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THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

HOUSE—CLEANING TIME.

The silver of the cherry ﬂowers.
White gleaming on the bough.

The shining gold of daﬁodils
Within the garden now!—

Bnt for the silver or the gold
I must not stop nor stay.

They come—the painter with his brush.
The whitewash man to-day.

Oh. what a mockery is life!—
The sweet spring's dewy prime.

The fairest days of earth and sky.
We call "honseeleaning time l"

With more of rapture in their notes
Than in all human Words.

Loud sing within the tasselled woods
The choir of the birds.

But not for me their merry songs.
Or blooming of the trees—

The sound of carpet-beating comes
Borne in on every breeze;

And I must brush the cohwebe dOWn.
And ply the busy broom.

And straw. against the lurking moth.
With benzine all the room!

This jubilee of earth and air.
The sweet spring’s fragrant prime.

Why is it that it brings to me.
Alas ! “house-cleaning time?"

—Harper‘s Razor.

THE BOYS’

ROOM.

It occurs to me that this is not the
ﬁrst time I have presented the above
topic to the consideration of readers of
the HOUSEHOLD. But as all life’s les-
sons are learned by iteration and re-it-
eration, and all our wisdom comes
through repeated experiences, I shall
make no apology for introducing it
again, hoping there may be written
somewhere, the “word ﬁtly spoken”
which is so productive of good results.

Does anybody know a good and suf-
ﬁcient reason Why in the majority of
houses. the boys’ room should be the
most shabby and desolate apartment in
the house, an asylum for all the three~
legged chairs, broken mirrors, the
most ragged quilts and the straw tick
with the most humps in it? And yet do
we not often hear of some piece of
furniture or some article nobody else
wants, “Oh, put it in the boys’ room;
they will not care?”

The idea seems to be that the only
use a boy can possibly have for a room
is to sleep in, and that if he is not ex-
pected to hang himself up on a peg or
sleep on a slack wire, he is pretty well
treated. It is supposed he does not
care for the adornments and reﬁne-
ments which have place in his sisters’
rooms, and prefers to wash at the pump

 

and comb his hair on the back doorstep.
But people who think so are not ac-
quainted with boys and their peculiari-
ties, or, if they are, they have educated
the boys to such a condition and are re-
sponsible for it.

Now such a room as I have pictured,
dismal and cheerless, neat perhaps but
with nothing to make it attractive and
cosy, is responsible for a good many
untidy boys—boys who grow into men
who take no pride in their homes, think
things are “ good enough ” as they are,
and are never willing to spend a dollar
for the beautifying of the house. When
such a young man marries, he will
agree t.» “ ﬁx up bymeby,” but the
makeshifts will become family institu-
tions simply because he’s never been
accustomed to anything‘better. Boys
need more encouragement and educa-
tion in the refinements of life than
girls; they do not take to these things
so naturally.

The lad who would be careless and
slovenly if brought up in a room to
match, might have been neat and or-
derly in a cosy, dainty apartment. And
it is not a matter of great expenditure
to make his room pleasant. A few
rolls of ten-cent paper, a straw mat-
ting for the ﬂoor, a cheap white spread
or light quilt, a pine table covered with
a pretty spread that need not cost a
dollar, and toilet conveniences and a
place to put his clothes, with eight cent
cotton curtains at the window, will
make such a difference that you your-
self will not know the place. You do
that part and let him put in the em-
bellishments himself. Pretty soon his
belongings will gravitate thither;
he’ll Whittle out a towel rack and a set
of book-shelves, some pegs to put his
gun upon, there will be prints of horses
and prize-lighters on the wall. and he’ll
be-asking the other boys to “come up
to my room” and staying away from
“the corners” to play checkers or
dominos in his own dominion. Do not
begrudge him a lamp, nor scowl be-
cause “the fellows” track mud up-
stairs, or are sometimesa little noisy.
I have noticed, often, how greatly
young people prefer to be by them-
selves and entertain their own com-
pany. It is perfectly natural. It never
seems to occur to them that older peo-
ple might prefer to entertain guests
without the espionage of “ little

pitchers,” and they sit by and take in
the conversation with both eyes and
ears. But when they have company,
that’s quite another thing. They (are
restive and ill at ease under the re-
straint of their elders’ presence, and the
fun doesn’t begin until they :are ina
room by themselves and the door is shut.
They do not wish to run the risk of
criticism or rebuke. It is so with the
boys. Let them entertain their boy
friends in their own way, and feel free
to invite them; you know then what
company your boy keeps. And you
know he‘s at home. I am sure I would
not sleep nights if my sixteen year old
boy was staying out till three o’clock
in the morning three or four nights in
a week, like a certain lad I know.
_Heaven knows where he spends the
time, I’m sure his parents don’t.

'Teach the‘ hey it is a sin against
health and good morals to go to bed all
dust and perspiration as he comes
from work, and see that he has a supply
of coarse but clean night shirts. Such
things help make a man a good citizen
—thev make him a clean one, at least.
I believe it is the dirty work of the
farm that drives many boys away from
it; and if they had conveniences for re~
moving the stain of toil when their
tasks are done at night they would like
the farm better and respect themselves
more. Why should a boy hang round
the back door, listening to the merry
voices of his sisters’ friends on the front
porch, knowing he is not presentable '
in his working clothes, yet so unused
to ﬁxing up that it seems a herculean
task to make himself ﬁt to join them?

Make the boys feel they are respon~
sible for the appearance of their room.
Do not do everything for them; they
will like it all the better if they have a
hand in the planning and contriving;
they will take much more interest in
the work.

Just take a look at the boys’ room and
tell us what kind of a place it is. And
if it is not what it should to be, this
house-cleaning will be a good time-to
make it the pleasant, inviting apart-
ment it ought to be. BEATRIX.

SCREWS may be inserted in wallsbg
enlarging the hole to about twice the
diameter of the screw, ﬁlling it With
plaster of paris, etc.. and bedding the

 

screw in the plaster. When the plaster
has set the screw will be ﬁrmly in place.

 

 


 

‘3

The Household.

 

RIGHTS OF OLD PEOPLE.

 

I feel that I could write a volume this
morning if I only had the talent to
work with. Why is it a pet theory
with the majority of people that to live
with one’s “law side ” is such a terrible
burden? Is it education or is it human
instinct? For my part I believe it
comes nearer being total depravity than
anything else. If I ever do any teach-
ing on this line myself, it will be to
overturn the old idea of looking upon
one’s law-parents as being so obnoxious.
My . children shall be educated from
their infancy to think that it is the
duty of a man, woman or child to care
for any or all old people that it may
fall to their lot to be with, and to care-
fully regard the rights of mother-in-
law and father-in-law. I should very
much dislike to think that I, when I
am old, would be treated as if I were a
sort of necessary stumbling block to
some daughter-in-law‘s or son-in-law’s
happiness. I have sometimes thought
from the way in which some women
speak of their husband’s mothers that
they absolutely hated them.

But more terrible by far is it when
people grow old to have their own
children treat them with perfect for-
getfulness. I know of several instances
where mothers are actually neglected
by their own daughters.

How are we to bring up our chil-
dren so that they may revere old age?

I have known persons to excuse them-
selves for their neglect of their parents
because of some eccentric traits in their
dispositions, or owing to some wrong
that a parent may have been guilty of.
I always prophesy for such people a dis-
mal old age; for under no circumstances
should the warning “ Do unto others as
you would be done by” he more strictly
observed than in our relation to parents
and law- parents.

I wish to thank the members of the
HOUSEHOLD for their advice 8 and
sympathy. I am afraid I do not de-
serve the latter, for had I waited until
now that article would not have been
written. The mud has all dried up in
my back yard, and I have ﬂourished my
broom in perfect joy over it for some
time. It is as hard as if cemented.

The yard is raked, and I have eight
hens setting. The raspberry patch
remains, however, in the same unkept
condition, and as my husband expects
to dig it all out and set it in some other
place, I guess I will have to let the
poor boy get the hen’s lice off in some
other way.

That was a terrible raid on the lord
of my household! I am afraid I left a
wrong impression. He never brings
the mud into the house. Did I say he
did? I think not. It is brought in,
however. As for going to the Farmers’
Club, you’d catch him going without
asking his wife to go with him, and she
usually goes. Nevertheless my opinion
remains the same regarding Clubs. If

 

I had never entertained our Club I
might have had a more glowingppinicn
of it. The entertainment is what

“ makes cowards of us all.”
ELIZABETH E.

“w-”

SISTER GRACIOUS ON DRESS.

 

Did you ever see a woman trying to
go up stairs ,with a baby on one arm
and hand and carrying a glass of milk
with the other? She can't clutch her
skirts, so she steps on them, tears the
gathers or makes a slit that she will
have to catch time to sew, and is be.
sides as awkward as a pig on the ice.
Or perhaps she is trying to work in the
garden. She would enjoy using a light
spade in the soft soil, but those abomin-
able skirts are in the way, reminding
her she belongs to the female tribe
every minute. I expect to draw down
upon me a chorus of howls from every
one in the HOUSEHOLD, and Sister
Sensible will appear at my door to labor
with me on my lack of sense and un-
godliness, but it shall come out. I wish
we women could wear pants! So there! i
The present fashion of skirts, and many
of them, was made for past ages when
women were considered “wives.” To
think of her having “legs,” and being
able to use them, was vulgar. We have
outgrown so much, and women can do
so many things in the way of occupa-
tions that used to be considered in-
delicate that I am in hopes a dress for
workingwomen will soon be adopted.
The trouble is our dress reformers
don’t work in gardens, or have to carry
babies and a glass of milk upstairs, and
they are so engaged over the art, Or
what they consider the beauty side of
the question that they lose sight of the
practical and comfortable. Another
dilﬁcnlty is that we all hate to be
strange, pointed out, or laughed at; so
we continue to wear skirts, and don’t
enjoy working. as we might if we were
dressed comfortably. Some of us, look-
ing‘at the picture of a woman in full
dress, will envy the low neck, and arms
bare to the shoulder, but would think it
immodest for a woman to wear a skirt
to the knees, and pants or drawers of
the same material drawn around the
ankle. Now I want our bright mem-
bers to air this subject in the HOUSE-
HOLD. Suggest a working dress,
pretty, modest and appropriate to the
thousand things we have to do.

And while I am about it, and to give
Sister Sensible another chance to ram
the ammunition hard down into her
gun and discharge the piece at me and
lay me out completely, why can’t
women with modesty and propriety
ride astride of a horse? A man ac-
quainted with horses told me the
present mode of riding was much
harder on the woman. She could not
control her horse as a man can with his

knees. She was more at the mercy of
the animal if it became frightened and
ran away, and it was much harr’er
for a woman to learn to ride well than
for a man. SISTER GRACIOUS.

 

THE PARLOR CURTAINS.

 

Nellie wishesBeatrix to tell her what
kind of curtains to getfor her parlor, a
large pleasant room, which faces the
south. It would have been easier to'
answer this query had Nellie told us
what style of carpet and furniture she
has in the room. I like to see things
correspond. One elegant piece of fur-
niture in a room will make all the rest
seem shabby by contrast, when, if
taken out, the room would seem suit-
ably and harmoniously furnished. You
remember the story in which the gift
of a handsome hall tree compelled the
refurnishing of the entire house.

First, either dark brown or dark
green shades should be put inside the
window casings and next the glass.
These are absolutely essential where
there are no blinds, to keep out heat
and light. Then, the white Holland
shades, which Nellie may ﬁnish with
an edge of crochet or knitted lace, if she
doesn’t care to buy the fringed and or-
namented ones. And then come the
draperies, which must be chosen to cor-
respond with the carpet. With a rag
carpet, curtains of coin spot muslin,
which can be bought for 20 or 25 cents
ayard, are most suitable. Allow two
widths to a window. Tie them back
with yellow or white ribbons and they
are daintily simple' and in good taste.
They look well with an ingrain, also,
and may be made more elaborate by
edging them with cheap lace. The
lace-striped buntings are out of fashion
now but were pretty. [lace curtains
may be bought in an inﬁnite variety of
patterns, and some of them are good
imitations of the costly fabrics which
we see in the windows of ﬁne resi-
dences. Choose a fine, lace-like cur-
tain, with delicate pattern, rather
thana coarse, showy style. For $5 a
pair you can buy, in this city at least,
lace curtains quite nice enough for a
simply furnished room; for $7.50 those
that are better, and for $10 “ real nice
ones.” It is possible to buy as low as
$3.50 per pair. With careful handl-
ing such draperies will last many years
and the $10 investment is really an
economical one. BEATRIX.

w..._.‘.,._‘ u--.

A CORRESPONDENT asks: “ Do you
desire the name and address each time
we write? ” It is best to give them un-
less you are a frequent contributor.
Think of the number who write but one
or two letters a year, perhaps do not
write for six months at a time. Would
it not be rather difﬁcult to recall,
though the nom de plume might be
familiar, the name associated with it?
Those who write often are of course
readily remembered, but the occasional
contributor should not forget to add
her name, least the Editor’s memory
prove treacherous, and her letter be
thought anonymous and therefore con-
signed to that awful basket you are all
so afraid of.

 


 

The Household.

8

 

 

~ A RAY FROM “SUNRISE."

 

I wish Pansy would tell us how to
-make a nice pansy bed. I for one have
a great passion for pansies.

Yes, to a certain extent a wife’s
duties begin at the altar, but some-
times do not continue to the end of the
chapter. I think it ahusband’s duty
to remember the marriage vows as well
as a wife’s. It never was intended for

'- one to bear it all. I have a very kind

husband, very much better than they
will average, but he is not perfection
any more than am I. Be a mother-in-
law ever so kind. or a daughter-in-law
ever so forgiving, they are better sat-
isﬁed with each other apart, each under
her own vine and ﬁg tree. Things
will occur in spite of all which will be
displeasing to one or both of them
which, if they were apart, would not
happen. But the old saying is “Once
learned is worth twice told,” so go
ahead, girls, and get the experience, for
it is a wise teacher, but do keep clear
of that “ Old Bach! ”

I do think men are out of their place
in the HOUSEHOLD, for the ladies are
so apt to speak out and a gentleman is

.so modest, you know. SUNRISE.

 

MEN AND WOMEN.

(C(mcludcd.)

i sincerely hope Imay be pardoned
the indiscretion, when I venture the
assertion in the most abrupt manner,
that the greatest stumbling block in
the way of harmony, the rock on which
so many matrimonial alliances have

.split, is the pocketbook. While it is
too true that a woman can throw out
with a spoon what a man brings in with
a shovel, it is equally true that many a
woman with broken back can sweep up
on a dust pan what a man brings in on
his feet. Many a woman would do
much better ﬁnanciering if she were
not conﬁned to a stipulated sum. Some
women would succeed much better if
they knew that their husbands were
practicing self-denial and economy as
well as themselves. With the dawning
of New Year’s, the husband invariably
says, “ Well, wife, let’s keep book this
year. Let’s put down every cent paid
out; all that we receive for stock and
grain, and see if farming pays. When
I come home from town I'll tell you all
I spend, and you must be economical.
Seems as if you might do the work
alone. The children are getting up so
as to help considerable, and I shan’t
keep but one man. Wages are high
and probably you won’t want many
new things, and we’ll live like pigs in
the clover. Now don‘t make so many
frosted cakes; economize and save and
the books will tell, don’t you see! ” Of
course she sees the point, if she isn’t too
nearsighted, thinking over and over

again
“ It is always the way on New Year’s day
This lesson I have to learn."

If she possesses the average woman’s
shrewdness she will have some help

 

 

engaged for the busy season, for with-
out doubt there will be three men by
the month and two by the day before
the ﬁrst day of June, and for a month
or two “he” will be “goody two shoes”
and upon his return from town render
a faithful account of money expended.
But it grows smaller and beautifully
less as time advances. Take the case
home. It is a little bit hu niliating to
account for the dozen and one nickels
that went for “a smile” and “Hop,”
“Iron,” and “ Cherry Tonic.” The
upshot of the whole matter is if you go
round the corner to see a man you’ve
got to “see him.” Women cannot
rightly feel and know just the position a
man is placed in or the rude manner in
which "the strings of his principles are
pulled until the millenium is ushered
in and they become politicians them-
selves. It will all come home; it is one
of the planks in the political platform.
It is very seldom, in fact I cannot call
to mind an instance in the country
where paterfamilias has a certain
sum set aside for household expenses
that “thus far and no farther shalt thou
go” is the motto hung up for the boss
balancer in the house. I often say:
“That barrel of sugar, that ﬁve hun-
dred pounds of flour, that jar of butter
will last about so long; or today for
dinner this piece of meat or halt a pie
or remnant of yesterday’s suet pudding
will be sufﬁcient for us." But alas!
how is my idol fallen, when Philander
ushers in two or three fanning mill
men, or two butchers, or a sulky plow
man and a book agent or two. I’ve got
to call on my resources alittle. It won’t
do to be ﬁustered’; it is a matter of diplo-
macy, sheer generalship, to get a steak
pounded or ham sliced, steam a stale
cake, enlarge the table, and in the
twinkling of an eye “Richard is him-
self again.” As far as [ personally am
concerned I should prefer not to have a
certain sum set aside for household ex~
penses, on a farm at least. There is
such a delightful uncertainty about
home products. For instance, I might
make large calculations on an early
garden, plenty of melons and fruit, a
big ﬂock of chickens and turkeys, and
realize nothing, but a few wormy, hard
radishes, a meal or two of peas, the few
tomatoes picked by a trio of old setting
hens; brood after brood of turkeys and
chickens yielding up their lives with
the gapes: the melon patch raided by
bad boys and fruit trees demolished by
ruthless hands. So I must draw on the
vegetable wagon. This of course
means an increase of expenses, and
where would I be if there was an even
ﬁve dollar bill with which to settle up
all accounts Saturday night? It would
have to be pinched and pulled and
pressed down and heaped up if it made
a go. “Circumstances alter cases ” is
too true of farm life. We are never
sure of eating a meal by ourselves. We
are often obliged to create order out of
chaos, or in other words get up a meal

 

out of nothing. We cannot make a
chicken do for three straight meals, or
make a gallon of decent soup out of an
old ham bone, paper cooks to the con-
trary; but we can use common sense,
discrimination in the expenditure of
money, adapt ourselves to circum-
stances, make the best of. what we have,
see that nothing goes to waste, think
that the husband we married is the
“one among ten thousand and the one
altogether lovely.” think that it was a
lucky day for us and coming posterity
‘when we voiced our vows. Bear with
each other’s inﬁrmities and draw the
veil of charity over them instead of
parading them to the world, and the
old farm will take on new beauties, and
peace and prosperity will be ours.
EVANGELINE.

MAKING RAG CARPE'PS.

 

 

Allow me to say just a few words to
those contemplating the making of a
rag carpet, which is the most durable
of all carpets if made right. Never cut
rags bias, for they will wear rough and
are liable to break; never put in starch—
ed cloth as it will not beat closely to-
gether; never put in old pants cloth un-
less it is yery soft and strong, for it will
not wear long or look we'll; never put in
arag that will not bear a strain of at
least three or four pounds.

Cut your rags of an even size; this
can be determined by twisting the
strips in the ﬁngers; they should be the
size of No. 8 or 10 wire when twisted
closely, as that will be about the same
as when beaten in the loom. If you
have a striped carpet, don’t have too
many colors; re member a hitor-miss
has many advantages over a stripe.
Remember also that no machine loom
can do as good work as a hand loom,
for no device can regulate the tension,
in drawing in the rage as well as can be
done by the human» hand. It is dif-
ferent with spun ﬁlling. The softer
your rags are the nicer your carpet will
be, and knit goods make beautiful car-
pets. One-half of the success is in
having the rags and one -half in the
weaving.—— New England Farmer.

--—-—-—~”~ v-ﬁ—

CANNED PINEAPPLE.

 

At dinner with a friend, not long
since, canned pineapple was served
with the-dessert. It was very fresh,
tender, delicious. This was the way it
was put up last fall: The pineapple
was pared and coarsely shredded with
a fork, then mixed with an equal
weight of sugar and left over night,
without any cooking it was then
canned.

I am making a rag carpet and would
like to ask what colored warp is most
desirable? The last one made I used
the old-fashioned dyes; my colors were
bright and very durable. Are the
fancy dyes better? If any one has
improvements in this line of work
please give them. , C. A. C.

 


4

The Household.

 

A. NEW CALLER.

I never attempted to write a letter to
the HOUSEHOLD before, but have read
the little paper with great interest for
several years.

I truly sympathize with Elizabeth E.,
but how trivial are such troubles com-
pared to what some poor women have
to endure! If you have a temperate,
kind, home-loving husband. healthy
children, good health yourself, never
mind the muddy dooryard, lousy
henhouse and neglected raspberry
patch. C. J. M.’s article of April
9th told of a woman who had real
trouble. We think she did more than
her duty. If a man chooses to go
so low he ought to go alone. It
is no woman’s duty to live with a
drunkard. The Good Book says leave
father and mother and cleave unto

your wife. If a man or woman can not
do so they had better stay single. That
is if it isn’t pleasant to live with them.

I should like to know how many ad-
vocate card playing. I for one do not.
It is the one great evil of the present
day, if it is all the style. Some say it
is no worse than authors, croquet or
such games. But cards are played in
the saloons, while these other games
are not. Young men go in to play
cards, play for their ﬁrst drink and
where are they? God forbid my boy
shall say he ever played cards at home.

GRANT. L. E. W.

THE RASPBERRY PATCH.

What a pity that energetic women
with a taste for beautiful surroundings,
should be generally blessed with slack
“ Johns” and “vica versa! ” Well,
we can not help it, but must make the
best of it, and look for good qualities in
the man we married for “ better or
worse.” Generally he possesses some
virtues, and the " slackness ” is his
main fault. But a woman can learn to
help herself in many ways if she will
but try.

I will tell Elizabeth E. how I manage
the raspberries. After they are through
bearing I go With gloves and old shears,
and cut back the new shoots to within
three or four feet of the ground. Later
I remove all the old wood and burn it.
In the spring I empty the straw beds,
and put the straw from under the car-
pets, and all such trash out in the berry
patch. Each time I take such refuse
out, I call the poultry, and such a time
as they do have scratching. The straw
is nicely placed around the bushes and
weeds and grass scratched up by hen
labor. Those who grow berries for
sale may smile at my way, but for a
small patch it works well and we always
have lots of berries. I also set out a
few new bushes each spring.

Now, E. E., do join that Farmers’
Club with your husband. I know, from
experience, that nothing helps us over
the rough places in farm life like

 

“ going somewhere;” and if you are “so
tired ” a literary treat will rest you.
And staying at home and brooding
over our grievances makes us gloomy
and has sent more than one woman to
the insane asylum.

I had an attack of “ housecleaning
fever ” last week, on one of those bright
days. I started the leech, tore up the
spare bedroom and tore around gen-
erally, and by noon was tired out and
inclined toenvv those who could hire
all such hard work done. My husband
said he was going to the village and

asked me to go. At ﬁrst I said no, ‘

there was too much to do, and. then I
thought of a friend very low with con-
sumption, who might not live until
housecleaning was done, so I got ready,
took afew daﬁodils and went. When
I saw the poor mother so sick, and with
no hope that she would ever be better,
I could not help sending up a little
prayer of thankfulness that it was so
well with me. I went home rested and
contented. The best way to appreciate
our blessings is to see how others live.
The only advice I have to give about
housecleaning is go slow.

Who will give me some subjects suit-
able for discussion in a farmers’ meet-
ing? topics that the average farmer
can ﬁnd something to say about.

LANSING. J OYBELL.

PREVENTIVE FOR CHICKEN
CEOL ERA .

If Diana would add to her cure for
discontent plenty of singing. she would
make it perfect. If those who do not
know how‘much good it does would try
it when everything goes wrong and
they feel like scolding and would sing
something lively, they would be sur-
prised to see how things turn out handy
and even easy.

Neddek’s buttermilk pop is good. I
know, for I have made it several years.
It is one of my husband’s dishes. I
never saw any, so did not even know
how it should look, but, manlike, he
could tell me “how mother did;” he
being a good teacher and I an apt
scholar, the p0p was good.

I take care of our fowls and enjoy
doing so, but my hens would get the
cholera and die in spite of all my care
until I found a condition powder that
I give as soon as I see the green drop-
pings under the perch. If you will try
it you will not be without it. Take one
ounce of ground sassafras bark; two
ounces ﬂowers of sulphur; two ounces
of EpsOm salts; one ounce of ground
fenugreek seed; one ounce of gentian;
one ounce of alum; one-half ounce of
cream tartar;one ounce of ginger; one
ounce of nitrate of potash. powdered;
one ounce sulphate of zinc.- After
mixing put one tablespoonful in a pan
of soft feed and give it as you think
they need. You will ﬁnd it is the best
way you ever spent twenty-ﬁve cents.

How sorry I was when I‘ saw our

 

HOUSEHOLD shrink to its former size,
and I know I was not the only one! ~
; 81'. J onus. PARILLA.

W'-
HOUSEEOLD HINTS-

THOSE who have trouble with butter
that will not “ come ” may ﬁnd avalu~~
able point in the following item: The
temperature business was tried in every
manner possible and yet the trouble re--
mained. Each cow’s milk was taken
separately from the rest of the herd
and the milk set. skimmed and churned V
separately, and the result showed that
one cow in the herd did the mischief.
No trouble was experienced during the“
forepart of the season, but as fall ap-
proached the dimculty of gathering
the butter came with regularity. The ~
cow was a very ﬁne, healthy animat-
which he prized highly, but this milk
test brought her carcass to the butch-
er’s block at once.

THREE EXCELLENT RECIPES.

TAPIOCA CREAM.-—Soak four table--

.spoonfuls of tapioca over night. Heat

one quart of milk in a dish set in boil—

ing water. Have the yolks of three

eggs and white of one beaten with one-

half coffee cup of sugar; pour into the

hot milk, stirring constantly until thick

as rich cream. Beat the whites of two

eggs to a stiff froth, add six teaspoon-

fuls of sugar and pour carefully over-
the custard, set in hot oven till a deli-

cate brown. 7.. Serve cold.

PUDDING SAUCE—Three table--
spoonsfuls of sugar; two of butter and
one of cornstarch. rubbed to a cream.
Pour on boiling water and stir till the
consistency of rich cream; let cook a
minute, ﬂavor, and just before serving
beat the white of an egg to astiﬁ froth,
pour the sauce into it, beating all the
time. Serve hot. ,

CABBAGE SALAD—Two eggs, well
beaten; one dessertspoonful of salt, one
of mustard, and one tablespoonful of
sugar; [buttem size of an egg; one-
oup of vinegar; one-half cup of
sour cream. Mix a the mustard
with a little of Lthe'é vinegar, then}
pour in the ﬁres: of j. the vinegar;~
put in the salt, sugar and butter and
set in a dish of boiling water till hot,
stir in the beaten eggs and stir till it
thickens, being careful it does not whey
off. When just ready to take off the
stove stir in the half cup of cream. .
When you Ichop your cabbage, “don’t
chop it,” but shave off the head with a.
a sharp knife. It will pay you for your
trouble. This is equally good for-
chicken, potato and other salads.

A NICE WAY; TO SALT RAMS.—
Eight pounds of salt; ntwo pounds of
brown sugar; two ounces of saltpetre
and two ouncesfﬂ ofablack'g; pepper,
Mix and rub the hams two or three
times, or until all the mixture is used.
This quantity is sutﬁcient «,for 100
pounds of meat. EDNA.

 


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