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THE HQUSEHQLmamSuupplememm

 

 

MISS LOLLIPOP’S H0 USEKEEPING.

 

Little Miss Lollipop thought she must help.
To Wish up the dishes, and wipe up the shelf,
To brush up the table, and sweep up the door,
And clean off the stains from the paint on the
door. _
She put on her apron and pulled up her sleeve—
She didn’t want work that was only make believe;
“ For mnazers who‘ve dot yittle chillens,” said
she,
“Must have yittle housekeepers; dat’s what I’ll
be."
Little Miss Lollipop went through the room,
Whisked the dust high with the edge of the broom,
Broke the poor cup which she dropped on the ﬂoor,
Left the paint twenty times worse than before,
Spattered and splashed—but eh i how could ( chide
The little heart swelling with sweet, helpful
pride?
"For how would my muzzer be able,” said she,
“ To get free her work .f he didn't have me?”
Dearer the love in the sunny h ue t yes,
Than the dust she is raising, which fades as it
ﬂies:
Better t i miss the best cup on the shelf,
Than chill the dear heart which is enjoying itself.
Dear little Lollipop, we are like you
Spoiling the Work We are trying to do-
But surely the Father who loves us will heed
And take, in His kindness, the will for the deed.
-——¢O.—
When she came
Before him ﬁrst, he looked at her. andlooked
No more, but colored to his healthful brow,
And wished himself a better man, and thought
On certain things, and wished they were undone,
Because her girlish innocwce, the grace
Of her unblemished pIreness wrought in him
A longing and aspiring, and a shame
To think haw wicked was the world.
-—Jean Ingelow.
————«§———_

A HORTICULTURAL MEETING.

 

 

I had the pleasure of being present at
two of the s- ssions of the State Horticul-
tural Society, which held its summer
meeting at Bay City on the‘19th and 201h
ult., and thought a brﬁf account of what
I saw and heard there might be of interest
to many if not all the readers of the
Household.

The meetings were held in the Court
House, a ﬁne ediﬁce, with yard shaded by
large trees and afountain plashing in the,
space between the curves leading to the
entrance. The courtroom had anything
but a legal aspect, with its decorations of
growing ferns and pot plants, and the
bouquets and ﬂoral designs sent in for ex-
hibition. The display of strawberries
was large and excellent. President Lyon
made the largest exhibit, showing 34 va-
rieties. I looked at once for the “ berries
six inches in circumference,” as reported
in an evening paper of this city. They
were there, but i was disappointed; they
were of the Sharpless variety (which

 

name a horticultural wit said might
be changed to Shameless with propriety).
and were very irregular ani homely in
shape. Plates of the Manchester, Cum-
berland, Chas. Downing and Bidwell, of
lesser size, but perfect in shape and
beautifully colored, were far more attrac
tive than these overgrown monstrosities.

This berry-ladened table seemed the
center of attraction to all; the visitors
took grezt interest in it, and the fruit-
growers gathered about it to compare ex-
periences, exchange opinions, and “ﬁght
their battles over again.”

The discussions which followed the
reading of the various papers prepared
by the members were spicy and interest
ing. When a man gets up to tell “ all he
knows ” of a subject in from three to ﬁve
minutes, it becomes a study how to say
the most in the shortest time, and he goes
straight to the mark. The report of the
proceedings in the FARMER of this and
last week is quite full, but some things
will bear repeating, and I learned a few
new ideas for our housekeepers, too. The
varieties of sweet corn with colored cobs,
says Prof. Tracy, are not popular because
in cooking the cob discolors the corn and
makes it unattractive in appearance.
The discoloration is prevented by putting
the corn in boiling water at ﬁrst, instead
of allowing the corn to soak in the water
till the latter is raised to the boiling
point. We may “ make a note of it.”
that sweet corn with any kind of cob
should he put into boiling water, and the
ﬁre be hot enough to Continue the boiling
in a very few minutes, if corn is to be
“boiled in water” at all. But Mr. Davis,
of Lapeer, who gave us his experience in
evaporating sweet corn, says corn should
be steamed, not boiled, for that purpose,
and he might have added that the same
process is adviSable for that intended for
table use. Mr. Davis recommended cut-
ting the kernels of corn to be evaporated
twice in two. He also told us evaporated
earn was much cheaper than canned corn,
since the price of one can of the tinned
corn would buy enough evaporated corn
when prepared for the table to ﬁll three
cans. Corn is better when used very soon
after picking.

For aphides, which are so numerous
upon house-plants, and for most of the
insects which prey upon vegetation, Prof.
Cook recommend d the khrosene mixture
mentioned in the report of the proceed~
ings given this week, which I Will repeat
for the beneﬁt of those who preserve the
Household for binding: One quart of

 

soft soap and two gallons of boiling water;
into this while hot stir one pint of kero~
scne. The bellows with cup attached
for spraying this liquid upon plants is ex-
tremely convenient to those who have oc-
casion to use insecticides; it sends a ﬁne
spray considerable distance and there is
no danger of injuring the foliage. The
bellows costs $2, but would last a life-
time with decent usage. Pyrethrum, says
the Professor, will quiet the ﬂies if dif-
fused into the air uf a closed room; pyre-
thrum is better than prepared insect
powder, exterminators, etc., and is cheap-
er as well.

I was rather surprised at the small at-
tendance, especially of ladies. I think if
the latter knew how enjoyable these
meetings are, they would hardly allow
their “ liege lords and masters” to go off
alone and have. such a good time all by
themselves. There is an absence of for—
mality, pedantry and jaw—cracking names,
and every man tells what he knows of
his subject in plain, practical fashion.
Make up your minds to go next time,
ladies, just to see if What I tell you is not
true.

Owing to an inconvenient but needed
shower, I saw little of Bay City, but re-
turned With the impression that it isa
Very pleasant town, as well as a lively
one. A cry of ﬁre about midnight seem-
ed to bring two-thirds the able-bodied
population of the city on the ground be-
fore the ﬁre department, 50 I conclude
the people are generally “ up and dressed, ’
ready for whatever is going on.

I was delighted with the beauty of the
country, as seen from the car windows,
about Orion and vicinity. The green
slopes and gentle undulations, clover,
crowned and dotted with pleasant farm
homes, with little streams to be spanned
by two strides, and Windingin and out
through the ﬁelds, now darting into the
woods to escape the sunbeams and then
demurely threading a wheat ﬁeld, made a
very pleasant picture to the dust covered
traveler in a stiﬂing car on a hot June
day. BEATRIX.

PRECIOUS PRIVILEGES.

 

All day as I have busied myself with
household duties, or sent the shining
needle on its mission of “repairing rents,”
I have been thinking of Beatrix’s late
talk of “ Sounds of a Summer Night,”
strangely mingled with dim echoes of a
letter in a late FARMER, criticizing an of-
fering fromthe Law Editor on the sub-
ject of “Barbed Wire Fences.” What a

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medley or melange of brain curiosities!
The only connecting link is aremote one.
Quite a long time ago the Law Editor was
questioned as to the right of cattle to roam
in the highway, and promptly answered
they had no such right, but then read
a nice little homily on the subject of rural
sights and sounds, giving a prominent
place to the gentle, soothingmu ~ic of the
cow bell, tinkling on the ear in the sweet
hushed silence of the summer night. It
seemed to hold his fervid imagination in
rapt devotion, and we may conclude noth-
ing but leisure was wanting to bring out
apastoral poem of numerous cantos on
the inspiring subject. And yet Beatrix
never mentioned this charming note in
the music of a country night‘s orchestra!
Thoughtless Beatrix! Analogous, yet dif-
ferential is the “barbed wire” question.
The Law Editor thinks it' likely the
courts would sustain them as a lawful
fence, yet ifhe were a fence viewer he
would have none of the “cruel, danger-
ous things.” The letter referred to (I have
mislaid the paper and forgotten the writer's
name), takes up the defensive side of the
argument, and speaksa good word for the
fence, and as nothing “ succeeds like
success,” the present boom in the way of
placing miles of the fence would seem to
take the question out of debatable ground
and place it among demonstrated prob-
lems.

The fence question seems to settle it’
self much quicker and more easily than
the other, although the highway ques-
tion has the advantage of a judicial decis-
ion in its favor, while the fence question
has never been speciﬁcally passed upon
by the courts. The clean, attractive line
of wire is fast pushing the unsightly
worm fence, with its weedy, brambly
corners, out of sight, and proving its su—
periority in cheapness and durability to
this, and also to the b0 1rd and picket
fence; besides, when it is properly put
up, it is more sightly and attractive in the
longrun;asa board or picket fence, if
not closely looked after, soon gets out of
repair, and is “picturesque " only as a
ruin.

But one need go but ashort distance in.
to the country to hear the melodious
tinkle ofthe cow-bell, by day or night.
But, like other “relics of barbarism.” it is
dying out in the light of civilization and
progress.

Sue‘iprivileges, made necessary by the
circumstances consequent on the settle~
ment of a new country, have by long es-
tablished custom, come to be regarded as
vested rights, and the common sense and
justice of the question is overlooked in
the turbulent alarm caused by the sup-
posed infringment of our rights. Pug-
nacious deﬁance takes possession, and
cool, dispassionate argument can get no
hearing.

Our Law Editor has a clear, judicious
mind, his conclusions are concisely stated,
there is no halting of opinion; but,—here’s
the rub: After deciding what is law, he
sometimes gives his fancy wings, and in
romantic rhapsody seems to labor to con-
vince his clients that law is hardly jus-

THE' HOUSEHOILD.

edicts by aesthetic fancies and glamour-
ed views of the poetry of motion and
sound; personiﬁed by ye highway cow
cropping daisies, with the sweet tinkle of
a bell for accompaniment, while to make
all harmonious, we must keep up the ro-
mantic broken rail fence, and a picket
gate, witha broken hinge, that the cow
may not be defrauded of her right to the

toothsome dainties of the kitchen garden.
A. L. L.
lucnnsrnn, June 25th .
-———-—.OO—'—"‘_

THE TRAINING OF GIRLS.

 

The following from the Philadelphia
Press is so a ropos to the subject we have
been discussing, and gives such truly ex-
cellent advice. that we reproduce it,
feeling sure our readers will acknowledge
its sound doctrine, and hoping “our
girls” will heed its counsel:

“As a girl grows toward womanhood it
should be one of the ﬁrst thoughts of the
mother to see that her daughter under-
stands thoroughly the position which she
ought to maintain toward the other sex.
Anything like prudishness or false
modestyn’ought to be as decidedly dis-
couraged as too great freedom, though it
is best, if an error must be committed,
that it should be committed upon the safe
side. But as for allowing young men to
button her cloak, adjust her hat, pin her
collar, or perform any other such very
personal ofﬁces—as young men seem to
think quite the polite thing to do in some
circles nowadays—it is not the proper
course. Mothers should teach their
daughters to keep their persons sacred.
Kisses and caresses from young men at
parties or during evening drives have
been the beginning of the most frightful
calamities to innocent young girls, who
had never been properly informed con-
cerning such matters, and who trusted
too implicitly to the honor and judgment
of irresponsible men.

“‘I do not remember,’ said a married
lady not long ago, ‘ that a word was ever
said to me in my girlhood concerning
my relations with young men. I was al
lowed to go and come, to write letters and
accept invitations, pretty much as I
chose. My mother and father, and all of
my family friends, many of whom lived
in our vicinity, were pious people and
they were, of course, among the most cul-
tured and respected inhabitants of the
town. Isuppose they thought my native
sense of propriety was shield enough,
and that it would be impossible for me
to go astray. But I might have been
saved so many, many small trials and
mortiﬁcations if I had only been told
frankly by my mother just how to con-
duct myself toward young men. And
some girls of our village who went to
school with me and were, I know, as
pure and innocent as myself, lost their
virtue, I ﬁrmly believe, through the
failure of their mothers to fortify them
adequately against the temptations to
which they were afterward exposed.’
~ “Many a disgusting divorce suit or
unsavory town scandal has begun in a
kiss given at a party or an impulsive

 

tice, and that they may impose upon the

  

Weak human nature is often unable to
stem the tide of passion, when it is once
fully aroused; but these chance begin-
nings, which are usually so triﬂing
that a slight warning from the properly-
taught may easily conquer them and
prevent their recurrence, are entirely
controllable. Even well-balanced men
and women, whom we have believed
to be utterly trustworthy, fall sometimes .
The best among us may well be on our
guard in a world so strangely construct-
ed. An honest and faithful reliance up-
on the Almighty Father may ﬁtly be en-
joined upon everybody in this matter, as
in all the perplexities of life; but if we
may not always be able to persuade our
daughters to give themselves up to that
higher guidance, we may at least impress
upon them the shrewd and practical
maxims of worldly wisdom, among which
should be prominent: Keep your person
sacred, and allow kisses and caresses
from no man except your nearest relatives,
and the one who has been publicly an‘
nounced as your intended husband.” '
____...____

BUTTER-M AKING.

 

My husband takes the FABMER, and I
read all the butter making letters as I am
abutter-maker and feel considerably in-
terested in reading different persons' ways
of making butter. One will say she
washes her butter so many times, and an—
other One so many times. Now I do not
wash my butter at all, unless it comes so
soft that I am obliged to put cold water
on it to harden it, so I can get out all the
butter-milk I can before salting; and such
butter I keep to use myself, and don’t
pretend to send it to market, as it will not
keep; it will get frowy sooner or later,
and the more it is washed the quicker it
will get so. Butter can be made by not
putting it in water that will keep a year,
if it is made right. My way of making
butter is this: Have eyerything clean to
commence with; then manage to have
the cream 'just right to have the butter
come ﬁrm, so it will pack together in the
churn. I have my butter bowl scalded
and cooled by putting cold water in it
and lettin git stand till cold; then I turn
out the water and take the butter from
the churn into it; Ipress out all the but‘
termilk I can conveniently; then salt as
quick as I can, which is in about ﬁve
minutes; then cover and set away in the
cellar where it will keep cool for twenty-
four hours or more; it will not work over
good in less time than twenty-four hours.
I do my churning one morning, the ear-
lier the better, before breakfast if I can,
and work it over the next morning in the
cellar, if it is too warm out of doors.
Pack when it is too hard to work with the
paddle. I work it with my hands, and
stamp it into a tub or jar, whichever I
have to ﬁll. My butter will keep a year.

Whose butter will keep longer?
MRS. R. S.

HUBBARDSTON, June 21.

[The Household Editor is certain
that the ﬁrst thing our butter-
makers will say on reading the
above is, “Well, how does she manage to

 

 

caress which was improperly received.

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THE HOUSEHOLD.

 

  

of the great problems of butter-making on
the farm. Ourcorrespondent is right in
asserting that butter which comes soft
will not keep as well as that which comes
ﬁrm, but will she tell us her method of
handling cream in hot weather? If she
has ice, it is easily done, but only a small
proportion of our farmers have ice-

houses.]
————‘oo———-—

“ AN AFTERNOON OFF.”

“Come and see us when strawberries

are ripe,” has been a standing invitation
to the Household Editor for the past
three years, from Mrs. Langley, better
known to Household readers as “ A. L.
L.” In compliance with the bidding, on
the afternoon of the 24th we drove out to
“Ingleside” between ﬁelds of grass and
grain, and stately rows of onions in im-
posing array, for the Ferry seed farms
are on the way there. The face of Nature
had just been washed by a copious
shower which had left the streets full of
little puddles sparkling in the quick fol-
lowing sunshine, and gemmed every tree
and shrub with glittering tears. Arriving,
we were warmly welcomed by our hostess,
whom we found in her pleasant “out
-door parlor,” the northern porch, cool and
shady in the hottest day; and bewailing
that the bounteous rainfall nearer town
had given them but a slight sprinkle,
hardly suﬁicient to lay the dust. Drouth
was completing the ruin wrought by the
late May frosts, and the strawberries were
all drying up, she said. They had not
been vouchsafed a shower in two weeks,
while on all sides, and only a few miles
away, there had been too much rain and
land was too wet to work. After a pleas-
ant visit, and doing ample justice to a
bountiful supply of delicious berries, we
were taken out to see the fruit. Mr.
Langley raises strawberries, currants and
early pitatoes for the Detroit market.
Between the frosts and the drouth the
strawberry crop was nearly atotal fail-
ures. He had just plowed up aﬁeld of
potatoes which he had left after the frost
which blighted them like ﬁre, to see if
they would start up and pay for cultivat-
ing, and was setting the land to cabbage,
a “ new departure ” forhim. He showed
us a large and ﬁne bed of plants, grown
in the open air, which were strong
stocky and healthy, and told us that he
effectually prevented the ravages of the
cabbage ﬁea beetle, by covering the bed
with tobacco dust, the refuse and sweep-
ings of the tobacco factory—just as the
plants were making their appearance.
The ﬁne, healthy growth of the plants
was evidence that the remedy would do
what he claimed for it. He grows his
plants in a sunny spot, believing they are
less apt to grow spindling than in the
shade.

Mr. Langley’s trial plat of strawberries
looked green and thrifty, but the frost
had done so much damage he could
hardly judge Of the merits of the varie-
ties. He however felt inclined to con-
sider “Big Bob ” a fraud; it had‘set fruit
freely, but the berries were very small.
He took us to see his Fay’s Proliﬁc cur-
rant, which he has been testing, and ex-

 

pressed himself as well pleased with it,
believing it to be all that was claimed for
it. And indeed the bushes, though they
had been severely pruned by taking out
the new wood for cuttings last fall, were
well ﬁlled with very ﬁne fruit, which
when ripened will be as good as the
seductive plate in the catalogue which
Mrs. Langley saved for the purpose of
comparison. Some very excellent goose-
berries, large and very thick on the bush,
were also shown, of a sort whose name
Mr. L. had forgotten; they had come to
him through his partner, Who knew their
lineage. The Cherry currant bushes had
a fair supply of handsome fruit, as had
also the common sort, but the fruit
stems were short, owing to that untimely
frost. He expects to get at least one
hundred bushels of currents this season,
despite his drawbacks.

___....__

LUXURIES.

 

While others sing of their pet econo-
mies, I will utter a note or two concern-
ing my pet luxuries. One of them is
good dish towels. Dish washing comes to
every Yankee household three times
three hundred and sixty-ﬁve times per
year, and if anything lightens, brightens
and secures the success of that task, it is
nice soft water and aclean soft towel. The
ﬁrst is usually at hand, but in place of
the last we are often given some old rag,
perhaps a piece of colored shitting.
suggestive of its former service, and are
told to wring out our dish cloth to wipe
the tins with. This calls for numerous
“ wrings,” and then when we have wash—
ed out that “rag” ready for the next
time, a good many moments are gone
which might have been saved by the use
of one soft crash towel for the dishes, and
another not so good or White for the odd
things. Half adozen are none too many,
and if a w oman hires her washing done,
it will be better to have more and not
wash them at all herself; at any rate we
all know that it is just as much work to
get soap and water to wash one towel, as
it is for several, and they only wear about
so fast anyhow. I ﬁnd that with a clean
nice cloth I can abbreviate this thrice
daily task a good deal, and the dishes
never tell if the orthodox scrubbing and
rinsing is omitted. It is impossible to
secure domestic help in many localities,
and the wise woman will take every “cut
off,” in her daily routine, and so long as
she can not hire, buy all the help she can.
All the towels I can wear out will not cost
over a dollar a year. Add to these half
a yard of dairy cloth for a dish cloth, and
a sweet brier bush by the side of my
kitchen door to dry them on, and I think
I have secured the poetry of the dish-
pan. I’ll have them too, if I have to
leave an artiﬁcial wreath 011' my hat to pay
for them. ‘

Another luxury is hard soap. I am
not as that boy in Harper’s said, “ a
eggnostic ” on this topic, for I have tried
both and afﬁrm that the use of soft soap '
calls for more rubbing and rinsing than
any of the hard soaps, while if a woman
is troubled with rough, chapped hands, or

 

brittle ﬁnger nails, the comfort of free-

dom from these will, or ought to, more
than “pay.” Washing, washing hands,
faces. babies, dishes, clothes, windows,
ﬂoors and shelves, over and over again
the duty comes to poor womankind, and
unto each let us secure that soap most
agreeable and efﬁcient without counting
the cost; and if “he " grumbles refer
him to some of the changes in farm im-
plements. and ask him why he doesn’t
cling to the old, instead of wasting
money on the new. A. H. J.

Tnouas, June 18th.

__..._____
MOTHER AND SON.

“S— hasjust gone from my room. He
is sure to ﬁnd me if I come to my room
on Sunday. He loves to tell me of his
plans and aspirations now just as well
as he did when a little boy, and he is
just as full of them now as then. He
quotes Savage in saying that ‘a man
whose ambition is satisﬁed, is like a
squeezed orange.’ He is looking forward
to great results, and in so doing does not
forget to make each day happier if possi-
ble than the preceding one.”

The above extract from the letter of
my friend in the far away seaboard city,
comes along so apropos with Beatrix’s
“One Reason,” that I take it from its
pleasant privacy and place it here for
the ediﬁcation of our Household conclave.
Some who will read it will recognize the
parties, and will freely corroborate my
assertion that this mother who does so
hold the place that is hers by a high and
holy right in her son’s heart, is a noble
woman; a cultured, conscientious and
heroic woman. Such women and only
such, have, can, do, and always will gain
and retain the affectionate and respect-
ful conﬁdence of their sons; for their
counsel and their admonitions alike are
wise and prudent, carrying with them, al-
ways, the pure germs of true greatness.
Brewing, baking, scrubbing, washing,
ironing, mending, making, and the mul-
tiplied advent of “the baby ” never in-
terfere with the close companionship ex-
isting and continually growing between
such women and their sons. “May their
tribe increase.” E. L. NYE.
METAMORA, June 18th.

<————-——.”-—._

INFORMATION WANTED.

 

Will some member of the Household
tell me what is the trouble with my tur-
keys. They grow ﬁnely until three or
four weeks old, thenrefuse to eat, mope
around and stand with their heads droop-
ing or tucked under their wings, then
die, none of them living over 24 hours
after commencing to droop. They are
not troubled with vermin, nor do they
have the gapes; neither do I think it is
the cholera. I have tried various reme-
dies recommended by raisers of poultry.
Have given different kinds of food, curd,
meal wet with sour milk, chopped onion
tops, cayenne and black pepper mixed
with food, but all of no use. Their bills
turn white and they look pale like a sick
person. I call it general debility or ner-
vous prostration, but tonics do not help

 

them. A week ago I was the proud own

  

 
    


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er of forty-seven chicks, now they are re-
duced to less than twenty. We have
changed them often and have always
been successful before.

Many thanks to Beatrix for her infor-
mation on household topics, and the
spicy fund of humor that runs through
all her articles like water sparkling in the
sunshine. How I wish I could visit with
her and all the members of the Household,
Old School Teacher from Tecumseh.
Aaron’s Wife from Fenton, and the lovers
of ﬂoriculture, horticulture, housekeeping
and literature. I enclose some cake re-
cipes, which are reliable and never fail
with me. F. C. C.

mncnnnnn, June 26.

—«.———-—-—

GOOD BUTTER.

 

I will venture to say a few words in re-
gard to butter-making. Every lady likes
to have the name of making good butter;
but this is impossible unless we have
everything nice and clean to work with.
It is very necessary that we have a good
churn and good dasher, because the least
taint will spoil a whole churning. I never
use a skimmer unless obliged to; I loosen
the cream from the pan and then ﬁowthe
cream into the cream crock with some of
the milk, then stir it up from the bottom,
this keeps the cream sweet. I churn be-
fore it gets watery at the bottom, the
cream comes easier and makes sweeter
butter. I never wash my butter if I can
help it; I think it keeps better. I use
Ashton salt, and work the salt in and
leave on the cellar bottom several hours,
work and then let stand a while longer,
then Work again. and put in crocks. In
winter I make it in table cakes, they are

handy for the table. MRS. R. E.
HORTON, June 25th.
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A CALL.

 

I have not had a formal introduction to
the ladies of the Household, havrng but
recently become a reader of the FARMER.
but your words have been so cordial and
so friendly, and withal [-0 helpful, that I
feel quite well acquainted already. I
would like to inquire if any of you can
suggest a remedy for my afﬂicted snow-
ball bush, which for Several successive
seasons was a delight to beauty lovers.
Three years ago, when almost ready to
bloom, the balls became blasted and soon
withered. Upon examination I discover-
ed tiny white parasites on the under side
of the leaves; later they grew darker col-
ored, and entirely destroyed the ﬁrst
growth of leaves. After the ﬂowering
season was past a second crop of leaves
grew uninterruptedly. Their ravages
seem conﬁned to the blooming season.
The following spring I gave the bush a
plentiful dressing of unleat-hed ashes, and
sifted some among the leaves a short time
before ﬂowering. It bloomed ﬁnely.
Simultaneously the enemy again appeared.
and the beauty was spoiled very soon.

This year it has not bloomed at all. Pos-
sibly some of you have had like experi
ence and can suggest a remedy. " All
most cordially invited to come again.”
Thank you. i may Call again. VEM.

SCRAPS.

 

"LovE is the dream of youth, to which
marriage is the sad awakening,” says the
Lady Louise to Fritz in the play; and it
would seem that the cynical saying, too
bitter from a young girl’s lips, held yet
some grains of truth, as we look at the
long list of divorces granted, as set forth
in our daily papers, the “ sad awaken-
ings” of what were once beautiful dreams
of happiness and hope.

 

SWEET Judith Shakespeare, the latest
heroine of William Black's fertile fancy,
tells her “dear cousin and sweetheart Wil-
lie,” younger than she, and whom she
fain would ﬁll with her own “fair, ﬁne
notions,” that when he comes to go a sue-
ing for a lady’s favor, he must remember
theSe things: “ You must not bend too
low for her favor; but be her lord and
governor; and you must be ready to ﬁght
for her if need there be—yes, you shall
not suﬁer a word to be said in dispraise
of h: r; and for slanderers you must have
a cudgel and stout arm withal; and yet you
must be gentle With her, because she is a
woman; and yet not too gentle, because
you are a man. * * * And
when you ﬁnd her you must be master
of her—and yet a gentle master; and
marry, I cannot tell you more.”

 

I THINK that if I had any particular rea-
son for wishing to thoroughly understand
the disposition and tempcrment of an in-
dividual, I would ask no better test than
to travtl with that person. If one can re-
main equahle in temper and pleasant in
manner through the discomforts and an-
noyances of atiresome journey, it may be
taken as a sign that the natural disposi
tion is amiable. For nowhere are people
so apt to forget their good breeding unless
it has become a part of themseIVes by
long habit, as when they are members
of the “traveling public.” Some seem to
feel it necessary in order to keep up their
own dignity. and impress others, to grum-
ble and ﬁnd fault with everything. The
cars go too slow or too fast. If trains
halt more than a minute at a station, it. is
“ What are we waiting for now?” if the
stop is short, the company is accused of
nm giving time for people to leave the
cars safely. They must have the car-
window open, and when a sudden gust
ﬁlls the coach with smoke and Cinders,
they grumble as if it Was the company’s
fault, not their own. At a hotel table this
dish and the other is condemned as "not
ﬁt to eat,” they wonder au-iibly if the but-
ter is not oleomargerine, and stir the cof-
fee with an air of suspicion. They make
themselves unpleasantly conspicuous, and
betray their want of experience, for old
travelers are wont to “accept the situa-
tion” and make themselves comfortable
under its conditions. B,

 

Jus'r as the Household was ready to go
to press we received several letters which
are unavoidably held over until our next.
We' would remind our correspondents
that “copy ” for the Household is giVen

 

HOWELL, June 23d

    

to the compositors immediately upon the

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issue of the FABMER. Therefore do} not
fear that terrible bug-bear, the waste-
basket, if your letters do not appear; at
the time you expected them; they were a
little to late only. F. C. C.’s recipesﬁwill
be given next week.

_____...___.

AN 'NQUIRY.-—Will some one tell me
how to get rid of little red ants? I have
three kind s, but the small ones pester me
most. Mus. R. EDWARDS.

 

 

Useful Recipes.

A SIMPLE DrsrnrccrsNr.—Dissolve one-
half drachm of nitrate of lead in a pint or more
of boiling water; dissolve two drachms com-
mon salt in a pail of water; pour the two so-
lutions together, allow it to settle. A cloth
dipped into the clear ﬂuid and hung up in a
room will sweeten the atmosphere instantly.
The solution poured into foul sinks, drains,
&c., will sweeten them.

 

CUCUMBER PICKLES.--T0 make cucumber
pickles without salting, gather and wash small
cucumbers. Put them in a six gallon jar, and
cover each pickling with sharp vinegar. Add
a dozen green peppers. Cut a cloth to fit the
jar and lay over-the pickles; on this the scum
will settle; remove and rinse out every day. If
the vinegar gets weak add a half cup of sugar,
or more if the jar is nearly full.

 

MIXED Plexus—To every gallon of vinegar
put four ounces of curry powder, four ounces
of mustard powder, three ounces bruised gins
ger, two drachms cayenne pepper, two ounces
of tumeric, two ounces garlic, half a pound
skinned Onions, and a quarter of a pound of
salt. Put all in astone jar. Cover it with a
bla‘ der wet with the pickle, and keep it warm
by the ﬁre for three days, shaking it well three
times a day. Anything may be put into this
preparation excepting red cabbage and walnuts
Gather everything fresh, such as small cucum.
hers, green grapes, green tomatoes, cauliflow
ers, small onions, nasturtiums, string beans,
etc.‘ Wipe them, cut them when too large,
and throw them into the pickle. Many house-
keepers will prefer to leave out the garlic.

-— ———ooo————
A JUVENILE inquirer was looking at some i 1

those pictures of angels in which only brad
and wings are visiblv , and after afew minutt s
reﬂect.iou,he gave voice in his thoughts as
follows: “ Well, mamma, how do they st

down?”
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Washinganrl Bleaching

In Hard or Soft. Hot or Cold Water.

SAVES LABOR, Esme and 89A? W2-
INGLY. and gives universal satisfaction. Na
hum; , rich or poor. should be Without it.

. -m by all Grocers. BEWARE of imitation!
:ell designed to mislead. Pl-IARLINE is the
JIJLY SAFE labor-saving compound, a.
ways bears the above symbol, and name of

 

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