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THE HOUSEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

 

A WOMAN‘S P0(.‘A’ET.
Just where it is one never knows—
Beneath the folds it never shows
Above. below. before, behind—
A puzzle to the human mind!
Man never knows his helplessness
Until he tries in woman’s dress

To ﬁnd her pr cket.

"l‘was sooner found in early days
Before they had the polonaise!
Dressmakers now are sore perplexed
To know where just to hide it next!
In these hard times of scanty purse
’Tis hard to ﬁnd the dress—but worse

To ﬁnd the pocket.

A fact by husbands too well known,

She ﬁnds his pocket, while her own

ls so concealed about her dress

It long since lost its usefulness.

She bears her purse now in her hand

Because she never can command
That hidden pocket.

He’s new to matrimonial cares

‘Who volunteers to run up stairs

And fetch a triﬂe more or less.

His bride lsft in some other dress!

Believe me. nature ne’er designed

That mortal man should ever ﬁnd
A woman‘s pocket.

He opens wide the closet door,
Each hook so full of robes galore,
'l‘hat ere he ﬁnds the proper gown
Each dress in turn has tumbled down:
Into the placket hoie at back
He thrusts his arm, alas! alackl

’Tis not the pocket.

He drags it out in his despair
And spreads it o'er an easy chair—
Lifts up each tuck and fold and seam,
Walks round and round as in a dream.
He’s much- too good aman to swear,
Yet undevoutly wonders where

She keeps that pocket.

He grabs it up. and, rushing down,
Upon her lap he tosses the gown.
“ In truth you are the ‘better half’
If you can ﬁnd—Why do you laugh i”
“ I laugh because you‘ve brought me here
A petticoa‘, my hubby dear,
To ﬁnd a pocket."

Man ﬁnds a score with equal grace;

‘ They’re a1 waysin the self same place,

But woman, since the world begun,

Could never locate even one.

We‘ll not except g rod mother Eve,

Who had no chance as you’ll perceive,
To wear a pocket,

Nor use for one in her scant suit,

Except. per chance to carry fruit.

What paragons these men would be

Had Eve not let poor Adam see

‘That luscious fru t to man forbid,

But kept the tempting apple hid
Inside her pocket.

—-———-.~)'——~———

Do the work that‘s nearest,
Though it‘s dull at whiles.
Helping when you meet them.

Lame dogs over stiles.

 

CHAT WITH CORRESPONDENTS.

 

Sometimes I ﬁnd an allusion to some-
thing I have said in the HOUSEHOLD which
sets the to turning over the ﬁle of back
numbers which I keep in my desk drawer,
in search of my exact phrascology. I have
just ﬁnished a task of that nature, induced
by Eunice’s reference to “ how we may tell
a gentleman when We see one,” and her
objection that the rule is not absolute. In
the Housnnomi of Sept. 14, in “An Ex-
cursion,” I found these words: “ Do you
know there is nothing ‘places’ a young
man more quickly, more surely, or adver-
tises his social station and breeding than
What he does with his hat? When greet-
inga friend, a gentleman‘s hand moves as
instinctively to his hat as his lips open to
speak.”

Well now, I ﬁnd nothing to take back in
that assertion. I did not say it made a
man a gentleman to lift his hat to a lady;
please observe. A gentleman is a man of
reﬁnement, of good manners and good
breeding. His manners are the outward
sign of his social station and his familiarity
with the usages of polite society. He may
be a rascal at heart, with the external
qualities of a gentleman, just as a man
might enter a parlor full of ladies with his
hat on his head and still be an honest and
upright man. That the term “ gentle-
man” has come to indicate external ap-
pearances and behavior, rather than the
possession of desirable qualities of mind
and heart, is not my fault; I only use the
term in its usual signiﬁcance. You see it
is like this—and the argument carries
weight with both men and women: We
cannot discover except upon acquaintance
what claims a man may have to be called a
gentleman or awoman a lady because of
beauty and purity of heart and life. Our
lives and theirs touch casually and part
again; we do not know their good qualities
or their bad ones through our chance meet-
ings. But we do know whether they are
well-mannered or not, and is it not both
natural and just that we shall place them
in our esteem according to their manners?
It is certainly inevitable.

A gentlemanly, courteous demeanor has
an actual business value in cities. A man
can aﬂord to be a beat after he has be-
come rich and independent, but he cer-
tainly cannot afford it while he is poor and
struggling. Much less stress is laid on
such things in the country, I am well
aware; yet even there they have their-
weight. Where does the farmer's wife

like to trade best, where the merchant lets
her tic her own horse and carry out her
own bundles, or where courteous attention
is paid her. recognizmg her as both a cus-
tomer and a lady? The merchant may
know it is “ business” for him to be polite,
and she may know it is policy on his part.
not; genuine friendliness. but she likes it
j ust the same.

Farmers’ sons sometimes complain that
the girls are more partial to the attentions
Of those they scornfully designate as
“dudes“ and “counter-jumpers,” whose
worldly assets are their clothes and an un-
paid board bill. than to substantial young
farmers who have more good sense and
more money but cannot “ put on so much
style.” W'e11,I was a girl once myself, and
I think I know the reason. The young
“dudes” have the outward attributes of
gentlemen; they are polite in manner, and
prompt to proffer attention; they have a
certain arr/Mr rt'zrre which pleases the object
of their attention, for no woman is imper-
vious to the charm of courtesy of which
she is an object. If the farmers’ sons
would cultivate the graces of manner un-
til they set easily upon them through habi-
tude, they need never take a back seat for
any town dude in the opinion of any girl
whose favor is worth Winning.

For these and other reasons I strongly
counsel‘young men and young women
never to neglect those small courtesies
which are evidence of familiarity with the
customs of society. They are little things,
to be sure, but by custom they become
habitual. I have no doubt some who
read this will “Pish” and “Pooh," and
say if people don't like their style, etc., but
that’s all right too. If we want anything
in this world very much, we must make an
effort to get it; and if a man wants to be
considered a gentle nan he must make the
effort to acquire the manners of one.

“How shall we discover a lady?” By
the same means by which we recognize a
gentleman. By gentle, quiet manners, by
courteous treatment of others, by obser—
vance of the little points that make what
we call etiquette, by a low voice and good
language; these for externals. When you
learn what is behind these outward evi-
dences, and ﬁnd there kindness and
warmth of heart, charity, truthfulness and
purity, then you have a lady “through
and through.”

i S. J. 13., in the HOUSEHOLD of Nov.2nd,

I returns to the charge on the tablecloth vs.

oilcloth problem, and asks a question or

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thinks my aversion to oilcloth a prejudice,
that is, that I have an unreasonable prede-
liction in favor of tablecloths and a mental
bias against oilcloth. But she seems to
confess to the same prejudice, since she
says she cannot persuade herself to use a
substitute for linen; and I am perfectly
willing to remain in such good company.
Come to think about it, I do not know but
I have a good many such prejudices. In
my boarding house experiences i draw the
line at basement dining-rooms and red
table-linen; I dislike to have my cup ﬁlled
too full, or part Of its contents spilled in
the saucer; and despise the individual salt-
cellar unless it is emptied after and ﬁlled
before each meal. Then I like meat sliced
across the grain, and bread cut thin and
even—oh, lots of such little preferences or
prejudices, call them what you please.
Their presence makes me a little more
satisﬁed with my dinner, their absence
does not distress or particularly annoy me.
They are triﬂes, but triﬁes, you know,
“ make up the sum of happiness below.”
S. J. B. asks how it is possible to secure
reﬁned manners at the average country
table. Now I do not see any valid reason
why good manners should not prevail at a
country table as well as at a city table.
There need be no distinction. People are
just as hungry in town as they are in
country, and it takes just as much to satisfy
a healthy appetite in one place as another,
where people are engaged in outdoor labor.
And reﬁned manners are only to be secured
by training the children while they are
young, and insisting on a few rules which
not only tend to good manners but also are
hygienic in their nature. For instance, S.
J. B. speaks of the tired, hungry and
thirsty men who are too impatient to wait
for the tea to cool so must slop it over into
the saucer, perhaps set the dripping cup on
the cloth to leave a muddy ring on its
whiteness. But why this haste? Cannot
a man subdue the animal instinct, and con-
trol himself in presence of food even though
he is hungry ? Of course‘he can if he will
make the effort. When he is tired, over-
heated and hungry is just the time for him
to exercise the virtue of self-restraint for
his health’s sake. He takes into his
stomach a great quantity of imperfectly
masticated food and a couple of cups of
scalding hot tea or coffee, as rapidly as he
can cram it down his throat, leaves the
table as soon as he has swallowed the last
mouthful, and lies in the shade half an
hour “to rest.” The whole process some-
how forcibly reminds one of how the boa-
constrictor feeds. But, not being con-
structed on boa- constrictor principles, ﬁrst
he knows he has headache, gets bilious,
learns he has a stomach and ascertains the
location of his liver, goes to taking patent
medicine, develops chronic dyspepsia, and
pays nature’s bills with the doctor’s, and
all this evil we trace back to a lack of
good manners at the table, which would
have ensured quiet, leisurely meals, well
masticated food, beverages drank when
nearly Of the temperature of the body,
securing perfect assimilation of food and a.

well nurtured physical system. When
tired, hungry and thirsty is just the time

 

when rest is more imperatively demanded
than food.

I am sure it would be a wise provision
on every farm to have the dinner bell rung
enough in advance of the meal hour to
necessitate a wait of ten or ﬁfteen minutes
for the men to rest and cool off. It would
be a step in the interests of good health
and good manners. BEATRIX.

——-—.O.—-—

THE JOYS OF TO-DAY.

 

Today’s joys will not come again. There
may be pleasures to-morrow, next week,
next year, but those of today will not re-
turn. Joys do not come twice alike—
cha-nge, irrevocable change.

Take a walk in the park, drive out in the
fresh of the morning with Tom or Mollie,
and don’t say “I am busy, cannot go.”
Drop out of the conventionality of the
avenue, and go just as you are, in morning
wrapper and sunseade. The unexpected
lifts up and buoys the heart, and one
breath of surprise is worth an hundred Of
preparation.

The blossoms will come again, but they
may not ﬁnd alike attraction in our hearts;
sorrow and grief may have clouded our
homes since last spring—time. Take the
choice bits Of life as they come, and don’t
put off the happy hour trusting it will
come again.

Minnie, only two years old, is full of
mischief and mother wishes she were
grown. But dear mother, age will come
fast enough! The little slippers are soon
outgrown and childish prattle left behind.
Babyhood, childhood, youth, eighteen
years, boarding school, the altar, marriage,
and our Minnie is a mother with cares like.
yours.

It is a short summer-time! How the dis-
tances have shortened down the well
known road where we used to go to school!
The trees are not as tall and the haystack
is not as high as it used to be. Those
young fancies have given room for serious
comparison. Even the daisy does not
cheer us as it once did. Let the children
live their childhood life, it comes but once.
Enjoy their merry whistled notes, for the
world will some day take them up and out
of your sight to wrestle with the waves of
life and toil. E. V. J.

CHICAGO.

THE HUSBAND’S FAULTS.

Talmage in a sermon once told of a
woman who had been unhappily married
and who came from death to heaven’s gate,
and the order was given that she should do
nothing but rest for the next ten thousand
years, and have twenty thousand angels to
wai' on her. Not as a compensation for her
trials, but because—now mark this—she
necer told! Though I do not share Mr.
Talmage’s very realistic ideas of heaven, I
do think all honor should be given the
woman who bears the heaviest cross possi-
ble in this life bravely and in silence rather
than commit the treachery of saying one
word against her husband. I think no
two are ever drawn together by the at-
traction of love, unless each is necessary to

 

the fullest development of the other. Their'
life together may not be happy, but is it-
only by happiness we grow?

Much that " he” does of which you do:
not approve may be due to adverse cir-
cumstances. There are many ups and ‘-
downs in American life; and when pros-‘
perity remedies the fault in time, you will‘
be very glad you never told any one of the
failing that troubled you. '

Above all things say not one word criti-
cal of your husband to your children.
They need their father as well as their-
mother. They naturally love him andI
might never know there was anything-
amiss in him if you did not point it out to-
them.

Olive Thorne Miller, in the October
Home-Maker, says something worth repeat-
ing: “We sometimes see women who-
after thirty years of marriage have not.
learned to deal with a husband’s peculiari-
ties.” M ake up your mind once for all that.
he will always do this or that which you'
disapprove and that you are not responsible;
and what is more important, you must un-
derstand that he has a right to his ways.
Then decide ﬁrmly that you will not care
about them, and what a relief you will
feel.

Cannot the long essays before institutes-
and associations be published in the FAR-
MER? They take up so much room in our
little HOUSEHOLD.

PIONEER. HULD AH PE RKINS.

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MAYBELLE ON MARRIAGE.

 

Much has been written and said on
women’s rights and whether marriage is a
failure or not. For my own part, I think
women have their rights and marriage is a
success. Where the head of the family
partnership aims to do justice; where the
wife’s wardrobe as well as his own isa
matter of pride to the husband; where he
notes the shabby shoes, the faded dress,
the Old-fashioned jacket, and suggests the
need of and furnishes the money for better
ones without waiting to be asked—there is
where marriage is not a failure; and the
wife has no need to ask that desperate
question, “ What shall I do to earn
money?” A crisp ten dollar note is the
best panacea in the world for a down.
hearted, over-worked woman.

I wish to :tliank Mrs. Fuller for her ad—
vice about my Chrysanthemums. I have -
re-set them; and found, as she intimated,
that they were badly root-bound. They
are beginning to bud and are doing nicely
now. I have ﬁfteen plants, of different
colors, which were sickly in ap oearance
when given to me, and I did not know
what to do for them. MAYBELLE.

WOLVEBINE.

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MAYBELLE asks space for a correction of
a part of her letter in the HOUSEHOLD of
Nov. 2nd. She says: “In speaking of
the people of my old home I wished to say
‘how glad and content we would be to
have more such educated and reﬁned peo-
ple settled here.’ I do not wish to appear -
like the egotfst A. L. L. tells us about.”

 

 


 

 

THE HOUSEHOLD.

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CONVERSATION.

J annette asks, what may we talk about?
She wants instruction to enable her to con-
verse with, and entertain the children and
older people; the book-worm and the
politician; the woman who washes for her
and her city cousin. J annette, did you
ever hear it said “ It is much easier to ask
questions than to answer them? ”

This is a subject which will bear a great
deal of thought, a goodly amount of talk-
ing up, and also of writing about. Now
if a number of the HOUSEHOLD readers
can say one or two good things each, on
this subject, we may all be beneﬁted by
this discussion.

To be a good conversationalist requires
a well stored mind. TO talk well on any
subject the individual must be wed in-
formed concerning it, and to be well in-
formed requires much study, and that de-
mands much time. The number of sub-
jects is legion; no two persons are equally
well entertained with the same subject,
even the “book-worms” have their choice
in books, each according to his own
individuality; and the politician is as many-
sided as the glass ball cut in small dia-
mond-shaped facets all over its surface.
And if there is more than one city cousin,
one would wish to be entertained with the
latest fashion in dress, bonnets, gloves
and wraps, all the latest things in decora-
tive work, which includes much more
than many might think at the ﬁrst, while
the other would wish to know all about
the latest new books Of facts or ﬁction; and
so we might go 311 indeﬁnitely.

Where is the housekeeper who has the
time, or the brains if she were not house-
keeper, to acquire and keep in order ready
for use all these things? We cannot all be
Madame de Staels.

An easier way I will try to show. It is
often said “ Good listeners are even more
rare than good talkers,” and much more
agreeable companions. It is really a great
accomplishment to be a good listener. It
requires a partial understanding of the
subject; and an apparent'desire to be in-
formed must continually shine in the eyes,
therefore one must read enough on all sub-
jects likely to be broached to know what
they are talking about, which will ﬁll all
the spare minutes Of a housekeeper, and
then there will be many untouched. But
if you show intelligence in some lines, you
may frankly own your ignorance, with the
wish to be informed. If conversing with
a gentleman he will consider yOur appeal
to his superior wisdom avery great com-
pliment, and will really respect and like
you better than if you had known all about
the subject. I think ladies like to give of
their wisdom also.

Nearly every person has a hobby which
he is fond Of “trotting out ” (excuse
the slang, please) on all available occasions.
If you can by any means learn what is the
especial hobby of the persons you expect
to meet, after the usual remarks incident
to the meeting, lead the conversation
cautiously around towards that hobby,
and by an adroit question or two or a sug-

 

gestion, or both, you can mount them and
away they will go; you can look your in~
terest and appreciation, and often learn
more in ﬁfteen minutes’ constant attention
than you could in ﬁfteen hours of reading.
If the talker seems to have talked out, a
question asked on some point not fully un-
derstood will send him 011‘ on another tack,
fully assuming that he is entertaining you
in the highest degree. And the talker will
assure his friends that you are really the
most interesting person he has met in a
long time. And the party, visit, or call,
where you met, will remain long in his

memory as a very'enjoyable one.
ALBION. M. E. H.

——.O.——-—

A CHAPTER ON BAGS.

Shopping bags of plush principally, but
also of velvet or satin, and variously dec-
orated, are much used now and make
very pretty and serviceable gifts; and quite
inexpensive, if like the writer you do not
count your time worth very much. ()ur
merchants are showing very handsome
shades of plush, .good enough for fancy
work, at forty—ﬁve cents a yard. These
bags are generally of the same color as the
cloak and hat, although sometimes they
match the dress; and three fourths yard of
plush will make a good sized bag.

Double the plush, sew up the sides and
one end very neatly. Turn over the top
about one and one-half inch, and line the
bag with some pretty color of surah silk, or
satin. Run ashirr in, and draw up and
hang upon the arm with ribbons. These
may be decorated to suit each individual’s
taste. The writer is q‘tietly contemplating
one of black plush, made as above but
with the rather novel decoration of musk-
melon seeds and steel beads. Buy an
ounce Of muskmelon seeds, one or two
bunches of steel beads No. 8, a paper of
ﬁne needles No. 10, and a spool of black
sewing silk. Begin at the bottom of the
bag about two inches from the seam.
Thread 3. ﬁne needle with black silk
doubled, a strong knot at the end, and
bring the needle up from the wrong side
upon the right side of the bag.

String alternately a bead and a seed until
you have 12, then join the circle by put-
ting the needle through the ﬁrst bead and
down through the plush and faste:1 on the
wrong side securely. Bring the needle
up again at the outer edge of this row of
seeds; * put on a bead and pass the needle
through the Opposite end of the same seed
in ﬁrst row. Put on another bead and
pass the needle through the pointed end of
another seed to begin a second r0 4?; repeat
from * until the second circle is composed
of 12 seeds and 24 heads. Complete the
circle as before and begin a third row on
the edge of the second; * thread two
beads; pass the needle through the other
end of same seed in second row; put on
two more beads; a new seed; four beads;
pass the needle through the outer edge of
new seed; add four more beads; pass the
needle through the same hole at the op-
posite end of new seed. Repeat until there
are 12 seeds in the third row, with two
beads between and four on each side of the

 

last row of seeds. Then catch each point
to the plush by passing the needle through
the end hole in the last row of seeds, and
slip the silk on the wrong side from one
seed to the next. Four of these ﬁgures are
used on a side, leaving half inch spaces be-
tween. Two rows of ﬁgures, sixteen in
all, will be sufﬁcient for the bag. Put ﬁve
of these ﬁgures on a band of velvet two
inches in width and you have a very pretty
“ dog collar ” or band for the neck.

Beautiful vests and panels can be made
in this manner.

These bags may be also embroidered in
as many ways as the taste of the maker in—
dicates. Sprays of oxeye daisies or of
lilies of the valley are very pretty in satin
stitch. A very beautifully shaded rose
may be worked in shaded silks in the old
but now revived cross-stitch, and for such
uses if well done is very effective. One
large silk handkerchief of any dark rich
color; a piece of Swiss muslin size of hand-
kerchief; three yards of lace, two inches
wide, one-fourth yard bright colored satin;
two yards satin ribbon will make quite a
pretty bag of a novel shape. Baste the
lining in the handkerchief, and run a shirr
in the largest circle that can be made in it.
Line the corners with the satin, letting it
run down over the shirr; sew lace around
and run the ribbon in, having made open-
ings at the opposite sides for that purpose.
The corners will droop down upon the
body of the bag, producing a pretty effect.
These are liked by young girls. My “ time
is up ” and I still ﬁnd there are innumera-
ble “bags” of various kind to be dis-
posed of in the near future.

FOREST LEDGE. MILL MINNIE.
WW
JUST HOW TO MAKE A LEMON PIE;

In a late number of the HOUSEHOLD, I
ﬁnd a wish for recipe for a good lemon
pie, so thought I would send mine. I feel '
somewhat timid in attempting to write, for
it seems as if our little paper was written ».
by experienced ladies, and I am only
twenty-one to day, and have not been mar-
ried a year until Christmas. My recipe re-
quires one cup white sugar; one and one«
half cups boiling water; pieze of butter
size of walnut; two tablespoonfuls corn-
starch; one lemon grated, juicc and rind,
and one egg. Dissolve the cornstarch in a
little cold water, add the boiling water as
if making starch, then turn over the
sugar and butter and set to cool; grate the
lemon, break your egg in the lemon and
beat together, stir this into cornstarch—if
cool—and bake in moderate oven, using
one crust.

I learned and tried this recipe when
about ten years Old, and have never
changed for another; but would not write
it for Mrs. Snip just because I prefer it. I
have written it for so many visitors and'
friends who ate at our house and called it.

good. LEON [A MAY.

PORTLAND.

PLEASE remember to write only on one
side of the paper; and to give your name
as well as nom-de-plume. Anonymous
communications ﬁnd speedy burial in the
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A CHRISTMAS CONTRIBUTION.

The large ornamental squares for the
centre Of dining tables are made the me‘
dium for the expression of a good deal of
taste and skill in decoration. A very hand-
some one consists of alarge square of white
linen, stamped with an all-over pattern of
large lilypods. 0n the back of the linen is
sewed alining of antique net lace, or ﬁsh-
net, as it is sometimes called. This makes
the background tor the pattern. The 1in
leaves are buttonholed round the edges in
white silk, the linen between them being
cut away with sharp-pointed scisssors.
The veining, which is so abundant as to
nearly ﬁll the leaves, is done in gold
colored silk, in stem stitch. A linen hem
is left on, after the centre linen is cut
away, and is edged with antique lace,
with mitred corners.

A pretty book cover is made of satin of
any desired CliOI‘, and decorated with an
arabesque of chamois, with edges button-
holed upon the satin. Line the cover with
thin silk. Gild the Chamois with a rough
ﬁnish. Another style is to havea scroll
pattern stamped on the leather—or draw it
yourself with a pencil—and gild the lines
heavily, making them thick and prominent
rather than broad.

It is the fashion now to have handsome
and dainty spreads to throw over the bed
during the day. These are too ornamental
for use, and are to be carefully folded
away when the bed is in use. Several of
these coum’epz’eds have been desz'ribed in the
HOUSEHOLD heretofore, but a new model
is somewhat new, and after the fashion of
the table square just described. A linen
sheet of the required size is basted upon a
lining of coarse Brussels net, also known
as round-meshed mosquito lace. A pattern
of chestnut leaves and twigs was drawn
all over it, irregularly; the work being
done by the maker with a pencil. The
edges of the lr'aves were buttonholed with
white linen thread in a far-apart stitch,
the leaves veined through the centre. The
border was a row of stemless leaves, points
downward, set side by side close together.
The» linen between the leaves and round
the edges was cut away, leaving the thick
leaves on a transparent foundation.

Ladies who have plenty of leisure make
towels after this style: They buy the
length required in white huckaback, and
ﬁnish each end with an insertion Of knitted
or crocheted lace, and an edge of the lace,
witha plain hem Of the huckaback be-
tween. These are thought to be more
elegant than towels with woven borders.
It would also be a. pretty way to ﬁnish the
cover for a sideboard.

Pillow shams are beautifully made of
Bolton sheeting, stamped in scroll or
arabesque patterns, which are then out-
lined in rope silk. They are said to wash
well, and are certainly very handsome.
The work can be done quite rapidly.

A very odd sachet is made by taking an
ear of corn in the husk, breaking oiI the
ear and removing the most discolored and
coarsest husks, tinting the tips Of those
left with oil paints diluted with turpentine,
in carmine, bronze, brown, and gilt, and

 

replacing the ear with a ﬁne muslin or
illusion bag, imitating the shape and size
of the ear and ﬁlled with cotton sprinkled
with sachet powder; then fasten this imita-

tion ear in the husks.
BEATRIX.

STRAY BITS.

Aunt Bessie’s idea about the waterpail
or crock, is good, but why not useagranite
iron pail? It does not rust or wear out
easily.

In taking down the mosquito netting this
fall, I doubled and stitched the pieces into
convenient size for use, and they make the
nicest dishcloths I ever used. I should
think they would be nice for wash rags
also, being very soft and holding water
nearly equal to a sponge. The white
netting is most satisfactory for this use.

I was charmed with Evangeline’s “ The
Dinner Bell,” until I reached the last verse.
Why, oh Evangeline, did you put in that
“ mash?" It just spoiled it all, I think.

The safest way to do to keep table linen
free from spots and stains, is to pour boil-
ing water over the pieces every time they
are washed. Any small spots which have
escaped notice are thus sure to be reached.

I have found that a. pound or more Of
salt added to the cream at churning time,
for every eight or ten gallons of cream,
will greatly facilitate the gathering of the
butter globules. They rise to the surface,
perfectly, allowing the buttermilk to be
drawn oif freely and clear Of particles of
butter.

Bess, our library Ofﬁcers are president,
vice-president, corresponding and record-
ing secretaries, treasurer, librarian and her
assistant, and book committee of three.
This comprises a. beard of manager; who
transact all business. Our constitution
and by-laws are similar to those of other
institutions Of the kind, and we are incor-
porated under the laws of the state.

FLINT. ELLA R. WOOD.

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.THE SABBATH DAY.

 

I have been anxiously waiting since E.
L. Nye’s articte of Oct. 19th to hear an
answer to her question “ is it a sin?” but
as there has been none I feel it my duty to
let her know there is one at least who does
not agree with her. I do not quote Henry
Ward Beecher, D. L. Moody, Dr. Talmage
or any other great and good man, but
taking the Bible for our guide, where in
that Book Of Books do we ﬁnd the com-
mand, “ First attend religious services,
then seek some pleasure resort?” Do you
think if I were to go direct from the altar
and steal, my theft would be any the less
sinful? Nay, I think it would be worse
for me than if I never saw the inside of
the church. There was more than one sin
committed on that trip, I think. Firstly,
breaking the Sabbath. Our Lord said, “ te-
member the Sabbath Day to keep it holy.”
Do you think he meant one-half for religion,
the other half for worldly pleasure?
Secondly, the example, especially to those
children. Children usually think what
papa and mamma do is all right. How

 

careful we mothers should be to set a right
example before them. Thirdly, encourag—
ing Sunday labor. If there was no one to
ride, the boats would not run. I believe
the sin rests on each one individually as
heavily as it would were she the only one
on the boat. But I presume you say, “‘Oh
you are too slow, too far behind; every-
body goes.” Then let me say, behind I
stay in that respect at least. ' '

OXFORD. AUNT PHILEN‘A.

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A SUBSTITUTE FOR COFFEE.

Seeing there is considerable agitation rel-
ative to the coffee question, I hereby sub-
mit for your considerajon this substitute,
which is excellent and nutritious. Take
three pounds of sweet corn (well rested) to
each pound of chiccory, also well dried
and roasted to a good coffee color. The
above described coffee may be adulterated
and not injured for family use by adding
one pound of Java or Mocha coffee.

White oak acorns when roasted properly
make a palatable coffee, but it is too tan-
ning to the stomach for common use, and
should be used only when the bowels are
too laxative, and then moderately and
cautiously.

All coffee adulterated with acorns should
be discarded from general use, because it
has a tendency to produce constipazion and
piles.

An invalid who craves coffee can have a
delicious and wholesome drink by properly
preparing sweet corn for coﬁee, which
should be sweetened with clover honey.

LOWELL. J. L. B. K.

Annalsss communications for the HOUSE-
iIOLD to the Household Editor of the MICHI-
gan FARMER, Detroit, and they will reach

us safely.
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A GOOD way to use small pieces of soap,
says the Indiana Furl/(ctr, is to place them
in a wide-mouthed quart bottle, and when
half full add a teaspoonful of powdered
saltpetre and a tablespoonful of ammonia
and a quart of warm water. The mixture
is then ready for taking grease out of cloth-
ing, washin g paint, windows, or anything
that needs soap and water to cleanse it.

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Contributed Recipes.

CUP CAKE.-0ne cup butter; one cup sweet
milk; two cups sugar; three eggs; four cups
ﬂour; two teaspoonfuls baking powder; one
teaspoonful c;nnamon and nutmeg; one cup
raisins.

HICKORY Nur Curd—One and a half cups
white sugar; half cup butter; three-quarters
cup sweet milk; whites of four eggs; two
cups sifted ﬂiur; two teaspoonfuls baking
powder; one cup hicxory nut meats. Beat
the butter and sugar to a cream, then add the
milk, then the ﬂour and baking powder. then
the nut meats, lastly the beaten eggs. Flavor
with lemon. Beat well.

FIG Carin—One cup sugar; half cup butter;
three-quarters cup sweet milk; two cups ﬂour
and two teaspoonfuls baking powder sifted

tngether. Beat well: then add whites of three
eggs beaten very stiff. Bake in tt ree layers.
Filling: Half pound ﬁgs. chopped ﬁne; one
cup boiling Water; half cup sugar; boil all to-

gether. Dates may be used in the place of
ﬁgs. LAUREL Vans.
Wacousra.

 

 

 

