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THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

“ ANOTHER BABY."

 

When the wild Winter winds did blew,
The bitter winds of January,
That swept wi h sparkling :Wil‘ls or snow
The wastes of Western prairie,
A little child came to my arms
To bring me joy—or sorrow maybe,
.And so,_beset by vague alarms,
I sighed. “ Another baby I”

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Another little wait to tend,
Another little hefpless stranger,
‘To lead, to feed, to fold, to fend
From every wrong and danger;
To make one anxious, make one sad,
And fearful for each morrow, maybe;
‘With heart half sorrowful, half glad,
I moaned, “- Another baby !”

And then I thought how near, how dear,
The little children God had sent us,
How full they made our home of cheer,
And how thei p esence did content us—
How if but one were laid away
This year or next as might or may be,
Our hearts weu‘d ache, would bur .‘, would break,
And now—Another baby!

Ah, so I thought! and so I said
In eestacy of peace and pleasure,
As beading down I kissed the head
or my last, weest, Weakest treasure-
“ Oh, dear child of my life and love,
What‘er you are, what’er you may be,
I take you from the Christ above,
And thank him for— Another baby.”
—-Kate H. Cleary.

W

BREAD.

 

How true it is, that bread is either the
“ staff of life,” or the “ cudgel of death!”
Think of it, oh sisters mine, think what
a weapon of warfare we carry in our hands!
Upon our weak shoulders lies the destiny
the condition of stomachs. Some people
think that a stout back will carry them
through anything and everything; What
particular avail is a back if you haven’t a
stomach, a good, stout, healthy stomach in
front of it? We all know that good bread
cannot be made from poor ﬂour, and in the
face and eyes of this truth, men will go to
the little grist mill where the wheat is
ground the old way. Your wheat may be
ﬁrst class A No. 1 white wheat; the man
who had a grist before you had inferior
wheat; enough remains to just Spoil yOurs;
you congratulate yourself on the way home
that your ﬂour bags are just as full as they
were on the way to mill, and think:

“ Them thieves in town, with their new
roller process, are regular cut throats; they

clean up the “screenings”-—all the debris
of the machine—run it through the fan-
ning—mill once or twice, and start for mill;
that’s too good for chicken feed. Now that
may have been the grist that was in ahead
of your nice wheat.

I do not think that new wheat is ﬁt for
ﬂour; the berry is not sufﬁciently hardened,
the ﬂour is heavy, it will make soggy bread.
It is better not to sell the old wheat too
close. Along in May or J une have eight or
ten bushels made into ﬂour and set it in
some good place to get old; by the time that
is gone the new wheat will be ﬁt for use.
I always manage to have the flour at least
three weeks old before I begin to use it.
There are States where millers have a
brand of ﬂour called “family ﬂour;” it is a
mixture of roller and standard; spring
wheat is used in a certain proportion. I
mix my own ﬂour as I use it—for no miller
in Battle Creek has such a brand as I know
of. \VhenI want an extra nice baking I
use patent ﬂour entirely; for every day use
one-third patent and two-thirds stand: rd,
and quite frequently I use the standard
alone. The quantity of ﬂour desired for a
baking should stand in a warm room
awhile before using and then be sifted If
you are not in the habit of sifting your flour
you will be astonished to see the amount
of ﬂour a panful will make after being
sifted. We will suppose the yeast is good,
there are so many ways of making it, and
“ my way” is good enough, you know. If
it is a good way and you feel certain that
your bread will bear inspection, and there
isn’t any that looks any better or tastes any
better when you “ trot it out,” my ad-
vice is to stick to it; don’t ever change, not
even if Frances Cleveland should inaugurate
a new method, and put her hand and seal
thereunto.

cies of bread-making.

and old tablecloths; give them an airing

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success of housekeeping,

smooth.”
bread is geod everything else is good. I
is the motive power in housekeeping.

 

take at least one-third for grinding, and
you never get your own wheat.” There
are instances on record of men who, upon
seeing the back end of the threshing
machine go out of the door yard, hasten to

  

is in having the greater part of the tlou

But if it is a good way don’t
keep it to yourself when so many young
housekeepers want to know all the intrica-
You know it is not
fair to hide your talents under a bushel or
fold them away in a bread-box under paper

One mother tells me, “ Hattie is making a
she has such good
luck with her bread, everything goes off
That tells the whole story, if the

Another important thing in bread—making

sponge made from a yeast cake at noon,
then stirred thick with ﬂour at night, illu5r
trates this; it is all yeast in the sponge, it
rises quick and the dough is of ﬁne light
texture. After the dough is molded into
the tins, don’t put it in the heater to the
stove or on the hearth, don‘t hurry it at all,
let it take its time; it will rise, it does not
need the heat of the stove. Take out a
lump, enough for two or three tins of bis-
cuit or rusks, mix in some lard and sugar,
then put it in a pan, turn another over it
and put it where it will freeze. Go down
cellar when you want some fresh biscuit,
bring it up, roll it out, out in strips and let
it stand all the afternoon in, the pantry or
on the shelf back of the stove.

You need not make bread but once a
week, unless you want to. One big bread
sponge managed like this will give you
-‘ fresh bread every day. But the baking is
what tells on bread: who likes it burned,
who likes it doughy? Everybody hasn’t a
stove like the old woman, who put her
bread in the oven and went out to spend
an hour with a neighbor while it baked; it
most always needs to be changed around a
' little. If the bread is really good pass me
3 a piece, if not “ wisht.” And how to keep
it? Wrap it up in a bread cloth, in a box
or boiler, not any paper, but good clean
cloths, it will not have a chance to get

musty between times.
BATTLE CREEK.

 

EVANGELINE.

____.—...——————

CROCHETED SHAWL .

 

I will say with numerous others (if you
are not tired of hearing it so often) that I
have been so much beneﬁtted by the wel-
come presence of the Hocsauom) every
week, that I have felt it a duty to contribute
something. But when the thoughts come
that I would write is just the time I can—
not stop, and when the time comes that I
can I am entirely out of the notion. Just
at present my time is so limited I can only
suggest to the one who asked for advice
about knitting or eroeheting a shawl, I
would get a pound of Columbia yarn (any
color she likes best) crochet crazy stitch
and make it long shawl with fringe on the
ends; then it can be used for a light wrap
in cool evenings, as well, as for the head in
long cold rides.

For the one who requested a recipe for
r , layer cake. without eggs, I will send one.

 

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mixed with yeast——that is, put the yeast (Recipe 0n fourth page—En.) And if my
into the wetting for the sponge before you

stir in any flour; thus the ﬂour
,direct contact

with the yeast.

comes in 1
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effort does not meet the waste basket may
come again. MABEL.
WESTERN NEW YORK.


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THE HOUSEHOLD.

  

 

ON POLLY’S SIDE.

 

Right you are there, Polly! But your
criticism ﬁts both man and wife. How
many we see who are continually showing
off their “smartness” at the expense of
the other! It seems impossible for some
married people to treat each other with
common decency—saying nothing of
civility, at least in the presence of others.
They seem to fear that people will con-
sider them “soft” or “spoony,” if they
venture a kind word; so any remark made
by one is met by the other with ridicule; a
civil question is answered with a sneer; a
request is airily put aside, or met with a
haughty rebuff. It would seem at times as if
both were imbued with an intense desire to
prove to the world that they have no regard
for each other, and that the other was of
very little account any way, if not carrying
the idea that they are lacking in judgment,
common sense, or scarcely one remove from
idiocy.

When both parties to a union indulge in
such phantasies, or foolishness, one can
only commiserate their want of sense of
propriety; but where one of a pair so of-
fends, one’s heart is sad for the other, who
must live in astate of perpetual chagrin
and mortiﬁcation. It seems that such a
course must lessen respect and affection, if
it does not in the end entirely alienate it.

No person of any sensibility can be thus
held up to public view as an ignoramus or
idiot; be made the butt of coarse jokes and
the victim of poor witticisms; be perpet-

ually ignored and snubbed and jeered,
. without intense mortiﬁcation; and a feeling
of revolt, if not worse, will spring into
active life.

Yet many men and women who sincerely
love and respect their partners, allow them-
selves to drift into such ahabit, from a
mistaken sense of the ﬁtness of things, or
fear of being thought over loving. I think
there must be an addle spot somewhere in
the brain of such persons. No one thinks
more highly of such persons, and if they
could hear the remarks made of them after
such an exhibition, their ears would tingle
with shame. Sensible people deplore such
ablot on the character of a friend, who
may in other respects be an estimable per-
son.

Akin to this fault, and often growing
out of it, comes a habit of fault-ﬁnding, or
rather a belittling of the efforts and work
of the other. How often we hear the re-
marks, “Tired, are you? What have you
done to get tired? Woman’s work amounts
to nothing! Whose money buys things?
Oh, yes, you are too busy to help me a
minute. Some men ﬁnd time to help their
wives! Men don’t work half the hours
women do, but they can’t doachore, if
their wife is most dead. She must peg
along.” .

All this is wrong on both sides, and the
inﬂuence on the little ones, if there are
such in the family, is most lamentable. If

it is both parents who are in fault, you will
see children raised up that will show no re-
spect or reverence to either parent, and the
seed is sown fora repetition of the fault in
generations to come.

If the fault lies with

 

only one parent, the children soon take the
cue, and ma or pa, as the case may be,
loses caste in the eyes of the children, and
the added burden of neglect and insult
from the child must be borne by the suf-
ferer.

The subject is one of great importance as
a factor of happiness or misery in many
families. It cannot be too deeply impressed
on the minds of all, that it is at home,
among our loved ones, that courtesy and
kindness are most called for, and should
be most carefully practised. Husband and
wife can have no separate home interests,
and a careful respect of the rights and
feelings of the other reacts to the happiness
of both.

Yet there are those who would quickly
resent an affront from any one else, who
will deliberately use language and acts to
the other, that would shut the door forever
against them, if indulged in to any person
outside. So many

"- Have words of cheer for a stranger,
And smiles for the sometime guest,
But oft for their own,
The bitter tone;
Tho” they love their own the best.”

INGLESIDE. A. L. L.

YOUNG TEACHERS.

At a farmers’ institute I attended not
long since, there was considerable discus—
sion about “Our Country Schools,” and
able papers were read on the subject.
Those who have ever listened to adiscus
sion on this subject can readily imagine
what was said pro and con, for humanity is
much the same everywhere. But the one
thing which I would have been glad to have
heard some one say, was not said. It was
a reply to the disparaging remarks made
about young girls teaching their ﬁrst term.
I know from things said that some of those
persons take the MICHIGAN FARMER, and
through this medium would like those per-
sons to tell me 110w an old school teacher
can be made without teaching a ﬁrst term?
And why should their youth be urged
against them?

I can readily understand the reply will
be, lack of judgment and experience. Let
me say right here; I have no sister, no
daughter or nieces teaching or wishing to
teach, so I have no personal interest in this
discussion, excepting the desire to see right
and justice triumphant.

Now I will take up the objection, that of
judgment. A young girl fresh from the
school room where she has been subjected
to the drill of our “ graded schools,” has
imbibed its methods at every pore; she has
lived in its air and drank at its fountains
until she could not materially change her
mind, manners or method, if she would,
for a long time; so I reply, the habits of the
largest portion of her life (when awake)
cannot be thrown off in one year, and in
this case, is not this as good as the judg-
ment of more than one half of the older
teachers?

Then you say, she lacks experience! I
have just shown you she does not lack the
experience of the school room; she only
lacks experience in applying to others the.

 

rules she has been obeying for years; and

  

 

how can she gain that experience except
by trying to apply it?

I cannot see why any capable young
teacher, with the ﬁrm support of the school
board, and the parents, need fail in the least
particular, if she has the right material in
her to ever make a good teacher; and surely
teachers must teach a ﬁrst term before they
can teach a third or fourth.

Another reason why youth is not objec-
tionable is that being young, the teacher
realizes that “success is the price of vigi-
lance.” One who is ambitious to makea
successful teacher, and to rise in the pro-
fession, will strive harder, and study how
and in what way she can best interest and
stimulate her scholars to apply themselves
to their studies, and help them to advance
most rapidly and understandingly; and
youth understands youth best, their needs
and aspirations; not having entirely out-
grown childish needs and feelings, a young
teacher can more easily understand how to
explain small things, and also the need to
do so, better than those who are so much
older that they can hardly remember the
many little things they needed to have ex-
plained in so simple a manner that they
could easily understand.

In many cases children under the in-
struction of old teachers, who are highly
endorsed as keeping an excellent school,
do not advance as fast as they do under the
instruction of young, inexperienced teach-
ers. There are many reasons why young
teachers fail; and is it not true that as
many fail from the lack of the support of
the parents, in keeping their own children
in a frame of mind to respect and obey
their teachers, as from all other causes com—
bined? M. E. H.

ALBION.
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SURPRISE PARTIES.

 

It is characteristic of the American peo—
ple that when a fashion or style is once
started it is rushed with such energy that it
is soon run into the ground. I trust such
will be the case as regards the present
craze for surprise parties. I have seen a
whole family put to their wits’ ends to ﬁnd
seats and room for forty, ﬁfty, perhaps one
hundred misguided friends, who rushed in
upon them unexpected and uninvited, with
baskets and bundles enough to ﬁll a small
warehouse. I suppose it is meant in kind-
ness, but am sure it often means more
pain than pleasure to the tired house-
keeper; who, aside from the work and
worry of the occasion, ﬁnds a house turned
topsy-turvy to be put to rights next day.
And in the country the host must ﬂy round
to make room for ten or ﬁfteen horses, and
probably has to turn his own stock out in
the cold after being housed for the night.
If the unexpected guest is welcome the in-
vited one is doubly so, and so let’s all wait

for an invitation.

At all events, let us give the post of
honor to the host and hostess, give them a,
conspicuous place in the parlor, where they
may entertain and be entertained by their
company; not press the hostess into servwe
in the kitchen, setting tables and washing
dishes, until midnight ﬁnds her seated at
the table sipping ' insipid soup, and trying
to think herself and family highly honored.

 

ADAM BEDE .

    


THE HOUSEHOLD.

    

3

 

ADAPTATION TO CIRCUMSTANCES.

 

[Paper read by Mrs. E. N. Ball, before the Web-

ster Farmers’ Club, Feb. 9, 1889 ]

We were told the other evening by our

lecturer, that there is no place in this world
for commonplace people; and immediately
there came to my mind the question, what
then are you going to do with the great
mass of humanity who go to make up the
inhabitants of our land, and who are so de-
cidedly commonplace in every sense of the
word?
You see, that rather stepped on the toes
of what I had chosen as a subject for my
paper, adapting ourselves to circumstances.
How was I, in the face of that assertion, to
tell you how I thought we should endeavor
to ﬁt ourselves into the niche in which
Providence has placed us, act well our part
and help to make the complete whole,
when we had just been told that there is no
place for the ordinary being?
‘Vhy, we are nwst all ordinary! and so
many of us are likely to remain under that
title to the end of our days, that I wanted
to show how, being commonplace, we may
still be helpers in bringing to perfection
the wonderful plan of the great Father.
Granted that many of us may have to oc-
cupy the lower and lowest rounds of the
ladder, but we cannot all stand at the top;
if we did there would be a terrible gap.
We cannot all be architects and designers,
nor could they accomplish much without
the stonemasons, bricklayers and carpen‘
ters. I never had much faith in the readers
that were full of little stories telling the
boys and girls they could all be great like
Washington, Franklin, or Florence Night—
ingale, if they only had the will. Deter.
mination and perseverance count for much,
but there must be genius, ability and in-
telligence behind them, and these are not
possessed to any great degree by the
majority.

Like the children in the game we each
have a corner in life, and not content with
our own, we cast longing looks towards
some other corner, and dream of what great
things we would accomplish were we there.
You see we are dissatisﬁed because we
imagine some one else has a richer,
easier, more honorable or happier corner
than we; and yet perhaps, if we but knew
of the unpleasantnesses behind its occupant,
we wOuld be slow to change.

We are so prone to think were I “ here ”
or “there” I’d strive to be better than I
am in my present undesirable surroundings;
had I money I’d be so charitable; had I
time I’d read and study to improve myself;
or if this, that or the other only happens
I’ll do all these. Now the question comes,
should we be so entirely metamorphosed by
a change in our conditions? If we make
no efforts to be good where God has placed
us, would we be good anywhere? If we
can spare $5 in charity now and do not,

would we be any more likely to be generous
if we had $5,000 to spare; or, if we do not
grasp the precious moments we now have,
even if very few, for improvement in mind
and self culture, would we surely use the
hours in that rosy castle we have built of

the most of what we have, where we are,
we should not be likely to keep faith with
our conditions, however advantageous.

If we have but one small talent given us
for cultivation, let us not wrap it in a nap-
kin and leave it to grow dull and rusty; but
use it and make the most of it, that when
called upon to show the gains made with it,
we be not found wanting; while those who
possessed the ﬁve and ten must beware, for
“ Unto whomsoever much is given of him
shall be much required.” If nature has
endowed you with a good voice, sing, it
will make others happier, perchance better;
if you have musical ability, play; there
will always be appreciative listeners, or, if
it is to read or recite your taste directs, do
that and do it well, for the better the work
the more good results will it accomplish.
“But,” some one says: “I have none of
these, and in fact, I fail to ﬁnd that I have
any talent or special gift.” That can not
be; we must all possess some measure of
grace, whereby we may give pleasure to
others and receive proﬁt to ourselves, if it
is only by a life of unselﬁshness. And let
me tell you that in that word unselﬁsh lies
“ full many a gem of purest ray serene.”
\Vhy, only think, when we have at«
tained to unselﬁshness we have become
charitable, and when we are charitable We
have patience, sympathy, kindness, good
nature, generosity, politeness, faith, yes and
a great many other good qualities which
go to make up the diadem of unselﬁshness.
Who of us could not cultivate that talent if
we but willed to do so, and what a gain we
should have made for eternity? For all
these qualities go to make character, and
only what we have wrought into our
characters during life can we take away
with us when we pass into that un-
discovered country, and it is all we can
leave behind us which shall be worth the
work of our lives.

Hannah Moore says: “ \Ve are apt to mis—
take our vocation by looking out of the
way for occasion to exercise great and rare
virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary
ones that lie in the road before us.” I Iercin
lies the trouble with most of us; we put
aside the small duties of every day, and
with them the discipline that would come
with their performance, all the time looking
farther off to some grand ﬁeld of action
where every deed should show some good
result. \Ve are not willing to cast our
bread upon the waters and wait for it to re-
turn, but must see at once that something
has been gained.

Who of us would not gladly make a long
and tedious pilgrimage to the Christian's
Mecca, Jerusalem, suffering untold tor~
tures, if when we arrived there we were
sure to be claimed as one of the redeemed;
or like Bunyan’s pilgrim, gladly shoulder
a heavy pack and amid the pleadings of
loved ones and sneers of acquaintance, leave

all and bravely face the sloughs of despond,
roaring lions and endless discomforts,
could we be assured that at the end of the
long and perilous road we should enter the
shining gates of the heavenly city. If
money could buy an eternal life, who would

 

time? I fear me “nay;” if we make not

help them gain that desired heaven at last,
and yet when it is given us so fully, so
freely, with an “only believe and keep
My commandments,” we turn away because:
the task is not to our liking. \Ve would
go so joyfully to the more difﬁcult tasks, at
the same time neglecting the lighter ones-
given us to do, or if performing them at al}
it is often with a frowning face and grudg-
ing look at fate for placing us where we are.

And now last but not least, cheerfulnem
is one of the greatest of aids in adapting
ourselves to our circumstances. Fighting
against fate, kicking against the pricks,
looking at life with lowering frown, never
yet brought good fortune to any man.
With Carlyle I would say, “Give us, oh
give us the man who sings at his work. Be
his occupation what it may, he is equaI to3
any of those who follow the same. pursuit
in silent sullenness. lie will do more in the
same time, he willdo it better, he will perr—
severe longer. One is scarcely sensible of
fatigue while he marches to music. The
very stars are said to make harmony as they
revolve in their spheres. \Vondrous is the
strength of cheerfulness, altogether past.
calculation its powers of endurance. Ef-
forts, to be permanently useful, must be
uniformly joyous, a spirit all sunshine,
graceful from very gladncss, beautiful be-
cause bright.” Henry IVard Beecher tells
us, “It is not work that. kills men; it is;
worry. “’orry is rust upon the blade. If;
is not the revolution that destroys the:
machinery, but the friction.”
Chaﬁng and fretting make wrinkles;
faster than the added years, for “ The burr
den becomes light which is cheerfully
borne.”
While we are adapting ourselves to that
places we occupy, we may still be looking;
upward and need not cease to strive for
higher things. To be satisﬁed with on?
selves would be the worst ill that could be.»
fall us. “ Too low they build who build";
beneath the stars.” Contented with what;-
we have we may be, but never with what
we are. Let our doing, our reading and
our thinking be ever toward a higher plane.
“We must build the ladder by which we
rise, from the lowly earth to the vaulted
skies," and mount it round by round.

WM.
THE TIMELY STITCH.

I think it is a good plan to occasionally
take an afternoon for looking over one’s:
better clothes, fastening a button more
ﬁrmly here and there; examining the
seams for premature rips and, in short,
taking that proverbial “ stitch in time that
saves nine,” and better than that it often.
saves the annoyance of having a button.
come off when one is all ready and in a
hurry to go, or having some friend say to;
us when we are out, “There’s a stitch
broken in the rounding seam of your"
basque,” and all the rest of the evening we
must go “ sidling ” around vainly endeav—
oring to face every one of the assembly,
with a painful consciousness of that uns
sightly bulge, which possibly has a white-
background peeping through, so that our
outing is spoiled and we are glad to hide

 

deem any sacriﬁce too great that would

 

our shortcomings beneath our wraps and

  


 

THE HOUSEHOLD.

 
   

 

 

 

start homeward. I’ve been doing just that
work this Monday afternoon, and feel well
satisﬁed with the result. The FARMER was
brought in during the time, and for the
HOUSEHOLD even the necessary stitches
must wait.

Beatrix tells of various new uses for rope,
but does not mention one that I have made,
and that is to loop back lace curtains with.
I made a set last summer by taking, for
each curtain, a yard of rope about three—
fourths inch in diameter, untwist and pick
out the strands for a foot at each end, leav—
ing a feet ﬁrmly twisted in the center.
Loop that around the curtain and put a
bow of ribbon at the joining—a different
color for each curtain if preferred. Try it,
and see if you don’t think some ﬂaxen-
haired child is hiding her face in your cur-
tain, leaving only the rippling sunshine of
her unbraided tresses in View.

I made a number of tidics for Christmas

gifts, one kind made of cloth I do not re-
member to have seen a description of in the
HOUSEHOLD. I used sateen cut in circles
the size of a small teacup, turning the edge,
gathering around and drawing the thread
until it sets smoothly, having the gathered
edge for the front, then sew together in any
shape preferred. One made diamond-shape
had a pale blue center and a row Of gold
color for the edge, ﬁnished with two-inch
lace gathered all around and a bow of blue
ribbon where the lace joined. Another had
four blocks, of nine circles each, of bright
scarlet for the corners, with a double row of
gold circles each way through the center,
also edged with lace; and still another was
of bright orange with a short-cut tuft of
brown worsted in the center, being a good
imitation of OX-eyc daisies. This was made
circular. I also made several of the daisy
tidies of rick—rack braid and yellow worsted
with a cross of peacock-blue ribbon be—
tween the blocks, as was described in the
HOUSEHOLD a year ago. All these were
much admired, and they are cheap and
easy to make.

In the meantime I realized that it is in-
deed “ more blessed to give than to receive,”
for I was sick and the mental atmosphere
was away past being blue—it was absolute~
1y black—and that work, because it was
new to me, took my attention and was of
more real beneﬁt than any gift received
could possibly be. EL SEE.

WASHINGTON. .

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THE CAP FITS.

 

 

I mean the one offered by Beatrix in the
Honsnnom) of Dec. 22, that of waiting for
some one else to answer inquiries and give
recipes.

“Young Cook,” I have used a steam
cooker for two years with my gasoline
stove, and like it very much. I think to
use them to the best advantage one must
have their cooking planned ahead. Some-
times if I am cooking meats or anything
that requires several hours, in goes a pud-
ding to be steamed; one of the kind that
will keep, unless you put it on the table.
Then I “ bake ” apples in it when the oven
is not lighted anyway. Cut them in halves,

with sugar. They can be steamed while
you are getting dinner, and will be nice
cold for supper or breakfast.
many little things can be prepared in this
way while one is cooking meats and vege—
tables, and will save both time and fuel for
the lighter meals.

and from my own experience think it a
good idea.

to putting coffee in the pot and ﬁlling the

A good

I read an article a few days ago, on be-
ginning work at the wrong end of the day,

After the supper work is done,
I get everything ready for breakfast, down

teakettle with fresh water. This may
seem foolish to the “ early birds,” but they
may have the worm, thank you.

“God bless the man who ﬁrst invented
sleep," is a favorite quotation, and with
everything in readiness I can enjoy an
extra nap while the ﬁres are getting under
way. ‘

Putting the clothes to soak, and leaving
the sitting room in order are other things
that can be begun at the wrong end of the
day. PEGGOTTY.

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DETROIT’S FLOWER SHOW.

 

Detroit is to have a ﬂoral exhibition—the
ﬁrst one in Michigan—on April 2, 3, 4 and
5. The 24 Detroit ﬂorists and many others
from various parts of the State will make
displays of the rarest and most beautiful
ﬂowers, having especially timed their grow-
ing plants with the tiower show in view.
The ladies of Detroit who are interested in
the various city charities are to have booths
for the sale of liowers. Young ladies in
costume will be in attendance on the
booths, and the whole aiI'air will be one of
the ‘most attractive exhibitions Detroit has
ever witnessed. The entire net proceeds of
the thWer show are to be divided equally
among the 21 charities represented in the
enterprise.
Arrangements have been made for ex-
cursions from all parts Of the State to De—
troit at the time of the exhibition, and the
details as to special rates of fare may be
learned by applying to the local ticket
agents. The exhibition originated with
Mr. W. H. Brearley, of the Detroit Journal,
who acts as general manager. The exhibi-
tion will undoubtedly be well worth avisit.

 

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HINTS FOR THE COOK

I have read the article in the HOUSEHOLD
of Jan. 26th, on “The Table.” To my
mind a well set table adds half to the at-
tractiveness of the repast, and it seems
easierto arrange things neatly than to throw
them on hclter-skclter. In response to the
request for tested recipes for breakfast and
tea crkes, I enclose a few. [These were
published last week—431).] I think a
breakfast relishes much better to have
something warm in place of stale bread,
especially in the winter, and believe country
housekeepers can prepare such things as
well or better than city ones, having, as
nearly all of us do, plenty of milk and
cream.

In using corn meal or graham ﬂour I
prefer sour milk and cream, with soda, to

like' to use buttermilk unless it is fresh.
You can omit eggs in johnny cake when
they are scarce. I use the same rule for
graham gems as for johnny cake, using
graham ﬂour instead of meal and ﬂour, and
bake in gem pans.
WACOUSTA. LAUREL VANE.
W '

GRACE’S PANSIES.

Many thanks to Diana for telling how
she raised pansies so successfully. I shall
try again next spring. The ﬁrst time I
tried to grow pansies was a few years ago.
I prepared a bed at the north of the house
and west of a wing, where the sun did not
strike the bed till late in the afternoon. I
made the bed quite rich, sowed my seeds
and waited patiently for the young plants
to appear. In about three weeks they came
up, at least I thought they were pansies.
I attended them very carefully for a while,
and they were doing ﬁnely, when one day I
discovered they were catnip plants. I was
so disgusted I left them for that year.
However, I have had better success than I
had the ﬁrst time; I can tell the difference
between catnip and pansies when the ﬁrst
two leaves appear now. I would very
much like to see Diana’s pansies.
I tried Ella R. Wood’s recipe for frost-
ing and like it very much. One mess got
tOO hard before I had it all spread. I set.
the cake on the grate in the oven until it
softened enough to allow me to spread it
GRACE L.
#"W- _..
\VE have several papers and essays read
at various institutes on hand, which we
shall publish as soon as possible. As these
papers are generally quite long, we can
give place to but one in each issue of the
I‘Iorsrznonn, but we shall get around to all
in time, only asking the writers, and the
societies which requested the publication,
to be patient.

again.

W

Contributed Recrpes.

LAYER CAKE Wr'rnOU'r Enos—One cup
sugar; one cup sweet milk; four tablespoon-
fuls butter; two cups ﬂour; two teaspoon-
fuls baking powder. M ABEL.

WESTERN New YORK.

GRAHAM BREAD -One pint sweet milk; half
cup molasses; one teaspoont‘ui saleratus; one
teaspoonfui salt. Mix with graham ﬂour thin
enough to pour. Steam three hours. The above
is from The Home Cook Book, and has been
tested and proven excellent. J ANNETTE.

 

NICE BREAKFAST BISCUIT.-—Beﬂt two eggs
well; add two small cups sweet milk, a pinch
of sa‘t; beat in ﬂour enough to make a batter
thin enough to pour easily. Have the oven
very hot, and heavy iron gem pans heated
on the top of the stove; grease with a swab ,
till about half full with the batter, and place
in the even as quickly as possible. They will
bake in about ﬁfteen minutes. When made
and baked “ just right ” these are delicious.

MOLASSES Commas—One egg; one cup mo-
lasses; one of shortening; one of cold water;
a heaping teaspoonfui of soda; ginger and
cinnamon. Stir thick; grease a dripping pan,
spread the dough in it thin. bake. and when
cool cut into squares, Spread upon a paper.

 

 

core, lay in a dish and sprinkle thickly

sweet milk and baking-powder.

  

I do not

THOMAS, A. H. J .

