Show lub kerosene on tho zinc under tho stun once a day and It will always look bright Brass work can be kept beautifully bright by occasionally rubbing with salt and vinegar Tea should be kept In either a tin or glass vessel which has a lid as It Is necessary to keep It tightly covered cov-ered eredMirrors Mirrors and glasses In furniture are best cleaned with a mlxturo of water ammonia and whiting and rubbed dry with a clean cheesecloth A frying pan should never bo scraped scrap-ed Instead fill It with cold water to which a little soda has been added and let It stand for several hours Black oak or Flemish oak and nil other furniture finished with what Is called a wax finish should not bo cleaned with the regular furniture polish but with a wax polish About Fur Coats Short blouse jackets of gray squirrel squir-rel nro popular The long fur coat Is only for motorists motor-ists or persons contemplating a trip to Siberia Little jackets of brown mink are especially good this winter The short close coat of black Persian Per-sian lamb with the sable collar Is as I enviable a garment as ever Astrakhan jackets are good form Some squirrel jackets dyed brown cant be told by an amateur from sablo 01 mink Seal Is as good a skin as ever and the woman wlip owns a loose coat ol that fur with reasonably wide sleeves can hold her head in the air though the aforesaid garment be a decade old I Small Pajamas It is the pajama age and not alone for grownups hut for tho small folks as well Mothers find them very practical prac-tical for little girls and boys because they are warmer than nightgowns and cant be so easily kicked off on cool nights A suit of pajamas are very slm ply made and yet quite attractive The upper part has seams under the arms and on the shoulders and then buttons up snugly to the throat They maybe may-be made of gingham madras or outing flannel and a plain cotton or woo braid makes a pretty finish for tho edge of neck and front For the me Ilium size four and onequarter yards of thirtysixinch material are needed An Imported Skirt A very beautiful evening petticoat recently exhibited in one of tho shops was of white softfinish taffeta It was bordered by a twelveInch accordion plaited point dcsprlt ruffle appllqucd I with a design of roses in black French lace The bottom of the ruffle had an Inchwide edge of black French laco and the same headed tho ruffle |