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DETROIT, DEC.

10, 1892.

 

 

 

THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

TO WIN LOVE.
Love is not free to take, like sun and air;
Nor given away for naught to any One,
It is no common right for men to share—
Like all things precious it is sought and won.

80 if another is more loved than you
Say not, "It is unjust.” but say, "If she
Has earned more love than I it is her due.
When I deserve more it will come to me.”

But if your longing be for love indeed
l‘l’l teach you how to win it—a sure way,
Love and be Lovely, that is all you need,
And what you wish for will be yours some day.
-—Susan Coolidge.
W‘-
What silence we keep, year after year.
With those who are most near to us and dear:
We live beside each other day by day,
And speak of myriad things, but seldom say
The full, sweet word that lies just in our reach.
Beneath the commonplace or common speech.
—1Vora Perry.

 

CH RISTMAS GIF I‘S.

 

A case for veils is easy to make and
a gift which the daintyorderly girl will
appreciate for these ﬁlmy, ﬂoating
scraps of gossamer tissue are apt to be
“matter out of place”when wanted. Take
two sq uaresof cardboard, cover one side
of each with silk, satin or any material
you prefer—China silk is daintiest—
ﬁrst laying a thickness of wadding be-
tween the silk and the cardboard. Cover
the other side with thin lining silk, and
tie the two parts together in book shape,

A pillow scarf, which fashionably re-
places the old style pillow Shams, will
require two yards of muslin or linen.
Cut to ﬁt the width of the pillows, after
allowing for a two inch hem all round.
Hemstitch, and it is nice without other
ornamentation.

A dainty bureau spread is of ﬁne
white nainsook,the hems feather-stitch-
ed with ﬁlo-ﬂoss. Then draw at Irreg-
ular intervals upon it the outline of
any ﬂower you prefer—wild roses to be
worked in rose pink or yellow; pansies
in purple; nasturtiums in orange and
yellow, or ivy leaves in green—and out-
line with the ﬁlo ﬂoss. by taking each
stitch half or three-quarters back on
the length of the stitch just taken, an
outline, Kensington or stem stitch, as
it is variedly called, may be made quite
heavy and to resemble satin stitch, thus
enabling the embroiderer to shade her
work. When ﬁnished, edge with lace,
and line with white drilling or ordina-
ry bleached sheeting. Or you may

'ack a piece, of sheet wadding cut to ﬁt
. r.

to it. Such a cover is also pretty and
more serviceable if made of butcher’s
linen, omitting the lace and hem-stitch-
ing the edges.

A lucky pillow for some fortunate re-
cipient will be a down cushion covered
with pale green silk. On this ap-
plique a four-leaved clover cut from
darker green velvet, couching the edges
under a silver cord. The pillow may
be ﬁnished with a heavy silver cord
having three loops at each corner or
with a doubled ruﬁie of the pale green
silk.

Celluloid photograph frames may be
made in a great variety of ways. One
way is to cut the celluloid to the desir-
ed size, and in the center cut out an
oval for the picture. Notch the edges
irregularly and outline with gold paint
or some preferred color in oils. Paint
a spray of ﬂowers on the lower left hand
corner, or they are verv pretty unorna-
mented. Another way : Cut the cellu-
loid a little larger than a pasteboard
back the size of the picture. Find the
center of the celluloid parallelogram,
and from it cut diagonal lines to where
you want the inner corners of the frame.
Fold the angles thus made back on the
frame, securing them under tiny bows
of No. 1 ribbon. On the cutter edge of
the frame fold over enough of the cellu-
loid to make the edges. These can be
made up in watercolor paper. which is
cheaper.

A convenience for one who travels
much is a thread and needle case. Make
it about three inches long, of grey lin-
en, and like a shawl strap casein minia-
ture. Bind the edges with silk braid,
sew in the circular end pieces over and
over and cover with feather stitching,
also follow the bound edges with feath-
er stitching. This will hold a spool of
thread, a thimble, a pair of -tin y scissors
and a few buttons.

An “emergency case" is of grey linen
and somewhat smaller than a brush
and comb case. It contains, ﬁtted in
holdings of broad silk elastic stitched
down at intervals, half ounce bottles
of camphor, witch hazel, cologne, am
monia, ginger and glycerine, the labels
showing between the elastic straps. A
pad of sheet wedding lies over the bot-
tles, and the ends of the case fold over
and tie in a roll.

A book-cover, to slip over the cover

 

of a magazine or a paper-bound novel, is

best made of heavy brown or corn linen,
though other materials, silk, velvet,
or chamois, are sometimes used. To
make one. out ﬁrst an exact pattern of
the cover of your book. With this out
the linen one, folding and pressing but
not sewing a half inch hem. Two four
inch pockets are turned up at the
ends and overcast with heavy embroid-
ery silk at too and bottom where the
edges meet. On the cover embroider
or paint any pleasing design, the name
of the magazine the cover is meantto
guard, etc A scroll may be formed of
narrow blue or green ribbon, its edges
couched with ﬁne gold cord, the name
lettered in White. A spray of partridge
vine, or of holly, worked in natural.
colors, may further ornament the cov-
er. Or if you think the scroll too much
labor, a piece of ribbon long enough to
extend across the cover at the top may
be used, and the name embroidered up-
on it. If you can paint, the glazed lin-
en surface oﬁers a tempting surface. If
embroidery is employed it must be
pressed smoothly before the two white
cardboard covers used for stiffening are
slipped inside. Covers for a paper
bound book so good you wish to preserve
it may be made in the same way. The
twenty volumes of the paper bound Cy-
clopaedia Britannica which the FARMER
advertises could be covered somewhat
after this fashion. and thus made more
durable and sightly. Paste the paste- ‘
board interlining to the paper cover of
the volume, adjusting so as not to in-
terfere with Opening the book. Press-
under a weight till dry. Over this slip
the linen cover, cutting a place to show
the lettering on the back of each vol-
ume. or leaving it entire and lettering
it yourself; secure the cover in place
with stitches from one edge to the oth-
er edge.

A useful and pretty gift is a table
cwer or lamp mat of chamois. For the
little stand or table get a Chamois large
enough to cover it, except for a margin
of an inch or two. You may decorate
this variously. If you can paint it is
easy. Around the border arrange a
row of pansies, daisies (the yellow petal-
ed ones known as Black-eyed Susans
are prettiest), chry santhemums, or ivy,
or maple leaves, allowing them to touch
each other; out out the edges, and
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shades of green with the gold, or maple
leaves in autumnal colors combined with
the liberal use of the gold paint, make
handsome borders. If you cannot
paint, you may buttonholc the scallop-
sd edge of the cover, and powder it with
suiall Dresden designs in embroidery,
The lamp mat will be made on the same
plan.

Remember that the beauty and the
acceptability of a gift you make your-
self depends as much upon the neat-
ness and taste with which it is made as
upon its design. Make your own pres-
ents when possible, but do not offer
botched or slovenly work. '

JUDGE NOT.

Beatrix is again asking for more let-
ters and more contributors; and for us
readers who are deriving so much bene-
ﬁt and also pleasure from the HOUSE-
BOLD not to respond to her call would,
Pthink, he a downright shame.

Since I last contributed my little mite
I; too, have passed through the same
ordeal as Little Nan, and when in our
HOUSEHOLD we ﬁnd members judging
others an event which occurred during
that time is recalled to my mind, Which
should be an example to us who are so
apt totake upon ourselves the duty of
the One who commanded us to “ judge
not.”

One day during my. brother’s sick-
nessa young man who, when we were

1" children at home, had made his
home with us and whom we had not
seen for several months, came in. He
spoke to all of us except the sick one.
He stayed only a few moments, then
went to the barn where father was. I,
sf course, being one of the many who
jump at conclusions,was very indignant
at his actions, but was so in home that
my: brother had not noticed it. But
who are more on the alert than
the sick to watch every movement,
note every action of those around them.

 

' No sooner had the doorclosed behind the

youngman when brother said : “I won-
der what I‘ have done that he did not
speakto me ?” and I could see that it
worried him for he spoke of it several
times, so said I, “I should not think any
more of it for he is -not worth worrying
aver.” Even if he had any ill will to-
ward him when he was well I thought
one a poor excuse for a man who should
retain that feeling when he was so sick.
Mother had not noticed it so went to the
barn at once to see if we had not been
mistaken. He said : “ Do you know
when I opened the door and saw him
lying there so changed from what I had
last seen him I was so surprised that I
could not speak; if I had I should have
"burst out crying.” The idea that
this great stalwart fellow could not
speak flthout crying had never entered
myntnd. I‘had judged too hastily, and
so 1‘ ink that when we are judging our
h ‘ ’ s, mothers-in-law andothers, if

is just knew the whole truth of the

matter in nine cases out of ten we would
find they were just as well prepared to
don the wings as we who have no
faults.

I with L sympathize with the mothers-
in-law. I was married in January and
could not go to housekeeping till April
so I thought surely we could get
along for that short time, but soon
found that no house is large enough
for two families, so before any real
trouble began I made my retreat back
to my own home. Not that she was
entirely to blame. 0, no! But her
ways were so diﬂ’erent. And being in
her house I should have made my ways
like hers,at leastso long as I shared her
hospitality. It is seldom that the
mother and the son’s wife agree. and
when we do see them living together,
as we often do,for months and perhaps
years we think it marvellous. But do not
blame the mothers-in-law for they have

much to contend with.
GABITA.

 

IN REVIEW.

 

Now that election has been accom-
plished by the aid of the political press
and “stumpers;” and those other mo-
mentous questions as to who shall
wear the trowsers, who shall carry the
purse, or shall there be two purses in
each family having been determined
and adjusted by the aid of the HOUSE-
HOLD’S able and alert correspondents,
we have an opportunity to take breath,
look over the situation. sum up the
arguments, and see “where we are at.’

I’m coming more and more to realize
that “times aint as they used to was,
and we can’t do as we used to could’
for I remember the time when the
“head of the family” was the head, and
not regarded as the caudal appendage
and “stumpy” at that—yes, I can’t help
pining for the good old days when the
“man of the house” could Spend a quiet
evening with his mug of cider, his pipe.
and a restful snooze, but now it’s books,
newspapers,conversation,letter-writing,
etc., and the cider is turned into vine-
gar, and a man’s enjoyment of an even-
ing is twisted all out of shape.

I can remember when mother spent
her winter evenings dipping candles,
knitting stockings, darning socks (and
there was a darned lot of them, I can tell
you) and in putting sundry patches on
the family garments, and I remember
how comfortable and glad I felt—in my
boyhood’s days—to sit on one of mother’s
ample patches; and although those
patches have long since departed, yet
the memory of them still hovers around
me, like the halo of departed glory.
But now, how different and changed!
The “wimmen folks” make tatting and
fancy gew~ga ws—attend societies—read
the newspapers and even discuss politics,
and I’m led to exclaim, What are we
coming to? Why if we keep on, I pre-
sume we may, in time, be as bad off as

 

England, having free trade and a wo-
man to boss us. And do you wonder

that I sigh for those good days when
homespun clothes, contentment, and
johnny cake made life for me a joy?
Now that winter’s coming on, I want
to ask the HOUSEHOLDERS _to help
settle a question that is a cause of great
anxiety and some suffering in many
families. It is just this: Who, or
which, ought to get up and build the ﬁres
these cold winter mornings? I’m willing
to build them half of the time—I’m
willing to build them in the summer, if
wife will build them in the winter, or
she may build them in the winter, and
I’ll build them in the summer—you see
I want to bemanly about this matter.
And now, dear HOUSEHOLDERS, help
to settle this question, which is just now
agitating so many homes, and you will
greatly oblige THEOPOLUS.

——-—-.O.-——~

J IYST A LETTER.

 

So our Busy Bee is perfectly content-
ed with her home and her life in it! I
wish I could feel as she does.

I once thought I could be happy and
contented anywhere with my husband,
but am sorry to say that because of some
ﬂaw in our natures things seem different
now—just a little.

I am, however, thankful that I have
so good a home for my little ones, who
think “papa” one of the best "papas"
in the world; and were my health as
good as it used to be perhaps I would
feel quite diﬁerent.

When I think of the poor in our cities,
who are objects of charity this Thanks-
giving, and of the inmates of our poor-
houses, I am exceedingly thankful that
“none of mine” are or ever have been,
one of them. and how any one can allow
an old father or mother to become an
inmate of an almshouse is past my com-
prehension.

I would share my last crust with a
relative of mine, and—yes—I believe I
would beg for them till I could earn
something to provide for them, if they
were reduced to such a state of inability
that they could not work.

I have in mind a man who owned a
large, well stocked farm, with money
loaned at a high rate of interest, who
let his poor old mother become a county
charge; and his neighbors,among whom
she had lived and been esteemed, took
her out of the almshouse. and by allow-
ing her to mend, knit and help them in
other ways as she was able (she going
from house to house as she was needed)
earned her heart—felt gratitude, and I
verily believe the blessing of God, by
their kindness and friendly support for
some years.

Such cases are only too common, for
often we read of some heartless man or
woman who by promises they never in-
tend to fulﬁll, induce an aged parent to
sign away his property and having got
it into their hands, leave the "old man"
to live where he can or go to the “county
house.” Oh, such heartlessnessl

 

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ing people to proved for their parents
unless it can be proved that they are
really unable to maintain them in cem~
fort.

Daﬁodilly, I’m with you, but will re-
frain from writing anything to stir up
strife between our members again, as
we can not all think alike on the pocket
book question any more than upon wo-
men’s grievances on other domestic
questions, because of the dissimilarity
of cases, minds and situations.

That there are men who allow their
wives to use their earnings too liberally
I have not a den bt. for I have seen such,
but there are few farmers of my ac-
qualntance who do not “pinch a dollar
till the eagle screams” before they will
hand it over to their wives to spend.

Maybelle, where art thou? Are you
disgusted with the“jangling voices” too?
I can send you another bundle of Sab-
bath School papers if you desire them.

HONEY BEE.
...._.._....___._..

MONEY AND READING- MATTER.

“John’s Wife” talks about three pocket»
books in a family. I dwell in the midst
of five, keep an overseeing eye on the
contents of all, and often grow dis-
couraged at the discrepancy between the
supply and demand in one in particular.
From the grimy, ﬂappy, ﬂat and big
wallet which acts as fountain head down
to the small affair of the small boy,each
one is the sole property of its owner and
nothing more positive than a little
advice now and then regarding invest-
ments is offered by those in authority.
The brief pleasure of taffy compared to
that of marbles or skates, the wasted
tablet and lost pencil; the relative
sheet of spending, keeping and earning,
are all made to “point a mora ,” which
the rise and fall of personal property is
expected to impress upon the youthful
mind. When any enterprise comes up
at school, or one of those rare calls for
charity is made, they need not wait to
come home and ask permission,but are as
independent as either parent would be;
and when the “milk money” has been
divided, and the little eight year old
says, “I gave ﬁ've cents, mother, and I
would have given ten if the old cow
hadn’t been going away so soon,” We
feel that we are on the right road. They
are learning to think and spend prudent-
ly. I wonder that any woman who has
ever felt the humiliation of asking for
money, or that of being told how to
spend it, should make her child pass
under the same shadow.

Let me drop the ﬁve purses, and take
up the ﬁve sets of reading matter which
spread themselves over the sitting-room
table and give it the appearance of be-
ing in a state of chronic convulsion.
“You make me think of a family in
Kansas,” said a not over ﬂattering
neighbor one day, “every one of them
had a- magazine or paper,and they lived

on johnny cake half the year to pay for
it!” What of it! Hadn’t they a right

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to say whether mind or body should
forego luxury? Where he sneered. I
commended. He knew only of physical
hunger, my childhood and early girl-
hood seem now like one long mental
starvation, when every scrap of print-
ed matter as large as my hand was pick-
ed up on the street or anywhere, when
“Dick Turpin,” “Sixteen String Jack,”
yellow covered and dime novels, “The
Horse and His Diseases;” “Chase’s Re-
cipe Book;" Patent Ofﬁce Reports; and
every thing I could get-«except the
“Bock of Martyrs”-—were eagerlsr read;
not because I liked them, but only to
still that awful hunger. I used to
picture Heaven as full of books; and
who can wonder that my home contains
more of books than of anything else,but
that the kind I liked best then I like no
more.

Babylarnd was a constant visitor for
nine years and dropped with much re-
gret when outgrown. Many mothers
make the mistake of waiting for a child
to be old enough to read before sub-
scribing for any juvenile magazine. A
baby in its third year will enjoy Baby-
land’s pictures and musical jingles and
soon show such pretty joy over the book
which comes from the post-ofﬁce as its
very own, to be opened and cut by the
chubby ﬁngers; that more than once
through the year,the fond and admiring
parent will say, “Well, that is well
worth ﬁfty cents!” The best of artists
and authors are among its contributors,
and really, no common pen or pencil
could so completely ﬁt the small mind.

Next in my acquaintance comes Our
Little Ones and the Nursery at $1.50, I
think; and Our Little Men and Women at
$1. per year. Those suit readers from
six or seven to ten years of age; then
follow the well known Youth’s Oom-
pamlon, and Harper's Young People, very
much alike in make-up and price; rang-
ing from $2 as single subscription to
$1.75 in clubs. The extra heavy paper
used and the shape of the ﬁrst make it
liable to be folded across the sheet,when
it always breaks. When either of these
are taken it is a good plan to bind them
about every two months, using a fold of
something strong (ticking is good) down
each side of the back to fasten the
strong double twine into so that it will
not cut through the paper. In cor-
responding magazines, we have Wide
Awake and St. Nicholas, either of which
is not only so very good but at the same
time so young and so old that once
known and beloved it can never be out-
grown; child, parents, and grandparent
all ﬁnd delight in its pages. Some
mothers think their children need no
current reading because they have a
supply of story-books, but there is an
indescribable charm about the regular
visitor. “I am sure of one thing good
to-morrow” comes often with my good
night kiss, “my paper, you know,”
and I think that, while there is much
diﬂerence in the natural bent, there are
but few children who, furnished with

 

reading to ﬁt them and properly enn
couraged, would not develops a taste for
it. When we think of the life-long,
never failing pleasure, aside from any
prdﬁt, gained by such a taste, who could
refuse to encourage it—-even if we do
have to “eat johnny cake” to make up?
The ﬁrst number of any of these publi-
cations makes a nice Christmas present
——one that lasts a whole year, and more.

When I come to the magazines of
larger growth, I am very fond of so
many that it is hard to discriminate and
if my purse was suﬁicient unto them all,
I should never try. Scm'bner’s, The
Century, and Harper’s are very much
alike, but to me the last wears the look
of an old and dear friend. To read and
remember the matter in either through
the passing years would give a liberal
education. Scribner‘s is offered at $3, the
other two at $4, but can be obtained for
nearly a dollar less in clubbing lists. I
get our post-master to send for me.

If, instead of recreation for the mind,
one wishes to dig and delve. there are
such magazines as I he Forum, The
Eclectic, North. American Revww and Po-
pular Science Monthly. The last isalate
acquaintance, and well liked. One
wishing to keep posted in the world of
action and literature with the least pos-
sible effort and time, will ﬁnd effective
helps in Ouwent History and Current
Literature—both publications compara-
tively new. I can not close without an
earnest protest against cheap current
matter. The best of authors now ap-
pear in cheap book form, but that paper
or magazine offered at 25 cents with a
lot of chromos you never frame—may
serve to pass away time, but it must
lower the taste, may affect the morals,

and certainly can never do any good.
THOMAS. A. H, J.

 

WE have said, again and again, that
it is impossible to publish letters writ-
ten on both sides of the paper. There
must be a good deal of wit and original-
ity in a letter to induce a busy editor
to take time to copy it. Paper is much

less valuable than time in these days.
“ Little Nuisance” and “Hackmetack”
will therefore understand why their let-
ters go into the w. b. instead. of the
HOUSEHOLD.

 

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GOOD Housekeeping for December is a
Christmas number, and the opening
paper, which will be found one of the
most valuable in the issue, is from the
pen of Miss Parloa, under the title of
“ Pretty Things for the Holiday Table,”
The frontispiece is a scene entitled
“ Popping Corn,” with poetical setting;
while the special papers, both those
adapted to the season and such as per-
tain to the general welfare of the home,

combine to make a number of marked
excellence. This admirable magazine,
“in the interests of the higher life of
the household in the homes of the
world,” is published at $2 a year, or
$1 for six months, and no more accept-
able gift than a subscription can given
to any housewife. Clark W. Bryan
Company,publishers, Springﬁeld,Mass.


The Household.

 

PUT THE PRICE DOWN .

Not one of the readers of the HOUSE-
HOLD passed over, or skimmed thought-
lessly Ella. Rockwood’s article on she
Keeley Institute at Ypsilanti. Per-
haps not one reader but laid the paper
down with asigh, for there was some
dear Tom, Dick or Harry in her own
family, or a near relative, that ought
to have this gold cure and that light
speedily. It is a “gold cure” sure
enough.” and goes with the “ softest
and richest of carpets,” rich draperies”
and “ elegant furniture” that adorn this
Institute. But, alas I just about one in
ﬁve hundred who are drunkards, even
if helped along by their richer com-
rades can be “cured”, if ilz's acure I Mr.
Keeley ought to read the statistics on
this question. In Detroit alone three
are over one thousand saloons; and
the workingmen of this country spent
$1,280,000,000 for drink last year. By
total abstinence, with this sum these
workingmen could own every mill and
factory in the country, and in six years
buy up every railroad in the United
States. But this vast sum, worse than
misspent, keeps them continually just
above the poverty line, and the six
saloons in every block making money
right along. We shall all be convinced
of Mr. Keeley’s sincerity and sympa-
thetic interest in his fallen brothers
when he stops charging twenty-ﬁve dol-
lars a week just for treatment, and is
willing to open an ofﬁce next door to
every saloon and charge three cents,
the price of a glass of beer, for every
injection of the gold cure. I go furth-
er : If the-taxpayers of~every large city
could be convinced that it was a gen-
uine cure for drunkenness, they would
save money on their olty taxes to have
a dozen freehospitals in every large
town. and compel the afﬂicted ones to
submit to treatment.

Damon. SISTER GBlCIOUS.

 

APICTURE.

It was a Sunday evening in November;
cold, blustering,wind due east and laden
with that dampness which chills the
very marrow of one’s bones. The sound
of the bells came in ﬁtful gusts, now
soft, now loud; the church windows
blazed with light, and crowds of well-
dressed, prosperous looking people were
ascending the steps. Nonchalantly
leaning against an electric wire post,
commanding a view of the opening
doors, stood a tramp, shabby as to attire,
unshaven, probably hungry. Upon the
steps, jostled by the unheeding crowd,
were two little girls, ragged, dirty, re-
gular little “Micks,” but clasping each
other as they listened to the great waves
of music that rolled out, diapasons that
iarred the air like thunder tones, clear
pealing symphonies that lifted the soul
like white wings, the grand voluntary
evoked by the organist’s skillful ﬁngers.
Still the§people thronged in, then they

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grew fewer and fewer; the organ was
hushed, the sexton came and closed the
great outer doors, leaving outside the
ragged. shivering children, the home-
less wanderer. Had anybody asked
them to enter? Indeed not. What,
those unkempt waifs, that vagabond of
the streets,asked to sit in those cushion-
ed pews, among the citv’s aristocracy!
Let them go to the Gospel Mission“ to
the saloon, to the devil! but not intrude
their uninteresting personality, their
undisguised, prosaic poverty, upon the
eyes and noses of those whose portion is
the roses and lilies of life. It would
have been easier for any owner of a
section (called a pew) in that house
ostensibly known as the dwelling of the
Lord Almighty, to have given a thou-
sand dollars to charity than for him or
her to have taken one of these outcasts
by the hand and led him to a place at
his side. “What would people thinkll”
“What would ‘they’ say?"
BEATRIX.

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A KITCHEN TALK.

 

One of the most disagreeable tasks of
the year comes at “killing time,” when
the pork and beef are to be packed,
sausage made, and everything seems
specially greased for the occasion. But
there is this comfort about it; you know,
when your warfare is accomplished,that
there is no cotton-seed oil in your lard
and no dog in your sausage.

I have learned a thing or two which
seems to make the work of rendering
lard a triﬂe more easy, and as we ought
all to write up our easy ways, if nothing
else, for the HOUSEHOLD. I am going
to tell about it.

When the leaf lard is brought in, cut
it up into pieces not more than half an
inch square, removing all the “strings,”
skin and blood vessels, then if you are
lucky enough to have an Enterprise
meat chopper, put it through that to
grind it down ﬁne. Soak the fat from
the intestines over night in cold water
to which you have added a handful of
salt, and treat it as you have the leaf
lard, keeping it separate; be careful
to remove every one of the dark "ker-
nels” in the fat, for these make it strong
and sometimes give it a bitter taste
The trimmings of the hams and sides
which are to be rendered need not be so
carefully looked over before going into
the chopper. With a mild heat melt
the chopped fat, stirring it often; it will
melt at a temperature of from 110 to
120 degrees. When it is melted to the
consistency of thin gruel, scatter salt
over the surface to carry down the
scraps, and when they have settled, dip
the clear fat into another kettle and
heat it to 180 degrees and you will have
lard that is white and ﬁrm and which
will not keep you awake nights wonder-
ing whether it will keep or not. By

having the fat ground ﬁne the length
of time required to cook it is much re-
duced, shortening an unpleasant" work
by several hours.

 

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

 

AN exchange says dull and dusty jet
can be restored by rubbing with a ﬂan-
nel cloth wet with alcohol slightly di-
luted with water.

 

ANGORA furs, such as are worn by
children, and also their little hoods of
Angora wool, can be cleaned by the use
of heated ﬂour. Heat the ﬂour till it is
so hot you can hardly hear your hands
in it, stirring it so it will not scorch
then rub well into the fur or the hoods
while still hot. When cool,’hang the
articles on the line in the wind or whip
well with a rattan.

THE white fur rugs—-goat skins—may
be cleaned with naptha. Wet a por-
tion with the naptha, and rub with a
cloth until clean. If you prefer to wash,
use tepid water, four gallons, and half
a pint of household ammonia, soaking
the rug in it half an hour. Rinse, and
hang out to dry. The skin will be stiff
after this treatment and will need con-
siderable rubbing between the hands "to
soften it. These goatskin rugs, unlin-
ed, can be bought from $2.75 upward.

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Contributed Recipes.

 

A Goon DINNER FOR A 001.1) DAL—Three
sliers of pork cut in dice and browned in the
bottom of a large kettle. Sixteen good sized
potatoes sliced and drained. Pour enough

' boiling water on the pork to nearly cover the

potatoes, let come to a boil, put in the pots.

toss. Have ready one heaping cup ﬂour into
which has been sifted one teaspoonful bak-
ing powder. and wet with milk and cream
into a rather stiff dough. Divide into ten

parts and lay on the potatoes. Cover with a
close cover and boil twenty minutes. “89."

 

Fxnmnas’ MINCEMEAT.—Take the hearts
and tongues of two hogs, clean thoroughly,
boil until very tender. When done allow
them to cool, then chop very ﬁne. Chop
enough sour apples to amount to twice the
bulk of minced meat. Mix; add two cups mo-
lasses, (two cups brown sugar) one quart of
cider if to be had-two teaspoonfuls ground
cinnamon, one spoonful each of allspice,
cloves. grated nutmeg, and lemon extract.
Put all into a fruit kettle and simmer on the
stove twenty minutes. Remove from the
stove and add one lb. raisins and one of cur.
rants. When making pies add bits of butter
and you will have pics ﬁt for a king.

HONEY BEE.

 

MINCE MEAL—Four lbs. chopped beef;3 lbs
chopped suet; 3 lbs raisins; 3 lbs curl-ants; 1
lb citron, sliced ﬁne; 4 lbs brown sugar; 1
pint molasses; 2 ounces ground cinnamon; 1
ounce cloves; 1 nutmeg grated; grated rind
and junce Of 8 lemons. Mix this thorough-
ly together. then add 1 pint of chopped apple
to each quart of mixture; make it moist en-
ough with anything you choose, wine, cider.
water. This is not to be cooked-heat the
amount you use each time when making pies.

Bonn non Benn—Two gallons of rain water ,
3 lbs salt. 1% lbs of brown sugar; 1 ounce
salt petre, scald and skim.

EVANGELINE.

    

 

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