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“ KISSED HIS MOTHER."

She sat on the porch in the sunshine

As I went down the street——
Awoman whose hair was silver,

But whose face was blossom sweet,
Haking me think of a garden,

Where, in spite of the frost and snow,

- 0r bleak November weather

Late, fragrant lilies blow.

I heard a footstep behind me,
And the sound of a merry laugh,
And I knew the heart it came from
Would be like a comiorting staff
In the time and the hour of trouble,
Hopeful and brave and strong;
One of the hearts to lean on,
When we think all things go wrong.
I turn at the click of the gate-latch,
And met his manly look;
Aface-like his gives me pleasure
Like the page of apleasant book.
It told of a steadfast purpOse,
Of a brave and daring will;
A face with a promise in it
That. God grant, the years fulﬁl.
He went up the pathway singing,
I saw the woman’s eyes
6 ow bright with a wordless welcome,
As sunshine warm- the skies.
“Back again, sweet heart mother,”
He cried, and bent to kiss
That loving face that was lifted
For what some mothers miss.
That boy will do to depend on;
I hold that this is true—-
From lads in love with their mothers,
Our bravest heroes grew.
Earth’s grandest hearts have been loving hearts
Since time and earth began;
And the boy who kissed his mother

Is every inch a man!
~—- Christian Intelligencer.

—————ow—-——

SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT.

Maybelle asks me to tell her what people
in the country shall talk about, and then
herself says, “ Something to make us bet—
ter, wiser, perhaps.” Yes; just that. I
do not think it at all obligatory that
country people shall know only the sur-
roundings of their every day life. The
newspaper comes with its tidings of what
ghe world is doing, and what it is think-
ing, and while no one paper can keep us
posted on all points, they are so cheap and
so numerous we have only to choose
among them. This keeps us informed on
the current topics of the day, we see how
history is being made on every side, but
we want more. I think one of the best
things which can be established in any
community, is what for lack of better
name I will call a reading club. Less
ambitious than the C. L S. 0., it paves the
way for it. Its beginnings are often
humble, but its inﬂuence for good won-

 

derful. Let two or three subscribe for a
couple or even one of our leading maga—
zines, and meet to read and discuss each
number as it appears. There is not an
issue of any one of our great monthlics
that is not full of material, which leads
us far beyond the initial eﬁort. Take
for instance the papers in Harper’s Maga-
zine in the three last numbers on “ The
Great Hall of William Rufus.” To read
what various historians have said on each
of the events chronicled as occurring
there, is to give one a fairly comprehen-
sive view of English history from an
early date, through all its changes and
vicissitudes. Macauley 0n the trial of
Charles I. and the accession of Cromwell
is as interesting as a leaf from a romance.
Study of this kind, especrally when stim'
ulated by the pleasant rivalry of compan—
ionship. becomes very fascinating. It
feeds and interests the mind as well as
gives us something better than gossip to
employ our tongues. In fact, in any
community where a reading club can
ﬂourish, gossip and tattle will be at a
discount. If one person can found a C. L.
S. C. in a neighborhood, surely a simple
reading club ought to be much more eas
ily started.

I think mothers—and fathers too, since-
“01d Schoolteacher” will be calling me
to account unless I include them—greatly
underestimate the value of books and
reading to children. I often noticed.
when I was teaching, that wherever I
found a family having a fair collection of
books and well provided with newspapers
almost invariably the children were more
teachable and intelligent, than where
the family literature was conﬁned
to the almanac and a book or
two on veterinary science. The youth-
ful mind is strongly inﬂuenced
and controlled by its surroundings. If
books are read and their contents discus-
sed in presence of the children, curiosity
is excited, they are inclined to explore on
their own account. It is a part of my
creed that a man should set aside a sum
of money yearly for the purchase of books
and papers for his family, as regularly, as
ungrudgingly, and as liberally as for the
food supplies by which their physical sys
tems are nourished. How few farmers’
families spend ten dollars a year for
books! How many spend ten times that
sum for what would not be half so bene-
ﬁcial as the one-tenth in books! Charles
Dudley Warner says nine persons out of
ten make the object of life to get money,
holding books of the least value. Hence

it is not surprising that conversation is
vapid and without ambition If we have
no wise and good thoughts of our own
surely the best thing we can do is tv- learn
of those who have; and the wisdom and
learning of all ages are he ld between the
lids of books.

I know some foolish people are prone
to accuse others of pedautry and a de-
sire to “show off,” if they allude to what
they have read, or make a quotation from
an author in conversation. An immediate
rigidity extends along the spinal column;
they do not relish what they are inclined
to call “airs.” Yet one of the pleasures
of reading is to discuss volumes perused,
interchange ideas and impressions, and
mention those points most forcibly im
pressed upon the mind. One sees beau
ties another overlooks, and the author’s
statements or conclusions lead to specula-
tion and further research. And, not to
mention the beneﬁt to the mental facul
ties, such conversation is so much more
helpful, interesting, inspiring, innocent,
than that gossip about each other which
so often debases and degrades us.

When children come home from school,
ﬂushed with hope and ambition. with
minds widened by study, and sharpened
by the attrition of mind upon mind, they
return, too often, to ﬁnd home exactly as
they left it. All is unchanged, save
themselves. There is not a new volume
on the book-shelves, nor a new idea lying
around the house anywhere. Yet they
have grown; grown away from these old
surroundings, and if there is any ambition
whatever in those young hearts, it will be
as impossible to prison that ambition in
the old grooves as,to use a familiar simile,
to press back the risen leaf to its unfer-
niented proportions: The leaven is there,
it must work if it is good for anything. It
must enlarge, and ﬁnd its way out. And
it is because of this feeling that they have
outgrown the 01d surroundings, that so
many of our boys and girls leave the farm
for other ﬁelds; it is not the fault of the
new things’ but the old. And for that rea~
son,because the boy will not step back con—
tent into his old tracks after he has been
sent away from school if he is worth a
row of pins, I would urge upon parents

the great necessity of meeting this de-
mand of the home-coming student. It is
not well that youthful arrogance should
think its own brain the only thing that
has developed during its absence. Show
it that the home life has not been inactive
or unprogressive in the interval. Put new
books upon the table, and new thoughts

 

upon your lips, and charm away discon‘
tent and unrest. Bram.

 


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WOMAN AS A POLITICAL FAG-i
TOR.

Probably the argument by Judge R. O.
Pitman, in the North American Review for
November, in favor of extending suffrage
to women, is as able a presentation of
the subject, from that standpoint,
as can be set forth. Judge Pit-
man, avowing himself in favor of
opening the ballot box to woman, desires,
he says, to base his arguments for such a
measure upon considerations that will
command the respect of every reﬂecting
person. The problem, as he presents it,
is whether the exercise of power shall,
per se, educate woman for the ballot, or
whether she shall gain it by ﬁtness for its
exercise and the evolution of intellectual
growth. The ballot is a trust, not a natur-
alright, and trusts are to be regulated.
He says:

“It must also be allowed that, other
things being equal, the widest extension
of suffrage is desirable; and this for three
reasons, which are applicable to its ex—
tension to women. First, because it is so
conducive to patriotism; second, to
education; third, to protection. Let
us expand these statements. We all un-
derstand that whenever an alien becomes
actually qualiﬁed for the duties of citizen—
ship, the bestowment of the privilege of
participation in the franchise tends to
awaken a sense of interest in, and attach-
ment to, his adopted country; and we
know that political education is promoted
by the assumption of political responsi
bilities. We also know that every class is
surer of equal protection before the law if
intrusted with political power. Giving all
the weight to these considerations that
they deserve, it still remains that the
crucial test for voting is the safety of the
state. * * The qualiﬁcations for
such a duty are two fold, intellectual and
moral—capacxty to act and good inten-
tion. Without the one the voter may be
a public enemy; Without the other, an
ignorant dupe.”

In regard to the objection most fre-
quently urged against woman suffrage, an
alleged tempermental incapacity to act
wisely in the ﬁeld of practizal politics,
Judge Pitman says there is a constant and
natural tendency to exaggerate the differ-
ential element, and reminds us that that
by which we distinguish any. person or
thing comes, after a time, to present itself
to us as the essential character. The com-
mon characteristics of human nature pre-
ponderate over racial peculiarities; so we
ﬁnd the differentiation of humanity in.
the direction of sexnfollows the same law;
it is but a differentiation. Then he asks
if the mothers and daughters of every-
day life are mere dreamers, emotional or
unpractical persons, or if they do not per-
form well a great part of the world’s com-
mon work. He inquires if they show less
than man the qualities “of patient persist-
ence, of conscientious ﬁdelity to details,
of practical wisdom, of careful frugality,
of prudent management, and professes
himselfcontent to take the judgment of
husbands and fathers. Woman is not all
emotion. The American woman has her
fair share of good sense and administra
tive ability, and there is reason to believe
that she might bring into the region of
governmental affairs positive contribu-
tions of thrift, order, economy and in-

tegrity. He says-

 

“But lrt us look more distinctly at
woman's emotional nature, and consider
whether its presence at the polls will be
a loss or a gain. That emotional nature
will ﬁnd play mainly in questions involv-
ing the taste and the conscience. It will
tend to more care as to character in select-
ing candidates, to reﬁnement in adminis-
tration, and to ideal standards in legisla
tion. And are not these confessed wants
in our statesmanship? It is but a crude
notion of superﬁcial thinkers and observ-
ers that reﬁnement is incompatible with
strength. And as to the ideal conceptions
.of duty, we ﬁnd that they are absolutely
essential to invigorate the actual life and
to correct the distortions of our working
conduct. The man or the statesman that
prides himself upon being simply “ a man
of affairs,” ﬁnds in the end that the
higher laws which he ignores are as rigor—
ous and relentless as the law of gravitation.
Like Emerson’s Brahma, the voice of Duty
is continually repeating to heedless ears,

‘ He reckons ill who leaves me out.‘

‘ ‘The world's greatest reforms have start-
ed from the intuitions of the heart, and
have found their early champions in those
whom the world looked on as dreamers.
The pure heart sees many things that the
sharp intellect fails to discern. I repeat
again that we must not make too much of
the differentiation of sex; and the history
of reform shows hownobly endowed have
been the manly, heroic souls that have
led the world onward with the ‘vision
and the faculty divine." Nevertheless, it
remains true that the average endowment
of ideality is greater in woman; and that
in the mass of men the ideal conceptions
of youth “fade into the light of common
day,” and are rebuked and destroyed by
the worldly maxims of business life. *

“Such questions as these are at the
front: Whether we shall seek to in
crease our territory or develop our nation-
al character; whether we shall pursue to-
ward other American nations a policy
of blustering menace or arrogant inter-
ference, or gain their good will by justice
and courtesy; what shall be the treatment
of the weaker races in our own land; how
shall we secure the rights and the eleva-
tion of the working classes; how strength-
en the family tie and guard the home as
the basis of the State; how secure ethical
and religious (and yet unsectarian) train-
ing in the ,public schools; and how deal
effectively with the overshadowing topic
of intemperanee. He must be indeed a
rash optimist who does not feel that as
to some of these problems at least, the
scales will long gravitate in the wrong di
rection without the reinforcing aid of
woman’s vote.”

After instancing what woman might do
toward the suppression of the liquor
trafﬁc, which he tells us he introduces
merely as an emphatic illustration, he
says: " I do not suppose the inﬂuence of
woman would stop here; everywhere it
would be felt for good. Hers would be
the soprano voice in politics, the voice of
aspiration, the voice of inspiration. It
was no dreamer, no sentimentalist,but}the
profoundest poet of modern Europe who
gave us as the closing prophecy of his
Faust, ‘The woman-soulleadeth us up-
ward and on!”

Mention is then made of the feeling
that the instinctive delicacy and purity of
woman would be injuriously affected by
her entrance into politics, and after avow-
in g himself a thorough believer in “femin—
ine woman” our author declares that
though the questions as to whether pro-
fessions and occupations shall be indis-
criminately opened to women and they be
urged to enter, whether there shall be
perfect equality in the household or the

 

husband have an oﬂiicial headship,

whether the legal status of woman shall
be identical with that of man and all
statutes in aid or restraint of her be swept
away, are grave and important ones, their
decision is not involved in woman’s ad-
mission to the ballot. All that the exer~
cise of suffrage involves is simple. It
presupposes—and in the case of male
suffrage often fails to secure it—a suﬂici

ent acquaintance with the issues at stake
for the formation of an intelligent pur‘
pose, and the physical act of depositing a
ballot. As regards the ﬁrst, a large part
of governmental problems relate to moral
and social questions which in their gener-
al aspect, naturally interest the wife,
mother or sister; as to the second, the ex-
posure is nothing compared to what one
class cheerfully undergo at the behest of
fashion and another under the pressure of
necessity. And he disposes of the asser-
tion that the machinery of politics is de-
basing in the terse sentence “ Improve it,
or destroy it.”

___...___ __

THE TREATMENT OF CHILDREN.

I call my little boy to me, my ﬁve year
old Raymond, and as I take him on my
lap, I lift his face so I can scan it closely.
I see a bread, full forehead overshadow-
ing large gray eyes; eyes which, when I
look into them never ﬂinch or turn away;
clear and limpid as a drop of dew, honest
and innocent. now looking earnestly at
me, and new full of little changing
lights, now dancing with humor, now
brimming with tears at some childish
grief; the lips are red as cherries, tempt-
ing me to kiss them often: the rows of
teeth white and even, the chin quite ﬁrm
in outline. Underneath this lies a warm,
loving nature, quite independent and
self-reliant. Is he good always? Why,
that would be a moral impossibility; he
is a perfect little bundle of mischief; he
cannot pass the eat if he is convenient to
a pail of water, without ducking her even
to the tip of her tail; he bothers the dog,
chases the calves, scatters the irons,
loses everything he touches. Now how
ought I to manage him? Keep a whip or
stick, and every time he is guilty of a
misdemeanor, punish him? Oh! no, that
would never do. I must ﬁrst teach him
do right, and then help him along in
the path Ipoint out. If he is cruel to
his dog or cat, Imust treat it with gravrty
and sadness, impress upon his young
mind in some way that he is doing a
wrong. I must not aim and strive to
to keep all evil and temptation from his
way; if I do he Will never have moral
courage to resist them. Once a child
grasps the idea of duty, and begins in its
little way to try and be good, it should be
aided with tenderest sympathy. Imust
show courtesy to my child; if Iwish to
have him perform some duty, shall I
order him in a dictatorial manner to “do
that immediately?” If I were telling a
man employed on the farm, or a girl in
the house, I would probably ask them
politely to do what I wish; is not‘my own
child entitled to similar respect? Most
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3

 

manage any differently. We are quite
apt to force the moral nature with hot
house culture; remember that children
and youth like the sports and amusements
and games suitable to their age; it would
be a rare case if a young person did not
prefer a game of lawn tennis or croquet
to a lecture on moral philosophy. We
must provide for their happiness as far as
it lies in our power; we must make our
homes as delightful and pleasant as our
means will allow. Tact does more than
money in this matter. Our Maker has
provided for our pleasure with 'a lavish
hand; all along ourpath is beauty; beauti-
ful green grass carpets the earth, dotted
profusely with ﬂowers, trees and shrubs,
mountains and valleys, lakes and rivers;
birds and blue sky above.

It is better to rule by love than fear. If
I ﬁnd that I can talk to a child with
reason and kindness, touch his feelings
so the tears will ﬂow, and as he clasps
his little arms around my neck, and as he
kisses me, promises to be better, I know
I have found the right way to govern.
His conscience is roused, he knows right
from wrong, and it hurts him oh! so badly.
I would as soon any one would strike the
cruel blow in my ﬂesh as my child’s; he
has cost me tears and pain. He is not a
machine, but a human being, entitled to
respect and kind words, and shall have as
good usage as I do; and if my children
grow up to manhood or womanhood I
want them to look back to this home and
their childhood days with pleasure and
gladness. I want the memory of their
mother to shine like a beacon light, the
holiest, sweetest feelings cluster around
that name; and as they ﬁll places in the
busy world, of usefulness. it may be in
one way, it may be in another, I cannot
tell, the character I have moulded, the
tender, Sympathetic nature I have re-
spected and encouraged, the kind heart
or quick intuition, if they are used for
the right purpose, cannot help but have
an inﬂuence. It is only in this way that
we can live in our children; and it seems
to me that it is a blessed reward to know
that they are just what we would wish
them to be. Although away from us, our
inﬂuence surrounds and enables them to
resist temptation. Make companions of
your boys and girls, interest yourself in
their games and books; a child knows in
an instant when he is treated like an
equal. Give him an idea that he is some;
body, that he has good qualities, that you
have conﬁdence in him, show him aﬂfec-
tion and love: don’t cuﬁ him around and
swear at him—he will lose his pride, as
well as yourself. EVANGALINE.

BATTEE CREEK.

—-—————oo‘—-——-——

UHLICENSED TEACHERS.

In a recent Household (Oct. 14th) C. E.
H. speaks of the “practice prevailing
among school oﬂ‘lcers of employing those
who cannot get even a third-grade certiﬁ-
cate because they can be hired for less
money.” Is there not a law to prohibit
the employment of teachers not holding
certiﬁcates; and can a teacher collect her
pay from a district unless she holds a cer-

 

tiﬁcate granted before the opening of the
school term? Ex-SCHOOLMA’AM.
SHERIDAN.

In Howell’s Annotated Statutes, page
1356, we ﬁnd the following, which seems
to answer our correspondent’s inquiry:

“ The board of school examiners shall
grant certiﬁcates to teachers in such form
as the su erintendent of public instruc-
tion shalfprescribe, licensing as teachers
all persons whom on thorough and full
examination shall be found qualiﬁed in
respect to good moral character, learning
and ability, to instruct and govern a
school; but no certiﬁcate shall be granted
to any person who shall not pass a satis
factory examination in orthography, read-
ing, writing, grammar, geography, arith-
metic and the theory and art of teaching.
and, after the year 1881, history of the
United States and civil government.
No person shall be considered a qualiﬁed
teacher within the meaning of the school
law, nor shall any school oﬂicer employ or
contract with any person to teach in any
of the public schools who has not a certiﬁ-
cate in force, granted by * * * lawful
authority.”

The same authority, on page 1333, See.
13, says:

“ No contract with any person not hold-
ing a legal certiﬁcate of qualiﬁcation then
authorizing such person to teach shall be
valid, and all such contracts shall termin-
ate, if the certiﬁcate shall expire bv limi-
tation and shall not immediately be re-
newed, or if it shall be suspended or re-
voked by proper legal authority.”

It seems plain, therefore, that a teacher
who goes into a school without proper
legal authority to teach may have his
labor for his pains.

—-———9»

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDEN TS

“Elma ” wants to know “just exactly
what a tailor-made suit is.” Only a cos-
tume made of heavy woolen cloth, with
little or no trimming, and which depends
upon perfection of ﬁt and ﬁnish for its
elegance and style. It is cut, ﬁnished off
and pressed with the same attention to
details seen in ﬁrst-class men’s garments.
A costume of this kind shown at L. A.
Smith’s was made of imported French
tricot—pronounced as if spelled tre—co,
accented on the ﬁrst syllable—a ﬁne wool—
en goods, $2 per yard. ﬁfty-four inches
wide. The skirt had, a single row of box
pleating, four inches wide, unpressed and
sewed on and turned over without a head-
ing. For drapery one width of the
material was laid in two box pleats,
which were deﬁned nearly the whole
length. One side of this was
raised in loose loops to meet the
front, which was quite long, and draped
low on the other side, under the straight
edge of the back. The basque was the
popular postilion, with full back pleats,
and short, pointed front; sleeves tight,
and ﬁnished by a lap and buttons on the
upper seam. The edges of the drapery,
basque, sleeves and high standing collar
were bound with silk braid, machine-
stitched to place—a “ new wrinkle.” An
outside wrap, the Albert jacket mention-
ed in a previous Household, was furnish-
ed for street wear. Suits called “tailor
made ” are sometimes braided, or decorat-
ed with heavy braids in straight lines,
but the most elegant are the plainest and

 

most simple. Prices for making range
from $12 to $14 at the large establish-
ments here.

—————ooo——————

FOR MOTH PATCHES.

In answer to the request in the House
hold of October 21st I send a recipe for
removing moth from the face. It also
cured a rash of red pimples,which was all
over the body and was very prickly and
irritating: Two ounces of borax, two
ounces of muriate of ammonia, one ounce
carbonate of soda. Pour one gallon of
soft boiling water over and cover; let
stand to settle; pour off and cork tightly.

I also send a recipe for removing grease
from clothes: One drachm of sulphuric
ether; one drachm of chloroform,
two drachms of alcohol; two drachms of
essence of Wintergreen, one quart of de-
odorized benzine. E. M. A.

CENTERVILLE.
_.___.__...___
SCRAPS.

I BELIEVE there is nothing more calcu
lated to “keep peace in the family”
than the constant practice of the little
courtesies of life which we are generally
too apt to consider unimportant and
therefore neglect. When we have guests
and they meet with the family around the
breakfast table, how careful we are to bid
them a pleasant good morning. Is that
little courtesy observed when there is no
one present but our own folks? It is a
great mistake to put away our manners
with the best table-linen and silver, only
to be aired when company is present.
With too many home is the place where
the 111 temper and crossness, suppressed
everywhere else from politeness or policy,
is allowed to ﬁnd a vent. I do not under-
stand why one should have a disposition
to say cross and hateful things to those
of their own family more than to stran-
gers, who are treated with scrupulous po-
liteness. Indeed, it seems as if, if we
must vent our ill temper upon some one,
we should exhibit it to those whom we
meet but seldom, who are comparative
strangers, rather than “to those who are
bound to us by ties of love and affection.
Curious, that we should choose to ex-
hibit our most unlovely characteristics,
our worst passions, to those with whom
it is most to our own interest and happi~
ness to dwell in harmony, whose happi-
ness we in effect make or mar! Home is
the place to subdue and control temper,
not give way to it. And it is only those
who are uniformly amiable, good temper-
ed and courteous at home whose good
manners ﬁt them well, and who do not
sometime let slip the mask and show
their true disposition. Practice your
good manners at home, it will not hur.t
you and it may astonish some of your
family amazingly.

WHAT C. E. H. says in the Household
of Oct. 14th, about the impossibility of a
teacher’s doing justice to a school in
which all his care must be to preserve
order and keep unruly pupils in due sub-
jection, is only too true. The constant
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greater tax upon the teacher’s vitality
than the actual educational work. I
have often wondered at what seems to be
the inherent antagonism felt by pupils
toward their teacher, whose mission is to
do them the greatest good in his power
That the feeling is not founded on per—
sonal dislike, 1s proved by schemes often
planned before ever school opens, cal-
culated to test the teacher’s mettle from
the outset. There are usually two or
three large lads in school who have no
respect for anything but brute force.
They know neither deference for woman
nor respect for man. Rinzleaders in
mischief, it takes a resolute heart to cope
with them. It appears sometimes a
hopeless endeavor to convince them that
to waste their own scanty chances for
education, and destroy the worth of the
school to others, is not a “smart thing ”
to do. To expel them seems unkind,
they need the civ1lization of education so
much. If, as C. E. H. suggests, parents
would visit the school themselves, ﬁnd
out how it is progressing, and intelligent-
ly inform themselves on all matters of dif-
ference between pupils and teacher, in-
stead of “taking sides ” on the children’s
reports. the reciprocal beneﬁt to both
parties and to the school, would amply
repay the exertion. I wish 0. E. H.
would give us some suggestions upon
school government; they would be very
welcome. B.

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HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

To fasten knife handles that have be—
come loosened take powdered resin and
mix with it a small quantity of powdered
chalk or whiting. Fill the hole in the
handle with the mixture, heat the tag of
the knife or fork and thrust in. When
cold it will be securely fastened.

DAINTY little luncheon bags for school
are crocheted out of dark brown or blue
macreme cord. They usually measure
eight inches square, are worked wits. the
monogram in some contrasting shade,
with handles of the macreme and orna-
mented with bows of satin ribbon.

A CORRESPONDENT of the Philadelphia
Press thus describes one of her household
conveniences: Preferring to have food
kept in the cellar rather than the refriger
ator, we sent for a carpenter who suspend-
ed from the timbers, quite near the cellar-
stairs, a long and wide shelf, closed at
the ends, but its front and back made of
wire gauze well braced, and that of the
front ﬁtted in two doors. The top of this
enclosure was a board like the bottom,
so that there are really two shelves, one
being open. On this little fruit jars and
jam tumblers are kept when necessary; a
jar or two of peach preserve, bottles of
horseradish and the like, although many
similar relishes must be kept up-stairs
occasionally. Within our netting we
can'safely place meats, milk, or any
articles which in a closed closet contam-
inate each other or become musty, these
unpleasantnesses being avoided by the
circulation of air the gauze allows. The
carpenter, on taking his leave, said:

 

“Wal, I b’lieve I’ll ﬁx up a little thing
like that myself. It’s master handy, now,
ain’t it?” And we told him it was. The
bill Was $2 25 for the whole affair. A
similar article is very useful in the store-
room of a city dwelling, but I live in a
country town and the cellar of my house
is large and good. Of course, there are
cellars in the larger cities to which the
food of a family is never carried, and con-
veniences must be considered.

Why is it necessary to put all articles
of food raised by baking powder into
the oven at once, and why cannot good
bread be made with baking powder? The
answer to the latter query has two rea—
sons. One is that you never can mix the
baking powder with the ﬂour as thor-
oughly as the constituents of the ﬂour
are mingled in nature and in the process
of manufacture, sift as many times as
you please. And the last reason is the
carbonic acid gas is liberated from the
baking powder too quickly to answer the
purpose. As soon as the ﬂour and baking
powder mixture is moistened, the gas is
liberated and much of it escapes. This
last explains why baking powder cake
and biscuit must not linger on the way to

the oven.
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CONTRIBUTIONS to the “little paper ”
have sadly fallen off for several weeks.
The Editor is loth to believe that interest
in keeping up a department especially for
women and their opinions, has so soon
waned, in face of the many expressions
of commendation and good will heard on
all sides. We hope our friends will “take
up their pens and write quickly;” there is
room for all and all are welcome.

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IT is with sincere regret we learn of the
death of Harry Morrison Wines, the ﬁve
year Old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H.
Wines, of Chelsea, Washtenaw 00., who
died Oct. 12th, after a lingering illness of
eleven weeks. His disease was rheumatic
fever, which attacked the heart, and his
sufferings were intense, though hardly
more painful to the heroic child than to
those who stood over him with aching
hearts, knowing that the wings of the angel
Azrael were overshadowing their ﬁreside.
A beautiful incident of his illness, which
shows not less his own lovable nature
than the tender guidance of parental love,
is related. Before he was thought to be
fatally ill, he asked his mother “ What If
I should die, mamma.” To learn what he
thought about dying, his mother said
“ Well, Harry, what if you should?” “I’d
rather wait till you and papa die, too.”
He was told that it was seldom that God
sent His angels for all of one family at
once, and after a moment’s thought he
cheerily cried “Well then, I’ll jes’ wait
till you and papa come 1” And now, he is
“waiting.”

Contributed Recipes.

Farm) Outsmarts—Take one quart of “se-
lect” oysters, put them in a colander and
rinse them thoroughly, draining well. Roll
crackers ﬁne and salt them slightly. Beat six
eggs together. Have ready a kettle or spider
with about three large tablespoonfuls of lard

 

(measured before being melted)|heated nearly
hot enough to fry doughnuts. Dip an oyster-
in cracker crumbs, then in the beaten egg, (do
not reverse this order), and drop in the hot
fat, which shouid be just hot enough to brown
them delicately. The oyster will puﬁ up

quickly and is done as soon as brown. Try
this, and if the directions are implicitly follow-
ed you will have the most delicious oysters you
M38. 8.

ever ate.
DETROIT .

STEAMED Artemis—This is a new dish on
our boarding house table, and one which is in
general favor and highly commended. Cut
large apples in halves and extract the core, or
with a corer take it out without cutting the
apple. Put them in a dish over a steamer and
cook till done. Make a syrup of two cups of
sugar, a cup of water, and the juice and grated
peel of one large lemon. Stir this over the ﬁre
till the sugar is dissolved, but do not allow it
to boil. Turn this over the apples. BEATRIX.

We append a couple of recipes for home-
made candies, as they will be useful at the holi
day season:

lCE CREAM CANDY.-—TWO cups of light

brown sugar to one-half teacupful of water;
two tablespoonfuls of vinegar, one of butter;
boil about twenty minutes and ﬂavor with
leu’lon or vanilla just before taking off the
stovie. Work it the same as for molasses
can v.

WALNUT Cassius—One pint of powdered
sugar, one gill of boiling water; let it boil on
the stove in a tin, (a pail is best). Let it boil
just ten minutes without stirring, then take
off and set the pail in cold water, ﬂavor with
lemon or vanilla, and stir all the time till it
thickens. When cool enough to handle, make
into small balls, ﬂat them outa little, and
press the halves of English walnuts one on
each side. These are delicious and well repay'
the trouble.

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Profitable Employment

SEND AT ONCE TO

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For Full Information.

An ordinary operator can earn from one to three
dollars per day in any community in the Northern
States on our New Lamb Knitter.

100 Varieties of Fabric on Same Machine.

You can wholly ﬁnish twelve pairs ladies’ full—
shaped stockings or twenty pairs socks or mittens '
in a day! Skilled operators can double this pro—
duction. Capacity and range of work double that
of the old Lamb knitting machine. Address

The New Lamb Knitter 00.,
117 and 119 Main St., west, JACKSON, Mien,

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