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TIEITJE HOUgEHOLmamSnnppllememt.

 

 

OUR KIND OF A MAN.

 

The kind of a man for you and me!

‘ Be faces the world unﬂinchingly

And smiles, as long as the wrong resists,

With a knuckled faith and force—like ﬁsts;

He lives the life he is preaching of,

And loves where most is the need of love:

His voice isclear to the deaf man’s ears,

And his face sublime through the blind man‘s
tears:

The light shines out where the clouds wr re dim;

And the widow‘s prayer goes up for him:

And the sick man sees the sun once more,

And out (it r the barren tields he sees

S; ringing o1. ssoms and waving trees,

Feeling, as only the dying may,

That God's own servant has come that way,

Smoothing the path as it still winds on

Through the golden gate where his loved have
gone.

The kind of a man r‘cr me and 5 on,
However little of Vs orth we do,
He credits full, and abiles in trust
That time will teach us he .v ninth is just.
He wa‘iE s abroad and he meets ail kin: s
05 qna' relsome and uneasy minds,
And, sympathizing. he shares the pain
Of the doubts that rack us heart and braiz ,
Ana. knowing this, as we grasp his hanc,
We are surely coming to understand!
He l ,oks on with pityfng eyes—-
E’en as the Lord since Paradise—
Else should we read, though our sins should glow
As scarlet, they should be white as snow i
And feeling still, with a grief half glad
That the bad are as good as the good are bad,
He strikes straight out for the right—and he
Is the kind of a man for you and me !
—James Whitcomb Rit‘y.

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A STORY WITH A MORAL.

 

I read such a pathetic little story not
long ago, so illustrating those “ accidents
of life” which mean so much to one per-
son, so little to another, that I am desir-
ous of reproducing at least its outlines in
our little paper.

The tale is of an English tutor, hard
worked, pedantic, unattractive, yet with
a heart full of tenderness and sympathy
and gentleness, awaiting the magic of
love to open it to sunshine and joy. But
the magic touch did not come, and he
grew more nearsighted and round-
shouldered digging over Greek and Latin
roots and studying out recondite mean.
ings, till he became almost as narrowed
in thought as the classical scholar I once
heard of, who put the study of his whole
life and all his learning into mastering
the cases of the second declension of
Latin nouns, and on his death bed re-
gretted he had not concentrated his
energies on the dative case! But this
poor tutor, regarded as a sort of upper

servant in English families, at last met
a lady who, commiserating his lonely
condition and discerning with a woman’s
quick intuition the sweetness and s rength
of his nature, was kind to him. He loved
her, but she was married, and the mother
of his pupil. Honor and duty bade him
smother his feeling for her, and he went
away; and soon his erudition won him an
honorable place as professor in one of
England’s great colleges. There, thirty
years later. came the grandson of the
woman he had hopelessly loved and never
forgotten. Bright faced, sunny-temper-
ed, reﬁned, and with scholarly instincts,
the lad made friends with the gray-haired
old don, and cheered him with visits to
his lonely chambers, and the little at-
tentions which the old love to receive
from the young. In return, he made the
lad his friend and conﬁdant, taking great
pains With his education. while now and
then a queer thrill ran through his
Wilht’l'td old heart as he remembered
that this was the grandssn of the only
woman he had ever loved.

Through much labor and research this
grizzled old man whose student days
were never done, had come upon a new
conception of the meaning of a disputed
word, which would throw precise force
upon certain knotty passages in Greek.
These minute researches are not disdained
by profound students; on the contrary,
they compute their success by the result
of such labor puerile asit seems to the
strong armed money- getter of the work-
ing world. To ﬁnd a new and correct
translation of a disputed word is to them
a triumph as profound as that of the
general who conquers a city, and brings
as much fame and honor in the students’
world. So he talked over his discovery
with the boy, the latter being as much in-
terested if not as well informed as the
old Professor.

Time passed; and just as the elder man
was about to make known his discovery,
while the treatise designed for publica-
tion was lying on his study table, and he
was anticipating the reward of his mid-
night labor, the college examinations
came on. Apassage including this dis“-
puted word was among the exercises for
translation. The lad translated it accord
ing to his friend’s new theory, and gave
in a note his reasons for so doing. It
threw the board of examiners into a ﬂut-
ter; they were astonished at such erudi-
tion in one 'so young, and he passed his

ing, and in his parting words told what
he had translated. and how the board had
praised him. After he had gone the old
Professor sat staring at the pages he had
prepared for publication, like a man
dazed by asudden blow. What had the
lad done? He had claimed by his use of
the interpretation, the honor due the one
who had so laboriously studied it out,
and had done it as carelessly and non-
chalently as he might have claimed an
apple from the sideboard. The transla»
tion, once used, was no longer original;
all the honor had passed to anorher, who
had only stozrd idly by. The real student
was robbed of his reward, the praise and
commendation for his work: robb- d in
ignorance. yet none the less truly robbed.
And the old man sat with bowed head in
the darkness for many weary hours. All
his life had been fullofself-repression, of
self- abnt gation. He had missed much
th at men hold dear; much he had longed
for, but which never came. And now, in

is old age, the laurel wreath he had
earned for his gray hairs was snatched by
an careless hand, too ignorant to prize it
beyond the moment’s glory!

I could not help thinking how often
the rewards for which we struggle so hard
are lost to us in exactly the same way.
Another grasps the result of our work
and the world concedes the claim, while
we look on amazed at seeing what we
have wrought so calmly appropriated.
Our good deeds, our patient toil, the fruit
of our privations, are assumed by another.
The world is full of unconscious cruelty
of this kind. The man whose great
brain laboriously wrought out an inven-
tion, ﬁnds that before he has hardly
realized its value, its principles are snatch-
ed by a bystander who reaps both the
fame and money; the man who projects
and originates a great work sees another
step in to execute it and give it his name.
Children appropriate the toil and self
denial of parents as a right, making re—
turn neither in love- nor gratitude. Few
of us appreciate what others do for us, or
rate at its worth what we receive at their
hands. And some, perhaps, can at least
sympathize with the lonely old man who
bowed his head on his study table, bereft
of the honest dues of earnest work, by
the half unconscious yet not irresponsi-
ble hand of the one he loved best on
earth. We may take up our work again,
but never with the old zest and pleasure.
Ah me! injustice ﬁlls the world; the in-

 

examinations with eclat. He went to

 

 

say goodbye to his old friend before leav-

justice of thought and deed.
BEATRIX.

   


THE HOUSEHOLD.

 
 

 

AMUSEMENTS.

 

The discerning, generous heart of
George Eliot gives us these words of
meaning: “I have a growing conviction
that we may measure true moral and in—
tellectual culture by the comprehension
and veneration given to all forms of
thought and feeling which have inﬂuenced
larg e masses of mankind."

It is sometimes d t‘ﬁcult to realize the
currency of certain beliefs and opinions,
much more difﬁcult to comprehend and
venerate them when they seem to us but
hindrances to human progress. We can
do so only by reviewing the time when
we held similar views; or without actually
having experienced a mental state, we
may comprehend it by sympathetic, grow-
ing apprehension of mind and heart.

Do we not, as sisters of the Household
in the consideration of the various topics
discussed, ﬁnd each in the heart of the
other a responsive motive for the right,
though that motive by one be clothed in
what is to the other cast-off raiment? It
is ever thus; the garb of thought differs as
do our fac: s, yet for all that we may un-
derstand the motive of each. Because
the experience and conscience of oneleads
her to offer views unlike our own, can we
intelligently assert a fear that such an one
“ has forgotten to ask wisdom from
above?" Every earnest heart has help
from above.

Whence comes this “wisdom” Faith’
sought when she wrote her view Of
amusements? A revelation from the
Highest is written in shining lines of light
in the inner chamber of every soul which
loves truth. Revelation and inspiration
are universal. That voice without sound,
‘hat inner, calm revealing—this is our
highest authority. Upon this we give our
truest pledge of honor and conviction
when we say, “I feel this to be true.”
Feeling, intuition, is the highest form of
knowledge.

A writer asks, in a recent number, as to
the “ right ” of playing dominoes, check-
ers, authors, &c. It seems that all games
may be questionable. Ishould conclude
that the inventions of the human mind
were almost wholly evil, were it not
proven that some people have been de-
moralized by the most innocent amuse-
ments, while others can indulge in any
proper game with impunity. This being
the case. it seems proﬁtless to discuss each
amusement in vogue, as it would require
an experience with each individual to de.
termine its possible harmfulness. Rather
let us search for the principles under

particulars are forgotten. It is like solving
problems; each problem under the rule
offers new difﬁculties, unless the principle
beremembered. The harmful inﬂuence
of any amusement lies not in the amuse-
ment itself, all admit, but in associations.
Ignorance of a game may sometimes
prove a safeguard, but it is very uncertain
safety. Far better to depend on moral
strength and the liberty of knowledge to
resist temptations. By the time a youth
leaves home to enter school, if he possess
suﬁicient aptitude to be capable of “ ﬁn-
ishing his education,” he will be estab—
lished in virtuous principles, unless he
has been left untaught. Education of a
child begins with embryonic life, and we
come into being hearing within us the
germs of future action. Thencommence
the education of the faculties, their de-
velopment and control.
Now, how much liberty can be granted
our youth? How 'far are they saved by
ignorance? Given liberty and ignorance,
the result is always hazardous. The mind,
like a pendulum, if started from one ex—
treme, will always swing to the other be-
fore a medium is reached. Liberty lies in
true education, which is complete living,
the activity of every faculty, the abuseof
none. True education develops individ-
uality, virtue, power. Given this, “our
hero” is safe at home or abroad. He
“has scruples,” he will not adopt the
vulgar language or pernicious practices
of cards. He discriminates, thinks, rea-
sons, lives within his own heart and con-
science. He is free from evil habits and
prejudices. but never reckless. Then
trust him. We help to build up other
lives by our trust in them. Human nature
is not so fallen as some would have us
believe. At the most, a misspent life is a
sad mistake; it is never the purpose of
any soul to go astray.
Children should be dealt with as indi—
vidual souls. They are not alike; they
have their diverse points of weakness,
where we need to help them watch and
conquer. Enlighten the head, trust the
heart;do not think innocence or ignor-
ance the true safeguards. Knowledge
brings the power of virtue and freedom.
All possibilities lie within ourselves. God
helps the self helping.

STRONG MINDED GIRL.
LnsLm.
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'faded, time-touched hair.

increase; for when well. bedded tulip; ,
grow large and multiply rapidly. All
bulb beds should be arranged in some
way to escape the feet of the many who
will step around among ﬂowers, for in-
juring the foliage of the tulip will also
damage the bulb. No other plants should
occupy the same bed, except some small
rooted, creeping sort, and the verbenais
the most suitable as it mainly feeds from
the surface of the soil by way of the foli-
age; the plants are a protection to the
bulbs, and when the latter are planted at
the proper depth they will receive no in-
jury from the cultivation required by
verbenas.

I fully endorse the advice in the last
Household in regard to using copperas as
a disinfectant. I have used it many years
in this way, and also as a fertilizer for to-
matoes. Whenever we have a tree or
shrub injured in any way and it looks as
if its “ race was run " or nearly so, I dis-
solve the copperas and pour about the
roots 1nd it proves an excellent tonic. I
wish also to add my testimony in favor of
the free use of lemons for the ills named
by the Household Editor, and likewise
for erysipelas, which is caused no doubt
by over-exertion and sudden changes, as
from warm work over a hot stove to cool
rooms and the like; at least that was my
trouble a year and two years ago. I found
lemons all that was requisite to subdue
the inﬂamed state of. the system. It is an
excellent way to make a hot lemonade
and drink while quite warm.

MRS. M. A. FULLER.

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FASHIONS FOR OLD LADIES.

throx.

 

Generally speaking, elderly ladies wear
black dresses, which seem somehow most
appropriate to withered cheeks and
But how to
make these dresses! Youthful fashions
seem unsuitable. yet the desire to look
well dressed never dies in a woman's
heart. Black silk is the most stylish
wear for old ladies, and for summer
dresses India or thin summer silks, black
ground with lines or ﬁgures of white.
Among wash goods there are the linen
lawns with black ﬁgures on a white
ground at 25 cents, Sicilienne, acotton
goods in heavy rep, having small white
ﬁgures on a black ground, at 35 cents per

 

 

 

BULB CULTURE.

 

It is always best to lift bulbs every

third year at least. and either lay them
away until the autumn months, or after

which all of these particulars will adjust
themselves aright. Establish the princi-
ples as morality, liberty, trust—morality
here embracing all the qualities of a true,

virtuous life.

Conscience is a matter of education.
We may be enslaved by false teaching of
others, but we must largely emancipa‘e
' ourselves by the inner light, the word of
truth inherent in our being.
wrong to repress and burden the child-
mind by ten thousand particulars, when
one principle would embody them all and
be remembered when nine—tenths of the

separating the small from the larger ones,
plant again. The bed should be enriched,
and the soil thoroughly pulverized, and
deeply, too. The soil, if not porous,
should have a mixture of sand and mold,
and for bulbs in be! s or pots there is no
fertilizer equal to “ chips ” from the cow
pasture, left several months preVIous; it
is as good as gold in forcing bulbs, and
for pot soil, for any plants, and more ts—
peciallyfor bulbs, tubers and tuberous
roots. The old bed, if thus thoroughly

renewed, is as good as another situation.

Plant deeply, at least six inches, and set

far enough apart to allow for growth and

 

 

yard, and the barred muslins in plain
black at 40 cents, yard wide. which make
cool, handsome dresses, but muss easily.
Many of these thin dresses are made up
with round waists and straight skirts—th
revival of an old fashion which extends
to grandmothers as well as grand-daugh!
ters.

A late model for making wool and silk
dresses has a polonaise which buttons
down to about ﬁve inches below the waist
line, and then falls open in a long point
on each side. For stout ladies this

 

smooth over large hips.
narrow tucks may be taken each side
of the buttons, down the front and
around the points. The back is in basque
shape, and the skirt consists of two 0

polonaise is ﬁtted by a cross seam at the
waist line under the arms, to make it lie
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THE HOUSEHOLD

  

 

three pleated breadths sewed under-
neath the basque at the waist line. The
front of the dress is laid in broad double
box pleats, or has two ' deep pleated
ﬂounces. A favorite style for wool
dresses has straight full back breadths,
fastened in place by tapes; a plain front
to the skirt, with a drapery falling from
the belt on the left side in long folds, and
caught up under the fullness of the back
on the right. This is simple and stylish
for a tall lady.

Happily the fashion of dyeing the hair
is past, and old ladies now wear their
own silver gray locks slightly crimped,
under bonnets a little larger than those
worn by younger ladies, but mainly of
the same shape. Straw is the principal
material, though black lace is seemingly
always in style. Black silk mantles,
longer than the stylish little mantelettes
worn by their daughters, are “dress
wraps” for old ladies, and the black
chuddah shawls and those of cashmere in
black and soft greys, as well as the larger
Scotch shawls in grey, are worn by those
who care less for “ pomps and vanities.”

W

W0 MAN’S SPHERE.

 

The great Creator has planted a guide
in the heart of society, such as might
largely inﬂuence it for good, and prove a
preservative against many perils, were it
properly employed. I refer to the in-
ﬂuence of woman-man’s original help
and second self. She has continued.
from the dawn of creation till now,
greatly to inﬂuence the destines of man.
In her proper sphere she has proved
heaven’s richest earthly blessrng; out of
it, she has been man’s heaviest woe. Her
position may be viewed as the barometer
of society; we can thereby measure its
elevation or depression. God has placed
the highest inﬂuence that is known upon
earth in the hands of woman. No
monarch's sceptre, no human laws, no
course of discipline, though stern and
severe, can accomplish what she can
achieve. Among the savage and the
civilized alike, she wields power over
man’s he art, and therefore over man’s
destiny; a power which is appalling when
exerted on the side of evil, but beneﬂcent
as the very dews of heaven when put
forth on the side of good. Her inﬂuence
for good, whenever it is exerted aright, is
not less than her inﬂuence for evil.
Woman lives mainly to comfort, and she
feels her mission only half accomplished
unless she be so employ ed. From the
ﬁrst, woman has held the key of man’s

heart, and been able to shut it up in hard-
ness, or open it to all the impulses of af~
fection; she wields mightier inﬂuences
over him than he does over her. That
inﬂuence is most signally visible—it is at
least brought to a focus—in the control
of a mother over her son. It is not to be
concealed however, that many women,
in every sphere, have forfeited their
ascendency by attempting what they
were never meant to accomplish. For
what is woman’s sphere? It is pre—
eminently home. If she be either en-

lack for time; the children playing in the
street, and the cows going to their pas-
ture, or the young girls with their arms

ferent from the rest of the bustling world.
I used to wake up in the night, and listen-
ing to the water heating and foaming
down at the beach, would think of the

power is paralyzed. It is not my purpose
to enter into the controversy, so long
agitated, as to whether woman he infe-
rior to man in mental powers. They stand
side by side, harmoniously co-operating
for the common good. In truth each
nature is superior in its own sphere, and
inferior out of it. Woman has a sphere
assigned to her by God, out of which,
as a general rule, she cannot safely
wander. There, woman is “ monarch of
all she surveys.” Some women never
realize the purpose of their mission, and
in consequence they do not fulﬁll it. Like
a weed upon the waters they ﬂoat value-
less through life, absorbed by triﬂes, or
tossed without an aim from wave to
wave. We should consider how our duty
may be best done, and the danger best
avoided of failing to discharge it. These
ends will not be promoted without pains-
taking, and what direction should one’s
painstaking receive? In our day measures
of a strenuous kind should be employed
to elevate young men—appliances should
be brought to bear upon them.
It may encourage us in our efforts to
know that there is no sphere debarrcd
from self-culture. There must be cul-
ture, and assiduous improvement of the
powers which God has given us. We
should be anxious to help those who
would do good, and educate the mind to
accomplish it; PERSIS.

Mason.
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A SUMMER REST.

 

When some one asked how to make
wool comfortables, I started out to tell how
right oﬂf, but just then I had a chance of
seeing what it was like to have nothing
to do, and with four other girls to help
me, I discovered thatI never had so much
to do in my life. Away off up where a
point of land stretches out far into the
blue waters of Lake Huron is a lovdy lit-
tle sleepy town where no one seems to
have anything to do, and where one might
fancy themselves in a Rip Van Winkle
dream where it not for the horrible noise
of the boat whistles. One little monster
of a tug used to seem like a spirit of
darkness, revenging itself upon inoffen-
sive mankind by sending out such a com-
bined quintessence of a howl and screech
that it would make a person with a bad
conscience think his sins had found him
out; and as one gradually gothardened to
it and thought Pandemonium was going
to let up, that whistle would take a new
grip. I used to think of Longfellow’s
Acadia, so quaint and dreamy was the lit-
tle town, with the waves roaring all day
around it. It is one street coming from a
hill far back, back where “ lieth a vil-
lage white and still,” sloping gradually
down to the water, and people came and
went leisurely, never seeming to hurry or

ﬁlled with wild ﬂowers, all seemed so dif-

 

ticed or banished thence, her proper

other “villagers on the hill,”

“ With never a grain to sow or reap;
Never in dreams to moan or sigh,
Silent and idle and low they lie."

One Sabbath a boat came up the lake
with a funeral on board, the pail-bearers
carried the cofﬁn up the village street
while the band was playing solemn funer-
al marches, and laid it in the church that
had been dressed with blossoms and
plants. while a service was read, and then
carried it to the graveyard. After it was
over, and the throng turned back to the
town, I saw such a lovely picture. Far
down below us, through the over-arching
trees, I could see the blue water smooth
and shining like glass, but seeming to be
just at our feet, With the steamer rocking
at the pier, black ﬂags ﬂoating and the sad
music of the band ﬂoating back to us; for
a mile the procession slowly descended
and nearly all went on board—friends
of the dead man and the men who
had worked for him—leaving the town
empty and dreamy again as the boat left,
taking with it the visible signs of the
outside world. Everything seemed so
ﬁtting and beautiful—so different from
any other town, where there would have
been confusion and noise, that it seems
now as though it really must be apart
from all the rest of the world, and if I
some day go back—if it is ﬁfty years from
now—I am sure I will ﬁnd it unchanged'
the water will be as blue and shining, and
there will be a boat lying at the dock.
while there will be waiting to Welcome me
three pretty girls. Franc will be throw-
ing stones into the lake for a big water
dog to swim after. May will be trying to
convince wayward Frances of the error of
her ways, with her earnestness and ninety
pounds of femininity making me think
of a brown wren; while Evangaline with
her picture- like face, is looking out over
the water —looking for Gabriel, perchance
—for, as if reading my thoughts one day
she said: “ Yes, Evangeline is all here.
except that I have no Long-fellow.”

It is dreadful to come down to such
vulgar things as bedding, but this is the
way: Take about three pounds of wool,
pulled is as good as any, and wash
through two waters of hot. weak suds,
which ought to cleanse it, and dry thor-
oughly in the air and light; then card into
bats or sheets of a size convenient to
handle, using wool cards if at hand,
but horse cards will do. Tie into covers
that will never wear out, and you can will
it to your great-grand children, for ours
isasnice now as it was when mother’s
Uncle Ben gave it to her ﬁfty years ago.
It has been washed and made over many,
many times, and every time it is recarded
it is light and warm as down.
ONE OF THE GIRLS.

a“.._.___

PERSIB wishes some one would give
their opinion of the result of drinking
strong tea, and the effect it has upon the
nerves. Will not Evangaline, “ho re-
cently gave us a brief history of tea, pur-
sue the subject a little further and till us
the effect it has upon consumers? '
m

AUNT NELL recommends Bogue’s soap

 

 

for washing red table linen.

 

  


 

  

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T HE H 0 U s Ett—ItOiLID.

 
 

 

THE OLD SPINNING WHEEL.

I greatly enjoyed A. L. L.’s letters from
the South, and could only wish that she
might have given a more minute descrip-
tion of her ride down the Mississippi
River. Her mention of Fort Pillow re-
called some very painful memories, as
my oldest brother is one of the few sur-
vivors of the massacre. I shudder now
as I recall the months of hope deferred
when we could scarcely tell what we were
hoping for, since beyond the fact that he
had been ordered from Memphis to Fort
Pillow, ashort time before the massacre,
we could learn nothing until the New
York Tribune published his name, with
six hundred others, as be mg under Union
ﬁre at Charleston.

The discussion of the wool question
now before the Household reminds me of
something I have just got for my parlor.
I don’t know whether to call it an orna-
ment or apiece of furniture, as it is an
old spinning wheel, and I don’t know
how to use it; but it has an interesting
history of its own, having been made by
my maternal grandfather in Scotland,
early in this century, for a bride; as in
those days every bride had a nice wheel
whether she had a piano or not. My
brother acc-idently found the owner away
out in Shiawassee County, in 1866. She
was then avery old lady. but so smart
and interesting it was a great pleasure ‘o
listen while she told of her long and
eventful life, of her trip up the St.
Lawrence, and other adventures, still ac-
companied by the old wheel. Unfor-
tunately her house was unroofed by a
tornado which carried the wheel some

distance and broke its head off, but as I
don’t know what the head is it is just as
good to me. Dear old lady, her hands are
now folded and at rest, but her children,
grandchildren and great-grandchildren
call her memory blessed.

Well, I little thought when I com-
menced to write that the old wheel had
anything in common with Fort Pillow
and southern chivalry, but writing of
the wheel sets me to thinking of Bonnie
Aberdeen and the Scotch songs of which
I have not the words, because my brother
happened to have the family supply of
Scotch music with him in the fort, and
those Southern gentlemen were not above
appropriating it, although they could not
understand it—being written in “Tonic
sol-fa”-—-but they evidently considered it
“cOntraband” and hence conﬁscated it.

MRS. W. J. G.

HOWELL. ___..*___

INFORMATION WANTED.

 

Will some one tell me the story of Paul
and Virginia. I often see it mentioned in
print, but do not know what it means.
I once saw a pi :ture ata fair representing
a young girl lying at the bottom of the
sea; it was called “The Dead Virginia.”
Was it something in real life, or is it a
novel? if so, who is the author? The
picture was an oil painting, life size, and
haunted me for days?

In using the ruﬂier to the FARMER

the same as for ordinary sewing? I tried
it and the under thread was straight, and
the gathers slipped so easily th-A I think
it is not right. I never used or 0 before,
and the directions do not say.

I take up my tulip bulbs the last of
June and replant in October. I too tried
laying down cucumbers in sugar, and
failed, as also did my neighbor.

I hope Mollie May will show us a
specimen of wool prepared for bedding,
at the coming fair, as I have a great
curiosity to see wool that is lighter than
co:ton. AUNT NELL.
PLAINWELL.

[We will give a synopsis of the story of
Paul and Virginia in our next issue.
Will some lady who has the FARMEB
sewing machine answer the question
about the tension of the ruﬂler? The
Household E iitor is quite unverscd in
the mysteries of such machines. We are
surprised and disappointed at the failure
to keep cucumbers by the “sugar pro-
cess,” which came to us highly commend-
ed by an eastern authority on culinary
matters. Will some lady who has tried
some different method with success please
give us her way thr Jugh the Household?
Of course the old way of packing in salt
and then extracting the salt by soaking is
so well and universally known that it
needs no recommendation. But does
anybody know a better or less trouble-
some way? Any information to be of
value this season, must come quickly]

”‘0...—
WILL our correspondents kindly address
their letters to the Household Editor of
the MICHIGAN FARMER. There are several
of our city papers which have household
departments, and unless the name of the
paper for which the letter is intended is
supplied it is very apt to go astray.

.___...____

MRS. FULLER answers an inquiry from
one of our Household circle by saying that
the essentials to successful culture of
English ivy are rich soil, good drainage
and partial shade. Under these conditions
Water can be given freely, but a sour, sod~
den soil is to be avoided. She can furnish
good roots of English and German ivy at
20 cents per root. Mrs. Fuller in a private
note to the Editor, says she had 130 Can-
didum lilies in bloom at the time of
writing. . Such a mass of this beautiful
lily must indeed be a lovely sight.

____*..—————

 

“AUN'r ADDIE,” in the Country Gentle-
man, says rhubarb has the peculiarity of
imbibing all ﬂavors, and that its possi—
bilities are quite wonderful. She says:
“You can prepare a preserved ginger
from it, ﬂavoring‘it with orange, lemon,
or almond. Boil rhubarb and currants
together (either red or black) and strain,
and you have currant jelly. Flavor the
simple juice of rhubarb with lemon peel
and stick cinnamon, and you have ﬁne
quince jelly. Then again, boil the simple
juice 'with brownvsugar, only adding a
small quantity of molasses, letting it get
quite dark and thick, and you have the
very best coloring for gravies and soups.
Boil some juice with an equal quantity of

strain. Then, boil again, drop in singly
some ripe and large strawberries, and you.
will have a delicious addition to your
winter fruits. There is only one impor
tant thing to be remembered; for mixing
it with other fruits you must ﬁrst extract
the juice by boiling it without sugar, and
then strain, add the desired quantity of
sugar, and go on with your process.”

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Useful Recipes.

 

HANDY PICKLES .—Into a two gallon jar put
a gallon of cold vinegar, a teacup of salt, a tea-
cup of horseradish sliced, and four peppers,
red or green. Wash your cucumbers and put
them in, all at once or a few at a time as you
get them. In a week you will have an excel-
lent pickle that will keep all winter. Try this
once and you will never again waste time
scalding pickles.

MACKEBEL Hum—Freshen a salt mackere}
over night, and in the morning boil and re

move the bones, picking it into small pieces.

Have ready some fresh mashed potatoes: stir
ﬁsh and potatoes together, seasoning with
cream, butter, salt and pepper.

 

FRUIT TAPIOCA.-—-A nice dish for dessert is
made by soaking half a pint of tapioca in cold
water for two hours, then let it boil gently
until it softens, slice canned peaches and put
into a pudding dish and pour the tapioca over
them. Bake until the tapioca is perfectly
tender; serve with sugar and cream. Dried or
evaporated peaches may be used for this dish,
and if they are properly cooked and softened
it is almost as good as when the canned fruit is
used.

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