or three prunes, freed from the skin, are useful additions to the diet. A mealy potato, baked, should be the first vegetable. Stewed celery and tender boiled onions might be given toward the end of the second year. lightly cooked steak, Dr. Southworth considers very useful, even before the end of the first year, particularly in anemic babies. From one to three ounces should be given daily, but in children of nervous, rheumatic, or gouty parents, beef juice and broths must be used with caution. Toward the middle of the second year the fine white meat of poultry and scraped steak or mutton-chop may be given. These young children should not be allowed to come to the family table, for the longer they can be kept from desserts and sweets generally the better. It is necessary to specifically warn the ignorant against giving their children tea, coffee, and beer.

Beef juice, expressed from

PINEAPPLE JUICE IN MEDICINE.

A GOOD deal has lately been written about the digestive action of fresh pineapple. It has been pointed out that a freshly-cut slice of pineapple laid on a piece of beef steak will in a comparatively short time cause softening, swelling, and partial digestion of the meat for a considerable depth from the surface. It is also stated that bromoline the active principle of the pineapple has long been used in the preparation of the wellknown Masquera's beef jelly. Dr. Wyatt Wingrave says that the reputation of the pine has suffered, among other reasons, from the facts that far too much is eaten, at a time, and that the fibrous part is swallowed as well as the juice. To obtain its full digestive value one quadrant of a slice. half an inch thick is ample for one meal. It should be well masticated and the fibrous portion should be rejected. It must not be cooked, and should be just ripe. The preserved form has practically no digestive power. Apart from its use as a digestive,

the juice has a strong solvent action upon plastic exudation, such as diptheria membrane. When applied to such a membrane on a swab, or as a spray, its time of contact is not enough to cause solution, but it is of material service in softening the sticky and stringy exudation so as to admit of its easy detachment. It also softens horny epidermis in the same way, as, although more slowly than, salicylic acid. If a thin slice of pineapple be kept in close contact with a corn for eight hours it will be so softened as to admit of ready removal. Again, it softens the horny papillæ in keratosis of the tonsil, and quickly relieves the prickly sensation complained of in that condition. Evidently the pineapple is possessed of useful as well as of agreeable properties.

London Lancet.

HOW TO KEEP YOUNG.

THE ever-youthful appearance of the members of the dramatic profession is a constant source of surprise to the public at large. The reason for this is not so much the grease-paint necessary in making up, which obliterates to a certain extent the natural wrinkles of the skin, while it lubricates and nourishes it; but it is due to the change in the expression of the various emotions which every part demands. This causes the actress to bring into play all the muscles of the face. By using them equally they all maintain their firm consistency and strength, and none waste away from disuse. The result is that the skin is kept stretched and tense over the face, and does not fall into hollows.

A blow of fresh air, a glimpse of fresh scenes and fresh faces, are worth quarts of doctors' tonics to an over-tired and nervous woman, and give a prettier glow to the cheeks than the finest manufactured rouge in existence.

It is indolence and lazy habits that allow obesity to gain the ascendency over elasticity in the fair sex. She who keeps her

mind and body on the alert will seldom need to have recourse to science or diet to decrease her size and weight. If you have a thin face, and the flesh seems unwilling to become plump and round in response to massage, build up the system by taking a half-pint or more of sweet cream every day, eat of cereals which have been cooked for several hours, a raw egg beaten up in milk once a day, warm drinks of milk, diluted with hot water, and baked sweet apples or ripe sweet fruit at each meal.

LITTLE NICETIES IN COOKING.

APPLES quartered and cored make a more delicious pie than when sliced.

Split and butter thick biscuits before toasting for the table.

If a sugary crust is desired on meringue, sift powdered sugar over it before it is placed in the oven, and have the latter cool.

To have fried oysters crisp, tender, and plump, they should be breaded, then dipped in beaten egg, and again rolled in crumbs. After this let them stand at least an hour before frying.

Drain oysters on a napkin before making a stew. Rub the saucepan with butter, heat very hot, put in the oysters, and turn and stir until well plumped and ruffled before making the stew proper.

If an egg poacher is lacking, cook in an ordinary fry-pan, and shape each egg with a round biscuit cutter before serving.

Keep a fry-pan expressly for omelets. Dip Hamburg steaks in melted butter before broiling.

Spread a properly shaped piece of manila. paper on a warm platter under fried fish.

Drain fried bacon on manila paper the minute it is done, and stand in the oven five minutes to crisp it.

Squeeze a few drops of lemon juice on broiled fish or ham just before serving.

AN AIR-COOLING DEVICE.

ACCORDING to the Medical Age anything that will relieve the suffering of those afflicted with disease, especially during a heated term, must be hailed as a boon. Recently Professor Moore, chief of the United States Weather Bureau, at Washington, perfected an apparatus by which the temperature of a room in summer may be lowered quite as easily as it is raised in winter, through the medium of a satisfactory furnace or steam-heating apparatus. The affair looks like a very tall stove of galvanized iron, cylindrical in shape, and with a stovepipe going out through the wall at the top. At the bottom there is another short pipe, with its mouth close to the floor, and at this opening there is a little wheel which spins. around at a rapid rate. The inventor terms it a gravity machine, because its action depends upon gravity. The pipe at the top brings the warm air in from outside, which is dried, washed, and partly cooled in the upper part of the apparatus. Descending into the lower part it is there thoroughly cooled, and then passes out into the room. Moore claims that the whole apparatus is dependent upon the difference in specific gravity between the warm air and the coo! air. Such a device cannot but prove an invaluable one in keeping hospital wards and sick-rooms comfortable during the summer and making the burden of the sick less heavy.

A SIMPLE bedside test for albumin is that of Bychowst (D. Med. Woch): Put one or two drops of urine into a glass of clear hot water, and albumin is indicated by an opalescence. If the glass is held against a dark background this opalescence is very visible and is seen to spread through the fluid like a cloud of smoke. The phosphates produce the same phenomenon, but on the addition of a little acetic acid the cloud immediately disappears.

BOBBY'S COMPOSITION ON

PARENTS.

PARENTS are things most boys have to look after them. Most girls also have parents. Parents consist of Pas and Mas. Pas talk a good deal about what they are going to do, but mostly its Mas that make you mind.

Sometimes it is different tho. Once there was a boy came home from college on vacation. His parents lived on a farm. There was work to be done on the farm. Work on a farm always has to be done early in the morning. This boy didn't get up. His sister goes to the stairway and calls:

"Willie, 'tis a beautiful morning. Rise and list to the lark."

The boy didn't say anything. Then Ma calls:

"William, it is time to get up. Your breakfast is growing cold."

The boy kept right on, not saying anything. Then his Pa puts his head in the stairway, and says he:

"Bill!"

"Coming, sir!" says the boy.

I know a boy that hasn't got any parents. He goes in swimming whenever he pleases. But I'm going to stick to my parents. However, I don't tell them so, 'cause they might get it into their heads that I couldn't get along without them. Says this boy to me: "Parents are a nuisance; they aren't what they're cracked up to be."

Says I to him:

"Just the same, I find 'em handy to have. Parents have their failings, of course, like all of us, but on the whole I approve of 'em." Once a man says to me:

"Bobby, do you love your parents?" "Well," says I, "I'm not a quarrelling with 'em."-Tit-Bits.

"HELLO, Tommy! Not gone back to school yet?" "No, I'm in luck. Sis is going in for measles! But how is it you haven't gone?" "Oh, I'm in luck, too! Our baby is having whooping-cough!"— Punch.

ORIGIN OF NAMES OF PLACES.

THE bulletin of the Geological survey, prepared by Henry Garnett, on the origin of many of the names of places in the United States is an important contribution to geographic knowledge. Its circulation will doubtless go far to awaken interest in matters of local history.

Absecon, bay and town in Atlantic County, New Jersey-The name is derived from the Indian words wabisse, "swan," and ong, "a place," and was given because of the number of swans which resorted there.

Appomattox, river and county in Virginia-An Indian word, meaning “a tobacco plant country."

Buncombe, county in North Carolina, and several places in the Southern Statesnamed for Colonel Edward Buncombe of the Continental Army.

Manhattan, an island in New York-An Indian word, said by some authorities to mean "little island"; others think it means "the people of the whirlpool," referring to Hell Gate, and another authority gives its origin as from the word Man-na-ha-ta, "place of drunkenness," since Verazini landed upon the lower extremity of Manhattan Island, and gave the Indians liquor, on which they became drunk.

Newport News, city in Warwick County, Virginia-Named for Captain Christopher Newport and Captain (or Sir William) Newce.

Shenandoah, county and river in Virginia, city in Page County, Iowa, borough in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, and town in Page County, Virginia—An Indian word said by some to mean "the sprucy stream," by others, "a river flowing alongside of high hills and mountains," and still another authority states that it means "daughter of the stars."

WHEN EDGAR ALLAN POE RECITED "THE RAVEN."

I BECAME acquainted with Mr. Poe during his last visit to Richmond, in 1849, at Duncan Lodge, the home of our mutual friend, Mrs. Jane Mackenzie, and of Poe's sister, Rosalie," says Dr. John F. Carter in a paper in Lippincott's Magazine, for November, on the American poet's last night in Richmond.

"It was at Mrs. Mackenzie's that I first heard Poe recite, at her request, 'The Raven' and 'Annabel Lee,' only the family being present. From an unusually lively mood he lapsed at once into a manner, expression, and tone of voice of gloomy and almost weird solemnity, gazing as if on something invisible to others, and never changing his position until the recitation was concluded. It happened that he had just before requested of Mrs. Mackenzie the loan of a sum of money, which request she was for the time unable to comply with; and she now said to him, 'Edgar, what do you think of giving a public recital of those poems? It would probably prove a financial success.' The result was that about a week later there appeared in the city papers a notice that on a certain evening the poet would give a recitation of his own two favorite poems in the Exchange concert room, tickets to be had at a certain bookstore. Over two hundred of these were printed, the charge of admission being fifty cents each.

On the appointed evening I, then a young man of twenty-four, accompanied Mrs. Julia Mayo Cabell and another lady, both warm personal friends of Poe from his childhood, to the place of the proposed recitation. We arrived some moments after the appointed time, and, to our surprise, found, instead of a full audience, but nine persons assembled, we, together with the usher, making thirteen in number. Some time elapsed before Poe made his appearance, when he took his place on the platform, bowed, and, resting his hands on the back of a chair, recited 'The Raven' and 'Annabel Lee,' but in a mechani

cal sort of way, and with a total lack of the weird and gloomy expression which had given them such effect at Mrs. Mackenzie's. On concluding he again bowed and abruptly left the platform.

"The proceeds of this experiment was sir dollars, in consideration of which, Mr. Boyden, proprietor of the Exchange, would make no charge for the use of the hall, lights, and attendance."

THE VALUE OF CORRECT BREATHING.

NOTHING is more essential to the proper assimilation and digestion of food, and, consequently, to keeping the blood in good condition, than right breathing. The oxygen of the air is the great vitalizer and purifier of the blood and the renewer and upbuilder of the human system. If pale, hollowcheeked anemics, narrow-chested, predisposed consumptives, and fretful, irritable dyspeptics would only realize this, and, throwing away their drugs and patent medicines, fill their half-starved, undeveloped lungs with nature's own unfailing tonic, what a change would be wrought in their lives! Not only physical, but also mental vigor, as well as cheerfulness and will power, are dependent, to a great extent, on the amount of oxygen we absorb, so we can readily see of what prime importance in the economy of nature is the habit of correct breathing. Success.

"Three faces the Phisition hath; First as an Angel he,

When he is sought; next when he helps,
A God he seems to be;

And best of all, when he hath made
The Sicke, diseased well
And asks his guerdon, then he seems
An oughly Fiend of Hell."

BROWNING, LOWELL AND ARN

OLD AT THE DINNER
TABLE.

George W. Smalley in the November
McClure's.

POSSIBLY it will seem odd to Browning's admirers, but he was, as a rule, least admirable when other writers were of the company. Challenged, Browning could be aggressive, and a dinner-table is not a convenient place for carrying on military operations. I could name a host who delighted to collect

about the same board with Browning, Matthew Arnold, Lowell, and one or two other celebrities. The atmosphere was always a little hot. Each of these eminent men of letters had a just sense of his own place in the world and in society, which he was by no means disposed to relinquish in favor of others. Lowell had the honor of the flag to maintain as well as his own,, besides which, a habit of correcting the errors of his pupils at the University clung to him in the world. His impatience of inaccuracy showed itself heedlessly. He had, as all those I have named had, a delightful courtesy of manner, and was alike a delightful host and a delightful guest. But no rebuke stings so sharply as the rebuke courteous. They all had repartee, and all practised this dangerous gift with freedom with and upon each other as well as in general society. Browning was the most argumentative and the most fond of bringing heavy artillery into action. Arnold, in conversation as with his pen, found humor a more effective weapon, and his humor could be merciless, spor

tive and charming. Lowell had wit, be

tween which and the humor he liked best there was no very clear dividing line.

ALCOHOL AND CARBOLIC ACID.

DR. J. A. KELLY reported favorably some time ago on the administration of alcohol as an antidote to carbolic acid, and Dr. G. W. Sargent subsequently (Therapeutic Gazette) published facts which, in his opinion, proved that alcohol is "the most perfect, the most certain and the most handy antidote to carbolic acid that we possess. More recently (Therapeutic Gazette) Dr. J. L. Mizener has given his experience in the matter, beginning with the statement that he saw a finger "burned" with carbolic acid successfully treated by immersion in strong alcohol, with the result that no inflammation followed. He also gives particulars of a case in which a boy of about three and a half years old drank some carbolic acid, and spilled a lot of it on his chest and abdomen, which were whitened by it. When summoned to attend the case, Dr. Mizener found the little patient in a state of complete collapse, and he at once administered two drachms of pure alcohol, a second dose being given in a few minutes, and a third dose fifteen minutes later. By that time the child had begun to recover from the collapse, and cloths saturated with alcohol were placed on the chest and abdomen. "Next morning the little fellow was in camp playing as though nothing had happened, only complaining of a little soreness where the acid had burned. In this case about one and one-half ounces of alcohol were given internally, and about an ounce applied externally." Dr. Mizener gives entire credit for the recovery to the use of alcohol, nothing else having been employed in this case as an antidote.-Phar

maceutical Journal.

FRESH FRUIT FOR THE TEETH. THE acid of fresh fruits is highly recommended for cleansing the teeth. The act of mastication also helps to cleanse the gums and the whole mouth. Therefore, buy fruit instead of tooth paste.

"WHAT are you doing, Harry?"
"Opening a can of tomatoes."
"What are you opening it with?"
"A can opener, of course.

I am using my teeth?"

Do you think

"No, dear; but I do know that you are not opening with prayer."