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SHUTI'ING OUT CARE.

 

We may open the door to our neighbors,
And open the door to our friends;
We may entertain guests at our table,
While friendship with courtesy blends;
We may gather our dear ones about us-
Our helpmeet and children so fair—
But let us forget not to banish
From these tender meetings dull care .
It watches at doors and at windows,
It whistles through crannies and cracks:
It giveth the good man the headache,
It pinches and tortures and racks.
It sits down unasked at the table,
It crouches beside the down bed;
It takes all the br ghtncss from slumber,
It takes all the sweetness fro n bread.
0! all things to make our lives happy,
01' all things to make our lives fair;
There is nothing from Home’s cheerful ﬂre side
So sacred as shutting out care .
Hrs. I A. Kidder.

__ ”w.—

SANITABY WORK FOR SPRING.

 

We have had a long, cold, cruel winter,
lingering even into what we are accus-
tomed to consider a spring month.
Warmer weather will ﬁnd us with an ac-
cumulation of refuse, the debris of the
winter, to be disposed of. With the
possibility of a visitation from that
“Wandering Jew” of the Old World,
~ cholera, the coming summer, it behooves
us pay an unusual amount of attention to
household sanitation. Every farm er’s
family should constitute a domestic
” board of health,” actively supervising
the farm buildings. It is to the farmer’s
interest, in every way, to pay due regard
to sanitary laws, for the neglect of decent
precautions will inevitably bring sick-
ness and possibly death.

Our best sanitary scientists tell us the
cellar under the house ought not to be
made the storeroom for quantities of
vegetables. Yet often it must be thus
used, because there is no other place.
though perhaps some ultra individual
might insist the health of the family
ought not to be secondary to'the keeping
of provisions. Few farm house cellars,
except those of modern build, are pro-
vided with ventilating ﬁnes, and unless
the owner has been on the alert, and
duly impressed by the great necessity of
opening doors and windows occasionally,
the cellar is, long before this, a reservoir
of bad air laden with exhalations from
decaying vegetables, which is being im<
perceptiblv diffused through the house
above it, and helps cause the “tired” feel-
ing of which we will presently complain.
Most of us have been in houses where

he ”cellar smell” of rotting cabbages and

potatoes was noticeable the moment the
door was opened, and everybody in the
house complained of not “feeling well.”
though each had his or her particular
brand of “hitters ” as a tonic.

The most imperative work of early
spring is to remove every atom of decay-
ing vegetable matter from the cellar, give
it a thorough airing. and sweeten it with
lime or conperas. We must not wait for
warm weather. The temperature has
been kept as low as possible, in order to
preserve what is stored in it; therefore
when you ventilate it, choose a day when
the outside air and the air of the cellar
are at about the same thermometrical
point, the outside air the coldest. Other-
wise—if the external air is warmest—
there will bea deposit of morsture on
everything, and you will have a damp,
mouldy cellar. Adamp cellar is apro-
liﬁc source of disease. Open the doors
when it is coldest out of doors, and the
cellar will be dry and pure; sprinkle it
with lime and copperas water, and it will
be sweet, but whatever you do. get out
the stale vegetables, and get in the fresh
air.

A bad smell in a house, or around it, is
something to get rid of without delay.
To do this it is usually necessary to em-
ploy disinfectants. even after the cause is
removed. First ﬁnd and remove the
cause, then disinfect freely. Bear in
mind there is agreat difference between
disinfectants and deodon'een; one de-
stroys the poisonous gases which are
generated by decomposition, and the
germs of disease; the other simply re-
places one smell by another, without in
the least affecting its baleful qualities.
Burnt coﬁee, burning paper and rags,
etc, are simply deodorizers, without the
slightest value as disinfectants. The
best disinfectants are chloride of lime,
rich in chlorine gas, copperas, and car
bolic acid, with sulphur for fumigation.
There will be considerable use for these
this spring; some one of them ought to
befreely used on every farm, about the
back yard, cellar, the sink and drains.
the water closet and poultry house; and
when the horse and cattle stables get
their “spring cleaning” (the farmer
ought to clean barns and stables as well
as his wife the house.) carbolic acid or
copperas should be freely employed there,
for now the out-buildings have, for con-
venience’s sake, crept so near the house,
greater precautions to secure pure air
must be taken.

 

A writer on sanitary topics telh us that

 

the cost of our best disinfectants might
be much lessened by making carbolic
acid powders at home. About four
ounces of the acid, by weight or measure,
should be added to one pound of precip-
itated chalk, or ﬁne sand, or mould, or
any other harmless substance in a ﬁnely
subdivided state, and thoroughly mixed
in a large bowl. This powder will be
suitable for all ordinary purposes, and
will be far superior to many of the disin-
fecting powders sold at twice the cost.
But after all our ﬁrst care should be for
prevention, by cleanliness, care about
throwing out slops, or leaving animal or
vegetable matter to putrify; our next dis-
infection or destruction if we are caught
napping or there is need.
—————...——__

A PROPHESY 0F SPRING.

 

The frequent visits of the itinerant
merchant who wants to ”sell you very
cheap ” in more ways than one, the
occasional “caw caw” from the woods,
the delightful fragrance that comes from
what will next year be P. O. Goodwood.
are all reminders that spring is near. The
children are already collecting bits of
string and straw to hang on the trees
when the warm sunshiny days come, and
then from behind the nearest window
they will watch the birds as they gather
them for their nests. One morning last
spring the little folks, and older ones too,
were interested in watching the persis-
tent efforts of a robin to detach a piece of
twine from a stick which had been used
asa whip and left lying under a tree.
The stick was too heavy for the bird to
ﬂy with, so some one went out and cut
the string, and in a few minutes it was
being worked into the nest. There is one
tree that stands quite close to the win-
dows. both above and below, and great is
the delight of all members of the family
when some bird chooses this tree for a
home. And I think if the birds knew
whatabountiful supply of bread crumbs,
angleworms and other delicacies would
be lavished upon the fortunate nest build-
ers, that the tree would never be left
empty. What valuable lessons the chil-
dren get from the nest building. the
pretty blue eggs, the patience of Mamma
Robin, the devotion of Papa Robin, and
the untiring care of both for the helpless
little birds. Thus we trust .‘s being
woven a network of pleasant memories
which in after years shall prove a potent
charm against the allurements of evil.

About “Money Making for Women,”

    


 

 

INTENTIONAL SECOND EXPOSURE

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THE HOUSEHOLD.

 

  

 

   

tack all around them narrow strips of
white cotton cloth an inch or two wide.
Dissolve a little scdain milk-warm water,
and put in the curtains. Let them remain
for half an hour, stirring and pressing
them occasionally. lVring them very
carefully—rather squeerinb 0 than wringing
—whenever this process is performed.
Place them in cold water for an hour,
then wash them with soap and warm wa—
ter. Wash again in clear water, rather
warmer than the last. Rinse them in
bluing water (only slightly blue, unless
the curtains are very yellow). Wring
carefully in clean towels. They are now
ready for starching. Make the starch ac-
cording to the usual process, but be sure
to have it clear and good, and thin for
muslin and very thin for lace. Thick
starch is utterly destructive to the ﬁne,
soft appearance of the lace. Stir a few
times round in the starch, while boiling,
a wax or sperm candle, or put into it a
small piece of white wax. If the latter is
used it should be melted and poured in.
When the starch is ready pour half of it
into one pan and half into another. Dip
the curtains in one, wring them out in
towels, then dip into the second and wring
again. Over the ﬂoor of an unoccupied
room spread a couple of sheets, one under
the other for each curtain; shake the
curtain and lay it down smoothly, the
edges of the cotton cloth to, the edges of
the sheet. Pin down the top and bottom.
The other sides will then come perfectly
straight without pinning. Leave the
curtains to dry. When dry they should not
be folded, but put up at once, or, if you
wish to put them away for a while, roll
them tightly in a loose, soft roll, and
wrap in blue paper 01 cotton (the former
is preferable), and lay them where no
weight will press against them.”
_—...——-

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

A CORRESPONDENT of the Prairie Farmer
insists that to ensure uniformity in but-
ter, “ make the best butter,” there must
be enough at each churning to ﬁll the
tub or crock it is to be packed in.

 

WHEN a knob comes off a door handle,
you can fasten it on again by ﬁlling the
cavity in the knob with sulphur, then
heat the iron end of the handle which
goes in the knob, just hot enough to melt
the sulphur, put the knob in and let it
cool. It will be ﬁrmly ﬁxed in place.

 

THE blue denim, or stuff used for
men’s overalls, has been applied to decor—
ative purposes in some ﬁne houses east,
its soft, peculiar blue being considered
very beaiitiful in draperies with certain
tints of walls and carpets. It would be
very effective over a long gilt pole, a
single length being thrown in a festoon
upon it, with hanging ends. It is cheap;
try it.

 

A NOVEL way of mending a woolen
dress in which a round hole has been
torn, and where only a patch could
remedy matters, is as follows: The
frayed portions around the tear were
carefully smoothed, andapiece of the
material, moistened with very thin
mucilage, was placed under the hole.
A heavy weight was put upon it until it
was dry, when it was only possible to
discover the mended place by careful
observation.

 

A WOMAN with a gift for carpentering

 

 

tells us in the Country Gentleman how
she made a zinc-lined washstand for her
kitchen. A box the desired size and
shape was made of some old boards. An
old washing machine furnished the legs.
She lined it with zinc with considerable
trouble and much hammering, but says
it is a “ household convenience” which
she views with pride, notwithstanding the
fact that one set of legs will slant inward,
in spite of her.

MANY ladies claim that the unbleached
cotton wears longer and is stronger than
bleached, at less cost. So they buy the
unbleachel and whiten it before making
up. A good way to do this is to scald it
and spread it out on the snow, taking it
up and scalding again on wash day. The
same effect is produced by scalding and
hanging on the line to freeze, scalding
again whenever the cloth freezes dry.
Others use chloride of lime, a safe process
if the cloth is rinsed in a copious supply
of water afterward.

SLIGHTLY soiled white woolen articles,
knitted or crocheted, may‘be made to
look as well as new if they are carefully
rubbed in flour. Cover them with ﬂour
and rub gently, as if washing, until the
ﬂour becomes dark. Shake out the
article and rub in clean ﬂour until all soil
is removed. Shake well and hang in the
wind until no atom of ﬂour remains in
the wool. Of course one would not care
to cleanse in this way articles that are
worn next to the body, but for shawls,
capes and head coverings ﬂour answers
admirably.

 

IF you have “gumption” enough to
dr1ve a nail, you can manufacture a
very pretty fancy table at very slight ex-
pense. Take the handles to three worn
out brooms, sandpaper and paint them
black; “ebonize” them. Fasten them
together ﬁrmly, crossing them at about
two-thirds the length—the only really dif-
ﬁcult thing to do in the gwhole process of
manufacture—nail the head of a ﬂour
barrel on for a top. Cover it with dark
crimson felt, on which you have em.
broidered a bunch of daisies, cluster of
leaves, or any pretty design. For an
edge, add a pretty woolen fringe, which
you can buy for from 75 cents to $1 25
per yard. 01' cut leaf points of the felt
embroidering each, and put on a double
row, the point of one appearing between
the curve of two others The result will

be a yery “cute” little table, quite an
addltion to every room.

~———.O.—~—————v

Contributed Recipes.

 

PICKLED Gunmen—One peck chopped
cabbage; sprinkle one teacupful of salt
through it and let remain over night. Next
morning pour off the brine, and putin a kettle
with enough vinegar to cover nicely. Add tWo
tablespoonfuls of black pepper, two of
ground mustard, or whole seeds, two of ground
cloves, two of allspice, and one ounce of celery
seed. and one pound of brown sugar. Boil one
hour. A very nice pickle is made by taking
one peek of sliced green tomatoesand one pint
sliced onions, and prepare as above.

CHICKEN Simian—Two chickens; boil tenders
pick meat from the bones, and chop; two

 

bunches of celery to each chicken, chopped
also; half pint vinegar, two eggs, one table
spoonful salad oil, one of liquid mustard, one
of sugar, one of salt, one salt spoon of red
pepper. Beat the eggs and vinegar together
until quite thick: then beat the oil, mustard
and red pepper together, and stir into it:
mix thoroughly with the chicken and celery.
This is sutﬂclent for ten persons.

To Coon PA1csx11's.—~;\fter scraping cut it:
pieces four inches long, and boil tender in
salted water; calculate the quantity of water
so it will be boiled away as the parsnips are
done: then add a very generous lump of butter
and some pepper, and when browned nicely
add a coffee cup of thick sweet cream: let re-
main over the tire a few minutes and serve. An
old lady, a very experienced cook, learned me
to cook parsnips so, and I call them excellent.

EVANGALIXE,
BATTLE CREEK.

 

SOFT GINGER CAKE—TWO cups molasses,
one cup butter, one cup buttermilk, one egg,
two teaspoonfuls of soda, the same of ginger.
Mix rather stiff.

FRUIT CAKE—One and a half cups of sugar,
one cup raisins, one cup sweet milk, one tea—
spoonful cloves, one teaspoonful cinnamon,
one teaspoonful of soda, three tablespoonfuls
of shortening.

WHITE CAKE No. l.—-—One cup sugar, half
cup butter, half cup sweet milk, two cups of
ﬂour, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, one
teaspoonful of lemon extract, whites of four
eggs.

WHITE CAKE No. 2.——Two cups sugar, half
cup butter, three-quarters cup sweet milk, two
and a half cups ﬂour, two and a half teaspoon-
fuls baking powder, one teaspoonful of lemon
extract, whites of four eggs. L. J. C.

GOBLEVILLE.

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FIL III

BUN/1" 1N0 0121’ CARE

We may open the door to our neighbors.
And open the door it our friends;
We may entertain guests at our tablt,
While friendship with com tesy blends.
We may gather our dear ones about us—
Our helpmeet and children so {air—
an. letn»1 forget not to bani-‘11
From these tender meetiny do}? care
It watches at doors and at windows.
It whistles thro 1g? crannies and cm?“
It givcth thegooc man the headache.
I? pinches ani tortures and racks
It sits down una~ked at the table.
.1: crouchcs beside the down bed;
It takes all the hr ghtness from slumber
It takes all the sweetness fro 11 bread.
0! all things to mak 1 our hves happy,
or all things to make our liw s fair;
There is nothing from Home’s cheern;
81 sacred as. shutting out care.
Mrs. M A. Kmdar

~_.._.... H. .’.._ _.. _____

SANITARY WORK FOR SPRING.

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We have hada long, cold. crue; winter,
lingering even into what. we are accus
tomed to consider a spring month.
Warmer weather will find us with an ac-
cumulation of refuse. the debris of the
winter, to be disposed of. With the
possibility of a visitation from that
"Wandering Jew " of the Old World,
cholera, the cornin,U summer, it behooves
us pay an un usual amountof attention to
household sanitation. Every farm er‘s
family should constitute a domestic
"board of health," actively supervising
the farm buildings. It is to the farmer’s
interest, in every way, to pay due regard
to sanitary laws, for the neglect of decent
precautions will inevitably bring sick—
ness and possibly death.

Our best sanitary scientists tell Us the
cellar under the house ought not to be
made the storeroom for quantities of
vegetables. Yet often it must be thus
used, because there is no other place,
though perhaps some ultra individual
might insist the health of the family
ought not to be secondary to the keeping
of provisions. Few farm house cellars,
except those of modern build, are pro
vided with ventilating fines. and unless
the owner has been or. the alert, and
duly impressed by the great necessity of
opening doors and windows occasionally,
the cellar is, long before this, a reservoir
of bad air laden with exhalations from
decaying vegetables, which is below irn
perceptiblv diffused through the house
above it, and helps cause the ‘tired" feel-
ing of which we will presently complain.
Most of us have been in houses where

he “cellar smell" of rotting cabbages and

 

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The most imperative work oi early
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it 21 thorough airing. and sweeten it wiib
lime or conperas. W1: must no: wait -’
w1rm weather. The temperature has
been kept as low as possible, in order to
preserve what is stored in it; therefore
when you ventilate it, choose a day when
the outside air and the air of the cellar
are at about the same thermomclrical
point, the outside air the coldest. Other-
wise—ﬂit the external air is warmest-
there will be a deposit of m01sture on
everything, and you will have a damp,
mouldy cellar. Adamp cellar is apro-
liﬁc source of disease. Open the doors
when it is coldest out of doors, and the
cellar will be dry and pure; sprinkle it
with lime and copper-as water, and it will
be sweet. but whatever you do, get out
the stale vegetables, and get in the fresh
air.

A bad smell in a house, or around it, is
something to get rid of without d:‘11y.
To do this it is usually necessary to cm
ploy disinfectants, even after the cause is
removed. First ﬁnd and remove the
cause, then disinfect freely. Bear in
mind there is agreat difference between
disinfectants and deodmvlzers; one de-
stroys the poisonous gases which are
generated by decomposition, and the
germs of disease; the other simply re-~
places one smell by another, without in
the least affecting its baleful qualities.
Burnt coffee, burning paper and rags,
etc, are simply deodorizers, Without the
slightest value as disinfectants. The
best disinfectants are chloride of lime,
rich in chlorine gas, copperas, and ear-
bolic acid, with sulphur for fumigation.
There will be considerable use for these
this spring; some one of them ought to
befreely used on every farm, about the
back yard, cellar, the sink and drains.
the water closet and poultry house; and
when the horse and cattle stables get
their “ spring cleaning” (the farmer
ought to clean barns and stables as well
as his wife the house) carbolic acid or
copperas should be freely employed there,
for now the out-buildings have, for con-
venience’s sake, crept so near the house,
greater precautions to secure pure air
must be taken.

A writer on sanitary topics tell: us that

  

 

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will be far superior to many of the disirr
fectingr powders sold at twice the cost.
But after all our ﬁrst care should be for
prevention, by cleanliness, care about
throwing out slops, or leaving animal or
vegetable nutter to putrify; our next dis-
infection or destruction if we an: caught
napping or there is need.
_.___...___

A PROPHESY 0F SPRING.

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The frequent visits of the itinerani
merchant who wants to “sell you very
cheap ” in more ways than one. the
occasional “caw caw” from the woods.
the delightful fragrance that comes from
what will nen’ year be P. 0. Goodwood.
are all reminders that spring is near. The
children are already collecting bits (11'
string and straw to hang on the trees
when the warm sunshlny days come, and
then from behind the nearest window
they will watch the birds as they gather
them for their nests. One m)ru1ng last
spring the little folks, and older ones too,
were interested in watching the persiss
tent efforts of a robin to detach a piece of
twine from a stick which had been used
asa whip and left lying under a tree.
The stick was too heavy for the bird to
ﬂy with, so some one went out and cut
the string, and in a few minutes it was
being worked into the nest. There is. one
tree that stands quite close to the win-
dows, both above and below, and great is
the delight of all members of the family
when some bird chooses this tree for a
home. And I think {the birds knew
whatabountiful supply of bread crumbs,
angleworms and other delicacies would
be lavished upon the fortunate nest build-
ers, that the tree would never be left
empty. What valuable lessons the chil-
dren get from the nest building. the
pretty blue eggs, the pitience of Mamma
Rubin, the devotion of Papa Robin. and
the untiring care of both for the helpless

little birds. Thus we trust is being

woven a network of pleasant memories

which in after years shall prove a potent

charm against. the allurements of evil.
About Money Making for Women,”

 

 


 

THE HOUSEHOLD.

 

my hobby is poultry raising. Our hens
get substantially the‘same care that Mrs.
E. 1‘. gives hers; and the coldest day this
winter, when the mercury was down
among the twenties, way out of sight of
zero. Our 25 hens gave us 17 eggs, and
they have averaged 12 per day all winter.
You see I can do the bragging, but the
creditI shall have to give to Mr. L. B. P.,
for he does the work. And right here I
want to brag a little more, and :say that
in our nine years of housekeeping I have
never had to lay down either butterjor
eggs, and yet have never been without
them. I wonder why more men do not
take pains to provide for their families in
the same way. Some one has wittily
said that all the Household members have
model husbands, but I think there would
be more model husbands, and wives too,
if all were more ready to commend when
it can be done honestly, and less ready to
look like a “ thunder cloud ” when things
do not exactly suit.

I have always been a sworn enemy to
milkweed, remorselessly uprooting every
one that I chanced to pass, but after see-
ing the beautiful pompous that are made
from the seed pods, I feel like one who is
guilty of some wicked deed. I shall
make friends of milkwceds after this, es-
pecially those that grow on our neigh-
bors’ farms.

I do not know of anything of value to
contribute, unless it be an easy way to
iron collars, White aprons and similar
small articles. Just wring them out of
cold starch, put them into a bowl, turn
boiling Water over them, wring and iron.
Be sure that the water is boiling and that
no portion of the articles is left un-
touched by it, and they will not stick to
the irons a particle. If you have any
doubts as to their being stiff or smooth,

. just try it and you will doubt no longer.
Of course like all other starehed clothes
they must be ironed perfectly dry.

Unless some one takes up a pen in de-
fense of the poor parlors before long, I
certainly shall, for I think they have
been abused. L. n. P.

ARMADA. .

TRAINING OUR BOYS.

 

 

 

I have read the Household for several
years, and in its present form I think it a
little gem, and have often contemplated
writing for it. But [now feel that I can
refrain no longer, for “ John’s Wife ” has
given me a text. I think with all the
help she would give her girls to make
them independent in money matters when
they marry, it would not be of much
beneﬁt to them unless we teach our boys
to properly respect such help. How many
times we have heard Wives say, "When I
married father gave me some sheep (or a
cow, as the case may be), and after a time
we seemed to have more than the farm
would keep, and husband sold mine, and
that was the last of my property.” It is
always the wife’s property that is dispos~
ed of ; it is not so good as the husband’s,
but he pockets the money. This will
prove true nine times out of ten, I had
almost said ninety nine in a hundred. I
think I know what I am saying when I

 

make this assertion. There is perhaps
not more than one in two hundred of the
ladies who read the Household who write
for it, and many of them have confessed,
indirectly perhaps, to a knowledge of a
similar state of things, and who can tell
the experience of the silent ones? Those
who suffer most usually say the least.

It will not be materially changed in
our day. A' reform should have been
commenced years ago. Children should
be taught that wrong is wrong, no matter
by whom it is committed. If a father
does wrong he has no right to escape
censure; the “nine” would not hesitate
to berate their wives for any fancied
shortcoming in the presence of the child-
ren or other people. We must talk of
these things to our boys and explain the
injustice of them; they must be taught
that a man has no right to be unkind to
his wife. At the same time we must “take
our rights,” as “John’s Wife” says,as much
as possible,but never argue. Awoman can
do many things and take many privileges
by keeping her mouth shut that she could
not otherwise, and be respected all the
more for it by her husband. I do not
want my boys to make their wives un-
happy by asking Why they can’t do things
as mother did. I would be almost tempted
to choke them now if I thought they
would. \Ve must gain the boys’ conﬁ-
dence by making companions of them, by
conversing on current events, and asking
their opinions; it makes them manly, and
gives us the best possible opportunities

for inﬂuencing their minds in the right

direction. I know it may be done from
my own observation, and if we can so
train our children that they will avoid
some of the mistakes that we have made
let us do it. and make their lives better
and happier. CROCUS.

HANOVER.
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A PRACTICAL ANSWER.

“I Wonder,” wishes some practical
answers to her “whys.” I will give a
few suggestions, which if they are not
entirely satisfactory to her, may draw
from others some that are. First Iwould
put the thought of what “they say” on
the top shelf ofthe pantry, whereIwould
see it only in house-cleaning time.

The different elements of which every
household is composed, and their varied
circumstances, are such that only the one
who knows all the little whys and Where-
fores is ﬁtted to decide what is right or
proper for them to do. The scathing
criticisms of an outsider who only looks
in occasionally, and at best can not see
things as they really are, should be valued
lightly. What is suitable and desirable
for a housekeeper with no little children
or hired men, and plenty of means at
hand, certainly is not practicable for one
who has the Circumstances reversed; and
she should know that such a person
could not be a just critic of her affairs.
Neither is the strong, stout woman who
can shoulder a bag of wheat as easilyas a
man, (I know they are few) a correct
judge of What the little weak woman,
with two or three weaker children around
her, should do.

 

 

There are many ways in which house-
work may be simpliﬁed, and thereby
gain time for those great desiderata,
mental recreations, social duties, and the
“poetry of life,” even for one who has
small children, no girl and hired men.
This does away with many desirable but
not essential things, which under different
circumstances we might adopt.

The work should be so planned as to
have no “big day’s work” on the list, and
so arranged as to time as to have no con-
fusion. Extra work, as washing, ironing,
baking; and general chamber sweeping,
should come on separate days, so as not
to interfere with the regular work of the
day.

Substitute plain rusks, crackers, jum-
bles, soft ginger cake or plain tea cake,
in the place of tarts, crullers, wafer
cookies and ginger snaps for the men
folks and the children; saving not only
time, but what is better yet, strength and
sweetness of temper. Make plain pud-
dings, boiled rice or hominy, or in their
season use fresh fruits as dessert; if any
is left over it is just the thing for supper
for those school children who are always
just as “ hungry as bears.”

The children’s every day clothes must
be made plain and serviceable,with a fore-
thought of the wash board and ironing
table, and a present thought of the tire-
someness of running a sewing machine.

Every one has “ my way ” for washing
and ironing, but there may be great ex
penditure of time and muscle here that
produces no better results. The chief
thing to be attained is to have the
clothes clean ani folded so as to put
away nicely in their respective drawers
or other places for them. It“ the former
can be accomplished by one rubbing, or
boiling without rubbing, all the better;

- and if the purpose of the latter is ful-

ﬁlled by ironing on one side, instead of
two, or folding without ironing, it is just
aswell for those that are in use every
week. '

Now as to those walks=in the ﬁelds and
woods: Shut up the house, take the
children and go by all means. Find alit-
tle time to post up on elementary botany,
and entomology, and here are subjects
for object lessons on a grand scale, and
with pupils more interested than in any
school room. Here too will be found re-
freshing rest and the beauty and freedom
ofafarm life. Or go to the ﬁelds and
watch the men and machines at work,
and by the kindly interest manifested,
“ ye good man ” will forget to clamor for
his second piece of pie. .

Then after all, the blind poet says,
“They also serve, who only stand and
wait.” The helpless girl baby of to-day
will be the willing grown up daughter of
to-morrow. The farm may be rented or .
passed to the managementof stronger
and younger hands. When this time
comes we do not want to ﬁnd ourselves
mental imbeciles or incapable of still ad-
vising our children,Who have been fttvored
with far better advantages than we had;
so we must ﬁnd spare minutes in which»
to catch up a thought of ahigher tone
than our routine WOrk requires, remem'


THE HOUSEHOLD 3

 

berln g those hopeful words of Longfel-
low’s: .
“ We have not wings, we can not soar;
But we have feet to scale and climb
By slow degrees, by more and more,
The cloudy summits of our time." C
LITTLE PRAIRIE Roxnn. '
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DOMESTIC ECONOMIES.

 

The very best way to warm over cold
boiled potatoes is to chop them ﬁne, sea-
son with pepper and salt, put a lump of
butter in a skillet, add the potatoes and a
very little water; cover closely, and let
them heat through thoroughly without
stirring. Hash also is much better not
stirred- while being cooked.

A little sugar, not enough to taste dis—
tinctly, is a great improvement in baked
beans, sweet corn and tomatoes. In any
kind of fruit pies add a sprinkle of salt
before putting on the upper crust.

If fruit cans are diﬂicult to open, press
the blade of a knife between the rubber
ring and glass to let in a little air, then
the top comes off easily.

Keep one of the paper bags groceries
come in to put your hand in when toast-
ing bread before the ﬁre, and save scorch-
ing your ﬁngers.

The part of Michigan I live in is very
new, the orchards are in their earliest in-
fancy. Consequently when mince pies
are to be made apples and cider are not
forthcoming. So the farmers’ wives use
venison for beef, huckleberries for apples,
and home-made blackberry wine for cider,
and there are the mince pies. Good? Of
course they are. Too much cannot be
said in praise of farm life in the summer,
but oh! the winters! I am concluding my
ﬁrst Winter on a farm. I have done an
immense amount of sewing. I have read
and improved my mind to an unusual er
tent. I have cut carpet rags, and pieced
a whole bed quilt, and came to the end of
my resources about the Ist of February.
What do farmers’ wives do in the winter?

HULDAH PERKINS.
PIONEER, Missaukee Co.

____..<.>___

E. L. NYE MAKES REPLY.

 

Last fall A. H. J. wanted to know how
much my carpet cost per yard. Counting
my own time at its cash value, checks the
thing off at about $3. But, allow me to
add, my rag carpet is exactly the carpet
for the service required of it, and I can
aﬁ‘o‘rd it. I know a few farmers’ families
so poor that they can't afford such an
article of comfort, but I know none so
rich that they don’t ﬁnd plenty of use ‘for
it. If A. H. J. comes to visit me, and
wants to wash her baby, I will give her
a nice, soft old table napkin to perform
the operation with. I always keep a sup-
ply of these on hand for that very pur-
pose, i. e., “wash rags,” and the bundle
of old linen, old cotton and old ﬂannel
for sickness and health, is never encroached
on for carpet rags in my or any other
woman’s well-ordered housekeeping
plan.

As for the “ clothes that might be
mended and worn some more,” when my
mother’s mantle fell on me, I said to the
mes and the other seventeen: “Finely

 

clad you cannot be; ragged or dirty you
must not be.and a ‘ darned sight ‘ you shall
not be!” I have stuck to my text, and
shall keep right on sticking; tariff or no
tariﬁ.

Nothing short ofCinderilla feet. by the
glazier shod, would keep an ingrain or
any other sort of carpet intact throughout
twenty years of active service in a bomt
ﬁde farmer’s living room. But the eternal
ﬁtness decrees that these same farmer's
feet are to be the ﬁnal fulcrum On which
Archimedes is to lay his lever and liftthe
world; hence the necessity of their being
modeled after the Chicago pattern, as are
those of the most famous statutes, cm-
blems of male and female physical per-
fection.

I know that Old School Teacher and all
the mighty host of Householders who
have fromtwo to ten pairs of those same
farmer’s feet “ﬂitting" about their happy
homes, will hear me out in saying that
when the farmer and his family rise like
a unit and put their foot in it, the world
and Archimedes are bound to know and
admit that there’s “ something there!"
Heaven’s choicest blessings on the busy,
toil stained hands and feet, the fruits of
whose, labor feed a hungry world! If they
rejoice in neat rag carpets, they shall
have them! E. L. NYE.

Mnrsmoas.
“mo—m

PRETTY RAG RUGS .

 

The prettiest rag rugs I have seen are
made by cutting the rags an inch and a
half long and about a half an inch wide,
or according to the thickness of the goods.
Then with a ball of wrapping twine put
twentyseven stitches on a needle. Knit
once across, then knit one stitch and put
apiece across, the end from you; knit a
stitch and put the other end over, drawing
them through tightly; knit another stick,
put the rag over, and so on through the
needle; then knit back plain and go on
with the rags as before. They are prettiest
to have half of the pieces black; you can
mix the colors together, or arrange them
in rows. A prettier way still is to knit
three pieces of a color three consecutive
times across, which brings them in pretty
spots, having every other spot black, and
have about three inches of each end of
the strips black or any dark color. When
the stripes are made the desired length
for the rug, sew them together with strong
thread, and stretch and tack it wrong side
up on a ﬂoor; or better still, sew the sides
to a quilt frame, putting short pieces
across the ends. Then brush the back
over with a good ﬂour paste, having some
glue in it, and let it dry while being
stretched. It gives them a good stiff
foundation. They make very pretty soft
rugs. Those that I have made are pro-
nounced beautiful. The Diamond dyes,
which are inexpensive, color very bright
and beautiful colors.

You can keep tinware bright and new
looking without scouring, after washing
with water and a cloth free from grease,
by rubbing with newspapers.

When you are having a cistern made or
replastered, save some of the waterlime,
as it is nice and convenient to scour

 

knives; and a small potato is the best to do
it with.

A little kerosene—say a tablespoonful
to two quarts of pretty hot water—is good
to sprinkle houseplants with to rid them
of insects. Reduced carbolic acid Is good,
too.

Will some of the Household sisters tell
how to make nice hard soap from clear
grease? Some one gave a recipe some
months ago, saying that it was easier made
with grease and caustic soda, and that
the soda could be obtained in half-pound
cans at little expense. [do not ﬁnd it in
small quantities, and it is rather expensive
in any form. 5. A. G.

Dsansonx.
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HINTS FOR “I WONDER."

 

That it. is desirable for a woman to spend
some hours with books and papers is
generally concealed. She does not wish
to be left too far behind in the race, but
desires to at least keep pace with her
children, and tobc able to discuss un-
derstandingiy such matters of the outside
world as maybe of interest to her bus
band and friends; but even this sometimes
seems almost impossible to the busy
housewife.

“I Wonder wishes for some practical
suggestions, and I hope there may be
many responses. I wish to say a few
words in reply. In the ﬁrst place Iwould
not have the children neglected; but one
can spend much time in waiting upon
them unnecessarily, and even to their
detriment; or the little ones can be
taught very early in life to wait upon
themselves, and be helpful to others,
thus saving much time for the mother,
which may be spent in reading; and then
asaving can be made in the matter of
children’s clothing; they may be dressed
plainly, and neatly, or covered with frills
and furbelows.

The kitchen 1s a place where much
time can, according to my ideas, be
wasted. [know it is very nice to have
that place shine, with ﬂoor, table and
shelves scoured to the last degree of
whiteness, and tinware rubbed to the
brightness of a mirror; yet I would say
oil the woodwork and be content with
cleanliness; and in purchasing utensils
for household use, get such as will not
tarnish and whicha thorough washing
will keep presentable, thus spending as
little time as possible with the scrub-
brush.

If a man thinks he cannot get help‘for
his wife, while he has men to lighten his
burdens and add to hers, let him oc-
casionally lenda helping hand. There
are so many times when a few moments’
work by a strong man will save a half
hour and much weariness for the wife.
If he does not see this for himself, a little
judicious coaxing will usually accomplish
the desired end.

I have only brieﬂy noticed a few of the
ways in which I think housewives can, if
they choose, save time for the cultiva-
tion of their minds, and will for the
present leave the subject for others to
enlarge upon, .hoping with “I Wonder ”
that many things practical may be

brought to view. MER'rm.
Paw PAW. , .

 


 

4

THE HOUSEHOLD.

 

NO SYMPATHY FOR SINNERS.

 

I ﬁnd the following paragraph in one of
our papers:

"A member of the New York legisla-
ture has brought ina bill for the con-
sideration of that body, which provides
that any person who shall send or carry
boquets or other articles of luxury to
condemned murderers shall be ﬁned not
more than $25 for the ﬁrst offense, and
imprisoned not more than 25 days for
the second, and the sheriﬁ or other of-
ﬁcers who assist at such presentation
shall suffer the same penalty.”

The necessity for such legislation is
humiliating. the more so when we consider
that these murderers receive sympathy
and attention, not from the degraded
Criminal classes, but from law-abiding
citizens, mostly women. and even mem~
bers of the church. What has led to
this? Surely to take life is as heinous a
sin today as it ever was. Right is still
right, and wrong is wrong. Where then
is the beginning of this “maudlin sen~
timentality that tries to exalt notorious
criminals into heroes?" Some of it arises
in the mistaken idea many have, that
they are thereby exercising the spirit of
charity. From such you will often hear:
“Judge not that ye be not judged.”
“The begging, lying, thieving tramp is
our brother.” They ﬁing at others, “ All
meme infected the infected spy.” “ God’s
sun shines on the just and unjust,” and
much more of the same meaning. Never
do they repeat, “God is angry with the
wicked every day.” Yes, some say,

“ Who made the heart, ’tis Be alone,
Decidedly can try us." .

He alone can judge and condemn
From the same high authority we receive
arule whereby we may judge, “For by
their fruits ye shall know them.”

The socalled charitable judgment that
palliates sin is not a virtue. Let the
helping hand and words of cheer be
given to the poor and needy, to those
trying to reform, and to the innocent
sufferers of wrong, but not to the wrong
doers. Jmmn.

 

THE SOAP QUESTION.

I confess I have very little sentimental
sympathy to waste upon that “ tired
mother” who comes in to sweep the
room, while her daughters paint water
jugs and the like. My girls may paint or
cultivate any other accomplishment for
which they have any genius,‘hut the work
must be done ﬁrst, then I will share the
pleasure with them. And perhaps these
girls were not so much to blame; it may
have been unnecessary work to sweep
just then. I know mothers who seem to
enjoy drudging, greatly to the annoyance
of their families, who would gladly see
them resting in an armchair with book or
fancy work.

As spring is almost here I would like to
introduce a new subject to the Household
—recentacles for soft soap. The other
day having ﬁnished the “ necessary”
work, I took up the March Century, and
was soon at the bottom of one of the ex-
tinct craters of the moon, and quite
oblivious to mundane things in general,
when—“ llama, mamma, the bottom is

 

out of the soap barrel, and the soap is all
on the cellar ﬁoorl” Now to be called from
the moon to the cellar, dipper in hand to
dip slippery soap, is just too exasperating,
and this is not the ﬁrst time either.

I was reading lately of a soap “vat”
constructed of brick in two compart-
ments, one for the made soap, the other
for strong lye, into which the grease
might be thrown. If practicable this
would be very nice, but the directions
were "plaster inside with water lime.”
Now that might be all right, but it seems
to me that lye strong enough to make
soap, against water lime, would be a good
deal like the lion and lamb lying down
together.

Prof. Kedzie has so kindly noticed the
Household, perhaps he would be kind
enough to tell us what effect the one
would have upon the other. I confess I
am ignorant whether water lime is an
alkali at all or not. Mas. W. J. G.

Bownu.
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HOUSEHOLD BIN 1‘8.

 

Hon ma lard " squeezers” are handy
and easily made. Two pieces of thick
pine board the size of your hand at one
end and whittled away at the other to form
handles, are joined with a strap of leather.
They may be made about twenty inches
in length. The scraps, after the lard has
been pressed from them by these "squeez-
ers,” are a choice dainty for the hens.

 

Tnosn who make winter butter and
practice scalding the milk, may be in-
terested in the following, clipped from
Agriculture: “The skin or scum
which rises on the milk when it is scalded
is not cream, but caseine or cheesy sub-
stance. This scum should be taken off
before the milk is set away for the cream
to rise or else the cream will rise up under
it and the scum will become incorporated
in the cream, and, so pass into the butter,
where it will make white specks and in-
jure its ﬂavor.”

 

A LADY writes to the Rural New Yorker
that she gave her lace curtains a very
fashionable creamy tint, by rinsing
them, after washing, in water in which a
little yellow ochre powder, just mixed
with a little water and strained through
a muslin bag, had been stirred. Add the
dye till the desired shade is obtained. Do
not wring, but press the water out with
the hands.

 

DRAB Lama—If you will not comply
with our rule to furnish your names as
well as uom-de-phqmes, you may as well
spare yourselves the trouble of writing.
Anonymous communications are quietly
dropped into the yawning basket on the
Editor’s right hand. Be business-like;
and not foolishly attempt to evade an es-
tablished rule. It is a breach of etiquette
to ask a contributor’s name of an editor;
it is a breach of conﬁdence to give names.
Some of our writers are not all jealous to
conceal their identity, others desire to
remain incognito, and the wish of the
latter class is always respected.

 

Tim Household Editor is very willing
to furnish to our readers any information
in her power, but desires that when
questions are asked of a personal nature,
which are most properly answered in a
private note, stamps—or better yet, a
stamped and addressed envelope—~be en~
closed for reply.

..____...___

“ Rosn MARY ” wishes a recipe for good
sponge cake, also for homemade crackers.
Will some of our readers respond? If '
Rose Mary will notify the Household
Editor what issue of the Household for
1884 is missing, we will if possible, supply
the missing number.

....._...___

Mn. AND Mus. T. LANGLEY, of Green-
ﬁeld, the latter better known to our read-
ers as A. L. L., left for New Orleans last
week. We hope tobe favored with some
“impressions du voyage ” on their re-
turn. ’

Contributed Recipes.

CHARLOTTE Russia—Make a boiled custard
with one quart milk, six eggs, one coffee cup
sugar, and a bit of salt; ﬂavor with vanilla;
then add one box of gelatine, dissolved in one
pint of hot water. When cool and thick heat
into it one pint of cream. If you desire to
serve it in small dishes or glasses, put it in
them at this time; or it may be poured into a
large mould lined with pieces of sponge cake,
and keptin a cool place until wanted. For
Mrs. J. W. P. Manna.

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