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J HEALTH AND THE |HOUSEHOLD I SIMPLE REMEDIES. Slipperv Elm Tea (for cough).—Put a tea- spoonful of slippery elm into a tumbler, pour cold water upon it, and season with lemon and sugar. Hop Poultice.—Boil a handful of dried hops in half a pint of water until it is reduced half; strain and stir Indian meal into the water to thicken. For a Boil.—Nothing is better for a boil than linen wet in water of the temperature to be rgreeable to the patient. Renew often, and take some good blood medicine. For Children Teething.—Brown a tablespoon- ful of flour in the oven, or on top of the stove, and feed the child with a little of the flour once an hour. It will check diarrhoea. Mustard PO-Littice.-Tiito one gill of water stir a tablespoonful of Indian meal. Spread the paste on a cloth, sprinkle mustard thickly over the paste, and lay over this a thin piece of c'oth. Apply the mustard side to the body. To make a bread end milk poultice, put a tables-ooo'nful of crumbs of stale bread into a gill of milk, and boil up once. Or, take' stale breadcrumbs and pour over them boiling water; then boil till soft. Take from the 6re and stir in a little glycerine or sweet oil to keep the poultice soft and pliable. » WHOOPING-COUGH. This is primarily a disease of ih" nervous system involving the respiratory organs, it is a con. vulsive, strangling cough, characterised by pecu. liar sonorous or whooping inspirations, from which the popular name is taken. It comes on in fits, and the cough is so severe at times thai the patient turns purple, gasps for breath, and presents all the symptoms of suffocation. It if infectious, chiefly attacks children, and, like the small-pox, only occurs once during life. The treatment consists chiefly in obviating irritation and in exciting nausea and occasional vomiting. From the first aperient and sedatives in small doses are usually given; for the second intention a weak sweetened solution of tartarised-anti- mony may be administered in small doses every hour or so. A hot bath is often serviceable Plenty of home made lemonade, not too sweet, is an excellent thing for children with whooping cough. «, EXERCISE IN THE HOUSEHOLD. Exercise is essential to the health of all. But when we suggest to the busy mother that she take exercise, she insists that she gets all she needs about her work, and to think of a course in physical culture is quite absurd in her case. Yes, she does exercise her muscles many hours a day, often to exhaustion. If she would make a period in her work several times a day long enough to count two hundred, straighten up, bend backward, and surprise her shoulders with a few new turns and shakes, making a little effort to inhale all the fresh air possible, the results would be surprising to herself. Those whose duties confine them to the house should make it a point to exercise at some time during the day, taking short walks at least, if not more than five minutes at a time. Those who cannot walk out of doors should walk much in the house, visiting the different rooms, the halls and sunny porch, not forgetting to inhale slowly and deeply at intervals. Even the invalid in bed should take plenty of breathing exercise several times a day, lying on the back, expanding gradually the chest and the abdomen until they can almost feel the air vibrating iI, their toes. ♦ THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PICKING THE BED CLOTHING DUIUNG ILLNESS. For many years the phenomenon of picking the bed clothes by the patient has been con- sidered a dangerous symptom, and one indica- tive of dissolution. As a general fact it is in- dicative of dissolution, but it is not so absolute a sign as some have supposed, and it has frequently lasted for several hours, where con- valescence took place at the usual time. This phenomenon is not the sign connected with any particular morbid state or disease, unless we are to consider gradual sinking or collapse from any disease as a common condition to every disease. The motion is an aberration rather than an involuntary activity, and pro- bably indicates mental, rather than physical failure. It is not choreic, it is not convulsive, it is not tetanic, and it is, in a morbid sense, voluntary and without pain. A medical man recently said:—" I never saw it under a volatile anesthetic, but I have seen it induced by alcohol during delirium tremens, which occur- rence suggests the idea that the cause of it is due to the presence m the nervous matter ot some foreign body that has specific toxic properties—mercaptan, alcohol itself, or some other of the alcoholic series. The facts indicate lhat in all cases it is the same nervous centres that are at fault, but what centres these are is a question to which, at present, there is no reply. As a prog- nostic sign in disease this phenomenon is a bad sign. It 6 not easy to overrate its badness, and it calls for a great deal more study than has ever been given to it." ♦ COOKERY RECIPES. Mutton Broth.—Break up one pound of'scrap of neck of mutton, put into a saucepan with one pint of cold water, bring to a boil, take off the scrum, and simmer gently for two hours. Then allow it to- stand, and take off the risen fat. Boil up again, adding a teaspoonful of chopped parsley and seasoning. Herring Fritters.—Skin and fillet two smoked herrings. Cut these into neat pieces, put them into a deep dish, season with pepper and lemon- juice, moisten with a little oil. Prepare a thick frying batter, and after it has soaked an hour drop in the pieces of herring, fry them in deep fat to a light brown, dish up on a folded napkin, garnish with fried parsley. Girdle Cakes.-Piub six ounces of dripping into a poiand of flour, add two teaspoonsful of baking powder, and mix thoroughly. Work into this half a pound of currants, add a pinch of salt, a gpating of nutmeg, and make up into a light dough with milk. Roll out on a floured board, stamp into rounds, bake for 15 minutes either on a girdle or in the oven. Some cooks add a little sugar to the above ingredients, but in our experience the general preference of little people is for the unsweetened, crisp, little cakes produced by the above method. Mutton Pudding.—We are often puzzled to know what to do with the long bones of the neck of mutton left after trimming cutlets. They are used constantly in Irish stew, curry, and brown stew, but there is no way so good as a pudding made as follows :Line a basin with a nice suet crust, take the meat off the long bones, cut it into two inch lengths, flour and season each piece well. Fill the basin with the meat, pour some good stock over it, cover with a crust, and boil slowly for four hours. A su9- picion of onion may be added if liked. This long boiling is necessary so as to cook the skinny parts thoroughly and make them tender. Potato Cheeceakec,Six ounces of cooked potatoes, four ounces of castor sugar, three ounces of currants, two ounces of butter, one egg, juice and rind of one lemon. Mash the potatoes with a fork, melt the butter, whisk the egg; add all together, grate in rind. and ,strain in the juice of lemon. Mix all together thoroughly, line patty-tins with prstry, and put a spoonfu1 of mixture in each. Bake in quick oven twenty minutes. Bullock's Heart. Put the heart into warm water to soak for two hours, then wipe it well with a cloth, cut off the lobes, and stuff the inside with a highly seasoned forcemeat. Fasten it in with a needle and thread. Put a buttered paper over the lienrt and bake in the oven about two hours. This is an excellent family dish and very savoury. ) i 9

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MINIATURE RIFLE SHOOTING. To the Editor Dear Sir,—At the end of September the Working Men's Clubs throughout the country re-open, and their Committees be- think themselves of fresh games and amusements for their members. May I therefore, draw the attention of your read- ers to Miniature Rifle shooting1 as a sport admirably suited to such clubs, and one in which, in order a sport admirably suited to such clubs, and one in which, in order to excel, a man must have complete mastery over both hand and eye, so much so indeed that no other sport is more con- ducive to temperance. Many Clubs have on their premises ample space for a, range of 15 to 25 yards, but should sufficient space not be avail- able, an old barn or maithouse will cost but little to convert, into an excellent range. The requirements of a, Miniature Indoor Range are simple: a. solid wall at the end which can be easily reinforced by iron plates behind the targets, a couple of bicycle acetylene lamps, one on each side of the target, a good oil lamp overhead at the firing point, and the range is com- plete. Mlartini Henry rifles converted to 220 bore can be obtained at a cost of 24s. each, and with a good membership and regular attendance ammunition can be sold at 5 shots ai penny, and yet yield sufficient pro- fit to pay for the upkeep and lighting of the range. Should no such length of range be ob- tainable the air rifle, provides absolute accuracy at the standard distances of 8 and 10 yards. Nor is the air rifle. of to- day a toy—it is a weapon of precision that a man can really learn to shoot with. The air rifle has two advantages over the small bore rifle for Club use: it is not, so noisy, and its ammunition is so cheap as to be within the reach of all, a most important consideration from the point of view of the working man. Rifle shooting has this further advantage over many sports, that a Cluib, in order to arrange competitions, need not. go to the expense of sending its team to its oponents' range. Post matches can be arranged in which the opponent sides send each other mark- ed targets to be fired at on the home range. This system enables clubs to choose opponents of their own calibre from all over England, for the Society of Miniature Rifle, Clubis publishes in its monthly magazine "The Rifleman" the conditions of such matches, and the scores made, so that club secretaries can always obtain the names and addresses of pro- bable opponents. Riifle shooting has also its patriotic side. By becoming an expert rifle shot a man is at least doing something towards rendering himself able to defend his coun- try, and it, is constantly found that miniature rifle shooting is an incentive to enlistment in the Territorial Army, for after shooting at short, ranges with suc- ce,ss, the longer ranges that, are open to that Army have special attractions to the Rifleman. May I add that the Society of Miniature Rifle Clubs, 21, Bucklersbury, London, E.G., is always ready to give advice as to the formation of 'Clubs, and has now some 1,400 clubs affiliated to. it. Yours truly, ROBERTS, P.M.

COUNCILS SUNDAY COMMITTEE. MEETINGS. It was reported at the meeting of the Llanfairfechan Council on Tuesday night that Councillor Jorss had failed to attend the meeting of a, Sub-committee summoned to consider the removal of a seat on the, promenade to which exception was taken because it was the rendezvous of young people. Councillor Jorss explained that he would not attend because the meeting wa,s held on a Sunday night and he did not intend attending committee meetings on Sundays for anybody. The Chairman Do you, mean to tell us that one of our committees met on a Sun- cl,- y Councillor Jorss Yes. The Chairman I am indeed sorry to find that we are such wicked sinners as to meet on a, Sunday to transact public business. Councillor P. J. Owen (one of the Com- mittee) Mr Jorss sa-id he could not at- tend the Committee because he wanted to go out fishing.—(Laughter.) Councillor Jorss: I have not fished once this summer on Sunday. The Chairman: Did the Surveyor attend the meeting ? The Surveyor Yes. The Chairman Dear me

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LONDON GOSSIP. LALY VIOLET ELLIOT'S ENGAGE, MENT. Lady Violet Elliot, like her sister, Lady Errington, is marrying at, a somewhat early age, and is engaged to Lord Charles Fitzmaurice, second son of the Marquis of Lansdowne. She is nineteen, the youngest daughter of Lord and Lady Minto, and made her first appearance in London Society this year, when she came from India, to act as chief bridesmaid at the marriage of her sister to Lord Errington, son and heir of Lord Cromer. It is singular that, as was the case on that occa- sion, the families of both bride and bride- groom have been associated with the highest offices of state in the Empire. The Earl of Minto has been Governor General of Canada, and is the present Viceroy of Indiia, and both offices have been filled in the piaist by Lord Lansdowne. Lord Charles Fitzmaurice, who is thirty-four, is captain in the 1st Dragoons, and whilst stationed at Simla two years ago he made the acquaintance of his fiancee. » THE WEST COUNTRY. The Prince. and Princess of Wales are to pay a visit next week to Lord and Lady Shaftesbury at Wimborne St. Giles, in Dorsetshire, which has just suffered an irreparable loss by the destruction of its parish church by fire. It, was a beautiful old church, which the, late Countess of Shaftesbury had restored and beautified to the memory of her husband, and it con- tained many fine monuments to the Ashleys The Ashley have been settled at Wimborne St. Giles since the reign of Edward IV., and the little Dorsetshire town Shaftes- bury from which the title is derived, was founded by Alfred the, Great. It is re- markable the number of peerages which derive their titles from the surrounding neighbourhood, such as those of Dorches- ter, Blandford, Bridport, Cranborne, Wimborne, Portland, Marlborough, Mal- mesbury, Salisbury, and Ilchester, and this is by no means an inclusive list. Lon- don, too, is indebted to the West, Country in the matter of nomenclature, and many of its streets and squares owe their names to hamlets in Dorsetshire1, and the sur- rounding Counties. LOOKING FORWARD. With the recent rush for our discarded summer muslins and summer hats, how- ever dilapidated, it seems curious to think about Christmas, yet preparations for the "festive season" have already begun in shopland, and soon the familiar legends with regard to choosing suitable gifts and dispatching them to distant landis early will appear again. For the, little folks, greater wonders than ever before are promised, and an inspection of the leading bazaars is likely to prove of almost as keen interest to "grown ups" as the "small ones." Dolls, however, as formerly, are still like- ly to come first in demand, the reason being a, simple one,, namely that though little boys' tastes may vary, every little girl must have a doll. Vast quantities of the dolls in evidence hail from Thuringia, in Germany^ which exports them to the annual value of three- quarters of a, million starting, but tbc nicest and best-dressed varieties are the se which have been manufactured, and clothed, in the, Britsh Isles. THE FTVE: SHILLING PIECE. The Germans and ourselves, although not supposed to love one another, die at least agreed upon one point, we both dis- like the large silver coin. The German is no more fond of his five-mark-piece than we are of our corresponding five shdbrg- piece, and he is consequently to have his thaler (3rs. piece) restored to him. Ap- parently we are not the only nation vMch has its coinage governed on purely haphazard lines, but of all the changes, the going backwards and fonvards) which have characterised our coinage for the last 40 or 50 years, one of the most incon- venient is the forcing of the ponderous 5s. piece on an unwilling- public. Who of us does not prefer the two half-crowns to the piece which we one, and all take the first opportunity of passing on to someone else. Certain classes of people we know, would not ijf they could, have certain coins. If the clergy ha,d their way, there woulrdi be no threepenny bits; if the chambermaids and other who thrive .,on tips, had theirs, there would be no florins, only half-crowns, but we could all with hardly an exception do without the clumsy 5s. piece. THE MICHAELMAS GOOSE. Eating plays a great part in most of the festivals of the. saints, but there is no con- nection in history between St. Michael's Day, and the goose. Queen Elizabeth was supposed to have been partial to the dish, and various stories are told with respect to the origin of the Michaelmas goose, but this is sufficiently accounted for by the fact that from St. Michael's Day, until St. Martin's Day, November 11th, the stubble fed geese are at the r best. Finding their natural food amongst the tstubble, the birds are much better eating than they are at Christmas, and that is why the goose has acquired a time-honoured reputation as a popular dainty at this season of the year. < A DANGEROUS MODE. One cannot but deplore the fact that the little fur coatee, ending at or above the waist, should have once again made its appearance. It may be doubted whether any fur coat, however light in weight, and well ventilated, is really healthy wear, but about fur garments ending at the waist, there can be no possible doubt. And su:h wraps must prove infinitely more dan- gerous this year than ever before, owing to the craze for the Directoire figure, which denies fashionable women anything in the shape of petticoats and very little in the way of underclothing of any sort. A USEFUL NOVELTY. The large fur muff, with a, very flat purse-like bag, fitted in on the side that will be hidden against the dress, is likely to be highly approved and welcomed. The bag provides accommodation for money, and visiting cards; there are also compartments for a powder puff, a mirror, handkerchief, and a tiny bottle of smelling salts or scent. Unquestionably this little, reticule is very much safer than a wrist bag—always provided of course the muff is worn with a chain—and certainly it is more convenient. HUGE COIFFUREiS. The fashion of dressing the hair very full at the sides is a fresh grievance to theatre-goers. To a great extent the matinee hat nuisance has disappeared. Few women now refuse to remove their headgear, at an afternoon theatre per- formance, but this is of little use when the I hairdresser has been called in to adopt the coiffurø to the prevailing large type of millinery. There have been many com- plaints that this obstruction to the view is quite as bad as the hat, and the craze for having the hair puffed out to enormous proportions recalls the fashions at the time of the Ftench Directory. The Directoire gowns of that period were, accompanied by various other extravangances, and the coiffure became so elaborate that the ladies of the Court had to be coiffed the night be- fore Napoleons Coronation, and could not go to bed for fear of damaging their head- dresses. Then, as now, no extremes of fashion have been regarded as too far- fetched. We are reminded of this by the fact that the huge hats with flaunting plumes, which used to be the pride of 'Arriet out on a Bank Holiday, would be a. quiet and modest style of headgear com- pared with that worn by many fashionable women of the present day.

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Husband (after the theatre) "Well, how did you like the piece?" Wife "Very much. There's only one improbable thing in it. The second act takes place two years after the first, and they have the same servant." I HARVEST THANKSGIVING-DAY. PROPOSAL FOR COMPULSORY OBSERVANCE. At a, meeting of the Penmaenmawr Ur- ban Council on T'uesclay night a recom- mendation was made that Wednesday, October 15th, be observed as the Harvest Thanksgiving-day. Mr R. D. Jones suggested that the quarryowners should be written to, asking them to close the quarries for that day. ¡ Of course it meant that the working man would lost a day's pay, but, he maintained that they got a, return, directly or in- directly. I Colonel C. H. Darbishire (who presid- ed, and who is the owner of a large sett ¡ quarry) said he always left it to his work, I men to decide. He would not close the quarry if the men chose to work. Even if there was only ten men who desired to work on that or any other holiday he would allow them to do so, although it would be a loss to himself. Mr R. D. Jones replied that he honestly I believed that, if a poll of the quarrymen was taken a very large majority would be in favour of closing. Colonel Darbishire The quarry is there for earning a livelihood. I am enough of a. Socialist to allow men to decide for themselves. There is no necessity to write a letter, which would appear to be an instruction to close the quarry. If you try to force people itnto a thing the effect of the religious service loses its character altogether. I am not going to attempt to force the men by closing the quarry. By a large majority an amendment to Write to the quarry owners, as suggested by Mr R. D. Jones, was defeated.

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