Life — November 11, 1897 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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Ju SS Treaure-Box: we ow To Keep A Coox.—Many young housekeepers find it difficult to secure and keep a good cook, Reference to the advertising columns of the newspapers will show that there are any number of excellent cooks looking for situations, and any intel- ligence office will supply one or more upon receipt of the usual fee. Having secured this treasure, the next thing is to move into the immediate vicinity of a police station and fire-engine house. See that the refrig- erator always contains a plentiful supply of cold meats and bottled beer. Buy a piano forthe kitchen and have the floor properly waxed for dancing. Have your meals at hours which will be convenient for her, and at least three times a week during the picnic season arrange todine ata restaurant. In- crease her wages every fortnight or so, and you will soon find that the servant-girl ques- tion is not such a bugbear after all. How To Make a Bicycie Costume FRoM Last Year’s BATHING SutT.-If the suit is of the Asbury Park pattern beth the skirt and knickerbockers will probably be too long, but they may be cut off anda fancy border worked around the edge ina herring- bone, paccern with green embroidery silk. Iflof the Narragansett Pier length, a very pretty effect may be gained by adding a flounce and yoke neck of knitted magenta wool. A scarlet Tam O'Shanter and pink silk golf stockings with white kid slippers should be worn when wheeling out of doors. How to Wasu A Bovice.—To wash a light-blue chiffon bodice, first carefully re- movejthe bones with a small boning-knife. eeeeN Wash the bodice thoroughly in tepid water and any well-advertised soap. If there are spots on it which do not belong there, use a small scrub-brush and fine sand. If they still show, dip the waist into boiling benzize and then put it through a wringer. Starch carefully, rinse in cold blue-water, dry ip the shade and press on the wrong side with ahot iron. A red tulle hat may be washed in the same manner. To Visttors,—When visiting, always adapt your literary tastes to those of your host or hostess. If they subscribe to the Gentleman's Home Journal, or are addicted to the works of Gasoline Giddy, do not express your preference for what may seem to you a better style of literature. Or if they are in the briery stage, talk a Scotch plaid dialect and wear kilts, Small courtesies of this kind please a host and make you an ever-welcome guest. A Sure Cure ror Detirium TRemexs, —No family should be without this simple but efficacious remedy. It is known in Maine and other prohibition States as “Skin of the Dog,” and can be secured at almost any druggist’s or liquor dealer's. Spiritus frumenti, five parts. Aqua hydranti, one part. Sig.: A wineglassful every little while. _ PEIRCE. NU” “Col MAY BE A MONKEY FACE, BUT BE JABBERS ['M NO DUTCH WALRUS!” TofGet Rid of! Aunts.—Ifjthey are on your father’s side, invite somes of ,your mother's family to visit you, and if they are ‘on your mother's side reverse the process, To Make Hens ‘Lay.—Display conspic- uously in the poultry:yard this sign: ‘*The market price for fresh eggs has declined to fourteen cents a dozen.” 1 A Mustache LveWhich Will Not Crock.— To two parts of Wiggins’s stove polish add three parts of fish glue. Apply night and morning. T. C. Platt. HE face of Thomas C. Platt is ex- pressive of many things. Every man, remotely or acutely, resembles a particular animal. It would take a mul- tiplicity of animals combined, however, to adequately reproduce the qualities that enter into Mr. Platt's character. In posing them, so that a composite photograph of the whole would portray this individuality, the astute and crafty fox would take up his position well in the foreground. In the background would be the sagacious elephant, careful of his next step, foraging in the under- brush, somewhat seemingly awkward, but always alert and giving general Strength to the whole scene. To the left would be the somnolent leopard, stretched at full length, sleepy, vigilant, waiting for iis prey, and outwardly betraying no sign of his inward hunger; content to watch and to wait. From an overhanging branch would hang the boa constrictor, ready to drop at the right moment and to crush his victim, silently, cruelly and relentlessly. Above, the hawk, and the buzzard perching near. The face of a man of affairs is worn smooth by the friction of events. It is in the creases and in the byways that the poison (if there be poison) lurks. It is at the corners of his eyes and his mouth, in the contour of his ears and the drooping of his nostrils, that we see him. Mr, Platt 1s outwardly a natural, pleasing gentleman, Inwardly he is Tom Platt, and no other. T is rumored that there is a move- ment afoot among the Presby- terian Synods to compel Deacon J. Kennedy Tod, of New York, to change his patronymic, as savoring too strongly of rum to be suited to the use of a Presbyterian leader.