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TH E) H O U SEHOLD-"Supplement.

 

 

A MISSED SUJIMER.

 

White rose leaves star the grassy way
She takes among the ﬂowers to-day,
Her morning task is done;
From sapphire skies, through latticed screen
Of bending branches, summer-green,
Looks dawn the August sun.

Along the ﬂower-fenced alley ﬂoats
A melody of blackbird notes.
A carol from the thrush;
”Then golden silence touches all,
No sound except the waterfall
Disturbs the noontide hush.

She piucks a rose with weary grace;

.She drops the rose; across her face
A tender shadow fails.

What is a full blown rose to her

For whom no summer pulses stir,
No summer song-bird calls?

'No summer—there the story lies,

Told doubly by those asking eyes,
Soft, with a touch of ﬂame—

'She had her happy childish hours,

Her radiant spring time, sun and showers;
But summer never came.

She waited where the seat ons meet,

She said farewell t. * childhood sweet,
Her spring's young blassoms died;

'But when she looked for summer glow,

With rose-red garlands all a-blow.
Poor heart! she was denied.

She waited as the years went by,
‘She bore her burden patiently,
And walked her way apart;
She saw her playmates, one by one,
Pull jcy’s bright blossoms in the sun,
With sweet, ungrudging heart.

She missed her summer. Yea: but so,

Methinks she missed the share of woe
That blends with summer bliss.

She mi:sed love‘s sunshine—and its ache.

The thousand gnawing cares that take
The honey from a kiss.

She missed love’s roses—and its thorn;
The thunder-clouds of passion born
Touched not her quiet life;
Her eyes are sad with loneliness,
But tell no tale of wil i distress,
No story of strong strife.

She missed her summer. but hath found
Contentment in her daily round
Of duty done, apart;
It waiteth for her everywhere,
In some far haven, calm and clear.
The summer of the heart.
—All the Year Round.

-——-——...—_.
THE SECRETS OF THE TOILETTE.

Recognizing the fact that the most reg-
ular features and brightest eyes lose half
their beauty if accompanied by a dull,
sallow or pasty complexion, who can
blame the girls for longing to resort to
art, or taking almost any means to secure
the coveted clearness which so enhances
their beauty. But girls, I want to tell you

 

one thing at the outset, you cannot have—
mind, I say cannot have, good complexions
without pure blood and good digestion,
two things which seem to be interdepend-
ent. For the sake of the roses and lilies
you covet you will have to deny yourself a
good many things a depraved appetite
craves. You will have to abjure fat meats
and gravies and much butter, deny your-
selves the c! ffee and candy and cakes you
l0ve; learn to like graham bread and cat-
meal and milk, and refrain from anything
you have learned by experience does not
agree with you—by which I mean any food
that does not digest easily, or that gives
you a headache. It is not possible to say
what :3 ill agree with every person. Milk,
usually esteemed very healthy, and eggs,
the “ perfect food” of the scientists, pro-
duce' indigestion if used freely by many.
Biliousness, known by sallow skin and
dull eyes, is only another name for indiges-
tion.

The work of clearing the complexion de-
mands a steadfast resolution, self-denial,
and persistence. It will not do to say
“ I’ll eat it this time;” we must be resolute
and faithful to our reformed schedule of
diet, which will have to be kept up months
before we gain the end desired. Yes,
months. The elixir of simple foods and
healthy living will purify the blood, and
this in time will clear and beautify the
skin, but like allot nature’s processes it
takes time. Avoid the nostrums of the
drug-store; beware the patent medicine
man. I know a family of ﬁve persons
here, four of whom make a practice of
taking cathartic pills at least twice a
month, sometimes every ten days. The
father makes a patent pill for public con-
sumption, and Isometimes think the home
demand must be considerable in a year
But the health and complexions of the
four members who take pills are not good
advertisements of them. Headaches are
many, and complexions are a rich lemon
yellow. Don’t rely on medicines; try the
plain living.

The extract or dandelion root (tarral’acum)
is about as good to act on a sluggish liver
and clear the blood as anything I Know of,
aside from the “ lemon treatment” I have
so often advocated in these columns. Get
the ﬂuid extract, and take a teaspoonful
after every meal. You can use a pint in
this way. Take the taraxacum two weeks,
stop a week, and begin again. Make it
yourself if you can; it will be stronger and
better than that you buy; dig the roo‘s and
wash and cut them, boil in a little water,

 

keeping them covered. In hot weather
this will sour in a few days unless you add
a little whiskey to prevent.

Our grandmothers were not so far off,
after all, when they made their children
walk up, Inolens rolens, and takea spoonful
of sulphur and molasses every morning
for a week. Sulphur is a powerful agent
and a great anti-scrofulous remedy; it
opens the pores of the skin and helps
clear the complexion. Taken in connec-
tion with wwrcum‘zts (homeopathically pre-
pared) it is a useful remedy for jaundice
and liver disorders. A teaspoonful of
ﬂowers of sulphur, run up with twice or
three times as much sugar, and a small
teaspoonful taken every morning, and mer-
curz’us at night, will be found a good start
for aclear complexion; then follow with
nutritious but not rich or greasy diet, and
plenty of external applications of soap and
water. Care must be exercised when
taking sulphur, not to catch cold. Take
it a week, omit one week, then take again.

If your skin is dry and harsh, use
glycerine and lemon juice, or glycerine and
rosewater, half and half, or less glycerine,
as agrees best. Pure glycerine is not good
for the skin; never use it without the ad-
dition of rosewater or lemon juice, or both.
For oily skins, makea a saturated solution
of borax by putting powdered borax into
a bottle of hot water until the water will
take up no more, shaking it until it is dis-
solved, or until there is a slight sediment
left in the bottom of the bottle; put enough
of this into the water in which the face is
washed to make it feel soft, or as if soap
had been used.

If you are going on the water, or where
you will be exposed to the sun, powder the
face liberally with magnesia or powdered
starch—magnesia is best because it stays
on better. This prevents in a measure sun-
burn and tan.

A remedy for “black heads ” would be
a boon to many girls. The best one is
frequent bathing of the whole body and
friction of the skin. Blackheads are the
result of closed pores—the excretions
which should pass off as perspiration—
perceptible or otherwise, are arrested and
harden in the outer cuticle. Don’t squeeze
them out, but rub them out, carefully, so
as not to take off the skin, with soap and
water, then apply a little borax water. To
squeeze them out is to make coarse pores
and invite more “ blackheads.” For the
coarse pores of the nose and chin, apply
camphor.

There are two kinds‘of “freckles,” the

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“kisses of the sun” and the more persis-
tent discolorations which are due to an in-
active liver. For the ﬁrst, prevention by
care is the best cure; borax water is good;
lemon juice and glycerine, with a little
rose water, will remove, but they will re-
turn upon exposure. For that class which
is really moth patches, only medical treat—
ment will avail. To ensure a smooth skin,
oatmeal water is excellent; it softens,
whitens, and helps banish pimples.

Whatever you do, don’t use the “ mag-
nolia balms,” the “ cream of roses” or
“ milk of lilies,” or anything of that kind,
so seductively advertised. They are a
snare and a delusion. They are the same
in all essentials, and their price absurdly
out of proportion to the value of the ma-
terials. A little rose water. a little glycer-
ine. a few drops of perfume, and agood
deal of bismuth or white lead or both, the
whole costing afew cents, when wrapped
up in a sheet of “testimonials” will cost
you a dollar and do your complexion ﬁve
dollars’ worth. of damage. The action of
the mineral on the skin is to wrinkle and
coarsen it, and produce a plentiful crop of
blackheads. The complexion on which
these cosmetics are used, in time—and a
short time too—is irreparably damaged.

If art must aid nature, thereis but one way
in which it may be done with even com-
parative safety. Wash the face with soap
and water, as a preliminary, then rub on
with the hands a drop or two of glycerine
and rose water, or lemon juice and glycer-
ine, let this dry a minute and then apply
face powder—and please don’t put on so
much that it will show. Veloutine is per-
haps the best powder; it costs ﬁfty cents a
bar: for the small size. Never buy the
cheap powders; they are composed of bis-
muth and lead, some of them are purely
white lead with a little ground shell, and
they areas damaging and dangerous as the
liquid preparations. Select a tinted powder
which suits your complexion; if you are
sallow and dark use the brunette powder;
if your complexion is clear. you don’t need
any, but if you must use it, get the ﬂesh
colored; but whatever you do, don‘t try to
mask a yellow skin under the pink and
white of ﬂesh tints, for you cannot do it.
There is the telltale evidence of the nvck
and the outlying districts behind the ears,
and the color of the whites of the eyes,
which “don’t match ”the artiﬁcial roses
and lilies.

The women of this country spend $8,-
000 000 annually for cosmetics. Their
vanity makes the wealth of the Harriet
Hubbard Ayres of the time. And still the
fact remains that if we would live more in

acmrdance with nature’s laws; eat plainer,
less indigestible food, take more out door
exercise, worry less and hurry less, and
use water more fveviv, both externally and
in . n attv,we could dispense with artiﬁcial
aids to beauty. Burmx.

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“Use and Abuse of the Flatiron ” is the
question which the ladies of the Webster
Farmers’ Ciub will wrestle with at the
February meeting. which is to be held at
the home of Hon. Wm. Ball, at Hamburg.
Tue Housrtnom would very much like a
report of that discussion.

 

MODEL HUSBANDS.

 

I noticed some time ago a prize oﬂered
by an eastern paper for the best description
of a “model husband,” which must be
written by the wife of that husband. The
PostEnpress of Rochester, N. Y., of Jan.
10th has a long article on the subject,
credited to the Chicago Herald, which says
the stipulation that the woman must write
of her own husband shows great fore-
thought. The article says a woman has
some “ peculiar ideas.” " Her husband is
either one thing or the other; there is never
any happy medium. She is either hunting
for tie wings which she is sure are folded
away behind so much angelic goodness, or
she is fully posted in all his wickedness,
which makes Mephistopheies seem de-
serving of wings in comparison.” The
paper goes on to state further: “If this
woman’s husband is the ‘ model,’ he is the
Only man of his kind in the universe; and
this woman’s heart is wrung with sorrow
for every other unfortunate woman.” And
again: “ It is amusing, the confiding man;
nor in which she will tell you of her hus~
band’s perfections and the imperfections
of other husbands. She will seat herself
in the center “of a group of her acquaint-
ances and go into rhapsodies over the noble
qualities of the man she married. Her
friends listen and hide their smiles, and
think—how little she knows her own
husband, how they could astonish her if
they should tell one half of what their
own model husbands had told them: of
him.”

There is a great deal more of it, and
much that is true; but I have quoted suf-
ﬁcient for my purpose this time. I asked
myself, To what class of women does the
foregoing apply? If I should answer
hastily, I should say to the fools and the
newly married, who have not yet peered
beyond the veil of romance. But when I
stop and consider, I remember “Love is
blind.” If this explains the mystery I
would naturally think all men would be
more than careful to keep the ﬂame of
love burning; and especially to never
brutally crush it out; or indifferently let it
burn itself out for want of fuel to feed
upon, which is the most common way of
extinguishing it.

I know most women will ﬁnd something
in their husbands to praise, and more par-
ticularly if he is so unworthy as to have no
one’s respect. I have known men in whom
no one could see a redeeming quality,
and the wife saw and knew it just as well,
and yet if he chat ced to show her a single
spark of regard or gave her the very least
kind of consideration her heart would
throb with joy; it had been starving so
long for love and respect she could not
help tt; and to justify herself in her own
eyes and her friends’, she will repeat the
incident and make much of it. And who
can blame her, though they may pity her!
If; she can ﬁnd ever so small a crumb of
comfort in it let her do so; if in the little
act or word of kindness she thinks she has
found the first stone, be it ever so small,

 

'that is going to be the commencement of
the foundation on which she is waiting and

 

 

hoping he will build a new life for himself
and fulﬁll her expectations of him when!
she left her old friends for this new un-
tried one, let her have the poor comfort.

I do not believe women are in the ma-
jority such fools as many men and some
women think they are. What think you,
HousEHOLDERs? .

It seems to me that ordinary mortals
who after marriage spend a large part of
their time together must soon ﬁnd each
other out; and they are happiest who ex-
pect to ﬁnd a few imperfections. The
paper I quoted in the beginning claims
these model husbands do not dare to show
themselves to their wives as they are
naturally, or as they show themselves to
other men’s wives, for fear of losing their
wives’ respect, and allowing them to see the
real instead of the ideal they are worshiping.
Perhaps there are such men, but I never
chanced to become acquainted with them.
The most of the men I have known never
felt sufﬁcient restraint upon them to com
pel them to pose for angels. I had six
brothers, so do you not think I know a.
little of them? And I married a man who
had three brothers. I always thought my
brothers (I will not tell anything about my
husband’s, you might think I was trying to
make you think I had the model) but my
brothers were just as good and kind as any
could be, though they never posed for
anything they were not.

What do the readers of this little paper
think of the model husband?

ALBION. M. E. H.

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CITY VS. COUNTRY EOUSEKEEPERS.

 

The Housnuonn of Jan. 8d contains a
paper read by Mrs. Marion Watkins be»
fore the Union Farmers’ Club of Union
City, to which, as a city woman, I take
some exceptions.

I would like to have that lady visit
some families whom I know. She would
ﬁnd the wives in the city homes about as
busy from early morning until late evening
as any she ever knew in the country.
First of all, the farmer’s wife has nearly-
all of her provisions at hand, and need.
only go to her well-ﬁlled cellar for sup-
plies, as the fruits and vegetables are all
harvested and stored for future use. The
wife whose home is in the city has no such
necessity to provide for the coming season,
as each day brings supplies which are al-
ways fresh, but she must visit the market
daily, or at least every other day, which
consumes a good deal of time; and much
judgment isrequired to buy wisely and
economically, for everything counts in the-
city. What farmer’s wife saves pieces of
bread, and after drying in the oven rolls
them ﬁne and puts away for future use in
many ways? Then there is the butter,
which must be carefully handled and not
wasted, for butter costs money, particu-
larly at this season of the year.

If the city wife does not do all her own
work, she must plan for one or more; and
judgment and experience are required to
plan for others to execute. My longest
experience has been that arms with hands
attached and bodies with feet were easy to

 

 


 

   

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procure, but it is ahead we all want to
carry out our planning.

The farmer’s wife is not as liable to in-
terruption in the morning as city wives.
Many a time have I had calls from those
whom I was glad to see; but I could not
help wondering if the cake would burn or
Mary Ann would forget the pies.

As for vanity, I suppose we all have

some, but I don’t believe the proportion is
greater in the city than in the country. I
do know that city wives if they amount to
anything at all have their time more
than full. First there is the h )useholrl to
put in good running order; then nine times
out of ten a wom till of business judgment
and executive ability is connected with
some Hospital or Home, or public charity,
helping the unfortunate to be more com
fortable, and assisting other people to carry
burdens. It is generally acknowledged by
all nowadays that these places are well
managed ﬁnancially, forI think women
are better ﬁnanciers than they are usually
credited with being. The housekeeping
arrangements in the Homes are perfect, as
they are continually under the inspection
of some experienced woman.

Again I think the lady who wrote the
paper has a mistaken idea about farmers’
wives “being looked down onas an in-
ferior class.” Her own paper gives denial
to that charge, and how many bright letters
and papers we have in the HOUSEHOLD
from farmers’ Wives! I have known many
who have served apprenticeship on well
managed farms, and their homes were
models of neatness. I have a sister inslaw
whose house is so quiet and orderly it is
restful to visit there. and cleanliness is
with her next to godliness. On one oc-
casion when city visitors were spending
the day the tour of the house and store-
rooms was in order. One lady from town,
after making a careful survey, seeing some
very nice eggs in the cool cellar remarked,
“ Even the hens are clean here, for look at
those eggs l ”

Housekeepers on farms have little idea
of the dirt a city woman has to ﬁght.
Dust from the street in summer, which
sifts in at eVery crack and comes in in
clouds through doors and windows; and
inwinter dust from coal stoves or furnace,
and the tracking in and out in rain and
shine, always through the front door.
Then the chimneys of the neighbors who
use soft coal discharge a sooty shower upon
the clothes in the back yard on washing
days; and the smoke and soot render it
necessary to wash the windows every week
or two to enable us to see out. The dirt
we sweep up in a week would drive a
country woman crazy.

There are exceptions to the rule among
city wives. Many are careless, slack and
no managers, but the same rule holds good
in the country; all farmers’ wives do not
make a success of farm life. In a measure
a man’s success in life depends on his
selection of awlfe; and if young men in
city or country would think of the future
much disappointment and misery might
be avoided.

I have great respect for them to whom
we are indebted for many of the good

things of this world, and I think their
good nature is imposed upon many times
by city company, but I hope the lady has
not formed her opinion of all dwellers in
the city by some selﬁsh visitor.

There are several members of the HOUSE
HOLD Iwould like to meet, among them
Daffodilly and the lady who is interested
in spooks; I would like to tell her about
my experience in that line. Now I want
to meet Mrs. Watkins, for I know I am
not slack, nor vain, nor idle, and if she
could spend one week with me and my six
children, I will agree to hive her just as
tired every night as she is at harvest time
on the farm. If she wants to think and
plan with me I will make her head still

more tired. MRS. M. C. HUYE'I‘T.
Darnorr.

 

SCHOOL LUNCHES.

I ﬁnd some difﬁculty in varying the con-
tents of the lunch basket for the trio that
tramp away to school every morning. I
like to have the lunch appetizing and
healthful, not too much pie and cake. All
the fall I sent boiled eggs quite often, but
notwithstanding the encouragement .‘f the
McKinley bill the hens have suspended
payments, and I have concluded hard
boiled eggs are indigestible and other
viands much to be preferred.

I will tell how i prepare several articles
which I ﬁnd are appreciated by being
eaten, even to the crumbs:

I make what I call “Brunswick Loaf ”
in this fashion: Husband brings me from
the market four pounds of the ﬂank of
beef, with the bones taken out. I wash it;
sprinkle it liberally with salt and alittle
pepper and two cloves, which I split and
lay indifferent places on the meat, but
which can be left out if preferred. Roll
the meat tightly and tie with three separate
strings. Put a quart of boiling water in a
pot; put in the meat, on a plate or saucer,
and boil gently all day, adding water
when necessary, but as little as possible.
When it is tender, lay on a plate, turn
over it the very little liquid which is
left in the pot, put another plate on top
and a weight on that. When cold, slice
thin.

I also make sweet biscuits as follows:
Take a lump of bread dough a little smaller
than a quart bowl. Knead into it a cup
of sugar, two eggs; a scant half cup of
butter, and a cup of Zln e currants or
seeded and chopped raisins. Let rise;
mould into tiny biscuit; let rise again,
and after baking, glaze with sugar and
water. A cinna-non roll is made of the
same dough by rolling instead of mak-
ing biscuit; spread with sugar and cin a-
men—four tablespoonfuls sugar and one
of cinnamon—roll up like jelly roll, let
rise, bake. Little biscuit, cut out with a
spice box instead of the biscuit cutter,
meet with approval. Two teacups ﬂour,
four teaspoonfuls baking powder, one
teaspoonful butter; a little salt. Mix with
milk till stiff enough to roll and bake in a
very hot oven.

Apples are very scarce. I buy dried
apricots and nectarines, at twenty ﬁve

 

cents a pound, for an occasional “ treat.”

   

 

Wash and stew very slowly along time.
when done, add the sugar. They make
delicious turnovers, which the children
enjoy very much.

I think “ it pays” to take thought about
the children’s lunches, to see that there is-
suﬁisient nutritious, nourishing food to
satisfy hunger and well replace the regular
noon meal. erzrn.

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SECURING A PATENT.

 

I wish to inquire through the HOUSE-
HOLD how one must work to get a patent;
whom to ap ply to ﬁrst; if they must send
sample, and the cost, in fact the whole
process. JOYCE.

The ﬁrst step is to see a lawyer who
makes a specialty of the patent business—
patent lawyers, they are called—and pay
him $25 (the fee is mentioned ﬁrst because
it is most important). You will have to-
furnish a sketch or model, or photograph,
of the invention, describe its working and
mention its advantages, bringing out as
clearly as possible the idea you want to»
patent. Tue lawyer. or pitent agency,
will prepare these properly, making new
drawings and speciﬁcations, to be returned
to you for your veriﬁcation and signature
and a further fee of $30; and will then for-
ward them to the Patent Ofﬁce at Wash-
ington. There the drawings, etc., are ex--
amined and a patent issued it the examin-
ers decide the invention is pateutable and
it has not been previously patented. When
it is allowed, another fee of $20 is called
for; this goes to the government. It is of
the greatest importance to employ a com»
petent attorney, as upon the exactness and
accuracy of the description and the word-
in g of the speciﬁcations designating what
is claimed depend the value of the patent.
An excellent invention may be stolen;
from its originator if the application is not
speciﬁcally exact; that is, another party,
seeing some little point not covered, may
ﬁle another patent covering the same
ground with the addition of the point over»
looked, thus securing the advantages of
the invention. Much tiresome litigation.
has thus been caused. A patent may also
be secured through the agency of the-
Scientiﬁc American, we understand. It.
would be impossible to estimate the exact
cost of securing a patent; if the invention!
is complicated the expense is greater. By
far the surest and safest way is to put the
matter into the hands of the best patent
lawyer accessible, and let him secure it.
Wherever possible a working model is de-
sirable, to be ﬁled with the drawings. but
we think it is not absolutely essential.

 

SOMETHING new for the toilet table con-
sists of a c .uple of boards neatly covered,
with a heavy weight to set upon them.
Laces, neckties, ribbons, gloves, are'
smoothed out and placed between the boards
and thus kept fresh and tidy. Cover two-
pieces of boards on the inside with white
muslin and on the outside with cretonne,
Dry a brick thoroughly, paste paper all
over it, cover it with cretonne, aﬂix handles
of strong ribbon, and there you are. Of
course more elaborate materials can be
used if necessary.


4 'PHE HOUSEHOLD.

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WOMEN IN THE KEYSTONE STATE.

 

’When I was in Pensylvania last fall I
wrote to some of the local papers there
about the diﬁerence in the way the women
were used in that State and here. It was
mews-to many of the people; perhaps it
would interest residents of Michigan to
know how they are used there. If the
readers will just takeatrip with me to
old Pennsylvania they will see how our
sgreatgrandfathers reared and brought up
-our grandparents, for very nearly the
:same customs exist there now as did then.
"The women do not have the rights granted
\them that the men grant us in this State,
:and in fact in all of the western States as
afar as I have been, and I have traveled in
mearly all of them, except those of the
great Southwest. The women in Penn-
‘sylvania do all the dairying; that is, they
‘do all the milking and feeding the calves
and pigs, and when the milk is sold the
men have nothing to do but get on the
wagon and ride to town and ride back
again. The women stay at home and do
all the chores, do the housework and have
the meals prepared when “ my liege lord ”
returns. Then they must stand back and
wait on the table, and oftentimes they
mever sit down to the table when the lords
of creation sit down—which is as soon as
she meal is ready. If you could only see
”the rough hands of the women in western
i-"Pennsylvania, among the coal mines, you
'would know that I am not over-stating
the facts in the least. For the wife to
«comb her hair and. dress up is something
what is not a common every day occurrence
in a great many households. Of course in
the cities it is different than it is in the
rural districts. It was of the latter I was
cspeaking.

They use the old Dutch brick bake oven
rout of doors. I have seen young girls and
acid women going through the rain and
{storm'carrying large pans of bread from
the house to the bake oven, and it was
storming so hard that the men folks did
not care te work or be out in it. I have
seen girls and women going two or three
and evensﬁve or six miles on foot, carrying
:a basket of the products of the dairy or of
the poultry yard. And a pair of ﬁne
ushoes is-something a woman there has no
use for, for the roads are " just horrid;”
but they go through and do not seem to
”be worried about the mud in the road or
«on the clothing. And housekeepers there
have another thing to contend with that we
«do not know anything at all about, and
that is soft coal for fuel, with all its dirty
{smoke and soot. Such a thing as a clean
'white sheet or pillow case, or in fact any-
"thing else in bleached cloth, I did not see
while-I was there. Canned fruit they do
mot have; the fruit is all made into butters
and jellies of one kind or another, which

rthey .call “spreads.” And the pride of
the “ gude housewife ”is to see how many
"kinds of “spreads ” she can have when she
drag company. A great many are not
educated; one woman when I told her I
was from Michigan, asked if Michigan was
tin the United States. A friend of mine

asked by a woman in Pennsylvania if
“ they had a war in Kentucky once.” Of
course they have some things that are
nice, the ﬁnest bread I ever ate in any
country. I do not know but part of its
excellence can be laid to the Dutch oven.
And they have some ﬁne horses to ride, and
they know how to ride them too. They
are better horsemen than some of the men
here. They have some very ﬁne ladies’
saddles, costing well toward the price of a
carriage in this part of the country. Many
of the women are adapts with the “rib-
bons.” A colt cutting up his pranks does
not disturb them in the least. Those in
the country are modest, bordering on the
bashful, and unassumingin their demeanor
toward the male portion of the community,
for it seems to be universal that woman
comes in second to man in every way,
which I do not like. I am no egotist, but
I think that woman is just as good in her
sphere as man is in his sphere.

MILFORD. ELIZABETH S. WEST.

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ANECDOTES OF ANIMALS.

 

When I was. a boy I worked in a large
tannery. My business was to take care of
the steam works. There was a large black
dog kept in the tannery for a watch dog.
He was so cross and ugly that he made
friends with nobody, and hardly any one
dared touch him; in fact he was an object
of hatred to all of the hands.

One day he was walking around-among
the vats in the beam-house and while pass-
ing by a lime vat where the walk was wet
and slippery he fell in. The vat was four
by eight feet and six feet deep, with four
feet of strong limewater in it that had just
been heated to a temperature of 90 deg.
He swam around and tried to get out, but
could not. Just then I came into the
room and proposed to the hands that we
get him out, but they would not; they
thought it a good thing to have him put
where he could not worry anybody. But
I did not like to see even an ugly dog in a
bath of this kind, and so resolved to try
and get him out alone. He was whining
piteously now, and as I laid down at full
length on the ﬂoor and reached down he
swam up to me. I seized him by the fore
legs, and by exerting all my strength I got
his fore paws up on the edge of the ﬂoor.
He could help himself some now, and
another hard pull brought him clear out on
the ﬂoor. The way he showed his grati-
tude was truly wonderful. He leaped up
against me, licked my hands and face,
wagged his tail (something we never saw
him do before), and continued to dance
around me for some time. He made it
his headquarters with me in the boiler-
room after that, and was as kind and
gentle to me as I could wish a dog to be.
Among the hands that worked in a mill
on Black river in Michigan was a very
large, muscular fellow whom the mill hands
called “ Old Joe.” He lived some distance
from the mill, but went back and forth to
his work every night and morning.

One night he was going home about

 

horn Kentucky told.me that she was once

  

some groceries.

dark with a bag on his shoulders containing

tree with wide spreading branches he was
not a little startled by a wildcat that
quietly dropped down from a limb over-
head and lighted on his breast. Quick as
thought he let the bag drop behind him,
seized the cat by the fore legs and held it
Off at arms’ length. It struggled furiously,

but Old Joe with his long muscular arms
held it in a position where it could not hurt
him. But this arms’ length strain soon
began to tell on him, and he began to study
on some plan of dispatching his foe. He
dared not let go his hold, nor bend his e1-
bows any more, as that would allow the
cat to gash him with its hind feet. Finally
he stooped over carefully until one hind
foot touched the ground. He placed his
No. 10 boot on this and held it fast. Stoop-

ing still more he placed his other knee on

the cat’s hindquarters, and then laid it out

full length on the ground. With great

caution he managed to ﬁrmly place one

knee on one of its forepaws; this liberated

one hand. He now seized the animal by

the throat and did not relax his grasp until

life was extinct.

The next morning he appeared at the
mill and told his story, and conﬁrmed it by
exhibiting the wildcat with no wounds to
show that it had been otherwise killed.
Easr GREENWOOD. W. S. B.

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“SILK tights and Beau Brummel trow-
sers are superseding divided skirts with
the ultra progressive sisters.”—-— Cincinnati
Times. There! didn’t I tell you so, only
last week, tool

 

“ MRS. J OE,” of Homer, asks: Can any
reader of the HOUSEHOLD tell me how to
take red ink stains from woolen? Our
little paper seems to be the place to ﬁnd
any information.

 

Mus. S. U. G., of Ionia, inquires for a
recipe for coloring a durable red on cotton
for carpet rags. She kindly commends
the HOUSEHOLD, saying every number has
some practical help for her, and that she
has nearly every issue since it was pub-
lished as a supplement.

 

IT will be remembered by our old
readers that about two years ago the
HOUSEHOLD recommended the juice of
the pineapple as a remedy for diphtheria,
stating its corrosive action is so great as
to cut the diphtheretic mucus and the
resulting membrane, and thus give relief.
The remedy has been found so valuable
that Parke, Davis & 00., manufacturing
chemists of this city. now prepare it for
their trade. It is worth trying, being so
simple. When ripe pines can be obtained
one has only to slice them, press out the
juice and administer it by spoonfuls.
M.—

Miss Maynard, of the Boston Cooking
School recommends the following way of
making apple sauce: Pare, core and
quarter eight good sized apples. Boil a
cup of sugar and two-thirds cup of water
and a little lemon peel together. When
the syrup boils put in just enough apple
to cover the bottom of the saucepan, and
when one side is cooked turn them over
carefully, take out and add more apple, in
this way the apple cooks quickly, retains

 

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its ﬂavor and is not broken into a mush.

    

  

 

 

 

   
  
 

    

