EXPERIENCE DEPARTMENT
Comfort ln the Kitchen ln Hot Weather-
Ice—Quick Fires—How One Mav
Manage to Keep the House
Cool.
1st Premium.—Whilst many of onr
number relegate the ciok stove to a summer kitchen, all cannot do so, and itis
for those we would provide means,if possible, whereby August may be as pleasant as May.
The location,or outlook has mnoh to do,
and its snpply of windows and doors.
These should be opposite, lt must have
a good circulation from the South to
catch every breeze in hot, sultry weather,
a door and two long windows into a
South porch, which is enclosed with wire
netting, furnished also with pump, etc.,
men and boys oan wash and rest whilst
the finishing touches are being given to
meals, is a very desirable adjunct. Falling In this, outside shutters are a very
great help, and we would have the walls
on the sunny side covered with ampelop-
_]_, as the best protection from the direct
rays of the sun, thus adding greatly to
both the appearance and oomfort, yet
permitting a free circulation of air beneath its long stemmed leaves, keeping
the room cool if not shaded sufllaiently
by trees. Heavy curtains and close fitting
blinds also add in keeping out the heat
when the sun ie direo t on the windows.
The cistern, pump and galvanized iron
sink, with reservoir kept filled with cold
water helps to reduce the temperature.
A smooth bare floor, either painted or
oiled, that will facilitate wiping the dust
np with a damp, light, long handled mop,
instead of sweeping, keeps it fresh and
cool.
The acme of perfection for cooking is a
gasoline stove, giving off little heat except that generated by boiling dinner
and the hot food Itself, and may be turned
on or off in an instant, wasting no time
in kindling, and is never appreciated so
mnch as when a large ironing is folded
down in August. It need not be lit up
for quiok meals nntil the preparations
for the meal are about completed, as a
quart of water will boil in five minutes
and one can make tea or coffee, cook
fruits, fry meat, eggs, etc., very quickly
and turn off the fire. Coiling meats, baking bread, pies, etc., should be done in the
cool ot the day, and kept in supply to facilitate quick meals. A prime requisite
for keeping one's self cool, is, to avoid
the use of hot and stimulating foods and
drinks.
A refrigerator tor keeping prepared
fools, drinks, fresh fruit?, meats, etc.,
Is ot next Importance to the stove,
and may stand in the kitchen, oi adjoining room, or the porch its size to
be adapted to the needs of tho family.
For the comfort and convenience of the
f .rmer's wife perhaps the cabinet creamery ls of even greater value, occupying
no more spaoe than a sideboard, yet accommodating the milk of several cows,
saves skimming, lifting and washing of
heavy crocks, steps to cellar or milk
house, and where skim milk only ls
wanted lt is drawn off from below, all in
all, it is completeness itself in utilizing
•pace and saving labor. If kept with
Ice, it may stand in the kitchen, the
water pipe emptying Into drain, and
•till another pipe for the skim milk, to
pass out throngh the wall Into a vessel
prepared to receive it, where the men
can carry it off without entering the
house. If it Is cooled by water lt may
•tandnear the pump. Where all these
cannot be Indulged in at once, each
housekeeper shonld approximate them
as nearly as possible; each according to
ner needs and clrcumstancer, determining which is most needed.
Where it is necessary to do so, women
can better afford  to economize ln dress,
until the sum thus saved will procure
these health and comfort promoting conveniences.
If wood or coal must be nsed, keep an
old buoket with corn cobf, or bits of
wood saturated with coal oil for klnd-
lers, and do not start the fire until the
last minute, heating tbe dishwater
whilst cooking, but do not leavo a reservoir full of hot water to retain heat for
hours, and nse light wood, or short wood
just nnder the dinner pot, may be, letting
lt die out soon as practical. Asa last effort to keep cool, especially for stout
women, use cold sudzy water in washing
dishes Instead of hot, scalding them afterwards if desired, and drain dry, and
by the time all are done, having had the
hands ln cool water eo long, one will be
cooled oft, instead of being more heated
np as in using hot water. If you have
been seated on a high stool at the table
whilst washing them, you will be comparatively rested as well, and ready tor
yonr afternoon siesta. Lastly, let every
cook make it her daily study to economize time and labor as-v. ell as heat. This
habit persistently followed up will be of
greater help to her than anything we
can do or suggest.       Sarah A. Pleas.
.Dunreith.
2d Premium —This is one of two many
topics tor one short article. First make
the best ot every thing, be it hovel or
castle, and always try to work to the best
advantage. Do not build a great hot fire
ou a sweltering hot day to get the good
man ths dinner. Da a little bead work,
pnt yonr ohicken in to roast, beans on to
boil and pudding to bake while the
breakfast is cooking, and by the time
breakfast Is over and kitchen work generally done dinner is almost ready. Now
yon can seek a shady corner, sit down
and peel yonr potatoes, stem berries or
any other of the fill up dishes, and rest.
AtUo'olock start a light wood or oob
iire, ring the bell and by the time the
teams are seen your dinner is ready.—
Xow remember I never bake bread or
hot biscuit on a hot day tor dinner. Our
family never drink co_f<*e. Every farmer
is supposed to have a well and wash tub,
and if yon have no ice don't worry, but
pump that tub half full of water;lay
brick in it and set on them your butter,
berries, pudding, milk and any thing
you want to coo), and you have a homemade refrigerator ln a shorter time than
it takes to tell it.
As to keeping the house cool that
should be arranged when building to
some extent, but if not you will have to
use seme ingenuity and care to accomplish the end. Have plenty of shade,
planting whatever you prefer. Ours are
pear, peasb, plum, cherry and grape;
only two forest trees, hard maple, and
they stand at the south and east of the
kitchen. When evening comes all the
house is opened, and if very hot, left
open all night, but screens all closed. In
the morning, as soon as the sun makes
its appearance, olose all np tight next
the sun, and keep lt ont as mnoh as possible. As the sun moves round, close up
and commence to open on the shady side.
In this way I always have or had a cool
place to alt, or the children a comfortable place to take their daily nap. I
know it can be done, for the first 13years
of onr married life waa spent in a log
house, on a rented farm, as many another
had to do; but try to look on tho bright
side and make the best of every thing.
Wabash Co. M ns J. W. E.
3d Premium.—A summer kitchen ls
preferable in hot weather, but it should
be made mostly ot wire screen, and ln a
nice, shady place tf possible.
Do the cooking on a gasoline stove and
you will not suffer with heat in the kitchen.   If this cannot be had take  the win-
, dowa from the kitchen and replace them
in meats, In sweets, in tea and coffee, eta, 'with icreens, and   hang screen doors.
liut to have a cool kitchen and house it
should be protected from the noon and
evening sun by some kind of shade
trees.
The kitchen should have plenty of
room and plenty of good water close to
the door. Things should be so arranged
as to get a meal with as few steps as possible. A few cobs or splinters soaked in
coaloil and placed ln a tin can near tbe
stove, but out of danger of fire will greatly aid ln starting a fire quiokly. Dry
wood Is also a very important item.
If the room ls properly oared for a water
bag filled with ice-water and placed in
bed during tbe day will insure a good
night's sleep ln the hottest of weather.
COMFOBT.
One of tho most important things towards having comfort in the kltohen ls
to have plenty room, and then have every
thing arranged as handy as possible.
Next have water as close to the kitchen
as possible. Thero wouldn't be much
comfort in the kitchen if one had to go eo
far for water that one wonld be worn out
whon one got to the kitchen. Fine wire
screen is so cheap now that most any one
can get enough for the windows and
doors. It lets the air through so well, besides keeping out the files, bugs, roaches,
etc. There shonld be some shade trees to
protect the house from the hot sun. Tho
sleeping rooms would be much cooler of
nights to sleep in, if they oonld be kept
closed ln the day time and opened late in
the evening.
As to ice, I think lt would be nice to
have, although I have never put up any.
It would be nice to keep Ihe butter solfd,
but not healthy to drink when one is hot,
I have a good well close to tbe house that
furnishes plenty of good, cool water.
Some prefer coal-oil to make quick fires,
bnt I make mine with some shavings and
wood from the wood-house. Coal-oil
where there ls fire, is dangerous. So many
use coal-oil carelessly, hence the accidents that happen from fire. I>i_*<ir.
Harrison Co.
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BBVIBW.
Our correspondents suggest four aids
to keeping systematically oool in hot
weather. 1st, Conserve the grateful coolness of the night by keeping the house
much closed in the hot hours, also by a
few shade trees—not a smothery yard.
2d, By avoiding long fires, and a cast iron
stove and hot water tank. 3_, Dy use
of running water and ice.
A small house ia hard to keep cool—a
story and a half house is a nuisance.
If a twostory bouse is not hid under a
south woods, and if its good garret has
plenty of ventilation and ls not covered
wltb tons of hot slate lt may be made
pleasant all day and night.
Two miles from Carmel, is a two-story
wooden house built on a nice little hill,
hut lt has scarcely a tree or (lower, and
the naked burnt lawn ln dry.hot weather
aids the sun ln its torrid work. AU day
Old Sol haa a fair stroke at that house
and it most seems like his mission is to
keep his eye on it and see that every
part is thoroughly cooked every day.
Their well is rods away and they have
no cistern.
Another large new house near by is
built in the thick woods. They kept
building back, back, to try to keep out of
their best rooms. As though life were a
dreadful thing to live with. And it ls
said that their fine rooms are never opened to either the family or neighbors. Are
kept for "occssions." In "building on"
they have low, flat rooms to spend life ln,
and they are hard to keep cool.
Would lt not be better to have added a
wind mill and running water or ice to
the main house, and "lived at home."
The expense wonld be no greater than to
try to rnn away from one's daily self and
work Such an arrangement with a
gas or gasoline stove wonld really add to
coolness
house.
I have a neighbor who has a gas stove,
and they like it very muoh. They prepare a meal with a flash fire, and the
fairy-like stove cools off "ln a minute."
While at Indianapolis tbe other day j
priced stoves. A beautiful, dainty gasoline stove, with four burners costs $!),
with two burners $l.r>0; a gas stove and
throo burners costs $2.<r>,
Tho largo double lined oven for any of
theae stoves coats $ 1 50 and will bake cake
or bread to perfection.
Allow me to emphasize Mrs. Pleas'
thought to plan work well and keep quiet
and cool.
I once had this thought "bronght
home" by a hired girl who burned wood
so much faster than my wife. In fact
she fired up for every separate thing instead of having "many irons in the firo"
at onco. •
MyfrlondMr. Darlington, near Pendleton, showed me through his house.
Ills gas pump runs water from a deep,
driven well through his deep sotting
milk trough which has an apartment for
meats, butter, etc, then down to the
barn aud finally to tbe pig trough. There
ls a cement floor ln the milk room but lt
ls lovel with the kitchen floor and joins
it Hia butter ia always hard and meat
keeps bettor than on ice, in the most torrid weather. The pump run by gas costs
about $30, and when all ls arranged there
is very little trappy work to get out of
fix. This part of his bouse whore women
especially spend much ot their time, as
men do ln the field, ls the coolest and
most comfortable, and it ls mnch easier to
get tasty meals whon everything keeps
sweet.
No. 67, June 19.—What breed of sheep
meets our present demands, and why?
No. OS, June 20.—How do you manage
breeding and lambing?
No. G9, Jnly 3 —What ls trne patriotism?
Our dnty as a citizen?
No. 70, July 10.—Care and feod of sheep
from lambing to market.
No, 71, July 17.—Renovating an orohard.
In writing don't fail to note new polnta
not generally known; also other points
of real experience. Address all copy 10
days before publication.
Let subscribers write experience only
on practical topics. We do not desire
essays but a pithy, chatty experience, A
sort of heart to heart talk, suoh as you
enjoy with a neighbor.
Carmel. E. H. Collins.
State Horticultural Society Meeting:.
ltlsto be hoped that there will be a
large attendance of fruit growers at the
Summer meeting, to be held at Pendletonf
June 1.. and 10. The meeting will be held
ln the Friends' Meeting House, two miles
east of town. Liberal premiums are'offered for exhibitions of strawberries and
raspberries. The local management re.
quests that all who Intend to go should
send their names to the chairman, Amos
(iarretson, Pendleton, so that provision
may be made for entertainment. Four
trains each way stop at Pendleton.
Please state on which train you will
arrive. J. Troop, Sec'y.
Lafayette.
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Almighty Voice, an Indian desperado
who ba) been giving the Canadian Northwest territory a great deal of trouble, was
brought to bay and killed, one day last
week, but not until six men had lost their
lives at his hands.
The old adage that lightning never
strikes twice in the same place ls a fallacy. The other day at Erath Station,
near Abbeville, La, Stanville Therlot
was struck and killed by lightning in his
home, and two hours later Mrs. Ernest
Garie was lnstantlykilledbya bolt in the
same honse, while she was assisting Mr.
Theriot's family in their trouble.