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Show ITEAIINIXEFAXCIES. All readers believe, of course, in the virtue of hot embrocations. The next time you have occasion to use anything of the sort do not attempt with much blowing of nnjrers and bodily anguish to wring the water from a scalding cloth, but with a fork lift the cloth from the hot water, drop it into your potato masher or fruit squeezer, shut it tightly and squeeee well. You will find your cloth dryer and hotter than any wringing wring-ing could made it, while your hands are not blistered or parboiled. The masher I use ?u rery much i3 1 th'nk, called the aems, but I suppose any vejretabie press which opens aud shuts would answer equally well. Catherine JeiKtt in House keeper' Weekly. "I will venture the assertion that very few women who fondly love the troldeu symbol of their weddinsr-vow know why they wear It on the third finder nf the ir hand," said Albert de Cordova of New Orleans at the Southern. -That particular digit was chosen because it was believed by the Egyptians to be directly connected by a tender nerve with the heart itself, .v-,ld thesc ancient worshipers of Isis held this finger sacred to Apollo aud the sun, and therefore gold was the metal chosen for the ring." St. Louit Olobe-Detnocrat. A temperate, moral, intellectual, truthful energetic, affectionate, thoughtful, forgiving. forgiv-ing. Christian man, who chooses a wife for her mind and heart rather than face and waits until sure he has found tho right one is tha ideal husband. Who neither scoldi or laughs at his wife and never contradicts her in public. Who loves home and children and has certain means for making an honest comfortable living. Who is economical but not stiugy, and unless wealthy keeps his life insured. Who understands that woiueu have nerves, need money, enjoy pretty things, and are happier for being petted. A pretty and easily made ornament for the bureau is a glove box. It may be made out of one of the long light cedar cigar boxes-this boxes-this is neatly covered with silk and lined with silk padded with sachet powder- the sides are covered with fluted lace or ribbon and the top, which may be used as a pin cushion, is filled with hair covered with satin, and over it a small tidy of lace or embroidery. em-broidery. To lose the wed3ig ring In the first month of marriage augers great misfortune. To lose it at any lime is supposed to predict a cslamity. There is an explanation of this superstition which i of the same theory that time will cure all this: A th e wedding ring wears, o wests away lile's cares. Crown Milano, the new ware that imitates tho higher-priced porcelains, offers lovely dishes for serving ices, Roman punch, etc. A hiy pad, with veins and ilutings in faint green, upon it a cup-shaped flower in almost any tint desired. Mixed colors g-ive a prettr effect to a table. v J It is considered very bad fortune lor a bride to make her own wedding cake or to have anything to do with it, aud, strange as it may seem, it has been observed over and over again in unhappy marriages that the bride has stirred the wedding cake. |