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DETROIT, AUG. 5, 1893.

 

THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

THE WORLD.

 

BY CLARA BELLE SOUTHWlLL.

 

‘ ’Tis the easiest thing in the world, dear.

To make a mistake you will ﬁnd;

And men are not apt to forget. dear.
For the world is so very unkind.

It may not remember the good that you do.
Or think of the eiforts you make

To show yourself noble land worthy and true,
But it never forgets a mistake.

It is easy to make a misstep. dear.
From your path as you journey along,
And fall fromlths way of the right. dear.
Into the pathway of wrong.
But, oh! it is harder to try to step back,
And men are so chary to aid;
The world will not help you to gain your old
track,
But the thought of your sllp will not fade.

.It is easy to speak words unkind, dear.
When all of the world is awry,

But you never can call tiem asback. dear,
No matter how much you may try;

And if you speak kindly and gently again,
To ease the remorse of your mind,

Your words to the world are all spoken in vain
It remembers the speeches unkind.
lanesann.

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THE SUMMER GIRL’S GOWNS.

 

The summer girl is of two types, one
all ﬂuff and feathers, a whirl of mist
and muslin, too dainty and delicate for
any earthly use, so that you regard her
dubiously while wondering if there’s
anything of her but clothes. The other
type is trim and slim. There’s so un-
certainty about her. You’ll ﬁnd her
in the blue serge skirt that is inevitable
and the shirt waist that is kaleioscopic.
When she’s a little more “ﬁxed up,”
you will discover her still in the blue
serge skirt and apparent shirt waist, to
which she has added an Eton jacket.

The Eton suit was described in the
HOUSEHOLD of May 20. It has been
the success of the season and quite
superseded, among young people. the

blazer suit which was the correct thing
‘last year, and is still worn by those who

feel the chic little iacket isa triﬂe “too

young” for them. Suits have been

made up not only in the indispensable
blue serge, but in white and white-and-
blue striped duck. percale, and cham-
hery; and may be bought at very reason-

able ﬁgures at the mark-down sales

which our, merchants always hold in

July.

But the Eton suit has its limitations,
even among the young people. The
high-shouldered girl must avoid it, and

the round-shouldered one stoutly deny
herself. That jacket back is the crucial
test of the ﬁgure. It should be out
without side-form seams, and on slender
forms may be cut in one piece. Then
it must be exactly right for length; it
mustn’t round either up or down when
on, and it mustn’t pull up. And the
skirt must not “sag” and should be at-
tached to a wide belt of the material or
worn with a girdle. Those who pin
their skirt on and trust the jacket to
hide the band never had a rear view of
themselves or they wouldn’t do it.

It is possible to vary the Eton suit by
using a variety of waistcoats. Make
tight ﬁtting waists of silesia and cover
the fronts with silk or lawn of different
colors and your one suit will be suitable
for almost any needs. A yard of silk
will make the full front and collar for
the waistcoat.

‘The sleeveless jackets worn over shirt
waists are not inappropriately called
“monkey jackets” from their resem-
blance to the attire of the monkey that
travels with the hand-organ. Don’t
you be pointed out as “the girl in the
monkey- j acket. "

Shirt waists have been the fad of the
season. They are so comfortable these
stiﬂing days! They are made up in
more ways than one can count—with
tucks; with pleats; plain; with rufﬂes
down the front; with square collar and
ends edged with inch wide pleatings of
the goods or outlined with white braid;
in short. individual fancy sets the mode
to its liking. Ready made, you can buy
them for 39, 59, 69, 89 and 99 cents.
Merchants have discovered the average
woman thinks ninety-nine cents a good
deal less than a dollar, but it makes
those of us to whom “time is money"
wander whether we receive a full equiv-
alent as we wait for that odd penny to
come through the Circumlocution
Oﬂioe. ‘ At least women are not further
out of the way than was our Board of
Education when its members elected a
treasurer believing that the four and
ﬁve-sixteenths per cent oﬂfered as in-
terest in its deposit was greater than
four and one-half per cent!

One of the prettiest wash gowns I
have seen was worn on the street by one
type of the summer girl. It was of pale
blue chambery; skirt gored front and
side and slightly full, back straight.

ﬂounce was set on just below the knee,
forming the lower portion of the skirt.
The waist was plain. close ﬁtting, and
trimmed with white cotton guipure, set
on to form points meeting at the neck
and separating below. Belt, collar and
cuiis were covered with the lace. A
wide-brimmed sailor with band of blue
ribbon and tan gloves completed a very
pretty, simple yet stylish costume.

A summer girl of the "ﬂuffy” type
were a Sprigged organdy muslin all a-
foam with ruliies and ribnons. It had
three laceeda‘ed rufﬂes round the full
skirt: the sleeves consisted of a series
of superimposed ruiﬁes with the upper-
most one extending around the should-
ers; all were lace-edged. The yoke was
of lace, the material being cut away
under it. Girdle,stock collar, the rosettes
that were set among the shoulder rutlies,
and wristlets were of soft reseda green
silk, and the wide white Leghorn hat
was trimmed with lace tangled in sprays
of mignonette.

 

LET US BE JUST.

 

Few things would tempt me this hot
day to make the effort of a reply to the
many things that have been said on the

. woman question, but some of them are

so unjust that the spirit moves me to
make answer. In all of these discus-
sions the conservative view is always
that of the duty of self-repression and
self-sacriﬁce on the part of the wife and
mother; and even the girl is censured
because she does not marry when she is
not allowed to take the initiative or
permit it to be known that she cares
in the least for the young man she
bones to win. If he suspected that she
was trying to “catch him" he would be
at in a trice. She must keep up the
little deception of not caring whether
he proposes or not; and if he does pro-
pose must not accept him too readily or
he might repent his choice. She would
not be so valuable it tooeasily “caught."
The sacredness of the marriage relation
and the interests at stake would suggest
the propriety of allowing the one who
is the most spiritual and who has the
quickest perceptions to have at least an
equal choice in the life partnership in
stead of taking some one who offers, or
going h srlone way through life. The ad-
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practice of capturing the bride and
carrying her off despite the struggles
of the victim and the resistance of her
friends—feigned or real.

Again, George and others point to
the supposed unwillingness of girls to as-
sume the cares of a family as a reason
for the indifference of young men, and
the fact that girls are becoming so
largely self-supporting as a reason for
this condition. It is not suggested that
it is possible the club and other inﬂu-
ences, the freedom from family cares
and expenses on the part of the young
man have anything to-do with it. If any
reference is made to a failure on his
part the reason given is that wives are
becoming so expensive that young men
cannot assume the support of a family.
Not a hint of the vices now so common
and so expensive—cigars, and beer, and
gambling in its multifarious forms;
betting on cards, on horse racing, on
bicycling, on base ball games, on elec-
tions, enough being squandered in these
ways to support a small family in com-
fort by many a bachelor, who cannot af-
ford the expense of a family.

George also thinks that the girls may
be responsible for all these vices. This
after all is not so monstrous as, an as-
sertion made by an eminent divine
(who is also editor of apopular religious
weekly) in these words: “For any sin
committed anywhere, at any time, by
any man, some woman is responsible;”
to which I replied: “If that is true,
then for any good done anywhere, at
any time, by any man, some woman is
responsible and should have the reward.
How many men would be willing to
accept that theory?” The reverend
doctor did not say. The men—and the
number is not small—who will shirk
the responsibility of wrong-doing, cast-
ing the blame on the wife or mother,
are not so willing to forego the rewards
of right-doing. This, by the way, is
one of the most cowardly things of
which any man can be guilty.

Women are not—as a class—respon-
sible for the vices of men, but men are
responsible for the vices of boys. The
boy learns to smoke and drink because
he~thinks it manly, the father’s example
outweighing the mother’s teaching in
shaping the future of the sons. But in
all this the father is as secure from
blame as thOugh he had no existence;
and that'notwithstanding the fact that
he is also responsible for the laws that
* make it possible for the boy to acquire

these habits. Again, if a boy goes
' wrong and his mother is a society. wo-
man who spends her days entertaining
and being entertained and her nights
at card 'parties or balls, leaving her
children in the care of servants; or if
she is one of the many who spend seven
days of the week within the four walls
of her home without a thought of the
temptations of the outside world for her
children, being too weary and worn to
think of anything but the ever-recur—
ring problem, how shall the family he

 

clothed and fed,no question arises about
her failure to perform her whole duty.
But if perchance she is a woman who
cares what the moral atmosphere about
her home is, and goes out, or calls her
neighbors in to discuss some method of
improving their environment, and any
member of her family is morally delin-
quent the conclusion is reached at once
that she has neglected them and is re-
sponsible for their ruin. This is mani-
festly unjust. A woman who cares en-
ough about public morals to take an

active interest in advancing them is~

likely to care enough about the private
morals of her own home to do all she
can to advance them. But like all moth-
ers, the progressive woman is handi-
capped by custom and law and the
family suffers in consequence.

The marvel is not that girls are be-
coming less anxious to marry, but rath-
er that under the restrictions which
that relation brings they can be prevail-
ed upon to assume the responsibilities
and cares of a family. The time is com-
ing—and that right speedily—when in-
telligent and reﬁned girls will demand
in the man who seeks their hand in
marriage the purity of heart and life,
the mental, moral,and physical develop-
ment which he demands of her, and
more; for women are taking the lead in
the progress of the world and will be-
fore long be the ones to make the stand-
ard for the home as well as for society,
and this despite the conservatives who
would hold them back.

The hope of the future for the race
lies in the growing intelligence and in-
dependence of women. The self- support-
ing and self-respecting girl will not be
a menial of the man she marries; will
not pander to his every whim; will not
through servile fear stamp cowardice
and every form of moral degeneracy
upon her children,but will both demand
and command respect and. the consider-
ation that is her due. Just how much
this last means to long-suffering wives
and mothers let the sad hearts which do
not all speak out even through the
columns of the HOUSEHOLD answer. It
is as true now as in the dawn of the race
that the son of the bond-woman cannot

:be heir with the son of the free woman.

IONIA. MRS. R. M. KELLOGG.

 

; A nanny T0 GEORGE.

 

I am" glad to have "been the means of

calling out so excellent aletter as the

One from George 1n the HOUSEHOLD of

.July 22nd. I agree with him' 1n theory,

however we might disagree as to
methods. In ansWer to his ﬁrst question,
I say unreservedly there can be no more
noble adestiny. no greater good done
for mankind than the giving to_ the
world a child whose. good work has been
to forward a natiOn’s destiny, or make
men better and thus happier. This is
a subject torwhich’ ,1 cannot ”do justice
through the point cf apeh. Thoughts
crowd fast and furious, tumbling over

 

one another until they are well jumbled"

together.

Hereditv and ore-natal inﬂuence make
a hobby that I used to take out for an
airing quite often; and am none the less
a believer in them to-day. But at the
same time I yield several more points to
environment, now,and to associations in
early youth. I am fully persuaded that
a better development of the body and
mind of the mother would be of the
greatest advantage to the children.
And the development of mind comes
with years, healthful associations and
occupations. Very young parents give
their children just the peculiar char-
acteristics of their families for no one
knows how many generations, modiﬁed
or intensiﬁed by their circumstances--
and associations.

Years of study, observation and ex-

perience, combined with a naturally-

strong will power, or as Thomas Dixon

calls it, “backbone,” can scarcely fail to-

transmit many strong, desirable traits
in the oﬁspring, thus creating the nu-
cleus of a nature which with proper
training and associations will produce
a character that will make its mark in
the world. And may not the employ-
ment of girls in business, and the asso-
ciations that necessarily accompany the

same be a means of education, a means .

of broadening their minds and natures

that will be a blessing to future gener- .

ations?

I cannot foresee the effect upon the
generations to come of a woman’s feeling
a little more independent. If every wo-
man was sure to ﬁnd in her husband a
manly man. a considerate friend. com-
panion and adviser her dependence
would no doubt be very pleasant; but
when the case is the reverse of this, it
is a vastly different matter.

I verily believe that what makes
nine-tenths of the sly, weak-minded,
and no-moral-stamina people, is the
brutal,inconsiderate,domineering treat-
ment of men over their wives, who
suffer in silence rather than quarrel
until their spirits are broken and they
cower in fear whenever anything goes
wrong with them.

The crying need of the age is that
girls andydung men be better educated
and that not in books alone.

Let’s talk of something else. But ﬁrst
Iwant to say to George I was just a
little disappointed 1n the last paragraph

of his letter. He asks if the “agitation.

of the woman suffrage: question,” and
the "choosing a business to make her.
independent of any one,” how far are
these things responsible for the young
men’s preference for a “good cigar,” a
glass of beer, ” the ‘ ‘opera” and “clothes,”

instead of the sacriﬁce of these things.-

necessary to build a home. It appear

to me that the opposite state of affairs-v
is the true One. I fear it will take fully.-

one generation of educated mothers to
rear sons who will not cry at every com-

plication between the sexes, “Eve did.

1” '.;.;

give me the apple.
ALBION. M. E. H.


The Household.

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GOING TO BE MARRIED.

 

A young lady who is to be married
next October asks for information on
sundry matters of etiquette for the oc-
0881011.

The ﬁrst question is, will it be too
late for a ﬂower wedding? Not if the
bride will be content with autumn ﬂow-
ers, or chooses to spend money for
others.
sonable. One may have tulips and
hyacinths in November, sweet peas in
May and roses the year round, by pay-
ing’the price. But chrysanthemums
and asters are seasonable in October,
and either may be used as decorations,

Y but do not combine them. Better a
few of and variety than a 1union of
both, unless different rooms are dif-
ferently decorated. As the bride’s
gown is to be cream in color, the pale
yellow chrysanthemums would be suit-
able adornments for the room in which
the ceremony is held, using, as ’far as
possible, the plants in preference to
cutting the bloom. Another color in the
same ﬂower might beautify the dining
room. 1 11 at has not destroyed it, the
ever beauz .ul golden rod mingled with
autumnal ioliage could be employed.
Fill the corners of the rooms with the
plants, or great jars with the cut
branches; stone crocks may be substitut
ed if draped in cheap green muslin or
tissue paper. The bride’s bouquet
should be roses; or if these are not easi-
ly obtainable a few large, long-stemmed,
creamy chrvsanthemums. Tie these
with yards and yards of narrow satin
ribbon in long ends, and gather them
loosely at intervals into knots around
one or two blossoms, making what is
called a “shower bouquet.”

The bride should wear mousquetaire
gloves the color of her gown, and the

groom’s gloves should match her; white ’

kid slippers or shoes, and hose to match
are required; the silk-plated hose are
less expensive than silk and answer
every purpose.

At an evening wedding the groom
should wear a black suit.the coat a frock
in cut; a white tie, and no jewelry un-
less a little pearl stud. At a day wed-
ding he may wear a black frock coat
with light trousers and white vest,.also
white four-in-hand tie.

1t is rather early to advise regarding

' _ a going-away gown, but “our girl” can-4

‘, not go far out' of the way if she selects
a brown, in either the yellow or" chest-
nut tones, according‘ to which will be

most becoming.LDahlia and, Russian,

green will also be stylish this fall, but
brown promises to be inthe lead. Don’t
get gray; leave that for the spring bride.
Plain colors, they tell us, are to be the
mode, and velvet and satin used for
trimmings and combinations. Suppose
a chestnut brown serge or hop-sacking

vice, the second be - the “newest”;—
make it with a gored skirt four yards
' "“wide,a habit waist thatis Single-breast-

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Florists make any ﬂower sea- "

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isfchosen—the'ﬁrst will give most ser- ’ '

 

ed, and mutton-leg sleeves, very full
at tap and quite tight to the elbow. Or,
have a long coat with the new full back
called “umbrella,” lapping to the left in
front. Match the brown in felt for a
hat, and have it trimmed with satin
rosettes and quills. Tan shoes and
gloves matching the gown complete the
toilette.

There is, of course, plenty of time to
wait for new fall materials and styles.

As for refreshments,at a sit-down sup-
per more substantial viands may be
offered than where refreshments are
passed. One may have consomme,
roast turkev, ﬁllet of veal, vegetables,
and all the concomitants of asquare
meal. But lighter refreshments are in
better taste. Oysters, either scalloped
or pate, salads, cold meats and biscuit,
to be followed with cake and fresh or
canned fruit, and this again with ice
cream served with sponge or fancy
cakes, concluding with nuts and bon-
bons, would be quite as substantial a
menu as would be desirable.

In better taste would be a supper served
at small tables,about which guests could
break up into groups of four, six or t
more. Serve ﬁrst oysters, then salad
and sandwiches daintily made: cake
and fruit to follow,ice cream or fruit ice
with angels’ food or macaroons. Such
variations as expedience may suggest
may be made, but the idea should he to
avoid heaviness, haste and confusion,
in favor of daintiness, ease and order.

BEATBIX.

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A PEACEFUL ENEMY.

 

I have endeavored to give readers of
the HOUSEHOLD a rest from my prosy
pen, but for fear of its becoming rusty
I shall have to take it up occasionally
to air it.

Being in adon’t-know-what-to-do sort
of a mood, and sufﬁciently backed by a
ﬁt of laziness, I take from the shelf
HOUSEHOLDS which have been careful-
ly laid away, for what purpose I know
not unless as being too highly prized to
convey to the ﬂames.

Strange that the articles which I h ave
read and re-read should hold the self-
same interest they did when they ﬁrst
met my gaze! It‘ seems as though 1 was
holding a sort of reunion with all those
faithful correspondents whose untiring
pens furnish something new with each
spicy contribution. ‘

I ﬁnd some who have only dared ven-
ture once; they have “knocked at the
door,” and when widely onened by our
‘hostess,’ merely stepped one feet over
the threshold, handing her, with trem-
bling ﬁngers, as neat-looking Imanu-
script, and with the other foot backed
out, too utterly prostrated from the
effect of the hospitality received to ever

But herrovs! I look up from the
labyrinth of papers to ﬁnd scarriage
driving up to the gate! Here I sit,
literally ‘snowed under,’ with the house

 

all confusion, and just on account of a
prolonged lazy ﬁt!

I encircle the papers in my arms, and
hurl them into the closet, then a very
uncontrollable enemy confronts me, and
seizing a duster, I hurriedly pass over a
few articles, in order that they may at
least see a few reﬂections in the genuine
polish.

I rush to the mirror, pass a comb
through those inevitable ‘bangs.’ don a
clean apron, and I am ready for callers,
with a countenance as serene and placid
as though nothing ever ruffled it. But
on ushering them into the parlor, and
raising a window shade, a sight which
usually bespeaks a housekeeper’s dis-
inclination to work (in summer), again
confronts me.

After sweeping and dusting that room
a week previous, the door was closed on
a scene of spotless purity; no one had
entered the sacred place where those
rites had been performed. Yet into
every conceivable place, where dust
could ﬁnd lodgment, there it was. Such
a peaceful enemy! yet so nneon quer-
able!

“Only a ﬂuff evolved from nothing,
and arriving it would seem from every
where;” and the housekeeper groans,
for she knows that light-minded as this
enemy might be counted to be, its per~
sistence is eternal, and its presence no
less so.

The dust of these modern times has a
greater share in mysterious ailments
than peOple dream of.

Do you not think that coughs and
throat irritations are oitimes caused
by the stirring up of dust? Life lurks
in those ﬂoating motes. ”Bacteria are
the foes we ﬁght, and their name is
legion.”

Now, dear reader, when you know
that you are attacked, periodically,with
a ﬁt of laziness, very naturally you
would desire some “Icon-hole” bv which
you could make an escape, should you
be so ﬂed from this lethargy by the
arrival of unexpected guests W"

So let me argue that it is better to let
dust remain stationary than to stir it
up, and thus store away portable dis-
ease oi a dozen varieties; “for common
sense does more toward preserving
health than has anything which has
yet been made up in a pill or mixture.”

Mm. Cmnns. LITTLE NAN.

THE Country Gentleman says: A cer-
tain good wife was too hurried one day
while canning peaches to yam them.
She wiped them with a damp- cloth,
halved them and “dropped them into
the boiling syrup. “When thew canning
was done, there was a glassiul of sn rplus
juice which" when _cold, to the lady; s
surprise,“ was a:§rmer jelly than she
had“ ever obtained" before from this
fruit Now, when a plentiful mes

 

'year occurs, this lady makesthh elly
by cutting up the peaches with! eir

skins on, and boiling them to a pulp in
water, then st aining and treating iike
any other jelly

 

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‘1'! AT EDUCATIONAL Q UALIFLC ATIOI’.

 

I have noticed several times ,ln the
HOUSEHOLD, as I have in many other
at the State papers, rather caustic com-
ments—from ladies generally—upon the
educational qualiﬁcation in the woman’s
alragebili, which I hadthehonor to
introduce in the House during the
amsion of 1893. and which became a
law.
The comments above referred to gene-
rally allude to the qualiﬁcation mention-
ed as an intended slight to the women
of our State, in requiring them to read
English, while it is not required of
the male voter. I think however when
the women of Michigan understand the
nitration their comments on the hill.
cautioned will be less severe.

It is ashameful fact that in granting
any privileges to women, men are
selﬁsh and exacting, demanding oftimes
much more than they require of their
own sex

The reason this qualiﬁcation has
never been demanded of the male voter.
is because no political party has ever
dared to do so. it would require a
‘change of our Slate constitution that
no one believes could be made at the
present time, but one which must come
sooner or later.

When this bill first came up in the
House, it failed to pass by thirteen-
votes. On making a. personal canvass
of the members as to their reasons for
voting against the bill, the reply was
that ingrantlng the ballot to those who.
had never voted, they felt that as it
could be qualiﬁed in the bill itself with-
out taking the chances of attempting a
constitutional change,it should he done;
and that in conferring further snlrage
it should be done only under the educa-
tional qualiﬁcation,

While it looked like a selﬁsh dis-
crimination, yet nearly every member
said it should be applied to all voters
alike.

Not liking to take the responsibility
of adding this qualiﬁcation, I wrote to
many or the leading women of the State
and also confeer with those who were
present in Lansing, and they all said,
“Anything to get started.”

Some even said it wastime sucha
qualiﬁcation was made, and that they
hailed the day when ignorance would
b restricted. in a measure at least.
(an participation in the law-lakdngd
our State.

I inserted the qualiﬁcation in the
lull, and it subsequently became a
law.

Without this, the bill never amid

mm; and I felt, as didthme juicyuuostotherfruﬁ. mke’arleas-

wlth whom I conferred, that it would
be quite a start towards the universal
sum-ace which is soon tocome.

The right of suﬂ'rare rarer comes to
a peoplefuil and free at ﬁrst. And this
bill is no exception to the general
rule“.

5 drip. There are times when it is

cupboard is satisfactory,’ if one has but

. a, H... scum . »-9-

J ELLY.

 

It never seemed difﬁcult to me—the
making of jelly, if one has the fruit
juice and sugar. Often agrave mistake
is made inaddi‘ng water. Nofruit juice
needs it; it only necessitates more boil'
ing, which means strong, dark jelly.
One pound of sugar to each pound of
juice is the rule, but this year I was
obliged to use much more than that. to
make it sulﬁciently sweet. the trouble
was probably that the sugar was adulte-
rated. With the currants and goose"
berries it jellied almost before the sugar
was dissolved and is as delicate as one
could wish for, and a ﬁne color. Peach
jelly will never be ﬁrm, and grape jelly
properly made is the same, the juice
starting when it is out.

The housewife should never be hur-
ried or hurried when she sets about the
task of jelly-making. With the condi-
tions right, nothing but pleasant results
need be anticipated. Have the glasses
or cups clean and dry. I like the com
mon tumbler -two for ﬁve cents; they
are thin and light, and can be placed on
the table, if one does not wish to turn
the contents out in a jelly dish. The
tire should be quite brisk; the kettle,
scales, sugar, all at hand. Some old
jelly makers still insist on squeezing
the raw currants in a strong cloth, but
it is hard on the wrists, blisters one's
hands, and is exasperating to the tem-
per, when the thermometer is playing
up in the nineties. _

I ﬁll a three gallon jar—stone, with a
neck-«with the fruit, whether currants,
berries or grapes, and place the jar in a
kettle o! boiling water. This can be
donein the early morning. By stirring
occasionally the fruit will be cooked
suﬁciently in three or four hours. I use
a jelly bag made of two thicknesses of
cheese-cloth. and another made of two
thicknesses of ﬁve cent muslin; turn the
trait in the bag and hang on a nail to

necessary to squeeze it slightly but not
hard enough to extract the pulp. When
the juice has boiled up well and men
thoroughly skimmed add the sugar,and
it. will he jelly before one imagines; it
emu never be a long job. .

WMcrab—anples make adeliciousjeliy,
having a peculiar ﬂavor natural to them,
and turn a nice accompaniment to roast
tnrkey'aadduek. Wild geomherries—
the prickly Had—well repay one for
the ﬂexible experienced in gathering
them. Huckleberries made up exactly
like currant jelly without any squeezing
cannot be surpassed for ﬂavor, texture,
andeoior. Green grapes, while not as

ant jelly. In?» one be used while perfect-
ly green; they also make delicious pre-
serves and marmalade for tarts and
puddines. A variety of jellies in the

afew glasses of each, but for a real
standohy *«I iikecurrantjelly; it is good

 

Dams. ILIWIR i‘ RENEE.

The .Household.

likes it Spread on bread and butter, and
I must plead guilty to liking the old
fashioned tarts on the supper table.witll
sifted sugar over them. The old fashion-
ed jelly roll is not allowed to dry up at
our house; in fact I always calculate to
make at least forty pounds of jelly, and
do not have very much left over.

BAT-ml Cam EVANGELINE.

M. H., of Milford, asks: “Will some
one tell me through the HOUSEHOLD
how to color carpet-rags with black tea,
and what to use to set the color?” We
should think black tea would be a rath-
er expensive dye for rags, even if only
that left over is used, but our columns
are Open for the experience of any who
have tried it.

 

 

A CONVENIENT ironing board is six
teet long and 14 inches wide, with one
end with rounded corners, the other
square and a hole in the end to hang it
up by. Cover one side smoothly with
an old blanket, covered with cotton,
tacked securely on the other side, leav-
ing 12 or 15 inches bare at each end.
Onthe square end screw an iron rest
for the ﬂatiron and tack a folded cloth
on which to wipe the iron.

 

Useful Recipes .

 

CANNED Puma—Prick the plums. Have
ready 3 syrup made in the proportion of a
scant half pint of water and half a pound of
sugar to four quarts of fruit. Dissolve the
sugar 1n the water and let it get warm; put
in the plums and heat slowly to the balling
point. Boil slowly ﬁve minutes. They will
break up if you boil them fast. Skim the
plums into the cans, boil the syrup ten
minutes and ﬁll up the cans and seal.

Swan PIO'KLED Wurmnrmx.—Peel the
rinds with a sharp knife that will take at the
green skin evenly. Trim of! also every trace
of the pink ﬂesh of the fruit. because it is
too juicy to make a ﬁrm, crisp pickle. 'Iben
cut the strips of rind into small pieces two
to three inches long, and - placing them in a
large earthen dish. sprinkle them lightly and
evenly with salt. Cover the dish and let rt
stand over night, In the morning drain a t
‘ the water that will have formed, rinse the
rinds in cold water, and cook them in a
steamer until a broom splint will readily
pierce them. Cooking the rinds by steam is
an easy method. as they are less liable to
burn than when cooked in the spiced vino-
gar. When the rinds are tender, take the.
out carefully with a skimmer, and put than
into a stone iar. -

Take good cider vinegar for the basis of
thepiokle. Allowapoandofsnaarto spilt
stunner, and add also hair «unseat
stick cinnamon broken into inch pieces, and
a halt-teaspoonfai each of whole cloves ad
bladasofmaee. Thswholeamonntofvino-
gar, spear and spices used must of contends-
pend on the quantity of rinds to be pickled.
but a quart of vinegar is usually snﬂoient

for the rinds of a medium-sized melon. Boil

the vinegar, sugar and spices together vigor -

ously half an hour, skimming 01 the froth,

and pour the pickle boiling hot overthe

rinds. Press the riuds down under the pickle

by means of an earthern plate or saucer.
fasten the cover on, and tie a cloth over the

 

with anything. Even the little girl

 

whole. .These pickles will be ready for use
in two weeks-Harper’s Bazar.

  

 
 
 
  

 
 
  
  
   
  
  
    
   
  
  
     
   
 
   
  
  
   
   
   
    
    
    
   
   
     
   
   
   
  

 

 

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