rub a little soap on your cloth for each piece, when washing tinware. Be sure to rub well in all the creases, so that there will be no black streaks come off on my dishtowel."

"Will you wipe the tin things on the towel?" inquired Grace, who had seen Myra wring out her dishcloth and use that for wiping all but the table dishes.

"Yes indeed" replied Cousin Jo. "This one that I have been using was taken clean this morning and is too damp anyway, but I have a dry one here that has been used before that will be just the thing. I wipe everything with a dishtowel, unless it might be the bottom of an iron kettle. Anything else that gets blackened by the fire I scour with ashes, keeping a little cloth and pan of ashes purposely, and then wash clean enough so that it will not hurt the towel to wipe it. Sometimes I wring the dishcloth from the rinsing water, wipe first with that, and then rub dry with the towel. They should never be put away damp and I prefer to wipe off the dish water rather than to dry it on by the fire."

"Let me have the steel knives and I will scour them."

"Isn't there any bath brick ?" inquired Grace, noticing that Mrs. Holister had brought a can of ashes with the scouring board.

"Oh yes," was the reply; "but I like hard coal ashes better, so I sifted some the other day to have them ready. They take off stains more easily and give a better polish with less work." "They do shine finely," said Grace when they were washed and dry.

"Now take soap on your cloth wash the dishpan and turn out that water. Then take the rinsing water (if too cool add some hot) and with that wash the dripping pan, the table and sink, the teakettle and the top of the reservoir, using your cloth first with soap, then without, and finally wringing it very dry to finish with. "When that is done, get another water and wash out both dishcloths, rubbing the pan well before you wring out the last one Empty the pan and wipe with that cloth, and then with the towel on which the tins were wiped. Be sure that the dishcloths are well wrung before hanging away. Treated in this way they will never smell sour or strong, and will look well enough to pay for the little care and trouble"

"Shall I wash the towels too?" asked Grace. "Oh no," answered Cousin Jo. I think it spoils them to be washed in that way. When they are too soiled to use I like to put them away. to be done with the weekly washing. In

that way they keep a clearer color and are nicer for the dishes.

"Archie is through with his part of the silver polishing, and I will go over them with a clean cloth, while you are finishing. I think you have both done so well that I will not keep you any longer now, so you may go and have your play." (To be continued.)

EGGS AS HYGIENIC FOOD.

EGGS are a meal in themselves. Every element necessary to the support of a man is contained within the limits of an egg-shell, in the best proportions and in the most palatable form. Plain boiled, they are wholesome. The masters of French cookery, however, affirm that it is easy to dress them in more than five hundred different ways, each method not only economical but salutary in the highest degree. No honest appetite ever yet rejected an egg in some guise. It is nutriment in the most portable form and in the most concentrated shape. Whole nations of mankind rarely touch any other animal food. Kings eat them plain as readily as do the humble peasant. Far more than fish-for it is watery diet-eggs are the scholar's fare. They contain phosphorus, which is brain food, and sulphur, which perform a variety of functions in the economy. And they are the best of nutriment for children, for, in a compact form, they contain everything that is necessary for the growth of the youthful frame. Eggs are, however, not only food-they are medicine also. The white is the most efficacious of remedies for burns, and the oil extractable from the yolk is regarded by the Russians as an almost miraculous salve for cuts, bruises, and scratches. A raw egg, if swallowed in time will effectually detach a fish bone fastened in the throat, and the whites of two eggs will render the deadly corrosive sublimate as harmless as a dose of calomel. They strengthen the consumptive, invigorate the feeble, and render the most susceptible all but proof against jaundice in its more malignant phase-The Home.

KITCHEN HOLDERS.

"A GOOD Cook is not likely to use her apron for a holder, but it is often a temptation to do so, unless she has a good supply of holders. Not only should there be enough for present use but some in the pantry drawers to fall back upon. They are made in all ways. Some fold half a dozen thicknesses of cloth into a rectangle and bind the edges. Others make the

inside of any clean material, stocking legs being often put to this use, and have the outside of thick material, such as cloaking, and every piece coming to the edge, sew over and over around it, taking coarse quilting through it and finishing with a loop. We half suspect one reason why the apron is so often put to the indignity of serving for a holder is because it is longer and can be placed on the dish in two places. Why not make longer holders then?

When one cup towel is worn past convenient using put it aside until two or three more are in like condition; then, fastening these together, you will find the holes in one covered by good places in another, and that you have a holder worth many times its cost in time and patience saved. Try and keep your holders clean. It takes but a few moments to wash them out, and a sticky holder makes one nervous and doubles the possibility of dropping the hot dish."

A LOUNGE FOR A DOLLAR.

To make a lounge, the material for which may be had for one dollar, take two strips of wood, eighteen feet long, four inches wide and one inch thick. From one of these cut two pieces, each six feet long, for the sides, and two pieces two and a half feet long for the ends. Put them together strongly, using screws, and making a gimlet hole to start each screw, in order not to split the wood. Two more pieces two and a half feet long. form the second strip, for the head. These are screwed on the inside of the frame, at one end, giving them a comfortable slant. Another piece, two feet four inches long. is fastened to the ends of the "head-pieces." On the under side of the body frame fasten two more strips, two and one half feet by four inches, each about six inches from the end of the frame, and in these drill a hole about two inches from each end, into which put casters. On the inside of the sides, on the lower edge, fasten strips of wood about an inch square, and on these lay thin boards, over which tack a piece of bagging, treating the head in the same way. Stuff this frame with hay, piling it up about a foot above the sides, and over this stretch some muslin, drawing it as tight as possible, and tacking it firmly on the under side of the lounge. Over this tack the final covering of pretty cretonne which costs twelve cents a yard, using about three yards. If you choose to make the lounge more expensive and, of course, more comfortable, stuff it with hay on the bottom, and excelsior on the top, and make a pillow of the same material, though it is not necessary. This lounge, which is more of a "divan" than a lounge, may look too low, or too hard, but it will be one of the most comfortable articles of furniture in the house. If half a dozen springs are used, they will improve it greatly.-Sel.

A HIGH LAMP

May be contrived if you are near any pottery, by obtaining from the potter a circular pot made of the same material as a common flowerpot, a foot high, and of a diameter to suit the glass base of some lamp you have or are sure you can buy easily. Any potter who can make a butter-jar can make this lamp-stand. Rub

molasses-not syrup, but New Orleans molasses-all over the pot. Let it stand for a day or two, and then paint with oil tube-paints, such as artists use. Have some brown Japan dryer to mix with the paint so as to give a glossy, or glaze-like, appearance If you wish to lighten your colors with white, use zinc white only. Avoid black. Use no chromos. A pleasant arrangement of color, without any attempt at forms, is very successful provided you keep the darker tints near the base. If you do not like your first painting, you can paint over until the coloring suits your taste and surroundings — Demorest Magazine.

A TEMPORARY FRIEZE

For a summer room may be made of Japanese books of birds and flowers, which can be bought at any well-stocked Japanese store. The pages are not cut like ours, as the Japanese print only on one side of the paper; so a book will fold out sufficiently to ornament one side of a room of average size. The gilt picturemoulding will afford sufficient support for this thin paper. The two book covers may be tacked fast, and an occasional pin will hold the other leaves; or if there is no picture-moulding, a few small tacks will suffice. When the frieze is taken down the tack holes should be filled up with plaster-of-Paris and water applied with a paint brush. This must be done quickly, as plaster-of-paris "sets," or becomes hard quickly. Powder color may be mixed with the plasterof-Paris so as to match the tint of the wall. -Demorest Magazine.

THE STAMP BASKET

Is a novel decorative contrivance for a writing table. To make it, you need three small baskets with handles, one small bottle, with a broad base to fit one basket, two yards of very narrow ribbon, and a tablespoonful of sand. One basket is to hold one cent stamps, another two cent samps, and the third basket is to accommodate the bottle, which is to be filled with water, to moisten the backs of postage stamps. The mouth of the bottle must be small enough to be covered by your second finger, because after you have placed tissuepaper on the bottom of the basket and poured

in the required amount of sand for ballast, the bottle is fitted in, and the narrow ribbon tied on the handle and around the bottle. One single motion of the hand tips the bottle-basket sufficiently to moisten the end of your finger, by which you can dampen the postage stamp to be applied to your letter. The ribbon is tied to one side only of the handles of the baskets holding the stamps, a long piece of ribbon being left between them, so that the stamp-holders are not disturbed by the tipping of the basket holding the bottle.

It will save you time, thought, and motion, to have the baskets red, blue, and yellow, and place the one cent stamps in the red basket, and the two cent stamps in the blue basket. You can gild the yellow basket with bronze powder mixed with gum-arabic and water. If you choose, you can add a fourth basket, and in it keep a small piece of white cheese-cloth button-holed around with colored flax thread, with which to dry your fingers. This whole contrivance is light, and can be easily moved from table to desk.

The essence of decoration is in making a pleasure of production. A picture, a piece of sculpture, purely a thing of beauty, which exists for itself alone without any relation to anything else, is fine art. Decorative art is the application, to daily life, of the principles which underlie the beautiful, in the fashioning of the objects of use, so that neither the form nor colors shall offend the eye, mystify the mind, or insult the common sense. The higher the development of the individual, the more harmony of color and beauty in form is demanded; so in choosing your baskets take two cent and one cent stamps along, that the baskets and stamps may either contrast or harmonize in color. Cut the ends of the ribbon diagonally. Be sure there are only two ends, for fluttering ribbons distract the attention and tire the eye, and this is the reverse of the object to be attained by decoration, which is to rest, to soothe, and to charm the eye, "the window of the soul." Drop sealing-wax on the ribbon ends: this will serve two purposes; first, it will weight the ribbon so it will not move with every wave of wind; and secondly, it will obviate the risk of soiled ends, for the sealing-wax can be wiped off if soiled — Demorest Magazine.

A PAYING INDUSTRY.

Any person having an eye to making money, or who may desire to engage in a real business, cannot do better than to consider the subject of glove cleaning. It is an easy business requiring very little capital, and more patience than any hard work.

The implements necessary to properly begin the work consists of a round white pine stick about twelve inches long, two inches in diame ter at one end, and small enough at the other end to be easily slipped into the fingers of the gloves (any wood turner will make such a stick for ten cents), a table or bench to work on, a good bristle brush that is not too stiff, two tin pans and a supply of gasoline. In taking gloves to clean for others a blank book will be required in which to enter and number the name of each customer, and a corresponding number should be marked on the inside of each glove with pen and ink. Too much care cannot be taken in order to assure a certainty of ownership.

When a large lot of gloves are to be cleaned, they should be sorted out, and the white ones cleaned first, then the next lightest in color, and so on, cleaning each lot all the way through before another lot is commenced, as the color is apt to run out of some of the darker gloves. This method prevents the possibility of the white ones becoming stained thereby.

To clean, pour a plentiful and equal supply of gasoline into each of the pans, put the gloves all together in one pan, wash each separately between the hands; then slip on the stick and scour each finger well with the brush, at the same time scouring the hand part all over thoroughly. When this is done, rinse the glove well in the gasoline from which it was taken and lay it in the other pan, in the clean gasoline, until all the gloves of that lot are cleaned and ready to hang up Then squeeze each glove two or three times in the clear gasoline, squeeze out as near dry as possible, smooth between the hands, then blow them up with the breath to remove wrinkles, and button over a clean cord to dry. To keep off the flies and other insects while the gloves are drying, spread over them a clean newspaper or a cotton cloth. Charges for cleaning are usually made according to the size or length of the gloves, and range from fifteen to twenty-five cents per pair.

Any woman who will be courageous enough to tack up a little sign, and go into the glove cleaning business in a practical way, and with a determination to derive a substantial benefit therefrom, will surely be surprised at the increase of her income It is not difficult to earn and deserve the name of cleaning kid gloves "better than anybody else in town," and the only secret of such a success can be found in the answer "a pleased customer is the best advertisement." A determination on the part of the cleaner to turn out first-class work is a sort of "satisfaction guaranteed" to one's own conscience, and besides, is a rule that will bring a profitable return for the outlay of extra time and trouble.-Inter Ocean.