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DDETROIT, DECEMBER 29, 1885.

 

 

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SIX LITTLE WORDS.

 

Six little words there are
Which hind me every day—
“ I shall,” “ I mus',” “ I can,”
“ I will,” “ I dare," “I may."
“ I shall,” is that high law
Inscribed upon the heart,
Impelliug to its goal

My beiug’s every part.

“ Imust," the metes and bounds
In which, on th ry hand,
Mankind restrains my acts,
And Nature bids me stand.

“ I can ”—that is the dole

01' action, strength, and art,
Of science and of skill,

The Supreme may impart.

“ I will,” the richest crown
Which gloriﬁes the whole;
The seal of freedom true
Impressed upon the soul.

“ I dare,” the mystic words
To be read right, before
They‘ll move the lock which bars
My freedom’s swinging door.
“I may,” the inﬁnite is;
Midst inﬁnities it ﬂoats;
Inﬁrite light which gleams
0n ﬁnite Sunbeam motes.

" I shall,” “ I must,” “ I will,”
“ I can,” “I dare,” “ I may,”
These six words bind me just
In life, from day to day.

Only as I am taught,

Know I what ew ry day.

I shall, Imust, I will,

I can, I dare, I may.

.——«._—.

HOLIDAY SCENES.

 

Detroit’s broad avenues never present
a gayer or more lively appearance than
during the holiday season. Crowds of
eager shoppers surge up and down, rush-
ing in and out of the stores, treading on
each others’ toes, and distracting the
hurrying saleswomen by demanding to
he waited on “ right away quick;” while
others, Spectators of the living pano-
rama. saunter idly along, inspecting the
brilliant shop windows, and surveying
the living tide that ebbs and ﬂows, breaks
and mingles again. Everybody’s arms
are full; the bundle is the emblem of the
season. The ladies are the eager ones;
the men who are not tied to business ﬁnd
more amusement in the attitude of criti~
cal and disinterested spectators—and in
ogling the pretty girls—than in the vexing
task of selecting gifts; the masculine
fashion being to leave this till “the last
day in the afternoon,” then, voting
Christmas a nuisance, hurriedly select for
wife, sister or sweetheart the one partic-
nlar thing that they care least for, and
tucking it under an arm, walk off with
the'air of men who have spent their pre-

 

vious lives in preparation for the event.

It is worth a saunter down the avenues
at this season, just to note the display in
the store windows. Before anything
attractive is an ever-dissolving, never-re-
moving group, composite and often demo-
cratic in character. Madame’s elegant
seal dolman is brushed by the washwo-
man’s coarse shawl; and the eye-glassed,
spindle-shanked dude elevates his nose
as a Polack woman, redolent of more
odors than the famed city of Cologne,
“comes between the wind and his gen-
tility.” The sturdy bootblack‘s grimy
face peers over the shoulder of the velvet-
clad child of wealth, and the ragged beg-
gar girl introduces her basket of broken
victuals into the foreground. High and
low have equal rights to the street and
its sights. A Christmas tree always calls
a group of children, and mechanical toys
cause us all to pause. In one window
this season is a set of ﬁgures representing
a monkey turning a hand-organ, a negro
leader conducting his sable orchestra,
who scrape their ﬁddles with true darkey
abandon, while a laughing lad keeps
time to the music with his handsaw. A
small steam engine furnishes the power
which drives the ﬁgures. In another
store a “ gem’man of color " tips his hat
and raises his eye-glass to survey the
admiring crowd; and a large doll, the
size of a year old child, bows, lifts her
basket of ﬂowers and kisses her ﬁngers
when properly “ wound up.” “Oh, my
eye, look a heah, you kids,” says a little
fellow to two smaller editions of him—
self, calling their attention to the life-
size long wool sheep in a fancy store win-
dow. “Git onto that, now, will yer?”
Two pair of eyes widened to their fullest
extent, two pair of lips said “ My 2 l”

Equally amusing it is to watch the
buyers inside, as they hesitate and con—
sider, weighing the relative merits of
this, that and the other. Some women
take everybody into their conﬁdence as
they make purchases, forgetting the clerk
don’t care a pin as to the ultimate destin-
ation of what he sells. Here’s a very im-
portant purchase being made, “a “com-
mittee” of school girls choosing a gift
for their teacher, and representing their
class. Many girls of many minds can-
not agree, any better than many men
thus minded: “ Got any ’fum’ry in aplug
hat?” enquires a small boy of a smart
clerk. “No; we don’t keep our perfumery
in plug hats,” and he lost a customer.
There is pathos in the disappointment of
the poorly; dressed boy who, with his

 

handful of pennies and nickels, 1s intent
on buying a Christmas gift for his mother.
With quick eye for the beautiful, he
chooses something bright and pretty and
watches his chance to ask “ How much?"
The sum named is far beyond his small
store, and he turns obediently yet sadly
to the counter full of cheaper goods to
which the good-natured girl directs him.

What can you buy for a dollar? Lots
of pretty things, this year. A lovely
velvet-covered satin-lined box. which
may do duty for handkerchief, jewelry
or gloves; a gilded slipper on an easel,
ﬁlled with ﬂowers, a plush framed beveled
glass mirror; an olive wood stand with
rack for pens and cut glass ink bottle; a
beautiful frame for a cabinet or panel
picture; a pair of Venetian vases; a little
cut-glass and gilt tube containing
a few drops of the attar of roses;
pretty brass easels to support Christmas
cards; a perfume stand, an odor case, a
gilded basket, satin lined and full of
bonbons. 0h! lots of things!

What did I see in the windows that
was novel and pretty? Too many things
to tell of here. In one I saw a tiny satin-
wood wheel-barrow, laden with abarrel
of perfume; in another, a handsome pin-
cushion of seal brown plush, on which
was laidacluster of pompous made of
the seed pods of. the milkweed, colored
pale blue, and conﬁned by a bow of pale
blue satin ribbon. In a ﬂorist’s window
on Woodward Avenue, are some very
pretty wall ornaments on which these
pompous ﬁgure extensively. Ordinary
palm leaf fans are gilded with gold paint,
and on each is laid a cluster of pompous,
tied with ribbons to match. Some are
colored salmon-pink, some rose, others
pale blue, a few are left in their natural
creamy whiteness, while perhaps the
prettiest of all was a group tinted in
heliotrope, and held in place by a bow of
pale mauve ribbon. Directions for
making these pompous were given in the
HOUSEHOLD last summer, and the girls
should not neglect to provide a supply
for next year’s fancy work, as when
home made, they are a very cheap yet
beautiful decoration. Some of the
clusters were mingled with the feathery
sprays of the pampas grass.

Willow baskets of all sizes and shape.
coated with gold paint, which seems the
haudiest thing out, useful everywhere,
are profusely decorated with ribbons
and chenille balls, to hold papers, maga—
zines, scraps. and mercy knows what else.

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satin bag-shaped tops, and are to be
ﬁlled with French bonbons or assorted
nuts. A unique ornament was a large
crescent, its humble pine disguised under
a golden coat, like some humanity we
wot of, with a solemn faced owl poised
upon it. ButI shall fall into my own
wastebasket if I keep on.

The money spent for confectionery
and worthless toys at this season in this
city would feed and clothe its poor the
remainder of the season. A single ﬁrm
sold over two tons of candy last holiday
week. Most people enter so fully into
the “spirit of the occasion,” that they
buy articles of no more use to them than
slippers to a goat. The “shopping fever”
is as contagious as measels or the mumps;
surrounded by eager buyers the tempta-
tion to buy too is irresistible, and in the
convalescent period which ensues, one
wonders, counting the contents of a dc
pleted purse, what on earth possessed
her. A young man of this city bought a
hand-painted pink satin pincushion at
$15, for his “ best girl.” Think of a ten
cent paper of pins in a ﬁfteen dollar
cushion! What a travesty on “ the eter—
nal ﬁtness of things!" Yet there is always
this comforting thought. that the follies
of the rich minister to the necessities of
the poor. There is always, too, a certain
amount of perfunctory giving, gifts made
because they are expected; and too, the
calculating giving, which proportions its
gifts to What it expects to receive. Such
gifts are no pleasure and bring no bless-
ing; perhaps, after all, the truest gift-
giving, the true Christmas spirit, is that
which unosten‘aatiou'sy leaves Christmas
cheer at Poverty’s door, rather than that
which heaps beneﬁts upon those who al-

ready have enough and to spare.
BEATRlX,

___...____
JOT'l‘INGS.

There are few things more touching,
few inﬂuences teaching more nobly, than
to see those who have lived many years
together, loving each other as little chil—
dren. The sorrows, struggles, growths,
all the experiences of united life, have
wrought out love which brings the
realization of peace and happiness. It is
that love which is “ goo mess in action.”

Words glide and sparkle as lightly on
the current of expression as the white-
tossed foam of the sea, while the hidden
undercurrent moves silently on. Tender
words are beautiful, but they are dead
without the calm, vital undercurrent of
action.

In the harmonious beauty of blended
lives, how much there is to guide the be-
ginning steps of youth! It speaks with a
voice permanent, unerring. In it, for
our girls, lies a lesson of power, grace,
trust;for our boys, a lesson of purity,
tenderness. honor. It is eternally re-
productive in beneﬁcence. Beautiful de—
velopment of heartlife, the living out of
sweet impulses unrestrained! It lifts
those lives into a sphere of grander self—
hood, and is a searching inquiry causing
the young husband and wife to ask,
“Shall we love thus when we are old?"

  

“ Don't think; try and} be patient.” I
once read those words somewhere, and
having brought them to bear upon
various phases of the inner life, have
concluded that they, like all advices, are
to be accepted with reservation and a
view of testing their value.

When in confused pain, in doubt, and
perplexity’s mazes, thought combined
with rational action can alone lead us
into clearer purpose. When climbing
a dizzy height, we look up, and pass
safely on. So must we look up in
thought, and by ﬁrm footing held in
brave action, we shall pass the giddy
heights of troubled perplexity and doubt.

In the life of the soul are periods of
reception as well as of active preparation.
In that calm beyond thought and ex-
pression, we sometimes perceive truth
which words cannot gather nor lay in
ﬂower-like, dewy beauty on the page
before us. There are made in these
moments revealings which intellection
alone can never evolve. There are also
hours which are for endurance, when we
naturally put away thought as weary
and fruitless, when we need to “be
patient” till the way grows clear and
certain. Difﬁculties must be met and
conquered. The way through them being
intelligently planned, we shall have less
need to “be patient.” Where thought
precedes and guides action, there is less
of sorrowful experience. In his “Ethics
of the Dust," Ruskin strikes a hard blow,
yet one not alone of seVerity, but virtue
when he says: “All retouching, botch:
ing, repenting, doubt, hesitating, and
wondering what is best to do next, is
vice as well as misery.”

We all need the example of heroic
deeds to incite us to brave living; hope
mustshine through the moving clouds
of disappointment like star-beams. Do
we not stav ourselvess by promises?
Promise is like aday of soft airs and
warm sunlight. Fair forms germinate
and spring into beauty. Life itself is a
promise of the inﬁnite, hope a promise.
and fulﬁllment a promise, each of higher
good. I have seen an eager child, on
beginning the study of a new book. turn
over the pages delightedly, saying.
“How much I will have learned when I
ﬁnish this book!" That is a spirit to
woo, the bright spirit of expectancy, of
growing promise! It oﬂfers warmth in
weary hours, cheer in dark ones. It has
a clasp like a warm. welcome hand.

The most beautiful promise of today
is that it holds some problem we may
solve on the morrow, and our strong in-
centive to labor should be in this promise
that tomorrow Will be richer than today.
Its story Will be larger, for life ﬂows on
through new ﬁelds, gathering energy
from the .1nﬁow1ng current of daily
action, until it sweeps With the strength
and grace of a river trending seaward.
The rock-bed of experience may be
broken and rough, but the stream farther
on will be clearer and purer.

‘ I know there are no errors

In the great eternal plan,
And all things work together
For the ﬁnal good of man;
And I know when my soul speeds onward
in the grand eternal quest.
I shall say as I 100k back earthward,
Whatever is—is best.”
8. If. G.

 

Lnsus.

 

PREVAILING MODES.

 

In every avenue of life we ﬁnd proof
of the saying, that “human nature is
very much the same in all ages and
stations.” This view was forcibly re—
called to my mind on overbearing the
strictures of a staid matron on the man-
ners, costume and expressed preferences
of her daughter, a rather pert but in—
teresting miss of sixteen summers.

The mother condemned the daughter’s
bangs as “horrid;” the costume was a
mass of “senseless ﬁounces and furbe-
lows,” her liking for parties and games
was “sinful and degrading;" her man-
ners a “cross between backwoods and
rowdy.” And “ girls didn’t dress and
act so when I was young.”

Oh! far ahead of the ” good time
coming” are these good old “has beens.”
And each generation has numerous rep—
resentatives who repeat the tale. What
terrible retrogression have we witnessed
during the past generation!

What a pity it is the old so entirely for-
get the times of their youth, or view
them only through glamoured glasses.
Who will not recall times, if they will
let honesty draw the picture, when mam-
ma objected to the fashion of their
times, and sounded the praises of her
early years, and then, sometime in con—
versation with an old friend, in con-
ﬁdential talking over their girlhood, give
a description of some costume worn that
seems so absurd, that your brows were
elevated in contemptuous derision, that
any one could have ever worn “that.
thing!" Look over the pictured fashions
of twenty-ﬁve, ﬁfty or a hundred years,
and how grotesque they seem to our eyes.
Yet youth and beauty found them
unique and pretty in their day.

So now, mothers, just quietly watch
your pretty daughter, and don’t rouse her
antagonism by wholesale denunciation of
the times and fashions. It is natural for
youth to wish to dress and appear near
enough like others they may associate
with, to secure from criticism and full.
cule. If you have grown so independent
that the opinion of others as to your
dress is of no consequence, why, wear the
fashion of your youth if you will, but
don’t oblige your daughters to wear the
same. Sometimes I have wished that
some elderly ladies had not grown quite
so independent, for their own sakes. If
they would admit the world moves, they
would not make such guys of themselves
in dress. I think many of these excellent
but peculiar ladies really pride themselves
on their oddity, and take more thought
of their raiment than some others they
so hardly berate for their “pride of’
dress.” There surely was a time when
their cherished form of dress was in
fashion, and I am at a loss for any rea-
son for later changes being more sinful.

Extremes of any fashion are always to
be avoided, as being absurd and too pro—
nounced, but any lady, young or old,
dressed in quiet colors, made in a style
prevailing, is much less noticed and

 

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travagantly robed in some costume of
other times.

So if tiebacks are the fashion, don’t
draw the loops too tight; in the hoop
era use moderate circles; if high hats
rule, don’t choose the lofticst; if small
bonnets rage, see that yours is large
enough to be visible. .A. L. L.

INGLESIDE.
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RELIGIOUS LOI‘ PERIES.

Will a masculine face he allowed to
peep into the HOUSEHOLD in these dark
December days long enough to say a few
words on some of the topics discussed? If
so, Iwould most earnestly commend to
the attention of both old and young, the
views of A. L. L., in issue of December
8;h, on young folks’ ”Keeping Company.”
Its valuable suggestions should be read
and its warnings heeded, especially by all
parents who have young girls disposed to
receive the attentions of young men. Truly,
as the writer says, “There are plenty of
opportunities afforded young people—not
mentioning children—to enjoy each
other’s society and become acquainted
without these long hours of midnight in—
timacy, which, however innocent, af-
fordawonderful possibility of intrigue
and infamy.

I would also commend the article by
Beatrix, in the same number, on “ Some-
thing for Nothing.” showing up some
of the fraudulent schemes that crop out
under the alluring form of little lotteries,
gift enterprises, trade gifts, etc , all made
possible, as she says, by that frailty of
human nature, the desire to get “some—
thing ft-r nothing.”

Probably the good and public-spirited
ladies who manage the church fairs and
socials, and sometimes arrange for the
various little games of chance by which
to raise money for church and benevolent
purposes, do not imagine that they are
doing the very thing that deserves the
name of gambling. They probably think
--if they think anything about it—that
the privilege of leading some one of them
to supper, and paying for it, is worth all
it costs to any man, and if he gets the
worth of his money in that way he is not
robbed, and no harm is done; the novelty
of a change of partners, even for so brief
a time, is so agreeable to most men, es-
pecially to the married ones, and to the
women, too. And when they go a step
further—sell chances and distribute little
prizes to the winners—why, it is only a
small matter, and being for the good of
the church or some charity to be beneﬁted,
and the fun of it supposed to be worth all
it costs, it is therefore considered inno-
cent and harmless. The fair managers
do not reﬂect that in all this they are
helping to cultivate a taste for gambling
in other ways and places. They are
teaching, under their approving smiles,
the fascinations of a game of chance.
They are doing away with the home im-
presssons and teachings against gambling,
it such have been received. The young
man does not always see the difference
between buying a piece of a cake cut into
many little cubes, one of which contains
a ring or piece of money, and other forms

 

of lottery gambling where tickets are
sold and drawings made; and really, is
there any difference in the principle in-
volved? The engineers of the church
social are thus sowing the seed that may
fruit in the more extensive indulgence at
the avowed and more-legitimate gambling
halls.

A lady writer in the Saginaw Evening
News comes partially to the defense of
the managers of the church fairs, and
after recalling the unsuccessful efforts in
the old times to raise money for benevo—
lent and church purposes, and the fre—
quent rebuffs received from Deacon Hard-
shell, who “could pray long and loud
for the Lord to revive His work in the
hands of His people, and send the gospel
to the furthermost nations of the earth,”
and Squire Pursetight, who would respond
with an emphatic “Amen.” says "they
evidently wanted the Lord to get along
with the work somehow without much of
their help” ﬁnancially; but that under
the more successful “church festival”
mode of! raising funds, you will see
Deacon Hardshell, his face all wreathed
in smiles, the center of attention for a
group of happy, philanthropic ladies (who
know he has plenty of money, if they can
melt the ice from around it,) and soon in
the sunshine of mirth and good cheer, the
deacon’s heart warms to the work of the
Lord, and he gives right generously
through all the little channels so in—
geniously contrived to reach his purse
through his vanity and self~conceit.

Now I do not object to all this, nor to
the somewhat similar treatment of Squire
Pursetight by a bevy of enthusiastic
younggiris at another table, nor to the
statement that “the majority in these
comp wit-s are genial, pleasure-loving
people, Wll ) give more liberally through
this means than they would through any
other; but the added feature of the little
lottery—the game of chance, is quite an-
other thing—a feature that carries an un-
favorable inﬂuence far beyond the jovial
and apparently harmless scene. And it
would seem the pleasantry and good cheer,
the harmless part ofit, would be quite
sufﬁcient to enable managers to raise
money without resorting to the gambling
features. Certainly it would be so if
wives had a fair share in the control of
the joint purse of the matrimonial part-
nership, and could feel at liberty to use
their own judgment in making donations

to good objects.
PAUL JOHNSTON.

HOLLY.
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SILK PURSE, AND CROCHETED
SHOE.

 

I have been an admirer of the HOUSE—
HOLD ever since it was published, have al.
ways longed to be one of its members, and
since the editor invited all those who can
give any ideas on Christmas gifts, I
thought I would try and see what I could
do. I am an invalid and I do a great deal
of all kinds of fancy work, such as em—
broidery, crochet and knitting, etc. I will
give directions for knitting a silk purse,
which is a very inexpensive present when
you make it yourself, but expensive when

 

you buy it. It requires one—half ounce of
knitting silk to make two purses. Cast
on forty stitches; knit four times around
plain. lst round: P 10, tw 2, p 2, tw 2.
Repeat. 2d round, like 1st. 3d round.
K 10, tw 2, p 2, tw 2, p 2, tw 2. Repeat:
4’13 round, like 3d. 5th and 6th rounds,
like ﬁrst. 7th and 8th rounds, like third.
9zh and 10th rounds, like ﬁrst. 11th and
12th like third. 13th and 14th rounds:
Tw 2 p 2, tw 2, p 2, tw 2, p 10. Repeat.
15th and 16th rounds: Tw 2, p 2, tw 2, p 2,
tw 2, k 10. Repeat. 17th and 18th rounds
like 13th. 19:h and 20th like 14th. 21st
and 22d rounds like 13th. 29d and 24th
rounds like 14th. Repeat these twenty-
four rounds twice more, making seventy-
two rounds in all; then knit once around
plain. In the next round knit the ﬁrst two
stitches plain, then put your thread over
your needle, knit two together to the end,
always putting the thread over the needle;
knit the last two plain. instead of going
on around purl back over the three
needles. Knit back and forth in this way
until you have a piece about two inches
and a half long; then instead of purling
back, knit all the way around once plain,
then go on and knit the rest just like the
other end of seventy-two rounds. Bind
off. You can get rings for ﬁfteen cents
and heads for the same, this is very
b eantiful when ﬁnished. Draw the ends
together and put a bunch of beads at each
end.

To crochet a lady’s worsted shoe, begin
at the toe, make a chain of 15 stitches,
work in single crochet, working3 stitches
in the center stitch Of chain. Work 18
rows in this way, always being particular
to take up the back stitch, and widening
each time by working three stitches in
the center. For the back, work back and
forth on the ﬁrst twelve stitches till the
piece is long enough to go around the
heel, then crochet to the other side,
crochet a row of scallops around the top,
run an elastic in, ﬁnish with a bow of rib«
hon, sew on a lambs’ wool sole, which can
be bought at any shoe store.

TEMPERA‘SCE.

Woonsrnn.
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FIRES.

These cold, blustering, stormy days
call for frequent replenishing of ﬁres, and
for greater care and watchfulness lest we
have ﬁres we do not want. It is a ques—
tion whether the farmer is a gainer or
loser by not being able to summon to his
aid a ﬁre company. It certainly seems as
though the farmer’s only safety in case of
a ﬁre is, as some' might say, never to»
have one. The few nearest neighbors
who might reach the scene could only aid'
in removing things from the burning
building. I was reading a few days ago ‘
an article giving an account of experi-
ments made recently by Prof. Kedzie, of
the Agricultural College at Lansing. I
would like to acquaint all who have not
seen the article with the result. An ex~
hibition was given before the students, by
an agent of the Harden hand grenade. He
was provided with a vertical platform of
pine boards, six by eight feet; over this
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face was coated with pitch. Setting this
on ﬁre and allowing it to get well to burn.
ing, he threw in quick succession six of
the pint grenades, and nearly extinguish-
ed the ﬂames. The contents of the
grenades were analyzed and thc princi-
pal ingredient found to be salt. There
was no doubt but that the Ear-
den grenade solution possessed great—
er. extinguishing power than water
alone, and by experiments this power was
found to be due to salt held in solution.
A bottle ﬁlled with strong brine was
broken in the midst of burning kerosene,
the ﬂames were almost instantly extin-
guished. A vapor seemed to spread in all
directions from where the salt solution
struck the board, extinguishing the ﬂames
as it went. Ladies, ﬁll your bottles with
strong brine, cork, and to make sure of
their breaking, when thrown, ﬁll two ﬂat
bottles and bind together with wire; hang
in some convenient place ready for use,
but not near the powder ﬂask or oil can.
The solution will not freeze enough to
break the bottles.

Since writing the above our chimney
burned out, and my experience leads me
to add two more items toward the comple-
tion of a ﬁre outﬁt. There may be no very
great danger attending the burning out of
a chimney, but the men were away, and
I wanted to make sure no spark had es-
caped from the chimney between the roof
and ceiling, and could easily have done
so with the use of a short ladder or step
ladder, but to place a chair on top of a
table and yourself on top of the chair is
too hazardous, especially if in falling you
land at the foot of the stairs, so I will add,
keep a ladder, and keep cool. Presence of
mind has prevented many disastrous ﬁres.

JANNETI‘E.

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THE BABY’S SHOES.

As W. M. F. inquires about baby shoes,
here is a pattern, which, knit in blue
Saxony yarn, is very pretty for little feet;
'as they get larger we may use coarser
yarn, or put on more stitches. I used
coarser yarn. Perhaps my baby was not
very active and energetic, but I had no
trouble in keeping her in shoes like these
till eighteen or twenty months old. I
think they are much prettier and more
comfortable for the wee ones than leather
of any kind, be it ever so soft, as the feet
never sweat in these. I tried. one pair of
kid shoes, and every time I took them
of! the little toes were wet. and sometimes
cold.

Here are the directions: k. means knit,
and p. purl: Cast on 27 stitches, k 1 row
plain, p. 1 row, k. 11 rows, increasing on
the 3rd stitch only of every row; p. 1 row,
k 11 rows, decreasing by narrowing 2nd
and 3rd stitches in every row. There
should now be 27 stitches; p. 1 row in-
creasing on the 3d stitch; cast on 10
stitches for heel, k. 9 rows, p. 1 row, and
k. 5 rows, increasing at the toe end only-
There will now be 45 stitches; k. 25
stitches, leaving 20 on another needle.
For the front—1st row, k. 25; 2d row, p.
25; 3rd row, k. 1; n. 12 times; 4th row, 1:.
1, take up i to the end; repeat these four

 

rows four times more; make 20 stitches

for side of foot; k. 5 rows, p. 1 row, k. 9-

rows, decreasing at the toe end only; cast
off. For the leg—Take up the 20 stitches
on the side, knitting, also 12 for front,
then knit the 20 left on the spare needle;
k. 3 rows, p. 1 row, thread over twice and
n. 1 row, p. 1 row, then 5 patterns same
as front of foot;then k. 2, p. 2, as many
rows as you like; then, on right side, k. 1
row, p. one row, thread over twice, and
n. lrow, p. 1 row, k. 1 row, cast off oni
wrong side. Finish with cord and tassel
in the row of holes next the foot.

The cotton battin g process of canning
has been a success with me so far, even
with strawberries, and the fruit was not
preserved, but cooked as for table use.

MRS. E. FORRESTER.
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SHOULDER SHAWL.

MIDLAn‘D.

Now that Christmas is here how often
have I heard little girls exclaim, “ Oh!
don’t I wish I knew how to make some-
thing pretty for mamma,” or sometimes
it is for the oldest sister. 80 I thought I
would tell the little Housnnonnnns how to
make a nice little shawl, suitable for
either mamma or “my big sister;” it is so
easy to make that any little girl who can
crochet will have no difﬁculty with. it.
Materials required are two ounces of
split zephyr, of any delicate color, and a
medium sized crochet hook. (Treble is
abbreviated to tr. and chain to ch. to save
space). Make a chain. a half yard long,
then a treble in the second chain, 1 in the
3rd. 1 in the 4th, ch. 3, tr. in the 3rd from
last tr. 1 tr. in the next and one in the
next, then 3 ch., 1 tr. in the 3rd ch., and
so on to the end of chain; always 3 trs.
separated by 3 chs . missing 2 chs. of the
foundation, ﬁnishing the chain by 3 tr.;
2nd row: 1 tr. on 1st tr., then 3 ch., 1 tr.
in each of chain, then 3 tr. in next chs. to
the end of row, so the chains are over the
trebles, making it look like a checker-
board. Make lt as long as it is wide; then
for the border make all around one treble
separated by one chain, skipping one ch.
of the foundation; 2nd row: 5 ch. caught
with a single crochet in every other
chain, repeat to the end; 3rd row: 4 trs.
in 3 ch., 3 in the next, and so on. I hope
the directions are plain enough; I have
tried to make them so at least. I have
been an attentive reader of the HOUSE-
HOLD, and have written ever so many let-
ters, and sent them—in the stove—believ-
ing that they were just as well there as in
the waste basket; but I’ll send this, and if
I am given a hearty welcome then I will
come again. I love the little HOUSEHOLD
and its members, and am anxious to be-
come One. I shall want Beatrix’s opinion
on the subject of what we shall give our
children to read. PEARL.-

Gannnrrnnn.

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As our readers will note in the pros-
pectus for the coming year, the FARMEB
is offered for $1 25 without the HOUSE-
HOLD and $1 50 with it. This is estimating
the HOUSEHOLD at less than half a cent
per week, little more than the cost of the
paper it is printed upon. Up to date, on-

 

ly a very small percentage of orders have
been received for the FARMER without
the HonsEHOLD, a fact which greatly en-
courages and pleases the Housnnonn
Editor, who appreciates this practical
token of the estimation in which the
“ little paper” is held by farmers’ wives
and daughters. We hope to make it bet-
ter and more interesting than ever the
coming year. and are sure our readers
can obtain many times its money value
from it during the year. The Editor
therefore is emboldened to ask that all
who have been beneﬁted by it in the past
Will see to it that the renewal of their
subscription for the Famn includes the
Housnnonn also.
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INFORMATION Warren—Will Old
School Teacher please give name of churn
purchased by her husband, and oblige
one who thinks the HOUSEHOLD splendid?

M. 'l‘.
Hoxnorn. N. Y.

Contributed Recipes.

SNOWFLAKE Cunt—One and a half cupfuls
sugar; one cupful sweet milk; half cupful
butter; three cupfuls sifted ﬂour; two tea.
spoonfuls of baking powder; whites of six eggs
Thoroughly beat the eggs and add last.

J Ann E'r'rz.

CnoconArn Gun—One cup sugar, one cup
ﬂour, three eggs, beaten separately , three
tablespoonfuls boiling water, two teaspoonfuls
of baking powder and one of salt. Beat all
together ten minutes. Bake in jelly pans in
a hot oven. I think it also a nice sponge cake .
Filling—One cup sugar, one cup milk, half
cup grated chocolate, small lump of butter,
two tablespoonfuls cornstarch, pinch of salt;
ﬂavor with vanilla. Boil the ﬁlling by setting
in a dish of boiling water, and when cool spread
between the layers.

CnoconArnMAnBLn CAxn.—One cup butter,
two cups sugar, one cup sweet milk, three cups
ﬂour, whites of ﬁve eggs, one heaping tea-
spoonful of baking powder. Work the butter
and sugar to a cream; add the milk and whites
of eggs beaten to a stiff froth, then the ﬂour
with the baking powder sifted through it.
Take a large teacupfnl of batter and stir into
it half a teacupful of grated chocolate. Then
proceed as with marble cake. Bake in a mod-
erate oven.

FRUIT Cooxrns.— One and a half cups brown
sugar, one cup butter, two eggs, two large
spoonfuls sweet milk, scant teaspoonful of
soda, one teaspoonful cloves, one teaspoonful
cinnamon, one of allspice, one cup currants or
chopped raisins. Flour to roll.

PUFF PUDDING.- One teacupful sour cream,
one teacupful sour milk, two eggs, one tea-
spoonful soda , one of salt, three cups of ﬂour.
Steam in cups twenty minutes. Serve with a
piece of jelly and sweetened cream, with nut-
meg for ﬂavoring; this will ﬁll seven cups, and
is a delicious dessert.

BLACK PUDDING .——Half cup molasses, one
cup raisins, chopped; one teaspoonful soda,
one cup lukewarm water, one and a half cups
ﬂour, yolks of two eggs. Steam two hours.
Sauce.— One cup sugar, half cup butter, whites
of two eggs, all beaten to a cream. Flavor with
lemon. This is an excellent and easily made
pudding.

Coax Baum—This is equal to anything we
ever tasted: To one quart of sour milk add two
teaspoonfuls of saleratus, two eggs, well beat-
en; one tablespoonful brown sugar, butter size
of an egg, salt to taste; then stir in meal untﬁ
about the consistency of pound cake. Bake
quick, a light, rich brown. is. s. P.

Ounce.

 

