
 

 

 

 

 

DETROIT, MARCH 5, 1892.

 

THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

SECBEI1 THOUGHTS.

 

I hold it true that thoughts are things
Endowed with bodies. breath and wings,
And that we send them forth to ﬁll

The world with good results—or ill.

That which we call our secret thought
Speeds to the earth‘s remotest spot,
And leaves its blessings or its woes
Like tracks behind it as it goes.

It is God’s law. Remember it

In your still chamber as you sit

With thoughts you would not dare have known,
And yet make comrades when alone.

These thoughts have life. and they will ﬂy

And leave their impress by and by,

Like some marsh breeze, whose poisoned breath
Breathes into homes its favored breath.

And after you have quite forgot

Or all outgrown some vanished thought,
Back to your mind to make its home,

A dove or raven, it will come.

Then let your secret thoughts be fair;
They have a vital part or share
In shaping worlds and mou’ding fate——
God’s system is so intricate.
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

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EARLY SPRING FASHIONS.

 

For spring wraps, the jacket and
the cape obtain. The former is very
much longer this season, the most
stylish being 38 inches long. The
back ﬁts the ﬁgure to the waist line and
the skirts are quite full. The fronts
are straight and lapped a little. Short
revers and. 8. turned over collar are
silk-faced. They are in very light
shades of grey or beige. The new gar-
ment of the season is the coat without
seams in the back. It is neither grace-
ful or stylish, and I do not think will
be popular, as it makes the ﬁgure
perfectly shapeless. Capes for young
ladies reach a little below the waist
and are quite full, being gathered
under a deep collar. Triple capes will
beworn again. For older persons are
longer capes, ﬁtted to the ﬁgure in the
back; these are seen in both black and
light colors. Very dressy cloaks are
quite long and have the cape eﬁ'ect;
they are beautifully trimmed with
feather ruchings. The collars are not
so high as last season, but the same
style prevails. If you have a last year’s
cape to which you desire to add a
fashionable high collar, cut and cover
with silk a collar of buckram and at-
tach it to your cape. Take a length of
wide, heavy silk ribbon; in the centre
lay one large triple box pleat. Turn

this wrong side out and fasten it to
the centre of the collar on the neck
seam. Catch the plain part of the
pleat, which will thus come next
the collar, to the latter with a few
stitches; bring the ends of the ribbon
to the front, folding over or twisting
each, and make a long loop with two
ends to fasten the neck in front. You
can carry out the idea in velvet, lined
with silk, by shaping a strip at the
ends, leaving enough of full Width for
the pleating in the back.

Dressmaking has become a science.
The perfection of ﬁt demanded is not
to be attained by a tyre. The study of
the modern dressmaker is to accent
every good point of her customer‘s
ﬁgure, and conceal by cunning art
every deficiency. To that end she
studies her patron “to make the most
of her.” When she can do this, she is
entitled to write herself artiste. Worth
makes a seamless dress. There is not
a seam to be seen in it except those on
the shoulders and one which may pos-
sibly be concealed under the passemen-
terie girdle in front. The dress hooks
invisibiy under the left arm; a row of
passementerie crosses the back from
the right shoulder to the left side; the
eﬂfect is a seamless princess dress.
The material is crepon, a loose woven,
crinkley goods which is: very elastic,
and it is cut bias. But who but an
artist like Worth could design such a
gown—and who but 3. Venus could
wear it? .

The tendency is to avoid seams as
much as possible. Over a ﬁtted lining
the bias goods is drawn as smooth as a.
glove; the front books under the left
arm, leaving the front without a sign
of closing, the only seams are those
under the arms and on the shoulder.
The skirt is attached under a girdle of
rich passementerie or a velvet corse-
let. That’s style.

Dresses for misses and young ladies
are made with yokes and corselets of
velvet, which are often edged with the
very narrow jet gimp. Moire antique
it is said will supercede velvet as a
material for trimming on spring gowns.
A pretty tan colored dress would be cut
with a bell skirt bordered with a bias
band of moire, and have a waist with
jacket fronts worn over a moire blouse,
Another style gives a bell skirt bor-

 

 

dered with bias folds, a pleated waist

with deep yoke and corselet, and deep
close cuffs. This is a good model to
make up in two oilors or materials.

Most of the bell skirts are trimmed
witha box pleated ruche, a ruffle, puﬁ,
or folds. Fur, feather and silk ruchings,
and tiny ruflles not over two inches
wide are also used.

Grenadine will be a very stylish
material for thin summer dresses. The
China and India silks, which make not
only cool but serviceable costumes, are
as popular as ever. They are made
with-full skirts, draped a little in front
if preferred, with full waists with
corselet or girdle. Some are trimmed
with a ruﬂie of lace round the skirt and
short corsage. Crepon is more of a
favorite in wools than last season, and
is trimmed with silk or gimps.

Silk waists are very popular, in black
and colors. They are so useful a change
and so dressy and becoming, not to
mention being comfortable. They are
of surah, China, India or any soft silk;
those who have old grosgrain silk
often utilize it in a pretty waist, though
the soft silks are better. They are
made over a ﬁtted lining and are
either gathered or pleated at the
shoulder, the fullness drawn down
under a belt. often pointed in front.
Others have yokes, cuffs and belts of
silk or velvet Spangled with jet nail-
heads (the use of which is often greatly
overdone). A strip of trimming is
sometimes set on the shoulder seams,
extending from sleeve to, neck.

One of the new features in the way of
applying trimming is the return to the
bertha, as it was once called. Not
quite the little pointed cape which
passed by that name some 30 years ago,
but the mode of arranging a. frill of
chiffon or lace so that it is gathered its
full width on the shoulders and nor»
rowed toa point at the waist line or
above front and back. Another mode
gathers a six inch rullle of lace or silk
quite full with a narrow heading and
sets it on in berths. style. Only a soft

goods can be thus used.
BFATRIX.

 

 

SEVERAL correspondents have in»
quired how they should address this
department. Anything directed to the
MICHIGAN FARMER, HOUSEHOLD De-
partment, Detroit, Mich, reaches us

 

 

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Q

The Household.

 

CLEVELAND AT ANN ARBOR.

 

Well, I’ve heard an cit-president,
which is next best to hearing the
president himself.

Ex-President Cleveland addressed
the University law students at Ann
Arbor on Washington’s birthday, and
of course we all wanted to hear him.

The girls came at noon and after we
had beento dinner we went down to the
Hall where we were kept standing out-
side for a ha‘f hour until the “laws”
were all in. Of course the people out-
side got impatient and pressed up
closer, swayed back and forth and
made themselves uncomfortable gener-
ally. I was never before in such a
crowd and couldn‘t stir, except my
head; my arms were pinned to my

sides. I heard. ﬁnally, people about
me say “I wonder how she stands
it!” “Poor little thing!” “They‘ll

crush that little girl,” and by the
looks sent in my direction I made out I
was the object of their sympathies, but
as I was fairly comfortable and didn’t
have to exert myself to stand up, I con-
cluded their sympathy was misdirected.
It began to be rather painful, though,
and I was glad when the procession
from behind popped me into the main
hall. That is the only way I can ex-
press my sudden entrance, for it ﬁts
the case exactly. We hurried into the
gallery—for the parquette was full——
only to ﬁnd that every seat was taken.
An extraardinarily accommodating
boy gave his chair up to me.

The stage was draped with flags, and
plants and flowers ranged around the
edge. There were some lovely lilies
among them. The University colors,
yellow and blue, were draped around
the gallery.

When Mr. Cleveland, followed by
about forty other gentlemen, took his
place on the stage, with Gov. Winans
on one side and President Angell on
the other, the crowd cheered and
cheered, waved hats and handker-
chiefs, and many stood up in their ex-
citement. Some time was given them
to cool down enough to hear anything.

One thing especially made Mr.
Cleveland smile; it was when the
students shouted out in perfect unison:
“ How do you do, Mr. Cleveland? We
are glad to see you, Mr. Cleveland.” It
-sounded so ludicrous and could be un-
derstood so plainly.

Besides Mr. Cleveland there were
on the stage ﬁve governors in a
row, Jerome, Felch, Begole, Winans
of Michigan and Campbell of Ohio.
Then there were Chief Justice Mar-
shall of the United States Supreme
Court, Don M. Dickinson, of Detroit,
and ever so many other notables whose
names I couldn’t catch.

Mr. Cleveland looks very much like
his pictures and is quite gray. He
Spoke very well and was cheered again
and again. Of course his theme was
Washington, and he said the usual

 

things about “ the Father of our
Country;” but when he spoke of the law
and called it the grandest profession in
the world, and as a lawyer himself said
he had always felt a great interest in
those who were beginning the study,
the “laws” cheered until they were
hoarse. He Spoke also of the growing
tendency to disbelieve the early stories
told of Washington, and thought the
story of the hatchet and the cherry
tree worth keeping.

I can’t remember to write half he
said, I could tell it better. We waited
while the crowd was passing out to
hear the band play and see the gentle-
men on the platform shake hands with
one another; then came home pretty
nearly tired out. BIDDY.

an'rox.
_—.—.....———-

FOR HOME ENTERTAINMENT.

 

When Beatrix welcomed me so kindly
to the HOUSEHOLD some time ago I de-
termined to write again very soon, but
it was “ a resolution writ in water.”

Euphemia wants us to tell how we
darned some aggravating tear, or some
practical thing of the sort, and she or
some one else may be glad to know of a
way to entertain her friends for an
evening. Let them play Zoology. Pre-
pare before hand (we will say that
ﬁfteen people are to play) ﬁfteen slips
of paper, by writing on each the name
of an animal, folding so that the word
cannot be seen, and then numbering
each one. Have ready also ﬁfteen
cards or pieces of paper with the ﬁfteen
ﬁgures put in a vertical line on the
left side. New have a blackboard and
chalk ready, or you might use a large
sheet of heavy paper and a piece of
black crayon or charcoal. When your
guests arrive and the time comes to
begin, hand to each one of the cards
containing the vertical ﬁgures and a
pencil. Put the folded slips of paper
in a basket and let each guest draw out
one, but each must keep the written
word a secret from his neighbor. No.
1 is called and the person having that
slip of paper goes to the blackboard
and draws a picture of the animal
named. The picture may be funny or
artistically done. No remarks can be
exchanged about the picture, but each
guest writes opposite the ﬁgure one on
his card the animal that he thinks has
been represented on the board. When
all the pictures are drawn the players
exchange cards, and the correct list of
animals is read. The lady and gentle-
man who have made the most correct
guesses get the ﬁrst prizes. These
should be animals of some kind. I saw
a shiny black iron pig with a curly tail,
intended for a paper weight, and a
pretty china grayhound used as prizes.
I think a bag of chocolate mice would
do nicely. The two who have the most
wrong guesses get the booby prizes.
Give the lady a ﬁve cent Noah’s Ark
with the injunction to study the ani-

 

mals, and the gentleman a rubber
donkey.

The prizes may and should be in-
expensive. You will ﬁnd it an amusing
game, and if your animal is drome-
dary, you may be surprised to ﬁnd
that you do not know whether it has one
hump or two.

I want to tell the ﬂower lovers who
are discouraged because their ger-
aniums and heliotropes will not blos-
som in the winter, to try afew bulbs
next year, and be sure you have a
jenquil and some freesias. Any ﬁorist‘s
catalogue tells you how to treat them,
and you are so proud of them when they
bloom that your friends think you are
a little crazy. ALMEN A.

JACKSON.

 

WOMEN’S CLOTHING.

 

I have been a reader of this “ better
part” of the MICHIGAN FARMER for
about eight years. Could I have writ‘
ten as often as I felt like it, I fear you
would all have tired of me. Besides, I
have found it true, as my mother once
told me, that if I would wait long
enough I would usually ﬁnd my
opinions expressed by some one else.
I experience one great trouble from the
fact that “genius burns” whenIam
washing dishes, working butter or en—
gaged at other of the numerous employ-
ments which occupy the time and hands
of afarmer‘s wife. I have sometimes
wished for an invention for taking
down one’s thoughts without the
trouble of writing; but on the whole I
rather think we are saved a great deal
of annoyance many times from the fact
that no such invention exists. Letters
and newspaper articles would over-
whelm us and cease to be the source of
pleasure thev now are. '

I wish to say that I tried the last
recipe for mince-meat, leaving out
citron, mace and brandy. I would have
used the two former, but they were not
on hand. Every one calls it delicious.
I added syrup from very rich pickled
pears.

There is a book I want to recommend
to every mother in this circle. I have
just ﬁnished it, and nothing would in-
duce me to be without it. “Hints on
Child-Training,” by Rev. E. Clay
Trumbull. Published by John D.
Wattles, 1,031 Walnut Street, Phila-
delphia. It is not a book of theories,
but actual experience and observation
during two generations. I never read
anything of the kind so simple, so
touching and beautiful. I hope to hear
some testimony from parents concern-
ing it later on.

But one thing that more especially
moved me to write was the article on
“Healthful Dress,” by Barbara. Iwish
to add my experience. I suffered for
years either from want of enough
clothing or weariness from clothes too
heavy to be borne. I have declared
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condition where I should wear pants. I
have partly solved the difﬁculty, how-
ever. I wear an all-wool grey Jersey
union garment over a cotton Jersey
union garment. Not caring for two
sets of sleeves full length I cut off the
cotton sleeves, after ripping them out,
«and sewed them in so that the wristlet
comes to the elbow. They ﬁt perfectly
snug and smooth. I ﬁnd it better to
put them together—that is, one inside
the other—before I put them on, and
leave them so until time to change.
Then my skirts are'o pen in front. Those
I haste on to my underwaist with cJarse
:thread. (It takes but a few minutes
'when I change my clothes.) '80 I can
takeoff and put on all my clothes at
“once, actually. I ﬁnd it a very com-
fortable mode of dress. I found to work
butter on a butter-worker in cold
weather requires perfect freedom of
“the muscles. I tried to wear a corset
but I positively can not. Naturally
r"feeble, I have managed to do as much
'work as the average woman by taking
care of myself. There, my pen is like
the tongue of the Maid of Athens, that
never ceased; but I will stop it.
ELLA J.

 

ZTEE CHINESE LILY.

 

E. W. has only to keep the water
replenished as it may evaporate from
her Chinese lilies, and as they are
“very ﬁne large bulbs” enjoy their
beauty and fragrance as long as she
may, and then throw them all into the
compost heap; for if they can be brought
to bloom again by any miracle of manip-
ulation I am in total ignorance of the
process‘. Leaves may come but no
flowers. These lilies are not yet ac-
climated here, to grow in open air or
withstand our winters, as do the
hyacinth, crocus, tulip, jonquil, nar-
cissus and the like importations from
Holland, that will after the forcing
process proceed to bloom for years if
not injured in the garden. But even
these will not submit to another forc-
ing; it is not to be thought of. The
sacred lily of China is not so far
superior to its class, for forcing, that we
grow here, and is far more expensive.
I like to make new acquaintances, but
am somewhat critical in “sizing them
up,” especially if foreign or if very
loudly heralded in the introduction;
but to old friends tried and true I am
very staunch and appreciative. There
are so many of our plants that can be
reproduced year after year, that it
does not quite please us to be obliged
to lose them after the ﬁrst display, but
there are many far more dearly bought
pleasures of short duration and many
not so innocent that are more transient
and less worthy of further repetition
‘that we often purchase. .

MRS. M. A. FULLER.

[A city ﬂorist endorses Mrs. Fuller’s
statement that the Chinese lily is “no
.good ” after being forced—Eu]

 

ANOTHER CHAPTER 0N “WHEN."

 

In regard to this "When” question,
I should like to tell a little experience
which befell a friend of mine. She is a
lovely woman, a woman ﬁtted in every
way to be a noble mother, one to
whom her children will look with great
respect and love. She has already one
little daughter of six who gives
promise of following in the footsteps of
her mother. As the days came and
passed and this lady knew that soon
another little life would enter her
family, she began the wardrobe for the
expected one. Now this family is not
wealthy, and as the lady is a beautiful
seamstress, she wished to do the sewing
herself. Her daughter is with her al-
most constantly, and as she is an ob-
servant little body and quite domes-
tically inclined, the mother knew she
would notice the little garments under
way before long, so she decided
to head off a good many questions
by starting the subject herself. It
seems she had had some question
asked in the past, so she said one day:
“ Louise, do you remember one day you
asked me if I was not surprised when
you came"? Do you recollect I told you
‘No, I was not surprised at all, that
God always told mothers when little
babies were coming to them?”’ The
little girl said she did remember, so
the mother went on: “Well, God has
told me again that I am to have a little
baby, and now Iam going to get the
clothes ready for it. I thought you
would like to know and help me get
ready.” The child was perfectly wild
with delight; she danced up and down
and sang and kissed her mother, and
her little heart was full of love for the
coming baby. After the first wild
rapture she settled down and was very
quiet for a while. Her mother could
see however that the little brain was
busy, but she let the child alone till she
should Speak herself. Bye and bye
came the question, "When will the
baby come, Mamma? ” “ Oh,” said the
mother, “I can’t tell you just the day,
for I do not know myself. I don’t think
God will send it till every thing is
ready for it, and there are a good many
clothes to make and other things to
prepare before it comes." Then she
told the little girl that this was not to
talked about among her little play-
mates; that it would be a secret for just
her and Mamma and Papa, and they
wouldn’t tell any one else. Of course
the child wanted know how God would
send the baby, and the mother told her
that she could not tell her, as she was
not old enough to understand, just as
she could not understand books that
grown up people read; and as an ex-
ample she picked up abook lying on
the table and read a paragraph or two.
saying: “ You do not understand
that, do you? When you are bigger
and have been to school and learned to
read and understand a great many

 

things, then I will tell you how God
sends the baby, but until then you
must just be contented with knowing
that it is coming and God will surely
send it safely.” She then led the
conversation to how they would love
the little stranger and how much they
would do to make it welcome. The
child was perfectly satisﬁed, has been
contented and happy, and has never
breathed one word of this secret her
mother had intrusted to her to any one
except her father; she has not even told
a young lady aunt who lives with them,
and with whom she is usually very con-
ﬁdential.

To be sure this little girl has been
brought up on the old-fashioned plan of
believing that her mother knows best
and that obedience and respect for her
parents are part of her duty. It never
entered her little head to tell her
mother she was a “mean old thing”
because she didn’t go into details;
neither did she sulk or throw herself
on the floor and kick, as I saw a little
girl do not long ago when her curiosity
was not satisﬁed in regard to some-
thing that was going on.

I think if mothers in general would
be more conﬁdential with their girls and
would take a little time to think up
some clear, yet pure and kindly ways
of presenting these topics of life and
its propagation to their children—~both
sons and daughters—there would be far
less of evil in this world than there is
under the present system of guess-work
on the part of the young. No deﬁnite
time can be. set. Each mother must
judge for herself when is the proper
time to speak, for children are so dif-
ferent. Some mature much more
quickly than others: some minds turn
more to these subjects than others;
some accidental happening may bring
up questions which if not answered at
once are brooded over and the child
will, if he cannot get information from
his parents or is put off, go to other
persons who may not be so reluctant,
and in fact may be eager to tell all they
know and more too, and such people
usually put the matter in anything
but the light in which you would care
to have it shown forth. I don’t think
there is any necessity for any girl or
woman bemoaning the loss of her
“ innocence ” if these questions of life
are put before her in a pure and mat-
ter-of-fact way. “There the danger lies
is that in a great many instances, in-
deed in the majoritv of cases, these
functions of the human body are spoken
of in a whisper, with a great impres-
sion of secrecy and mystery, and the
child’s curiosity is aroused in a way
which is far from healthful, whereas if
these functions were spoken of when a
suitable age is reached—just as the
little child is taught years before about
common sanitary matters, much of the
mystery and consequent guessing, ﬁnd-

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be “innocent” after ﬁnding out the
uses for which her God has designed
her body is past my comprehension. I
know one woman who went all round
Robin Hood’s barn to tell her little girl
she was nearing the age of maturity,
and ﬁnally gave it up and got the
hired servantto tell her. I think that
mother never lost her innocence be-
cause she never had any; she was
simply afool. “Evil to him who evil
thinks” is a very good motto for all
parents to adapt. M. J. H.
Damon.

 

CRUELTY TO CHILDREN.

 

Are we sure that we who love our
children and intend to treat them
kindly, are never guilty of cruelty?
After the child is too old to be a baby
and too young for young manhood or
womanhood, and has none of the at-
tractions of either age or any Of its
own to speak of, then is it often sharply
criticised and found fault with. Yet
it is in these precious years of growth
that the sensitive soul is taking on the
hue of its surroundings, and the
future man or woman is being made or
marred. The poor child is criticised
about its looks and actions by the
persons it looks up to and believes in
with the faith of childhood. The re-
sult in the childish soul is despair and
consequent recklessness. Many young
girls have married men they would
never have noticed if their selfrespect
and high estimation of themselves had
not been broken down by this ceaseless
criticism. And it is a terrible weight
in a man‘s conﬂict with the world, if he
is trained to believe, by this constant
faultﬁnding, that he is way beneath
others. A man needs in this age every
bit of conﬁdence in himself he can get.
And do give your little boy and girl
when they are old enough to need it and
remember it forever, a little of the love
and caresses you nearly smothered
them With when they were babies.

Children have so many thoughts in
this world so new to them that they
suffer from, silently! I remember years
of my own childhood when two ideas I
held took all the brightness from life.
One was that the judgment day was
coming like a thief in the night. I
never went to bed without expecting it
before the next morning. The other
was that God was watching me all the
time. The idea of loving oversight
never occurred to me. I felt that He
was looking at me just as an aunt of
mine did, who never saw me without
making a disparaging remark.

Can any one tell me whom to address
for more knowledge of the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Children?
I want to know what are the legal
powers of its members or agents.

[Address Hon. Elbridge Gerry,
President S. P. C. C., New York City.
——ED.]

Mittens made of woolen yarn do not

 

wear well for men working out doors in
winter, and are expensive to renew.
First obtain a good pattern; they can
be made of heavy cloth (the unworn
parts of old pantaloons will do). lining
them with ﬂannel and using the sewing
machine. Several pairs can be made in
a day. As they cost nothing it is well
to have plenty laid by, so that when
any are worn, wet or lost, new ones are

ready to take their places.
PIONEER. HULDAH PERKINS.

A WOMAN‘S GRIEVANCES.

 

 

I wonder if any reader of the HOUSE-
HOLD except myself ever felt as if all
the demons of discontent had been let
loose and were preying upon her very
soul like so many angry wolves! If so,
then that woman may hereafter know
that at least one person in the universe
has had a similar experience. I am be-
ginning to believe firmly that the
things hardest for us to endure are the
very ones we must endure.

Every spring since my marriage,
which is something less than twenty
years, I have been obliged to expend a
good share of the strength and time
which should have been Spent in neces-
sary rest or labor, in cleaning mud that
has been tracked in from a back yard
that might have been graveled or
sodded at a little expense. When the
time comes to set my hens, the clean-
ing of the chicken house has been left
until so late that the lice have got a
ﬁrm hold; then I lose most of my
chicks.

During the raspberry season we have
but few, simply because a half day’s
labor cannot be spent on the patch.
The yard is so large that it requires
the strength of a man to rake it up in
the spring, but of course the rush of
the season is so great that either the
wife must do it or else it must go un-
done. So I might go on and enumerate
scores of necessary jobs that should be
done, but never are. How it does ex-
asperate one! Yet the man who holds
sway over our domain can ﬁnd time to
spend one whole day every month at a
Farmers’ Club! (I hate the very name.)
I’m inclined to think that if the days
spent in generating and exploding
superﬂuous gas once a month at the
Club were taken to add to the comfort
and convenience of the home, more good
would be gotten by far. I’m sure I’d
be willing to get my husband a tip-top
dinner twice every month if he would
devote half the zeal to home improve-
ment that he spends on ways and means

for the above mentioned society.
ELIZABETH E.
W.—

GLE ANINGS.

To prepare grape fruit for the table,

cut it in two; out of each half cut the

core and take out the seeds. Fill the
cavity with powdered sugar, and set
away in a cool place. If you want it for
breakfast, prepare it over night. In

 

 

this way the somewhat acrid taste is
removed. Serve on small plates with
spoons. The pulp is eaten from the
halved fruit. '

Vaseline is the nicest dressing for
leather shoes we have ever used. It
softens and blackens the leather.
Applied a few hours before putting on
liquid shoe polish, it ﬁlls the pores of
the leather and prevents the polish
from rotting and cracking the leather.

A lady who was tempted into buying
a short length tablecloth because of its
cheapness and ﬁne quality ﬁnally saw
a way out of the difficulty and converted
it inth usable cloth. She found a
toweling which nearly matched the
pattern, and bought as much of it as-
would equal the width of tho linen.
Then she cut the linen in two, inserted
the toweling, working over the seams
with fancy stitches, and a narrow band
each side of the seam. The inserted
strip proved more ornamental than.
otherwise. The same idea can be ap-
plied tothemaking over of old table
cloths, which always begin to break
in the middle.

W

ALUM will cleanse water which it is
found necessary to use a second time,
when the water supply runs low on
washing days. To a tubful of suds to
be used again add a tablespoonful oi
alum which you have dissolved in
water, pour into the suds and stir
quickly, and allow to settle. The
sediment will go to the bottom in a.
short'time and the clear water can be
decanted and used again.

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7ontributed Reel}: es.

 

GRAHAM Basin—I set the sponge for my}
white bread at noon. Before mixing at
night take one pint of the sponge, one-half
cup of molasses, a tablesiloonful of lard or
butter, and stir rather thick with graham
ﬂour. Bake in pound baking powder cansz.
ﬁll not more than half full; let rise over
night and the can will be full by morning.
Bake with the covers on the cans. This has
the effect of steaming and the bread keeps-
very moist. This amount makes three-
loaves. Ihope l have made this plain, for 1'
think those who try it will be pleased with
the result. A READER.

BAY CITY.

CHEESE STRAWS.—On6 pound of puff
paste; one cup of grated cheese. Roll the
paste half an inch thick, sprinkle on half
the cheese; press in lightly with the rolling‘
pin; roll up and roll out again. putting on
the remainder of the cheese. Fold and roll.
a third of an inch thick. Cut in strips half
an inch wide and four or ﬁve inches long.
and bake in a quick oven to a delicate
brown. Another rule requires a pint of
ﬂour and half a pint of grated cheese; mix
and make With lard to a paste as you would
for pics. Roll, out in strips and bake as
above. To serve, Spread a napkin on a
plate and pile the straws in log cabin style
upon it. We fail to find a recipe for these
in the HOUSEHOLD of date named by “A
Reader,” of Bay City, but can commend

 

the ﬁrst recipe given above.

  

 

