them if they were proprly fed; but among the illusions in which girls and women indulge is that. as they care Little about their food. so the lack of it oannoL have much effect up- on Lhem. They rather despise men. for being careful to have regulux meals. whether business presses or not. and are inclined to mum. theix own superiority in such respects. But if this disregard of the natural in- stincts of hunger leads us in the same path as "drink and hurry and worry" lead men, and if we are to be humiliat- ed by hyperâ€"sensitiveness in love at- fairs, how prey-eminently does male common sense stand out in the mat- ter. “.I have not heard," concludes the sprightly letter-writer, “whether Misc! "Staintorth penetrated the cause of the scene, which was that the queen had the day before made the little printess a presant of a large doll dress- ed in exactly the same sort of lilaew colored gown, and Shlaklng its head in precisely Lhre same way. From the striking resemblance between Miss Sminlorth's eyebrows and cheeks and those of the doll, the child naturally! imagined that she was looking at her own doll, sent from Carlton House, until it frightened her by speaking-l" Women are notoriously careless about their own food. One could wish that those who neglect their duty of properly and efficiently nourishing their own bodies would study the statistics 0d! insanity and. its increase among us. The old Latin proverb Lells us that our aim should. be to keep a. sound mind in a sound body. “What! Dolly speak! What! Dolly speak!" she crled. The princesses, who knew what the child meant, were almost dead with laughing, and everybody was in arom- uxoept the Priuco 01: Wales. who, posâ€" sibly out of a spirit of contradiction. loolfed grave. Mistress Dolly was distinguished by her beautiful black arched eyebrows. the fine bloom of her cheeks. and the agreeable shaking of her head. Thu: "equipped." as the slightly satirical fo- minine pen puts it, and dressed with more than her usual splendor, she en- tered the royal apartment. Thilher also had come the little Princess Charlotteâ€"the Prince of Wales's daughterâ€"who could just Speak, and who is described as a “r‘oâ€" murkeibly sensible little child." The first object that struck her eyes was the "beauteous Mistress b‘tuinforlh." and she expressed her delight at so time a sight by smiling and nodding to her and saying: “Dolly. Dolly, pretty Dolly." , This mark or distinction was so flut- tering and the child’s delight was so evident, that Mistress Stainforth thought proper to make a low courte- sy, nodding her head with its tell tea- thers all the time; whereupon the child, who was "very stuut on her legs," repeated the movement, mim- icking it pejlgctly. Mistress Dolly started to return (hanks, but no sooner did the child hear the sound of her voice than she began to cry and mat to such a degree that nothing could pacify her. to ‘n. . There is no happiness greater than that which true marriage brings. It is not transient or illusive like the will 0' the wisp, but shines on with added radiance unto the perfect day Clouds may Hack the sky and. storms may come without the home, but with. in is peace and sweet content. The passing years but add to the joy. Youth fades, but not the spring of love. Heads grow gray and furrow: chase the dimples from the cheeks. But the love-light is in the eyes, ten- derness in the voice and love in the very footstep down to the day when death does them partâ€"yen, more, unâ€" til the day when death does them unite again. In the "Letters of Maria Josepha. Lady Stanley," written in her early married life. there is one dated June 6, 1797, which quanitly tells of the up- pearance of Mistress Dolly Stainiorth at Court on the king’s birthday. Marrying is like joining- the church Better young than late, but belie! late than not at all. Reformation by marriage is never I success. If he won’t give up drink for her when she is his sweetheart I“ won‘t give it up {or her when she it his wile. This is n truism but om that every girl should paste in he] mirror, where she will see it oftenest GOBLET 0R TUMBLERS WOMEN AND EATING DOLLY AT COURT i the cause of that the quaen made the little large doll dress-